Oh, Hello!
My days have been a blur of...
Job searches. Coffee. Taxes. Coffee. Filing for unemployment. Coffee. Interruptions from Hoop. Hoop dancing with the dog. Hoop telling me about something on T.V. Hoop asking me a billion-fucking-times what I'm doing. Hoop asking me to pluck his ear hair. Hoop barging in on me while I'm pooping. Me screaming at Hoop not to barge in on me while I'm pooping. No more coffee for Hoop. Me running into the wall while I'm trying to wrestle the coffee creamer out of Hoop's hands. Run Hoop Run.
And that was just TODAY.
Here are those sightseeing pictures I promised on Thursday.
Nashville's Parthenon
The original full-scale replica was built in 1897 out of plaster for the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. It was so popular, the city decided to leave it up until it became too dilapidated to enter. In 1920 it was rebuilt out of concrete and stands today as a museum. Unfortunately, it was closed the day we visited.
Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue
This monstrosity may look like it's on government property, as it faces a main highway, but I've been assured that it's not. As a monument to the founding father of the KKK, you can understand why this statue gets shot at and vandalized a lot.
Beautiful Park Tree
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You can run across some weird shit when you're sightseeing. Who knew that Nashville had a Parthenon?
Wow. I had no idea that Nashville had a Parthenon. More importantly, I had no idea that there was a monument to the KKK founder ... let alone one still standing. Go figure.
Awesome pics!
Funky tree!
Nashville has a Parthenon? Weird. Well, not too weird, I guess. After all, Washington State has a life-sized replica of Stonehenge. (Ever hear of Sam Hill? As in, "What in the Sam Hill are you doing?!" Yeah, he had it built, right next to a castle that his wife refused to live in. It's now a museum, too.)
Our first year in these parts, one of my kids dressed up as a ghost for Halloween. Two totally different people commented he looked like KKK. I was appalled. Where I come from NO ONE would EVER think that!! Obviously, new house rule: No more ghost costumes.
Privacy while pooping? What's that?
That statue? WTF? Really. WTF?
Enough with the poop and nose hairs! I feel like I'm reading my diary!
lalalala::Hoop, stay out of the bathroom unless you knock and are told you can enter!:lalalalala (I didn't need to read that...)
Bad Hoop. No biscuit.
Just make sure Hoop drinks only Irish coffee. That will take the edge off.
Who knew Nathan Bedford rode a two-horned unicorn?
sounds like you had a day like mine, only i don't dare blog about it!
Wow! Tennessee got a statue? All we got was a stupid high school named after him. Even more ironic? The student body is mostly African American.
A Parthenon too? My city seems so culterally retarded compared to Nashville.
I'd have made him stand there and watch for barging in like that...
pooping privacy is a necessity.
sheesh.
that tree is bendy and awesome, just like your elbows
my fiance and i are going to Nashville next month, i cannot wait to see that place, great pictures!!
Lovely photos, but the Parthenon? and a monument to the KKK? Did the fellow actually have a disproportionately long head like the horse, or is that just bad artistic license? Great tree!
That Parthenon looks friggin' awesome!
That Parthenon is wicked cool! I 'll definitely have to look it up if I ever get back down that way.
Aside: Have you heard from Newt?? I'm a little concerned. If you talk to her please tell her I hope she is well.
I've been to the parthenon in TN. I was amazed that it wasn't actual size. It's smaller. Amazing.
My wife doesn't like it either when I walk in on her pooping.
That tree photo is simply breathtaking. Beautiful.
My husband is unemployed right now. I had last week off, and in order to get him away from me for two seconds, I showed him how to sign up for Facebook (he was resisting joining for months).
Worst mistake ever. Every two minutes, he was calling me over to the computer to show me what some stupid girl he knew from 9th grade looks like now; how his brother did on an 80s metal quiz, etc., etc.
GAH.
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