stalking and celebrating

oh my, so i was catching up on my blog reading this morning, and in the last picture in one of the pioneer woman's blogs, her sister-in-law was wearing a hat that said "drummond ranches". since she had said just earlier in that same blog that drummond was their last name, i figured she was basically asking me to google it. (ahem.) i googled around, and found: a) a listing for drummond east ranch for sale for $6m - apparently they live nearish tulsa, which i assumed - although from the history section on the listing, it looks like that ranch is from a different branch of the family, b) this very interesting article that interviews her brother-in-law about day to day operations on their ranch (in which i learned that pw's husband's real name is ladd - ick), and c) that their family is the 77th largest land owner in the country.

fascinating. i don't know what the world did before google. i was reading an article online yesterday about school librarianship (which is my current dream job), and this one librarian was talking about how part of the new library job is to teach kids how to use computers in research, and how they have encyclopedias on cd-rom and every once in a while get to use the web for research. i was shocked. i mean, i get that there's some risque stuff on the web, but get some filtering software or something - nobody uses cd-rom encyclopedias anymore! with wiki, google, and online journals and newspapers and encyclopedias, there's no need to use something that's outdated the moment it's burned.

anyway, today's our 4-year wedding anniversary! yay! i told scott last week that he had permission to plan a date for us, which might sound controlling, but it wasn't meant to be - it was more like, "i know i'm a stickler on the budget, but it's our anniversary which is important so we should make the effort to do something, and i'm willing to plan something, but i feel like i plan everything and i know you like planning fun dates for us, so go for it if you want to and i promise not to interfere." anyway, scott's taking me out tonight, but i don't know what we're doing yet - he told me i need more surprises in my life. haha. yay for us! i've been working on a present for scott all week, but he gets to find out about it before everyone else in my life this time, so i'll post about it tomorrow. you can hold your horses. it's pretty fabulous, though, in my humble opinion.

(p.s. - scott really looks forward to things like birthdays and anniversaries, which i enjoy. i think it's super cute, though, because on, say, the day before his birthday, he'll say, "it's my birthday-eve, what are we going to do today?!" as though everyone of course celebrates the day before their birthday. two days ago, we woke up bright and early before work and the first words out of his mouth were, "happy anniversary eve-eve!" you know, as in the eve of the anniversary-eve? it makes me laugh.)