Happy New Years

I live across the street from a fireworks stand, which is iritating but made for some pretty pictures with my new camera!

Victory

We did it! We had our first "big" xmas (i.e. containing every member of our family including significant others) without anyone fighting. Everyone came, Both parents, all four children, the two older significant others, and Kevin's parents and sister. WE all sat in our jammies and opened presents. We then all gorged ourselves on a fantastic potluck including three different types of meat and a bunch of sides. We marveled at Heather's to scale gingerbread version of charity hospital. Once the food coma began we indulged (?) ourselves by watching "Transmorphers" (no i didn't mispell that and yes it was THAT awful.) Which after 10 minutes of awfulness and in realizing that it wasn't going to be a porn we decided to MST3K. Once that decision was made the movie was funny. Then we watch the top 80 of the top 100 songs of the '90s. All in all it was a good day, everyone got presents all potential arguments were diffused and I think we all gained five pounds. This is a big step for my family unit. We have a distinct track record of having at least one person storm out or start a fight at EVERY holiday event. They are typically high stress. But we did it and I am very proud...off to the gym!

funny

From the guy who brought us the Pachabel Rant

Heather will like the second half of this

Turkey Day Keepers Part 1

I am such a nerd

caption contest in honor of heather

You are welcome

Fall

I love the fall for many reasons. I know, you northern folk will say we don't have a fall and I agree, i include our "winter" with our fall. When the temperature begins to drop a few degrees and I can actually wear sweaters again I am at my happiest. Then there is daylight savingst time and I get an extra hour of sleep during that "fall back" time. One of the other things i like that is a special feature of living in southeastern Louisiana. Around the first cold front of the year they begin to harvest the sugar cane. During the first few weeks of this process it smells starchy-sweet, reminiscent of a freshly opened can of corn. It reminds me of the holidays for some reason. The only problem is that that only lasts for the first week or two. Then they burn the cane fields to refertilize the soil, now this also smells kinda good, if you like the way fire smells. The only problem being that they burn ACRES of fields, so there is pounds of dust that falls on everything. THEN after about a week of that the air smells AWFUL like sulfer. It's terrible. Apparently, something in the processing has some kind of sulfer byproduct.

All in all, i'm happy it's fall. Happy Fall everyone!

I thought this was pretty cool

Awesome

Oh my...prob. NSFW

Comedy

This exchange took place between kevin and I the other day i thought it was funny.

Kevin after getting off the eliptical machine at gym: "Man i'm so bummed, i only ran a nine minute mile instead of my usual seven minute mile"

Me: "I love you baby, but i don't think you are running a seven minute mile. We are both way too out of shape for that to be right. I think the machine is lieing to you. Why don't you try running a mile on the treadmill and see what it says."

Kevin: "Ok, I bet you I can run a mile in seven minutes! What will you give me if i run a seven minute mile?"

Me: "CPR"

Happy?

Almost

yay

My plumeria is about to bloom (finally)!



Also this was the view from our balcony the other night, pretty huh?

Ewww---that's all i can say

This is just gross, these people are selling their daughters and the entries are just gross. "She is a typical teenage girl except that she is impatient to get on with her life, which she sees as having a husband and raising kids. She tells us none of the boys her own age are interesting to her because they “are still little kids” and she is looking for an adult to start a life with." She's 14!!

http://marryourdaughter.biz

Ted's got a secret

Why didn't you tell me you started your modeling career?

Kevin has been begging me to post this as a caption contest for a while now so without further ado:

weird

For all my swashbucklers

Anger Management

I think we can all agree that andy would enjoy this


Anger Management
>
>
>When you occasionally have a really bad day, and you just need to take
>it out on someone, don't take it out on someone you know, take it out
>on someone you don't know.
>
>I was sitting at my desk when I remembered a phone call I'd forgotten to
>make. I found the number and dialed it. A man answered, saying "Hello."
>
>I politely said, "This is Chris. Could I please speak with Robyn Carter?"
>
>Suddenly a manic voice yelled out in my ear "Get the right f***ing
>number!" and the phone was slammed down on me.
>
>I couldn't believe that anyone could be so rude. When I tracked down
>Robyn's correct number to call her, I found that I had accidentally
>transposed the last two digits.
>
>After hanging up with her, I decided to call the 'wrong' number again.
>
>When the same guy
>answered the phone, I yelled "You're an asshole!" and
>hung up. I wrote his number down with the word 'asshole' next to it, and
>put it in my desk drawer. Every couple of weeks, when I was paying bills
>or had a really bad day, I'd call him up and yell, "You're an asshole!"
>It always cheered me up.
>
>When Caller ID was introduced, I thought my therapeutic 'asshole'
>calling would have to stop.
>
>So, I called his number and said, "Hi, this is John Smith from the
>telephone company. I'm calling to see if you're familiar with our Caller
>ID Program?"
>
>He yelled "NO!" and slammed down the phone. I quickly called him back
>and said, "That's because you're an asshole!" and hung up.
>
>One day I was at the store, getting ready to pull into a parking spot.
>
>Some guy in a black BMW cut me off and pulled into the spot I had
>patiently
>waited for. I hit the horn and yelled that I'd been waiting
>for that spot, but the idiot ignored me. I noticed a "For Sale " sign in
>his back window, so I wrote down his number.
>
>A couple of days later, right after calling the first asshole (I had his
>number on speed dial), I thought that I'd better call the BMW asshole, too.
>
>I said, "Is this the man with the black BMW for sale?" He said, "Yes, it
>is." I asked, "Can you tell me where I can see it?" He said, "Yes, I
>live at 34 Oaktree Blvd , in F airfax . It's a yellow rambler, and the
>car's parked right out in front."
>
>I asked, "What's your name?" He said , "My name is Don Hansen."
>
>I asked, "When's a good time to catch you, Don?" He said, "I'm home
>every evening a fter five."
>
>I said, "Listen, Don, can I tell you something?" He said, "Yes?"
>
>I said, "Don, you're an
>asshole!"
>
>Then I hung up, and added his number to my speed dial, too. Now, when I
>had a problem, I had two assholes to call.
>
>Then I came up with an idea.
>
>I called Asshole #1. He said, "Hello." I said, "You're an asshole!"
>(But I didn't hang up.)
>
>He asked, "Are you still there?"
>I said, "Yeah."
>He screamed, "Stop calling me!"
>I said, "Make me."
>He asked, "Who are you?"
>
>I said, "My name is Don Hansen."
>He said, "Yeah? Where do you live?"
>I said, "Asshole, I live at 34 Oaktree Blvd , in Fairfax , a yellow
>rambler, I have a black Beamer parked in front."
>
>He said, "I'm coming over right now, Don. And you had better start
>saying your prayers."
>
>I said, "Yeah, like I'm really scared, asshole," and hung up.
>
>Then I called Asshole ..2.
>He said, "Hello?"
>I said, "Hello, asshole."
>He
>yelled, "If I ever find out who you are..."
>I said, "You'll what?"
>He exclaimed, "I'll kick your ass,"
>
>I answered, "Well, asshole, here's your chance. I'm coming over right
>now."
>
>Then I hung up and immediately called the police, saying that I lived
>at 34 Oaktree Blvd , in Fairfax , and that I was on my way over there to
>kill my gay lover.
>
>Then I called Channel 9 News about the gang war going down in Oaktree
>Blvd. in Fairfax ..
>
>I quickly got into my car and headed over to Fairfax . I got there just
>in time to watch two assholes beating the crap out of each other in
>front of six cop cars, an overhead news helicopter and surrounded by a
>news crew.
>
>NOW I feel much better.

Every involved woman's theme song

Look what you boys did

Boys avert your eyes

So i've been asked to post kevin's sweater in progress...Sorry boys i told you not to look...anyway i have all but the last sleeve done

this is it on the ground




This is it on kevin...be nice to him he's sick and i don't have a program to crop him out of the photo, plus i think it's cute. It's not as see through in person. I was going to post a picture of the stitch pattern but my camera SUCKS ASS.




This is my first wearable FO that fits. I'm really excited. I even installed an "invisible" zipper! Now if we could just fast forward 6 months so he can wear it.

Thought of the day

Do you think that people from Boston/Philly/New Jersey , you know that accent, do you think they are the anti-pirates?

Sheldon

So kevin's cousin just had a baby. Since i am still in the trying to impress the family stage with his extended family, and because they were all very nice to me when i visited over last Thanksgiving, i decided to knit her a present for the baby. I saw this pattern and thought it was too cute.





So he's kinda funny looking and kevin says his colors make him look like a Koopa but i like him and i think she will to

Little Connie

My dad kept telling me this week about the guy on Britain's Got Talent (but as Dr. Ted pointed out -- not grammer) who sang opera like Povarati and i kept countering with the 6 year old who sang just as well. Anyway figured i'd show my evidence, someone messed up and gave this kid the voice of a 30 year old

Final Photo Project

As requested these are the pictures of my final photo project. Again i apologize for the quality of the pictures. For those of you not familiar with my concept i took pictures of people scars and matted them with the method of acquisition.

What's a synonym for awesome

Calling all fellow book lovers

Hey guys,
As some of you know, I watch a video blog called brotherhood 2.0. Recently on this blog was this video describing how a young adult author's book just got banned from a school library for containing homosexual characters. Now, we aren't talking lurid sex scenes even, the most explicit thing is some kissing. Please join me and the thousands of others who are e-mailing the members of this board and making sure they know how we feel about censorship. I mean come on there is a gay sesame street character now! I think high school kids can handle it.








Mrs. Janet Vernon,(vernonjm@bps-ok.org) Executive Director of Secondary Instruction
UPDATE: Mrs. Vernon’s email box is full, but you can email her assistant, Becky Brubaker,(BrubakerRA@bps-ok.org) and ask her to pass your thoughts along to Mrs. Vernon
Dr. Richard Rosenberger, (rosenbergerrg@bps-ok.org) Executive Director of Human Resources
Mr. Chuck McCauley, (mccauleycr@bps-ok.org) Principal of Bartlesville High School

Coolest socks....EVER!!!

Even you boys will appreciate that i made these socks by hand!




That's right, space invaders!

Awesome

I feel like this all the time, except for the whole paranoid delusion that a dead musician is following me.

Pictures of pictures

Ok so i promis that these pictures aren't as bad as they look but it's hard to take a good picture of a picture

Wedding Bonanza

Well as many of you know after the wedding i lost my camera. Well, I've found it! So i thought it would be fitting to post some pictures.

This one i think we can all appreciate. We actually played this game the day of the wedding.














But before all that we had a girls night out on the town.

There was some bubbly.














There was this guy










He taught our martini class








There was zombie bride















And just hanging out

















Then the real fun began


There was dancing...
















And Drinking...
















And carrying on.















And we spent the next day in our pajamas















getting our hair done















So that we could watch heather & Ted walk away into the sunset together















for a TOUCHDOWN!!!

Isn't it sad when things don't suprise you anymore

Fifth-Graders Accused of Sex in Classroom
By MARY FOSTER
AP
NEW ORLEANS (April 4) - Five fifth-grade students face criminal charges after authorities said four of them had sex in front of other students in an unsupervised classroom and kept a classmate posted as a lookout for teachers.

Two 11-year-old girls, a 12-year-old boy and a 13-year old boy have been charged with obscenity for allegedly having sex in an unsupervised classroom in front of other students. An 11-year-old boy, the alleged lookout, was charged with being an accessory.

The students were arrested Thursday at the Spearsville school in rural north Louisiana, authorities said. Two 11-year-old girls, a 12-year-old boy and a 13-year old boy were charged with obscenity, a felony. An 11-year-old boy, the alleged guard, was charged with being an accessory.

"After 44 years of doing this work, nothing shocks me anymore," said Union Parish Sheriff Bob Buckley. "But this comes pretty close."

Authorities said the incident happened March 27 at the school, which houses students from kindergarten through 12th grade. A high school teacher normally watches the fifth-grade class at the time, but went to an assembly for older students and the class was inadvertently left unattended, Buckley said.

The class, which had around 10 other students, was alone for about 15 minutes, he said.


Students Allegedly Had Sex in School

"When no teacher showed up, the four began to have sex in the classroom with the other elementary students in the classroom with them," he said.

It took a day for authorities to find out about the incident. A student who had been in the class told a high school student about it the next day, Buckley said. The student told a teacher, and school officials notified the sheriff's office. Detectives began questioning students Thursday.

School officials did not return calls seeking comment.

The students, who were not identified because of their age, were released to their parents after their arrests, Buckley said. They will next be arraigned in juvenile court. A message seeking comment from the district attorney was not immediately returned.

Buckley said it was unclear what the children could face in penalties.

This SUCKS

I just took an organic chemistry exam. The scary part was, it was easy. Our professor as a gesture of kindness decided to let us have an open book/notes exam, which is weird to begin with for this professor but she also said she wasn't going to make it any harder than a normal test. Terrified, i went to the study session last night, stayed all the way to the end and wrote down everything we went over and then it was ALL on the test. So basically i had the answers to all the questions. Why am I still scared?

Theory Contest?

So in the spirit of all of the caption contests, I propose a theory contest. What do i mean by that? Well last night while kevin was sleeping he started talking. He said to me in that sleepy sleeptalking voice "I wonder what i tastes like when you mix fear and vodka." So what's your theory? What does it taste like when you mix fear and vodka? Have fun!

Insomnia

I like to sleep. I don't like not sleeping. I would love to be asleep right now but alas, I'm not and NO TED it doesn't have anything to do with caffeine. I say this because 1) I haven't had any at all today and 2)I'm still awake at 4am.
On a completely different note, have you ever done something so stupid that you felt the need to share? (I know heather has because we call each other with stupid things like this all the time)Well, long story long i am taking a photography class and our next project is on time and motion. It was raining REALLY hard tonight. I set up my camera to take pictures of the lightening. Well since my windows are dirty and it was raining i needed to have the door open to aim the camera. Well in the time that i left the room to patiently wait for the lightning to happen, it went from raining to TORRENTIAL MONSOON...needless to say my carpet, camera, and everything in a three foot radius is soaking wet. DUH!

DeathCab for Cutie

Kevin and I don't usually agree on music, for the simple reason that we hear it differently. I listen to the words of a song and the melody and Kevin listens to the bass line. Not a huge logical jump to say that we don't usually agree on music, not all the time anyway. Well sufice it to say that when he called me into the room to listen to this song it made me cry. I decided to share. Enjoy.

THANKS

You know how you see those bumper stickers that say "I am thankful for the thousands of GOOD priests"? Well that aside you also know those people who really hate doctors? I have never been able to agree with those people because where i have met a few inept doctors in my time, I had never been treated by one. Well today changed all of that. Without going into great and gory detail i had unfortunate luck to be treated by the meanest, angriest, and stupidest doctor i have ever met.

So here is my thank you to all the good doctors out there, and those striving to become compasionate, caring and understanding doctors.

oh and on a completely different note i saw this the other day and thought it would be appreciated.

Why?

Ok after having the day from hell...long and short of it is that after a full day of class 8-3 with no breaks i went to go get in my car to go home before my ANAL. CHEM. class and my car wouldn't start...after two hours of dealing with that i went to my analytical chemistry class and what did we do??? Say it with me boys and girls...that's right, we WEIGHED PENNIES!!!!!! Please someone explain to me why anyone who has made it to Chem 302 needs to have a full 2 hours on how to use a scale and get a standard deviation. I just don't understand.

R.O.U.S.'s

Does everyone remember the Rodents Of Unusual Size from the princess bride? Of course you do!

They look vaguely like this ugly fucker to our left....well i found out today that they are real! I know i live in B.F.E. swampland but i was driving down the road today and there was a dead nutria on the side of the road that was as big as one of these bad boys...I mean bigger than a telephone pole i swear...For those of you yankees who don't know what a nutria is they are rather large rodents with ORANGE teeth that look like the fellow on our right...I just felt the need to share...I had no idea i was living in the fire swamp!

Let's hear it!

Man Sues to More Easily Take Wife's Name
By Martin Kasindorf
USA Today
(Jan. 12) - Michael Buday is petitioning a federal judge for the right to take Diana Bijon's last name in marriage as easily as she could take his last name. Bijon, 28, an emergency room nurse, asked her fiancé to change his last name to preserve her father's family name because there are no sons. Buday, 29, a technical manager at an advertising firm, promised he would. "I had a rough childhood with my father," he says. "We never really got along. Diana's father stepped up, gave me career advice. He's family." Keeping his promise has been more onerous than Buday expected. A woman can choose her husband's name or her maiden name on a California marriage-license form after the couple pays a county application fee that ranges from $50 to $97. California and 43 other states provide no place on a marriage-license application for the groom to choose the bride's surname. To officially change his name to hers - and for future Social Security benefits, Buday says - a man must pay a $320 court fee, advertise his intention in a newspaper for four weeks and get a judge's approval. "The law makes it burdensome, if not close to impossible, to adopt the wife's name," says Mark Rosenbaum, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. "It reflects the archaic notion of a woman's subordinate place in the partnership."

The ACLU sued California and Los Angeles County on Dec. 15 to have the separate treatment of Buday and Bijon outlawed as gender discrimination and a denial of equal protection. The couple were married in August 2005 under their separate names after state and county agencies rebuffed them. Six states - Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Massachusetts, New York and North Dakota - give either spouse the right to choose the other's last name. A marrying couple that wants a combined or hyphenated name in California and most other states must go through the red tape of a court petition. That's the route Antonio Villar of Los Angeles took in 1987 when he and his wife, Corina Raigosa, combined their names as Villaraigosa. He's now mayor of the city. A groom seldom asks to adopt his bride's name, says Myleta Miller, a clerk at Atlanta's Probate Court. No national statistics are kept, but Miller says she's seen "no more than five" such applications in six years on the job. Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Conny McCormack, named in the lawsuit, says her office uses a state-dictated form and will comply with any change judges or legislators might order. "I certainly am in favor of the law -- being clarified," McCormack says.

I just found the best blog every and felt the need to share with everyone...heather you will love this one! www.yogabeans.com you should all check it out

Awww

I'm not really a big sports fan but this was too cute to pass up, apparently undefeated Boise state wins the fiesta bowl and during a CNN interview their RB proposes to his girlfriend. TOO CUTE! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5uYDY1y5Qo