New Year's Party

I "heart" fall

OK, I haven't blogged since June, I know I am a total, total slacker...so here's the update.

Work and home life are pretty much the same ?work's good, staying busy, learning new things, get to work with some seriously cool people who are becoming better friends ? work friends help the day go faster. My amazing husband it still the stay-at-home variety, a ouse husband?I call it ?doing all the laundry, dishes, grocery shopping, bill paying, cleaning, cooking, ect. I go to work and make money, he pretty much does everything else ?I am SOOO spoiled. We end up having people over for dinner and stuff a lot more often, because my amazing husband is home to get everything ready, and he has his 'alone time' during the week, so having people over doesn't stress him out as much.

I LOVE FALL ?the 'sweater weather', the crunch of leaves, freshly sharpened #2 pencils. We've had many great fall experiences this season....

1. We went apple picking with Adam's family ?which resulted in some yummy cider, too much apple crisp for one couple to eat, fun being had by all and my first case of poison ivy ?thanks to good health insurances and living less then a block from urgent care it's all cleared up now :)

2. Swissfest was also great this year ?we had yummy fried food and got to hang out with Mellie and Beth ?always fun. In the end it as a bit too cold and rainy for some of the normal actives (ie having cute old men teach us to polka ? you'd think after 4 years of swissfest attendance I'd learn ?and ncouraging?all the people participating parade EAH Moonshine festival queen ?you have the best festival ever ? great crown!?or ORRAY for Sugarcreek public library ?way to let people barrow books! Yeah reading!? but we did put on PJ's and watch ean of the Dead?- it's a romantic comedy, with zombies ?so funny, and so strange and aiting for Guffman?- a mock-u-mentory on community theater ?Christopher Guest (also in Princess Bride and This is Spinal Tap) is a comic genius.

3. Halloween ?between candy and costumes how can you not love this holiday?! My amazing husband I and celebrated a bit early be dressing up as the Flintstones and Rubbles (with the help of Heather and Craig) and going to a hockey game. It was awesome ?a great game and we got free ice cream from Cold stone ?never underestimate the power of a great costume! Here's a Picture:

I made mine and my amazing husband's costume ?his is a 4 dollar piece of T-shirt fabric sewed into a square and mine was a 4 dollar piece of fabric sewed into a skirt and top, plus a $15 wig ? everything else I already had. I even had a little black fur stole I bought in April at walmart for $3 to wear to the game. I like the top so much I might wear it just for fun!

OK, that's it for me for now, I can say I will try to blog more often, but you all know I probably won't.

Lacking Eternal Perspective

whoa, I never knew you could title my blogs!

Ok, so I have not blogged in about a month, so new developments on my life:

1. I got a new car, and I don't mean just new to me, I mean brand new. Louise, our old car given to us by Rachel Richardson and Pete Springirth, was a 1990 Ford Escort, and I could just not keep her running any more. She is now the trusty new car of a nice mechanic man who will take good care of her, and can keep her running. My new car is a 2006 Honda Civic, 4 door, named Cecilia. Adam wanted to name her something with a C so it would go with he civic? and he was thinking Cecil, but then he honked the horn and it was such a girlie horn we had to go with Cecilia. Plus then we she starts to break down we could always sing ecilia, your breaking my heart, your shaking my confidence daily. Woah, Cecilia, I'm down on my knees, I'm begging you please get me home, get me home!?/p>

2. The unbirthday party was a lot of fun! I don't have any pictures to post (that is actually part of why I was waiting to blog, not 100% because I'm lazy, more like 98% because I'm lazy and 2% because I didn't have pictures). The reason I don't have pics to show you is that Adam's sister and our friends Sarah and Kristin took most of the pictures and we were like ool, we'll just get pictures from them.?Then the next day they all went on a cruse together, so I still haven't gotten pictures from them yet. But anyway it was fun. We had TONS of food, some of it tea related, some of it random ?strawberry tarts, scones, English muffins with jam, chocolates, mini cheese balls presented in the form of a topiary with crackers, sushi, sugared pecans, and of course TEA! We set up the table on the porch (it was a BEAUTIFUL day) with about twice and many settings we needed (I got some tea cups from good will, which I am going to give back to good will, so it more like renting, but for 45 cents a cup.) Anyway, everybody go there late, we had 2 Alices, a carpenter, a mad hatter, a butterfly, and some people who didn't dress up. We ate and ate and ate, then played croquet, then we sang, and blew out candles in hostess cupcakes and exchanged unbirthday white elephant gifts and ate the cupcakes (even though we were pretty full). All in all super fun.

3. I've had computer problems, my hard drive committed suicide, lucky for me I was 62 days before my warranty runs out, and I have a computer savvy hubbie to take care of it. So it's fixed now, and since the new hard drive is empty, my computer is running pretty fast! Adam managed to recover all my documents and save them on a disk if I ever need them, I did however loose my Internet book marks, no big loss really.

So that's for me for now, more on the unbirthday party when I get pictures.

Currently Watching Lost - The Complete First Season see related

Ok, so my amazing husband watching LOST right now, a show I cannot get into because it is WAY too demanding, I can commit to television shows enough to watch stuff like LOST or 24, so Il blog instead.  The little bar at the top should say usband currently watching?nbsp;

Jean-Queen ?on Presidents Day I did indeed buy jeans, 3 pairs! And I successfully hemmed them all one Tuesday night while my amazing husband was out doing visitation for the Sunday Place, so for the first time in a LONG time I have jeans that fit me and don drag on the ground!  PLUS I hemmed m the ool way?so that the original hem still shows - Horary for sewing machines!

Getting Bartlett-ed uster coined the term etting Bartlett-ed?to mean he extreme one-up-man-ship of a bad day?based on one day my amazing husband had when they were freshman in college.  Apparently when I took my amazing husband name, I also took his tendency for bad days to get worse until they are to the point of ridiculous.  Here is my story:  A few weeks ago, at work, I was going to the University of Dayton (UD) to image materials on their Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM ?it basically taking pictures of materials on the nano scale with a hundred thousand dollar camera). So I get there (had to barrow my co-workers car because mine was broken ?still is broken actually ?maybe more on that later), get my visitor pass to park in the lot, and go to the research lab.  I take my pictures and things are going pretty good. But on my last sample I mount it improperly (stupid mistake), and it gets stuck inside the machine! It starts beeping at me and flashing and I had to get the lab guy and they had to call in a technician to figure out what is wrong. All this time I pretty much freaking out thinking HIS IS A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR MACHINE! I BROKE A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR MACHINE!!!!!?So they call the guy in, he says there is nothing they can do about it right now because he has to take the thing apart and fix it. He tells me to just save my files and go back to work (and he is none too happy with me at this point).  So I put my flash disk in the computer to save and it doesn want to save! The network at UD won enable my secure flash disk! Grrrrr! So, I save my files on the desk top of the computer and vow to come back with a different flash drive to get them later that afternoon.  I walk to the car (of course I am parked in bufu visitor parking), and half way there, it starts to our down the rain?as my amazing husband would say.  I am not wearing a coat because it was warm and sunny when I went in.  So I get to the car, soaking wet, and there is a parking ticket on it!  I swear they make those things bright orange so they can piss you off from 100 feet away!  So I get to car, take my ticket and my parking pass to the parking Nazis at UD and ask them why they gave me a ticket since I had a parking pass.  They explained to me that my pass (which you hang on your rear view mirror) must have fallen down when I shut the door, because the ticket said ass on the dashboard.? I just thought ou have got to be kidding me! Even thought he could SEE my pass, he gave me a fine for it falling off my mirror!? but the guy at the campus safety office must of sensed that I was not having the best day and was just like ell, since I see you have a valid pass, I will make this go away? 

**sigh**

So I get back to work, figure out what wrong with my flash drive, get another one and get ready to go back to UD (with my coworker car) to get my images.  I call the UD lab guy to see if they fixed the SEM and the good news; they fixed it and everything is fine (horray!) the bad news: they had to completely shut down the computer and ALL my images are gone, deleted, forever.  A whole day of work pretty much down the drain, I couldn help but laugh!  I would have thrown in the towel and went home, if I wouldn have been car-pooling because my car was broken! Ha ha ha ha ha!  I guess I was Bartlett-ed!

Un-birthday Party! That coming up in just a few weeks! Horray! It will be so fun ?I am going to be the caterpillar after he turns into a butterfly (re-making my butterfly wings I left in China, and wearing this blue velvet as a robe thingie) and my amazing husband is going to be the mad hatter (we made him a lime green top hat out of kids fun foam, and hopefully find a cheap white suit at good will we can dye lime green).  And we will have tea and croquet and a gift exchange.  We might make hats too, I haven decided it all yet. But it will be fun, and I will definitely post pictures.

Ok, that it for now ?more to come!