Ok ok, so I'm bad at updating this regularly. We've been busy.

To catch you all up:

1. We bought a house

It's wonderful! The roof went on a week late which caused some freaking out, but it all worked out in the end.

2. We painted the house (by "we" I mean Andrew, me, Nicole, Robert, Addy, Peter, Laura, Papa, Paige, Jennifer, LeeAnn & Ryan) I'll go over it more next post.

The living room got a two-tone stripe. It's beautiful and it makes me happy :)

The office we painted purple

The master bedroom we painted blue.

House!

So we found a house. We put in an offer yesterday afternoon. We gave the owners until Wednesday to respond to it. I won't say more :)

Apparently though I take nauseating videos.

I switched the slideshow to the left from Xmas pictures to ones I took from our trip to Disney for our anniversary last month. Picasa/Blogger finally recognised the album.

Happy Birthday honey!

I think Andrew had a good birthday. Everyone came except Justin. I can only assume he forgot. We didn’t quite stay up all night watching moves, but it was pretty late before the last person left. Up again early to make breakfast. I’m not a super-cook, so Andrew didn’t get the elephant or giraffe pancakes he asked for, but he did get silver-dollar-Mickeys. With weird ear tumors. And lopsided. Lauren & Paige came over to eat. Dinner came out good too. The fam showed up as did all the guys & Lauren. Paige showed up late, ate, and left which I thought was a little weird, but whatever. I’m not sure our friends grasp the idea of a “pot luck”.

We house hunted on Sunday. I’m getting a little frustrated. Kenley keeps showing us houses in this one neighborhood, but it’s not near anything. It just seems so far away. I have to do some research today. Andrew says its close to TCC, but all I keep thinking is that it is going to take me an hour to get home at night.

So I found this awesome site about terrible cakes. It’s called Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Horribly, Hilariously Wrong

She has this awesome description of hockey:
“See, apparently they play this sport on ice - but they have to make sure the ice is really thick, or else their cleats will scuff it all up. The players wear lots of padding and helmets, and carry little butterfly nets on sticks with which to hit the ball around. The object of the game is to score a triple Hail Mary - which is just another name for a running slam dunk - and consists of knocking three other players down while simultaneously dunking the ball through one of the red rings. Players known as running backs try to kick the ball, but the other team's catchers use their heads and butterfly nets to deflect the ball away from their side's field goal. Any running backs who are able to push the other team's running backs out of the big circle in the middle get what's called a free throw, in which they're allowed to chuck the ball at the head of their least favorite player. If they miss, their team only scores a half-down, but if the ball hits the other player, they score a hole-in-one.”“There was also some stuff about yard lines, birdies, and triple-axles, but I kind of zoned out at that point. Still, I think I just may have to check out a hockey game some day; John tells me every time the pitcher serves a kill-shot, the mascot serves hot chocolate. How cool is that?!?”
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2008/10/whats-better-than-hockey-wreck.html

lol hug

So, I’ve decided that I don’t really like Tasty Pastry. I ordered (or thought I ordered) cupcakes for Andrew. I wanted as many different kinds of cake as I could get, but I really only needed one cupcake or so of each kind. They were all like “sure!” and wrote it down. I got a call yesterday that my “order” was ready. Apparently they only had two kinds of cupcake for me, not the original 5 I had “ordered”. She said they only had the two because they didn’t make any of the other kinds of cake all week. So, I can’t just get a cupcake? I needed to have ordered more to warrant baking anything!? Why have me order anything if you weren’t going to actually make it? After I picked up my “order” I drove on down to Heidi’s Bakery and got other stuff (probably better stuff) that is a surprise. Pfft. I use Heidi’s from now on. It’s too bad Heidi’s was closed on Monday or I could have avoided all this in the first place.

And really, I should have done all the making of the things yesterday, but the stupid power was out until this morning. I am so behind.

Break

We're taking a break from houses this week because Kenley is busy. We'll look again on Friday. But oh man is Friday going to be busy!

Here's the agenda so far. Andrew is going to drive me to work at 7 (so I can get off at 4 and he can get to work on-time). At 3:30, he should get off work and come pick me up at 4 so we can go meet Kenley at 4:30. After looking at some houses (for who knows how long) we (or I because it is Andrew's birthday so he shouldn't have to do anything) get to go home and finish any party things (like cleaning the house or decorating). At 7, people should start showing up for the party. Sometime in the wee morning hours I get to go put dinner in the crock pot so I can pull it Saturday afternoon at 3:30ish and get it back into the pot for an hour before people show up for dinner. At breakfast time on Saturday, I think we are having pancakes and bacon, so I get to cook that for whoever is left of the All-Night-Movie-Marathon. I think then Andrew wants to go to the park and play frisbee golf. I plan on making lots of coffee. Lots. At dinner, his fam is coming over along with anyone else who either hasn't left yet or is returning for a pot luck. A true pot luck I am told. Now I haven't planned past this point yet. The only thing I do know is that we need to get some paper plates.

Reasons I Love Andrew

This is a new section of the blog called Reasons I Love Andrew. I will add at least one new thing everyday.

It's still having a bug in Firefox, but I hope to clear that up soon.

I got the blues da na na na na

I cooked a nice (RE: I set the table nice) dinner for Andrew last night since he is feeling kind of blue. Let me tell you it was one sexy table. I converted out tablecloth to a runner and broke out the battery candles and the two tapers that bleed funny colors that Mom just gave us. I didn’t cook so well, but it looked nice. Justin, Ryan and tall Andrew came over too. But not for dinner.

Work is still really busy, but I really need to tell about what happened. So I made a right hand menu. Woohoo, I know. Here’s the backstory and an explanation. The server we are working on has been uber slow lately. I mean creeping. I don’t know if that’s the cause, but it couldn’t hurt to blame it. After all, it’s just a server. Anyways, in the new look of the website, everything is getting a right hand menu. We make them, put them in a folder and then link to an instance of them in the pages that need them (so we have one file to edit instead of editing several pages). I made one and linked it to the pages that need it. I noticed something and had to make an edit to the menu file. No biggie, I do it all the time. What was weird though was that the edit was not showing up in preview mode. Refreshing and dumping cache was not helping. I asked a coworker and my boss both of which had no idea what was wrong. The file showed correctly in the WYSIWYG editor, but not in a browser. It sounds a lot less strange that it was. John eventually fixed it by renaming the page that was linking to the menu and then renaming it back. I <3 John.

• Killer smile
• Sunshine
• Uh oh
• Bunny mag
• Spectacularly awesome
• Scarred
• Give blood
• Hopscotch
• John Lennon or Harry Potter?
• Resale value
• lowl
• Grumpy
• Back in the well
• Rehab
• Punk
• Evil is cute
• Poor Amy Winehouse
• Larry King
• This is an excellent point
• AFV breakdown
• Awesome
• This is a terrible pun. lol

Best-husband-ever

Stitches come out today hopefully. I don’t want to rush it. But oh my god, it is so good to sleep on my back again. It’ll be nice when the doctor’s check clears too. It’s been two weeks.

Andrew is the best husband ever. In a random need for baking last night, I decided to make this box of pink cake we had. The only problem was that I was one egg short. So after a little pissing and moaning, he went down to Lauren & Paige’s house to get me an egg. I think best-husband-ever felt better after he had some cake :)

I am no baker. I had a box of cake and managed to mangle it to death. I followed the directions too. They need a step in there in between the step to bake it for 30 minutes and the step to cool it for 15 on a cooling rack. The step should say leave it in the pan for a few minutes so that when you dump it onto the cooling rack you don’t rip the cake in half, which is what happens when you take the cake out of the oven and immediately flip it upsidedown on the cooling rack. Cake is cake though, so it all eats the same. It just looks really crappy. I used silicon cake pans sprayed with Pam and still got the cakes stuck. I like brownies better. I can make those. Or Andrew’s dump cake, which is what kind of cake I want for my birthday (hint hint Andrew).

• Safari- doing it wrong
• The power of Christ compels you!
• Cat in pants
• Sad cat
• Teacup kittens
• Ninja kittens
• Dancing hamsters
• Rock cat
• Hanger kitty
• What every dog wants for Xmas
• Gravity
• Trash cat
• Endcat
• If your house burned down, you’d be this pissed too.
• This is me being lazy.

I have message sign-writer’s block

"This beer has been naturally carbonated in the bottle. A small layer of yeast sediment on the bottom is normal. For maximum enjoyment, store and refrigerate this bottle in the upright position. Slowly pour the entire contents into a glass, stopping just before the end. This will leave the yeast sediment behind."

So I got really excited about this label that I made. Woo hoo! I was really digging on it. I stopped to do something else, and when I came back to it, well, hot damn. It looks like a dinosaur egg. Time to try again. There was success, however. I made a logo that me and Andrew like.

Here are two pictures from PostSecret. I don't know how long they'll be up, so act fast!

• Pancakes
• Spaz

Silly

I love Andrew. He says some of the dumbest things.

Example 1: A long time ago, I was sitting at the table doing something and Andrew was in the kitchen putting the dishes away when I heard, “Snaggletooth. That’s what I’ll call you.” I turned to look at him and he was all like “what?” One of the knives had a bent tip.

Example 2: On the ride home from Mom & Dad’s Saturday, we were “playing” the license plate game. I called Florida just because and the very next car (surprisingly) was a Florida and Andrew goes “ha! I call Florida.” Then, under his breath, “Ooh bip.” With emphasis on the p. I laughed so hard that he asked if I wanted to pull over.

Another thing that made me hysterical was on Sunday. We were watching The Smoking Gun Presents…The World’s Dumbest whatevers and this idiot stole a Krispy Kreme truck and was running from the cops spilling donuts everywhere. One of the commenters said it was like chum to angry sharks and I just about lost it for like half an hour. I even did that stupid wheezing thing.

And now for something completely different…
I put the Xmas pictures up on Picasa. Click on the slideshow to the right. I’m trying to come up with a better design for the site. Just give me some time (or ideas).

Links:
Fighter cat

I'm on an animation kick

My leg was itchy last night so, being without nails, I used a hairclip to scratch. This morning Andrew said my leg looks like it has tetanus. I have no idea what that means. It hurts when my pants touch it. I won’t scratch with a hairclip anymore.

So this morning on the way to work, Andrew did something that made me angry and I told him to shut up. In the time that it took for us to drive from Tharpe to Tennessee down High, I completely forgot why I was mad, I just remembered that I was mad. At the light Andrew apologized and I told him I forgot why I was mad. He said something along the lines of “that’s one of the perks of being married to someone with short term memory problems”. I love Andrew.

Fun animations

• Conan being a flaming Frankenstein?
• o rly?
• Don’t piss off Tyra!
• This little kangaroo is so sad L fail.
• Raccoon with a rocket pack :)
• I don’t know who this guy is, but I like the guy that added in the arms.
• If instead of learning kung-fu, if Neo had learned origami.
• Fun with toilet paper and ALF.
• Surrealism rocks.
• I like Futurama.
• How cool would it be for a lion to hug you because it loves you?
• Why don’t all guitar players do this?
• This is a cool animation of a letter guy walking.
• This one is for Andrew. Multipass?
• Fresh Prince happy dance?

To kill a mockinbird, or at least crush his dreams

This weekend was good. Andrew let me sleep way in on Sunday while he did laundry. He’s so awesome.

Lauren came by too. She had a new dress. It was pretty. It reminded us of the Powerpuff Girls though.

So I’ve decided that Andrew has replaced Florida State Football in my heart. Since I’ve met him I don’t watch games really anymore. I still care, but not enough to stand up for 4 hours to support them. I still bleed Garnet & Gold, but I think somewhere along the way I grew up. But if someone wanted to give me their extra tickets to the grown-up-sit-down-section, I wouldn’t turn them down.

Andrew told me this morning that my soup was probably bad. I trust him because he’s pretty much smarter than me. I can draw circles around him (lol) and start the tech-speak, but other than that I think he’s got me beat. I’m ok with that. I love him :)

So Florida is getting a new state bird. Poor old Mr. Mockingbird didn’t even make the list of possibles. When the site is up to vote, I’ll post it. My vote will be going for the Brown Pelican. I like them. They are big and scary. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that my imaginary sports team would be the Pelicans, but I wouldn’t want to have a throw down with an adult pelican.

So speaking of sports team names, I’m not 100% sure what my team would be. Swordfish would be ok, but it’s still kind of lame. The Dragon Slayers sounds too much like a Buffy thing. The Kimoto Dragons. The Praying Mantis. Sweetums.

Check out the right hand menu. All the previous posts will be listed there as well as anything that catches my interest. The pumpkin is obscuring it right now, but if you scroll you can find it. I'm still trying to come up with a better look for Halloween.

This is enough for one post. I’ll do more later.