Cody and I had our very first wedding shower yesterday and it was amazing - we had a blast and it was so wonderful to see everyone! Yes, I mean we both had a had shower - how many guys can say that? :) We had almost decided not have a Tallahassee shower because the only time to do it would be the week of Christmas and we figured everyone was just too busy (and broke) with the holidays and everything, but Cody's mom and sister thought it would be a good idea. Boy, was it ever a good idea! We decided to do a couples shower so we could both catch up with friends/family instead of just the female ones and it turned out great. His mom and sister (who both should be nominated as saints for putting up with me during both Christmas AND wedding season) put together the whole thing and it was a blast.
We had the shower at Dorothy B. Oven park in Tallahassee, a beautiful park in the middle of the city (sort of the middle at least) and had both sides of my family, his family and friends too. We had great food, some hilarious games (a newlywed sort of game where we both had to answer questions by what we think the other would say) and of course, cool presents. I hope to have the pictures up shortly (when we get back home). Thanks everyone for coming - we really apprectiate it! And of course, a special thanks to Sara, Rick, Donna for all their hard work putting it together!
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Monday, December 25, 2006
Merry Christmas!
Wow! What a crazy and hectic last few days - I couldn't even remember what day of the week it was today! Well, here's the condensed version (at least condensed for me):
Thursday: Well, we were planning to leave for Florida on Friday so Thursday would have been our last full day in STL to get all the rest of our shopping, wrapping, cleaning, packing, etc. done before the trip. So our plan was to come home, do all that jazz, go to soccer and try to get some sleep - until we came upon some hockey tickets. :) A friend at work couldn't go to the game and of course we can't pass up sports tickets of any kind, so we ditched our Christmas "duties" to go to see the Blues v. Kings. Well I guess the Blues got an early Christmas present because they actually won a game! Yes, the Blues, arguably the worst team in the NHL, actually won a game and we got to see it! So that was exciting. Then we had a soccer game at 11.15 pm (of course we'd have to have the super late game the night before we were supposed to leave), which was fun and amusing (especially after Cody had a few beers at the hockey game). We lost, but it was fun. That night we stayed up super late working to get stuff done for the trip, only to fail miserably at accomplishing all our tasks. :)
Friday: By mid-morning on Friday we both realized there would be no leaving that day. So much to do and just not enough time. Once that decision was made the day was fantastic - we felt like we had all the time in the world - and since Cody had off work, I got off early and everyone else was out of town we had time and we had it to ourselves. So while I was at work, Cody got his hair cut, got the oil changed in the cars, and did some errands. Then we actually got to hang out together, go to dinner together (a sit-down dinner, not even Subway) and have a relatively easy going evening together. We took all the pictures I wanted to with the tree (to be posted on the website shortly) and went to bed early.
Saturday: Cody woke up at 3 am (yes, Cody waking on a Saturday in the AM!) to build the kitties a little kitty condo for their borrowed carrier (thanks to Marissa and Cassidy the cats no longer roam the car when we drive them to FL, they sit in their huge dog carrier) - it was out of an old milk carton - he turned it upside down and cut out a side of it so one cat could sit up top and another could sit underneath - like a bunk bed system - how nice of him. After he was done doing that and loading most of the Jeep, I got up, helped with the loading and then we got on the road around 5am. Since I DO NOT do mornings, Cody had to take the first shift. He drove until about 9.30 (while I slept) and then I took over for him to sleep. I then drove until about 1.30 and then it was his turn - so we stopped at a gas station to get gas and switch but Cody accidentally closed his door hard and the power window fell into the door. Well then we had two crummy seats - the driver or the passenger with the window stuck down. So I chose the driver (I got to chose because he broke the window) while Cody tried to hold a pillow up in the passenger window to reduce the noise from the wind. We even had to cover up the cats because all the wind was really bothering them. So I got stuck driving the rest of the way into Tally. So we finally arrived Saturday evening in Tally Town. Cody went to his folks and I went to my moms - he helped bake cookies and I helped my mom START her Christmas shopping (yes, my mother put off her shopping until December 23 - apparently she did not get the memo that Christmas is on the 25th EVERY YEAR). So we shopped and hung out and had a nice evening of wrapping presents.
Sunday: Christmas Eve! More shopping with mom for me. We pretty much ran until the stores were all about to close but we got most of it done. :) We always spend Christmas Eve with Cody's family so we all went out to eat and then went back to his parent's house to hang out. Because we all have so much already, in leiu of getting each other presents this year we each chose a way to donate to charity. Cody's parents adopted a family from a woman's shelter and bought those kids presents. We donated money to both CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates), an organization that assigns an advocate to abused, neglected or abandoned kids stuck in the court system (similar to Guardian ad Litem in Florida, for which I worked in law school), and the March of Dimes -they're the ones that help premature babies and birth defects -and they send out rocking address labels. :) So that took a lot of stress and pressure off of Christmas. While it was nice, I think next year I would like to do a bit of both - a small present exchange - either pick names or keep it under $20 and then still donate. Anyway, we had a great time hanging out with them and playing with the kids. The kids got a ton of toys, including Hubabaloo, a really cool game that I loved to play with Baylee. Unfortunately, poor Baylee got sick and had to end her Christmas Eve early. :( Nonetheless, we all had a great time hanging out and spending time together- and eating lots of sweets.
After the Raffensperger Christmas (of which I will officially be a Raffensperger next year), I went back to my moms and wrapped presents all night. Yes, all night. My brother was supposed to come over and help decorate the tree but never showed up so we actually had a tree up with absolutely no ornaments on it - not one light or ornament - maybe a few pieces of tinsel that didn't come off from years past, but that was it. That of course bugs me since I'm all into Christmas trees, but I guess that's life.
CHRISTMAS: This morning Cody woke up early (at his parents - not sure how we're going to do this sleeping/living arrangement in Tally when we're married or have kids) and did Christmas with his family and his niece and nephew and then came over to my mom's. We did Christmas at my mom/grandma's house and had a great time - always a riot - in all senses of the word. Always good fun. Then we drove out to Sopchoppy to my dad's house to see that group (my dad, stepmom, David, Kim and the kids). Again, a great time. Kim is actually pregnant again with their third kid and we all couldn't be more excited - they've got two (absolutely gorgeous) girls now and they find out on Jan. 3 if the next one will be a boy or girl. We're pulling for a boy but will adore whatever they have, of course. We had a great time playing with the girls and catching up with everyone. We missed seeing the Fountains (our grandparents- Dianne's parents) and Aunt Frances Ann, but hopefully we'll get to see them shortly at the wedding - they're always good people to see and hang out with. After my dad's Christmas we went back to Tallahassee to my aunt and uncles for our third (Cody's fourth) Christmas of the day (yes it was exhausting)!
:) Always a riot there as well. My Aunt Cookie was there so we got to see her - she's fantastic and funny as hell (hi Aunt Cookie if you're reading this). We had a great time laughing hysterically and hanging out - let's just say my family is pretty insane. :) After all the fun was over we came home and have just been cleaning up and hanging.
Hope you had a great Christmas!!!
Thursday: Well, we were planning to leave for Florida on Friday so Thursday would have been our last full day in STL to get all the rest of our shopping, wrapping, cleaning, packing, etc. done before the trip. So our plan was to come home, do all that jazz, go to soccer and try to get some sleep - until we came upon some hockey tickets. :) A friend at work couldn't go to the game and of course we can't pass up sports tickets of any kind, so we ditched our Christmas "duties" to go to see the Blues v. Kings. Well I guess the Blues got an early Christmas present because they actually won a game! Yes, the Blues, arguably the worst team in the NHL, actually won a game and we got to see it! So that was exciting. Then we had a soccer game at 11.15 pm (of course we'd have to have the super late game the night before we were supposed to leave), which was fun and amusing (especially after Cody had a few beers at the hockey game). We lost, but it was fun. That night we stayed up super late working to get stuff done for the trip, only to fail miserably at accomplishing all our tasks. :)
Friday: By mid-morning on Friday we both realized there would be no leaving that day. So much to do and just not enough time. Once that decision was made the day was fantastic - we felt like we had all the time in the world - and since Cody had off work, I got off early and everyone else was out of town we had time and we had it to ourselves. So while I was at work, Cody got his hair cut, got the oil changed in the cars, and did some errands. Then we actually got to hang out together, go to dinner together (a sit-down dinner, not even Subway) and have a relatively easy going evening together. We took all the pictures I wanted to with the tree (to be posted on the website shortly) and went to bed early.
Saturday: Cody woke up at 3 am (yes, Cody waking on a Saturday in the AM!) to build the kitties a little kitty condo for their borrowed carrier (thanks to Marissa and Cassidy the cats no longer roam the car when we drive them to FL, they sit in their huge dog carrier) - it was out of an old milk carton - he turned it upside down and cut out a side of it so one cat could sit up top and another could sit underneath - like a bunk bed system - how nice of him. After he was done doing that and loading most of the Jeep, I got up, helped with the loading and then we got on the road around 5am. Since I DO NOT do mornings, Cody had to take the first shift. He drove until about 9.30 (while I slept) and then I took over for him to sleep. I then drove until about 1.30 and then it was his turn - so we stopped at a gas station to get gas and switch but Cody accidentally closed his door hard and the power window fell into the door. Well then we had two crummy seats - the driver or the passenger with the window stuck down. So I chose the driver (I got to chose because he broke the window) while Cody tried to hold a pillow up in the passenger window to reduce the noise from the wind. We even had to cover up the cats because all the wind was really bothering them. So I got stuck driving the rest of the way into Tally. So we finally arrived Saturday evening in Tally Town. Cody went to his folks and I went to my moms - he helped bake cookies and I helped my mom START her Christmas shopping (yes, my mother put off her shopping until December 23 - apparently she did not get the memo that Christmas is on the 25th EVERY YEAR). So we shopped and hung out and had a nice evening of wrapping presents.
Sunday: Christmas Eve! More shopping with mom for me. We pretty much ran until the stores were all about to close but we got most of it done. :) We always spend Christmas Eve with Cody's family so we all went out to eat and then went back to his parent's house to hang out. Because we all have so much already, in leiu of getting each other presents this year we each chose a way to donate to charity. Cody's parents adopted a family from a woman's shelter and bought those kids presents. We donated money to both CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates), an organization that assigns an advocate to abused, neglected or abandoned kids stuck in the court system (similar to Guardian ad Litem in Florida, for which I worked in law school), and the March of Dimes -they're the ones that help premature babies and birth defects -and they send out rocking address labels. :) So that took a lot of stress and pressure off of Christmas. While it was nice, I think next year I would like to do a bit of both - a small present exchange - either pick names or keep it under $20 and then still donate. Anyway, we had a great time hanging out with them and playing with the kids. The kids got a ton of toys, including Hubabaloo, a really cool game that I loved to play with Baylee. Unfortunately, poor Baylee got sick and had to end her Christmas Eve early. :( Nonetheless, we all had a great time hanging out and spending time together- and eating lots of sweets.
After the Raffensperger Christmas (of which I will officially be a Raffensperger next year), I went back to my moms and wrapped presents all night. Yes, all night. My brother was supposed to come over and help decorate the tree but never showed up so we actually had a tree up with absolutely no ornaments on it - not one light or ornament - maybe a few pieces of tinsel that didn't come off from years past, but that was it. That of course bugs me since I'm all into Christmas trees, but I guess that's life.
CHRISTMAS: This morning Cody woke up early (at his parents - not sure how we're going to do this sleeping/living arrangement in Tally when we're married or have kids) and did Christmas with his family and his niece and nephew and then came over to my mom's. We did Christmas at my mom/grandma's house and had a great time - always a riot - in all senses of the word. Always good fun. Then we drove out to Sopchoppy to my dad's house to see that group (my dad, stepmom, David, Kim and the kids). Again, a great time. Kim is actually pregnant again with their third kid and we all couldn't be more excited - they've got two (absolutely gorgeous) girls now and they find out on Jan. 3 if the next one will be a boy or girl. We're pulling for a boy but will adore whatever they have, of course. We had a great time playing with the girls and catching up with everyone. We missed seeing the Fountains (our grandparents- Dianne's parents) and Aunt Frances Ann, but hopefully we'll get to see them shortly at the wedding - they're always good people to see and hang out with. After my dad's Christmas we went back to Tallahassee to my aunt and uncles for our third (Cody's fourth) Christmas of the day (yes it was exhausting)!
:) Always a riot there as well. My Aunt Cookie was there so we got to see her - she's fantastic and funny as hell (hi Aunt Cookie if you're reading this). We had a great time laughing hysterically and hanging out - let's just say my family is pretty insane. :) After all the fun was over we came home and have just been cleaning up and hanging.
Hope you had a great Christmas!!!
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
My Newfound Christmas Spirit
In case you haven't clicked on the link in the last email already, do it. It's hilarious! But you need to have sound on to make it work properly. Not sure where Cody found a picture of me at work, but I guess he has one on the computer.
Anyway, today was Day #1 of my newfound Christmas spirit - okay, so I'm sort of late for this bus considering Christmas is in 6 days, but better late then never, right? Anyway, tonight I was a total domestic godess and finished Cody's Christmas stocking - it turned out 100 times better then I thought it would (with my sewing skills). I'll have to take pictures and post them on here. Then, even after I decided I just couldn't do baking this year with all my stress and hoopla, I decided to do baking. Christmas just isn't Christmas without obnoxious amounts of baking. :) But I figured out a way to make it easier this year - enlist the help of the significant other! Yes, it actually works if you give very specific instructions. So while I mixed, he got out the different ingredients I needed and measured things. And then while I was mixing another batch he would clean the utensils from the first, so in the end when all I had to do was drop cookies onto the pan, the kitchen was relatively clean because he had been keeping up with that while I did the mixing part. Works wonders and goes a ton faster! So I guess Cody was a domestic godess today too!
Hope everyone has found their Christmas/Holiday/Chrismukkah spirit!
Anyway, today was Day #1 of my newfound Christmas spirit - okay, so I'm sort of late for this bus considering Christmas is in 6 days, but better late then never, right? Anyway, tonight I was a total domestic godess and finished Cody's Christmas stocking - it turned out 100 times better then I thought it would (with my sewing skills). I'll have to take pictures and post them on here. Then, even after I decided I just couldn't do baking this year with all my stress and hoopla, I decided to do baking. Christmas just isn't Christmas without obnoxious amounts of baking. :) But I figured out a way to make it easier this year - enlist the help of the significant other! Yes, it actually works if you give very specific instructions. So while I mixed, he got out the different ingredients I needed and measured things. And then while I was mixing another batch he would clean the utensils from the first, so in the end when all I had to do was drop cookies onto the pan, the kitchen was relatively clean because he had been keeping up with that while I did the mixing part. Works wonders and goes a ton faster! So I guess Cody was a domestic godess today too!
Hope everyone has found their Christmas/Holiday/Chrismukkah spirit!
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
The FUNNIEST Thing EVER!!!
This is an email I got from Cody this evening:
You look happy! Looks like your real life dance moves!!
http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=4d3619a1c408bdd5f6b0cccG06121916
You look happy! Looks like your real life dance moves!!
http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=4d3619a1c408bdd5f6b0cccG06121916
Monday, December 18, 2006
Cody's Stocking
So, tonight I was a little Susy Homemaker. I actually sewed - not hemming pants or fixing a shirt cuff, but actually sewing. When I was younger I used to sew a lot more - I could make an entire dress or something pretty complicated but I've been out of it for a while. Well, when we were in Florida for Thanksgiving I got my Grandma Flynn's old sewing machine from my mom (my folks are divorced, not sure how my mom ended up with my dad's mom's old sewing machine - I suppose my dad doesn't sew much :) ) because I had some things to mend and fix and I wanted to cover some pillows for our couches. But most importantly I wanted to make Cody and Erica (my brother Bo's girlfriend) Christmas stockings. My mom made Bo and I stockings when we were little kids - his was red, mine green and hers red and green. So I wanted to make Cody a green one to go with mine and Erica a red one to go with Bo's because they're both part of the family now. So Cody and I (yes, I actually dragged him to Joann fabrics - twice - poor boy) looked everywhere for similar fabric to make these insane stockings - no luck. My aunt actually ended up having some left over fabric that was identical to the stockings so she mailed it up for me (next day air - thanks Aunt Barbie!!). Unfortunately there wasn't enough red for Erica's (I'll have to find her some other fabric) but there was plenty of green for Cody's. So tonight I got out my sewing skills, polished them off and began the sewing of a Christmas stocking. It's a neat adventure, a cool production and a great story, but I think when I have kids we're going to buy them stockings. :) The picture is me at the sewing machine (I'm pretty confident it's older then I am).
Flowers
I may have left the card at work (to help me through the next few days) but I didn't leave without first taking a picture of the flowers. Check them out - GORGEOUS! And they make my office smell like Christmas tree - who wouldn't be more cheerful and less stressed smelling Christmas tree???? The files behind the pretty flowers are just a taste of what I have to do the next few days. Oh, and note the silly putty on the left side of the photo -that also gets me through the day. :) I love my pretty flowers!!!!
Why I Love My Future Husband #863
I know this really isn't in his control, but one of the reasons I love him and find him so incredibly easy to get along with is his wonderful family. And I don't just mean that they're nice people and tolerable. They are seriously wonderful. Seriously. Just listen to this story . . . .
For instance, they say a guy with a good mom is going to be a good husband. If that's true, then I have myself one of the best men to ever walk the earth. Yesterday (and the day before and the day before and the day before, pretty much backing up to when we lost our power for FIVE days - yes, I'm still bitter) I was incredibly cranky. I seriously have a million things to do - all before we drop everything in our lives in four days to drive ourselves 13 hours to Florida to be away from home for over a week and run around like chickens with our heads cut off. Okay so maybe I get a bit worked up. :)
Anyway, with Christmas, the wedding (this next week is our last chance to do everything that needs to be done in Tally for the wedding because we likely won't be back until right before the wedding), work (I have a HUGE trial on Thursday - my biggest since I've started this job), and everything (the stress of whether or not we're getting bonuses at work and what our raises will be), I was a bit over the top. I even gave up baking this year because "I just couldn't do it all." Yes, I am "that person" who stays up to 3 am doing Christmas stuff only to wear herself down so much that she is sick all through Christmas because she's been so stressed.
Anyway, back to my story - I was stressed - and Cody's mom knew it - from talking to Cody, I'm sure, but also talking to me. So today at work I was sitting there stressing about how late I would have to stay (along with the other dozen things to stress about) to get everything done with I got a call from our front desk - I had a delivery. That makes even the most stressed person happy, so I bounded upstairs to find a flower delivery! I thought it was Cody sending me something (no such chance), but an even bigger (and better) surprise, his mom had sent me flowers at work!!! I left the card at work (to show off to everyone - and remind myself of her message all week), but it basically reminded me that we should all enjoy the holiday season, remember what is most important (not cookies or presents or gas prices or ornaments or lights, but family and friends) and good luck on my trial! HOW INSANELY SWEET!!! She is by far one of the nicest, sweetest, most thoughtful people I have EVER met. Seriously - I thought I was just raging stress at everyone and no one even really noticed - but not only did she notice but she took time to listen to it and totally made it melt away.
Just ask Cody - I'm a new person this evening - I forgot about wrapping presents (because if worse comes to worse I can do that in Florida) and worked on making a stocking for him (long story) for my family (actually this is really important to me) and sang Christmas songs all night (maybe I switched some of the words around to include Mr. Pickles but they were still songs with Christmas tunes). :) We had such a nice, enjoyable evening because I really kept reminding myself that this "season" isn't about being stressed, doing everything, or making our significant others scared of us, but being together, laughing and enjoy all the season brings. I know that sounds incredibly cheesy and corny, but it's oh so true - just ask Cody who's had to live with me the past few weeks. :)
Anyway, one of the many things I have to be thankful for is my future husband (only about 3.5 months to go!!) and his wonderful, thoughtful family. I really couldn't ask for a better gift then that. Thanks for the flowers- they're gorgeous!
For instance, they say a guy with a good mom is going to be a good husband. If that's true, then I have myself one of the best men to ever walk the earth. Yesterday (and the day before and the day before and the day before, pretty much backing up to when we lost our power for FIVE days - yes, I'm still bitter) I was incredibly cranky. I seriously have a million things to do - all before we drop everything in our lives in four days to drive ourselves 13 hours to Florida to be away from home for over a week and run around like chickens with our heads cut off. Okay so maybe I get a bit worked up. :)
Anyway, with Christmas, the wedding (this next week is our last chance to do everything that needs to be done in Tally for the wedding because we likely won't be back until right before the wedding), work (I have a HUGE trial on Thursday - my biggest since I've started this job), and everything (the stress of whether or not we're getting bonuses at work and what our raises will be), I was a bit over the top. I even gave up baking this year because "I just couldn't do it all." Yes, I am "that person" who stays up to 3 am doing Christmas stuff only to wear herself down so much that she is sick all through Christmas because she's been so stressed.
Anyway, back to my story - I was stressed - and Cody's mom knew it - from talking to Cody, I'm sure, but also talking to me. So today at work I was sitting there stressing about how late I would have to stay (along with the other dozen things to stress about) to get everything done with I got a call from our front desk - I had a delivery. That makes even the most stressed person happy, so I bounded upstairs to find a flower delivery! I thought it was Cody sending me something (no such chance), but an even bigger (and better) surprise, his mom had sent me flowers at work!!! I left the card at work (to show off to everyone - and remind myself of her message all week), but it basically reminded me that we should all enjoy the holiday season, remember what is most important (not cookies or presents or gas prices or ornaments or lights, but family and friends) and good luck on my trial! HOW INSANELY SWEET!!! She is by far one of the nicest, sweetest, most thoughtful people I have EVER met. Seriously - I thought I was just raging stress at everyone and no one even really noticed - but not only did she notice but she took time to listen to it and totally made it melt away.
Just ask Cody - I'm a new person this evening - I forgot about wrapping presents (because if worse comes to worse I can do that in Florida) and worked on making a stocking for him (long story) for my family (actually this is really important to me) and sang Christmas songs all night (maybe I switched some of the words around to include Mr. Pickles but they were still songs with Christmas tunes). :) We had such a nice, enjoyable evening because I really kept reminding myself that this "season" isn't about being stressed, doing everything, or making our significant others scared of us, but being together, laughing and enjoy all the season brings. I know that sounds incredibly cheesy and corny, but it's oh so true - just ask Cody who's had to live with me the past few weeks. :)
Anyway, one of the many things I have to be thankful for is my future husband (only about 3.5 months to go!!) and his wonderful, thoughtful family. I really couldn't ask for a better gift then that. Thanks for the flowers- they're gorgeous!
It's that nutty time of year. . .
Wow - a week has gone by already since I posted last! Almost a full 7 days! I swear there is some cosmic force that actually makes days in December last less then 24 hours - I just can't seem to ever keep up in December - the days are seriously shorter (and not just the daylight part - though that's certainly short enough living in Cold Corn Country where the sun sets at practically 4 o'clock these days). This past week seems to me to only have lasted about 2 days, but instead I find almost a full 7 have passed.
Anyway, enough whining about how short the days are. I have finally finished almost all of my Christmas cards, gave up on Christmas baking (I usually like to bake and deliver baked goods to friends and family - not this year - too much going on), finally started Christmas shopping on Saturday night, and still have about a month's worth of stuff to do before we drive to Tally in a few days. :) Fun fun. Add to that I have my biggest trial of the year on Thursday! Oh, yes, I could have had this huge trial any day of any month this year but no, it's four days before Christmas! This should be fun.
I feel like I'm rambling but not really saying much (like that's unusal or something), so I'm going to go back to doing some work for work tomorrow.
Anyway, enough whining about how short the days are. I have finally finished almost all of my Christmas cards, gave up on Christmas baking (I usually like to bake and deliver baked goods to friends and family - not this year - too much going on), finally started Christmas shopping on Saturday night, and still have about a month's worth of stuff to do before we drive to Tally in a few days. :) Fun fun. Add to that I have my biggest trial of the year on Thursday! Oh, yes, I could have had this huge trial any day of any month this year but no, it's four days before Christmas! This should be fun.
I feel like I'm rambling but not really saying much (like that's unusal or something), so I'm going to go back to doing some work for work tomorrow.
Monday, December 11, 2006
Happy 10 Years (plus a day)!
Yesterday was Cody and my 10 year anniversary from our first real date. Our first sort of date was to a movie that Cody had to see for extra credit in English class, but we don't count that one. Our second date was also to a movie, some movie about a lion or tiger or something - it was a horrible movie but a good date - hense we're still here 10 years later. :) Anyway, to celebrate our 10 year anniversary we went and bought Cody's wedding band! It was actually easier then we expected - aside from the jewelry store being packed with Christmas shoppers - but we did good, especially since both of us hate shopping in general and really hate shopping around Christmas. It's a nice simple titanium band - it's more gray/matte then the white gold ones so he really likes it - he even wore it around most of the day yesterday. So it was quite a fitting tribute to our ten years to get a wedding band.
In other events, we've just been busy busy busy. Friday night we went out with friends to celebrate a friend getting a job in California. Aside from shopping for a ring yesterday we also worked on our registry (that's a whole other post - registries are nightmares) and went to my work party. All is all it was a pretty nice weekend - with power.
In other events, we've just been busy busy busy. Friday night we went out with friends to celebrate a friend getting a job in California. Aside from shopping for a ring yesterday we also worked on our registry (that's a whole other post - registries are nightmares) and went to my work party. All is all it was a pretty nice weekend - with power.
New Website Photos.
I've been so awful lately about keeping the website updated - sorry. I'd blame it on the power outage, but I hadn't updated any pictures since October. Anyway, tonight I got the rest of the October pictures up. Hopefully I can get November and December up by the end of the week. Enjoy - most of them have to do with either Halloween or the Cardinals World Series.
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Christmas Tree
Here's our Christmas tree!!! We're not quite done tying all the orange, blue and white ribbons on but we got a good start last night. Lots of stories behind all those ornaments.
Ice on Tree
I tried to take a ton of pictures of the ice on the trees but most didn't come out too well. Here's one where you can see how thick the ice is on the itty bitty branch.
This is why we didn't have power.
Note the power poll with transformer on the ground. Yeah, usually that's up on the poll with the rest of the wires. Then comes wicked winter storm, weighs the trees down, they snap and take my power lines, power poll and transformer all with them.
House Pictures
The picture on the right is what our house normally looks like - check out the nicely shapen tall bushes on the outside of the photo. On the left you have the house after the wicked winter ice storm. Note my large front bushes and how they are pulled over onto the ground by the heavy ice.
It's Back - Again.
What a whirlwind of a week we've had. We have power again - hopefully this time for good. I just can't take this whole no power for 5 days, on for one, then off again, and now on again. At least we're in the "on" stage now. That at least makes me very happy.
So I guess life is slowly but surely returning to normal. We're still down to one car because mine is in the shop, but at least they think they figured out what is wrong with it (the fuse box - go figure) and can now fix it. It's the lovely holiday season so we've already been inundated with events and parties. We had one Saturday, Monday, Tuesday and today with others scheduled for Saturday and next Friday. At least it's free food and booze. :) So far they've all been pretty fun.
Now that we have power again, we're just trying to enjoy it (before we lose it again) - we've done a zillion loads of laundry and dishes, set up the Christmas tree and actually slept last night without a hat. :) When I get over the being angry about not having power, I'll have to blog about all the funny things that you notice and/or do without power.
So I guess life is slowly but surely returning to normal. We're still down to one car because mine is in the shop, but at least they think they figured out what is wrong with it (the fuse box - go figure) and can now fix it. It's the lovely holiday season so we've already been inundated with events and parties. We had one Saturday, Monday, Tuesday and today with others scheduled for Saturday and next Friday. At least it's free food and booze. :) So far they've all been pretty fun.
Now that we have power again, we're just trying to enjoy it (before we lose it again) - we've done a zillion loads of laundry and dishes, set up the Christmas tree and actually slept last night without a hat. :) When I get over the being angry about not having power, I'll have to blog about all the funny things that you notice and/or do without power.
Don't even ask.
We got power back yesterday. I was the happiest I've been in ages. Then we lost it again this afternoon. We had power less the 24 hours before it went out again. Obviously, I'm in no mood to blog. Plus, I'm sitting at work at 7pm because at least it's warmer then my house.
Monday, December 04, 2006
Power outages suck
Well, I haven't posted since Thursday. Wanna know why? We've had no power since Thursday evening. Yup, that big "winter storm" in the papers that beat up on the Midwest, hit us square in the chin. We got a massive ice storm, leaving everything beautiful winter wonderland - for about five minutes - until you realized that ice was incredibly heavy and was bringing down trees and lines all over the area. So as of Friday there were 1/2 million people without power. Obviously, we were one of those. This morning there were still 300,000 without power - we're still one of those. The house was a balmy 38 degrees this morning. We're done staying there - it's just too damn cold and it's already killed all but 3 of my fish. The turtles and cats are okay for now. As for when we'll get it back, no telling. The tree in our alley that was covered in ice took down all the wires, a transformer and an entire utility poll so it's not looking promising. Forecast low for tonight is 11 degrees. I've written some other random musings about this whole ordeal on the laptop but until we get power back and internet back they will have to stay on said computer. I'm really tired of being cold.
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