You say it's your birthday!

Happy Birthday, Angie!

Happy Birthday, Katie K!

Katie, you share your birthday with one of my oldest and craziest friends!!!

For Heather

Well, the most exciting thing that has happened since our last post was that I went to Philadelphia and celebrated the Taste of USA Winner Party which was hosted by my friend, Claudia and her world famous blog, Highlowaha. But Heather, you already knew all that.


Soccer has started. Yay! After two losing seasons, the Sting are 2-0 to start the Fall 2008 Season. We have cool new jersey this year. We're gold and black. I missed the first game due to Taste of USA but took a ton of photos last week. Unfortunately, they're all still sitting on my camera waiting to be downloaded. I just have to say that Melvin, a new team member is a force to be reckoned with.


My sister, niece and cousin are due in on Friday. Safe travels to them. We're going to play Virtual Pirate Bingo on Friday. I'm pretty sure my sister thought I was crazy when I told her on the phone last night. Then, on Saturday- more soccer and then off to see my youngest first cousin on my mothers side to get married. Aw- a wedding.


Sunday- more soccer.


Work is good. On Friday, September 26th, we will be moving into our new office building. It is nothing short of spectacular, amazing, gorgeous and spectacular. I already said that. 18th and early 19th century art is featured throughout the public areas. I feel very fortunate to working in such a beautiful environment with a company that takes care of their employees. One of the new features is a workout room with a trainer (not that I'll utilize it; I mean, I have an elliptical machine right in my bedroom and it never gets used so I'm just being realistic here.) and a full kitchen that will be serving lunch some time at the end of the year. I'm excited.


So- what else...


I've started something new. Let's see, how do I describe this... Whenever someone pisses me off in traffic, I whip out my cell phone and take a picture of them. Like this guy...

First, he ran a red light while several of us were entering the intersection since our light was green. Second, at the next intersection, he was in the turning lane to turn left but when the light turned green he decided he would cut me off and go straight. Third, as I was travelling behind him, he swerved in both lanes nearly hitting the car in the right lane. I snapped this picture while at the intersection of Oak Lawn and Maple where afterwards he repeated step number three. When I bravely drove up next to him, I couldn't help but mouth the words, "Really? You call that driving?" I'm pretty sure he understood me.

But the point is, after I take these pictures of lane blockers and heinous drivers, I somehow feel better knowing that they're going to be a feature of my blog and I can safely drive on my way with no pent up road rage.

You should try it.

Back to School Ray

Here is the latest Ray, my favorite light bulb!

As always, please come join the fun at highlowaha.com.

Psst... Hi Karyn!

Hey, it's Drew & JB. Remember us? We live here.


JB, doesn't it suck that mom is writing more about her friends blog and crap than about us?

Yeah!

What's up with that sh*t?

Drew, watch your mouth!

Shut up! You're not my mom.

No, I'm not your mom. She isn't writing about us anymore. Remember?

Yeah, you're right. Sorry. Maybe if I could swim like Michael Phelps and set out to win 9 gold medals, she'll start writing about us again.

Yeah, and I'll be the king of England.

You can do it!

Go for it, Drew!

I should!

But, I'm going to be the King of England.

He is.

We'll see.

Don't eat me.

Steak sounds good.

Oh sh*t!

Hey Sexy!

Hey Sexy!

No, not you. You're not my type. Karyn can have you.

I'll take him.

You're married.

So. Busted.

Listen boys, I'll still write about you.

Promise?

Of course.

Okay.

Let's go out for hamburgers.

My favorite.

I'll have lamb chops.

Oh sh*t!

Watch your mouth!

The End.

If you think that was funny, you should check out Karyn's original post.

No animal or child actually swore in the making of this blog post but we did have hamburgers for dinner.

Highlowaha Decathlon

The Results.

and check out Ray.

Highlowaha Week Two Wrap Up

Today is the last day of the Highlowaha.com Decathlon. It has been a fun two weeks. Our tasks this week were:

Monday was Name that Tune where we re-wrote the words to the song Kokomo from the movie Cocktail. I'll post my song at the end since it's long.

Tuesday was the Incredible Discus where we had to design a card for National Cream Filled Donut Day on September 14th. My creation lost by .5 point and is pictured below.

Wednesday we threw the Javelin and had to get someone that lived in Montana to post a comment for us. Thank you Jeff Wald at Carroll College in Helena, MT!

Thursday we wrote a haiku. Mine was about one of my favorite treats though after I posted it I thought it should be rewritten. Both are below.

Sticky Goodness

pink cotton candy

melting on my tongue so sweet

a beautiful treat

re-written, it fits the haiku style like this:

Cotton Candy

pink sticky goodness

melting on my tongue so sweet
a beautiful treat

Today, Friday, we are in it for stamina with the 1500m, Record Time.

We all start with 15 points today and our goal is to have zero at the end of the day. Starting at 7:00am in each of our own time zones, we are required to make 15 posts between the top of the hour and the 15 minute mark of that hour and cross at least 15 hurdles. The contest ends at 12:15am in our respective time zones. :)

It's been a fun creative week! Thanks Claudia! If you made this far in todays post here's the song I wrote:

Its cookies, and Ice Cream ooo I wanna taste 'em

For creating, and memories, Random Acts of Kindness

Fun People, fall in love, with a new idea

Ice Cream

Off the Internet keys

There's a blog called Highlowaha

That's where you wanna go to get away from it all.

Bodies at our desk

Logging in, we all do our best

We'll be falling in love

With the kinship of Claudia's tests

At Highlowaha

(Chorus)

Its cookies, and Ice Cream ooo I wanna taste 'em

For creating, and memories, Random Acts of Kindness

Fun People, fall in love, with a new idea

(Ooo I wanna meet you) at Highlowaha

Log on Daily

But not on Domingo

That's where we wanna go

Up at Highlowaha

New techniques, that craft-like mystique

We'll put out the word

And build a community

One by one, we enlist as many friends as we can

Everything's alright

Ideas reach new height

that dreamy look in your eye

Gives us innovative tricks to try

Up at Highlowaha

Chorus

Scrap Journals, I wanna try its true.

No, nobody knows

A blog quite like Highlowaha

Now if you wanna go

And get away from it all

Go to Highlowaha

Chorus 2x

Belly Buttons

We had the funniest conversation at our monthly birthday cake social at work. Outies are a deal breaker for a girl in my office. She wants them pushed back in. Is there a cosmetic procedure that can turn an outie into an innie?



The discussion then led to belly button transplants... what in the world? We're in all born the same. So, when women have tummy tucks sometimes they lose their belly buttons and have to have a transplant! I just didn't know that.



It's not as funny writing about it now because you can't see the other girl in the conversation say, "No Outies! No Outies!" And the guy in our conversation asking at what point do you ask about the belly button. It's topic of conversation during the second date.

Anyway, I know it must not sound funny now but it made me snort.