December 4th

...is tomorrow

It's already DECEMBER!?!?!


Is anyone else irritated by the writer's strike and how the shows are all reaching the end of their stock pile scripts. Now that all the shows are ending on their completed scripts the shows are going on hiatus and nothing but re-runs will now air.
How's about Conan O'Brien paying his non-writing staff their salaries out of his own pocket...something i read today...so i thought i'd share it.


oh man, got nothing to write about...

dag, welp here's some comics

























And this guy shows how i feel about most Top 40 radio singles

I Know I Know

...that we go through phases of posting, then not, then post a bit more, then not. It's a vicious cycle that we keep getting into. meh

Well today is our Friday! Thanks to the Thanksgiving holiday and no work on the actualy Friday...woooot!

Oh we need to let everyone know that this past Saturday we went to this local ministry called Graceworks and it a place where people can donate stuff they do not want or need any longer and also it is a food pantry donation center. It is a great ministry that helps provide for the needy in the area. For the food pantry the months of November and December are their greatest donation times for the entire year. So as a community group we went over there and help sort out tons of food onto the shelves.

What's great is that it was a lot of fun for us even though it took up our Saturday morning and was work, we all had fun in doing it and helped Graceworks in getting organized in getting food out to the needy.

What's even funnier is that I was taking true ownership of some of the sections...example: the Soup section was all divided up into Chicken Noodle(which was #1 soup donated), Tomato, Cream Of's, Broths, then all the Campbells Select soups were grouped together.

Well everytime I came over with soups to put up I would find Tomato in with the Chicken Noodle...so I would then stop everything and organize it all before I started up packing my box of soup cans. I did that with very section I came across.

I just didn't want to do things half right...and it was sad to me when I found sections unorganized and scattered. So for those 2 hours I tried my best to get it as organized as I could. I don't know that it'll make a difference, but it made a difference to me.

Monday night we had our community group Thanksgiving meal...but instead of cooking we all just went to Crackel Barrel. Ha! But it was good. We did, however, all made desserts! So after dinner we went back to our house and had waiting: 2 pumpkin pies, a pecan pie, a chocolate pecan pie (Amy was proud of that one, and it was sooo grood [good and great]), a fruit salad, and homemade banana pudding. Oh man, we fulfilled the Thanksgiving tradition of eating until you're on the verge of it about to all come back up. Ha!

It was all soooo grood!

*We would have pictures for you guys but alas we aren't huge picture takers
**Sorry

But here's some funny drawings from natalie dee.

Devil's Haircut (the Remix)

I get home and let the dogs out.
As they come back in i notice something different about Rupert.

Amy came to the house during the day today and brought Olivia down to play with the dogs. So Amy calls me as she is getting off of work and tells me she cut Rupert's hair, on his head only though.

I almost wanted to ask if he got gum caught in it or if Olivia threw up on him or something drastic to deserve this...

Yes...his ears were cut off too!
Amy just said that he needed his hair cut bad...I mean seriously why spend $40 on the dog to be groomed when he can look that fabulous.

OK so his ears were not cut off, Amy is not that cruel and unusual, he's actually in a calm-submissive state so his ears are laying back. *little Ceaser knowledge for ya.

That actually makes his look really bad...but here is one that you can at least see his ears.

Anyway...it's a good thing we didn't pay for that one this time. Also a good thing that he doesn't care what he looks like.

I wonder if he can tell what my grimacing face means every time we make eye contact?


This is also the dog that we might be getting a backpack to be weighed down during his walks so that he gets a more intense work out. And also thinking of getting him shoes since when it rains he always finds the mud to bring into the house. This dog i a mess.

Do you all think I'm ready for parenthood soon?

Smile Like You Mean It

So I have figured I have made you all wait long enough without a new post. So here we are sitting in the living room watching the start of MNF, the Steelers are wearing their ugly throw-back uni's and it reminded me to blog.

OK, maybe not.

Here's what's new...

-going back to the weekend of Oct. 20th and 21st. Amy flew to Miami to attend the wedding of her cousin Michael. So Amy got to spend a 2nd weekend this month with Momma Allen! Sounds like the family had a great weekend and Amy did come home with a few pictures...but this is my favorite.
(hopefully i won't get punched, pinched, or smacked for posting this picture)

-The following weekend of the 27th and 28th our friend Cassie came into town. (Cassie you got a shout out, more reason to check the blog as frequent as once per week, thank you very much) and so we hung out with her and Wendy most of the time. Had good outings, good food, and good laughs. Best quote of Friday night..."You want to lick the inside of my bag?" ****NOT sexual in any way!!!**** good one Stivers. (another shout out)
Sat. night was spent at tour house making burritos! We could give chipotle a run for it's money with the burritos we made that night. Here's a tasty picture...
Josh, you'd be proud of my huge bite. (shout out)

We also lit up the clay chimenea that my parents gave to us last Christmas. It's taken us that long to actually put it to use. But it was awesome! I google how to maintain one and get it ready to light a fire in and i got my learn on. I got it all ready and off it went!What a beaut.



-Halloween night was a lot of fun. We did our annual 'mugging' of Spring Hill for Grace Park and we actually hosted a cook-out in our drive way for out neighborhood for the families trick-or-treating. So it was a lot of fun and the weather cooperated this year. Big Ups to the weather last week.

-Then came this past weekend. We went to the the local corn maze at the Rippavilla Plantation. It was the last weekend open so we hit it up and wandered around in it for about 45 minutes. Every year it is a new design and here it is.
So that was fun with friends and then the rest of the weekend we did nothing special. Alright...this lappy is getting hot on my lap. Until next time...smile like you mean it!

Peace out!

You Really Got Me

So I discovered a band last night! I thought…sweet a new band, I wonder how many people know about them. I was listening to The Darjeeling Express movie soundtrack and since I have always thought Wes Anderson picked great songs for his movies I take his recommendations to heart. The album is 3/4th all composed music. But there were 3 tracks by this band and I thought the songs were awesome!
So then I went over and searched for them in the CD’s…turns out they have tons of albums…I didn’t know which album to start off with. If I had endless amounts of disposable income I would have bought all of them, but since I don’t I could only get one and I had no clue which CD to start off with. So as smart as I am, I went back…grabbed the soundtrack…and looked for those 3 songs on the backs of the individual CD’s.

They were all on 1 CD!!! Holy Guacamole Batman!

Who is this band you may be asking?


…The Kinks!
I came home and researched them…they started their career in the 1963!?!?!!?!?!
The Kinks are even categorized as a British Invasion band, along with The Beatles (which I love), the Rolling Stones (I don’t care too much for), and The Who (great band).

So apparently I am not best music lover that I even considered myself if I had not heard of the Kinks while I knew of the other big 4 British invasion bands.
I do know their You Really Got Me song though…but I never knew who actually sang it.
(so that song title is very much appropriate as the title of this blog post)

So I retract the excitement I had on the ride home and replaced that feeling for complete stubbornness when I read on Wikipedia about The Kinks. I’m such a bum…I’m going to go discover The Ramones now.

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

So tonight has started the World Series. So I am here in the back bedroom watching it because when I got home from having dinner with a good friends Amy was watching Private Practice...blah

And since the series is being broad casted by Fox, fortunately that is the only channel that comes in on this TV that operates on the rabbit ears. Well Nashville Public Television is also visible with the rabbit ears...and they do have good shows on there but I always forget about that channel.

Well as I am up watching this game 1, realizing that it is already 10:25, and I should be in bed. The 7th inning stretch comes around...finally(the BoSox are already up 13 to 1), the singer/actress Ashanti gets out on the field to sing God Bless America as is tradition at baseball games. Well it got me thinking...when are they going to protest that song being sung at baseball games? have they already protested it? As much of a baseball fan, I don't know if that has been protested. But I love that they still do it b/c it is a tradition of baseball that needs to remain to keep the sport truly "American"

OK well i am going to bed without watching the end of the game. If i wake up and see tht the Rockies made a rally to beat the Red Sox, I will do something completely irrational tomorrow...like not go to work.

hmmmm...should I root for the Rockies now?

Hope everyone had a good hump day!

Mexican Wine

I was in the breakroom this morning getting my 2nd cup 'o' joe when another older gentleman comes in to brew from decaf coffee. (He can't hanlde to real stuff apparently)

First thing he says..."has anyone ever told you that you look like the Dog Whiserer?"
Me: Really?
Him: Yea, who know who I am talking about, right?
Me: yea! I am a huge fan of Ceaser Millan.
Him: Yea, the first day i saw you from a distance, i thought the dog whisperer was in the office.

So then we had a small talk about dogs and Ceaser's methods. Needless to say i am a really big fan of Ceaser and if people think i look like him, that's cool

Maybe i should work on my accent and go around trying to get paid for some advice i learned from the 'real' Ceaser.

new name: Isaac 'Ceaser' Llanes

it's has a nice ring to it...haha