New girl is a new favorite

Seen the show "New Girl"?  Comes on Tuesday nights after Glee on FOX I think, and it is a favorite of Trent and I.  So in case you haven't seen it, I have to share a couple of quotes from last night that made me about pee my pants, and currently typing about it made me laugh out loud in my office!  Nerd Fail!!!

So Jess (Zooey Deschenel) has decided to work with some teenagers that need some positive influencing in life, and so she decides to teach them hand bells.....yes....hand bells.  However they "loose" their practice space and here is what she says about it to her room mates "Guys, we have to practice here (at their apartment), they changed our practice space back into a hallway".  

Also during this episode 2 of her "dude" room mates are in a money testosterone war, and they keep doing dumb things to one another.  At one point one of them hides the couch and fridge in the others room.  So before the end of the show Jess is yelling about something and finishes her rant with the best quote of the night "and what happened to our couch and fridge?  Did we get robbed by giants?"!!!

This show truly makes me laugh!!  If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it!

Now, I am off to save children.  Don't give me a pat on the back yet, I work in a Church, so it takes on a new meaning.  I save children from themselves, glue fights, jumping out of windows, and of course having a chair pulled out from under them.

New Pictures....SIKE!!!

Soooooooo, excited to finally have a digital camera.  I had one many years ago when they were first coming out with digital cameras, and that thing didn't last a year!  I am very excited about having it and being able to post pictures.  Well, I brought my camera to work with me today so I could post about the exciting progress of our Christmas decorations we worked our butts off on yesterday.  Thennnnn, reality set in that I have an ancient computer and there is no slot for my SD card.  Not even a plug for a jump drive.  You can imagine my disappointment when that set in.  I was disappointed like a fat kid at the end of summer when he realizes he has to wait a whole year for the ice cream truck again!!

Anywho, I hope to have those pictures up soon, but until then, I need some help.  Trent and I went shopping the other night for the "Tour of homes", and after about 2 hours our eyes glazed over and we had about as much as we could handle and all of our decorating ideas started blending together and we didn't know whether we were getting something to go in the bathroom or the living room.  Sooooooo, I need some help!
Here is where we still need help decorating.  What are your ideas...
-Office upstairs...small weird shaped room.  Lime green walls.  Large glass desk and bookcase.  What should we do in that room????
-Staircase: In the past I have put garland up the banister and put ribbon in it and little red poinsettias.  What to do with it this year????  Pictures or ideas appreciated!

Hopefully I can get some pictures up soon, because I am so excited to have a camera that doesn't turn off randomly after every 3 pictures you take.  something tells me there is some internal malfunction if that is happening.

Standing under the Mistletoe

Soooooooooooooo, exciting news.....Chelsea has signed up for her first 5k!!!!!  She will join the fam as Bump has turned us all in to running fools. (At least that is the case when we wear proper running attire).  Chels:

has signed up for the Mistletoe 5k in Winston-Salem the first weekend in December.  I am so excited to get to run it with her!!!  Now I must get myself back in running condition to be able to do it.  My goal is to do this one in 42 minutes.  That would be about 13.5 minute miles.  At least somewhere around there.  I think it is a pretty attainable goal if I get to work!!

Since we are talking about the lovely lady, I must tell one on her from a few years ago.  When I was in high-school and had my license if she wanted to go somewhere, I took her, so she should have been pretty nice to me don't you think??  Well, one day her "cute" little self said to me, "Don't take this the wrong way, but I hope I look like Bump (our older sister) when I get older".  Well of course, I wouldn't take it the wrong way...just what everybody wants to hear from their sibling one day...I want to look nothing like you!!!!!  And guess who she turned out looking more like............muahahahahahahaha!

Pictures

So, I feel I would be more apt. to blog if I had a camera.  That way I can show what really goes on in my mind.  Much to your surprise it isn't all tumbleweeds and dust storms.  Since Trent and I are SO not technologically inclined (seriously, I can look at a computer and it won't work!!), we don't exactly have a working camera.

I bought one on sale about 4 years ago...it lasted about a year!  Trent bought a cheap digital camera about 3 years ago thinking it would do the job, however you can be getting ready for Christmas before the camera would actually take the Easter photo.  That sucker is sloooooooooooow!!  So, any ideas?  What kind of a camera should we get?  Wish list:
-Takes pictures quickly
-Fool proof
-Not too many buttons
-Easy to use
-Takes pictures quickly
-and did I mention easy to use?

We know nothing about cameras and know we don't need anything fancy, we just want to bear witness to the fact that we don't just sit at home and play Phase 10 all year long.  We do have a life, and want our kids to know that one day!!!!  We were talking about starting a scrapbook of wineries we go to since we have hit about 25 of the over 100 in North Carolina, however we have not a single picture of our experiences!

Pants on Da' Ground!

Gulf Breeze Anniversary Run For The Future 5K Run/Walk

So to give you an update on my oh so important running news, I thought I would do a little race recap.

Mom, Chris, and I did the Gulf Breeze 5k in October.  We will cut them a little slack since it was the first "annual" and still working out the kinks!  Plus, it wouldn't be us if it weren't a special experience!!  To pick up your packet you go behind the big gymnasium that it said go to in the parking lot.  Here is where all 75 participants gathered.  No, you don't need your glasses...I meant what I said...75 participants.  With there having been so few runners I would like to say we were all buddy buddy by the end of the race, but considering I only saw the hind end of most of these people for a few seconds before they flew by....they weren't much for conversing.

The best part is when you walk up to pick up your packet and they ask "are you runners or walkers?"...ouch!  We figured right then and there that wasn't a good sign.  You know when you watch boxing on tv and the boxers are jumping around getting their game faces on sweating profusely already while throwing practice jabs?  Well, that is what the beginning of this little 5k looked like.  You would have thought these people were getting ready to fight Mike Tyson.  Quite commical...however I can imagine they were doing the same thing when I came in 20 minutes after their finish time!!

We all gather where they are going to start, and I really start getting intimidated now.  So we head off threw the lovely neighborhoods of gulf breeze...and it hits me!!  I fear this is me.  So I can't run for my pants falling down.  But not just my pants friends.  No, no, the underwear have to be falling to for it to be really uncomfortable and annoying.  I couldn't run  because every step I would take they would fall further and further.  Since I was in the slow crowd (somewhere around 75th out of 75 runners), I found something that was a momentary saving grace.  

I was able to hide behind it for a second to return my clothing to it's designated place.  Once that was done   and I knew I couldn't run, I power walked.  I have never walked so fast in all of my life.  I am sure I looked like I was on a mission for the free beer at the end of the race!!

The most embarassing part was the finish.  When you approach there was a group of high school cheerleaders standing there pom poms in hand ready to cheer you across the finish line.  To bad I wanted to sock them across the face!  So to show the extent of my struggles through the race, I made my mom go to the bathroom with me so she could see the extent of my troubles.  When we got to the bathroom there were my struggles....around my knees!!  

So what went wrong you ask???  Well, I decided not to wear my normal running pants because I thought they were dirty.  So, I just wore some comfy black pants instead.  They are a little too big already.  So not good for running.  Not to mention the underwear I was wearing was too big as well.  Add it all together and we have a very dysfunctional 5k walk!!!!!

Lesson learned, and onward and upward towards the next one.  Where, I might add I will be there with bells and running pants on!!!