Me In High School...

Needed a place to store a couple of pictures and this seemed like a good enough spot...

Goliath's Ode to Bear

He didn't have a professional accompanying him, and I don't have professional sound recording equipment, but here it is none the less...
Ode to Bear(around 300K for those of you not on broadband, so it could take just a minute to download)
We'll miss you Bear!

Ready for the Holidays Now

When did life get so busy?! What happened to those days when the holidays meant playing with friends and new toys and having fun? We were so busy the last 3 weeks that I hardly feel like I had a vacation (all meaningful and important stuff though!). I'm ready for it now... time to play with the new toys!

And remember this... Hey, this is the first time I've blogged this year. Hey, this is the first time I've sat "at work" in my sweats this year. Hey, this is the first time my kids have been to school this year...

Well, back to the salt mines for hours of endless work!
Hope it was a good season for all y'all!

Despite Popular Rumor, I Am Not Dead

OK... So maybe I am and I just don't know it... Do you see dead people?

While sitting on this dreadfully long call for work that had nothing to do with me or my department (a whole other story itself) I found that Bryan's blog has the dreaded 404 error... (just try the link, you'll see)
So I decided to at least post this so that my blog doesn't die.

Really, speaking of dead people, I commented on Holly's blog some time ago, that God has a sense of humor and that I had a story about that... Well, this is not that post, sorry if I got your hopes up. It was intended to be when I started it and saved it as a draft 3 weeks ago, but really, I'm just super busy with work and the holidays, that I just need to post something easy.

So here's my post for today... I found this link of GE discounts on the corporate home page today. I just applied a 25% discount to my cell phone bill. How cool is that?!
And I bought a Christmas gift for Holly. I had found it at a store for way more than I expected to spend, so I had not bought it yet. Thanks to the GE discounts, I got it online at a cheaper list price plus a 15% discount. I had to pay for 2nd day shipping, but even with that it still came out cheaper than at the store.

The perks from this job just keep coming!
Hope you all have a great holiday! Merry Christmas!

Green..I mean Jeremy's Lantern

Jordyn's Lantern

Something to know about Jordyn's: The mouth is patterned after her own teeth, having been visited by the Tooth Fairy twice this month.

My jack-o-lantern

So here's what this years lantern looks like.(at least the best I could get the cell phone to take) If I can get good shots of the kids' I'll post em too.

The nose is actually a pumpkin stem stuck to the front of the pumpkin.

Holly got an electric carving knife for them this year... it was cool to use a power tool on the pumpkin!

Just because it was an easy post

Hell, copy and paste is easy enough... Thanks Beck!
(and thanks Holly for pointing me to Beck's blog.)

You Passed 8th Grade Math

Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct!

Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?

Now did any of you doubt this would be the case? (to be perfectly honest, I had some anxiety about not getting them all correct and probably would not have posted this if that were the case)