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Chritmas 2008 was in Salem and saw the introduction of the Rocking Cow. Ashley was not impressed with the whole ordeal, but she wasn’t particularly upset with it either. It was a real take it or leave it day, but her cousins had a ton of fun. I know this video is about a year late. I know I know I know.
Mom and Ashley weren’t able to fully clean up the holiday mess after we got back from Athena. So we took our last Sunday in the long weekend and put all the decorations and tree away. We put away all of the new toys, cleaned the cupboards, organized the pantry, picked up everybody’s rooms and did several loads a laundry. Go Mom Go. Go! Go! Go! For his part, Dad took Ashley on a red wagon ride around to the park and rode swings. Christmas was great, but I think we are all glad to be home. ...
Ashley and the gang traveled to Athena this year for Christmas. We left Thursday the 24th packed to the gills with presents and a happy baby. We arrived to a house full of people in Athena and had a rocking couple of dinners, breakfasts and more snacks than a pelican could fit in it’s beak. Ashley learned some new life skills with cooking in the kitchen with Grandma and reloading shells with Grandpa. The uncles showed Ashley how to ride a skateboard and Aunt Tylee taught Ashley the fine art of light saber fighting. We caught a...
Christmas 2008 was Ashley’s first and we tried to start a family tradition. The plan was to have Christmas Eve at home, travel to Salem and spend Christmas day with the family. Well, Snowpacolypse got in the way. The snow came down hard and heavy for many days. Instead of having a nice evening in front of a fire, we had to bust open the presents at the drop of a dime at 2:30 in the afternoon. The news said it would be warming up and raining, and we didn’t wait around. We celebrated with Ashley and still got...
Christmas 2009 is a very promising one. Mom is in full swing and very excited with decorating and gift giving. Dad is very happy because mom has agreed to tone it down a bit from last year and stick to a budget. Ashley is excited because this the first year she recognizes gifts for what they are. Rock hard awesome. Aunt Stacy brought over a gift for Ashley in an early season gathering and it was amazing to watch Ashley dutifully and slowly unwrap the present because Mom asked her to. The first few tears were done out...
Ashley is a better bowler than either of us. She was charming at the lanes and basically a good sport. Part of being a good bowler in Ashley’s world is charming the glitter off of the nice ladies in the lane next to us and the nice server lady. Everybody was impressed. Ashley scored a legitimate 30 (without weak bumper usage) in her 4 frames.
We have put up a new web page finally to display Ashley's photos. This new site has some neat tools like customizations you can use to fit your tastes
IT was one of those normal nights, but Ashley decided to unleash a storm of heck. Mary found it less than easy to deliver a nutritious dinner. Eat it or wear it indeed.
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Wrestling With The Family
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This is Mary's cat Ms Kitty. She is a filthy hairball who is the sort of reason people don't have cats. But she is friendly for being a one-eyed jerkface
Ms Kitty
http://www.dansdata.com/
Here is a great story from a great story teller. Dan's Data is a wonderful site with realistic advice, common sense opinions and is my favorite place to read about debunking pop-science scams.
Dan has a blog here as well.
It seems that some people feel contrary opinions need to be lawyered into compliance (based on non existent laws) but Dan doesn't want to play. Read about it here. I think Dan himself would be first person to suggest you make up your own mind. Read the site he is disagreeing with as well. Information is power.
However I have made up my mind,...
Stolen Wholesale from kk.org, I just wanted to save the information.
I recently became a vinegar convert after acquiring this book whose intriguing subtitle says it all: Over 400 Various, Versatile, and Very Good Uses You've Probably Never Thought Of. What's behind the cover fulfilled its title's promise: I am now using vinegar in several of the ways it suggests, primarily (so far) as a spray-bottle cleanser and flavoring agent/foodstuff. While I can't say for sure that all 400 uses will work as promised, I've had success with a number of them. Next up, I plan to leave a gallon...
How to deal with shady places that turn the heat up on you.
Again, this is all Tossed_Salad_Man's writing, not my own. Credit is due with him, not I
How to deal with debt collectors. Naturally do not get into debt and be a big boy and pay what you borrow, but if you get into a bad situation, here are the steps about what you can do.
This information was taken from Poster Tossed_Salad_Man from the SomethingAwful.com forums. I did not write nor compile this information and all credit is due to him.
I was gonna sell the thing, but it turns out that much like most human knowledge, I am not the first person to find out about this.
Shocking. Really.
Got a new game to play. You need some plywood and some bags of corn.
I have been playing this game in backyards all over Southern Oregon, and ever since I found it on a camping trip it is faithfully consumed my entire life.
I have now been a part of building two complete sets, at a cost of about $40 each. This habit is cheaper than drugs, and the high last longer. If only I could play JUST ONE MORE ROUND I could get good enough to beat the shooter in our group
If you want to play, check out the...
Here is a pretty great caramel corn recipe. I got in when I was in middle school, so I don't think there would be a problem posting it here, but if anybody's dad or mom invented the following, please feel free to let me know and I will promise to really really feel bad about it. I will first try and talk you out of your pending legal action, but I guess if you are that uptight to contact me in the first place, I don't suppose I will find much success.
All the pages are pretty clean. I still need to fight the middle ones to get them to validate, but other than that I am golden. It irks me that I can't figure out how to get the Google javascript to validate. I probably need to go back through the site and get into XHTML*.
I don't want to redo the whole site again. You readers need to click some links. C'mon Google agreed to pay me if you look at these ads for water damage repair.
*Just kidding. XHTML is the holy chalice, it doesn't really...
I got a super pimp deal for you!! My house. That is right kids, for just a certain amount of money over what I paid, you too can have a mortgage payment.
All the pages are pretty clean. I still need to fight the middle ones to get them to validate, but other than that I am golden. It irks me that I can't figure out how to get the Google JavaScript to validate. I probably need to go back through the site and get into XHTML.
I don't want to redo the whole site again. You readers need to click some links.
CLICK MY ADS
you people really seem to like the crappy roommate story. I guess we have all had bad roommates.
I had a bad roommate myself. He smoked in the house. He wasn't so very clean. But at the very least I liked the guy and we were buddiess. I think it is easy to be a dudes buddy if he doesn't fill the toilet full of fecal lasagna.
The truth is that I liked all my roommates. Sure bickering happens, but sharing a toothpaste spit splattered mirror and filthy coffee makers lasts forever.
you people really seem to like the crappy roommate story. I guess we have all had bad roommates.
There are still plenty of hidden links to things, and by hidden I mean they don't exist
There are still plenty of hidden links to things, and by hidden I mean they don't exist
Cause remember kids, when you want to put on a good face, the least smart thing to do is put dirty jokes and nasty pictures on the Internet. Some people use these deals called Search Engines© that can find out stuff you didn't want people to know.
The Internet is public. And it must be treated as so. I won't have my super secret personal thoughts published for the world. That kind of stuff is best left crammed deep down inside.
Why right now, I don'...
The best sort of thing to do with a journal, especially a public facing one, is to lambaste oneself and archive that information on a distant spot with not control over the information once it is posted. The most preferable type of information is anger. A generous sprinkling of expletives and you will soon amass yourself a fine catalog of embarrassing material to prevent future employment and perhaps even relationships.
To this end I will only give out pleasantries and complements to all. To anyone who reads this. You look wonderful, and I really like that sweater on you! To anybody...