So as an experiment the other week... my Boss Joey asked our team to start twittering in order to keep up with one another... since we are always in meetings and never know what everyone is up to... So... if you're interested in following me... and letting me follow you:
Go to http://twitter.com and sign up. I'm zero9. Once you sign up and in and make an account search for me and ask to add me.
Essentially for those of you who are wondering... twitter is sort of a micro blog thing... short replies about what you are up to... you log in and make a user account. you can use it via the web... you can download it as a desktop ap... you can download it on your phone... basically it's short replies limited to 104 works... kind of a day in the life of kind of thing. It's bringing our group together more and we've enjoyed it.
Go check it out if you like. it's getting popular.. so sometimes their site can't handle the traffic... but other than that...
Friday, May 16, 2008
Deep Sea Fishing
So Lee's friends have decided to go deep sea fishing. After realizing that Lee was serious when he told them that it's one of his wife's favorite things to do, I'm helping to plan the trip! It'll be in June (HOT!!) and should be a lot of fun. Here are some photos from the last time I went with my dad. I'm hoping we'll go again this year the next time he and my mom come to visit (hint, hint).
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Blog Ketchup by Erin
In August for our first wedding anniversary back to Rosemary Beach. (We'll be going again this August!) It was just as gorgeous as when we left it last year after our honeymoon. The next week it was out to California for Lee's cousin's (Matt) wedding. It was beautiful and we got to see lots of family which is always great! We went from CA to Las Vegas with part of the family to celebrate another one of Lee's cousin's (Liz) 21st birthday! We stayed at the Bellagio and saw all the sights - I even gambled (and of course, eventually lost) $5. That was enough for me! Lee had been to Vegas before so didn't feel the need to gamble/lose any money… smart guy I married, right!?
After Vegas, we headed home and had a relaxing few weeks…
We didn't do too terribly much in September but then once October came, we were off running again! We went to Ohio for my cousin's (David) wedding. Lee hadn't met everyone on my mom's side of the family yet (and there are A LOT of people to meet) and he did an incredible job keeping everyone straight (which is even more difficult given that there were 13 kids under the age of 10 and they all look alike)!
When we got back from Ohio, one of Lee's best friends from high school came to stay with us and go to Disney World with his family. Philip, Amanda, Julia and Emma spent the week in Mickey heaven while we went to work and joined them in the parks afterward. We were all exhausted but had SO much fun and Lee and I got to be "better than grandparents" (the girl's words, not mine) for the week. We tried not to spoil them too much. :)
Later in October Lee and I were finally able to take our FREE Disney Cruise. We were supposed to go last May, but I was sick with the flu so we had to put it off. We had a great time relaxing on the beach at Disney's private island (Castaway Cay) and on the ship. We decided that once was enough for us in Nassau though (if you aren't interested in being swindled, getting your hair braided or buying tacky souveniers, rest assured you aren't missing anything if you never make it to Nassau).
The following weekend we drove to Atlanta (for what turned out to be the quickest trip ever) to Eggtoberfest. This is a yearly gathering of Big Green Egg enthusiasts (which apparently we are) and was a lot of fun. We found out that Tucker, GA is NOT a good place to stay (long story) and that Lee cooks WAY better than the experts at the festival. Next year we'll save our gas money for some nice steaks to cook on the BGE and stay home that weekend. More to come!
After Vegas, we headed home and had a relaxing few weeks…
We didn't do too terribly much in September but then once October came, we were off running again! We went to Ohio for my cousin's (David) wedding. Lee hadn't met everyone on my mom's side of the family yet (and there are A LOT of people to meet) and he did an incredible job keeping everyone straight (which is even more difficult given that there were 13 kids under the age of 10 and they all look alike)!
When we got back from Ohio, one of Lee's best friends from high school came to stay with us and go to Disney World with his family. Philip, Amanda, Julia and Emma spent the week in Mickey heaven while we went to work and joined them in the parks afterward. We were all exhausted but had SO much fun and Lee and I got to be "better than grandparents" (the girl's words, not mine) for the week. We tried not to spoil them too much. :)
Later in October Lee and I were finally able to take our FREE Disney Cruise. We were supposed to go last May, but I was sick with the flu so we had to put it off. We had a great time relaxing on the beach at Disney's private island (Castaway Cay) and on the ship. We decided that once was enough for us in Nassau though (if you aren't interested in being swindled, getting your hair braided or buying tacky souveniers, rest assured you aren't missing anything if you never make it to Nassau).
The following weekend we drove to Atlanta (for what turned out to be the quickest trip ever) to Eggtoberfest. This is a yearly gathering of Big Green Egg enthusiasts (which apparently we are) and was a lot of fun. We found out that Tucker, GA is NOT a good place to stay (long story) and that Lee cooks WAY better than the experts at the festival. Next year we'll save our gas money for some nice steaks to cook on the BGE and stay home that weekend. More to come!
New Post...
Ok.. so just posting to get in the habit of posting again.
Picked up Erin's new furniture last night. Set it up in the dining room. Thanks to Brett for all the help!
The night before that we met Beth/Chris and their kids at the Magic Kingdom. They were awesome. We enjoyed the fireworks.
I'll post pics of the new table/chairs... when I get a chance.
Got a new mac at work... even though I had a new mac at work... These guys are great! Every few months I get the latest and greatest machine on the planet! I guess it's a catch 22 though... b/c now my cinema display and mac at home seem small and slow! Getting spoiled! I think this is my 3rd machine at work in the last 2 years.
Picked up Erin's new furniture last night. Set it up in the dining room. Thanks to Brett for all the help!
The night before that we met Beth/Chris and their kids at the Magic Kingdom. They were awesome. We enjoyed the fireworks.
I'll post pics of the new table/chairs... when I get a chance.
Got a new mac at work... even though I had a new mac at work... These guys are great! Every few months I get the latest and greatest machine on the planet! I guess it's a catch 22 though... b/c now my cinema display and mac at home seem small and slow! Getting spoiled! I think this is my 3rd machine at work in the last 2 years.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Back in the Saddle?
Ok... time to get the blog rollin' once again. For the first post back... I'm not going to post anything interesting or important.
I think Leah, the BEST/GREATEST/MOST AWESOMENESS sister in law in the whole universe, is the only person who reads this anywayzzz... :) Wait.... that was important :)
Erin and I have been working. Not that work isn't interesting or important... Erin has lots to do with her new promotion which is good b/c she now has more to do than there is time to do it in... so at least we both are at the same page with that. Actually things at work have died down some for me b/c a few of my large projects have wrapped up and I haven't taken on anything big.
Erin and I will have to post some videos or something soon. We just got a cheap HD video camera with a gift certificate I've had for best buy for like 3 years. Thanks Dad! It was like $200... which is cheaper than the average video camera. We just wanted to get something cheap until prices drop and HD is all worked out since everything is new. But we wanted something now so we have vids of ourselves as newly weds... I plan on being a newlywed for the rest of my life though... but something to get us on tape for our kids to see one day... us before them... I dunno... It'll be fun.
Other than work and our HD camera we haven't used... I've been painting with Kaminski. We have done 7 or so pieces together. I'll take some pics and post them... maybe. We're having lots of fun. I think the plan is to make a portfolio and get signed... mainly so we can have more money for art supplies... we're addicted to painting... and painting can get expensive... so for now we're painting on free sheets of metal we were given by a print shop...
Erin has been doing some scrap booking recently. I tried to buy her two really rad books the other day about scrapping booking... they were serious projects though... like the guys who are really really good... that do everything by hand.. including typography... it was actually very similar to a style of art she likes by an artist who has a gallery down near Rosemary so I thought she'd like them... but she told me they were too serious/good. Anyway... she recently decided to take all my pics... which I was just slamming in boxes... and started making me photo albums. They're rad!
Beth... someone Erin grew up around that I've never met is in town... so I hope we get to meet them tonight after work! HINT HINT Air!
Oh yeah and Air found the table that matches our bed... we all know how important it is to have a kitchen table that matches your bedroom set... so we went and looked it over and got it for her sunday... I just need to rent a truck and move it over. So now we have more furniture... not really sure what we're going to do with it... We have one table that we never use... and like 12 chairs we never use... now I guess we'll have two tables and 16 chairs to never use :) Speaking of our furniture mess... Brett moved in with us until he moves off to school... (Well... actually Erin and I forced him to leave Lisa and move in with us)... which will probably be Tulane. So now the drums are the the Piano room which is really a dining room... the piano is in Alabama... the weight equipment is in the den... everything Brett owns is in what was the drum room or what is suppose to be an office... The office... which is currently in the Piano (suppose to be living room but now is turning into the drum room) is about to be moved into the den b/c we've discovered the joy is streaming HD content live off the internet for free (who needs cable:) )... We're about to hook my apple up to the TV so we only pay for internet. We use the kitchen table, which ironically is in the kitchen... for box storage... Other than that things are pretty normal. We sleep in our bedroom, though right now we are storing car parts in it.
One day though we'll actually figure out how to use our house and get it all together.
Anyway.. here are a few sites to check out if you want to start using online content:
Modern Feed: Index of online content to watch. Great! Erin and I have been catching up on all our favorite cable shows.
http://www.modernfeed.com/home/
HULU: Streams movies straight to your computer. We've watched two movies this way. Not the best quality ever but good enough since it's free.
http://www.hulu.com/
Ok... Gotta get to work. More later!
I think Leah, the BEST/GREATEST/MOST AWESOMENESS sister in law in the whole universe, is the only person who reads this anywayzzz... :) Wait.... that was important :)
Erin and I have been working. Not that work isn't interesting or important... Erin has lots to do with her new promotion which is good b/c she now has more to do than there is time to do it in... so at least we both are at the same page with that. Actually things at work have died down some for me b/c a few of my large projects have wrapped up and I haven't taken on anything big.
Erin and I will have to post some videos or something soon. We just got a cheap HD video camera with a gift certificate I've had for best buy for like 3 years. Thanks Dad! It was like $200... which is cheaper than the average video camera. We just wanted to get something cheap until prices drop and HD is all worked out since everything is new. But we wanted something now so we have vids of ourselves as newly weds... I plan on being a newlywed for the rest of my life though... but something to get us on tape for our kids to see one day... us before them... I dunno... It'll be fun.
Other than work and our HD camera we haven't used... I've been painting with Kaminski. We have done 7 or so pieces together. I'll take some pics and post them... maybe. We're having lots of fun. I think the plan is to make a portfolio and get signed... mainly so we can have more money for art supplies... we're addicted to painting... and painting can get expensive... so for now we're painting on free sheets of metal we were given by a print shop...
Erin has been doing some scrap booking recently. I tried to buy her two really rad books the other day about scrapping booking... they were serious projects though... like the guys who are really really good... that do everything by hand.. including typography... it was actually very similar to a style of art she likes by an artist who has a gallery down near Rosemary so I thought she'd like them... but she told me they were too serious/good. Anyway... she recently decided to take all my pics... which I was just slamming in boxes... and started making me photo albums. They're rad!
Beth... someone Erin grew up around that I've never met is in town... so I hope we get to meet them tonight after work! HINT HINT Air!
Oh yeah and Air found the table that matches our bed... we all know how important it is to have a kitchen table that matches your bedroom set... so we went and looked it over and got it for her sunday... I just need to rent a truck and move it over. So now we have more furniture... not really sure what we're going to do with it... We have one table that we never use... and like 12 chairs we never use... now I guess we'll have two tables and 16 chairs to never use :) Speaking of our furniture mess... Brett moved in with us until he moves off to school... (Well... actually Erin and I forced him to leave Lisa and move in with us)... which will probably be Tulane. So now the drums are the the Piano room which is really a dining room... the piano is in Alabama... the weight equipment is in the den... everything Brett owns is in what was the drum room or what is suppose to be an office... The office... which is currently in the Piano (suppose to be living room but now is turning into the drum room) is about to be moved into the den b/c we've discovered the joy is streaming HD content live off the internet for free (who needs cable:) )... We're about to hook my apple up to the TV so we only pay for internet. We use the kitchen table, which ironically is in the kitchen... for box storage... Other than that things are pretty normal. We sleep in our bedroom, though right now we are storing car parts in it.
One day though we'll actually figure out how to use our house and get it all together.
Anyway.. here are a few sites to check out if you want to start using online content:
Modern Feed: Index of online content to watch. Great! Erin and I have been catching up on all our favorite cable shows.
http://www.modernfeed.com/home/
HULU: Streams movies straight to your computer. We've watched two movies this way. Not the best quality ever but good enough since it's free.
http://www.hulu.com/
Ok... Gotta get to work. More later!
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Oh My!
I figured out how to reset the forgotten password/email account to our blog - Oh Happy Day (or Oh Happy Night since it is 11:29PM)!!!! Yay! :)
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
New addition to the family!
After much research... investigation... deliberation... a few road trips... lots of spent gas... We finally found a car. And just in time to drive baby Kate around in when the Texas Clark's arrive! We started out wanting to buy a cheap 7k landscape/house work truck... but we were pretty dissapointed to see how poorly the Exterra holds together after only 70k miles... they seem to fall apart interior wise. So we looked at a newer one w/ less miles... but then decided the money would not be well spent b/c the car would fall apart. We liked that the newer one had 6 airbags and more safety features though. We then decided that for the money... we'd like something safe... and that by buying a truck we'd be sacrificing good gas mileage and safety ona daily basis for the few times a year we need to haul something. So we then got down to a 4 door sedan. With our budget... we sought out to see what used 4 door sedan we could buy that was built in Japan. The newer Hondas are built here now. :( We discovered that for the price of a used accord (and less than the price of say a Jetta built in Mexico)... we could buy a Lexus IS300... made in Japan. So we set out to inspect a few high mileage IS300s to see how they were holding up. We then drove a few new ones to compare them to the older ones... We were very impressed. The interiors are built to last... and mechanically the ones with 100k plus miles drove just like the newer ones... Just like our old Legends use to do! So in our mids Lexus is the new Honda. Luckily out of the 66 we looked at... Erin happened to like the one with gun metal rims the most! Good taste I must say! Luckily too this one had no bent frame or paint work!
Magic Kingdom Trip
Erin Finally Decides to Post Something!
Mom and Dad came down to visit for a long weekend and we went to the Magic Kingdom®. After posing for this picture, we rode the new ride Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor®, Inspired by Disney·Pixar's Monsters, Inc.® and the new Pirates of the Caribbean®, Inspired by Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean®, complete with Johnny Depp animatronics! Luckily, we don't have any pictures of us all after the rain storm we were caught in at the end of the night... :)
©Disney
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