From the archives

I was going to pull up one old post and put it up here, but instead I decided to pull some of my favorite snippets from various posts, hope you enjoy…

Anyway, I brought the test home, threw it on the bed and wandered off to play around on the internet… err, I mean study my Sunday School lesson. An hour later Cristina walked in with a little white stick that she had colored two pink lines onto.

“Hey that’s very good honey, maybe tomorrow we can go to Barnes & Noble and get you a coloring book.”

Then she threw up everywhere. And that’s how we knew she was pregnant.

More Internet Fun…

I got a little stocking stuffer book a couple years ago that was full of those pithy little sayings that end up on church signs across this great country. You know, phrases like:

“Forbidden Fruit Creates Many Jams”

And other theological one-liners.

In association with this, there are a couple fun sites that I’ve found…

http://www.churchsigngenerator.com/

Just like it sounds, you enter in the text and the website places it onto an image of a church sign, like this…

Kinda fun huh?

The second site is kind of the same idea as my little book except they have site visitors submit images of church signs where something has gone terribly wrong — http://crummychurchsigns.blogspot.com/ — Misspelled words, missing letters, and phrases where the author didn’t quite think the implications of their words all the way through. These are often enhanced by commentary from the submitters, here’s an example:

I can’t believe I asked for pink shag carpet in my mansion in heaven.

I think I am voting for Barack Obama

Update: I just noticed that this post is poorly organized because it’s sort of a stream of consciousness thing, just go with it…

Sorry if this post is long or boring but I am writing it for two reasons:

1. So Sariah can later read about what her Dad thought of political issues when he was young.
2. Because I need to put my arguments down “in print” to make sure they are sound.

I recently took a little online quiz to see what candidate I most agree with (i.e., who I should vote for based upon my ideals.) Much to my chagrin, my stance on a litany of issues falls most commonly in line with John McCain.

Developmental Milestones

So Sariah has been hitting several of her developmental milestones slightly ahead of schedule, according to the time line laid out by the “American Pregnancy Association” (Although frankly, I think they are sticking their big fat pregnant bellies where they don’t belong — shouldn’t they be focusing on the womb? Save the infant development studies for organizations like the “Pediatric Society” or the “Association for Proving that your Kid is Dumber or Smarter than your Neighbors Kid”).

Sariah’s recent photoshoot.

A miraculous blanket

It’s time for some news on Sariah…

To start, a few technical points:

1. Sariah turns 5 months old on the 27th of this month
2. She is healthy and gaining weight (although this is ideal for now, we will try not to tell her as she gets older that she is gaining so much weight. That would probably be counter-productive).
3. She’s about 12 lbs now and is approximately 50″ tall (Well, I had to tell the carnival ride operator that was her height so he would let her onto “The Zipper” roller coaster. She loved it so much, she was unconscious with joy by the end of the ride.)
4. Her curveball now drops almost six inches by the time it reaches home plate

Souplantation

Cristina, Sariah, and I went to Souplantation for lunch today along with my sister and her kids.

Souplantation is kind of an odd place for me. I feel like I am a head of cattle. The resturant entry is designed to corral your party into a manageable herd and then you are led down along the salad bar to graze amongst the greenery. This particular strategy is pure genius because I have never seen a plate of food multiply faster than a salad.

“Oh, I’ll just have a small salad” you blindly think to yourself, “and then go on to the regular foods”.

Humorous Blogs

I recently signed our blog up on a site called: http://humor-blogs.com/

I’m not really sure why I did it. I was just looking around for some other blogs that were funny and found myself at the site, signing up our blog. Since then, I’ve been pulled into a whole new world of reviewing other (ostensibly) humorous blogs, adding links and images to this site and a whole host of other obligations – not the least of which is the obligation to now be relentlessly humorous.

Another video

Well, if you read this site much, you’ll notice that I like to post little videos from YouTube fairly regularly. I think it’s a fun way to use other people’s work to entertain you while limiting my own workload to copying and pasting.

Normally, I find videos that relate to the subject of a post. This time, however, the subject of the post is the video. I found this little gem while I was cruising around the net researching a little project I have going. I must have watched this thing 6 or 7 times. It’s so….

Awesome.

UPDATE!!!

The saga continues… only this time, it includes more awesomeness…

I think I’m so cool

**Update, I’ve already changed the header graphic since I wrote this post, so I included the old header, you can see it below….**

So I just made a custom image header (goes at the top of our website)

I think I am pretty awesome especially since I made it in Microsoft Paint instead of an advanced program like Adobe Photoshop (I actually have that program on a disk somewhere so as soon as I load it up, I will tinker with the image a bit more so that the smaller pictures aren’t so fuzzy…. I hope)

Anyway, I pulled some fave photos of ours…