Saturday, November 29, 2008

Let Me Do Your Christmas Lights

While waiting at a stop light today, this guy was on the corner advertising on a sandwich board his services and phone number for putting up Christmas lights. Wouldn't you like him to climb upon your roof and mess with your electricity?

Sunday, November 23, 2008

No more numb butt!

Our furniture is here! Hip, hip, hooray! It feels so nice not having to sit on the freaking floor!
I promised Matt that we'd have pizza and watch "Iron Man" (boooooooring, I guess that's what I get for renting "The Love Guru") when it arrived as a way to celebrate. So as you can see in the picture, Matt's pizza is all laid out and ready for the movie.

Tucker wasn't left out either, he joined in the celebration too. The pizza man brought our pizza AND a treat for Tucker too! How nice was that? And how dangerous is that? I mean, carrying dog treats in your front pocket is kind of asking to be bitten. Eww!

Sunday, November 16, 2008

11th Thing the People Upstairs Might Be Doing...

11. They purchased bunk beds at a discount price because they don't have the ladders. Therefore they have to cannonball off the top each time they need down.

Tucker on Perfume

So when we were moving in, I was unpacking my perfume and sprayed some on some tissue that was sitting on the ground.

Tucker took that opportunity to roll in the tissue and inhale a large amount of it all.

This apparently is what happens when dogs sniff perfume.

By the way, we don't sleep on the ground and I didn't kick Matt out of the bed. Our livingroom just furniture had not yet arrived, so this is what we were sitting on to watch movies.

Friday, November 14, 2008

Late Halloween Pictures

Here is a picture of Matt's 2nd pumpkin. He created the lettering himself and was so proud that he asked every trick or treater if they liked his jack-o-lanterns...no matter what their age.
After asking dozens and dozens of children which pumpkin they liked better, the one on the right won.

Tucker's Move

This is a little video of Tucker doing his part to move on moving day.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Top 10 Things I Think The People Above Us Might Be Doing

10. Training for the long jump in the 2012 Summer Olympics. Go India!

9. Practicing to be the first Indian version of the Von Trapp Family Singers.

8. A daily chore of checking every single hinge on every single door, cabinet, and toilet seat to make sure its not sticking by slamming it shut.

7. Infant bowling.

6. Playing a very disappointing game of "Trust Fall"

5. Not learning their lesson that the tile is slippery when exiting the tub.

4. IWF- Indian Wrestling Federation

3. A little bit of this:



2. Goat herding.

1. Trying to drive whitey and her little schizo wiener dog crazy!

Tucker and I are seriously doubting our patience and tolerance level in this new apartment environment. We miss our ear ringing silence.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Our New Ward

Today we attended our new ward here in Plano.

I still have my guard up; as I always do; but so far, so good! Everyone is SUPER nice and outgoing. I've never met so many people all at once and never had people line up in a line just to shake my hand. It was overwhelming! I almost felt like a celebrity or something, we couldn't move down the hallway because we were surrounded by people asking us questions.
There were a few people I recognized from my old ward I attended as a teenager and Matt even recognized a family he knew from Tyler. As we talked to people, there were a lot of connections made to other people we knew too.

Our biggest fear was separating from each other to go to priesthood and Relief Society, but when it came that time Matt found that his class gets cookies and I found 2 different people asking me to come and sit with with so that I wouldn't be by myself! I found a friend in a lady who urged me to sit on the back row with her so she could point out everyone and give me the scoop on each and every one of them, which was very helpful in helping me remember people and a lot of fun!

It was really nice being around people again who love their ward and who couldn't wait to come and tell you how great of a ward it was to be in. I haven't heard anyone say that since I was a kid and lived in Athens. I think we're going to like it here.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Moving, Amish Life, and Throbbing Pain

Well, we've moved to Plano and are still trying to find places to put everything. I don't know where all this stuff came from, but we've got so much crap all of a sudden!

So far we have no cable, internet, telephone, or sofa and that makes for a lot of nights spent sitting on the bed, reading books to each other and playing solitaire. It's almost like being Amish. I'm handling it okay, but Matt doesn't seem to be coping so well. Luckily Verizon fit us into their busy schedule and will set us up next Thursday and get us back to 2008. However, we're still without our Chofa and Chair until the 22nd, so the floor will still be our hangout.

On Monday I developed a very bad throbbing pain in the top right of my mouth. It was so bad, I didn't sleep the entire night. I thought it to be a tooth ache since it was near my gums, but after taking off work Tuesday and spending money we don't have at the Dentist taking x-rays and running tests, they could find nothing wrong. I spent another night without sleep, drinking 11 bottles of water (the cold water swishing in my mouth was the only thing that would numb the pain for a few seconds at a time), and peeing 1,000 times. The next day at work, the pain only grew worse and worse as I drink another 12 bottles of water for pain and peed probably 2,000 times. Finally that night I went to the doctor to see if it was some type of allergic reaction to the steroids, antibiotics for my sinus infection, or arthritic pain killers he had given me a few days prior. After quickly ruling that out, a head x-ray and more poking around, the doctor couldn't figure out where the pain was coming from either. Eventually he declared it a type a virus that was relative to bells palsy (without the paralyzing and numbness of course) and put me on a viral medicine. I also had my dad and Matt give me a blessing so that I could get some rest and I think that has helped a lot. So far I've only had 5 waters today!

We've taken pictures of our move and I wanted to post them, but since this connection is so SLOW, I'd never get them up. Hopefully I'll be able to post them next week and be able to show off our new dining room table. I'm especially proud of it and proud of all the building Matt did putting everything together. He's pretty handy!

More to come next week!