"TASTYKAKES"???

And to think, all these years I've just been flushing all my "Cookie Sticks" down the toilet!?!

If only I had known they were marketable.
I could've been RICH!!

SEPARATED AT BIRTH?

While we were watching the election last night, Cokie Roberts came on the TV. I noticed that she reminded me of someone, but I just couldn't place who. Then it hit me.

I pulled up these two pictures to show Lori and after she finished laughing, informed me that I had to put up a post of it.


I actually like Cokie Roberts, and kinda feel bad about this. So I'm putting the blame on my wife. LOL

What are you doing reading this? Go Vote!!!

Ok. Watch this video live from Manassas last night, then go do the right thing!!

The 'Rents come to Visit

Man, I realized how lazy I've become with my posts lately. Sorry about that. I promise I'll try harder in the future. (Please don't beat me again, I'll be good).

This is the weekend in pictures Part Deux that Lori promised you a couple of weeks ago.

THURSDAY

These crazy kids came to visit US for THEIR 44th wedding anniversary. I know, you're jealous. Don't be - they wore us out!


Thursday night - ate here. (Yeh, seafood in Virginia) and the lobster bisque made us all extremely happy.

FRIDAY
Lori worked while we immersed ourselves in history at the Bull Run Battlefield. Look at Jackson standing there like a stone wall!!



Explored Great Falls National Park and found that it was indeed Great.


Anniversary dinner at "Carmello's".....be jealous. Very very jealous. Who knew you could mix Portuguese and Italian?



SATURDAY
Back to the cabin in WV. At peace with nature. Ohmmmm.


Apple Butter Festival in Berkeley Springs, WV. Lori Looooves her some apple butter.


MMMMMmmmm….pork sammiches. Th-Th-That's all folks!! (not really, there's more)


Random man scared of me coming back with some homemade lemonade. I seem to have that effect on people sometimes. LOL


Berkeley Springs has the smallest National Park in the U.S. For real... No, seriously.



George Washington’s Bath Tub…Really? That's what they tell me...


Oooooooo, nature's mirror. Nice.


GUMMI BEAR TREE!
(Lori swears that these trees look like a bag of gummi bears)



Saturday Night - Dinner and s’mores around the campfire.
(Lori plans on practicing her s’more making at home in the fireplace. She will NOT be out-s’mored!)
Anne was kind enough to play the harmonica for us.



SUNDAY:
Off to the Shenandoah Valley

Very Pretty! (See what I did there? I could be talking about the women OR the valley. I'm getting the hang of this thing called marriage.)


The color of the trees were awesome!



Lori, Dad and I went hiking in the Shenandoah Valley and saw...



BOOBS!


Don't look now, but... seriously don't look. Nature calls. And whatever you do, don't take a... picture (too late).

Happy Couple.

Happy Family.


THE END.

DAMN YOU, COLD WEATHER!!

Seriously. I didn't even make it 6 months. I've already lost my wedding band. I've noticed since we got to Virginia, and the weather has been cooler, my band has been a lot looser on my finger. We went shopping last night at the mall, and on the way home, I realized I was missing something. We went back into every store and looked everywhere, but to no avail. So until I find a replacement, I have a non-tanned outline on my ring finger to remind me of my eternal carelessness. Like I need a reminder of that. : (

RANDOM PICTURES Part 1

I was looking through the pictures I've taken with my iPhone since I got it, and thought I'd share some of the funnier ones with you. They made me laugh, at least.


THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID

Unintentional sex talk on a bumber sticker.
"Well, it is the law, and I'm an upstanding citizen." (no pun intended)






DUNKIN' DOGGIES

Mobile pet grooming... or euthanization service? You be the judge.






HANDICAPPED TRACK CROSSING?

I got a chuckle out of this one I took at the St. Pete Grand Prix. Notice the race car in the picture going 200 mph. The little blue sign on the fence reads: Handicapped Track Crossing. "Come on Grandma, you can make it across if you hurry."




PARENTS ARE EMBARRASSING AT ANY AGE

Speaking of the St. Pete Grand Prix, I took my dad with me and it started to rain. Sans umbrella, he came up with this lovely idea. (hiding my face in my hands)







ROBO-TOOTH

I went to the dentist to get a root canal, and they didn't bother to ask if I wanted a silver or white cap. You can see what they picked out for me. **bling bling** I started calling it Robo-tooth.





A BANANA SLICER?!?

If you really need this, you should seriously re-evaluate your life. That's pretty much the end for you.











EUTAW STREET IN BALTIMORE

"Hey boss, how do you spell Utah again?... uh boss... oh, you're busy? I'll just figure it out on my own then." Sarah was gracious enough to take Lori and I to an Orioles game, and we all got a chuckle out of this sign.








TO BE CONTINUED...
p.s. I don't know why the spacing between pictures is so off. I haven't mastered the whole Blogger layout yet apparently.

BIG NEWS!!

I was going to write about our awesome Labor Day weekend today, but instead, I'm going to tell you some good news!

Yesterday, we talked to a mortgage lender and by the end of the day, we found out we were approved for a house!! YAY!! Go us! (Now we just have to find the house). This is a load off both of our minds, since I haven't been working in the area yet...

Which leads me to more good news!

I got my first freelance editing job! I start tomorrow morning at 9:30. The production company owner told me it would probably be a couple days a week, which is great, because it will leave me more time to find other freelance opportunities. I'm very excited to be working again in the field I love.

Good times!

Sarah Palin-Fey

While half paying attention to the news the other night, for about 30 seconds, I thought that John McCain had chosen former Saturday Night Live star Tina Fey to be his running mate.



















Then I realized that it couldn't be her, because Tina Fey is smart enough not to run for Vice President, especially with John McCain. (Although she still may be more qualified than Sarah Palin).

MAYBE A LITTLE TOO DESCRIPTIVE?

I ran across this ad for a new application for the iPhone this morning while updating my current applications. It's for a game called Anaconda. All seemed normal, until I read the description:

"TRY TO STAY ALIVE WHILE YOUR SNAKE GETS LONGER AND FASTER. HOW LONG CAN YOU SURVIVE?"

As Lori can tell you, I'm always finding humor in unintentional places. This one cracked me up on many levels:

1. It's the story of my life.

2. Is this game brought to you by Viagra? Because if not, it needs to be.

3. If you have to worry about staying alive in the process, you probably have more serious issues to deal with.

: )

THE SIGN SAYS IT ALL...

I think I'm going to steal this phrase off a sign trying to sell rotten bananas and make this my official motto:

It kinda fits, and it's pretty damn funny.

P.S. Note to grocery store: I don't care how cheap you mark them down, I'm still not buying your brown mushy bananas.

TEXTING 101

I just arrived back in Virginia after spending a week in St. Petersburg. I had a freelance job with my former employer for a few days, and ended up staying a few days longer to see my parents, who returned from two weeks in Russia on Sunday.

They had a few requests for me when they got back. One of these was to teach them how to text, or as dad calls it, how to "text message". I had a feeling this would be a challenge, but they actually took to it pretty well, until....

Picture us all sitting in the living room, me running back and forth to help each one with texts to each other, when mom asks if I can help her change her ringtone. "Sure", I say, and sit down to help her with it. Meanwhile, dad was fully engrossed in his phone, fingers flying (I had just taught him how to do punctuation). I cycled through the various ringtone choices for mom to pick from, and she finally settled on one she liked. When all of a sudden, *ding* she recieved a new message. She opened it, and read: "DID YOU CHANGE YOUR RINGTONE?" She looks up at dad with the most serious face and in a chastising voice exclaims, "YOU KNOW I CHANGED MY RINGTONE, YOU WERE RIGHT HERE IN THE SAME ROOM!!" She thought it was the dumbest thing ever that he would ask her a question that he so clearly knew the answer to. I started laughing, which I think started her laughing so hard she had to run to the bathroom, which made me laugh even harder. Of course, this ended up being the inside joke for the remainder of my time there.

Meanwhile, poor dad went from being so proud of himself for texting a question mark for the first time, to being ridiculed. (I'm still proud of you dad, for learning to "text message" so quickly).

We're a far ways off still, but I think with a little more coaching we'll be ready for the National Texting Championships next year... or maybe not.

LMAO : )