Monthly Archives: September 2008

Two Years of Wedded Bliss….or something like that

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If you’re married for 25 years, you’ve made it to your silver wedding anniversary, 50 years is your golden one.  Apparently, two years is the cell phone anniversary.

I wish I was writing to say that Dave surprised me with a cool new phone with super awesome text message capabilities, but that’s not the case.  I was on the phone with Steven earlier and heard what sounded like something electrical doing something bad (the engineering degree helps with that extremely scientific diagnosis).  The phone shut off, and when I tried to turn it back on it refused to go past the start up screen.

*sigh*

Instead of a nice anniversary dinner we ended up at the Verizon Store.  I now have a shiny new phone; however I don’t have any of the numbers or photos that were stored in my old phone.  It’s the same exact phone I had before, but this one turns on.  Oh, and I lost Tetris too.  I forgot that part.

Other than the death of my phone it’s been a great anniversary.  I can get sappy here right? I say yes.  It is my blog and it’s not like any of you can stop me.

Sometimes I still can’t believe how lucky I am to have Dave.  He’s incredibly patient (a trait that I am sorely lacking).  He makes me laugh.  He’s supportive of me (always).  He is one of the most generous and kind people I know.  And someday (no, I don’t know when) he is going to make an absolutely fantastic dad.  Plus, he has the most awesome dimples.

I love our life together and I would marry him a thousand times over.  On one hand I can’t believe we’ve been married for two years, the time has passed so quickly! And on the other, I can’t believe it’s only been two years, it feels like we’ve always been together.

I love you Dave, even more than I did two years ago.

The Fight for Justice Begins Tomorrow

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I’d never been a big fan of video games.   I really liked Tetris, and puzzle games like that, but anything that required pushing multiple buttons or following a story was not for me.

Well, that was before Dave introduced me to Lego Indiana Jones.  Let me tell you, that game is made of awesome.  You get to be a little Lego person and run around breaking other Lego things in to tiny bits.  To tell the truth, that’s really all I do.  Finding treasures, achieving goals to go on to the next level – that’s all Dave.  I spend the majority of my time doing donuts with Lego motorcycles and smashing stuff (including Dave).

They also have Lego Star Wars – it came out first.  I haven’t played that one – Dave has though.  He beat the game in like a week – it probably took him much less time then if I’d been playing with him.  I think I’m more a liability than anything else.

Yesterday, they came out with this:

It will be delivered to our house tomorrow.  I can’t wait.  Now I just need to convince Dave that I get to be Batman and he has to be Robin.  I don’t think it will work, but a girl can dream right?

And in case you were wondering what Dave and I would look like if we were little Lego people, here you go.  You were curious, I know.

I look just like that! Except for the lipstick, I don’t do lipstick.

The Last of Atlanta

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Man, Atlanta feels like forever ago! I still have one set of pictures to post from our last day there – but so much has happened since then.  A couple of days after I got back from Georgia I flew up to NY .  I was honored to be able to attend the wedding of a very good friend (the reason for the trip).  I could not be happier for Lisa and Dale.  It was everything a wedding should be – lots of friends and family celebrating and having a good time.  Plus – there were fireworks – what more do you need?

I was supposed to only stay for the weekend orginially.  I ended up extending my flight until Wednesday and then again until Friday.  So I was there for just over a week.  It was great.  I scrapbooked with my sister, got to meet a horse named Candy, and helped my mom set up her classroom (c’mon mom, we did help a little bit).

Dave did really well at his training class in Alabama.  He ended up finishing 2nd in his class (go Dave!).  He got home the same day that I did and now we’re both in the same state for the next month and a half.  It’s a nice change.

My next work trip has been scheduled, I actually booked my flights yesterday.  I’ll be leaving for India on November 3rd.  It’s the longest trip I’ve been sent on so far – I’ll be getting home on December 23rd.  I’m hoping that Dave’s able to come visit over Thanksgiving.

Anyway, that’s about all that’s going on here.  Since I’ll be home for a while I started a knitting class last night and will be taking a quilting class on Thursday nights.  I’m so exciting aren’t I?

Okay – here are those last pictures from Atlanta.  We went to the World of Coca-Cola.

Here we are posing with John Pemberton.  Pemberton was a druggist and chemist in Atlanta and is credited with inventing Coca-Cola.  The beverage was originally intended to stop headaches and calm nervousness (some believe he was attempting to create a pain reliever for himself and other wounded Confederate veterans). Did I mentioned Pemberton was addicted to morphine?  Coca-Cola was originally advertised as a cure for morphine and opium addictions among a multitude of other health benefits.

Inside the World of Coca-Cola was full of all sorts of Coke paraphernalia (isn’t paraphernalia a great word? I don’t think it needs that “r” though – I don’t pronounce it anyway).

The Coca-Cola Polar Bear was also there posing for photos.  Dave got his taken without me.  Which was okay, I prefer the cartoon version on TV, they’re cuter (I’m talking about the bears here, not Dave – I’ve never seen a cartoon version of Dave).

At the end of the tour we were able to try a whole bunch of coke products from all over.  It was pretty cool.  Some were really gross though.  They were not cool.  Here’s Dave and Kurt sampling some of the safer flavors.

So that’s Atlanta.  Fun wasn’t it?  I want to go back to the aquarium sometime.  It shouldn’t be hard to convince Dave, as long as I plan the trip during baseball season.

I’ll have to think of some more things to write about here to keep you entertained until my next trip.  Maybe I’ll take pictures of my knitting.  I’m making mittens – don’t be jealous.