Thanks for the guest post by Jo Levy
Our neighbors invited us over last night for a hockey dinner party. They moved here from Canada and apparently they are huge hockey fans. They got the NHL channel because it was included in some direct tv specials when they had their satellite TV installed. I have only been to one hockey game in my life and I did not think it would be fun, but while at the game I learned that the entertaining part of hockey is the fights that happen amongst the players. Our neighbors told us that hockey is huge in Canada. I cannot imagine that it would be as big as football or baseball is here, but our neighbors assured us that it is. They were really disappointed when they moved here to find out that hockey is not a big sport here. I really like our neighbors and my husband and I would like to start hanging out with them more. We agreed to go to some hockey games with them this season as long as they agree to go to some football games with us.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Swamp People
The article written by Alonso Kramer
Sometimes I really don’t get my husband. He works strange hours most of the time and then has trouble sleeping, so I come home to him watching the strangest things on our direct tv. His newest obsession is called “Swamp People”. It’s about families in the Louisiana bayou who make a living hunting alligators and other native wildlife. Sometimes I wish I understood what makes him tick. I can watch one episode of this ridiculous show, but he can sit and watch 10 episodes in a row. One of the funniest things about it is that the characters all speak in a thick Cajun accent and I can barely understand them. The show actually needs subtitles to explain what is going on. When he’s done watching for some reason he thinks it’s funny to try and speak with a Cajun accent just to annoy me. After watching a few episodes with him just to make him happy, that is the last thing I want to hear! It’s funny for about 10 seconds but then it just starts driving me insane.
Sometimes I really don’t get my husband. He works strange hours most of the time and then has trouble sleeping, so I come home to him watching the strangest things on our direct tv. His newest obsession is called “Swamp People”. It’s about families in the Louisiana bayou who make a living hunting alligators and other native wildlife. Sometimes I wish I understood what makes him tick. I can watch one episode of this ridiculous show, but he can sit and watch 10 episodes in a row. One of the funniest things about it is that the characters all speak in a thick Cajun accent and I can barely understand them. The show actually needs subtitles to explain what is going on. When he’s done watching for some reason he thinks it’s funny to try and speak with a Cajun accent just to annoy me. After watching a few episodes with him just to make him happy, that is the last thing I want to hear! It’s funny for about 10 seconds but then it just starts driving me insane.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
POA makes me paranoid
Guest post of the week by Brittany Booker
Our neighborhood decided to set up a property owners association. In principal, it sounds like a good idea. A group of people who make sure the neighborhood looks pretty and new improvements are made. How could anyone say no to that? The neighborhood looking better helps everyone because it helps increase each home’s value. Well, while the association is nice, the e-mails have me paranoid. The association set up a group e-mail. The purpose is to allow any neighborhood news to easily be e-mailed to the entire neighborhood. The system is completely abused to complain about anything and everything. People e-mail about buckets missing, rakes missing, or any other miscellaneous thing. While I am sure it is all innocent, I keep thinking there is a robber among us and even had SECURITY CHOICE come install an alarm system. Yes, I know this is overkill for a missing rake, but honestly you never know what could happen next. I would much rather be over prepared for the worst than wish I had prepared myself more when the worst happens.
Our neighborhood decided to set up a property owners association. In principal, it sounds like a good idea. A group of people who make sure the neighborhood looks pretty and new improvements are made. How could anyone say no to that? The neighborhood looking better helps everyone because it helps increase each home’s value. Well, while the association is nice, the e-mails have me paranoid. The association set up a group e-mail. The purpose is to allow any neighborhood news to easily be e-mailed to the entire neighborhood. The system is completely abused to complain about anything and everything. People e-mail about buckets missing, rakes missing, or any other miscellaneous thing. While I am sure it is all innocent, I keep thinking there is a robber among us and even had SECURITY CHOICE come install an alarm system. Yes, I know this is overkill for a missing rake, but honestly you never know what could happen next. I would much rather be over prepared for the worst than wish I had prepared myself more when the worst happens.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
A fairytale Disney vacation for our princess
Guest post written by Mary Caldwell
To say that our daughter likes princesses would be a vast understatement. If we would let her, she would definitely just wear her princess dress-up outfits to school every day and even sleep in them. But we obviously make her wear regular clothes. I tell her that it wouldn't be special if she wore them all of the time! Because of her love for princesses we thought that it would be neat to go to Walt Disney World for vacation this summer.
She's never been and I haven't been since I was a kid so I'm pretty excited about it. While I was looking up some information on that and deciding the actual dates for us to go, I saw the site mobilebroadband4G.com. I read through it and thought that would be a great service to have so I signed up for it.
We'll of course have to make a visit to Cinderella's castle, where you can apparently eat breakfast. I guess that we'll let her wear her princess outfit to that. Besides, she will be in the company of another princess!
To say that our daughter likes princesses would be a vast understatement. If we would let her, she would definitely just wear her princess dress-up outfits to school every day and even sleep in them. But we obviously make her wear regular clothes. I tell her that it wouldn't be special if she wore them all of the time! Because of her love for princesses we thought that it would be neat to go to Walt Disney World for vacation this summer.
She's never been and I haven't been since I was a kid so I'm pretty excited about it. While I was looking up some information on that and deciding the actual dates for us to go, I saw the site mobilebroadband4G.com. I read through it and thought that would be a great service to have so I signed up for it.
We'll of course have to make a visit to Cinderella's castle, where you can apparently eat breakfast. I guess that we'll let her wear her princess outfit to that. Besides, she will be in the company of another princess!
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