Study

The newly painted "terra cotta" (not burnt orange, though my Longhorn hubby disagrees) walls in our study. We haven't moved much furniture to the new house yet. We're really s-l-o-w! We're trying to get all the walls/trim/doors/shelves painted before we move everything over. I'll try to post progress along the way.

Our New (Green) Dining Room!

Another view of our green dining room! Matt was leary when I said "green," but we like the finished project. We found these awesome oil paintings at a starving artists' sale the other day.

Molly - up to her knees in snow!

Molly running out of the picture before I could take it! Having fun in the snow.

Our new house, in the snow!

Our new street, in the snow!

Snow Day!

Too bad this snow day fell on a Saturday! No time off from work for us, actually Matt is working from home all day creating some DVDs for his office. He's learning multimedia pretty quick!

Molly has been sitting in an office chair by the window for almost two hours - just staring at the snow. She's completely in awe of it all! We put her outside and the little priss came running right back to the door! How would she have ever survived as a hunting dog?? HA

The only bad thing that we've discovered about Dish TV is - bad weather = no tv!! We can't watch TV when it is snowing or raining or windy. Wonderful. I'm actually surprised that we have an internet connection right now bc we're on wireless and piggybacking from the neighbor (shhhh)!!!!! Awful, I know.

Peace.

Hi Ho

Long time, no post!
We've been keeping ourselves busy these past few days, so I have been slow at the blog updates!!

First of call - Congrats to my cousin, Suzanne and her new husband, Jeremy, who were married last night in San Antonio! We weren't able to go to the wedding, but hope to see lots of pictures soon.

Our friends the KOFAHLS are on their way down to visit as we speak! They should arrive from NY around 10pm and will be here till Friday. Matt & I have to work, and they'll be at a conference during the day, but we'll get to hang in the evenings.

Matt learned to change the oil today!! Our new Wal-Mart (on the North side) doesn't have an oil-change place! Can you believe that??? What kind of "Super" Wal-Mart is this? I'm thinking they're getting a little lenient on the doling out of the "super" titles.... Anyway, my cute hubby took it upon himself to learn to do the changing. Our poor garage floor....but I am so impressed!

Oh, I just discoverd the wonder of a SWIFFER. Everyone needs one. Be sure to get the wet and the dry disposable Swiffer thingys. They're safe for hard-wood and tile and are AWESOME. I am no fan of a broom and dust pan - the Swiffer is magical. Snaps for Swiffer (especially if you have puppies that shed or a husband with dirty shoes).

Well, I'm sure I'll post again in about a week or so (at this rate)!

Keep it real foolz.

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Longhorns = National Champs!

Matt and his dad had a great time in Pasadena at the Rose Bowl. They called me on game night and said, "We are watching the game, standing inside.....our hotel room." NO TICKETS. They saw people walking around waving thousands of dollars in cash (literally) and yet, there were no sellers. The local news reported that 10,000 Longhorn fans showed up to the Rose Bowl without tickets. 1). How would the news stations know how many people showed up without tickets 2). Longhorn Football fans are NUTS!!!

I still don't quite understand the fanaticism, but hey - whatever floats my little Longhorn's boat! I'm glad they had a fun trip and (gasp) I'm glad the Longhorns won. You have to remember, when the hubby is happy it is a good thing! :)

I assume if Matt had posted this blog, there would have been a pic of Vince. But since I'm the poster - I went with Lance and Matthew. I'm such a football fan!

HALIE JOINS BLOG WORLD

This time it's actually true! Check out the Hodgson's at:
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YIPPPPEEEE

HALIE JOINS BLOG WORLD

...wouldn't this be a nice headline to see? All in favor of Halie getting a blog?

We all know this girl would make for an entertaining blog!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

This week has flown by. We were in Texas just Fri-Mon last week, which is entirely too short! I guess I have to pay my dues being the "new girl" at work. Christmas vacation is determined by seniority and 3 out of 8 of us have been working at Parker for 20+ years. Niiiice. The next person ahead of me has 5 years under her belt, so I'm pretty much staring down a no-Chritmas vacation destiny for quite awhile.

We had tons of fun on our short trip though. I will post pics as soon as we get our real computer set up. For now, I'm using Matt's work laptop every now and then, but it's not set up w/our little docking station.

Matt's under the weather....so no big new year's plans for us! Just two old married folk and a beagle watching tv by the fire (which is not too shabby in my opinion. Man, I turned into an old married lady pretty quick)! Yesterday we went to the walk-in treatment center to try to get Matt some antibiotics. They told us it would be a 20 minute wait. After 2 hours sitting in hard chairs in a freezing cold waiting room, we finally gave up. Matt seemed worse for the wear after not being in bed for that long, so he's on my self-concocted regimine of alka seltzer effervescent and tussin. Hope it works because he's scheduled for some Rose Bowl action this week.

More later taters.

Merry Christmas!

We are in Texas!!

Merry Christmas to all.

Movin and Groovin

We started moving today! We don't officially close until Monday, but the owners let us have the keys on Friday. I took a bunch of pics but left the camera over at the new house, so I will post all the "before" shots sometime soon.

We have already made a few improvements: Matt installed a new wax ring for the toilet (an absolutely disgusting, yet neccesary task), I replaced all the nasty gold cabinet hardware with new "brushed nickel" (oh so trendy). And we went down in the crawl space to patch up the furnace ducts. I tell you, that was an adventure! We were down there duct taping the ducts (how appropriate) when I looked over and saw a little pair of beady green eyes staring at me through the darkness. FREAK OUT. Turned out to just be a nice fat cat with a collar, so I guess he was just out for a nap in our CRAWL SPACE. Weird cat. Guess I'm the skerrdy cat! It's not so fun to jump three feet when you're in a three foot crawl space...

Now we are back at the old house swaping the washer/dryer that came with the new house for our set. I use the term "we" rather loosely. You all know I have no muscles :) Poor husband is doing all the manual laber. He prefers to do the lifting and I do the organizing/cleaning. Works for me! I hate to sweat :)

We'll keep you posted on the new adventure.

In other news, I had a traumatic Friday when I looked down at my wedding ring and a prong was BROKEN OFF. My diamond was just flailing about. Teeter Totter. As if it didn't have a care in the world. This wouldn't be so bad IF 1). Matt hasn't been telling me to get the ring insured for about 4 months 2). It wasn't Matt's mom's diamond that is on the loose 3). I had listened to the jeweler when she told me to sauder the bands together because they were going to rub and a prong would eventually break. So now I look newly engaged with a single band solitaire until I can get my wedding band fixed. Maybe we'll go out tonight and see if people will send champagne to our table as a congratulatory gesture...

Bon Noir mi Amigos

Rose Bowl Blues...

Today the "limited number" of Rose Bowl tickets that Ticketmaster had were released for sale at 11am EST. Matt sent out a huge email to all his co-workers (and some of mine!) pleading for us all to get online and refresh/refresh/refresh until we got some tickets for him and his dad to go watch the Longhorns in Pasadena. Now, this is a HUGE deal for Hubby. He and Dean bought their plane tix in SEPTEMBER because they were so confident that Tx was going to the Rose Bowl (never you mind that they ensured the tix were refundable before they bought them- side note from the token Aggie). Anyway, no such luck with all that clicking going on. I think Ticketmaster must've had about 4 tickets that they released today.
Boooooooo
Hisssssss
So, if anyone has alumni connections or anything along those lines and can get my sweet Hubby tix - let us know!!!!!!!!!!!!! Believe me, you will be Matteo's favorito amigo.

HoHoHo

Three Ho's for the all-Christmas, all the time radio station.

HoHoHo!!

Merry Christmas!

On that "note" (pun intended!!!), posted on the entrance door at Nville Wal-Mart was a typed up sign that said, "MERRY CHRISTMAS From Your Nicholasville Wal-Mart!" At first glance, you'd think - 'Tis the Season, right? Oh no - I totally think it's a slap in the face to Target who's employees are only allowed to say "Happy Holidays" this year. All this right next to the Salvation Army girl ringing her bell. Last year's controversy was Target not allowing the bell-ringers. So "Bah Humbug" to Tar-get' and Rock on Wally World.

Peace on Earth - except at retailers...

We finally went to a UK basketball game last night! After living here 2 years, it took free tickets to finally get us to go! A co-worker had extra tickets and I was the lucky recipient. Fun times! Of course, we are still partial to the Aggies and the Longhorns. After going to several different college bball games, I'm totally shocked at how awesome A&M's arena is compared to everyone else's - considering the fact that our team stinks!! Oh well, at least they look good doing it...

In other news, Molly has recovered from her weird spell and we are moving right along with the house. Mortgage, insurance, all that fun stuff. Set to close on 12/12.

Our buddy, Felty, who visited this weekend! Surprise, you're famous now - you made "the blog!"


Matt, running away from me taking his picture, at church.