Two Important Lessons Learned

Thanks to Heidi I have learned an important lesson, that lesson is to never eat a cracker that was in the vicinity of Heidi. I had given her one of those lunch snack cheese and cracker packs (the kind that comes with the plastic stick to spread the cheese onto the cracker)

for a snack. I go into the office and come out and see that the girls had not finished eating all the crackers and some cheese was still left. So I grabbed a cracker and realized the girls had just put the cheese on the cracker and sucked of the cheese leaving nothing but the cracker. Soggy crackers are gross, just FYI.

For the next lesson we learned to always make sure we know where scissors are. The pictures pretty much explain everything. Bethany+scissors= a dad in serious trouble.

Two Days in a Row!

Hey take a look at this, two posts in two days! Man I'm good. Of course I don't have anything interesting to say. Uhhhhhh, I was up till 4:30 this morning working on a paper that was due. If I didn't want to graduate so bad I probably would have just turned it in late. Since I don't have anything else to say I'll tell you a joke, which some of you may have heard already.

A man goes to the Doctor and the Doc says to the man "I've got some bad news and I've got some bad news. I'm afraid you have alzheimers and you also have cancer."
The man replies "Whew! At least I don't have cancer!"

Blog? What Blog?

So after being gently chastised by one of my sisters for not updating my blog I felt a little guilty. So here I go, I will do my best update everyone on the happenings for the last couple of months.

It really got crazy around the middle of August when Katie's parents came to visit. That was a nice visit that was supposed to culminate with a trip to Disney World, but due to hurricane Fay we had to cancel that trip.

However, the following weekend (being Labor Day weekend) we made our trip to the Happiest Place on Earth. Kitty was able to come along for the trip and I have to say that we had a great time. The kids got really worn out, especially when we went to the Magic Kingdom. We were there when the park opened, left for a couple hours to let the kids rest, and stayed there till 2:45 in the morning. The girls did surprisingly good. Heidi the next day however sort of freaked out at MGM in the morning. Other highlights of the trip include Bethany driving the car on the "Autotopia" ride and Kitty going berserk over the Teacups. Like I said, we just had a blast the entire trip and coming home was somewhat of a downer, cause reality doesn't treat you like they do at the Magic Kingdom. And just to throw a plug in for www.daveramsey.com , we were able to pay for the entire trip cash. That is also why I think we had such a good time, since we are not having to pay it off over the next year. I am currently uploading a lot of pictures to the photobucket site, just search for "souspartacus".

After Disney, I found out that I had to go to a two week course in Texas. The course is so that I can increase my "skill level" at work. But since I am getting out in just a few months it was a complete was of time and money. But hey, it was the Air Force's money. The trip was rather uneventful. I did stop by the old house and went past the Galleria on my way home. After I left Pelham, I realized that Alabama still hates me. About 40 minutes outside of Birmingham I blew out a tire in the middle of the night. To make matters worse when I had the tires rotated before my trip Sears over torqued the tires so I couldn't get it off. To make a long story short, I ended up paying a guy $75 to change a friggin tire, had to spend the night in redneckville while trying to locate a replacement tire.

So now things are starting to calm down, I am leaving for D.C. this week to run in a ten-miler, which will suck since I haven't ran in awhile. But hey, I get free leave from work.

For my post Air Force career I have added to my current plan. Right now I am still planning on pursuing the Marine Corp, however I have some other plans as well. In case the Marines don't work out I am currently applying for some civilian-federal jobs as well. So whoever comes back as the highest bidder wins. Some jobs I am interested are the Secret Service and a few accounting jobs. I will keep everyone updated as time progresses.

I apologize for not updating my blog and hopefully I get better from here on out.

Thankfully Nothing Exciting to Write About

I am rather relieved that this last week did not result in any visits to the Emergency Room due to a popcorn kernel up a nose or no more cars dieing on me. So really the highlight has been working on the Slieziel and putting parts on Ebay. That is one thing I am good at, taking stuff apart and not putting it back together. Who would've thunk my childhood compulsion to take crap apart is now going to make me some money off Ebay. Yaaaaaay Capitalism!

My Kids Are Special

All I have to say is "Yes, that is Heidi watching the Price is Right with her underwear on the outside of her pants."

Blog? What blog?

I admit, I've been kindof bad about keeping up to date on my blog. I will do my best to remember everything that has been going on lately. I make no guarantee that everything will be in chronological order. First, here is my excuse for not writing in the blog more frequently. Normally when I update the blog I am sitting in our nice comfy lazy-boy with the laptop. I can watch TV and be around the kids. I find that to be rather relaxing. At any rate, a couple of months ago the laptop was dropped off the couch and the power cord broke. Since I was being cheap I bought the cheapest knock off I could. That sucker died about two weeks ago so I decided to bite the bullet and order the real deal from Toshiba (about $100 bucks). We had the power cord for about two days when the laptop fell again and broke the cord...again. Now I am in the process of shipping the bad one back and getting another one.

Also, as you have no doubtingly seen the pictures, Bethany decided to take a chunk of her hair off. While I was distracted in the bathroom brushing my teeth, plucking my uni-brow and flexing Bethany grabbed my neck trimmer and tried combing her hair with it. I will say this much, it did get the snags out (yuk yuk yuk). In an attempt to make it not so bad Katie gave her a bit of a haircut to ease the pain.

Oh yeah, I would be remiss if I didn't mention that my little beater finally bit the dust. I really do like that car and I hate to see her go. But to be positive, I will be taking apart the car and putting the parts up on Ebay, I am quite certain that I can make more off the parts then what I actually paid for the car. The funds raised from Ebay are going to go to a charitable foundation. The foundation is "Help Jake Buy Another Car Foundation." If you wish to make a donation send funds via paypal to jacobandkatie@gmail.com Offer void in Nevada, Kentucky and Delaware.

Other then that, Katie is nervous with her new calling as Young Women's President. When I told her that Mom had been Young Women's President when I was a teenager she started asking me all sorts of questions. I quickly replied that I used it more as a dating service, and cannot really be much help. Katie has the Branch President spooked already. For her counselors she told him that for one she would like one particular sister who is also a "seasoned citizen." The seasoned citizen is one of the nice, cool sisters that Katie just loves. I guess we'll see what happens.

I think that is enough for now, I will do better about updating my blog so feel free to start checking back. After all, it won't be long before I am nationally syndicated then I will be forced to write a lot more.

$83 for a Popcorn Kernal

Could you have read that right? Did I actually spend $83 for ONE popcorn kernel? Well as a matter fact I did spend $83 for a popcorn kernel today. Thankfully this is a rather easy story to tell. On Sunday Heidi shoved a popcorn kernel up her nose, Monday an ER doc spent a whole 30 seconds looking for it (not an exaggeration) and quickly stated that it would come out eventually. So today we took Bethany to see an Ear Nose Throat guy (everything checked out fine) and at the end of the appointment I asked the Doc about the kernel up the nose and thought it best to get the kernel out. Well, it took myself a nurse and another Doc to hold her still while the kernel was extracted. Too bad I didn't have a camera cause you should have seen the size of this sucker. The kernel had expanded and split and to be frank, I am surprised it wasn't sprouting yet. Since we were there for Bethany and Heidi didn't have a referral we had to pay for the popcorn out of pocket. There goes $83 that Orville will never see.....(or smell?)