Gus

Well, we got a new dog. A chihuahua. I've been bugging Chris since we got married to get me a chihuahua, they are all over the place down here, you would think it was California...and now I have one.

One of Chris' friends friends is being deployed and she had an 11 year old male named Gus that needed a place to go. She talked me into it, not hard, and I got Chris to let me have him. He is HUGE, about the size of a cocker spaniel. Chris said that if he was as big as a normal chihuahua...or I should say as small as one, that he wouldn't let me have him. It also helps that he is "on his way out".

He growled and snapped at the other dog Sonny the first night, but now they are ok with eachother unless Sonny goes by his food. He still growls at Luna though. If he hurts her ever he is out the door, but his old mom assures me that he will not.

So now that is another dog to include in the Christmas card...and to take with us when we travel. He is cute though. Long haired. I love having a little dog in the house. I like little animals much more than I like big ones. Though I do love my Sonny.

Christmas Cards

Yes it is a tad early for a Christmas post, but my friend Kristin has been after me to put something on here and the only thing that I can think of is Christmas.

Normally I would just get the box of cards from Walgreen's and then pick one for each person based on the picture on the front. My mom thought that was cool, that I wouldn't just pick random ones for everyone, that each person would get a "special" one.

Last year was mine and Chris' first Christmas together as a couple and I drew our card. (See below.) The only thing about it is I was working at the time and I am at my most creative when I am supposed to be working. So I am having a very hard time thinking of what to draw for this years card. I also have to include the dog this year cause he is living with us. Last year only Luna (the cat) was with us. Also...if I am pregnant by Christmastime, I want to include a "baby on the way".

So, I'm at a loss, no idea what to draw for our card this year. Seems rather pointless to get a job I don't want just so I get creative. :)

Also, Chris thinks it's stupid to include the animals at all, cause they are just animals, but I have to. I also don't know how we are going to take a family picture cause the dumb dog is scared of camera's and takes off each time you try to get a picture.

Oh well, for my two lovely readers if you have any ideas, send them my way.

I had to steal this from my friend Kristin.

The big cat, looks like my cat Luna. Isn't this just adorable?!

Soda Coke Rewind

Just an update on the very first blog I ever posted. The one regarding giving up Coke (the soda not the drug).

I didn't end up giving it up for good until 2-16-10 Fat Tuesday was my last. I have not had a coke in over 5 months. I recently had my first soda period, an Orange something or other. It was quite a shock to the system that first sip.

I lost at least an inch around my waist just from giving that up. Not bad I guess, wish it could be more!!!




Oh and word to the wise. DIET is far WORSE for you than regular is. Regular soda has real sugar in it which the body turns into energy. Diet soda on the other hand has fake sugar (sugar substitutes) which the body is clueless when it comes to using. So it stores this lovely stuff as fat. So when you go to Mc'D's and get your #1 Super sized with a Diet...I hope you don't think you are saving yourself some weight issues. That said, fat doesn't make you fat...sugar makes you fat. So yes, real soda will also make you fat, just not as quickly as diet.

Enjoy!

Wedding Cake Fiasco

OK, so in the previous post I told you that the photographers sister did my wedding cake.

Here is a description of what I wanted and a picture of what I got.

I wanted a two stack cake, ROUND, WHITE, with crushed candy canes just around the BOTTOM EDGES of the tiers. Chocolate on the inside.

This is what I got.



COMPLETELY CHOCOLATE inside and out, SQUARE, with crushed candy canes COVERING the SIDES.

When my mom picked it up she didn't know what to do. She wasn't exactly sure what I had ordered, but was pretty sure this wasn't it, but as it was the day before the wedding...not much we could do about it. "Oh well."

Wedding Pictures

Well, I have been married for seven months today, and my wedding pictures have been on my mind a lot lately. I got some nice ones out of the photographer, but I have a major peeve that I think it's time I let out. Not to mention, no one reads my blog anyway, so no big deal right?

OK, here is the scoop. I was pressured hard core into using the photographer that I did. He is the husband of a girl that Chris and I went to school with and the minute and I mean the minute we went public with our engagement, she pushed him at me.

I looked at his webpage and I was very unimpressed. He would later tell me, "My page sucks." It wasn't the page...it was the work. The wedding pictures on there were not good at all. The composition was bad...and just bad. I didn't say one way or the other, I just put it off.

Then crunch time came, we decided to do the real wedding instead of courthouse and I asked her if she knew someone that could make a cake for me. She said her husbands (the photographers) sister could, and once again pushed her husband at me. I love her don't get me wrong, and I would push my husband too if the situation was reversed, but then he gets on the phone and it just went from there. He talks a good, high pressure sales game, but his work was a disappointment.

K, so he gave me a deal $400.00 instead of $700.00 or whatever, but he didn't get one, not ONE single picture of me at the alter facing Chris. He only got ONE picture of Chris with his hat on, everyone else got lots more. He didn't edit the redness out of my skin at all. Granted he cut my price...but does that mean I shouldn't get good pictures? That I have to look at my blotchy red skin for all time?

Then here is the kicker. I wasn't happy to begin with right, I didn't want the guy from the start, and I post pictures that other people took that I liked better than some that he took and I say as much. He FLIPS OUT. The pictures I liked better were with Chris in his hat and just absolute joy on both our faces. They are too bright because the small camera's activated his big flashes, but he FLIPPED OUT because someone else captured what I had been paying him to capture and he failed to do.

His main thing was that the lighting in them was bad, well no shit, but lighting isn't everything. They captured the spirit I wanted and the hat!

He would send me these long ass emails bitching about how I should be grateful because he gave me a discount and whatever, but you know what? I'm the bride, and though there were a few great pictures (of Chris) at the alter, overall I was not happy, and yet I'm the bad guy for saying this? How is this professional. I am the bride and I did not get what I wanted, and this gives him a right to bitch at me? I think not.

I love his wife, she is a great person, but I think in a way I would have been better off saving my $400.00.

Oh and he took credit for my idea when it came to the rings. Sorry honey, that was my creativity, not yours!

I will give him credit for the great pictures that I did get, but I am making public to the few people this blog will reach how very unprofessional he was and how I wish I would have had Morgan Miller do my pictures!

He also bitched and said it was my fault for having such a short amount of time to work in, but you know what? I used to model many years ago. If you are a great photographer, it doesn't matter how much time you have, you make it happen! Word to the wise, never bitch at the bride asshole.

(This picture of Chris was the one. That was the ultimate picture, one that I really really wanted, and he managed to get for me.) So kudos for that. 

This picture is the one and ONLY one he got with Chris in his hat. I wasn't even looking at the camera and he didn't retake it.



(This is the picture that a NONprofessional took that I liked better. Look at the joy on our faces!!!)

So if you want great or even good wedding pictures minus a diva attitude do not use Bailz Photography out of Beloit, WI. Use Morgan Miller out of Bowling Green, KY.

See next blog for wedding cake (his sister remember) fiasco.

The E.T. Debate

Do you believe in Aliens? I do. I don't think they are little green men or creatures that look like ET. I think they are just like us, maybe smarter, maybe not. I also think that Jesus visited them too.

Why wouldn't there be aliens? The universe is so HUGE, no one can truly fathom how big it really is, so why would God create that much space and put only one living planet in it? That makes no sense to me. 

My soon to be husband does not believe in aliens, or ghosts, but that is a debate for another day. He says that if their were aliens we would know about them by now, they would be in our history books. What if they are? I mean, if they are the way I think they are, who is to say da Vinci or Einstein were not aliens? Just because something is not documented does not mean it isn't fact. I mean, millions of people believe in God, Krishna, Buddha, etc....but have you EVER seen them? Just because it is in a book does that make it fact? No, it doesn't it is a matter of belief, and I personally choose to believe. I choose to believe in God, AND aliens. (and ghosts)

Here is something from one of my books, that my soon to be husband bought me: "The area around the caves is still occupied by two tribes who call themselves the Dropa and the Han. Anthropologically they are neither Chinese nor Tibetan. Both tribes measure between three-feet six-inches and four-feet seven-inches and are yellow-skinned, with thin bodies, disproportionally large heads, and bright blue eyes, with is an atypical Asian trait. 

One more piece of evidence  appeared in 1995 when a report from China claimed that a new tribe of people had been discovered in the Baian-Kara-Ula mountains, with 120 members who were less than three-feet ten-inches tall, and the smallest adult two-feet one-inch.

Debate continues today whether the Dropa Stones were created by extraterrestrials or were merely part of an elaborate creation myth by the indigenous tribes." Look up Dropa Stones for more info.

Who is the real ET?