*mushroom update*

After coming home from the haircut, washing and styling, it isn't as terrible as I thought. But I still don't love it like I was hoping to. Many have people have told me that it is fine and they don't see the mushroom problem. That is because I flat ironed the mushroom out. It is still very much alive and thriving. Rocky has convinced me to let it go for a month. If after that point I am still bothered I will be given an advance in haircut allowance. Meaning a haircut would soon follow. I will keep you posted.

Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures

Little background for those who have yet to get to know me well. If I were to describe my general cooking level I would say I'm at the Kindergarten level. When it comes to cooking meat/meat things I'm in pre-school and still having a hard time touching it raw. You can get cooties from raw meat you know.

Now for my short little story. My sister, Jamie, called me today to ask how to make gravy. I laughed and though to myself, "did she mean to call me?" I asked her if she remembered that I don't even eat gravy and then laughed some more. I then told her how to make gravy and the only reason I know how to do that is because of my cute Grandma Roberts who taught me how to make it when we were living with her. No offense to all the other wonderful family members I have lived with that would have been happy to teach me how, I was in my selfish stage and not into learning such domestic things. Anyway back to Jamie. So I told her how to make gravy, she said good bye and we hung up. I told Rocky what just happened and he was surprised that I got the call. I told him that she probably all ready tired Jacque with no luck and Mom was at church so I was the last resort. He thought I should call and verify...so I did and I was right. Jamie said that Jacque didn't answer and Mom was at church. All in all I was honored to even be in the resort.

The End

Mushrooms

I'd say generally I am a fan of mushrooms. They are good in salads, they can go with so many foods, they can be used for medicine and they are very appropriate for little mini cartoon troll homes. They should NOT however, be used as a template for a haircut. My most recent hairdresser does not understand this and not so kindly gave me the mushroom cut last night. I am so sad. I even tried to help, but when I could see I was not getting though I accepted the defeat. She was the one holding the scissors. I paid for the awful mushroom style and left.

I am now looking for someone who specializes in fixing mushroom cuts. I'm accepting all applications. I can't pay much as the mushroom lady took most of my haircut budget. But I will bring my camera and take pictures of your most professional hair cutting skills and I'll gush about you and how wonderful you are. Any takers?

**please don't ask to see a current picture of the mushroom. the camera has been band until further notice.**

Post

Today I feel like posting...I had lots of things to write about last week.....I should have posted last week.

Merry Christmas

This is the first year that we actually have a Christmas letter to send out before Christmas....although it is still too late to send it in the mail and have it to you before Christmas. Unless we pay and arm and a leg to get it to you, and we would do that except we all ready spent our arms and legs on Medical school.

We hope you are having a wonderful Holiday Season.

updates

Thanksgiving:

We had the Bairs over for Thanksgiving week. It was awesome. Rocky and I would go to work and come home to a dinner all ready made for us. Such a nice surprise. We also lucked out as the Bairs did most of the cooking on Thanksgiving day. Special thanks to Dean who took care of the Turkey. I don't know about Jacque but I couldn't even watch Dean rub seasonings and get the Turkey dressed. I almost couldn't eat it but after it came out of the over all nice and brown, moist and yummy smelling I changed my mind. It was so tasty. Rocky set up the table and we used our china for the first time. It got me dreaming of more china and more pieces that I think I need. I'm sure he loved that.

Some thanksgiving notes:
I still don't understand yams and marshmallows.
Why aren't the gross turkey insides just left out? Not bagged and put back in. Also are the parts from the original turkey put back in or are they another turkey parts? Just wondering.
Jacque and I don't make good cheesy beans..maybe we can try a different recipe next year.
Homemade rolls next year!
Maybe a table cloth ...
Christmas music during thanksgiving? - still debatable
Pajamas are a great alternative to dressing up

What we are thankful for -


Day after Thanksgiving:

Jacque and I got up super early and went shopping. She was up at 3:30, I was 3:50ish. We hit Kohls right around 4 and were totally surprised that there were lines all ready ending at the back of the store. Rocky was such a sweetheart and came to stand in line for us so we could hit other stores. Yay for awesome husbands. Chick-fil-a was also out early...around 5. They were giving out free breakfast gift cards. So I had Chick-fil-a at about 6:00am. That was a first and I think a new tradition for me. I LoVE Chick-fil-a.

Christmas Tree:

I thought it would be awesome and so much fun to have my nephews help me pick out a tree and decorate for Christmas. This wasn't my best idea. We did the best we could. They helped me pick out a real tree, okay well they went to the place with me to help pick out a tree, they were done with picking one out about 30 seconds into it. We did find a tree and the Bairs helped us bring it home. It is now sparkly and shinny (two weeks after we got it) with 900+ lights and random ornaments from our travels. I love it.

Honorable mentions:

I am sick with another cold. They are on full force against me. I have had 3 right in a row. No I'm not taking vitamin c like I should and yes I know better. Anyway I decided that it was time for me to get a Neti Pot and get this little nose of mine cleared out. Alien like substance is no long welcome in my nose. After the first use I was breathing like a champ and really felt "cleaned" out. I had my Bro-in-law try it as well. And after watching him use it I decided that he must also have one. If you don't know what this is click on the Neti Pot link and to watch a short demonstration see the video below. For those of you who are thinking gross...you should but please note that this was on an Oprah show and that makes it perfectly normal. :)

Gentleman Post

I'm still looking for definitions or descriptions if you have one. Refer to this post.

I'm working on something for my cute little husband.

Stitches

Sometimes even when you are super careful things happen. Things that you don't want to happen happen. This thing I am talking about is stitches....our new little couch had an unfortunate little accident on the way downstairs. While turning the corner to go into the family room it rubbed the wall a little too hard causing it's fabric to rip. (gasp!) I know, it sounds awful. Luckily for our little couch we have a budding medical student in the house and he happened to have some sutures on hand. He got right to work and the little couch's tear was stitched up in a jiffy. 4 stitches to be exact. We were lucky that the couch needed no anesthetic as we don't have any on hand. Couch is now well on its way to a full recovery...well okay it will have the stitches forever but we will call that a full recovery here at this house.

Budding Medical Student

Almost finished - just a trim needed.

Define this: A Gentleman

I'm curious to see what this means to you. I've been trying to define this, looked it up on the web and found a few things that I would use to describe a gentleman, but I'm still looking for more. PLEASE comment with your definitions or examples.

Way to go Steffers!

Stefanie Wright has been named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District College Division Team for Region VIII

I Voted today

I just had to post about voting today. I was pretty excited about it. Rocky and I hit the poles at 5:45 this morning to make sure that we wouldn't have to wait in a huge line. We were about 12th in line. I'm so glad we got there when we did. By the time they opened at 6:30 the line was LONG. I wonder what tomorrow morning will bring.

Sometimes being yourself is scary enough

First of all we want to thank our awesome friends here in Ohio who prevented us from being complete Halloween Humbugs. The Christensen's and Richard's had an awesome Halloween Party. We were treated with crispy claws, delicious chili and amazing "witch's brew" at the Christensens. We also carved pumpkins. We named ours Jaque the Evil Jack. He has his own theme song and everything. We then hit the Richards where our mouths were properly measured for the doughnut eating competition...with some very yummy homemade pumpkin doughnuts. I sadly did not win first place in the Woman's division. That title when to Candace, but Rocky did take first in the Mens. We are so happy to have such fun friends.

Apparently I had a hard time looking at the camera.

Jaque the Evil Jack is on the far right...yes, he has a flavor savor.

Go ROCK!

Crispy Claws...rawwrr

Our neighborhood celebrated Halloween on Thursday. I was so excited, our first real trick or treators in our new house. We had a huge bowl of candy, porch light on, pumpkins lit and then we waited.....nothing. We had a total of about 6 trick or treators. Our first and favorites were the Christensen's (thank you so much for coming!). They didn't take much candy and so we now have a HUGE bowl of candy, just in time for the nephews. :)

Our first Trick or Treators!

Hot Air balloons magically showed up in our neighborhood and their owners were giving out Candy. This could be why we didn't get many visitors. Next year I'm getting a hot air balloon in my yard.





All in all Rocky and I were Halloween bums. We didn't dress up, we didn't watch anything scary, we were just ourselves and as the title says...that is sometimes scary enough.

A dedication to all dentist and soon to be dentist friends

I got this from my dentists awesome secretary. Thanks Erin!

Little Shop Of Horror - Dentist Song | Funny Jokes at JibJab

The blanket update

So here is what happened. After making a few phones calls and the store backtracking on what they had originally told me, they asked me to bring the blanket in so their seamstress man could give us an estimate on how much it would cost to fix it. This was absolutely ridiculous to me. The man already made it look awful with the first repair he made. They also told me over and over again that the blanket was really old and that is why their machine ripped it. Yes, they finally admitted that it was the machine that ripped it, but only be cause my blanket was old. So I asked Rocky to step in. He took the blanket in for me (I actually had enrichment so I couldn't go anyway) and showed them all the tears and cuts. The woman still wanted the seamstress man to look at it. She kept assuring Rocky that he was really good. Rocky then pointed out what he had all ready done and said that it looked pretty amateur to him. She looked an then agreed. Rocky said "All we want is our money back." She said that she would talk to her manager. The manager didn't call so I called her and she was too busy to talk to me. She finally did call back and left a message saying that they would give us a refund and also mentioned that the reason it happened was because the blanket was so old. This was so odd to me because the blanket isn't old, we rarely use it. Once we got the blanket back it looked very very old. Oh well we got what we asked for in the end. Although I probably won't take anything back there again. It was too much of a run a round. Click on the link "there" if you don't want to take your blankets there either (it should show up brown).

Help? What should I do?

So I got one of my down blankets washed at the drycleaner after our move here to Ohio...it had gotten a little dirty. While at the cleaners I got a call saying that the blanket had a huge rip in it and in order to wash it they needed to fix it or have me get it fixed. I thought this was very odd because I didn't notice a tear in the blanket. I was sure that I would have because I would have feathers all over my house right? Well I told them to go a head and fix the hole. So I get the blanket back about two weeks later and it has been hung up in the bag until today when I decided to put it on my bed. Rocky and I spread it out and there are holes ALL OVER in it. Little rips and tears...mostly by the stiching of the blanket but some elsewhere...just in random spots. I was totally shocked. The blanket hasn't been used too much and seriously there are no feathers in the house...until now. I'm planning on calling the cleaners tomorrow. Has anyone had this happen to them before? Any advice on what to do? OH and the stich that they had to make was HUGE. Like 12" long. I'm pretty sure I would have noticed that.