I've spent the last hour looking through the archives of the photoblog of durhamtownship.com. All of the pictures are so incredibly beautiful. Some of my favorites are the ones with the little boy and some of my favorites are just of the nature. Thanks Andrew for the link.
Super news!! Andra and Zach found out that their baby is a girl! AND they decided on a name. Sadee (blank) Cryer! They don't know a middle name just yet, but that's super cool because Adam and I already picked out a name for when we have a girl and her name will be Addee. Kinda neat. We're both using Dee because it's a family name. My great grandpa's name was Dee and so was my grandpa's and my dads middle name and my middle name. Dee. It's a good family name. All excitement all around!! I'm so excited. HEHE
says MarissaD at 10/25/2004 01:14:00 PM
October 14, 2004
I think it's funny that people are making fun of Bush for saying "Internets" during the debate and a few days ago I had a webcam picture up that said "I <3 Internets." I'm damned psychic.
says MarissaD at 10/14/2004 01:46:00 PM
October 13, 2004
I don't know if any of you have heard of this freeipod thing. I saw it everywhere and thought it was just a waste. I'm sure it is, but now there's a freeflatscreen deal. I have to try. I don't know if it will work but we'll see. I have to have 8 people sign up and complete one of the offers they have on the site. You count as my referral if you sign up with this link. I signed up for the blockbuster thing because Adam and I were just talking about wanting to do Netflix, so I figured I might as well. There are other offers there that might be useful to you. The petmeds online thing. There's one for the New York Times. Anyway, if you're at all interested in finding out if these things work, I would appreciate if you signed up as a referral for me. :) If you *don't* want to spend the money on the things, you can sign up for the blockbuster thing, wait two weeks and then cancel the account. You just have to get through the two week trial and you get credit. Shoot me an email girl at bemoedee dot com if you sign up, so I'll know. Thanks!!
says MarissaD at 10/13/2004 08:13:00 PM
October 08, 2004
I just spent the last 30 minutes looking at Britney Spears and Jamie Lynn Spears websites. It's unbelievable to me how many pictures there are of them pretty much everyday. I can't imagine having my picture taken everyday and having it sent out to the world. I'd imagine it's the same for all the big celebrities, but my god... Just going to Sonic creates a frenzy that results in hundreds if not thousands of snapshots of them. I couldn't do it. Bleh gross.
says MarissaD at 10/08/2004 06:06:00 PM
October 07, 2004
My pa-in-law now has a blog! Seriously, there are so many of you now. I'm so glad everyone has gotten into this. Doesn't it make it easier? Yeah, it does.
says MarissaD at 10/07/2004 01:34:00 AM
October 04, 2004
This is to update family members, or family friends that care, on who's living where because so many of us moved recently or are moving soon.
•Tom and Wendy moved to a new house. They're still in Frisco with a new freakin pool table. What up.
•Zach and Andra moved to Benbrook from Arizona. With a new freakin embryo.
•Mom and Dad are moving to Glen Rose in the next week or so. They're supposedly retired now. With a new freakin house.
•Adam and I live in Austin. With lawfully combined bills.
•Ben is still in Plano, I believe. Whether he claims DFW as home, I'm not sure. Looks like he's into traveling again, even with the new job.
•Susan is in Plano. I believe her residence is considered Plano anyway. She has not moved recently, though I wouldn't blame her for moving into Tom and Wendy's new place.
•Richard is in Garland. (Did not recently move.) He finally got to go on a vacation! I gave him a cat.
•Robert is in Midland. (Did not recently move.) He can only be contacted through digitally secured means. I gave him a cat as well.
•Bob is in Addison. (Did not recently move.) I heard he likes to go out dancing still.
•Becky and Jamey are co-residents of Midland and Midlothian. They're finishing up the house they own in Midland so they can sell it, then I believe they'll be back to Midlothian permanently. That's the last I heard of that saga.
Is there anyone else? I'm pretty sure I got the cities right. This is all I know from the Huckabee/Fleming/Jahnel-Sawyer clan.
Thank you and good day.
says MarissaD at 10/04/2004 05:53:00 PM
October 02, 2004
Anyone heard from Wendy or Tom? They should let us know they're in their new home already!
says MarissaD at 10/02/2004 01:31:00 PM
October 01, 2004
Ooh boy I feel like writing today!
Yesterday I drove home from Andra's in Fort Worth. The drive time was filled with the Russ Martin show, a show I used to listen to when I lived in Dallas. I was happy to listen to it. Then it started breaking up around Waco, like it usually does. But... they started talking about their Austin station and how their ratings were going to be. HURRAY!!! Russ Martin is on in Austin now too! I waited for them to say the station number and switched over and sure enough, I've got Russ Martin now too. The guy is such an ass, but he and his cronies are funny. I hope they do well here so they can stay on. (I have no doubt that they will.)
Next, the debate. I haven't read any blogs or watched any news today on it. All I watched were the few comments made by PRO LISTENER JOURNALIST DUDES who get to say what they think. I, personally, am a citizen who was watching and listening and I have my own opinions, so I get to talk about them on my blog.
First, it seems to me, that every presidential candidate gets to be a dancing monkey a few times in their presidential candidacy careers. This night is one of the biggest. When you put two dancing monkeys next to each other, it's funny to see them fight for your attention. That's my preface.
Kerry thinks Bush shouldn't have put armed forces in Iraq. He thinks it was a bad choice. He says he would've done better. I think it's pretty easy to say that about things past tense. I also think it's easy to say "I have this spiffy plan to fix everything in Iraq, don't you?" I think it's easy for Kerry to pose that question and hard for Bush to answer it because Bush is actually a part of the plan in action. He can't say "well, we're actually planning on having troups come home on *this date* and we're planning on attacking *this town* on *this date*." Believe it or not, Iraqi's can get access to our television shows. Some of them are interested in our politics because they want to know the fate of their country. It's in our hands. Others want to know plans, so they watch it hoping someone gives them a hint. A la Napoleon Dynamite, Duh, Mr. Kerry.
Bush focused a bit of his debatz0ring skills on reminding us that Kerry is a flake. I remembered. I'm not sure how anyone could forget. But I guess we're all dumb citizens who need to be reminded constantly. Honestly, the way Bush was redundant with that probably WAS necessary. People who aren't interested in politics and who haven't been reading or listening to anything about it at all wouldn't have known that Kerry is a flake. Then again, I'm not sure why they would be watching the debate if they were that disinterested. This is just IMHO, though.
I am glad that they were nice to each other about their families, though I find it highly comedic that Bush didn't bother to mention Kerry's wife. Batshit insane, she is.
Other stuff to talk about, I couldn't remember where I put my engagement ring the other day. I hadn't really thought about it since the wedding, so I sort of started panicking. This is the ring that was handed down eleventy billion generations (or two or three or so.) Then last night when we were in bed, I mentioned it to Adam to see if he might've seen it. "I thought it was in one of those gray ring bags with the other two." (the other two being the fake rings we used at our wedding because we didn't have our real ones yet.) Internal hysteria began to set in as I rememebered that I had thrown them away, thinking they were empty. Why I didn't look in the damn things, I'll never know. I jumped out of bed and looked around the dining area where they were and then I sat there on the verge of tears. I looked all around and was looking around in the office when Adam tells me "actually, I'm pretty certain it wasn't in the bag with the other rings." Then I was mostly relieved and a little bit mad that he suggested they were in there in the first place. But we were both half asleep when he said it, so it wasn't technically a complete thought. I started looking around elsewhere, in the kitchen drawers, bathroom drawers, medicine cabinet. Then I headed back to bed and noticed my little lipstick bag sitting on my night stand. I opened it up, dumped it on the bed and there was the engagement ring. It was a mere three inches from my head before I even brought it up. Yeah.
Anywho, I guess now that I've written my novella, I can retire. Adam and his gang are moved into their new offices and ready to start making games. I'm going to go up there and see the new office. yay.
