I Forgot how much I LOVE Red Alert

Woooooo! That's all I can say.

Let the Ags keep rolling

This is now 6 days old but still a great one from USA Today. I'm glad to see USU finally getting the national recognition that they deserve. They were almost this good in 03-04 and we never heard a peep. So glad to see the name finally popping up everywhere. I want to have my friends here complain about how much they're sick of hearing about USU, cause heaven knows I'm sick of hearing about some of the other schools. 

Also as an update you may notice that we're now 21/17 (AP/ESPN,USA). Way to go aggies.

Chris

Utah State, Hey, Aggies All the Way!

So always nice to see that the Alma mater is doing so well (Ranked 22/25 according to USA and AP). In fact they're getting more respect than they have in years past. Yes the move to the WAC was rough but it appears that it has really paid off in spades. Just as a heads up here are some links to great articles about USU:

http://espnradio.espn.go.com/espnradio/podcast/index - the Andy Katz podcast has Stew Morrill on the last 5 minutes.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=290360328 - about the game last night.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?id=3804469 - one of the better stories about the skill of USU.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/clubhouse?teamId=328 - check the headlines on the left side for more great articles.

Also for those of you, who like us are outside of Utah you may want to check out espn360.com they stream quite a few of the games. If not the team website has a link to the radio broadcasts for every game.

Go Aggies, Go Aggies, Hey, Hey, HEY!!!

~Chris

For your misbehaviour you get...

THE DRILL!

Yup so Lish and I are finally getting around to doing all that dental stuff that should have been done years ago. As a result we both have fillings to deal with (Alicia's first ones ever), amongst the simple fact that dentists just are unpleasant. I don't like the taste of latex, thanks anyway though. So I'd rather you NOT keep sticking your glove in my mouth, or at least put the mint wax on first so I don't have to think about lab all the time that you're torturing me. Cause lemme tell you something, if you think going to the dentist is bad enough, try having to endure that while being comstantly reminded that you're going to work in about an hour's time. Uggh.

Oh well it's mostly done so maybe for the next 6 months I can sleep at night... maybe.

Three Things in Common

Work. Sleep. Church. Plus one more. Anything fun. These are all things that are made miserable by having a cold. I feel like I've been sick since Thanksgiving with one thing or another and i'm really tired of it. I think I may be getting depressed. Or maybe I have strep. Or maybe I just work with two year olds who for the life of them cannot figure out how NOT to sneeze or cough in my face. Grrr. That's how I feel right about now.
~Alicia

Three things in common

Work, Sleep, Church. All are things that consume way more time than I would like to admit. Now I know that many of you would like to argue that sleeping is time well spent. I would disagree. If I could come up with a way to sleep even less than I already do (around 5-6 hours a night), I would be in heaven. I could do more of what I want and yet still get my "beauty sleep." So the reason I bring this up is that I am starting to really feel the grind. The callings at church are eating at me, the work load is trying to bury me and to top it all off, at the end of a long exhausting day I have to go to bed. The way I  see it, if I could instead spend 1/2 an hour with Lish getting ready for bed and then I could get more work done or even play some games then I would be a more balanced person... ahh if only. 

In the mean time if anyone knows a way to balance more things on a plate lemme know how. I'm dying to do whatever else I can.

Chris

Solution

So as I posted earlier I am having issues with work not working. (Experiments not succeeding). So now I find myself (with the company of Lish) dealing with said issues- by working at lab till like 10 tonight!!! yeah this sucks!

Lack of desire

So I'm in dire grounds here. I found out today that my project (at least a part) isn't working right. Hmm seems bad. Real problem here is that I just don't care today. Yeah it's a Friday at 3:45 and I figured out that I should be in all weekend working on solutions. Instead I'm trying to figure out where I can surf this weekend. I may be seriously screwed if I can't get my lack of motivation figured out by next Monday. That means I have 2 1/2 days to figure out how to get the ganas to fix my problem. Hmmm.... could be a REALLY long weekend of inner thoughts and outer pains. In the mean time I have planned to play videogames and let Lish rest since she's been sick for the last week. Anyone feeling bored and want to play?

Chris

Is anyone more creative than me?

Okay...so here is a picture of a car that Chris and I often see during our commute. I just can't figure out what they meant their license plate to say. I've got only one solution and I can't imagine that anyone would want to advertise that. Let me know if you come up with something.



(If you can't read it the license plate reads "CUPCKBT")

You sir, are an absolute DUCK!

So I am going to use some harsh words in the next few sentences after which I am going to post a comment that was left regarding our post from last night.
Some tool of a person who is quite possibly the biggest dirt monkey I've ever met left some anonymous post on the comments section (I have since deleted it) but seriously!?! Who are you and how pathetic are you that you go in and personally write some of these comments, after which, I might add, you then act like you know me and that we're some how buddies. Best part is that obviously he's a retard and a tool b/c he refers to school (something that is never posted in my blog) and then he goes on to leave some post about some UK website reuniting people (cause I know SOOOOO many people in the UK). WOW! Some people... Thanks Buddy!

Reuniting Friends said...

Great post buddy ....Really the school days are the best days of life...The content of the post was really nice...we are trying to reunite school friends through our website to share their fond memo

BTW-I'm glad that he likes the "content of my post" too bad I can't say the same for him!

Chris

Long Lost Friends

So over the past few years we've made and left some great friends and I've been quite possibly the world's second worst person at staying in contact (Lish is first cause, um.... yeah, she just is) with everyone. So if you've found our blog it means you actually remember us- if yo're dying to know more just drop us a line in the comments section (please for your own privacy you don't have to post your e-mail addy) and we're gonna really strive to get in contact with everyone- it'll be great!!! Anywho, in the mean time just feel free to read on about our lives and the rants that I so often post.

~Chris

Sick

So Lish and I have been swapping colds back and forth for the last month or so...talent is that we're both now sick with something very similar. Lucky us! if you're wondering what the cause of the illness is- we know with certainty that it is NOT strep throat (ask Lish about this one) and also it is NOT depression (although the tests are inconclusive) rumor has it the local NP may know what it is - just go ahead and ask her her opnion, she'll be glad to help you out.
So what is this cryptic message? Well see Lish figured out, finally, what I've been complaining about for years- Nurse Practitioners (95% of them at least) are full of crap - you're are NOT an MD, you are not Board Certified in the same way, and you DO need to listen to your patients and how they describe their symptoms- believe it or not they may actually know what they feel inside or what color their own mucus is!!!

Freakin' Freezin'

Yeah it's cold here and if you don't think 50 is cold try rain, fog, no heaters and NO INSULATION!!! Apparently as the US economy goes down the crapper (there is a better name for this just watch till about minute 50 of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation), anyway as I was saying- as the economy tanks so does the exchange rate on sunshine dollars- heck at this rate it may be sunnier in Seattle before the beauty returns to SD.

Chris

Holidays

So Christmas has come and gone, as has New Years. To everyone who we weren't able to talk to - hope you had a great holiday. To everyone who sent us cards and gifts- thank you very much. Sorry that we didn't get a ard out- after some discussion we just never made it happen. So is our life. Best of intentions, worst of executions. Just ask our neice and nephew whom received Birthdays and Christmas at the same time (fine and all except that their birthdays are in the summer). Anywho, we're diong fine, working hard and hope to post some pictures soon.

~C and A

An Invitation

So I'm tired of being warned when I get onto the blog. So now I'll invite you all to read our thoughts instead. You don't have to, but you are welcome to. Anyway. Today an F-18 crashed into some houses about 10 minutes away from where I work. Cool. N0t cool for the houses and families that suffered, but cool, a fighter jet crashed in the neighborhood. The pilot ejected and landed on a baseball field at a nearby high school. Cool.

A WARNING

I've tried very diplomatically to dance around the issues of this election year. Including B-Rock Obama, John McCain, Sarah Fey, and Joe "The Plumber" Biden, amongst other things like Prop 8, Prop 1a, 4, and the TON of other crap in SD. But it's over, and now the real fights begin.

So Let It Be Known:

This is MY BLOG, a place where Lish and I can post as we will, as such I'm gonna start flying the flag of Amendment 1. Yup, I claim freedom to worship how I will and freedom to publish what I will, you don't like it- leave!

I was once taught that freedom of speech is not so that you can say what you want, it's so that the other guy can say all the things that offend YOU. Part of the rules of the US is that we can and should say what is our opinion, who you listen to and what you do after is your own choice.

~Chris

Let the nastiness begin

So people are very upset that Prop 8 passed ( I intend to address this in more detail over the next few days) but more ironic is that now, while preaching equality they decide to become hostile...

A story in the LA Times shows that the LDS faith will become the main focus of hatred by those who oppose prop 8. Not the first time that people have decided that LDS people have too much ability to influence elections. Irony here is in the form that so many other churches, including the Catholic church supported prop 8, but hey why hate on them...

Whatever the end result I can tell you this. I am proud to be a member of the LDS church, I am proud of the fact that I supported prop 8, and if you honestly think that my freedom to choose my way is so reprehensible, and causes you so much disdain, than maybe you need to consider moving to a place where the public opinion doesn't matter. Cause last time I checked the public in CA twice has said that they don't feel that homosexual marriage should be legal. And that is enough for me.

~Chris

So there was a little electon yesterday...

As you may know I'm in the minority of all of my friends down here b/c A) I am republican and B) I support many of the moral propositions. Yes I know that there is a great argument as to what is moral and whatnot but I won't discuss that here. The great part about America is just that I don't have to agree with you. You don't have to agree with me...

That being said a good friend of mine had this on her blog and I couldn't help but laugh as I am a huge muppet fan:

One of those Weeks

You ever have one of those Mondays that you know is just setting you up for a seriously rough week- well mine started yesterday (that's right Sunday) and I don't think it's gonna let up till next week some time. Ouch, that's all I have to say is OUCH!

Chris

Sick of the Lies and the Hate

You know by now that CA is embroiled in this interesting Prop 8 scenario. What most of our friends else where don't know is how deceitful many of the tactics of explaining prop 8 are. I'm gonna take the time later to explain a bit of what I've noticed but in the mean time, I found these two videos on You Tube that I thought were great examples of the dangers to the future generations and their understanding of the great institution of marriage if prop 8 fails.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkv6miGIcTU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLGn_F1uTEo

Chris