Hijacked!!

Ooo....look at me...hijacking the hubby's blog. Bwahahahaha!

*ahem*

Sorry about that.

I just have to say that I think my South Park is more accurate than his.

(look-I'm even rolling my eyes and shaking my hands as to say "no, no, no.")

Don't you agree?

Hey! I'm South Park!

No...I don't watch South Park....but here at work, the guys have made an impromptu website that tracks how many tickets each of us have. Next to the results, they put a South Park-like character.

Here is mine:




The scary thing is it actually looks like me.



Here is what I looked like yesterday trying to get the kids ready for school:





I made Catey South Park too....she looks like this:




Isn't she cute?

Want to make your own?

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...and great shall be the fall thereof....

I have another story to tell...this one is funny. The title of the blog says "And great shall be the fall thereof".......and great was the fall.

Catey is always so put together, seemingly flawless in everything she does. She doesn't pretend that it is the truth but to others this is how she is seen and perceived.

I can vouch that the truth is much more realistic but those to whom I try to peddle the truth to hold up their hand in disgust that I wouldn't always and forever show Catey's best side. I contend, however, that the truth IS Catey's best side. She is very real and normal, something others rarely get to see.

This Sunday (yesterday) others got a taste of how 'real' things can be with Catey.

Anyhow....on to the story.

This story begins a couple weeks ago at a dinner party. The topic of testimonies came up. I mentioned that I had only seen Catey bear hers twice in our 12 years of marriage. A member of the bishopric then immediately challenged Catey to take the opportunity at the next testimony meeting.

(For those of you not of the LDS faith a 'testimony' is your personal witness or knowledge about God, Jesus, the Bible, Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith...etc. Once a month the majority of the time is set aside for members who want to witness or 'bear' their testimony publicly from the pulpit...its apply named 'testimony meeting'.)

Catey hates speaking in public for any reason, let alone being put on the spot with something as personal as her testimony on the line.

So for the past few weeks she has lived in anxiety of the challenge, but being Catey, fully embracing the fact that she wants to follow through.

Fast forward to yesterday....

The kids got up late
The kids fought each other all morning
I was on-call for work and a phone call came in
Catey got up late
The baby was screaming
We ran out of hot water
I got off the call and tried to get ready
Catey yelling at the kids (which makes me yell at the kids)
Girls hair wasn't done
Boys clothes were all mis-matched
Boys were fighting without shoes and socks on ready to go
Lincoln had his shoes on but no socks (Catey noticed as we were walking out the door)
We left 20 min late
Got to church with 5 min to spare (which meant we didn't get our usual seat)

I headed back to the back to the overflow and folding chairs and I noticed I only had 5 kids, Catey, Lincoln and Charli were nowhere. I sat down and scanned the congregation to find her when a neighbor brought me Lincoln with a red nose and watery eyes. She handed Lincoln to me and said:

Friend: Uh.....Catey fell.

Aaron: Is she alright?

Friend: I don't know.

Aaron: Where is she?

Friend: Uh.....she left.

Aaron: Left?

Friend: Uh...yeah, she seemed pretty upset.

I hand Lincoln to Malia and head out looking for Catey...I found her walking down the hall and ran to catch up to her. I got right behind her and said

Aaron: Hey, you ok?

(With fire and water in her eyes shoving Charli into my chest while throwing the diaper bag at me....)

Catey: NO!!!!

Aaron: uh....are you hurt?

Catey: STOP TALKING TO ME!!!!

Aaron: uh...ok.

So I went and sat back down and waited....not sure if I would see her for the rest of the day. She came back and slumped down next to me. I leaned over and asked if she was ok and she stated that other than her pride she was ok but very frustrated.

This whole story isn't to cast Catey is a bad light, but to show people she is real. My favorite part of Catey is the fact that she can do that, wipe the tears away, brush herself off and keep going. She has done that ever since I have known her.



....that and it was kinda funny....even if I missed it. Kinda bugged me a bit because this kind of crap happens to me not her.

Brain Bomb

Here are 8 pictures you need to look at. It might hurt, but they are great optical illusions.

The Office Boys

This should make you laugh....


I had nothing to do with this. One of the other guys in our office made this. Everyone in here works with me.

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I am the bald one. I am still curious how Gabe got pictures of my real body.....hummmmmmm....

Malia's 11........yikes

So this weekend was my oldest daughters 11th birthday.

She is our little mom #2....which up until recently has been very annoying. Recently however, it has proved to be very valuable. She is able to take care of the others while Catey and I run errands, go pick something / someone up or even maybe {gasp} possibly go on a date or something.

I love my Daughters very much and each of them bring something new to the family. It will be fun to see how they grow up and what they do later in life. They are a credit to their Mother and her hours of training.

Happy Birthday!

-Dad.

A 'Prize' no more

So I woke up today to hear that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize.


.......you have got to be kidding.


OK, I'll give you the fact I can't stand the guy. I'll ignore the fact his policies make no relevant sense. I'll forget that I didn't vote for him or think he isn't qualified to be the President....but I defy any attempt to justify this one. In order for him to be nominated his name had to be submitted by Feb 1st. So...in other words, he had been in office less than a month. What had he done by then? (What has he done now?).....Nothing.

I find it strange that the international community gave the award to a man who just approved 40,000 more troops to be deployed.....sounds like peace to me...yeah...uh huh.

I want it to be known from this time forth the Nobel Peace Prize is a wasted award. I don't understand how anyone on this planet can put people like Barack Obama and Al "Everybody run the sky is falling" Gore in the same category as people like Mother Teresa. It is an affront to the memory of such people who have given their lives for the Peace process globally.

Martin Luther King Jr.
Mother Teresa
Albert Schweitzer
International Commitee of the Red Cross

Really?

So...let me get this straight. Al Gore and Barack Obama have what in common with these people? They all DID something, and not just any 'something', they sued for peace at great cost. As far as I can tell for the other two I mentioned, one made a non-entertaining piece of tripe for a movie and the other got elected.

To quote Jack Nicholson (The Joker) in the first Batman Movie.......

"This town needs an enima."

{Calming down now......}

Apple

Everyone knows I love my mac. I bad mouthed them for years "You want a computer not a piece of fruit" was my mantra.

Then I bought one.....I have never looked back.

Why? Because it works.

Microsoft is painful to use.......... and their marketing is terrible. Not that their marketing changes the usefulness of the software, but their last bit of marketing has made them laughable.

I submit their latest idea in marketing for their 'amazing' Windows 7.




Lets run down the participants shall we?

Token black guy - By far the best dressed and coolest dude on the video. MS must have forced him into this video so they can show their diversity. In real life he wouldn't be caught dead at a Windows 7 party. He is the first one outta there as soon as someone talks about a Microsoft party....he has better things to do, and should do them.

Hip Grandma - Yeah right. This lady has been a nurse her whole life, has 3 grand kids and is going to waste time throwing a party for her friends about Windows? This is the company and software that put three of her best friends in the hospital with brain aneurysm....no way is she really throwing a party.

Soccer Mom - HAHAHAHAHA....this is laughable at best. She will do what every mom will do, wait for her 11 year old to figure it out and show her how to use it. Her idea of a party does not include a laptop (the very source of strife in her marriage) or the software that makes her bald husband swear at 2 am. (He is bald because he pulled out all his hair trying to get the printer to work with Vista).

Geek dude - This is the only guy who would be throwing a party. Is he supposed to represent the new Windows 7 user? What they don't tell you on the video is the grandma is his mother, the mom the older sister and the other guy is his boss who hasn't seen him in weeks because all he does is play World of Warcraft on his Sony Vaio all day and Microsoft offered him $1,000 to make this video....they all wanted to see him do something with his life, too bad this video was it.

There is the run-down folks.

Save yourself.....go buy an Apple and be happy.