Daniel and Lori

We live somewhere else now

Daniel — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:24:47 +0000

We’ve officially moved, again. This is the fourth place we’ve lived together in the last three years I think, which is really crazy now that I’ve said it. But this one is different because it’s not an apartment. Get ready for this one, we’ve bought a house. Yep. And it’s a nice one too. New appliances, new furnace, new roof, new deck. There’s only been a few tweaks to make so far. Like replacing the doorbell that doesn’t ding (it only donged), and adjusting a door plate so the bathroom door will shut and lock now.

Pretty soon (not sure when we can do it yet) we’ll be having a party and inviting everybody over to see it. Hope you guys can come!

We’ll post pictures soon, as soon as we unpack the box with the right USB cable in it. Plus everything is a gigantic mess at the moment and we’d rather show you what it looks like when stuff is put up.

80’s Prom

Daniel — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:27:07 +0000

Saturday we went to Prom, WOO-HOO! It was Daniel’s first prom experience, and not exactly what a High School prom is like (we hope). We were the Prom Photographers for the evening, $10 for 5 poses on a CD by the end of the night. Not just poses, but cheesy, awkward, uncomfortable poses, as if you weren’t married to your date and you’d never really held hands before. People loved it! So many people that we actually broke even and made a little bit of scratch that we were then able to go out fancy for Valentines Day!

Just about everyone there was dressed the part, except for a group of people that looked like they just came from a wedding where the bride convinced the guys that “Pink is the new gray”, or she got them sloshed enough that they didn’t care they were wearing pink vests. Because they were definitely partying before they even got in the building.

Next time we go to prom we have to go for prom. Even though it was fun and great to work, it wasn’t a real prom experience, and Daniel needs one of those.

Saints Win!

Daniel — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:52:21 +0000

Daniel’s team won the Superbowl! Yay for the Saints.

Superbowl time again

Daniel — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:22:17 +0000

This year Lori picked the Colts, so Daniel has the Saints. We’ve each won one in the past two years. And according to everybody that doesn’t live where the Saints are from, Lori is going to take it this year. We’ll just have to wait and see.

Flight of the Conchords is stuck in our heads

Daniel — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:43:20 +0000

We’ve been watching Flight of the Conchords lately. It started with Season 2 that Lori wonderfully brought home one day, just out of the blue. And once that ran out we had to get our fix from season 1 since we haven’t seen all of them. It was a few days ago that we say the Leggy Blonde episode, but it’s been stuck in our heads all day today. It’s Lori’s favorite so far, and here it is . . .

No house :(

Daniel — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:50:39 +0000

The bank (They own the house we wanted . . . still want) decided not to take our offer, instead going with someone else. That stinks! Somebody just got a house for somewhere under $100,000 less than it’s worth and it wasn’t us.

Our agent says there are more fish in the sea, but we aren’t seeing ‘em. Even with all of the fancy sonar (website with a map of all the houses we can afford) there is nothing. We would have better luck if we were on one of those tv shows where they look for houses, because then people would see how pitiful we are and send us money.

Funtime

Daniel — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:45:40 +0000

House Hunting

Daniel — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:25:39 +0000

For the past few months we’ve been looking at houses with our awesome agent Tina. Our lease is up at our apartment (we’re moving to month-to-month now) so we’re taking the oportunity to move on. We’d like more room, bathroms, and privacy - like being loud without disturbing other people.

Well we’ve found one. It took looking at a lot of bad ones but this one is great! It’s priced well and fits our needs: plenty of rooms, lots of bathrooms, big kitchen, backyard for a pool, and an unfinished basement big enough for a putt-putt course! Right now we’re getting with the bank about the loan paperwork so we can put in a bid tomorrow. Everyone cross your fingers that nobody else has found this beaut, and we’re the only ones bidding!

Pumpkins!

Daniel — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:41:47 +0000

It’s the week after Halloween, but it’s never too late to do what you’ve been meaning to do the entire month. Last night we finally carved our pumpkins. The cats had to be locked out because they were being too curious around the knives and guts.

Mountains - Gatlinburg

Daniel — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:58:10 +0000

Last weekend we ran away from work early and booked it to the mountains. It used to be that the women in the family would take a weekend away to go shopping somewhere and just get away, but has changed into an anybody that wants/can go kinda thing. This year (the first year either of us have gone along) we stayed in a cabin on the side of a mountain in Gatlinburg, TN. The view was great, the rooms were big, there was a pool table and an arcade machine and a hot-tub and a movie theatre.

Our little camera is broken, it won’t open the lens at all, just jerks and sputters and gives up, and we didn’t feel like hauling our big cameras around, so we only have a few phone pictures to show. ByTheWay, anyone that wants to get rid of a small point-and-shoot camera can inquire within.

Friday while we were on our way up everybody else went shopping at Tanger, which is fine with us because we don’t have money for shopping anyways. Saturday we walked around Gatlinburg in the rain then went to the Dixie Stampede, Dolly Parton’s more wholesome version of Medieval Times, with cowboys. Advice for vegetarians: eat before you go, the generic pasta they served me was gross.

We also played black-light mini golf, which was lots of fun, and did go-karts with my dad. When we went to Panama City Beach earlier this year with Mike and Jenny we found out we like go-karts. Lori screams because it’s too fast at first then gets into it and screams to go faster. There are a bazillion tracks to pick from in Pigeon Forge, we chose the one next to the goofy golf course (not really Goofy Golf, but close). The only problem was going up and down the spirals so many times got boring. Nobody else was around us and the guys running it let us keep going on and on and on and on and on and on and on because nobody else was there to ride. It was still fun though, Lori even liked the hill you go over that turns your stomache, and she absolutely hates that stuff.