Tuesday, October 23, 2007

My kids will get a kick out of this!

I'm sure I may get some grief about this and I have more stuff I need to update, but when I saw this on Sean's blog, I knew I had to have it.

Click HERE to see it full screen and make one yourself!

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Off to Oklahoma City

Dove is doing a really interesting campaign to help teen girls.  Here’s an article about it here and their website.

 

Dove is teaming up with another organization called Step Up Women’s Network and they are doing nationwide events to help teen girls.

 

So I’m taking Jen down there to today’s event to check out what they are doing.  It should be really interesting and provide good article fodder for Jen’s books coming out in the Spring.  Are organizations really doing something to help teen girls, or are they using it to hawk more stuff?  Are they really addressing the issues of identity? 

 

And it may give Jen some good contacts on a nationwide level.

 

Monday, October 08, 2007

When it rains...




Actually, rain has nothing to do with the trials of the last few weeks. It began with me wrecking my truck. Then Jen got hit. Now this...





About five hours ago I decided to fill up our water "jug" that goes in the fridge. while it was filling up I'd go and tuck Jen in. while I was laying in bed, I fell asleep.





Fast forward 45 minutes...the smoke alarm is going off. I wake up, notice there isn't any smoke, and take the smoke alarm outside to make it quieter and let the smoke dissipate...remember, I just woke up...





I go in the kitchen and there is water all over the kitchen cabinet where the jug has overfilled and spilled on the ground. Only, not a lot of water is on the ground.





Jen goes downstairs and calls me down, where water is dripping through the ceiling. I'm imagining who many gallons are being held up there on the drywall.





We decide to punch some holes in the ceiling to let the water drain...and drain...and drain. Two hours later and we're just letting it drip out.





Don't know what to do now. I can fix the wholes...but I don't think I can do a whole ceiling! Hopefully it's just a few sheets. It could have been a lot worse. Everyone is safe...everyone except my pride.





good times....The smile is fake but the water seeping down from the ceiling is as real as it gets.