Thursday, June 4, 2009

Progress

What do you see when you look out the window?

I see downtown Tuscaloosa, which looks like a war zone right now. Outside my office windows a new city central is arising from the rubble.



The new federal courthouse will be next door, with a new park stretching from the court house, behind city hall (and my windows) to the new intermodal facility that will be open soon.


There'll be lots more to come on this. I'll keep ya'll posted.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

The Blow Out



Yesterday I probably talked to Heather about 8 times on the phone. Nothing in particular; just this and that. Then about 2pm, Heather called me back...

"Have you been calling me all day just to see if your package has arrived?"

"No. What package?"

"This package that looks like it could possibly be another Daniel Moore print."

Well I honestly did not know it was coming yesterday. We actually talked about it a couple of nights ago, and I wondered when it would be shipped. But it's here now!

It is absolutely gorgeous. It portrays Alabama's 36-0 win over Auburn in the 2008 Iron Bowl, and features Glenn Coffee and Antione Caldwell. I opened up the box and got chills.

Heather is not pleased. She said our house is going to look like ESPN. She also says it is not going in the living room, but will instead go back in the office with the others. I'm not so sure about that.

I mean, come on.... it's the "Hey Auburn! We just beat the hell outa you!" print. It needs to be out where it can be seen. Obviously she has forgotten jumping up and down cheering in Bryant Denny Stadium that afternoon with shakers madly waving about, and that she actually cried when we won that ballgame. I kinda think we both did a little. Those things can't be put back in the office out of sight. No way, Jose'!

I have a little time to work on this because I wanted to have my own framing done. So that gives me a couple of weeks probably.

Just as our dear Crimson Tide fight their battles to the bitter end, so will I fight this battle of my own!

Maybe. We'll see.

It really is a kick-butt print.

Roll Tide!

Oops.

Ok. So I thought today was the day. But I was wrong.

Heather said that we will not know until she goes to the doctor next week if all this is working. I thought it was today. She had to go for something today.

This is all so far over my head. I really haven't got a clue what we are doing.

Heather said that she would definitely test positive today due to all of the hormones and meds that she is taking. She said she even thought of taking one just to see what a positive test looks like. ~~smiles~~

It's all going to work out like it's supposed to when it's supposed to. We've only been trying a few months. This stuff takes years for some folks. So we just continue to wait and go about our business as usual.

Thanks Leigh and Katie for the prayers and crossed fingers and toes.

At least I got my new Daniel Moore.... more about that later!

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

To Be or Not To Be....

In the morning Heather will go for a pregancy test and we will know if all these danged shots have worked.

Either way, we're cool with it. They haven't exactly built our hopes up. So whatever the outcome is ok.

Cross your fingers anyway....

'til tomorrow.....

Another Great Giveaway! Hope I Win This One!

Giveaway for One of Three Amazing Alabama Coffee Table Books!!

The fine folks at Alabama Bloggers and Turner Publishing have teamed up for a great giveaway!

The books are FASCINATING. The timelines. . . seeing things change before your eyes. . .seeing the phases of history that our state went through. . . seeing what my city looked like when my grandparents were teenagers, then when my parents were teenagers. . . seeing all of the crazy men in 5 piece suits and top hats and ladies in 10 feet-in-diameter dresses and hats in the dead heat of Alabama Summer. . . the experience is simply indescribable.

They are each valued at $40, and these books are pure artwork.

Available in the giveaway are the following:

1. Historic Photos of Birmingham


2. Historic Photos of Mobile


3. Historic Photos of Huntsville


To enter to win one of these three books, go to alabamabloggers.com and register!

This contest will be open until Monday, June 8th. The three winners will be chosen randomly and announced on Tuesday, June 9th.

Good luck!!!

Monday, June 1, 2009

Lewa's Designs



Lewa's Designs is vinyl wall art. And it's fabulous! Lewa's Designs is owned and operated by an elementary school teacher, Brittany Hughes, who is home with her baby right now.



Love these decals? You can win one! All you have to do is go here for details!



Did I mention that anyone with a blog can win? Yes! Everyone wins!
Hurry! Offer ends the beginning of June!

See all of Lewa's Designs:
Lewa's Designs website (www.lewasdesigns.com)
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Oh What a Night.....


That picture has nothing to do with this post except that it is of Hershey, our spoiled rotten dachsund. We were down at Adam and Katie's and Aidan was pulling her around in the trailer behind his Power Wheels John Deere. But that's not what this post is about....

I guess it's confession time. I wasn't going to share this (how many times have I said that on this blog?) but I'm sitting here thinking about the weekend, and I figure I might as well tell all.

Our sister in law, Barbara called last week to see if Mitch could stay with us Friday night while she went to a function for the medical school. Of course we didn't mind, and I told her to let him stay the night if he wanted. That was fine with her, so Heath dropped Mitch off Friday afternoon.

I got home and changed, and realized that Heather and Mitch were waiting on me to make our plans.

So I suggested we grab a movie, and Mitch was all over that. He wanted to make sure I knew how to prepurchase our tickets through Fandango. So I played dumb and let him run the show.

We decided to see Night at the Museum, and to just grab something to eat at the theater. Good plan.

Mitch made the A honor roll for his last 6 weeks in the 5th grade. So as a reward, we decided to get him a new pair of flip flops. He had told us that his dad would only buy him cheap dollar store flip flops (Heath said Mitch's feet are growing too fast to buy anything else.) So Heather wanted to get him a pair like he wanted. As it turned out, he got a pair of Sperry's identical to the ones I had one. Which of course, were the most expensive pair Shoe Station had, but Mitch said I could afford it because we were rich.

Well now that's good to know. I had no idea until he told me.

So we got the shoes and headed for the theater with our Fandango tickets.

We all had popcorn for supper, and the movie was great. Just as good as the first one. If you haven't seen it, it's worth your time.

We got home, played on the computer for awhile, and hit the sack. That's where the night lost all form of normality.

Mitch wanted Hershey to sleep with him. Of course we knew that was coming. He also wanted to sleep on the sofa, but we explained that Hershey was not going to stay on the sofa with him. We'd been down that road before.

So I talked him into sleeping in a bed, and Heather piled Hershey up in there with him. I could see Hershey from our bedroom across the hall, and she was not happy at all with the sleeping arrangements.

But we turned out the lights, and all was well.

Until 2am.

I guess Hershey had had enough and was determined to get out of that bed one way or another. So she backed herself up next to Mitch and wet all over him and the bed.

I awoke to bright lights and a lot of fussing. Heather's earplugs saved her from being the first one awake and out of bed. So since I was up, she opted to just wait and get a report on the activities when I got the sheets changed and in the washer with Mitch's clothes.

Our only salvation in this, as gross as it is, is that Heather had 2 of those egg crate things, a memory foam mattress pad, and 2 regular mattress pads on that bed (to make it "fluffy.") So the mattress was saved. Actually, everything but the 2 top mattress pads were saved and those went into the washer with the sheets.

Hershey then reclaimed her spot in our bed, Mitch got bathed and into dry clothes, and all was well in the world.

Never a dull moment....