Sara Palin

I'm ripping this link of my good friend Chris Jordan's website. If you want to know about Sara Palin check this out: http://www.worldmag.com/webextra/14364

She's got a pretty great record and a great story. Also, if you have time, Dr. Mohler's radio show topic was about Gov./VP Nominee Palin as well. It's VERY good. Please take time to listen to this show.

http://www.albertmohler.com/radio_list.php

IT IS WORTH YOUR TIME!!!

Video Blog...is that a Vlog?

Here are the pictures.

I wasn't expecting to get the ok today or I would have waited on my post.

These are a bunch of my co-workers. The people at my work are really nice and easy to get along with, which is so refreshing.


My boss, Matt Vance, and Karl Rove


Jule, Karl Rove, and I. Jule works for the KBA too.

Crazy week..

This week has been extremely full. I have been so tired. But, all in all, it has been a great one. I am glad for all the opportunities I had this week. I am focusing on it as just this one week. Next week and weeks following won't be like this, HOPEFULLY :)

Monday - Business Dinner (Met Karl Rove, was behind the scene for live taping of Hannity and Combs with Karl Rove)
Tuesday - Water Aerobics and Pendergraph Women's Ministry
Wednesday - Circuit workout and Dog training
Thursday - Water Aerobics and Seminary Wives Institute
Friday - Circuit Workout w/some water aerobics, FUN FUN FUN W/my hubby at last
Saturday - Fun
Sunday - Fun, Fun @ church
Monday - Labor Day (off work = PARTY!! alone Josh has to work :(

So, one of the highlights of my week was the business dinner I had with my work on Monday night. Every year the KBA has an annual convention where all the bankers in the state come and pretty much have a corporate expensed vacation, with a little work here and there :). Anyways it is really neat. We get a bunch of speakers and lots of good food, and fun of course. Well, this year Karl Rove was our speaker. This was really neat. Many of you probably know who he is, he is known as the "architect" of Bush's election and one of his advisors while president. He was a really cool guy to meet. Well, you probably noticed too that I said I was in on a taping of Hannity and Combs with Karl Rove. Well, after his speech he said he was going downstairs (of the Galt House) to film for Hannity and Combs and if any of us wanted to come we were welcome. Well, I got up ready for the bolt. I followed right behind him to the spot he was filming and stood behind the scenes as Hannity and Combs shot live from the Galt house in Louisville Kentucky to get Karl's (we are on a first name basis now, jk) take on the Democratic convention. It was really neat. I watched him get all maked-up too. He was a cool guy. I know some of the stuff surrounding him is controversial. I don't' know much about it, but it was just a neat experience to be close to someone that worked everyday with the President.

P.S. I had my picture taken with Karl, but we are waiting for the release from our attorney until we can distribute them. So stay tuned for the picture of me and Karl Rove.

A Person of Faith?

With the DNC if full swing and the RNC coming soon to a TV near you, one of the buzz phrases, again, is "people of faith." Each party wants to reach "people of faith." I realize that this is a PC phrase that has been used for years to include all faiths in order not to offend (which is the point of being PC). However, I find this phrase ridiculous and tiresome. Everyone has "faith" in something. Even atheists. When you so over genearlize this word - faith - in the end it means nothing. As a person of biblical Christian faith, I will be lumped in with millions of other people of "faiths" because of the dumbing down of the word. As Christians we should not - and cannot - allow society to conform us to their definition and summary of the word faith. We are not to be conformed to this world and simply blend in (Romans 12:2). We ARE to be conformed to the person and likeness of Christ (Romans 8:29) according to God's will and purpose. To be simply called a person of faith means nothing. For me to be called a person of faith in Jesus or a person of biblical Christian faith means everything.

Because we have allowed ourselves to be classified by society instead of making our own distinction, here's a summary of what Daniel Dennett (world renowned athiest and bestselling author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea) says about Christians:
"Instead of believing in God, they believe in belief. In other words, they have a functional understanding of religion. They really are not claiming cognitively to believe in God because if they really believed in God they would live differently than they do."

This is why it is dangerous to allow ourselves to be called "a person of faith." When your political party makes its call for you (hopefully a person of true Christian faith) to vote for their candidate, make them reach out to you as a Bible-believing person of faith in the One True God - the God who sent His Son Jesus save us from the wrath of God brought on from our sin. Be a person who believes in the God of the Bible. Don't be ashamed (Romans 1:16). Don't be a person of an abstract politically correct idea - "faith."

Anniversary Flowers

These are the flowers Josh got me 2 weeks ago for our anniversary. They were so pretty. He is so sweet, I love him. I think I will keep him :)

Visit from Dean and Judy

It has been over a week and I have desperately needed to make this post.

Dean and Judy came to visit and we had a lot of fun and took some really awesome pictures. We realized we had some more room in our itty bitty apartment, so we gave them a list of things to bring us back. It wasn't exactly how we intended the trip to go, we were planning on going home to get the stuff, but being the awesome people Dean and Judy are they said they wanted to bring us our stuff. Needless to say, we had a really great time. We drove around Louisville a bit looking at different parks and getting to know the area a bit more, had a birthday party at the park for Josh, we went to the Louisville Slugger Museum, ate at the Cheesecake Factory for Josh's birthday and kind of our anniversary, ate at a really cool restaurant called Lynn's Paradise Cafe, and ate some Greaters Ice Cream. I don't know how to make those words themselves links and just by putting the link on here it doens't become a link, well at least not for me today, so sorry. They have cool sites. Lynn's Paradise Cafe was on Bobby Flay's Throwdown show for breakfast. That is what we went there for. O MY GOODNESS!! It was AMAZING!! So amazing Dean said we will have to come back here next time. I ditto that one. Greaters is really awesome too, and not to mention the most expensive ice cream I have ever had. Not kidding it is $13 a 1/2 gallon. That is just crazy talk. Also, while Dean and Judy were here we had a little birthday celebration for Josh at the park. We invited some new friends we have made here from downstairs (seriously they live directly below us)and we grilled out at the park. It was a lot of fun.

P.S. The picture of the couple with the baby are some of our new friends here. This is Jason and Rachel Jones, they live directly underneath us.

P.S.S. I really am starting not to like this blog. I know it is free, but the formating stuff doens't seem to ever be consistent. For example, I had to leave my photos at the top of this one and couldn't put them dispursed through my post. UGG!

Vacuum

Josh and I have been married now for 4 years. Gosh when you put it in number form it doesn't seem very long, but it feels like forever, in a good way.

With that said. There were two things that we purchased brand new when we got married, or soon after I should say, a vacuum and our washer/dryer set. Well, they are both going down the tubes I think. Our vacuum just decided to quit yesterday while I was vacuuming the apartment. Also, since we moved to the apartment our dryer makes squeeking noises when I have a big load in it. I am kind of sad these purchases aren't holding up longer. Granted my washer/dryer aren't being replaced until they decide to just quit working, but the vacuum has to be replaced.

This post is calling out to all you ladies who vacuum. I know some of you might hire people to vacuum. I need to know about your vacuums and if you love them or hate them, please be specific on what you love about it and what you hate about it. I can only let the dog hair build up so long, so please respond quickly.

Love ya'll peace.

P.S. I am working on a blog with pictures for Dean and Judy's visit with us. Pictures are on Josh's mac and I have no clue how to work it. Stay tuned!

Fresh Market Typical Frustration

Here's a reason the retail business is not for me...

I get a call at work. Meat Department, Line one. I answer. Some lady with a very nasal, New Yorkish accent says, "Hi, this is Mrs. Woalker (Walker) coawling (calling). I'd like 20 individually wrapped chicken breasts cut in half."

"Ma'am, would you like them split or cut into cutlets?"

"Oh, cutlets."

"Ok. So you you would like 10 breasts cut into cutlets to make 20 individually wrapped pieces. Correct?"

"Yes. I'll be there in a few minutes to pick them up."

Ok, that was her order. She said cutlets. She said 20. She said individually wrapped (which is a royal pain). Also, we don't get our chicken cutlets in already cut into cutlets like every other cruddy grocery store. We cut them ourselves. I wish the Fresh Market was cruddy and cheap sometimes. I hate cutting cutlets. Fortunately, I had just sharpened my knife so it was much easier. 15 minutes later I get the job done. 20 minutes later some man shows up. Here's how it went:

This very short man walks up to the counter. By short, I mean he could barely see over the counter. I'm not kidding. More on this in a sec. The other guy working the counter, Ryan, waits on him.

Man - "My wife called a little while ago and ordered some chicken."
Ryan - "Yes sir, here it is."
Man - "Oh. Cutlets? Is there any meat in those packages?" (Cutlets are very thin and don't weigh much)
Ryan - "Yes sir. There's meat in there" (What Ryan wanted to say - "&*%$, Sir, we are lying to you, we thought we'd wrap 20 packages. Empty. Just for fun.)
Man - "What my wife meant to order was 20 half chicken breasts. Not cutlets."
This is where I step in - Me - "Sir, I spoke with your wife and she told me that she wanted cutlets. I even repeated it to her and she confirmed her order."
Man - "Yes, I know. But what she meant was whole halves." (Split breasts - as I asked her) (and he was super snotty about it)

Ok, so I was pretty mad at this point and he knew it. I guess he could tell on my face or something *note the sarcasm. But what made me really ticked at this guy was that he knew that she ordered the wrong thing and didnt' call us back. He said, "I know she ordered cutlets." So he knew we had prepared the correct order.

Ryan was mad too, but he got what the turd wanted. When Ryan finished with the order, 10 min. later, he put all 20 packages on the counter. What Ryan didn't realize was that he put them on the counter just out of reach of the very short, snotty, wrong, turdish, man. Seriously, this guy was probably under 5 feet tall. He wasn't a dwarf or midget. He was a grown normal man. Just short. So Ryan walked away, but I noticed that the man was flailing at the chicken trying to reach it. I tried so hard not to laugh. He looked at me with that look like "Yeah, I know I'm short, whaddya gonna do about it?" So I passed the man the rest of his chicken and he left.

Now I have 20 chicken cutlets for tomorrow. Anyone want them? This was a super long post that I hope was funny. It was super frustrating with a strangely satisfying ending.

I just saw Michael Phelps set another world record and won another gold medal. He's a freak. This race wasn't even close. At least one body length. He owns 26 individual world records. This is his 6th gold medal in these Olympics. I agree with my friend George (you can read his blog on a link to the right - The Bednars), Phelps is probably the greatest athlete ever. It's just that no one will consider him so because it doesn't involve a ball or a big pay check. I'm just sayin'.

A friend of ours had this posted on their blog and I was really curious as to what accent I might have. This is so true. I am from Florida and lived in Atlanta for the past almost 5 years. How fun.

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The West Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.
The Midland
Boston
North Central
The Inland North
Philadelphia
The South
The Northeast
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The Olympics

I had no plans to watch the Olympics. However, since we don't have cable, about the only thing that comes on when we finally have time to relax and watch some TV has been the Olympics from Beijing. The other night we watched the end of the opening ceremonies (which ended far too late). NBC kind of makes me mad. By the time we watched the ceremonies they were already over (tape delay). NBC knew how long they would last. They still chose to show them very late (it's the same problem I have with FOX and the World Series).

The torch lighting was pretty amazing. After the torch was lit there was the biggest fireworks display that I've ever seen. It didn't just take place at the stadium. It was over the whole city all at once. It was also in sync with the music and just really huge. Of course, NBC cuts to commercial right in the middle of it...again, they knew what was going to happen. Really makes me mad. Just do better NBC. Just do better.

I also don't care much for Bob Costas. He's really cocky and has very bad fake hair color.

I do like Michael Phelps (as does everyone). We watched him win his first gold medal (of these Olympics) last night. It was amazing. He just decided he would win after being tied most of the race. I like the swimming and running probably better than the other events. Dude gymnastics are good too...primarily because guys can do more than girls because they're stronger (don't freak out girls, its just true).

The running events and swimming are my favorite because its just about me versus you. There are no judges (gymnastics). No subjective opinion. Its my force versus your force and if I'm faster and stronger then I will win. Michael Phelps is just faster and stronger than everyone else. Watch him. He's probably going to make history by winning more gold medals than anyone. Ever.

Gas

I'd just like to share that I've only gotten gas 3 times since we've lived here. Nice.

Garage Sale Vent

I went out garage sale hunting this weekend. Let me just say that it wasn't a very good weekend. At first, I was so excited because I saw signs everywhere leading up to Saturday. Well, Saturday morning comes around and I head out on my adventure. Over half the signs were pointless. I am not kidding. Let me give you garage sale people some pointers. When making garage sale signs

1. Signs need to be big, bright, or noticeable in some way so you can spot them at at least 35 mph.
2. Signs should be ledgible from the car. I am not going to park my car to get out and read your itty bitty sign.
3. Put arrows on your sign, I have no clue where your street is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have to say that number 3 really made me mad Saturday. I would see a sign with just Garage sale and their address with no sight of that street in the area. I was like sorry I didn't get the software to read your mind as to where your house is located!!!!!!!!!!!!! The best was when people failed all rules 1-3: sign wasn't noticeable (can you say U-turns galore), couldn't read it from the car, and no arrow. Seriously I could see the itty bitty sign and say to myself there definitly isn't an arrow on that sign so I am definitly not getting out of my car to walk over there to read the sign. All in all I kind of feel like I wasted my gas this weekend, but o well every weekend can't be totally awesome I guess. I did buy another antenna for our bedroom TV, $1 baby! It works too!

Live Free...

Shana and I base the movies we see in the theater on how good we think the movie theater "experience" will be. This summer we saw Iron Man, Prince Caspian, Indiana Jones, and Batman. We passed on movies like Get Smart, which we heard was really good but will probably be just as good on my TV. Somehow, however, we missed Die Hard 4. Totally a movie theater movie. We got it on Netflix the other day and finally watched it. I'll give it 3 boxes of popcorn with layered butter (Shana agrees). If you liked the other Die Hards, you'll like this one. There is a bit of the ridiculous when it comes to how does one man survives an explosion like that!? But you have to suspend reality to enjoy these kinds of movies. If you're too much of a movie realist go watch a documentary and skip this one. The story was original and Bruce Willis was, well, Bruce Willis. Yipee Ki Yay!!!....

Next on the Queue - Michael Clayton and Charlie Bartlett.