Proverbs 31:30

Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;
but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Amy' s next 20

21. I love my daughter's feet.

22. I wish that I had stayed in dance lessons through high school.

23. I love to fall asleep on the couch.

24. I love chocolate ice cream with milk poured over it.

25. My all-time favorite song is "American Pie" by Don McLean.

26. I think it's cool that my dad rides a Harley.

27. My brother and I used to play together all the time when we were little.

28. I think Mike has great feet for a guy.

29. It drives me crazy when Mike goes so long between haircuts.

30. I think my mom is pretty much perfect.

31. I have the greatest in-laws and wished they lived next door with my mom and Terry on the other side.

32. My husband is one of the smartest people I know.

33. My mom and I talk every morning.

34. Mike and I talk a few times a day while he is at work.

35. I miss the singing from Harding chapel.

36. My dad has beautiful eyes.

37. I love to be organized. One of my favorite things is my label-maker.

38. I have never laughed as hard as I did at Harding.

39. I love to go to the movies with Mike.

40. Mike and I were best friends before we started dating.

Saturday, August 18, 2007

40-60 of Mike's List

41. When Amy and I were dating my heart skipped a beat when I saw her.

42. Now my heart skips a beat when Amy comes home with shopping bags. (more like heart palpitations)

43. I got the chicken pox at the end of my freshman year in high school. I missed finals and had to make them up when everyone else was gone for the summer.

44. I wore tighties until my freshman year of college. I’m strictly a boxers man now.

45. I’ve been at my first job post college for 8 years now. I see myself staying there long term.

46. All the cool toys from the eighties are coming back. I’m considering buying them so I can play with them.

47. I still think Transformers the Movie (eighties version) rocked. I have it in my DVD library.

48. I did not go to my high school prom. (Cue ‘I’m a loser baby” music)

49. I annoyed my roommate every morning in college by playing the theme from “Mortal Kombat” to help me wake up.

50. He annoyed my by watching “The River runs through It” all the frack’n time.

51. If you never have heard the word “frack” then you are missing out on the best show on TV.

52. My daughter has the best knock knock jokes in the world.

53. Amy has a new idea for an Olympic sport. She would get the gold medal every time. (you will need to ask her what it is)

54. Arnold Schwarzenegger was my favorite actor growing up.

55. Predator was the first rated R movie I saw. My Dad fast forwarded roughly 85.5% of it.

56. When I got my braces off the Orthodontist looked at my Mom and said “Well…that’s the best I can do.”

57. My current dentist mentions braces every time I see him. I tell him no…every time.

58. I think most people like Star Wars because the idea of it is so cool. They then forgive the numerous flaws that the movies have.

59. Dr. Pepper will be the death of me.

60. Every since Ryan put up the song “Chocolate Rain” I find myself humming it all the time.

more soon.

Friday, August 17, 2007

20-40 of Mike's List

I got bored so here is the next twenty.


21. In college one morning I put a hat on for a 7:00 class. When I took the hat off in class a roach dropped from my head and scurried away. I promptly got a nurses note for the rest of the day.

22. Coke Zero is so much better than Diet Coke.

23. Of all of superman’s powers I would like to fly. I would daydream about this when I was a kid.

24. I have been to France. They are nice to you if you are giving them money.

25. My job has an option to have your DNA put on record.

26. I’m scared to ask why.

27. 16 years later I find myself reading comic books again.

28. Amy is glad that this is my escapism and not other nefarious things.

29. Amy says I say words that no one else would say. Such as nefarious.

30. My belief is that the Girl Scout cookie sale is run by the mob. That’s why the box gets smaller and the price gets larger.

31. Darn them and their thin mints. I just can’t stay away. The DEA needs to step in.

32. When I say “I’m dropping the kids off at the pool”, there is usually no pool involved and I’m gone for 15-20 minutes.

33. I believe that Auguste Rodin was at the “Pool” when he thought of his famous sculpture “The Thinker”.

34. Next time I’m sick I’m asking the doctor for more Cowbell.

35. My roommate and I in college were infamous for our dorm room. (See #21)

36. Autumn believes I’m the funniest person on the planet.

37. Amy believes I’m the un-funniest person on the planet.

38. I enjoy talking smack to 12 yr olds on Xbox live.

39. I do not get to it much, however since most times they are beating me in the game.

40. Every argument can be won by saying “Your Mom”.

First 20 of Mike's List

1. My first job was selling siding for houses door to door.

2. I was fired from said job for going to the golf range all day.

3. My first video game system was the Nintendo with the Robot.

4. I hated the robot.

5. I also played the trumpet for 4 years.

6. I played Julius Caesar in the Shakespearean play in fifth grade.

7. There is a video of it that will never be shown. Ever.

8. I’m currently watching Season 2 of 24 on DVD.

9. I’m an IFNP according to Meyers Briggs.

10. I’ve been accused of not listening. About what I couldn’t tell you I wasn’t….ah..oh…..crap!

11. Battlestar Galactica is my favorite show on TV right now.

12. I equate reality TV to “Stepping in Poop”. Some how you always step in it and its hard to get off.

13. My wife and daughter are “My Precious”

14. Sometimes I sound like Gollum due to my asthma.

15. I was 128 lbs when I graduated High school.

16. My weight is now {n > 128 lbs}. I hope to be {n < 170 lbs}.

17. I have a Masters degree from SMU.

18. My title at my job is Embedded Software Engineer Stf.

19. My Xbox gamer tag is MstrStf.

20. I skipped many classes in college due to Civilization II. (One more turn)

More soon.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

My brother tagged me: I will do 20 at a time

1. I have 1 dog and 1 cat.

2. I watch young and the restless everyday, even if I have already read the spoiler.

3. On September 25 I will have been married for 8 years.

4. I worked at Putt-Putt for three years in high school.

5. i played the trumpet for 6 years.

6. If I went back to school, it would be for my Masters in Library Sciences.

7. In high school, my guy friends in band would pick up my roller skate of a car(Chevrolet Sprint) and move it to illegal parking spots.

8. My hair is the longest it has ever been.

9. My favorite movie is "The Notebook."

10. If we had not named Autumn Autumn she would be named Hannah. Autumn is definitely not a Hannah.

11. My husband thinks I am really goofy.

12. He thinks Autumn is just like me.

13. My husband was the first guy I met at Harding.

14. It takes me a long time to wake up in the morning.

15. I could eat Tex-Mex everyday.

16. When I'm not smiling, I look like I am angry.

17. This used to get me in trouble at work.

18. I am a planner to the core. I live by my calender. I should make a plan to be more spontaneous :)!

19. I love to read, but ever since I got my degree in English and had to read in college, now I hardly ever do.

20. When I do read, I cannot focus on anything else but the book.

I'll finish this list soon, but for now I tag Maggie and Mike!