October 30, 2010

Panera Baked Potato Soup is highly recommended. Of course, you can get it at Panera. But we now sell it at Target in the deli. Phenomenal.

October 29, 2010

I found this cool gift card at work that I've never seen before. It appears to be from a past Christmas. I took it home to give to the girls. They might think it's kind of neat for a hot minute. (It had a zero balance, I didn't steal it.)

October 28, 2010

I'm so excited to embark on a new adventure. Jay set up a program with the Clay Fire Department for freelance photographers to work as associate members. There are three of us, ideally one for each shift. We will get text messages whenever there is a call and we are suppose to respond and take pictures. Its still in the beginning stages. But I did pick up my vest. (I photoshopped 'photographer' on it. It really just says Clay Fire.) Hopefully, I will be able to respond to some interesting calls. Looks like I'm gonna have to buy a camera real soon huh? Jon says I should prepare myself for possibly seeing some gruesome stuff. I think I will be ok. But you never know until you're in that situation. We have a meeting next month to go over safety procedures and expectations. Honestly, I don't think I will respond to anything until I have all the safety information.

October 27, 2010

Today was a pretty non eventful day. My dad and I have been trying to coordinate our schedules to take some nice fall pictures with the changing leaves. It's pretty much too late for that now. We met at St. Mary's hoping to get some nice pictures there. No luck. So we drove over to Notre Dame to try our luck there. Not much better. I did get some shots of the dome as the sun was going down, but nothing too compelling.

October 26, 2010

So, we were pretty busy this weekend and we had planned on taking down the gazebo canopy top. Saturday, we had two soccer games and a Halloween party that we went to. Sunday, we went to Lauren's soccer game and did some grocery shopping. When we got home, we had to give Duke a bath. So we didn't get to the gazebo. Big mistake. Today proved to be a near-disastrous wind filled day. I guess the storms were pretty severe. I was at work and monitored it on the computer, but being in a big store with no windows except for the entrance door, I was mostly oblivious to the wrath. When I got home, I found our gazebo to be slightly affected by the weather. Luckily, Jon was due home shortly after me and we could get it bent back into place without anything getting damaged. In fact, we're pretty lucky that it didn't tip over and crack our slider windows. I let Duke out for a quick pee and ushered him right back in. It was still quite windy, and I didn't want him getting hurt. When Jon got home we fixed it. Sort of. Surprisingly, it bent back into place with little effort. And there wasn't a single stitch out of place on the gazebo top. Wow did we luck out. Now, we just needed to get the top off for the season and everything would be fine, right? Nope. In Jon's irritated and impatient state, he pulls on the corner of the top to get it off the frame and rips a big hole right in the corner. Ya know, where it needs to stretch tautly over the frame corner? Jon has a tendency to not think before he acts. So know we will have to buy a new canopy for about $65.

October 25, 2010

Booooooo.

October 24, 2010

Today, Jon and went to Lauren's final game in her soccer tournament. The Invaders won! Lauren probably has more trophies right now than she knows what to do with. At the game, Jon found $30 laying on the ground. Bonus!