Well, Friends, we are officially hitting the road for the great state of Texas. We will be absent from blogging world for the next few days, but we will have many great adventures to report upon our return.
Have a blessed weekend!!
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
CANNED HEAT
Do ya'll know the song "Canned Heat" by the artist Jamiroquai? This is the song that Napoleon dances his swan song dance to at the end of the movie... until it gets cut off and he runs off the stage. This song is also in the movie Center Stage if you've seen that, in the last dance. This song has become one of our newest theme songs. It's incredible. Let me give you some lyrics... "Hey DJ/let the music play/I wanna dance this party night..."
So this morning Josh decided that he needed some help getting up and at 'em (which he does, trust me). I thought he was going to put on "Jesus, I am Resting, Resting," which is one of our favorite songs that we listen to a lot. But no, I hear the beginning strains of "Canned Heat." What a great song for waking you up and pumping you up about the day. Josh got some Napoleon Dynamite moves going, and he was out of the bed running. I would love to get him some moon boots and bigger glasses and jeans up to his belly button so he could really look the part. What ever happened to moon boots anyway? Those things were genius and they've fallen off the face of the earth.
One of Jamiroquai's lines is "Got canned heat in my heels tonight, Baby." He kind of draws out that last "Baby," and for the longest time Josh swore that he was saying "Big Beth" instead of "Baby." Who the heck is Big Beth? I had to work really hard to convince him that the song wasn't about some random bigger girl named Beth, but he was really saying "Baby." Now I've got him convinced, but we still sing "Big Beth" just because it's funny. If you've never heard this song, you're in for a treat.
Now along the lines of singing and dancing, I happen to own the movie "Crossroads." I became the dubious owner of this movie when my sister Emily couldn't stand to see it on her shelf anymore. For those of you who don't remember anything about this movie, this is Britney Spear's first foray into acting, and trust me, this movie is horrible. Actually, I'm disgracing the word "horrible" by using it to describe this movie. Nothing can prepare you for the pathetic acting, the completely trite and unrealistic dialogue, the speed with which people develop relationships with each other (somehow people go from perfect strangers to boyfriend and girlfriend who can see into each other's hearts in the span of a drive across the country with 2 other girls there), and worst, Britney Spears' singing, which you know had to be thrown in because she's Britney Spears. I have no problem with singing in a movie, but you know that there will be singing because she's Britney and that's possibly one of her only redeeming talents. This movie is extremely, pathetically bad. Anyway, I put that movie on the other night when we were packing for the trip to Chatty, and after a few minutes Josh was begging me to turn it off. After a little more than an hour, I had mercy on him and turned it off. So if you're ever wondering if you should rent this movie, wonder no more. This movie would be a waste of a penny, or even worse, your time. But if you desperately need a laugh, this is a great choice. Not because they're trying to be funny and it's working, but because they're trying so hard to be serious and it's not working at all.
So, let me condense this post for you... go download the song "Canned Heat" and put as much distance as possible between yourselves and "Crossroads!"
So this morning Josh decided that he needed some help getting up and at 'em (which he does, trust me). I thought he was going to put on "Jesus, I am Resting, Resting," which is one of our favorite songs that we listen to a lot. But no, I hear the beginning strains of "Canned Heat." What a great song for waking you up and pumping you up about the day. Josh got some Napoleon Dynamite moves going, and he was out of the bed running. I would love to get him some moon boots and bigger glasses and jeans up to his belly button so he could really look the part. What ever happened to moon boots anyway? Those things were genius and they've fallen off the face of the earth.
One of Jamiroquai's lines is "Got canned heat in my heels tonight, Baby." He kind of draws out that last "Baby," and for the longest time Josh swore that he was saying "Big Beth" instead of "Baby." Who the heck is Big Beth? I had to work really hard to convince him that the song wasn't about some random bigger girl named Beth, but he was really saying "Baby." Now I've got him convinced, but we still sing "Big Beth" just because it's funny. If you've never heard this song, you're in for a treat.
Now along the lines of singing and dancing, I happen to own the movie "Crossroads." I became the dubious owner of this movie when my sister Emily couldn't stand to see it on her shelf anymore. For those of you who don't remember anything about this movie, this is Britney Spear's first foray into acting, and trust me, this movie is horrible. Actually, I'm disgracing the word "horrible" by using it to describe this movie. Nothing can prepare you for the pathetic acting, the completely trite and unrealistic dialogue, the speed with which people develop relationships with each other (somehow people go from perfect strangers to boyfriend and girlfriend who can see into each other's hearts in the span of a drive across the country with 2 other girls there), and worst, Britney Spears' singing, which you know had to be thrown in because she's Britney Spears. I have no problem with singing in a movie, but you know that there will be singing because she's Britney and that's possibly one of her only redeeming talents. This movie is extremely, pathetically bad. Anyway, I put that movie on the other night when we were packing for the trip to Chatty, and after a few minutes Josh was begging me to turn it off. After a little more than an hour, I had mercy on him and turned it off. So if you're ever wondering if you should rent this movie, wonder no more. This movie would be a waste of a penny, or even worse, your time. But if you desperately need a laugh, this is a great choice. Not because they're trying to be funny and it's working, but because they're trying so hard to be serious and it's not working at all.
So, let me condense this post for you... go download the song "Canned Heat" and put as much distance as possible between yourselves and "Crossroads!"
Monday, May 7, 2007
Wow, This Weekend Was Crazy
Holy moly, this was an amazing weekend. Josh and I left for Chatty right after I got off work on Friday. We had a great time in the car- sang some '80s music, had lively discussions, drank a fountain root beer, etc. Josh stayed with his man friends on Friday night at Casselbuddy's, and I stayed with Rach and Apes. It was amazing. Saturday was wonderful. Camille Halstrom did not disappoint with the dramatic name reading- I think she had even upped the ante from my graduation a couple of years ago. Hearing name after name read can get very boring very fast, but not so at Covenant College's graduation... you're always waiting to hear how Camille will top herself at the next "SUMMA cum LAUDE!!" I've never anticipated a name with three asterisks beside it designating a summa cum laude student as much as I did on Saturday. Way to go, Camille. We had a wonderful lunch at Sticky Fingers with the Ryans- that crazy family!! I hadn't seen Kel for a long time and I hadn't seen the rest of the Ryans for even longer, so it was pretty incredible. If you've been keeping up with my pregnancy cravings, you know that barbeque has topped the charts in recent weeks, so Sticky Fingers was right up my alley. YUM!! We stayed and talked for a long time. We had such a great time catching up with so many friends and just having a blast in general. We got to see so many people who we have missed a lot... I wish those times happened more like once a week instead of once every few months.
Yesterday was also a blast with a church picnic and dinner with friends last night. Because of all of this excitement, you can imagine our reluctance to get out of bed this morning... pushed snooze for about a half-hour, finally got out of bed, sat at our table with bleary eyes, and ate some toast for breakfast. Anyone who has ever lived with Josh has experienced him in the morning. Today he really, really struggled, poor thing. Mondays are hard anyway, but especially after the weekend we had with lots of driving and even more excitement... but Monday morning is now behind us for the rest of the week, so that's a good thing.
Our next exciting trip on the horizon is coming up very quickly... this coming weekend!! We're going to Texas for my sister Marnie and her fiance Chris's quasi-wedding! They're having the actual ceremony in Italy, but this is a giant pre-wedding party with family and friends. It's going to be such a blast!! So expect next Monday's post to be full of lethargy too. We're going to be gathering up all of our friends for the long trip... Barry White, Luther Vandross, Cher, Bonnie Tyler, Tom Petty, Madonna, etc. They're going to get us all the way to Texas, provided that the ipod batteries last!!
Hope your weekend recovery is going well!
Yesterday was also a blast with a church picnic and dinner with friends last night. Because of all of this excitement, you can imagine our reluctance to get out of bed this morning... pushed snooze for about a half-hour, finally got out of bed, sat at our table with bleary eyes, and ate some toast for breakfast. Anyone who has ever lived with Josh has experienced him in the morning. Today he really, really struggled, poor thing. Mondays are hard anyway, but especially after the weekend we had with lots of driving and even more excitement... but Monday morning is now behind us for the rest of the week, so that's a good thing.
Our next exciting trip on the horizon is coming up very quickly... this coming weekend!! We're going to Texas for my sister Marnie and her fiance Chris's quasi-wedding! They're having the actual ceremony in Italy, but this is a giant pre-wedding party with family and friends. It's going to be such a blast!! So expect next Monday's post to be full of lethargy too. We're going to be gathering up all of our friends for the long trip... Barry White, Luther Vandross, Cher, Bonnie Tyler, Tom Petty, Madonna, etc. They're going to get us all the way to Texas, provided that the ipod batteries last!!
Hope your weekend recovery is going well!
Friday, May 4, 2007
Have a Great Weekend!
Ahh, the knowledge that the weekend is here. Nothing quite like it. I am the biggest fan of weekends. This one is going to be a busy one for the Desch family. Graduation in Chattanooga on Saturday, Sunday School and church on Sunday, church picnic on Sunday afternoon, dinner with some friends on Sunday night... woof!!
We wish all of you a happy weekend!
We wish all of you a happy weekend!
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Exercise & Mesmerize
We are members of this big gym called the Omni, which is right next door to our church. What a convenient location... a one stop shop to exercise the body and the soul. What wholistic ministry.
The Omni has been making some major renovations- it looks amazing inside. It's huge, and they've just gotten all new weights, weight machines, and cardio machines. They are now equipped with the cardio machines that each have a TV on them. They're called CARDIO THEATER. You can now watch any show on cable as you treadmill, ellipticize, stair-step, or bike. Wow, that's pretty crazy. I first saw those kinds of machines back when I was a personal trainer in P-Town. We got all kinds of catalogues and went to fitness shows where different companies displayed those machines.
While they are nice, you've got to say that they definitely cut down on the community in a gym. Yeah, you're being entertained while you're torturing yourself on your machine of choice, but where's the comraderie with fellow sufferers? Where's the casual chatting with a person next to you? I guess a lot of this kind of atmosphere ended with the invention of the personal tape player, the CD player, the ipod... but I still have a rosy conception of exercise as a community event. I guess you really need to go to an aerobics or spinning class to find that sort of thing. Now your comraderie is to be found with your TV. I feel like this is the gym of the future. Welcome to the Jetsons.
Josh and I are heading to Covenant this weekend for graduation!! Can't wait!! I'm hoping that Camille Halstrom is still reading names... anyone who was present at my graduation in 2005 will understand what I mean. I am positive that the drama present in the pronounciation of "BETSY-- ANN-- HALUSKA" has never been topped. I felt like I had just been awarded the Nobel Prize for how she pronounced my name. My first instinct was to leap across the stage and do a ballerina-like twirl. I felt like my walk across the stage to meet Niel Nielson's outstretched hand needed a little something extra to merit that drama. Thank you, Camille. You gave that tedious name reading that oomph it needed to be entertaining, which as we know is no small thing.
Happy Thursday, friends and family!!
The Omni has been making some major renovations- it looks amazing inside. It's huge, and they've just gotten all new weights, weight machines, and cardio machines. They are now equipped with the cardio machines that each have a TV on them. They're called CARDIO THEATER. You can now watch any show on cable as you treadmill, ellipticize, stair-step, or bike. Wow, that's pretty crazy. I first saw those kinds of machines back when I was a personal trainer in P-Town. We got all kinds of catalogues and went to fitness shows where different companies displayed those machines.
While they are nice, you've got to say that they definitely cut down on the community in a gym. Yeah, you're being entertained while you're torturing yourself on your machine of choice, but where's the comraderie with fellow sufferers? Where's the casual chatting with a person next to you? I guess a lot of this kind of atmosphere ended with the invention of the personal tape player, the CD player, the ipod... but I still have a rosy conception of exercise as a community event. I guess you really need to go to an aerobics or spinning class to find that sort of thing. Now your comraderie is to be found with your TV. I feel like this is the gym of the future. Welcome to the Jetsons.
Josh and I are heading to Covenant this weekend for graduation!! Can't wait!! I'm hoping that Camille Halstrom is still reading names... anyone who was present at my graduation in 2005 will understand what I mean. I am positive that the drama present in the pronounciation of "BETSY-- ANN-- HALUSKA" has never been topped. I felt like I had just been awarded the Nobel Prize for how she pronounced my name. My first instinct was to leap across the stage and do a ballerina-like twirl. I felt like my walk across the stage to meet Niel Nielson's outstretched hand needed a little something extra to merit that drama. Thank you, Camille. You gave that tedious name reading that oomph it needed to be entertaining, which as we know is no small thing.
Happy Thursday, friends and family!!
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Hubert's Secret... a Twist in the Lingerie Market
Josh and I were discussing gender issues at lunch and I was expressing serious disgust for Victoria's Secret, which is one of my soapboxes that he has heard me stand on a jillion times. Allow me to get on my soapbox on our blog. I hate that place with a passion. I don't want to step on any toes here... if you like Victoria's Secret or work there or are a stockholder, please feel free to refrain from reading the rest of this post. But I HATE Victoria's Secret. Every time I walk by one (which thankfully isn't often) I have to resist the urge to march in there and throw a fit. This is why.
It's not so much that I feel wronged by the way that Victoria's Secret as an enterprise portrays a typical woman's body, although I see the tight, tanned, toned bodies of those models and have to roll my eyes in disgust. Most women don't look like that, never will, and might not even want to. So yes, I think it's fair to say that Victoria's Secret, with it's sickening yet seductive marketing, only adds to the already enormous pressure women feel to make their bodies look a certain way.
But my real disgust with Victoria's Secret doesn't lie with the marketing executives, but with the women who allow women to be portrayed as strictly sex objects. I think it's honestly revolting when those "angels" come on TV in their underwear and send the message that women are all about SEX, SEX, SEX. I just want to shake any woman involved in Victoria's Secret as a company and say DON'T YOU KNOW THAT YOU'RE INVOLVED IN AN ORGANIZATION THAT COMPLETELY DEGRADES WOMEN TO CHEAP SEX OBJECTS??????? HELLO???? In a fight for gender equality in a social sense, I feel like those commercials and stores and products are a serious set-back. Here, come spend $50 on a bra and you'll be sexy and have men chasing after you and your body. Give me a break.
OK, you can see that I have very strong feelings about this!! At lunch I suggested to Josh that we make Victoria's Secret for MEN, called HUBERT'S SECRET. Can't you just see it now? Men models jumping around commercial sets in thongs, speedos, etc... I think it would be a big hit. I am hoping that this idea will catch on. If any of you have suggestions on who could serve as a good model, please don't hesitate to give me his name and number!!
Alright, I am officially off of my soap box now. End of tirade.
Have a wonderful day!!
It's not so much that I feel wronged by the way that Victoria's Secret as an enterprise portrays a typical woman's body, although I see the tight, tanned, toned bodies of those models and have to roll my eyes in disgust. Most women don't look like that, never will, and might not even want to. So yes, I think it's fair to say that Victoria's Secret, with it's sickening yet seductive marketing, only adds to the already enormous pressure women feel to make their bodies look a certain way.
But my real disgust with Victoria's Secret doesn't lie with the marketing executives, but with the women who allow women to be portrayed as strictly sex objects. I think it's honestly revolting when those "angels" come on TV in their underwear and send the message that women are all about SEX, SEX, SEX. I just want to shake any woman involved in Victoria's Secret as a company and say DON'T YOU KNOW THAT YOU'RE INVOLVED IN AN ORGANIZATION THAT COMPLETELY DEGRADES WOMEN TO CHEAP SEX OBJECTS??????? HELLO???? In a fight for gender equality in a social sense, I feel like those commercials and stores and products are a serious set-back. Here, come spend $50 on a bra and you'll be sexy and have men chasing after you and your body. Give me a break.
OK, you can see that I have very strong feelings about this!! At lunch I suggested to Josh that we make Victoria's Secret for MEN, called HUBERT'S SECRET. Can't you just see it now? Men models jumping around commercial sets in thongs, speedos, etc... I think it would be a big hit. I am hoping that this idea will catch on. If any of you have suggestions on who could serve as a good model, please don't hesitate to give me his name and number!!
Alright, I am officially off of my soap box now. End of tirade.
Have a wonderful day!!
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Exhorbitant Library Fines and Other Things
Josh and I went to the library on Saturday afternoon as part of our weekend of relaxation... I went in like a sad little puppy because I knew I was going to have my hand slapped. Somehow I have managed to rack up a $10.00 fine, which is the limit over which you cannot check anything else out. Hmm, I think to myself. How the heck did this happen? I am generally somewhat punctual with getting my library books and DVDs returned. I can see a $3.00 fine, but $10.00??? In order to shift as much of blame away from myself as possible, I've decided that one of two things must have happened.
a. Josh sabotaged me by checking things out on my card and not returning them on time. I don't know why he would do this exactly, but he seems awfully proud of the fact that he doesn't have a fine that prevents him from checking things out.
b. Columbia County is hurting for money and decided to get a few bucks out of me. They must have profiled me and decided that I seemed like the type who would not contest a sudden $10.00 fine showing up on their card, and would be likely to just pay it with no questions asked (which I'm planning to do).
It was pretty embarassing to go up to the librarian and ask if I could renew a book, only to have her say that I could only renew that one book and I couldn't check anything else out. I went away from the desk with my head hanging. But my shame was short-lived... I went downstairs to meet Josh and promptly picked books out to be checked out on his card. It's nice to have a spouse for many, many reasons, one of them being the power he or she gives you to subvert the system. Take that, Columbia County Library. I have a huge fine but STILL am enjoying the books I checked out over the weekend!!
It is a sizzling 91 degrees outside today, and now I'm beginning to fit the mold of a typical pregnant lady, who is always HOT!! I am uncomfortable beyond belief. Josh and I went to the OB yesterday (a good report! Praise the Lord!). As we were sitting in the waiting room, Josh noticed that I was radiating lots of heat... my body alone could probably heat a small room right now. Wow, it's hot. I'm so thankful that hopefully Baby Desch will be out before July starts.
Have a wonderful day!!
a. Josh sabotaged me by checking things out on my card and not returning them on time. I don't know why he would do this exactly, but he seems awfully proud of the fact that he doesn't have a fine that prevents him from checking things out.
b. Columbia County is hurting for money and decided to get a few bucks out of me. They must have profiled me and decided that I seemed like the type who would not contest a sudden $10.00 fine showing up on their card, and would be likely to just pay it with no questions asked (which I'm planning to do).
It was pretty embarassing to go up to the librarian and ask if I could renew a book, only to have her say that I could only renew that one book and I couldn't check anything else out. I went away from the desk with my head hanging. But my shame was short-lived... I went downstairs to meet Josh and promptly picked books out to be checked out on his card. It's nice to have a spouse for many, many reasons, one of them being the power he or she gives you to subvert the system. Take that, Columbia County Library. I have a huge fine but STILL am enjoying the books I checked out over the weekend!!
It is a sizzling 91 degrees outside today, and now I'm beginning to fit the mold of a typical pregnant lady, who is always HOT!! I am uncomfortable beyond belief. Josh and I went to the OB yesterday (a good report! Praise the Lord!). As we were sitting in the waiting room, Josh noticed that I was radiating lots of heat... my body alone could probably heat a small room right now. Wow, it's hot. I'm so thankful that hopefully Baby Desch will be out before July starts.
Have a wonderful day!!
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