The Year 2000

Travel back with me if you will about ten years, right after the world did not end from Y2K. Things were progressing along smoothly. DVD players were out, but VHS's were much more popular. The Play Station 2 was just coming out, and there were no X Boxes yet. None of your cell phones had cameras in them and most probably looked like this.

First generation Ipods had not come out yet, but we did have MP3 Players. They were the size of cd players, would only take a few hours to import the 6 gigs of music to it, and cost around $420.

While most people have moved on from most of the technology of that era, many are still stuck in the early 2000's. The main culprit of this are companies who are still using Windows XP operating systems. It wouldn't make sense to use that cell phone, or MP3 player these days, so how can we still be using Windows XP? I don't know. I know cost of upgrading is a factor, but when the new computers they buy are still XP, it doesn't make any sense to me.

Score update:

Fish-4, Mandy-0.

Yesterday was my last day for a long time that I did not have to work for a full day. I actually got off at 10. So, Mandy and I decided to go up to Salt Lake and take Mikah to Wheeler Farm. We were planning on coming home around 2 because Mandy had a photo shoot, but she canceled that because of the rain. Then, Mandy decided to stay up and hang out with her sisters until around 9. I will give more details of this trip in another post. On the way home I find out that Mandy had not fed the all day. Then, when we got home, it was cold in the house. Mandy had turned the air all the way down trying to freeze the fish while she starved it. But the fish is still alive. Go Fish!!

Mandy's Skirt

Mandy didn't really explain what she wanted in a skirt, and that picture I don't think shows it very well. She wants a high-waist knee-length skirt that flares out at the bottom. Why I know how to explain what she wants in clothes better than she does, nobody knows. But here is a better picture of what she wants. I don't know if she would like this one exactly, but this is the shape she wants.


Follow this link here to shop more skirts that are like this.

If only she had asked me to find it...

Mandy Loves Me

And I love her too. If you are coming from her blog you would see all the reasons that she loves me, but she has them all wrong. I am the best, and I am a good kisser, but the "he will do anything for me" statement is only true when there is neither a good CSI nor sports on TV. It is true that I am the one in the house that cleans the bathroom, but usually only after three weeks of her asking me to do it. I am smart, good lookin' and funny, and I can see why she would love me because of that. But the main reason she should love me is because I was willing to go out in public in this.




We had an 80's themed ward activity a while ago, and we were the only ones dressed up for the first half hour or so. Eventually other people began showing up dressed in 80's clothes, but we were all by ourselves for a while. I still can't believe I went outside in that, and that I let her post it on her blog. At least she was dressed up too.

I love this picture of Mikah. He looks like he is on something. I blew it up for all of you to see.

Job Search

As some of you may know, I am trying to find an internship for the summer, which I hope to lead to a full time position after I graduate. Or I hope to at least find a place where I can get some experience, so I can have a better chance at getting a job next year. Well, so far, I have yet to get any offers. I have had a few interviews, some that I felt really good about, but still nothing. Earlier in the semester my wife helped me post my resume on a lot of sites. I thought it would probably be a waste of time, but it couldn't hurt. I wouldn't end up with less job offers because I posted my resume around. Then, about a week ago, my landlord was here taking out our carpet so that more could be laid. We talked about me wanting to get an internship, and he said that he knew a few people he could pass my resume onto. So, I emailed him my resume. Then a few days later, Mandy got a call from a recruiter from a local company that had a full time position open, and wanted me to interview for it. I was at work, so I wasn't able to talk to him. We assumed it was someone our landlord knew. When I spoke with the recruiter after work, I found out that he had just pulled my resume off of an online sight that I had posted it on. It seems like it wasn't a waste of time after all. I still don't have a job, and I will still have to wait some time before I even get the interview, but I am glad that we took the time to post my resume on those sites.

Score update:

Fish-2, Mandy-0

Earlier today I chatted with my wife asking if she had fed the fish yet. It had been 16 hours since the last feeding, and you are supposed to feed the fish every 12 hours. It took her a minute to reply, but she said, yeah I fed him. I asked when she had fed him, and she said about an hour ago. I thought, yeah it was about a minute ago, and that was only because I asked if you had fed it. Anyway, the fish survived the starvation attempt, and Mandy is trying to find another way to kill the fish.

What Our Baby Was Supposed to Look Like

While I was looking for a good picture of my couch yesterday I came across this. Almost two years ago in Aug 2008 Mandy and I did a Make Me Babies baby. It is supprisingly accurate. It was close on the nose shape, eye color and cheeks. A swing and a miss on the hair for now, but all in all it was pretty good.

Now you may say, oh I want to do that to see what my babies are going to look like. Don't be fooled. It does not always work. I know Josh and Cari have not had any babies yet, but there is no way that two pasty white people are going to make a baby that looks like this.

Sorry to dash your hopes Josh, but if you want your babies to be good at basketball, they are going to have to work at it.

New Furniture

I know you may be wondering what a video of my Son making a basket has to do with new furniture. Well it was the only good picture I could find of our old couches. You can see me laying on our old sofa in that video. It was really nice to not have to buy new furniture when we got married, and the couches weren't too bad, but, yeah they were pretty bad. Both couches only had 3 legs, so we had some little pans under them to hold them up. When you sat in them, you sank into them, and got stuck. And all the pillows were falling apart. So, thank you Mandy's parents for letting us use them. We really did like having furniture for the first two and a half years of our marriage, but we are pretty happy to get new ones.

Here is our new living room, pretty much all full of couch and ottoman. They are really nice though.

This is were I first laid on the couch. Sorry I don't have a picture or a video of this to show you how nice it is compared to our old one, but Mandy wasn't here when I was laying on it, and Mikah wasn't doing anything cute in front of me, so there wouldn't have been any capturing of the moment, even if Mandy was here.

Enjoy your new couches Michelle!!!

Fish-1, Mandy-0. Mandy has not tried to kill the fish since my last post so the score is still the same.

Mikah's New Fish

So, you know those two fish that Mandy killed on Friday? Well, we got our son a new one. It is a betta fish this time. We only got one, because if you put two bettas together they will attack each other. I thought that it would be fun to watch, but I don't think Mandy wanted any help killing the fish this time. She found out from her friends that bettas are hard to kill, and she wants the challenge to be all hers. (See her post here). It must be true that they are harder to kill because we have had it for over a day and it is still alive. Or it could also be that we spent $4 on it. If you do the math, we paid $0.28 for about 12 hours of fish aliveness, so this fish should make it for at least a week before Mandy can kill it.

So we tried to recreate the whole first pet experience for Mikah, so he wouldn't be heart broken about his dead fish. Here he is trying to eat his fish bowl again. I may or may not be pushing his face against the bowl for recreational (the act of recreating, not because it was fun) purposes.

He is so happy here, I don't think he even realizes that his fish is blue instead of gold, and that there is only one of them.

Earlier today, Mandy fed the fish and made her first attempt at killing it, although, she did try to blame it on Mikah. She was "just showing him the fish as he came up to eat, and did catch him one time as he tried to pet it." She even put Mikah in time out for "trying to hit the fish." But I am on to you Mandy. Fish-1, Mandy-0. I will try to keep you updated on the score as things progress.

Vocab word for the day:

Aliveness: see also animateness; The state of being alive; exuberance, intensity.