I'm such a dork...

... I'm still amazed that Elsa puts up with me. I decided to build my own PC. While I've worked on laptops and desktops forever, I've never actually built one just for me. After saving a little bit of money and looking for deals, I was finally able to get the pieces I wanted. So now we have a machine at home that actually works... if we could only get a high speed connection at home I'd be set :)

I also found out how I can create my own ringtones for my cell phone for free. This way I don't have to pay $1-$3 for a popular song as a ringtone! So Elsa and I were joking around last night trying to find a song that could be her ringtone and eventually she picked "On Wisconsin"... big suprise :)

I'm still trying to figure out how I should put my pictures online. I've played around with Ofoto, and Flickr, but I'm not sure if that's what I'm looking for. I'll probably play with it more over Christmas break and try to have it all figured out and online for the new year. I promise, very soon you'll get to see some pics.

Not much else going on. We're hoping that Jay hasn't caused too much damage in Texas. At least Jill will be down there soon to try and control him. We did find out what God had in mind why we weren't going to Texas. Our car was in the shop last week for a couple of days and about $900 later... needless to say that payed for our trip. Hopefully we'll get to see a couple people over Christmas. To those in Texas - we WILL get down there, we promise! We want to see all y'all.

Well... back to the grindstone. Adios!

59, 20Q and snow

So it's been awhile since I've posted anything, but there realy hasn't been too much to write about. Work. Eat. Sleep. Repeat. That is until now!

Last night we went over to my parents house to celebrate my dad's 59th birthday. This is kinda a big milestone because his older brother is the first male on his side of the family to live past 60. My grandpa died at 59, and I think great grandpa was 58. I don't get over to see my folks as much as I should. Its easy to tell yourself that you've been busy and that you'll make the time, but then you usually never do. It really hit me last night, because my dad mentioned several times that we could "stop by anytime". This is usually mom's territory, so I know that its important to him if he's going to say it to me several times.

Before we went over to my parents house, we stopped by Kohl's. Big surprise. I feel like I should buy stock in the company, or they should at least give me a parking spot for how much we go there :) Anyway, Elsa found this game called 20Q. You pick an object and then this thing will ask you 20 questions. After 20 questions it will tell you what you were thinking of. Its pretty addicting. Last night we picked: a key, Christmas tree, car, cake, and ham. It got almost all of them.

And finally, last night we got our first taste of snow. Elsa was SO excited to finally see some snow. I think there was only 1/4 to 1/2 of an inch, but it was enough to make the ground white and the roads slippery. I know there was a huge accident this morning in Burnsville, so it should make for an interesting ride home tonight. Back to work :) Adios!