In’s & Out’s of the Thaden Family

Tags: random thoughts, scrapbooking, scrappers

Yesterday was an okay day… today seems to be doing good (I’ll let you know)…. can’t wait until Wednesday because I’m off on Thursday & Friday.

On Thursday we are going to get together with a friend to see if our dogs will get along. If they do good then I’ll be keeping her three little Chihuahua mixes for the weekend of the 11th. I’m not worried about Lucas, because I plan on making sure he is worn out before we met them. I want him to be too tired to do much of anything. I’ll let you know how it goes.

Delmar and Monique are coming up on Friday to spend the 4th with us. I’m so excited to see them again!  St Joe is a big tourist trap around this time of year, but they do have a wonderful 4th of July parade, fireworks, music, etc… Hopefully this year I’ll be able to get some good photos of the fireworks. And if I do I’ll be sure to post them on here!

BTW… We passed our last class for LIT1 finally and now we are on to LCW1. We are currently studying our @ss’s off for the pre-assessment test that we have to take that lets WGU know that we are ready to take the real test. Kinda redundant but whatever. I’ll be glad when it’s over!

Well it’s about that time so I’ll type to you later..

Tags: random thoughts

I haven’t picked up my camera in over two weeks…. I have no time to do the things I want to do, and when I do have the time all I want to do is sleep…

When will this vicious cycle end?

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Alright, I know I don’t post regularly, but today is an exception. It’s Father’s Day (Happy Father’s Day Jake!!!!!) first of all, but also the end to the weekend of eternity.

What’s the weekend of eternity you might ask?

Well let me tell you what it isn’t. It isn’t a weekend where you can do whatever you want, it isn’t a weekend to cook that gourmet meal, and it definitely isn’t the weekend to invite friends over to your house.

No, it’s none of those. Now let me get to what it is.

The weekend of eternity is deceptive, it lulls you into thinking that this weekend will be the best one ever. It usually starts this at the time you leave work to come home. Everything so far seems perfect, get home, kiss the wife, kick the dog, and drink a brew. Well, the misses and I gotta a paper to finish and turn in, so we’re putting the final touches on it, then WHAMMO!!!!!

The Weekend of Eternity!!!!!!!! (said in an echo chamber, LOUDLY!)

What happens next is unfathomable. It’s so tragic that you’ll wish your weekend was a morphine-filled haze.

You hear distant thunder and the smattering of a few rain drops hitting the ground, then the thunder gets closer and brings its friend lightning, then both gang up the wind and rain, then the entire group unleashes hell on our little subdivision. Before we could put the finishing touches on our papers the power goes out. Yep, stuck in the basement with no lights. The only way we made it up on the main floor safely was from the lightning flashes (thanks mother nature for your generosity). Well, I decide to see who around us still had power. Our neighbors across the way had the juice, but our next door neighbor was in the same boat as us.

Margaret lays down to read a book and I decide to make some phone calls. Well, the Weekend of Eternity doesn’t like it when people are calling family to complain about it, so when I tried calling my sister all she could hear were squeaks from our dog’s play toy.

DAMN YOU WEEKEND OF ETERNITY!!!!!
*shakes fists*

So far, Friday is shaping up quite eternal. The misses and I break out the deck of cards and play 500 rummy. It was a good game and the dog slept. The weekend of eternity was gracious enough for me to pipe in Pandora on my phone so we could have some tunes, so that was nice.

Then comes Saturday. Oh, oh man, this is where the Weekend of Eternity shined it’s brightest. It knew it had us in its clutches when we fell asleep on Friday and made it to Saturday. I think it was toying with us really. So we wake and realize that there was still no power.

Huh, no power, what ever could that mean? Well let me tell you what that means.

It means a full day with no electricity and the outside temperature is 81 degrees with 100% humidity. I thought I was back in Tennessee for crying out loud. But see, that’s what the Weekend of Eternity does. It brings back all the things you don’t like and magnifies it by 100. Notice I said 100% humidity?

Anyway

The day was hot and muggy. Walking the dog was a treat. Not only was I miserable having to be outside, but the dog was miserable for me making him go outside. The evening came and you’d think we’d get the benefit of having cool air blow through the windows to cool us down, but noooooooooooooo. Instead it was just as hot and friggin muggy, the only relief we got was no sunlight beating down on us. That was a chink in the Weekend of Eternity’s armor. When it can master the sun, then everyone needs to watch out.

On to Sunday. Wake up and ahhhhh, still no power. Now we were able to outsmart the Weekend of Eternity by borrowing our neighbors power generator for our fridge and let me tell you, the Weekend of Eternity didn’t like that one bit. It prolonged what it had started Friday evening: no power.

Then the cavalry arrived, it seems that the Weekend of Eternity broke a power line up the street in 3 different places. Well, they fixed it and we got electricity again, but it wasn’t until after 1 o’clock!!!!!

So with the windows shut, the AC on, and our phones finally getting recharged, we did a dance and celebrated that the Weekend of Eternity’s reign was finally over. Now we are able to make our house comfortable again, use hot water, get on the computer to tell this tale, and overall live again.

In summation, this weekend really sucked.

Tags: daily blah

Margaret has been posting like mad while I just sit like a lump. Sorry for the lack of posts.

One thing I wanted to post was that I really appreciate everything God has given me in my life and that I hope I can live up to his expectations. There are things I’ve done in the past that have hurt people’s feelings and I worry about that now as I grow older. Anyway, I appreciate my family, wife, dog, job, ability to play guitar, and all the great people that I know. I also can’t forget the beautiful scenery around us at all times. I’m just lucky Margaret can capture it all with her camera.

*And baby, you are an awesome photographer and I can’t wait to get you more lenses, so you can hone your craft.*

Most of all, I appreciate my wife. I don’t know what I’d do without her. From all the small things that she does for me to the concessions that she makes for me from time to time. I don’t know who else would put up with that crap. I love her very much.

Okay, so this post wasn’t too informative, but I just wanted to say what I said and that’s it.

Tags: daily blah

I have a Dr’s apt @ 10:30am, then I have to run to Green Harbor to pick up some tooth paste, and then I have to mow the lawn…. other then that I’m off for the day! Yippee… maybe I’ll get some scrapbooking done, but for right now I need to make Darryl’s lunch.

See ya!

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I just submitted my 3 papers ….. not feeling very confident about any of them. Mostly because the directions were never consistant on what form the papers should be written in . One part said a report and the next part said essay… huh??? how am I supposed to determine what’s right and what’s wrong?

I’ve got a bad feeling that I’ll be getting them back for lots of revisions! I’ll let you know the outcome.

…to be continued

Tags: essays, homework, school, WGU

Busy day… was very very unorganized today for some reason. The baby shower was a blast and everyone had fun. Christy & her hubby Michael got some really great gifts.

Now that I’m home I’m really tired and all I want to do is go to bed. See y’all later

Tags: baby, baby shower, random thoughts

Wow this week has been so busy… Helped a friend paint her apartment, went shopping for baby shower gifts, working on a baby brag book for the baby shower, getting the baby shower games together, returned clothes to Kohl’s, went shopping at Target, baking a baby shower cake today, finishing the baby brag book, working on our school papers for this weekend (we have 4 that have to be turned in). WOW that’s it? It sure did seem like a lot more when I was thinking about it in my head….

And the good new is I”m going to TN to visit in August from 8th-16th. I”m so excited to see all my friends and family. Darryl doesn’t get to go because he doesn’t have the vacation time yet. Hopefully he can live without me for 8 days. lol I should have lots of photos when I get back so watch out for the blog post saturated with pics…

Well almost time for me to hit the road to work so catch you later.

Tags: baby shower, shopping, vacation

Bit of a back story first.

Margaret and I slept in a bit this morning and got up, because the dog barked; which meant he really had to potty. So off we went on our morning stroll. It was nice. During the walk we decided to give the dog a bath (at home), because last night when he jumped up on the bed his butt smells horrible. And I mean, horrible. So we got all the necessary supplies ready and off we went. When all was said and done, Lucas was clean and we were ready for coffee. We put Lucas up and we were going to get us some coffee at the local Bearclaw Coffee shindig and we decided on the way over to have our own coffee at the house (we really wanted to stay in today).

Back at the house we were talking about cooking, baking, scrapping, and gaming (yes there’s home work in there somewhere). So we take out all the food we wanted to cook. We’ve had chicken marinating since last weekend, we had some Elgin sausage ready to be eaten, and we took out 10 hamburger patties to cook also. We decided, “Hey, lets go ahead, fire up the grill, and get all the cooking done,” so we did it. It was around nine or ten-ish when we got everything together.

Margaret brought out the coffee; and the poopster; and we sat on the deck enjoying our coffee. Now mind you, this isn’t a nice and sunny morning we have here today. Nope, it’s overcast and rainy looking; which to us is beautiful anyway. So! We’re enjoying our company, coffee, and the smell of the grill while wondering what are we going to have for breakfast.

When all the food was done, we went inside and the smell of all the grilled food just overcame us, so we had a sausage a piece. That was breakfast.

I look over at the clock and it’s 11:40 and I’m like “It’s beer time!!!” If anyone knows what it’s like to grill, it’s nice having a cold one in your hand while manning the grill. So as I type this after having a wonderful cup of coffee that Margaret made me and devouring a deliciously grilled Elgin sausage, we’re both now enjoying a nice cold beer.

So in the matter of a couple hours we were able to experience breakfast and lunch with the two most satisfying drinks available.

CHEERS!!!!

Tags: daily blah, food

Margaret and I received the results of our second class and we passed.

It wasn’t bad, because it was essentially two papers that we had to write. The hard part is down the road where we take the test, but you know WGU has been pretty good so far as in making you study what you need to know. And it’s not like you’re really studying, because you’re researching information on your papers, so of course you’re going to retain more info. That’s not trying to say we won’t be studying, but you get the gist of it.

Other than that, that’s all I gots to report on. I’m gonna enjoy my coffee and let my belly settle from my awesome egg breakfast.

Tags: essays, homework, school, WGU

We’re finally done with both of our Business Ethics papers. Pretty much all week we’ve been reading & doing the soft skills tests to get prepared to start writing the two essays. The softskills is just another system that WGU uses to help it’s students become familiar with the course content. I have to say I enjoy those more then reading the book itself. While reading I found my mind wondering onto other things.

The first essay we had to write was an opinion piece based on a given situation of a company who does have a very good social responsibility to the surrounding community. I found this paper really hard and could feel myself struggling to find the words to convey what I was trying to say. Of course this is an area that continually stumps me. I’m not to happy with it, but I’ve beat myself up over it long enough… I’m going to submit it and see what I get.

The second paper wasn’t really an essay. We had to come up with a code of ethics for our pretend company, a training course, system for monitoring, system for auditing, pathways of reporting violations, and a plan to review/update the code.  I am really proud of how this paper turned out and can’t wait to see what grade I get.

We’ll let you know the outcome! Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Tags: essays, homework, school, WGU

I’ll let Darryl elaborate on this one… I’m just going to give you the facts.

We cut Lucas’s hair today and it looked really good

We took him to the quicky dog wash, but Lucas didn’t really want to go

Lucas slipped out of Darryl’s hands as he was trying to attach his choke chain to the tub because he was really scared of the water

Lucas pushed open the door to the quicky dog wash place and he ran for it

Darryl took off after him at full speed, however I’m not that fast so I was far far behind them

Darryl finally caught Lucas using cheese as bait

Darryl was pissed off so Lucas got a very quick bath

Now Lucas acts really skittish of Darryl

Those are the facts.

* Darryl’s elaboration *

Basically what she said above, with the exception that either Lucas thought I was playing with him (by chasing him) or he knew he was just being a butt. Either way, running around like a mad man at full speed yelling “Lucas” in town going into a neighborhood is not my idea of fun. And yes, that really pissed me off. I sound like an asthmatic smoker with congestion since I was running at full blast. My heart was on fire.

When we got back to the dog wash, we figured out that we lost $15 dollars, during the chase. Margaret found $5 bucks, but the rest was gone. I was pissed.

So yep, that’s kind of it. My chest and lungs hurt from all the weasing and coughing (still!!!). Chalking this one up to another time that Lucas screwed up a morning, the first being him eating chicken bones from the trash. That pissed me off too.

Tags: dog bath

Tags: photography, project 365

Tags: photography, project 365