vacation pics

On our recent mini-vacation to atlanta we stayed at a courtyard marriott and they had the most comfortable memory foam beds.
Mom and Dad thought they were comfortable too

(mom-dad-me)

PYFU

that's "put your feet up" to those of you who don't know.

Lydia has been taking all of your advice very seriously. We had a great vacation, and spent many hours in the pool. very realxing.

O happy day!!

The days of eyestrain are over!!

For almost a year now I have been trying to talk the "powers-that-be" at work into buying me a LCD monitor. I've had a big clunky 17" CRT since I came here. After a few severe photoshop sessions resulting in major eyestrain, I began trying to get a 19" LCD. Last week a good deal came on tigerdirect and the boss agreed to order one. My monitor no longer takes up half of my desk.

Vacation (The Devil Went Down to Georgia)

Atlanta was a great getaway! Geron and I went down with his parents and
stayed for two nights. We spent most of the time in the hotel
pool--perfect! I spent lots of time with my feet propped up--on a noodle,
on the pool steps, floating, on the side of the pool--you get the picture.

On Sunday night we drove to Stone Mountain, GA. I'd never heard of this
place, but apparently its a misplaced ROCKY Mountain....Well, its just
exactly a big, stone mountain. It boasts the world's highest relief carving
on the side. I've forgotten what the scene is, but I think its soldiers on
horseback. Anyway, this place is known for their laser light show they
display on the side of the mountain. They show different cartoon type videos
on the side of the mountain with music playing in the back ground. One was
"The Devil Went Down to Georgia." I think this one was especially
appropriate that night for the following reason. Since this was a last
minute decision to go and see, we didn't get very good seats. We wound up
sitting on very HOT pavement way far back from the show. It took us awhile
to even find these seats and I was starting to get rather hot. Well, once
we sat down, I pretty much lost it. I was utterly miserable and thinking
"Somebody say 'Let's go Home. Please, anybody!' " I had a psycho chic break
down and started crying and couldn't stop for awhile. Geron recommended us
going back to the van and waiting in the air conditioning until it was over.
(turns out we should have because we actually had a better view from the
van.) Geron, Preston and I remained on the sidewalk, though, and Patsy sat
on the step of one of those binocular type stands that you put a quarter in.
Directly in front of her, on the wall, sat a little kid who kept farting.
So, needless to say, we stayed for maybe 30 minutes of the show and then
left. We grabbed some cool treats at Sonic on the way back to the hotel.
My sonic Cherry slush combined with about 2/3rds of Preston's coconut one
was the best thing about THAT particular trip.

The rest of the vacation was really good, though. We spent more time in the
pool--the last two times we were in it, we had it all to ourselves--that
rocked! We taught the parental units how to play one our favorite games
"Hand and Foot". I'm not so sure that was a great idea because the in-laws
got to see a side of their daughter-in-law that they didn't know existed.
Yes, I can be a very sore loser, especially to beginners who cheat and don't
even know they're cheating. I'll just say that this is a partner game and
someone assumed that because you have a partner you can show your partner
what you're holding. THose of you who play this game will know what I'm
talking about. I still love her, though, and would play again with the same
partners.

Coolest thing about the trip--BABY GOT HICCUPS!!! I woke up in the middle
of the night the second night we were there and felt what seemed to be a
singlel kick coming every 4 seconds or so. It finally hit me that she had
the hiccups. She got them again yesterday, right after supper. And when we
finally got home last night and went to bed, I think she realized how
comfortable I was and got REALLY active. Vacation was good and any one
after this will never be the same.

P.S. I bought a pair of Crocs. Geron was with me at the checkout and told
the clerk "Anytime she tries on a pair of shoes without crying, I buy them
for her."

the prez does u2 covers?

this is awesome, finally bush is getting with one of the best songs ever. saw this on markos blog

mini vacation

Hey guys i greet you from the A-T-L. Lydia and I are with my parents on a little excursion. Everyone keeps telling us that life will change drastically when the baby comes. So, this is kind of our last hurrah of freedom before the shackles of parenthood are firmly fastened to our appendages. This dumb hotel has high speed, but for some reason I can't get gmail.

yesterday we ate at my all time favorite Atlanta joint. It's called pappadeaux, and it's some of the best Cajun food you can find inland. I drowned myself in crawfish ettoufee and fried crawfish. It was quite tasty.

I'm not sure whats on tap for today, but thats the joy of vacation.

in honor of one of our new vavorite shows on vh1, i may start ending all of my post with this...

"God is love
Rev Run"

A new registry

Check it out, everyone!! We started a new registry at www.Target.com today.
We took some items off the Babies R Us list and added them to the Target
list. The Babies R Us list is still active, though, since Target didn't
have some of the same things. We added a few toys this time and I think
Geron may have even scanned one of those "crinkle" toys. He and baby can
get up in the middle of the night to play with that one while I sleep!