A tale of a football-less Sunday.
It's like the preview for what the rest of winter is going to be like: no football. This one isn't so bad because I know there will be a game next week. But after that, it's a huge blank slate until the regular season starts in September. At least this year there isn't a huge amount of talk about Favre retiring (knock on wood).
Nick and I got up and went to church, then tried a new resturant for lunch: Salsarita's. It was pretty good but a little expensive for two lunches. Nick liked that the tortillas tasted like the ones we got in Cozumel. Then it was over to Lowe's to rent a Rug Doctor! I was still pretty wiped out from girl's night so I fell asleep while he did it. When he finished, he went out to the ice house. I woke up and cautiously made my way down to the sunroom - the carpet is still wet! So I'm trapped in this room unless I want my socks to get soaked. Guess we won't be moving any furniture back today!
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Robbed!
I got home from girl's night and something seemed to be missing. Where's all our stuff?
What a big living room you have!
Oh, here it is :)
This doesn't look right
What a big living room you have!
Oh, here it is :)
This doesn't look right
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Throwback Week
Last night the Bacos volleyball team played a new team that decided to name themselves "The Trixsters" (note the use of the letter "s" in the middle). In celebration, Nick, Krista, and Bob wore throwback jerseys to the game:
Tonight, I went on an old-fashioned rampage at poker and won one for the girls. I started off doing poorly, not even winning a hand until the 2-4 blinds. I think I was down to about $50. Then I won a couple of small hands and got my first big break: pocket Qs. Perfect flop too: A-Q-10. I had first decision and checked, figuring someone would bet their A (since I had raised pre-flop). I got a nibble and a medium-sized bid. I knew the guy who raised didn't have K-J so I check-raised and went all-in. He thought about it for a long time and then called - he had A-10. The hand played out and I won! After that, I was pretty much on a tear until heads up. Of the 8 people left at table, I took out 5 more and ended up heads up with Ross. Only Katie, Dave and Rob were immune to my streak. I had a bigger stack, but doubled Ross up. After that it was pretty slow for a while; I won the only big hand which put us about even. From there, I had a run of great luck: lots of pocket pairs and A-face card suited. Ross never called my all-ins, but I got 50 from him each time. Finally the last hand: I flopped mid-pair and a 4-card flush draw. Ross went all-in and I didn't believe him so I called. The turn gave him a bigger pair and the river gave me a flush! Yeah, I'm bragging, but it was a pretty fantastic comeback from the short stack (and I know I'm dooming myself for next week). I'll enjoy the feeling while it lasts. It was a fun poker night.
Tonight, I went on an old-fashioned rampage at poker and won one for the girls. I started off doing poorly, not even winning a hand until the 2-4 blinds. I think I was down to about $50. Then I won a couple of small hands and got my first big break: pocket Qs. Perfect flop too: A-Q-10. I had first decision and checked, figuring someone would bet their A (since I had raised pre-flop). I got a nibble and a medium-sized bid. I knew the guy who raised didn't have K-J so I check-raised and went all-in. He thought about it for a long time and then called - he had A-10. The hand played out and I won! After that, I was pretty much on a tear until heads up. Of the 8 people left at table, I took out 5 more and ended up heads up with Ross. Only Katie, Dave and Rob were immune to my streak. I had a bigger stack, but doubled Ross up. After that it was pretty slow for a while; I won the only big hand which put us about even. From there, I had a run of great luck: lots of pocket pairs and A-face card suited. Ross never called my all-ins, but I got 50 from him each time. Finally the last hand: I flopped mid-pair and a 4-card flush draw. Ross went all-in and I didn't believe him so I called. The turn gave him a bigger pair and the river gave me a flush! Yeah, I'm bragging, but it was a pretty fantastic comeback from the short stack (and I know I'm dooming myself for next week). I'll enjoy the feeling while it lasts. It was a fun poker night.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
A Return to Normalcy
After a brief hiatus (one night of Scrabble, one night of cribbage and one night of [gasp] no games), Nick and I returned to our new favorite, Empire Builder. Thanks to a brilliant last-card pick-up (coffee to Savannah when I was already in Mexico City!) I was able to defeat him by 15 million dollars! I even gave him $4 million on my last turn - I was trying to help him out. I think it was one of our best games ever.
In other news, the scrapbooking store by our house closed today. They lost the lease on the space they were renting. So from now on it's a 10-15 minute drive to get supplies instead of a 2 minute one and I have to actually go through stop lights and on the freeway. To those of you in Iowa, you're probably thinking big deal, but to me it's a little sad.
In other news, the scrapbooking store by our house closed today. They lost the lease on the space they were renting. So from now on it's a 10-15 minute drive to get supplies instead of a 2 minute one and I have to actually go through stop lights and on the freeway. To those of you in Iowa, you're probably thinking big deal, but to me it's a little sad.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Repeat!
Nick and I won another set! We went 6-3, 4-6, and lost the tiebreaker. Maybe 2008 is our year for tennis!
Sunday, January 20, 2008
ARG!!! Disappointment.
What a terrible showing by our offense today. I was happy initially to see that Driver was able to make some big plays, but when it really counted they couldn't get it done. Good luck to the Giants against the Patriots in two weeks!
Home Improvement
My camera hasn't been very busy recently, but we have! Nick was taking a few pictures for his Mom tonight and left the camera out so I thought I'd take a few of some of his recent home improvement projects. Luckily they are all pretty small and don't really require "before" pictures.
More to come I'm sure!
The drawers are fixed! If you've never used my kitchen drawers this means nothing to you, but to anyone who has ever gone into one, you know this is a reason to celebrate!
Our new kitchen table, purchased and built after we dropped Erin off at the airport on New Year's Day (but photographed 15 minutes ago).
The new projector, ready for the game!!
Projector screen - it hides behind the crossbeam when not in use.
More to come I'm sure!
Scrabble WTF
Nick and I sat down to play Scrabble tonight for the first time since New Year's Eve. Apparently things didn't quite get put away correctly when we were done that night. The board was starting to fill up and there were still a lot of letters left in the bag, then I pulled out a 5th D. Uh-oh. We played a little while longer, but Nick was creaming me and there were so many tiles that we ended up calling the game. We sorted out the letters and found that we were missing both Cs, an I and a U. Meanwhile, there were 20 extra tiles in the bag, mainly As and Es. Oops. After some counting, we now know that both sets have all their letters! Next time we play two games at once we'll have to use two tables or erect some sort of physical border between the two. Now for a rematch...
Interesting Article
Guess the Giants will have sort of a home field advantage later today when they play the Packers. Somehow I don't think it will be much help. Go Pack Go!!
Monday, January 14, 2008
We Beat Ed!
Tonight Nick and I played tennis and managed to beat Ed and his partner in one of the sets! Final score was 4-6, 6-3, 2-7 (tie-breaker). I'll take it! After tennis Ed and Dave came over and we had supper and played Empire Builder. My 4-player game stinks!! I didn't even have $200 million when the game ended (but I was close). Dave won again - he's gotten really good at the game, really fast. Go Dave...I guess...
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Upset Weekend!
While Nick was busy at the fishhouse today, I stayed at home and watched the Chargers upset the Colts and made two scrapbook pages. He came home with a pizza and we sat down to watch the second half of the Dallas-Giants game. It wasn't a great game but the Giants managed to win! That means they get to come to Green Bay next week. The teams I was rooting for over the weekend went 2 for 4, but the most important two won so I can't complain. Green Bay beat New York 35-13 in New York in Week 2 - hopefully a good omen. Go Pack Go!
After the game, we played the concluding round of Empire Builder. Nick had a better train and was consistently about $30 million ahead of me, but I caught up at the end and managed to beat him by $20 million when his cards stalled out. Go Karin! To finish the weekend, I'm going to make one more scrapbook page and Nick's going to play his computer game. Here's to a good week before the NFC Title game comes around!
After the game, we played the concluding round of Empire Builder. Nick had a better train and was consistently about $30 million ahead of me, but I caught up at the end and managed to beat him by $20 million when his cards stalled out. Go Karin! To finish the weekend, I'm going to make one more scrapbook page and Nick's going to play his computer game. Here's to a good week before the NFC Title game comes around!
More Weekend Details
Nick is doing some work and I'm still up and feel like posting so here's some random blabbings. Last night Nick went out to the ice house - still no fish! Better luck next time! I finally got the right paper and was able to finish up the pontoon pages from our camping trip in June. That gets me caught up through our first Vegas trip of the year and leaves me with only about 20 pages left in the blue scrapbook. It's a monster too - almost 100 pages! I think the next one is going to be a little smaller because that bugger is heavy (yes, I just finished a book set in England).
Today (Saturday) I got up early and started cleaning. Our house is now sparkling clean, and with the exception of my Christmas cards and our wreath, completely de-Christmas-itized. A little sad, but only 10 more months til I can get it all out again! And the wreath and cards are going to hang around for a while longer because they're easy to clean up and I like how they look. Nick and I then made a run to Costco to get some food, then came home and played Empire Builder until the game began.
Our Spread - Only the butter didn't come from Costco!
Amazing but true: 6 people ate 95% of that veggie platter!
Keeping a stiff upper lip - this was after the Seahawk's first touchdown!
Ryan Grant gave me a scare early on with his two fumbles that were converted into touchdowns, but after that the game was all Packers. I knew Brett was going to come out throwing and when Greg Jennings caught his first touch down pass I knew it was all clear sailing until the end of the game. It was great! We watched most of the Patriots-Jaguars game afterwards - wish the Jags would have played a little better in the second half and taken care of business!
When football was over, Nick and I sat down and finished our game of Empire Builder. He beat me, but I put up a good fight (had about $215 million). I demanded a rematch and managed to dominate the entire time, leaving him with one city unconnected and only about $150 million. Guess we'll have to play again to determine the ultimate champion - darn!
Ok, guess our day wasn't all that interesting, but I had fun writing about it. Big football day tomorrow - good luck to the Colts and the Giants!
Today (Saturday) I got up early and started cleaning. Our house is now sparkling clean, and with the exception of my Christmas cards and our wreath, completely de-Christmas-itized. A little sad, but only 10 more months til I can get it all out again! And the wreath and cards are going to hang around for a while longer because they're easy to clean up and I like how they look. Nick and I then made a run to Costco to get some food, then came home and played Empire Builder until the game began.
Our Spread - Only the butter didn't come from Costco!
Amazing but true: 6 people ate 95% of that veggie platter!
Keeping a stiff upper lip - this was after the Seahawk's first touchdown!
Ryan Grant gave me a scare early on with his two fumbles that were converted into touchdowns, but after that the game was all Packers. I knew Brett was going to come out throwing and when Greg Jennings caught his first touch down pass I knew it was all clear sailing until the end of the game. It was great! We watched most of the Patriots-Jaguars game afterwards - wish the Jags would have played a little better in the second half and taken care of business!
When football was over, Nick and I sat down and finished our game of Empire Builder. He beat me, but I put up a good fight (had about $215 million). I demanded a rematch and managed to dominate the entire time, leaving him with one city unconnected and only about $150 million. Guess we'll have to play again to determine the ultimate champion - darn!
Ok, guess our day wasn't all that interesting, but I had fun writing about it. Big football day tomorrow - good luck to the Colts and the Giants!
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Go Pack Go!
We had an impromptu football party today. After a rocky start, the Pack prevailed to outscore the Seahawks 42-6!! So awesome! Gotta cheer on the Giants tomorrow - we're only one game away from the Superbowl!!!! :)
Sunday, January 06, 2008
Goodbye Tree!
Nick is outside right now taking the lights off of it. The tree stopped taking water about a week before Christmas, so it wasn't good. We wanted to keep it up through our "Christmas morning" with Nick's family on the 29th, and today was the first chance we had to drag it outside. I took the ornamanets off yesterday and it made a huge mess. Nick started to take the lights off this morning and decided it would be easier to do it outside. We got it onto the tarp to drag it outside and it sounded like a rain stick so many needles fell off!
Yesterday we got to hang out with Smeeta - she is in town for the very end of her winter break. She, Katie, Krista and I went shopping then had lunch at B Dubs while our guys (and Ed) got the ice house set up on the lake and built a new roof on it. Sounds like I won't be seeing Nick for a while!
The play-offs seem to be going well. Seattle beat Washington so we'll be playing them on Saturday. Matt Hasselbeck got it out of his system already, starting with post-game press conference with "We want the ball and we're gonna score!" before anyone could even ask for it. Pittsburgh fell to the Jags and the Tampa Bay-New York game just started, tied at zero six minutes into it. GO PACK GO!
Yesterday we got to hang out with Smeeta - she is in town for the very end of her winter break. She, Katie, Krista and I went shopping then had lunch at B Dubs while our guys (and Ed) got the ice house set up on the lake and built a new roof on it. Sounds like I won't be seeing Nick for a while!
The play-offs seem to be going well. Seattle beat Washington so we'll be playing them on Saturday. Matt Hasselbeck got it out of his system already, starting with post-game press conference with "We want the ball and we're gonna score!" before anyone could even ask for it. Pittsburgh fell to the Jags and the Tampa Bay-New York game just started, tied at zero six minutes into it. GO PACK GO!
Saturday, January 05, 2008
Happy New Year 2008!
A pictoral story of our New Year's Eve. We had a great time celebrating! All of our games had randomly selected teams, and everyone was tied going into the last one. Ed and I ended up winning so we were the big winners! Without further ado:
I couldn't resist this Costco cake! It says "Merry Christmas" because it served a dual purpose as the dessert for our dinner on Saturday as well.
Tacos for supper. Yum!
Choose a game, any game!
We used a timer for Trivial Pursuit and it came down to the wire - both teams were trying desperately to land on brown! In the end, we tied, but it was very close!
Tequilia shots! No one saw that coming!
Cranium winners.
I've still never won a game of Bohnanza - I did add to my stash of ties though!
Talking to Smeeta in her remote location after another of her favorite games - Taboo.
We went downstairs and turned on the TV to watch the new all-LED ball drop. They were at 18 in the New Year's countdown - not bad. Check out Ryan Seacrest's circa 1988 headseat!
Ed won the battle for first over Nick in 7 Up - 7 Down. No one else was even close.
Dueling Scrabble was a lot of fun. Our board was quite a bit more serious - Dave, Ed and Nick never used more than 3 letters in a single turn!
Catchphrase! winners.
I think we used every glass in the house.
If you're wondering, we ended up partying until about 3 AM, then went to bed. We got up around noon and Dave cooked breakfast for everyone. Yum!
I couldn't resist this Costco cake! It says "Merry Christmas" because it served a dual purpose as the dessert for our dinner on Saturday as well.
Tacos for supper. Yum!
Choose a game, any game!
We used a timer for Trivial Pursuit and it came down to the wire - both teams were trying desperately to land on brown! In the end, we tied, but it was very close!
Tequilia shots! No one saw that coming!
Cranium winners.
I've still never won a game of Bohnanza - I did add to my stash of ties though!
Talking to Smeeta in her remote location after another of her favorite games - Taboo.
We went downstairs and turned on the TV to watch the new all-LED ball drop. They were at 18 in the New Year's countdown - not bad. Check out Ryan Seacrest's circa 1988 headseat!
Ed won the battle for first over Nick in 7 Up - 7 Down. No one else was even close.
Dueling Scrabble was a lot of fun. Our board was quite a bit more serious - Dave, Ed and Nick never used more than 3 letters in a single turn!
Catchphrase! winners.
I think we used every glass in the house.
If you're wondering, we ended up partying until about 3 AM, then went to bed. We got up around noon and Dave cooked breakfast for everyone. Yum!
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Welcome 2008!
Happy New Year, everyone! We made it through with a fun party last night - lots of games lasting until about 3 AM. Hoping to post a picture story of that later so no more details for now.
Today we got Erin safely to the airport and I managed to burn all my pictures to back-up DVDs - it's nice to finally have some time to do stuff like that. Nick and I are looking forward to a January of staying home and catching up; we haven't had a weekend here alone since the first one in December!
Here's to a good 2008 for all!
Today we got Erin safely to the airport and I managed to burn all my pictures to back-up DVDs - it's nice to finally have some time to do stuff like that. Nick and I are looking forward to a January of staying home and catching up; we haven't had a weekend here alone since the first one in December!
Here's to a good 2008 for all!
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