Why Men Are(Should Be) Happier - Another Blog Post Steal!

I came across the below blog post while "networking" amongst twitter friends and thought this was a GREAT post!

Consider this: Your last name stays put. The garage is all yours. Wedding plans take care of themselves. The world is your urinal. Same work, more pay. Wrinkles add character. Wedding dress $5000. Tux rental-$100. One mood all the time.

Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat. You know stuff about tanks. You can open all your own jars. You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness. Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack. The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades.

Read more of Mike Foster's blog here.

Do You Twitter?

I recently came across this service thanks to Brook.  According to twitter.com, it is "a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?"  I use it as a microblogging service to supplement my blog with personal updates throughout my day.  It has been a cool way of connecting with various people all over the country.  The one person I had in mind when I signed up for this finally did, and this is what his first post was:

Can you feel the love?  Anyways, for those of you who want to follow my updates, you can do so at twitter.com/cjmills.  Even my smoking hot wife, who thinks I'm crazy for updating a thing called twitter, likes it....and why wouldn't she?  Now she can read my mind!

Christians Who Love Beer?

I came across this site tonight. This blog, according to the author/founder, is dedicated to Christians who love beer. Now, I have no issues with beer (as long as you are legal and not abusing the drink), but I am slightly curious to see where this guy goes with this topic. Check out his Beer Tip Of The Week and the definition of Beerean below:

Beerean [bɪər-iən] - noun

a person who finds their whole passion, worth, and salvation in Jesus Christ and seeks to ever increase in their knowledge and enjoyment of beer.

Beer Tip of the Week - Episode 1 from Greg Qualls on Vimeo.

Tribute To Our Dead Fish

The below is a video of our beloved Oscar fish shot a while back.  He passed this week and as a tribute, I wish to show him in all his glory....


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Jadyn's New Swing

How sweet would this be? The swing is made from plastic with fibre optic lighting inserted.  Jade would love it, AND we could have rave parties after house....oh the possibilities.

I stumbled across this while browsing this blog...

Busted....AGAIN?!?!

Looks like the cop got another one....sucker....good thing my house is in the speed trap as I'm already slowing down when entering.....

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Jade's first Video Conference

Today was a big day for Jade -- her first Video Conference.  Since I do a lot of work on my iMac, Jade thinks the only way to have fun with dad while he works is to jump on my lap and watch.  Most of the time she convinces me to open up PhotoBooth to watch herself on the screen.  Today, I caught my good friends Mark and Todd on iChat and invited them to share in the experience.  Don't you just love technology?!?

As a side note - now that both my computer and my wife's laptop have iSight cameras, I can now video chat with my girls when I'm traveling on business!

expertvillage.com - Are You Kidding Me?

There is a whole website dedicated to "how to's" -- anything from breakdancing to identifying birds to being a strong manager to planning a dinner party. This is craziness!!!

Downtown On A Sunday

Check out all the traffic!!!

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BUSTED!!!!

I've been pulled over several times during my life, although not anywhere near the number of times my good friend Andy has. Anyways, you know that feeling you get when you see lights flash behind you, or when you see a cop car turn around after you fly past them? The rush is incredible, isn't it? Tonight, after I finished washing the cars, I noticed flashing lights as I was sitting in my office and looked out the window and this poor lady. Sucker.....

A Long Night And Old Friends

I was up until 3:00 this morning finishing the youth website and a video for church. Needless to say, I was dead tired going to church. I ran into a few old friends of mine who wanted to go out to eat with me, my wife and my daughter. Isn't it great to have friends who come in and save the day without even knowing it?

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Patio Furniture in March

We finally found what we were looking for.....Menards is where it's at!!!

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A Prego's Salad

Andrea and I are out shopping today and had to stop for a quick bite on our way. Have you ever seen a salad like this?!?

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The Great Porn Debate

I watched this on abcnews.com (click HERE to view the full debate).  Pretty interesting stuff.

Crazy bit of info...Craig Gross bought my first house in Huntington with David Dean to use as a rental for college students....

Big Head Fridays

Have you ever had one of those weeks where your heads feels like it is continually growing and that your neck may snap?  Well, that was this week for me.  What a freaking stressful week - but now it is over and my little girl is trying to pull me away from my computer so she can push me in my "rolly" chair around the house....I can feel my head shrinking back to normal size.......ahhhhhh

Size DOES Matter

I've been wanting to post about this since Monday, but as you can tell from my prior post, Jadyn's little accident did not allow for that.  Then the rest of the week turned into craziness so I had to wait....

Our need for a new computer was long overdue.  With me taking on more wedding jobs, editing video on a 12" laptop has not been fun.  In light of my recent promotion, we decided to celebrate and buy the 24" iMac.  I ordered the new addition to our family on the 25th and waited for it to come, tracking the status of its journey from start to finish.  I was alerted that it arrived on Monday afternoon and decided that I would leave work a little early (5:15) so we could begin the bonding process.  Jadyn was even excited as we tore into the box, yelling, "ooooooo, Daddy's puter!"

I haven't had much time to enjoy the full glory that it brings, but I'm sure I will over the next few months and years.  It's funny to think that messing around on the free macintosh computer provided to students at my elementary school (see photo below) would turn into the interest that I currently have for technology today.  I'm sure that in 6 months from now, Apple will launch a new desktop computer that is much cooler than I what I have now, but after 3 years of working on 12 inches of space, I'm sure glad we made the upgrade now.

Photo of my first Mac...my have we come a long way!

Drive a Bus for a Living?

Above is a shot of our bus driver. He has had the right turn signal on for the last 15 minutes. I'm trying to build up enough nerve to tell him...
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