Brush them in the bathroom

Damien has a habit that drives me crazy!



At night, when he goes to brush his teeth with the Sonic Care toothbrush, he doesn't stay in the bathroom. He walks around the bedroom, the living room or follows me around. If I am in the bedroom watching TV, he stands right in front of the TV, so that he can hear it. Then I can't hear it over the toothbrush. He knows I do not like it when he does this, so now I just give him the look and off he goes.  However, I do give him kudos for his great dental hygiene. He always rinses, brushes, floss and rinses again every night. I, on the other hand, am not so dedicated. I hope Dylan doesn't take after me in that respect. I chalk it up to being lazy and just wanting to get in bed. 

Does anyone have any pet peeves of their significant other or family members?

Microwave quandary

Everyone knows the rules of the microwave when it comes to metal....you don't put it in the microwave, right? Well, Damien and I thought about it, and wondered how then does the microwave shelf, which is metal, not blow the thing up.

Last week, our microwave went out and we had to have a repair man come out. After he was finished fixing it and giving us helpful hints on our appliances, he asked if we had any questions. Damien looked at me and said, she does. I smiled real big, and he said, you wanna know how the metal shelf doesn't blow up your microwave. I laughed. (Apparently, he gets asked this a lot.)

He explained that it has some kind of reflective coating and that it's also stabilized on the plastic hooks. (Of course, he said it more techy.) He said that you could put a bunch of screws in there and it wouldn't do anything, but I am not going to try that.

Just wondered if anyone else thought about this or are we the only ones with too much time on our hands. (This was thought of pre-Dylan. I can barely think of anything now and days.)

Chillaxin at Oaklawn

Chillaxin...what's that? It's a little bit of chilling and a little bit of relaxing. Thus Dylan in his lounge chair...

Our church holds events at the Oaklawn Estate (as seen on HGTV's design star). Last night, we got together as a church family to eat together, a la picnic style and share in some baptisms. If I remember correctly, there were 4 kids and 5 adults that were baptized. Of the adults, our friends Jill and Glenn (you may remember from previous posts that they had a baby 10 days before we had Dylan) got baptized.  We are so excited for you!!

Flashback Friday - Birthday Boy

It's official, Damien is now on the backside of 30. Tomorrow, he will be 36, and it's his first birthday as a Dad.  

Damien, I hope your day is filled with joy, love and laughter.  

He's got the HUTZBAH!

If you know me well enough, you know that I am not one for confrontation. I like to sweep things under the rug and ignore them, unless you really make me mad, but that's another story. When it comes to customer service issues, you do not want me handling them. If I get a "no", then I am like, "oh okay, thanks" and I let it go. Damien, on the other hand, is the exact opposite...thankfully. I guess since he has to deal with customer service issues all day long, he makes it a point to get things his way. He doesn't take NO for an answer.

For example, a few weeks ago, I was trapped into buying a vacation to Vegas for 4 nights for $60. I thought it was a great deal and I couldn't pass it up. (mind you they called during a moment of weakness, I was sleep deprived and feeding Dylan at the time). I have been to Vegas 3 times, and I really do not care to go back, but we got such a great deal on the trip since Damien is a diamond member with Hilton. When the guy started spouting off my confirmation number. I snapped out of it and told him I wanted to cancel. He informed me that it was too late, and to cancel it with Hilton (I think this was a third party timeshare thing.) He said, Hilton is not going to loose your business over $60. I told Damien what I had done, and he said he would take care of it. He called a few days later and after speaking to a few people (the first few people said NO), we no longer had to go to Vegas.

Then, the other day, I called the hospital to check on getting a discount on a bill that we already paid. The deal is, if you pay the bill in full within 10 days, you could get a 35% discount. We didn't know this, so we just paid it all. With the discount, we could get $215 back. I called 3 times and spoke to different people, and each one of them said "NO". The account was already closed and could not be reopened. My response, Okay, thanks anyway. Damien asked if I talked to a supervisor, and I said no. Cue Damien, he called and asked to speak to a supervisor. Now I don't know what he said as he told me to go back to the bedroom, but he worked his magic once again. Our check should be in the mail soon.

All this to say, when we have issues around here, Damien is the man to get them resolved. I never have any success. I just roll over and show them my belly. I guess he shows them his teeth :)

Cue the water works

I saw this clip on the Today show this morning, and I cried my little eyes out.  If seeing it once wasn't enough, I rewound it twice and watched it three times. Then I found it on you tube and watched it 2 more times. Of course, I cried every time. It is the sweetest thing that I have seen in some time.