Yo Happy Day!

I seriously need to keep a list of fun ideas for blog posts, as I was putting gas in the scooter today I was literally laughing out loud about something that happened, and laughing even harder when I thought about how funny the incident would in written description on the blog. For the life of me I can't think of what it was; but should it come back to me I'll let you know.

The last two times we have tried to go to Oregon/Washington the trip has been cancelled, the result of a certain airline that is MOST efficient in their scheduling to ensure there are NO seats ever available to go anywhere. This last weekend I had planned to go without Amy (in case you haven't heard she is a bit too pregnant to travel). On the agenda was a fun filled day of skiing and a little time with family. Friday night as I was preparing to leave a line of storms just unloaded on Houston. As I'm watching the news we hear that both access roads to the airport are closed due to flooding -- it just got worse from there. But I was determined...

A bit later my buddy called to tell me that skiing wouldn't be possible because the weather on Mt. Hood was going to be too warm. As the cards began to get really stacked against this trip I became MORE determined. The flights Friday night all eventually cancelled so I decided to ride on a certain Phoenix based airline for this journey. A small delay out of Houston got me to Phoenix about 15 minutes prior to departure for my connecting flight. I hustle to the gate for Portland to find that the airline with the undisputed worst historical record for timeliness has decided to leave 10 minutes early for Portland... Arrrgh. Three hours later I was on my happy way.

I finally arrived at about 1PM (versus my planned arrival of 8PM the night before). Grandma had quite the list for me; so after replacing two sinks, hanging her new plasma (granny's got it going on), putting in a new water cooler, fixing her garage door opener, cleaning the 1.6 gigbytes (seriously) of crap off of her computer, and repairing her sprinkler system; it was time for me to go. I caught the 2PM flight through ABQ, and DAL arriving home at about midnight on Sunday night. Quite the trip, very fast -- no time to see any other family or friends, but it was nice to finally get all of these projects done for the grand-folks as I've been promising for several months.

A quick update on the squirrel situation. It seems the squirrel we keep seeing on the roof eye-balling us has a companion. And sadly it seems that companion is stuck in the attic. Yes after all our hard work, its true there is a second (I hope that's it) critter still chilling out. The wildlife control people came back out and set more traps -- this time, sadly, there was a lethal trap in the mix -- I've decided my worst nightmare would be for this thing to die in one of our walls, or in an area we can't get too -- oh the stench -- let us pray...

Amy is doing well, and very cute pregnant might I add -- we are taking our final set of baby bump pictures on Sunday -- its so weird to think that we will have a baby in a few weeks, we are so excited, and can't wait to have little Claire in our arms.

A final random note I finally perfected the Starbucks iced mocha -- yes its true, I can now make this little gem of beverage innovation in the comfort of our home -- cha ching, think of the money I'm saving!

More to come...