Disney Deja View

I found these pictures from a russian website. Obviously they have way too much time on their hands, of course so do I if I found these on a russian website.. doh. Alot of the images are recycled exactly to later in the movie. In some cases the exact images are in different movies. Are they an homage to previous movies or just lazy artists? I know animation takes alot of time and effort, but come on now. So if you feel a sence of deja view when watching these film you know why.

There are alot of pictures to show so I am just going to do them a few at a time so I can keep if from filling an entire blogger page.

Darn you Ebay

We are getting ready for a garage sale this weekend. It's a difficult task to go through your stuff and decide what to keep and what to try and get a quarter for. Being a notorious pack rat I have a lot of stuff that looks stupid, but meant something to me in my youth. Most of the stuff has been in boxes for years now and I obviously don't really need this stuff. Anyway going through boxes last night I got unsentimental (if that is a word) and really made tough decisions on my stuff, throwing away a ton of high school stuff like papers and newspapers. About the only thing I saved is some of the marching band stuff. There is some stuff that you just can't throw away, but it isn't really needed either. My mom unloaded my baby stuff on me a couple of years ago. I don't really need my baby shoes, old teeth (tooth fairy), and other crap but I can't throw that stuff away. Anyway, isn't it the job of the parents to keep this stuff at their house until they die? I swear it's a law.

Usually for garage sales you just make a pile of stuff that you don't want and throw it on a table with a slightly inflated, and totally estimated, price hoping to get a portion of that price. But now with the advent of Ebay, I have been putting stuff aside thinking that I could get a lot more for it on Ebay than in a garage sale, or at least I am thinking that. I have actually found some of the stuff on Ebay for a few dollars here and there. Now I have bought stuff through ebay but never sold stuff, so I am going to venture into the world of selling on Ebay. Ignorance is bliss is my thinking, and all of this stuff I would have happily just thrown on a table and got whatever for it, but now I actually have to work at it to make a few dollars. I know I could take it to an Ebay store, but I don't want someone else cutting into my few dollar profits. And you never know if someone really wants my electronic quarterback handheld game with the red dots and would pay a lot for it. You wouldn't think that anyone would want my crap, but then I run into people like MR who buys stuff like this and I find there is hope. I will just put it on the list of things to do.

Easter 2006

when did Easter become as nuts as Christmas? With kids and grandparents it's getting as busy as Christmas. Hatching a plan on what we were doing this year for Easter was more of planning a full scale campain then hatching a plan.

Easter Eve.... 6:30pm.... Jenny got home from work. The plan of attack for the night. Frost 4 dozen cookies (luckily they had already been baked the day before), frost and decorate a cake (again luckily had been made the day before) for a Easter get together at Aunt Carol's. She could have easily just done one of the two dessert items in question and it would have been fine, but leave it to my wife to overkill. Not like there won't be a TON of food there anyway. Making the process longer, we decided to make the cake into the shape of a bunny, which required both of our expertise in geometry to make sure we cut the cake just right so the bunny ears were even. Quite a few ideas for templates and layouts were used to assure Bugs' ears was correct. I had to make sure that all camera's batteries were fully charged and had had space for pictures. I find out that the digital camera is full (I don't have a very big memory card) so I decide to dump the pictures onto the laptop, and at the same time load the pictures into our flickr account. Of course with only dial up at the house this will take FOREVER.

Easter Eve....8:30pm....After kid wragling for an hour to get them fed and asleep in bed I finally go down to the kitchen to see that a powdered sugar bomb has exploded in the kitchen. This stuff is everywhere. Jenny informs me that she spilled a little while making the frosting... a little? I set up the laptop to load my pictures into the flickr account. I figure I can load in pictures while I frost cookies. Bunny cake is cut and Jenny starts the decorating process with the tools and talents that she received from her cake decorating classes. The decorating process is pretty boring, but we are at the kitchen table and can't see the TV which is showing the good version of the Ten Commandments. I decide to put a movie on the laptop to watch while I download pictures. The fine cinema that we pick is Montey Python's Holy Grail. It seemed a bit sacrilegious to have the Ten Commandments on the TV and the Python gang quest for the holy grail in the kitchen. I am all set and ready to decorate my cookies when Jenny informs me she has to make frosting for the cookies... huh? What do you call that huge bowl of fluffy stuff right in front of you. That's when I learn the difference of cake frosting and cookie frosting (silly me). So another layer of powdered sugar in the kitchen and I have my frosting. So multi-tasking of frosting/decorating cookies, downloading pictures, charging batteries and listening to "the knights that say NI". We are finishing up and it's 1:00am on Easter Sunday. I head for bed and Jenny heads for couch (she has to wind down first).

Easter... 5:30am... The alarm goes off so Jenny can get up and go to 6:30am service with her parents. I call it the "Crack of dawn service". I have been to this service a few times but we decide not to try and get the kids up and upset them. I was truly heartbroken that I didn't have to go :). (Actually thinking about it, with the time change it was 4:30am real time) After waking her up and listening to her get ready I fall back asleep.

Easter... 6:30am.. I get up.. My plan is to get a shower and start the process of feeding, bathing, and clothing my two sons so we can get out the door by 8:00am to get to my church service. Ah the fun of living in a mixed marriage of different faiths. We usually don't go to both services every week, but we do for the big holidays. So, I get ready, get my youngest son fed and dressed for church, wake up my other son (big surprise) and throw him in a tub, and get him dressed. Jenny came home during the process and we actually made it out the door by 8:10am.

Easter... 8:30am.. met up with my mother at our church and we were able to sit next to her in the standing room only church. Kids act pretty good for most of the service but William is ready to go about 3/4 the way through mass.

Easter... 10:00am.. Brunch at my mom's house. A nice selection of baked goods and fruit. My mom gave up alcohol for Lent so we popped open a bottle of Champaign for memossa's but we decided "screw the orange juice" and just drank it straight. Of course my mom went nuts with gifts and stuff for the kids. That singing dancing bunny is going to be heading for the closet real soon now. We stayed there and visited until about 12:00pm.

Easter... 1:00pm... Lunch at Aunt Carol's house. We had went home after mom's and changed clothes and fed the baby. Aunt Carol's was the usual fun of kid's Easter egg hunt, kids running all over the place with toys, and TONS of food for lunch. Luckily Jenny's parents and brother were there too so they could chase down William while we vegetated on the couch. We finally headed home around 6:30pm.

Easter...8:00pm... I am attempting to put William down to bed. He doesn't go down quietly when he has had a nap in the afternoon. Jenny has passed out downstairs. Finally William falls asleep around 9:30pm or so. I go downstairs and just shake my head at the carnage of the kitchen and head to bed.

Hoppy Easter !!

Cute

mmmmmm... cookies

I work right behind Ellison Bakery (Archway cookies). When I leave work I know what flavor of cookies that were made that day due to the aroma of cookies baking. Imagine your grandma's kitchen to the MAX. All I can say is that I am glad that our windows don't open so I don't have to smell that delicious smell all day. I am sure that if I smelled the aroma all day I might actually get sick of it, but it's a nice treat going to and from work. I only wish they hadn't closed the thrift store at the factory so I could buy some of these treats. They are expanding the factory in the near future, maybe the store will return.

Daylight Savings Time

This year for the first time in decades we had to observe daylight savings time in Indiana. Over the years, all the debate over the years was exhausting and anoying. So when it became law, my thoughts were "oh well, just change the clocks and move on." Boy was I wrong. The local media did a very poor job in reminding people to change their clocks on Saturday night, but luckily I remembered. I actually fell alseap in the chair saturday night, but was able to be conscious enough to reset the clock in the bedroom before falling alseap. When I reset the clock it was 12:00am, but when I reset the clock it was 1:00am, boy it's late.

I woke up in the morning and it was still kinda dark outside. It was 8:00am, but wait, no it was 7:00am, damn it's early. It kinda like when you put your clock ahead by 5 or 10 minutes in the effort to get you going earlier, you KNOW its 5 or 10 minutes earlier, but this is one hour. I still mentally adjust the time to REAL time, but its not quite as bad after a week.

Other things the time change affected:

We went to 10:30 mass and even the priest commented at the end of mass he would be curious to see who showed up at 11:30am for 10:30am mass because they forgot the time change.

Monkeyjack forgot about the time change, as well as Williams birthday, or maybe we will just give that one to Lori :)

My mom forgot about the time change. It was only because her brother called her about going to church that she was informed.

Williams body clock has yet to adjust all the way. I usually would attempt to put him to sleep around 8:0pm, but I haven't been able to get him anywhere near a bedroom until around 9:00pm. He still gets up around 7:30am which is around the same time, or does he think he is getting up early?

I woke up monday for work and it was dark again. I just got used to it being light when I get up for work so I have to adjust again.

aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh... I hope somebody is making lotsa money.

The one good thing about the time change is that I got a chance to remember how to reset all of the clocks and watches in my house and in my car. I almost forgot.

Just Kids Stuff

William's 3rd birthday was last Sunday. It was a good get together with Family and friends. I imagined a houseful of kids screaming and running around, but there weren't really that many kids there. Most of the kids that William runs around with are in a playgroup that usually does celebrations during their Wednesday get togethers. I was hoping to kick the kids outside to play, but it was a little cold and it started to rain.

One of Williams favorite characters is Bob the builder, so we spent last weekend running all over town to find birthday stuff for his party. I am not sure how he got hooked on this character since he doesn't get a chance to see it that often on TV. Jenny spent most of Friday and Saturday getting the food ready to go including baking and decorating a "Bob the Builder" cake. I cranked up our old hot dog steamer that has the ability to quickly steam large quantities of hotdogs and buns in a short time. Unfortunatly I did not have time to make my coney sauce before the party, but I will soon. William is really getting into opening presents and really enjoys it. Any clothes that are opened are quickly tossed aside, in hope of the next present being a "fun" one.

I attempted to buy William a toy for his birthday. He loves his matchbox/hot wheels cars so I thought it would be cool to buy him a track so he could race his cars. Now I remember these tracks from my youth where you would hang the track on something (chair/table) and let gravity do its work and they would race. Good luck trying to find this simple toy. These days, all of the tracks are power assisted and alot require special cars that only race on those tracks. I didn't have time to do an intensive search for his birthday, but maybe for christmas. Or it may require a trip to E-bay.


Date to Note: March 30, 2006 Andrew rolled over to his stomach by himself