For a short period of time, Target is carrying a brand of cookie that almost fully defines my college experience. They are called Tim Tams, and are sold only in Australia. My friend Nicole, who is half Aussie, introduced these cookies to me freshman year of college. Together with my cocoamotion, we enjoyed Tim Tam Slams, which are only the most delicious way to enjoy these cookies. A new friendship and a new obsession were born simultaneously. Because we are not able to buy these cookies in the states, we had to come up with alternative cookies to try Slams with (chocolate covered Oreos and Keebler Grasshoppers work well). However, Target has made these little beauties available for a LIMITED time. I think until March. I have bought 3 boxes already, and am fighting the urge to buy more.Please, visit the cookie aisle at Target and try these for yourselves (they are packaged in a white Pepperidge Farms package, not the original brown Arnott’s kind)
Andrea and I have a Wii and we love to play Mario Kart. With a new baby we don’t get out too much, so when Adelyn goes down to bed at 8:00pm we often sit and play Mario Kart until we go to bed. Someone told me about this video and I thought it was pretty funny and worthy of a post.
Then I saw this one and thought is was funny as well.
I don’t speak French so I don’t know what he is saying, but I can not believe someone has the guts to do something like that. If you do speak French leave a comment with what the message at the end says.
This is pretty geeky, but I really enjoyed it. Andrea and I use Google docs for all sorts of things, but I have never tried to make art out it. Check out this video from the people at Google.
I was on NBC’s Olympics website today and saw an ad for two videos from this summers Olympic games. One was the highlights of the entire 2008 Olympic Games for $19.95. This DVD features numerous stories from the multiple venues and events including many gold medal performances. For only an additional 5 cents you could buy the Michael Phelps DVD. This DVD shows all 8 memorable races he competed in as well as special behind the scenes footage of his time in Beijing.
I guess NBC believes Phelps’ performance is not only equal to all the others combined; it is worth 5 cents more.
So I yesterday I was trying to be a good son-in-law and mow my in-laws lawn while they were away on vacation. I woke up early because it has been so hot here lately that mowing the lawn after work might just kill me. When I got outside, I was amazed at how wonderful the weather was. It was about 75ish degrees, which is quite amazing since it was 106 just a few days ago. I thought to myself “this is going to be great!” I can get the lawn mowed, get cleaned up and get to work, and I won’t even be that late. So I started mowing. It was going great but then all of the sudden the motor seized up and stopped working. I tried to clean up the lawnmower but it still would not run so I gave up on getting it done. As I went to put the lawnmower back in the garage, I thought I saw a large lizard scampering into the garage. I did not want to go see what it was; I just thought it would resolve itself. So I left the garage door open and went inside to get ready for the day. I eventually closed the door and went about the rest of my day.
I had one of these in my garage...
Later in the evening, I came home and opened up the garage. I was about to walk in it when I saw an armadillo walking between the cars in the garage. So when I thought I saw the lizard slithering into the garage it was actually the tail of an armadillo. It totally freaked me out. The armadillo was not huge, but it was large enough to make me very nervous about walking into the garage. So I stood there in the dark of night waiting for the armadillo to leave the garage. After about 5 minutes of crouching down so I could see where it went. I decided that I had to make a run for it. I did not know anything about armadillos at the time. I did not know if they were dangerous or if they had diseases. As one might assume I was very cautious. Once I confirmed that the armadillo was in the other corner of the garage I made a run for it and got into the house. I left the garage door open so that hopefully, it would find its way out. I went upstairs did a little Wikipedia research and found out the not only do that often care diseases like leprosy, they can also jump or hop about 2 feet high. Well that is enough to freak anybody out. However, against all better judgment I went back out to see what was going on. I took my camera hoping to get a picture of the armadillo. I was very cautious and used walked along the floorboards of my father-in-laws suburban trying to stay off the ground. I was quiet for a few moments and tried to listen for the sound of its feet. I eventually heard that it was just outside the garage. I climbed around the back of the car and onto the bumper and used my camera’s flash to see the ground in front of me. Much to my surprise as I pressed the shutter button and the strobe flash started going off me saw two armadillos running away. Then I looked at where they were going and saw another one. That makes three armadillos in total. I do not know how many I locked up in my in-laws garage all day, but apparently, there were a lot of armadillos around.
This was a strange day. I not only broke the lawn mower, I also locked one if not more armadillos in a garage. I do not know if I am ready to have my own house. I cannot even take care of someone other people’s houses. Wish me luck…
