ok. two things.1. i shaved my beard. i woke up sunday morning in a strange mood brought on by strange dreams and i looked in the mirror and said "that has got to go." so, im back to the fu-man....
This past weekend was paddle school, a fun-filled weenend on the river complete with a canoe jousting competition. I paddled the Ocoee from slice and dice to go forth for the first time. Out of our group there...
Today Millie turned one and I decided that I needed to do another family blog. Here are our full names: My full name is Benjamin Edward Thomas Cross. Zachary’s full name is Zachariah Jefferson MacNeal Cross. Lexi’s full name is Alexandria Elizabeth Briere...
It pays to read down through the comments to a web article, because the collaborative impulse creates a more complete, more complex and, though this is subjective, more interesting work than the original. This occurs whether the correspondents agree...
quote for today: "he guys...guys...you know someone really told me that the boss of ninjas has a bald (pronounced bwalled) head. they really do!" abel shared this nice bit of information tonight while taking a quick bath with his brothers. ...
There are two reasons to rejoice in the music world this week and they both have something to do with that movie "Knocked Up" that I have been raving about. First, I was wondering if "Knocked Up" had a soundtrack...
If there's one thing Tennesseans take to heart and cherish more than anything else, it's their independence. We don't take kindly to other people from outside our state telling us exactly what to do, especially from a Texan who is...
There a few things I have grown to like over the past two years, onesies. I love onesies. I think they are the best piece of clothing you can have for your child. I feel sad that...
Visiting my sister in Charlotte this past weekend, we took a trip to Steve & Barry's, the super discount department store chain that's currently catching fire across the country. I first heard about the chain in a piece on ABC's...
I'm 36 weeks pregnant as of today. Officially 9 months. I look like it. I feel like it. And I walk like it. I didn't think this would be the case, but I'm a little tired of the attention. Oddly,...
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that...
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that...
Okay, Mason, you win. With such a graceful and fun update on your life story, how could I do anything but oblige your request for more pictures. Without further ado, I bring you...
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So, the hills really are alive - but not just with music. The hills are alive with the sound of a train whistling through the mountains, cow bells at dusk and an other-worldly silence. Bavaria is everything Germany promises in...
The following video comes from The News Room, a new service that is available to bloggers to legally publish news content on their blogs. What is interesting to me is that the News Room covers a wide variety of...
Fuller is tall. That is just a fact. And now he is too tall for his changing table, so we just have him lay down on the floor for us to do his diaper changes. I didn't realize how ingrained...
Last night we checked out this flick, it's called Fur..... Yes, I know, Fur.... ummmm hmmmm... uncomfortable sounding title, eh??? Well, the title is appropriate. The film has a constant uneasiness that sneaks its way through just about every...
So no one has ventured a guess on Q #2, so I'm not giving satisfaction of an answer.
But I will toss some more photos on here for your viewing pleasure....
I absolutely can not believe it, but Celeste ('07) and Jonathan ('04) have both graduated and moved on! I only hope that we get to continue to see them! What an honor it's been to get to know the Stoddard...
We rented two movies this weekend, one was critically acclaimed and supposed to be good, the other was reviewed as terrible and a waste of money. The two movies were The Good Sheperd and Music and Lyrics... guess which one...
HEERE'S LAUGHFER!!!I just love these Laughfer in the curtains pics... you can tell that I took them a while back, but I just realized I didn't post them... and hey, how could I not with a face as cute as...
This means that my heart beats funny. I've had about six palpitations in the last six days so I went to the ER. When I first went to the ER I thought it would be exciting and dramatic like...
Wal-mart had a 49% discount on Doritos chips today (49% off gas station price - about 25% off normal Walmart price), so the wife and I picked up several bags. Among them, there was a very strange-looking bag. It was...
Pictures 006 Originally uploaded by themissiah. I've had some hard days, lately, and have been stressing a bit too much. I'm not going into details here, so I'll post pictures of my plants instead. They make me...
Lately it seems baseball managers have been losing their cool a lot. See recent examples by Lou Piniella and Joe Torre. What made this one by Phillip Wellman of the Mississippi Braves (AA affiliate of Atlanta) stand out...
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