Ha -- Penn and Teller get hippies at WorldFest to sign a petition banning water. Too rich. I love the last line of the clip: "Yeah, we set these folks up. But it does show that maybe they're not so much environmentalists as they are joiners...of anything."

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I read this funny story about opening presents on my friend's blog:

So I have one funny story . . . the first box I opened was a waffle iron . . . I was like this is a nice waffle iron we can make them tomorrow for breakfast. I continued to open boxes and read cards . . . about 15 minutes later Colin stepped on the waffle iron box and it collapsed. I told Nancy that I don't think it is a waffle iron in there . . . so I opened the box and it was a project that two special people have been working on for a long time . . . it was a quilt with photos of Sean, Colin, and me . . .

I have a similar story, only mine was a hundred times more bonehead.

When my husband and I got married, an old friend of my mom's sent us a package that arrived the day before the wedding. In all the commotion of wedding planning, I hastily tore of the brown paper wrapping and noticed it was a Honeywell fan. I figured it would come in handy, and I set it out on the table of gifts.

The husband and I loaded up all our gifts into a U-Haul after the honeymoon and moved to Missouri for six months, where we had air conditioning. All our stuff got packed up again and stayed in storage while we were at Fort Knox for another six months. We arrived in Germany a year after our wedding that HOT summer of 2003 when all the French grannies were dying of heatstroke. I couldn't wait for our household goods to finally arrive so I could break out that Honeywell fan.

Um, yeah, it wasn't a fan. It was bedsheets in a fan box.

Do you know how embarrassed I was? I sent these people a thank you card for a fan.

In my mortified state, I had to sit down again and pen a long, apologetic letter explaining why on earth I hadn't opened the danged box, and how, though I had thanked them profusely for a very useful and nice fan, I was also equally excited to get bedsheets. Over a year later. It was probably one of the most embarrassing things I've done in my life.

Coulda used a fan that summer in Europe...
Love the sheets though.

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The husband has been considerably less excited about starting a family right now. He had certain milestones he wanted to reach before he became a father -- a specific chunk of change in investments, finished with his MBA -- and if we get started now, he won't be at his benchmarks. But he did have an a-ha moment that has made him more receptive to the idea over the past 24 hours: he realized that if we had the baby now, we'd get the earned income credit for 2007. Lord, I married my father.

We have been having a good deal of fun making up names for the imaginary baby. Jack Bauer LastName is a common joke around the house. Though the absolute gut-buster was when my husband suggested David Lo Pan LastName. And when he said it was no big deal if I stopped drinking, that we could easily raise a "party baby."

My husband's got jokes.

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1 I vote for "Doniphan"....I sent you an email about it this morning. Too funny! Russ ALWAYS makes me laugh

Posted by: Angie at February 02, 2007 07:28 AM (0AAcM)

2 well, I give him the MBA, but there is never enough money when you have a kid. so go for broke and have that kid!!!!

Posted by: catwin at February 02, 2007 10:33 AM (iUrvV)

3 "LIFE" is what happens, while we're trying to make ''plans''.....................get practiced up, either way!!!

Posted by: debey at February 02, 2007 12:35 PM (Aqt2t)

4 I am sure it may be sacreligious to name the kids after a charactor played by Keiffer Sutherland. His Daddy is Donald afterall. The apple cannot fall very far from the tree after all. A sort of 6 degrees of separation to liberalism if you will.

Posted by: armywifetoddlermom at February 02, 2007 03:50 PM (30YLh)

5 The actor who plays Jack Bauer has a father who is a liberal huh? Well, definately can't call him that then... jeez... what were you thinking sarah?

Posted by: Will at February 03, 2007 02:09 AM (QRBGL)

6 laughing at Will... really I only brought it up, because I was surprised Sarah had not thought of it..

Posted by: armywifetoddlermom at February 03, 2007 12:28 PM (30YLh)

7 My brother, and let me say right here my entire family are uber-libs from California, was almost christened Abraham Maslow James Carter [last name]". Good God in Heaven. I asked him a few weeks ago how he felt about his near miss at being named for an anti-semite... He said at least he wasn't nearly Adolph. And thank God we only had one boy. My husband is absolutely enamored of the George Foreman school of naming children. As an aside... my hair stylist has a family member named Bernardo. He has nine kids (boys and girls). They are ALL named Bernardo. He just had his first grandkid last year... named Bernardo.

Posted by: airforcewife at February 05, 2007 05:42 AM (0dU3f)

8 Howse 'bout Charlie? Short for Charles or Charlotte and you can just yell at anything that moves,baby or dog..

Posted by: MaryIndiana at February 05, 2007 03:14 PM (YwdKL)

9 Oh Lord! Our husbands are so similar! My husband didn't want to start trying until we had x amount of dollars put into investments, we were out of the Army, Master's Degree for him AND me, etc. etc. One day he finally just said out of the blue that he was ready -- even though all of those benchmarks hadn't been met. And the Jack Bauer thing -- We've TOTALLY joked about that before, too! Too Funny! We even though that if we had a girl we could make her middle name be Chloe. So glad you guys have a great sense of humor!

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This is what our neighborhood looks like this morning.

My husband left for work and then came home about 10 minutes later. There's a two hour snow delay. They told him he doesn't even need to bother coming in today.

The South is hilarious.

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1 Imagine your mail box buried in white stuff, thatÂ’s my neighborhood.

Posted by: tim at February 01, 2007 03:28 AM (nno0f)

2 same here. I will gladly stay in the house.

Posted by: armywifetoddlermom at February 01, 2007 03:44 AM (30YLh)

3 Sarah, We have a ton of snow in Ohio and the kids are at school The north certainly deals with snow better! Congrats on the jobs!

Posted by: Stephanie at February 01, 2007 04:36 AM (+bp0U)

4 hey, we haven't had snow in two... maybe three years! this is a major event! welcome to NC.

Posted by: Sis B at February 01, 2007 07:01 AM (gPOch)

5 It looks like a good opportunity for you to wear some of those wonderful sweaters you knitted in Germany!!

Posted by: Ruth H at February 01, 2007 10:03 AM (lS0ga)

6 I am in stitches. THAT'S snow!?! God Bless our Southern neighbors.

Posted by: MaryIndiana at February 01, 2007 11:46 AM (YwdKL)

7 She says after living through 5 winter storms in 5 weeks and 2 blizzards in one winter season in Colorado, "I love it! I just love it!" Hope Charlie enjoyed a little taste of snow too.

Posted by: Angie at February 01, 2007 12:54 PM (oIZIB)

8 this will henceforth be known as "the great blizzrd of '07"

Posted by: Sis B at February 01, 2007 02:30 PM (gPOch)

9 Yep, we got hit by the same blizzard! Pretty much all the schools around here are closed (they announced the closings last night, in fact). We don't even have the dusting that you got, just a few flurries on and off thru the day... My husband's from Pittsburgh, so he's even out without his coat just so he can rub it in for other people that he's not cold

Posted by: karishma at February 01, 2007 03:36 PM (yU8Jx)

10 We got a whopping 2 inches of snow and 2 inches of ice a couple of weeks ago......Post closed for 2 days and schools were closed the entire week. The best part is the city only budgeted for 5 snow days.............we've surpassed their expectations for the year. LOL!

Posted by: Vonn at February 01, 2007 04:07 PM (/VoEr)

11 Sarah, Funny, my neighborhood looked very much the same this morning. But the county my kids go to school in was the ONLY county in the area that didn't delay school or close altogether today. Congrats on the new jobs. How lucky for you to have a job doing something you love so much, although I'm sure luck had very little to do with it. I'd love to learn how to knit. I also bought a book but haven't been able to really get the hang of it. Would you email me when you get a chance?

Posted by: Robin at February 01, 2007 04:15 PM (V5aG3)

12 When i was stationed at Ft Stewart (GA) they closed the post for about the same amount of snow one year, I was the only one at PT that am and was shocked when the MP's told me to leave because the "The post is closed, and the roads are not safe to travel on." but they still wanted me to drive off post to my house. But hey i took a tank trail most of the way to work/home anyways

Posted by: dagamore at February 03, 2007 08:08 AM (fA13W)

13 That's all it takes to cancel work/school? I am moving to the South!

Posted by: Shawn at February 05, 2007 04:08 AM (xZebA)

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