Surprise Thanksgiving!

My parents called the Saturday before Thanksgiving (super early in the morning I'll add) to offer us one of the greatest surprises!: 2 tickets to Philadelphia for Thanksgiving!!!! It was so awesome! And I really think it was divinely inspired... it was too easy getting work off, finding someone to watch stetson, getting airport rides, having a super sweet travel day, and ending in Philadelphia. It was family time x 10000000!

We had thanksgiving dinner:

Went Midnight Shopping

and baked 10 different kinds of cookies!

and laughed... a lot. It was so wonderful and I'm so thankful for that blessing! We also watched a lot of football and a bit of Duke Basketball as well. And dont worry, got to see Liz too:)

ps. Liz, this why you're never my profile picture. We never take them together.

Matchy Matchy

When I was younger (second grade approximately) I have distinct memories of calling my friend Kate Vesper to figure out what outfit we'd both wear tomorrow. The conversation usually went something like "do you have black stirrup pants? me too! Do you have a plaid shirt? me too! ok, do you have big red socks you can scrunch? Ok great, me too! And then wear your keds, and your hair in a ponytail with a red scrunchie, deal? deal."

Well my friends, it looks like history is beginning to repeat itself. Here's the thing... Adam had a black northface and lost it. He bought me a black mountain hardware fleece when I was in college, and somehow I lost it too. So this weekend we went to Cabela's (cause we had a gift card and coupon) and picked out fleeces: both black, both northface. Adam gave me two conditions to allow me to get this fleece 1. it had to be something I wore a lot, and 2. I couldnt complain about matching and/or ask him to wear something else so I could wear mine.

I agreed to these two things and so we'll be bringing you the Ludwig uniform. Most days it'll consist of jeans and a black northface. Get excited!

(ps. for the record, i'm not sure a different color would have mattered. I mean how much better is it to have one in a black fleece and jeans, and one in a brown fleece and jeans... I'll tell you, not much.)

TV with Boys

Watching TV with boys keeps me from watching crap. Allow me to elaborate.

I have lots of guilty pleasures when it comes to TV shows. I love to keep up with the Kardashians, stay friends with The Real Housewives of ______ (preferrably Atlanta), help the Bachelor or Bachelorette pick their soulmate, judge the contestants on Project Runway, laugh and cry (that might be an exaggeration) with the cast of One Tree Hill or any teenage melodrama really, roll my eyes at Heidi and Spencer on the Hills when it was on, and so on. And I would say that considering the audience I write to, you probably fall prey to one of these shows as well.

These little "addictions" were not really a problem when we didnt have cable. Sharing a computer that served as both a computer and access to the cable world made it tricky to watch any shows that we both didnt commit to watching together. But now... we have cable (Yay!) and it definitely takes convincing to get to watch one of these guys listed above. And to be honest, it's difficult to come up with an argument as to why we should forego watching something else to watch these when you are debating with a boy.

Hence, why watching TV with boys keeps me from watching crap.

**as a disclaimer, those are not the only shows I like, they're just the unnecessary ones.

Facebook --->the loss of filters

Facebook has been around in my life since college... so 2004 for me? So it's been 6 years and it has really evolved. When it first started it was only for college students, there were no ads, creating groups like "i love naps" was the big thing, along with bumper stickers. Mostly people would use to see pictures, and check relationship statuses, figure out who so-and-so is, and see what ex-boyfriends, and what's the term, "frienemies"?, are up to.

NOW... all the info we put about ourselves in the beginning--our likes and dislikes--have created targeted ads, are parents and little siblings are now on, there are games and "apps" everywhere, and status updates are how you learn about everyone's lives.

While this website has grown into a culture changing phenomenon, it certainly has it's drawbacks, negative sides, and just plain annoying features. Let me tell you my pet peeves--you may find you are annoyed by them too.

1."you know who you are" comments. You might have seen that I dislike this in my status update. But why are people writing detailed angry messages to people without naming them. For example: " I hate when people are fake. I dont need you in my life, you just drag me down, and i deserve more... you know who you are". Just write them a message, or... talk to them in person *gasp*

2. Ever read statuses like this: "on the treadmill at the gym", or "at a romantic dinner with my husband. first course down, waiting on dessert. he's so sweet", or "I wish he would just latch on... no wonder they say breastfeeding is hard... this hurts". The point is... are you so addicted to facebook that you're using your cell phone to update it during the most ridiculous moments? or are you using it to share with the world details we dont care about? Random thoughts and observations, funny. major life moments you want to share with a lot of people quickly, great. Sharing in appropriate things at inappropriate times...not necessary.

3. Over friending. Do you know someone that is an over-eager-friend-requester? have you even been introduced to someone, then head home and find an email that they want to be your friend on facebook hours later, when you barely remembered meeting them to begin with? These are the people who's info goes down your news feed and you're like "who is that again?" I consider facebook friending as real life friending. Not people that you meet and will never see again. Not the ones you couldnt pick out of a line up. But ones that you're like "yeah, i'm glad we met, I'd like to keep up with your life".


These are my facebook pet peeves. what are yours? you know you have them.

Happy Halloween!

Meet Ted and Carol Waseski. 2 proud members of their local church choir. They told me to tell you "Happy Halloween"!