Archives for January 2007

Podcasts

January 18, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

I’m just about ready to release the links to our podcasts to our youth group. I’m waiting on iTunes to make one more update. They still have the wrong URL for one of the feeds. I created a new page last night for our web site to link to all the new feeds. I’m pretty happy with it.

We’ve been trying to figure out how to capture the video/audio on Wednesday night straight from the sound board/camcorder to the computer instead of having to record it on the camcorder and then go back and capture it on the computer. Which I think we did last night except something happened with the sound. I think S turned the sound down on the board thinking it was coming out too high and then never turned it back up when we realized it wasn’t. And then the files WOULD NOT copy to the external hard drive. It was so weird. It said it had 60GB free but would not copy our 15GB file. What is up wtih that?? And I hate having to go back and wait another hour to re-capture this. It will probably be tomorrow or Saturday before I can actually get a new podcast out. Which really if everything worked properly–capturing, file copying and such–I could have had everything out last night. I suppose one day we’ll get it down to a science.

AI – Seattle

January 18, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Blah. Really. I’m starting to be disappointed in this season! I missed the first hour but still I can’t even bring one good singer to mind from last night. They really need to show more good people and the bad people aren’t funny, they are sad and I feel bad for them. Like they are making fun of people and not their singing, which is bad too but the people are just weird, not bad singers. I don’t know, it’s just different. PLEASE let’s hope Memphis is better than this.

AI

January 17, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

So I missed the first 30 min of the AI premiere due to our youth group’s AI competition. It was ok. The only people that I really remember being good are the Navy guy and the girl with the really long dark curly hair that Randy said she had good control over her voice. And the girl in the army with a husband in Baghdad was pretty good but she had a really cute personality. It seems kind of weird this year getting a whole new batch of people to compete. It always feels weird when you don’t know any of them and by the end you all feel like part of the AI family. I guess that’s why the show is so popular. We get to see the personal side of them to and go on this little journey with them and in some small and big ways we help them make their dreams come true. OK, I must be feeling all philosophical today. My posts keep ending up knee deep.

wake up, amy!

January 17, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

I am so tired this morning. Monday I drank way too much caffeine and was up past 2am. Last night I took a Unisom and was asleep by 10:15 but was up at 6:30-7ish which is a little early for me. And now I’m just tired. With no looming deadlines to meet at work, I have nothing to push me through the day. Plus this Kenny G playing on my laptop is not helping. I think I’ll have to switch to my “new” CD mix which includes “Smack That”. That should wake me up.

Anyway, I really like my hair cut I got yesterday. Apparently she was trained at the same place as Toni & Guy people do and I did recognize some techniques that my old hair stylist used. And she seemed to understand how to cut my hair so it didn’t look so stringy. So I’ll probably go back to her. She was $45 though so not much of a price cut but she’s extremely close to my house and seems to not be booked solid 24-7 which is a big plus for me since I always tend to book my hair cuts last minute.

So last evening our youth group did an American Idol singing competition thing. We are going to do it once a month–one winner a month–and then the finalist compete on the final night. We didn’t have a whole lot of people there. Some were sick, some were at work, some had a bunch of homework. But it turned out to be lots of fun actually. I hope we have more participants next time because I think if you got the right people singing and the right people listening, it would be a really, really good time.

So the girls ended up staying with MIL while we were at the church. We had intended on taking them with us, even taking the laptop and movies for them to indulge in, but they offered to keep them. So now I’m at work today and MIL usually comes at gets them on Wed afternoon and keeps them through church so now I won’t see my babies until tonight. They were still asleep when I left this morning :(. I do enjoy my “breaks” but I always miss them.

Scott and I are still trying to decide if one or both of us will go to the beach next month with the youth group. It’s the “Top 15” from our youth group and it’s a really good group of kids and we get along well with the other chaperones going so I’d like to go. I just have never left the girls for more than a night. Which I’m sure they’d be fine and I sound like an anal mother but sometimes I get so scared I’m going to start getting my priorities out of order. I realize I need to be working at the church but I don’t want the needs of the youth group/Sunday School to start outweighing my job as mother and wife. Hopefully I’ll be sure to recognize that but that’s why I put so much effort into deciding on whether to do things with them. I mean, is it right to have someone else watch my children so I can go spend the weekend with other people’s children? I don’t know. And they don’t really NEED chaperones. Well, I still have a few weeks to decide so I’ll keep deciding until then.

Ow

January 16, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Last week I think I mentioned I went to a new custom cuts that I really liked. And then I got up early Friday morning to go to another custom cuts at 8am with S. And then Sunday I went to a spinning class. My arms have hurt SO bad this weekend that it even hurt and took effort to pump the soap dispenser. No lie. I couldn’t even stretch it out all the way to stretch it without it hurting like crap. It is feeling better today and I’m hoping to go back to the custom cuts class tomorrow afternoon so hopefully it will be all gone by tomorrow.

So I have been going to the gym for 15 months now. Most weeks I have gone 3 times a week, less in the past 3 months, but I’m getting back into the habit again. But I’m actually a couple pounds up from what I was in the beginning. I really wish I had taken measurements because I know I must have made some sort of changes to my body. My cholesterol has gone down 30 points and that was really my goal for the whole thing but come on, 150 times at the gym and no results? Let’s hope even though we will never really be able to tell.

I was talking to my sister last night and her and my parents are on Herbalife. All of them have lost around 5 lbs in about a week and a half. But my sister has lost 12 inches!! And so I mentioned I wish I had taken my measurements and she said that her and Mom had talked about they noticed that I looked more sculpted. Of course they would probably never tell me this. But how cool is that? I am in the same size pants I was and up and up a couple pounds but I guess it’s possible I can be more sculpted. Which makes me want to work out even more. It’s always good to see hard work pay off.

24 Premiere

January 16, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Oh. my gosh. 24 was so good this weekend. I have watched episodes here and there of previous seasons but never straight through. I don’t know if all the seasons have been this good, but I do not want to miss a second of this season after the 4-hour premiere. It was really unbelievable…Jack killing someone like a lion to escape certain death, neighborhood boy turning on his best friend and almost killing him, Jack having doubts about continuing to do what he does, Curtis (need I say more) and a nuclear bomb!! What insanity was all that! Not to mention there are FOUR more of them. It was just so good.

Haircut

January 16, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

OK, so today I’m going to get my hair cut at a new place. I really wanted to go yesterday afternoon since I was off but I reluctantly agreed to reschedule for today at lunch. I really want to go to my original hair dresser at Toni & Guy but paying $55 for a hair cut just hurts. So I had tried the last 2 times someone in York but she is at least 35 minutes away and she does great color but I don’t prefer her cuts. So today I’m trying a local place about 5 minutes away. They’ve just renovated a very old house in town to their salon and it looks fancy-shmancy so I’m going to see if their services live up to their place.

First Conversation

January 16, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

I think Lexi and I just had a first conversation..you know, not several sentences of instructions by me or several words of demands by her or a one question/one answer exchange. I had just gotten her something to drink. She was sitting on the recliner and I’m on the sofa. She points her cup and me…

L: What I got?

Me: Orange Juice

L: Where’s Daddy?

Me: At the gym

L: she mumbled something that I still do not understand but I’m still counting it as part of the conversation

Me: OK