Funnies

The funniest things we've seen this week.

Allison's vote: (apparently it gets better if you watch it 10 times in a row)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHjFxJVeCQs

Jacob's vote/new career goal: (yes, this is real) You've got to read the rest of the story to get the full effect.

http://www.nydailynews.com/travel/2010/01/21/2010-01-21_holiday_inn_location_in_london_offers_human_bed_warmer_service__a_staffer_to_war.html

Holiday Inn location in London offers 'human bed warmer' service - a staffer to warm up your sheets

Caddick/Handout

Holiday Inn bed warmers Nick and Jacqui help warm up a bed at one of the hotel mega-chain's U.K. locations.

Whip it, whip it good.

Roller derby is an American contact sport, predominantly female, typically operates on an amateur (or unpaid) circuit, and has a strong do it yourself ethic which often features both athleticism and a punk third-wave feminism aesthetic.

-Wikipedia

Allison and I are movie-watching people. I'd say that on average, we watch movies four nights a week. In fact, Allison and I watch so many movies that we have even considered taking our love for movies to the levels of creating a website to review the movies that we've watched, and creating our own movie rental business. Movies are just such a great way to forget about work and snuggle next to the one that you love.

Allison and I are also money-saving people. We try our best to make a bi-weekly menu to coincide with a bi-weekly shopping trip to WinCo, we studiously read Dani's famous money-saving blog (dooleysdoodles.blogspot.com), and we constantly review our finances in coordination with a budget that we've created.

But those two hobbies are not good partners. Can you believe how much it costs to go to a movie theater these days? To put ticket prices in perspective, if Allison and I were to go to the local theater it would cost us $9.50 each, or $19 total. But, if we decided instead to spend a friday night driving down to Utah to visit our beloved Rikki, it would only cost us $18.27 (that's only one way, but once you add in Allison's Sour Patch Kids and my extra-large, extra-buttery popcorn I think it would even out for us to be able to drive back home).

Lucky for us, Rexburg is home to the Paramount Twin movie theater, which features movies that are too old to still be in the regular theater and too young to be out on DVD. At the Paramount Twin, $10 gets you two tickets, a Large popcorn, and two large drinks, and by the way, popcorn and drink refills are free (we like this deal)! We're able to fit this treat into our budget once or twice a month.

About a month ago Allison and I went to the Paramount Twin to watch the movie Whip it. We really didn't have too many expectations of it, but it turned out to be entertaining for me and possibly life-changing for Allison. After watching the movie Allison declared to me that she is going to join a roller-derby team. She spent that night researching, trying to find the nearest roller-derby team (2 hours away), thinking of cool roller derby names (AlliSIN was my favorite), looking for the best uniforms, and convincing me that she has the skills necessary to be the next best roller-derbyer. So I surprised her a few days later with a date to the roller rink. After a few practice runs, she did indeed impress me with her skills.

Using age generation software I was able to use the picture that I took of Allison skating a few weeks ago and transform it into what she would look like several years after joining her roller derby team.

Drumroll please...

Okay, before you get all excited about our first blog posting this year, I must provide a caveat: the author of this post is the not-so-funny Jacob. So, before you decide whether or not you want to continue reading this, let me provide a few facts. First, Allison is exactly 17% more funny than I. Second, our life has consisted merely of Allison going to work all day making plasma TVs while Jacob watches Wife Swap and Malcolm in the Middle, reads the works of Cormac McCarthy, and plays tap tap revenge, bubble spinner, and wallstreetsurvivor. Third, Allison is much better at dramatizing our not-so-dramatic life. SO, this means that I cannot guarantee entertainment in my blog postings. But nonetheless, due to repeated requests for an update on our family, I will do my best to make this long-awaited post worthwhile!

My favorite adventure from the past month occurred in our preparations for christmas. When our next door neighbor moved out, we were blessed with these two, very nice couches.

After two days of struggling to transform our sheets into slipcovers for the couches, we decided that we'd be better off just giving these couches away and buying ourselves a nice, new couch. So I posted an ad on craigslist announcing that they were free to a good home. The problem was that we couldn't get anyone to take them. We had four couples come, look at them, and tell us they were too ugly. We came up with several scenarios to get rid of them including white trash sleigh rides (tying them to the back of our car and dragging people around town on them), dropping them off at a random house with a note saying "we heard you were in need this season," or carrying them atop our poor little car to the DI. Several days later Allison was able to get a couple to take them by literally carrying them down to their car before they had a chance to look at them and tell us no. I was hoping to make money by selling white trash sleigh ride tickets, but oh well. Later, we were blessed with a very beautiful and comfortable new sofa.

The most amazing part of the last few weeks, though, occurred this week when twice (yes, more than once) I caught Allison in the kitchen making me little surprise treats. The first time was to make me crepes for breakfast, and the second time she made the most delicious cheesecake brownies. The only thing more beautiful than a perfect crepe is a beautiful crepe on the spatula of a beautiful lady!