Blogging is Life

Really enjoyed a rocket launch with Jeffery et al with gorgeous weather in Waco yesterday. The wind was cold, but it was blue skies and beautiful sun. One guy always launches random household items. Saturday he launched a lawn chair and a plastic table. They are something to see!

Jeff is officially out of the rocket motor business now. Anything that removes extra rocket parts from my house is a good thing, but particularly good since Jeff is very relieved to give up that responsibility to be able to just have fun as a participant at launches.

We were chatting about copyrights while we were there, and how surely you can't copyright this or that word. Turns out Chad's brother copyrighted the phrase "is life." He is the guy who originally designed the tshirts that say "*** is life. The rest is just details." It started out as "football," but he got licenses from all the major sports organizations (NFL, NCAA, NBA, etc.), and went from $600,000 in sales the first year to $25 million the second. Holy. Cats.

So... fifty cents to Chad's brother for today's blog title.

Chad got married on leap day. He said it is their twentieth anniversary in a couple of weeks and even made a comment that the next time they will actually be able to celebrate on the day will be next year. If this were twenty years, it would be leap year this year. So Jeff needs to call him and tell him it's his 19th anniversary before he gets in big trouble... on his anniversary. Never a good thing.

I got to talk to another wife this launch. A relative rarity. She came because her husband and little boy made a rocket called "Mama's Rocket" in her honor, and they were launching it for the first time. Her hubby took over the garage and a room in the house to build rockets, so she decided to have her two boys (2 and 4) share a room, so she could have a scrapbooking room for herself. I love it. (I stopped scrapbooking several years ago, and Jeff is actually IN my scrapbooking space.)

Best line of the day- A guy brought his very large high-powered rocket over to set it down near the pads, and accidentally jammed the nose cone into a guy he didn't see behind him. He said, "Sorry about that. I should have taken you to dinner and a movie first."


Sunday Stealing

1. What is your favorite Mexican dish?
at a restaurant- Chuy's deluxe chicken enchiladas omg
in general- good beef fajitas

2. When you were a kid, did you get started on your homework right away after school, or did you procrastinate?
Procrastinated. You have to get in your outside playtime while it's still daylight!

3. What is your favorite store for home furnishings?
Haverty's

4. When you were young, did you like school lunches?
I didn't eat school lunches. Mom made me bring a bag lunch. I thought I was really missing out on some awesome food... but no.

5. Is religion a crutch?
No, but if it were, there are certainly worse things to lean on.

6. In your region, what is the “big” high school sport?
Football

7. Do you consider yourself rich?
No

8. Which of these would you have the best chance administering:
A) CPR
B) Heimlich Maneuver
C) Changing a flat tire
Changing a flat

9. Which dance would you prefer to learn & why:
A) Salsa
B) Hip Hop
C) Waltz
D) Swing
Swing! It's the most fun!

10. What’s the worst news you’ve ever delivered to someone?
Telling Lauren that my mom had passed away. Absolutely unbearable.

11. Name something you learned in college that had nothing to do with classes or academics.
t.u. sucks? :) I learned that having a car at college isn't required, but it sure makes life a whole lot easier.

12. New variation on an old question: If there’s a song in your head that just won’t get out, what is your favorite (or most repeated) line in that song?
We just now got the feeling that we're meeting for the first time.