Something Moore

I just had to share this video I saw today. Enjoy!

Here's what I found when I got home yesterday . . .










So Clay's shaver has an automatic cleaning program that makes this horrific noise while it cleans. It always scares me (even when I know the shaver is running) since I can't figure out the cycle time so every time it goes off I jump. So yesterday when Clay started the shaver before I got home Clay made these little notes so I wouldn't be scared.

P.S. For those of you who didn't get the reference the notes were a tribute to a book both Clay and I loved as a kid.

Last night Clay and I were getting ready for bed when he finished his "go to bed routine" before I did. While I'm still brushing my teeth he "steals" my pillow. (It is an on-going joke that we steal each others pillows.) The conversation proceeded as follows:

Clay: Oh look at the "extra" pillows
Shyla: Leave my pillows ALONE!
Clay: But they are "our" pillows: you own half and I own half
Shyla: You may have legal title in the pillows but you do not have a possessory interest in my pillows
Clay: Yes I have an interest in possessing your pillow
Shyla: (dies laughing and cannot come up with a witty response)

Yes law school has officially taken over every aspect of our lives.

So I almost didn't go on vacation AGAIN! Clay and I were supposed to meet our good friends Sarah and Jonathan and Shelley and Travis in Shreveport for a get together. Shelley and Sarah were my college roommates and we try to stay in touch and get together every year. Last year was unsuccessful since they both had babies and it was just too much to travel with little ones. Consequently this year it was very important that we get to see each other. Enter hurricane Ike!

Unfortunately for all of our planning we could not control the weather. Amid stories of bad weather and feared gasoline shortages we decided that caution was the better part of valor and decided to reschedule for sometime in October. (Let's just pray that there isn't a earthquake.)

To make matters worse Clay was feeling guilty since I had now missed somewhere in the neighborhood of 9 vacations this year (see prior post) and he wasn't about to let that happen. Since we were already packed up and ready to go with Nikki scheduled to stay at the house he figured we might as well head out of town. So we went to Tulsa and had a wonderfully romantic get away at a bed and breakfast (which Clay would like me to note included the best breakfast with fresh orange juice and quiche). We had dinner at a great jazz club/restaurant. Then we spent today at the Oklahoma Aquarium with the sharks and stingrays (who apparently jump up out of the water when they think you're going to feed them)! So what started out as a nearly failed vacation turned into an excellent romantic get away.

P.S. Shelley called and apparently they have been without water and electricity all day. They are doing okay but it look like we made a wise decision in not going to Shreveport. Please say a prayer for all of those affected by hurricane Ike.

Sometimes I wonder if our stuff controls us or if we control our stuff. Take for instance my new car. It came with an auxiliary jack for plugging in my iPod. I found this a necessary feature when I purchased my car even though I didn't own an iPod. I justified it by saying that I would probably own an iPod during the lifetime of this vehicle and therefore the auxilliary jack would be a "necessary" feature.

A few weeks later, my good friend Nicole happened to acquire an "extra" iPod which she offered to sell me since she already had one and didn't need this one. Great! I "needed" an iPod. Anyhow, the one she sold me was an iPod touch. So I went from having no iPod to having this crazy touch screen, scan the internet, organize my life, and incidently play music device. And, of course now, I'm addicted. The stinkin' thing has all sorts of functions and buttons and a new surprise around every turn. Goodbye homework... hello iPod!

I love the anniversary tradition Clay and I started in our first year. Actually Clay had no idea he was starting a tradition at the time. As everyone knows newly weds save a piece of their wedding cake top (or the whole thing) to be eaten on the 1 year anniversary. The question is "who wants to eat year-old cake?" Anyhow, Clay was being especially romantic so he had the same bakery recreate our cake top so we could have a bite of the old stuff but enjoy the good stuff. Consequently, every year we have gone back and had our cake top remade.

Another tradition is the toast. My dear friends Gene and Pati purchased our toasting goblets for our wedding on the condition we would toast our marriage every year. So of course we do!

YEAH tradition!!