Bachelor Time

Jenny is leaving the morning for 11 days.

Hopefully the house will still be standing, and I will find food during that time.

Hopefully, by the time she gets back, UK will be Champions.

If you can think of anything I should/would want to do while she is gone, let me know.

Madness Only Begins To Describe It

Between Friday night's UK/Ohio St game, and todays UK/UNC game, I don't know how my living room can take it.

Jenny and I have been doing workouts for a week and a half now, but the rug might have gotten more wear from my pacing during those intense basketball games, the jumping at key shots, crouching on defense, fist pumping when results were almost final, etc... than it was getting from the cardio and weight lifting routines two of us were doing.

The Final Four were essentially an unpredictable group, but as long as UK is there, I wouldn't want it any other way.

Go Big Blue!

The Coaching Hat

Time to play the coach role again.

This week is college days at North Central so I'm being summoned in to meet potential players with my morning tomorrow.

Will be nice to talk soccer again, but will be far too early in the morning to appreciate properly.

The Day of Rest

6 days of Power 90 workouts done, which means tomorrow is the first day of rest for Jenny and I.

To be fair, we rested plenty of days before starting the program, but tomorrow's rest is actually earned.

My body is ready for it and welcomes it with arms hung heavy.

Sump Pump Season

Our sump pump is working overdrive these days.

The ground is completely saturated with water, and until we buy a longer hose, our sump pump puts water back onto our ground.

We hooked up our hose today, and need to change it for sure.  It isn't long enough to reach the street, and because ice froze inside it this winter, it actually has some holes that make the water shoot out in funny ways as well.

Hopefully, tomorrow we'll get that taken care of.

60 feet of hose here we come.

Day 1 in the Books

March Madness day 1 is in the books.

Kentucky survived (barely).

Louisville didn't.  Both of those are good things.

I didn't get to watch many of the games today, because of work, but got to see that last 5 minutes of the Louisville game, and all of the UK game.

I should see more of them tomorrow.  A great time of year.

Just an Accent

I'm constantly learning more about interior decorating.  Our living room walls aren't red anymore.  They have been painted.  Some of the artwork no longer is in that room, as now red has become an accent color.

That apparently gets picked at the same time as the wall color.

The trimwork is a different color now as well, from its wood finish to a white that matches what we put in upstairs.

I'd put up pictures, but the new drapes aren't up yet.  I've known for a while that was part of the process, but was also something I didn't know was typical to think about when we talked about painting the room a different color.

Guys really are this clueless.  I'm learning though!

Tournament Brackets

I have to officially turn in my March Madness bracket sometime Wed. afternoon for our work pool.

Anyone have any crazy insights I should know before I hand it over?

Daylight???

We did the rediculous lose and hour of sleep thing for you daylight.  You better start making it worth it.

Melt the snow, green the grass, bring on the golf.

If you won't, i demand my hour back.

The Oasis

April 30 - May 7!

Royal Carribean's Oasis of the Seas cruise ship will be our home for a week.

Can't wait.

Golf Weather

I have the itch to play. 

I need to weather to start co-operating.

Make this happen for me somehow.

Preparing For Easter

Lent starts today.

I'm kicking it off right with a meal at Chick-Fil-A.

Anyone doing anything creative or giving up anything creative for Lent this year?

Starburst Jelly-Beans

These are the greatest things about the commercialization of Easter.

Cadbury Eggs are a close second.

I like when these two things can be found at most grocery stores.

Was that a Typo?

This weekend was filled with lots of excitement.  None that trumps the new addition added to our family though. Our niece, Alyssa Rose Kemper was born on Friday.

The phone call woke us up, enough that I didn't coherently remember her name after going back to sleep but an e-mail informed me of that as well.  That e-mail also said that the labor took 1 hour 40 minutes.

I just assumed that was a typo.  It had to be 11 hours 40 minutes right?

When we got to the hospital to meet Alyssa, the first question we asked Jason was about that timeframe and if it was a typo.

Then we got the story of the 7 minutes that they were at the hospital before Alyssa came to greet the world.  2:15 wake-up from contraction to birth at the hospital at 3:55.  Not bad Kempers, not bad.

The People Around

I get to work with the greatest volunteers, peers, and support staff around me.

Life is made easy when your job keeps you working with so many people you love on every level of involvement.

I'm blessed to be in the position i'm in.

Now lets hope that fantasy golf and UK basketball go as well for me in the next couple of months as work does.

Weird Shows

The more I find out about shows I never watched as a child, the more I realize I had it good.

Not that sorry I missed you "Gospel Bill."

I admire a lot about the church you pastor now, but your acting then left a lot to be desired.

Scraped

My knuckles are scraped. 

But the ceiling is done being scraped.

Time to patch some holes and start painting...means we'll have this renovation project marked off the list soon.