Funny story........

Happy Thanksgiving! Our thanksgiving fun started yesterday when Aubrey, Kyle, and Derek came in. We had to keep up the tradition with going out to eat at fish house and this is where our funny story begins. It all started when we ordered our drinks and our waitress brought our drinks out and I was the lucky one to be handed the drinks. As I saw her hand around the glass that I was about to grab I noticed an awful looking bandaid that looked 10 days old. I wanted to pass out there but I figured I wouldn't make a seen so I nicely grabbed the glass from her hand AND THE BANDAID TOUCHED ME! I then turned to give Joe his drink and grunted and then turned back and she was trying to hand me another drink. So there I am staring at the nasty bandaid thinking "please don't touch me, please don't touch me" and I slowly went to grab the other drink and it happened AGAIN! Uh....I just wanted to die right there. I suprisingly chose not to make a scene and went on with my dinner trying not to think about.

So if you think that was bad the story only gets better. Throughout our whole meal we noticed that our waitress was losing her voice and towards the end of our meal our waitress asked if any of us wanted refills and a few said yes and a few said no and then as she was walking off Derek asked her nicely "how did you lose your voice?" And she answered a little too honestly with "Oh I developed a virus within the last 24 hours" We all just looked our drinks and our food that she had breathed on and then Aubrey looked back at her and gave her a look like "why are you here" It was so funny!

Now it was time to get our check and as our waitress is picking up our plates she asks "do you guys have any coupons or are any of you special enough to get a discount?" We all looked around confused and she then asked again and my mom said "no but you can give us one if you want" and the waitress replied with "well are any of you special or over 60"? hahahaha, she just told my parents they looked 7 years older. It was so rude! After she left we started laughing.

I hope everyone has a good thanksgiving and I hope everyone eats as much as I will be. My mom is in the process of making her 8 pies right now as we speak!

Why I love living in Little Rock

Almost everyday I am asked the question "how's the drive"? And to much of there amazement I say great, not bad. If you know anything about Conway and Little Rock most people live in Conway and drive to Little Rock for work and very few, me, drive from Little Rock to Conway which in my case I definitely have the better end of the deal. You see one of the big reasons we moved to Little Rock was so Joe would no longer have the commute he has because he was coming home everyday with so much anger from just the drive that it was really starting to get on my nerves. And Joe developed a little word called "road rage". I have always thought Joe was a good driver but ever since he started commuting he is so mean to drivers and he thinks that everyone is a bad driver and he will yell at them for the dumbest reasons and then I yell at Joe for yelling at them. It's a whole process and I'm trying to break him of it.

Anyway, back to me and my commute .....Every Monday through Friday I drive 30 min. to work and 30 min. back (obviously) and every day I laugh while passing the oncoming vehicles because they are at a stand still for absolutely no apparent reason. I have never understood traffic and I still don't understand it because seriously there really isn't any need of it. You are at a stand still forever and then all of the sudden no one is infront of you and you all the road in the world to yourself. Well the other day I got my camera ready and I knew I was coming up on the traffic. As soon as I pass visions (I have to pick up my check before going into conway) and make the turn onto the flats it's like BAM, cars! I love it as I keep on with my 75 mph!


If you click on the pictures and make them larger you can see the line of cars that are backed up! No wonder Joe hated driving to work and back everyday!

We're BFF with BARBIE!

I know Melanie is going to kill me for this but I have to brag that I know BARBIE!

A few months ago Melanie applied for some job and some how ended up being barbie. I don't really know the whole story but the funnier part of it all to me was that my mom was trying to get Aubrey to do this weeks before I found out that Melanie had applied and got the job.

Joe and I were fortunate enough to have Barbie "Melanie" work at the wal-mart that we shop at in North Little Rock. We showed up today to see her and we had to look all over for her until I saw her sitting in a chair taking pictures with all the little kids. I did what I do best and bent over in laughter. I think I was laughing harder at the fact that she is a PERFECT barbie! We hung around for the rest of her shift and even got to have lunch with barbie after wards and do a little shopping. We definately miss living/hanging out with Barbie.

Soaring Wings Half Marathon

Last year I found out about Conway sponsoring their first half marathon and I was all about it until I ran my marathon and learned that I hated to run, haha, I really don't hate to run, the marathon training was just too much for me. Well my dad and I agreed that we were going to do it together like we did the marathon. Months went by and October was getting closer and I still had not even attempted to start training. So one sunday afternoon sometime in September and nicely asked my dad if he had signed up for the race yet (hoping he hadn't) and the ever so wonderful words came out of his mouth "I decided not to run it". I felt like the biggest weight was lifted off my shoulders. 1. because I no longer felt guilty for not trainging and 2. I know longer felt guilty for letting my dad down. I then went on through the rest of September and most of October. The week of the race was approaching and I knew that in 2 days the race was going on and I had a little bit of guilt but not as much because I knew that my dad wasn't doing it either until I recieved "the phone call". I had been out shopping all day having the time of my life and noticed that my dad had called and left a message but I figured that I would check it later. Well later came after my wonderful day of shopping.......I held down one to listen to my message thinking "oh my dad called to say hi" but instead I got "Celeste, I went into to work early today and well.....I decided to run the race on Saturday and I signed up today" WHAT? 2 DAYS BEFORE THE RACE? (that was my reaction when I heard the message) Can I just tell you what words really wanted to come out of my mouth? No I can't tell you because people do read this. I was more then beside myself. So what else was I to do but call my dad?

Ring....Ring....Hello?

ME-DOUGLAS L. MARTINDALE!!!!!!!!!

DAD-HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE(if can only imagine my dad giggling like a litte girl because he knows that I am NOT HAPPY with him)

ME-What do you think your doing?

DAD-Well? (aubrey and mom you know EXACTLY how he said that too)

I could go on but I won't. I'll just make it short and sweet, I was not nice but I came to terms that my dad was in better shape then me and I was just jealous! Oh well, I was/am proud of him and I was able to go (2 days later) and cheer him on. I even got to run the last stretch with him , which was funny because some girl actually thought I had ran the whole race in jeans, a sweatshirt, and converse, now that would take a REAL runner hahaha. I was glad I was able to attend because I know he would have never missed one of my races. I could always count on him to be on the side lines cheering me on when I was really wanting to die! Thanks dad and Congrats!

All I have to say is not many people can say they were able to cheer on their 56 or 57 (I can't remember) on crossing the finish line after running 13.1 miles? Actually not too many people can say they were able to run a full marathon with their 55 or 56 (at the time) year old dad and cross the finish line together and finish at the exact time.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

I will start out by saying that Halloween is my least favorite holiday but it's fun to get together with friends and family to celebrate. This year we went over to Katie and Colby's to celebrate where we met up with David and Valerie. We had chili for dinner and then Katie made dirt cake that was REALLY good. Katie got all fancy on us this year and decorated her house all Halloween like and even got all crazy on us by putting gummy eyes in our dessert, the boys had fun with those.....me on the other hand had to turn my head in order to keep my dinner down. After we ate we headed over to the Lorimers where they go all out for Halloween with a spooky set up for trick or treaters. They knew I was scared of pretty much anything and had fun chasing me with their scary masks, and when I say scary I mean SCARY! When the trick or treaters stopped coming we went inside played a little rock band and then headed back to Katie and Colby's for a movie. I didn't even make it 5 minutes into the movie before I was gone! I was so tired! It was definately fun and definately one of the better Halloweens. Thanks Katie and Colby!

I'm so excited!

The one down fall about our apartment since we've moved in was a smoker three doors down from us. You could literally walk around the corner and then BAM you got hit with the awful smell of smoke and then the same thing happened whenever we would open our front door to leave and even just walk by our door inside. Finally a couple of weeks ago I figured out which apartment it was with my dog sniffing nose. Well today on our way out to church we came to the great surprise of seeing that our smoking neighbor was MOVING OUT! I was so happy I can not even explain to you how excited I was. When we got home we saw that he was all done moving and let's just say I sniffed the nice CLEAN air all the way down our hallway to our door! Can I just say this might be one of the best days of my life.......