A hairy couple of days

I seemed to get into some hairy situations at the end of last week.

First off - on Thursday night, Marsha and I talked our friend Sean into Skyping with us at 11pm. I'm pretty sure he was about to go to bed and I was about to go home, but we had the brilliant idea and before we knew we were all chatting face to face.

Oh, and eventually this happened.




As it turns out, Sean's Skype/computer could do a lot more cool things than Marsha's iMac. It allowed him to change his identity (as seen above) and it also allowed him to talk to us is a myriad of different voices - including but not limited to the voice of a woman. (Actually the title of the voice was "Emotional" but it came out sounding like a woman - go figure).

This voice in particular made for quite a few laughs (you know how funny things get after midnight) and it even ended with a youtube video that I won't post in efforts to preserve my friendship with Ariel....I mean Sean.

Marsha was quite disturbed that her computer did not have these features and we went searching to find something that would be cooler than what Sean had. The only thing we found was some tab that called "Bonjour" in the File Menu.

She clicked and we immediately started saying enthusiastically to Sean - "HEY! ARE WE TALKING IN FRENCH NOW?!?"

(We get even funnier after midnight if you can even imagine it.)

Friday afternoon Marlee and Collin rolled into town and things continued to be hairy. Actually, things got a lot LESS hairy as little Marls decided to get crazy and cut all of her hair off!

Her appointment with the darling Alexis (who also is in charge of my hair these days) was at 4:30, so I headed over to the salon when I got off work.


I arrived just in time for the fun part.






So cute!


Alexis did a great job and Marlee absolutely loved it - and she only went into shock for a few minutes after running her hands through it for the first time.


Just when you think the Marls couldn't get cuter.


And speaking of cute...


Just a little Marsha Hagan Photography action going on. I love this picture and these goons.

We really had our appetite worked up after all that hair cutting and luckily Greg was at home cooking up some yummy food.


As a special treat, the Robelos joined us for dinner! It was SO great to see them. And I mean that literally. They are hott and we like to look at them. :-)


We had fun listening to all of their funny stories and their tales from back home in Honduras. It was so fun just to hang out after not seeing them for so long.




It was quite an entertaining night!






And a fun way to end the week!

My view tonight

Just another random night at the Hagan's house.

Things that happened:

-Helped Marsha scan pics for a birthday slideshow for her brother-in-law

-Talked to Jake about the woes of having moles biopsied (he fell victim to such yesterday)

-Was taken to the brink of insanity when my scanner decided it was too good to scan pictures

-Rejoiced when I finally talked some sense into it

-Ate a granola bar and drank some water...and thought about how happy I am to start working out again tomorrow

-Discussed with Marsha about how I had my hand on the doorknob of crazy land (regarding the super fun body issue struggles)

-She said I was already in the door

-Listened to youtube videos of the songs Sean is going to play at Becca's wedding

-Told Marsha the tale of my experience at the plastic surgeon today and how it made me aggravated the whole rest of the day

-Discussed how I need to be more confident and proactive in questioning when I don't understand things that way I don't leave doctor offices aggravated for the whole rest of the day

-Watched a video about a guy who has taken a picture of himself every day for the past 12.5 years

-Messed with Phoebe

-Fed Phoebe milk with a spoon

-Laughed at Jake (he's funny)

-Received a tweet from Marlee with the news that she will be coming home this weekend!

-Called my parents to see if we could go see my dad's play Saturday instead of Friday so I could hang with the girl and her red-headed boy

-Took a call from Deb telling me to be careful because there were lots of deer jumping out in the road tonight

-Thought about how I should leave and go home to bed starting at about 9:30 and continuing til now (11:00)

-Decided to take pictures of what I was doing so I could be more like that 12.5 year picture guy

-Typed an exhaustive list of the complete randomness of the night for the blog

-Hit publish

-Headed home!

Lately

Life has been full of it's usual shenanigans, and every day when I write the date I think something along the lines of "How is already January 5th? (10th? 20th? 23rd?)"

I guess it really is true about what they say about what happens to time when you're having fun! (Or just being incredibly boring). :-)

Honestly, most of my time has been spent here at office 1116F.


1116F makes me happy. (This picture was actually taken in the first weeks of my new job before papers scattered across my desk at an unbelievable rate and that window sill filled up with stacks of folders and plants and such.)

When I haven't been working, I've really just been hanging around. (Phoebe demonstrates).




There has been the usual randomness.

Catching a movie here and there.


Gaming at the Hagan's kitchen table.


And missing little to no meals and snacks along the way.




There was some medical excitement around the beginning of the month. Back in October, I had 3 suspicious moles on my back biopsied. And because apparently my skin is an overachiever, they all came back abnormal.

No real cause for concern, but basically off they had to go! In order to keep my back from looking like a mine field, I enlisted a plastic surgeon to do the job of removing them completely. And because I have, in the past, had a tendency to pass out during these types of things - I went armed.


My mother swears that if you eat a Snickers and drink a real Coke, you will not pass out. I don't really know if this works or not, but I can't imagine why I would turn down such a combination.

I also threw in some anti-anxiety meds for good measure and I will tell you - that combo worked like a charm.

Thankfully all 3 of the spots came back with no cancerous cells. The bad news was that after the surgery I realized that one the moles my doctor (whom I love) removed was actually not the correct one. Because of this, I had to go back to Savannah and get a fourth removed. (My back currently looks like I got attacked from behind at knife-point. It's cute!)

The good news is:

1.) I got the buy 3, get 1 free special!

2.) The 4th one came back clear as well

and

3.) I once again did not have any trouble staying conscious (and I didn't even take part in the Coke/Snickers/Drugs trifecta.)

All this made me and Phoebe very happy! (Phoebes keeps her emotions on the inside.)


This month I also kept busy by texting back and forth with my new little buddy, Casen. I send him pics of myself with heartfelt messages.


And then he gets him Mommy to send me pictures of him like this:


It's a pretty legit arrangement we have going. Especially when shots like this pop up on my phone.


On January 14th, my dear father celebrated his 57th bday!


He celebrated with lots of birthday love, with Connie and Tom (who shares the same bday!), and with cards like this one from my sister-in-law.


That girl CRACKS me up.


On January 17th, GSU started back to school and I experienced life in the Advisement Center on the first day of classes! It was crazy but oh-so-fun!


Other high points of the month involve the pleasant weather. It's been perfect for many evening and weekend walks around the neighborhood.


Night time can look many different ways around here. There seems to always be something fun popping up!

For example, one night me and my handwriting were enlisted to help address wedding invites by our darling bride-to-be Becca!


The invitations - which feature many pictures from the critically acclaimed Marsha Hagan Photography - were awesome, and it was an honor to assist in getting those babies sealed and delivered.




The groom-to-be was hard at work stamping the return addresses on the envelopes. He would stop periodically to ponder how lucky he was to be marrying such an amazing girl.


We kinda love her, too.


Another night was recently spent with a table full of sweet women celebrating our dear Connie's birthday!




We did have one really cute fella join us as well!


Well - all of that pretty much brings us to present day. 2012 is flying by at record speed - and we're just trying to enjoy it one day at at a time!

When one year ends, another begins

I am happy to say that Christmas Break was so great! It was the perfect mix of everything. Relaxing and fun-filled. Good times with good people.

I thought it would fly by, but honestly it feels like forever ago since we got out. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that I was not at all dreading coming back to work. (I have found that dread slows down work days and accelerates time off.)

The biggest blessing of 2011 was definitely my new job, and even though I would never turn down more days of freedom and fun - I'm excited to get back into the swing of things.

Per usual we found some fun to end out the year and bring in 2012.

I returned Friday night from visiting Linds and the babe, and I had another cutie boy in my house. Risa, Joel, and Jayce stopped back by to spend the night with us on their way home. Saturday morning we did Christmas with them!

While we waited on Uncle Alan to get home, Jayce joined Santa in a little entertainment via his Mama's iPad.


Debra D likes to keep no more than a 2 inch gap between her and Jayce at all times.


Jayce is a huge fan of Alan's gameday commercial so we showed him the latest one.




Then the real live Big Al got home and the fun began.




My fave present!




Jayce and his parents just moved into a new house, so the Tysons hooked the boy up with fun stuff to decorate his bathroom.

My godson thinks outside the box at all times. He's a genius, you know.


This kid's laugh makes me so happy. I squeeze his little leg chub as much as possible in efforts to hear it.


After everyone got on the road, we piddled away at the last day of year and then eventually I ended up at the Hagan's for a NYE celebration.

These guys were there.


We ate some yummy food, played some cards, went on tumultuous journey into the country to pick up Jake, and eventually rang in the New Year!


My first food item of the new year went to: Chocolate Delight.


Starting the culinary year off right is important to me.

It was fun to ring in the year with these crazy kids.....


.....because by the next morning they were packing up and hitting the road for Passion 2012!


Phoebe knew something was up when all the bags started appearing and everyone started shuffling around and hugging and saying things like, "DON'T GO! STAY FOREVER!" She's a perceptive pup.


She was quite forlorn at the reality of it all.


A couple pics and a few more laughs with Mar Mar and Collie K....




....and they were off!

Goodbyes are exhausting.


New Year's Day night we had a few more fun visitors.


We struck up the fire pit and our sweet Becca and Kayla (and their betrothed) roasted some hot dogs.


As I have learned in life - where there's smoke there's fire, and where there's fire there's s'mores.




Bringing even more fun to 2012, Becca and crew busted out the sparklers.


And then we decided to try and have some photographic fun.


(That was the first attempt.)

Everyone got the hang of it, and we had a little fun with words that pertained to these two sweet couples.




This was the pictorial representation of engagement rings. I think Kayla's (left) might have ended up being more like a bracelet.

"We Do" (That one got all the sparklers a little too excited.)






We ended the night with a movie, and then upon returning home - I took a few bites of leftover peas for good luck.




Last night I went over to Marsha's so we could watch the Passion livestream.


Marsha, in her infinite wisdom, managed to hook it up to the TV so we could enjoy it on the big screen with surround sound. It almost felt like we were there (minus about 40,000 people).


As for today, it's back to work I go! I'm thankful for a very, very fun last couple of weeks of 2011 - and looking forward to a great 2012!