Riddle me this... (answers)

Here are your answers for the riddles. Let's see how you did...

Answers:

1. If you answered that you are first, then you are absolutely wrong! If you overtake the second person and you take his place, then you are second!

2. If you answered that you are second to last, then you are wrong again. Tell me, how can you overtake the LAST Person?

3. Did you get 5000? The correct answer is actually 4100. If you don't believe it, check it with a calculator!

4. Did you answer 'Nunu'? NO! Of course it isn't. Her name is Mary! Read the question again.

5. He just has to open his mouth and ask...

And how did you do?

Riddle me this...

Quick set of brain teasers for you today :)

1. You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in?

2. If you overtake the last person, then you are... ?

3. Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10 . What is the total?

4. Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3. Nini, 4. Nono. What is the name of the fifth daughter?

5. A mute person goes into a shop and wants to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the action of brushing his teeth he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper and the purchase is done. Next, a blind man comes into the shop who wants to buy a pair of sunglasses; how does HE indicate what he wants?

Post your answers in the comments, and eventually we'll share the answers, to see just how you did today! :)

Christmas Recap

Ok, so we slacked a little with the blog during Christmas....

Seeing as how Bethany now has a JOB, we had to wait around to receive her "hiring packet" in the mail, until Tuesday. Then we left for Montgomery to spend Christmas with the family.

Wednesday, Christmas Eve, we went to a candlelight service with my folks, and did Christmas with my parents.

Thursday, Christmas Day, we did Christmas morning with Bethany's family.

Of course we made out with a nice little loot from everyone, and surely didn't go away disappointed! It was a great time.

We stayed in Montgomery throughout the weekend, visiting with family, lounging around, enjoying the holidays, and doing a whole lot of nothing. By the time we returned on Sunday, the holidays were over and we both had to go to work. Talk about a SHORT HOLIDAY!

Woohoo!!

Merry Christmas and a Ho, ho, ho to Robert and I. I accepted a position at UAB this morning, so although I don't quite have my degree yet, I do finally have the big J-O-B :). I start in January and will defend my thesis in the next few months. This is a huge weight lifted off my shoulders because we weren't sure how easy it was going to be to get a job in this economy. I will be in a structural biology lab doing things I've never done before, so this is going to be a great opportunity for me to learn some new technologies in an exciting field of research.

Well I better quit stalling and get back to icing the 14 dozen cookies that we need to have done by tomorrow. We will post pictures of our finished product. We hope everyone is having a happy holiday season.

~Bethany

Weather Flashback

Just a little weather comparison between Iowa and home.

Home:
Iowa:

Yep. It's good to be home!

Atlanta recap

As most know, we went to Atlanta to go the 2008 SEC championship game, courtesy of my grandmother. She willingly gave us her tickets, so we put them to good use. Who wouldn't have? Along with the game tickets, she provided two for the SEC fanfare too.

10:00 - We arrived in downtown Atlanta, found our parking spot just east of the dome, and headed into the crowd. We stumbled on a parade and kept moving...

11:00 - Made it into the World Congress Center, watched some kids play flag football, took some photos with the Chick-fil-a cows, the Nissan Sports Illustrated group, and enjoyed the crowd atmosphere.

2:00pm - We figured we'd beat the crowd and head into the dome early. This is where we got the notice that I had to be turned away until I stored my camera elsewhere. Apparently, some kind of SEC rule prohibits cameras with interchangable lenses and lenses over 6inches long.

2:45pm - Finally get back to the stadium, and now have to stand in line for what seems forever to get cleared to get back into the stadium.

3:20pm - We realized our seats were actually in the nosebleed section, 10-12 rows from the top!

4:00pm - Kickoff. Since I didn't have the camera, I had to settle with the low quality cell phone camera.

Both schools came out and did the national anthem for everyone.Nothing really took well during the game, but the extra lights helped for post game. Unfortunately, the outcome was 31-20 in the favor of Florida. Not what we were hoping for, but we still had fun.

Again, I could take too many post game pictures that would turn out, but there really wasn't a whole lot to photograph since we lost.

We left the game, headed to a really late dinner and still made it back to Kim's apartment within an hour. Somehow we completely avoided most of the traffic. That was the best part.

Sunday - Georgia Aquarium. Too be continued...

Dumb rules...

Quick post...details to come later...

NO CAMERAS W/ INTERCHANGABLE LENSES ALLOWED IN THE GEORGIA DOME

What kind of crap is that? I show up at the gate 2hrs early to get told I can't bring the camera w/ the telephoto lens since it's a "professional camera" and I have to take it back to the car. A point and shoot is allowed, but nothing with interchangable lenses.

Yet amazing how many others we saw with nice SLR's that are interchangable. Talk about making you mad!

The actual breakdown to come later...

Atlanta or BUST

Bethany and I scored two tickets to the 2008 SEC Championship Game, (No.1) ALABAMA vs (No.2 AP/No.4 espn) FLORIDA for today and I am pumped.
We drove in last night from Birmingham and visited with our dear friend Kim (Thanks Kim) to be in place for the game. Last night was Mellow Mushroom before crashing at her pad for the night.

This morning, yea we're getting ready to head out to the game! We'll be there celebrating and pulling for the TIDE! We'll keep you updated...

This post is brought to you live from Atlanta on location in Kim's Apartment...

When it rains, it pours....

Well, I thought that once the month of November was past us, the rest of my bouts of bad luck would pass too. At least Robert is home now to help me with everything.

It all started when I went up to Birmingham near the beginning of November and decided to paint our downstairs hallways. While taping things off and getting stuff ready to paint, I heard a buzzing in the living room. Turned out there were about ten or so wasps congregating in the living room windows. They were pretty content to stay there when it was pretty cold in the morning, but by the afternoon when things had warmed up, they were buzzing all over the place. I wasn't quite sure how I was going to get rid of them, but I ended up deciding on a fogger. The only bad thing about the fogger is that I had to leave for about 4 hours. At least the lawn needed mowing, so I killed a bunch of time doing that. When I was done, I had lots of wasp bodies littering the living room.

That same weekend I had big plans for getting all of my laundry done. Turns out though, that when you leave your house for an extended period of time, you should turn the water off to your washer. Apparently, we had water leaking from one of our connections for a while leaving a bit of water damage behind.

Because of all the distractions, I didn't get my hallways completely painted. I figured Robert could help me out before Thanksgiving, but he ended up having to stay on a little longer than we expected. No big deal.....we just have primed walls at the moment :). So, I cleaned up what mess I could and went back to Montgomery.

The weekend before Robert came home, I went back to Birmingham to finish cleaning up the messes I had left behind earlier. Sunday morning, Java woke me up with that infamous gagging sound that precedes the inevitable. It was apparent that she had swallowed a few rocks the day before, and the larger ones escaped the best way they could. After upchucking three rocks, she was still pretty uncomfortable, so I called the emergency vet clinic because she obviously couldn't have eaten these rocks during the middle of the week.....she had to do it over the weekend. After an X-ray showed that one rock had made it into her intestines, the emergency vet decided to hook her up to fluids, keep her overnight and update me once before going off duty and assuming that I would just transfer her to our regular vet on Monday. So I picked her up Monday morning and we were on our way with an envelope of X-rays, no records and a bag of fluids. At this point in time, I had no idea where the rock was or when the last time X-rays had been taken. Our regular vet did an X-ray, said the rock was moving along and sent me home with Java and fiber rich canned food. After all of that, the rock made its escape Monday night and things have been going well for Java since then. Red on the other hand goes into the vet this Thursday for a dental and lump removal.....

I figured things would fall into place once Robert came home, and they have for the most part. Except his truck is now doing funny things, so off to the dealer that will go. I just love how everything decides to fall apart right around the holidays.

On a lighter note, we are getting back into a routine and things are getting back to normal. We had a great holiday and hope that everyone else did too :)!

Random Catch-up

Ok, so we got behind yet again... (what else is new?)

Here's a quick recap:

1. I landed in BHM Tuesday (11/25) night, late. I found an iPhone at the Cincinnati airport sitting on the chair arm. I gave it to the desk attendant, but I still hope whoever lost it, manages to find it. That's a tough loss.

2. Family came and visited on 11/25 through 11/30. We had celebratory Thanksgiving dinner including turkey, stuffing, cornbread dressing, frozen cranberry salad, squash casserole, green beans, and both sweet & mashed potatoes. This is apparently the first time my "yankee family" has ever had cornbread dressing....

3. Iron Bowl. I don't need to elaborate too much, it may hurt the feelings of the Auburn fans around here. We were able to get tickets from my grandmother, so Michael, Bethany, myself, and Amanda got to enjoy a great game. Well, Michael & I enjoyed a great game. For those unsure, Bama beat the drum to a tune of 36-0! Roll Tide.

4. Christmas...Time to decorate...We'll post photos later, when everything is done...