A Quitter????!!!

Recently, my parents were very open and honest about their thoughts on my blogging skills. Namely, they think I'm not very good at keep it up. While this is very true, I am not prepared to give up, as my parents (jokingly) suggested. I am not a quitter. So, I'm going to forge ahead. Give it my best shot.

As I type this, I'm listening to Bud Selig give a press conference in response to the Mitchell report which was finally released today. I have to be honest and say I don't really care about this. I do in that I wish steroids weren't a part of baseball, I think it's something that needs to be dealt with, and all that jazz. But, I'm not sure that this report means anything to baseball. I'm surprised at the lack of "stars" on the list, but also surprised that Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte were on it. I'm breathing a sigh of relief that people like Albert Pujols weren't on the list, because I really like him and I hope that his image will never be tarnished in that manner (although if he is on something I think he should be tarnished). But, in reality, this report I don't think will serve any purpose. I don't think there's a whole lot of substance to the report in truth. It's all a lot of "well, I think he might have" "I think I remember him saying something about..." and things like that. Not a whole lot of hard evidence. I guess we'll see.

Eric and I made a rather large life decision last night. We've been rather ticked off with Verizon lately, and frustrated that we can't ever get cell phone service in our apartment. So, we went out to see what AT&T could offer us. We had no intention of actually switching last night, given the fact that our Verizon contract wasn't up until April or something. But, we got such and amazing deal, that I was so hard to pass up. We got a phone that normally retails for over $400 (that's if you're not signing a contract...if you are, it's normally like $200) for $150 buy one get one free. In other words, we got $800 worth of phone for $150. And the phones are freakin sweet.

Our phones: mine is a redish color, Eric's is black.

We both spent quite a bit of time playing around with them last night, and I'm sure we'll do the same tonight. It's quite exciting to get reception in our apartment, and to have a "cool" phone (instead of the one everyone gets for signing a contract).

Let's see, what else...we're both really ready for Christmas break. We've decided this is going to be the best Christmas ever. We're getting an XBox 360, Guitar Hero II, Guitar Hero III, and Rock Band. Which is freakin amazing. We're so pumped about that. And, we're getting a new car, because my is about ready to die (so we're gonna give it to my brother).

It will be another whirlwind trip. We'll leave next Friday morning (the 21st), and drive to Illinois to spend a few days with my family. Then the morning of the 26th we'll fly into Oklahoma City, spend the rest of the morning/afternoon car shopping, and then do Christmas with the Ankenmans that night. Spend a few days there, and then drive back after church on the 30th to Illinois. We'll spend the night there, and then drive home the morning of the 31st, getting back just in time to throw our own New Year's party to share our new Christmas presents :).

And then, I'll go back to work on the 2nd. I'm secretly already praying for a snow day that day :)

So, yeah. I think that's about all the news I have for right now. I'm really gonna try to update more often...