A Special Delivery

Well today I have managed to not get out of my PJ's all day! It's not that I haven't done anything productive today it's just that I made a decision I wasn't leaving the house today, so I could stay in my comfortable penguin pants that my good friends Sue and Charlotte gave me a few Christmas' ago. Matt and I tackled the house cleaning which was over due and some of the laundry. But most of the day we have been sucked into the wonderful world wide web. Matt has been exploring his amateur radio hobby (if you don't know what that is you will have to ask him for the details). As for me I have been selecting photos for our wedding album, trying to buy new itunes which was not successful as itunes was not wanting to work for me today. I have a love hate relationship with technology. So as Matt and I were oblivious to the outside world we heard a knock at the door and my first thought was who the heck is at our door. Usually it's not good and I figured it was a Jehovah's witness or something, but I decided to answer it and boy was I glad I did. It was a neighborhood girl selling Girl Scout cookies. She was toting a large wagon filled with all sorts of yummy goodness! I was very happy to buy two boxes of Thin Mints, Matt and I are going to have a great after dinner treat.

The Innocent Man

So I just finished reading a book by John Grisham called the Innocent Man. I have never read any of his books, but my mom had given this book to Matt for Christmas. Since Matt is so busy with work he has a hard time reading things other than his medical articles for work, I took the book when he wasn't looking. Just kidding he was glad to lend me his book. I really enjoyed reading this book. It has changed my mind on the whole right to a fair trial and innocent until proven guilty ideal. I knew things were not perfect in our court system, but I didn't realize how many innocent people are sent to prison and death all over this county. Things are getting better now with better DNA testing. This book is based on a true story that happened in a small Oklahoma town. It tells the story of a 1982 murder and the conviction of 2 innocent men. The book also tells the story of a few other men convicted for crimes they didn't commit. If you like books about true crime then this is a book that you will enjoy. Now I am on the search for my next book, if anyone has any suggestion send them my way?

The end of the week review

So it has been a full week since my last post. It is really hard to find time to blog during the week, but I will try to fit something in every once in a while. So this week was my full official week at my new job. The verdict is I love it! I am really enjoying not having to commute as far and it so much fun to care for a baby again! The little girl I am caring for is 5 months old and so sweet she is very easy going for a baby. I also have to occasionally care for her older sister who is almost 3 years old.

So this week has been filled with ups and downs, this week the little girl I take care of rolled over from her back to her front for the first time and it was very cool to be the first one to see that milestone. Then later that day I had a little bit of an accident with my car, which totally sucked. I had a little mishap in the parking garage, my car scraped against a wooden pole and the pole won. On Saturday night I had a great birthday dinner with all my friends at a cool vegetarian restaurant called Blue Sage. I had a great time just spending time with good friends and eating good food. Then today Matt and I decided to make a trip to home depot to get a few things with our gift cards from Christmas. We had success in spending them but not a lot of our purchases worked out as we had hoped. We bought a new rug for our family room, but it reminds us of something out of the 1970's and then we bought two lamps for the same room and one was broken. Also the other failed home project was the weather stripping we bought for our laundry room was to thick and didn't work. So that was basically my week in a nut shell. Tomorrow is a start to a new week and is my birthday so I would say I think it will be a good week!

An Early Birthday Present!

So my birthday has come early this year. Yesterday Matt took me over to the AT&T store and he purchased an iphone for me. For about a month now Matt and I have been discussing if we were going to switch phone company's. With Matt's new job they provide him with a cell phone and they just gave him his new blackberry curve which he loves. With AT&T being Matt's new phone company we decided to switch me over too. I had been researching lots of phone I looked at blackberry, the tilt, and the iphone and the winner was the iphone. It just a great phone, it fits all my needs and has been really easy to figure out all the features. My favorite feature is the Youtube button, I love this phone!

Matt thank you for my awesome gift!

Please help a kidnapped dog in Philadelphia

Please help a dog that has been kidnapped in the Philadelphia area go to this website to read the story and sing the petiton.

www.thepetitionsite.com/1/help-a-kidnapped-dog-in-philadelphia


The petition site for Edna has been extended. It was originally closed off to new signatures on January 1st, 2000 signatures short of the 5000 signature goal. The site decided this petition was short-changed because of its timing during the holidays, so they've extended it until the 12th of January. It you can think of anyone else who might sign and circulate it - please feel free.

thanks for any help...

Pete the skateboarding dog

Most of you have heard of Tyson the skateboarding bulldog but Pete the skateboarding dog was a new one for me. Watch the video it is amazing how the dog will stay on the skateboard while going down ramps, doing jumps and more. I can't help wondering if this dog is really doing this or if it is digitally enhanced.

Warm weather!

Today it is so nice it is already 60 degrees outside and it might even get to 64 today. Tomorrow is might even get to 68, it is always nice to get a break from the cold weather. Yesterday Matt and I enjoy the nice weather and took the dogs for a long walk. Today I have cleaned my car out, taken down all the outside Christmas decorations, and took the dog for a nice walk. I have a few days off until my new job starts, so I am trying to get a lot done around the house. Soon I need to go out to the grocery store which I have done a good job at avoiding for at least a week now.

Jo Koy

So last night we went out to Helium comedy club with Michelle and Jim. We all had a great time. The head liner was a guy name Jo Koy he was really funny. Going to the comedy club is a lot of fun unless you are the people in the crowd that the comedian zooms in on, which is what happened to Matt and I last month when we went to Helium for Matt's birthday. We highly suggest trying out Helium sometime, and if you do go feel free to invite Matt and I because we are always up for a good laugh!

A Resolution

"I will seek elegance rather than luxury; refinement rather than fashion. I will seek to be worthy more than respectable; wealthy and not rich. I will study hard, think quietly, talk gently and act frankly. I will listen to stars and birds, and babes and sages with an open heart. I will bear all things cheerfully, do all things bravely, await occasions and hurry never. In a word I will let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common." - William Ellery Channing

Happy New Year!

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Originally uploaded by Sibyl and Matt

Welcome to 2008! We ended 2007 with a bang, well not really but we might have started a new addiction for the year. We had a great time last night Sue and Charlotte threw a very nice New Years Eve party. Carter and Adriane brought over their game Guitar hero over and we all gave it a try. Some people were more seasonsed at the game and others like Matt and I were really good and getting booed off the stage. It is really a fun game but at the same time very frustrating. I look foward to giving it another try in the future.

In Extreme

Extremists are seldom completely correct in their heavily slanted line of thought, but these individuals frequently serve as a flag post or rather a marker of subtle ideals which most should heed. Take for instance the life and work of Timothy Treadwell, a self-proclaimed naturalist and activist for “grizzly bears and their habitat worldwide”, who abandoned society and all of its cumbersome rules, regulations, and addictions to lead a life serving creatures whom some may say were in little need of help. During the thirteen summers Timothy spent living among the grizzly bears in Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska he championed the lives of animals above even his own. A great deal of criticism has been generated in reviewing the conduct of this intriguing, seemingly mad, recluse and many of the comments shadow Timothy’s life with shades of mental illness. Yet in review one message remains brutally clear in that Timothy Treadwell believed in protecting his beloved bears and their environment, and in doing so he has reiterated the timeless message of “thinking globally and acting locally” in extreme.