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By Patrick, on January 30th, 2010 One of the more interesting aspects of this part of the country is discovering some of the fascinating names that parents give their children; and some of the “interesting” spellings that come along with some of those names.
It’s a shame that some of the traditional mountain names have fallen out of favor. Imagine a Cletus, or an Elrod, or a Betty-Lou, or a Bobbi-Jo in your child’s class. People wouldn’t even have to ask where you’re from. They can pick from about 6 states-North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, West Virginia, Kentucky, or of course, Mississippi. Fortunately, there are a
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By Patrick, on January 29th, 2010 Well, the fun is almost over. Pretty soon me and Brianna will be headed back to hel…er, work. We’ll have to pack up the boy and drop him off at Granny’s for four days every week while we perform our life-or-death duties. Let’s just say we’re not really looking forward to it. I would pretty much like to pull out all of my fingernails while sticking a hot poker up my ass than go back to work and leave the boy. But alas, so many people are dependent on us and our jobs. I guess I can take comfort in
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By Patrick, on January 28th, 2010 So it seems that our baby is pretty normal in most major ways. He’s in the 50th percentile in weight and length and seems to be progressing along nicely with other developments. However, it seems that he is unique in one way. I found this out when Brianna took him to a “mommy-and-me” class the other day. He got to meet other babies born about the same time as him. I really think this is just a competition to see who has the most awesome baby (of course, we do) but it also lets Brianna see what other babies are
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By Brianna, on January 27th, 2010 Recently, we have been castigated for the misspelling of various words. In particular, my posts seem to come under fire. To that all I have to say is “I just used castigate, correctly, in a sentence. Bitches.”and/or “It’s not my fault they haven’t made a better spell check.” Hey, I’m a true blooded American, so clearly it’s not my fault that I can’t spell. Our education system must have failed me.
In reality I know I SUCK at spelling. For some reason when I was a child I decide spelling wasn’t that important. I was very stubborn, so once I
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By Patrick, on January 25th, 2010 Now, I’m not one to complain too much, but something on the internet upsets me. See, we don’t have television at home. We got rid of cable a few months ago, so if we want to watch any shows, we have to find them on the internet. Sites such as Hulu are great, but sometimes they don’t have what I like. So I have to turn to other avenues.
I can usually find something, but here’s my problem: the quality of the internet television websites is atrocious. I mean, here I am, spending my free time looking desperately for my
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By Patrick, on January 24th, 2010 Okay, so this is not in the mountains, but if you ever get down to Durham or Carrboro, NC you need to check this place out. Good shit. No, I mean some good shiT (if you’ve seen Burn After Reading you’ll know what I mean). Breakfast all day, milkshakes, that classic “diner” feel (although there’s very few neon lights-hmmmmm) and a pretty good wait staff. Prices are pretty reasonable. On Sunday mornings, just go ahead and give yourself a 30 minute break because that’s how long the wait is going to be.
The only potential drawback to Elmo’s: college students.
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By Brianna, on January 24th, 2010 In case you were wondering what the hell just happened:
Real Mountain Values is debuting its new custom look. It’s kind of like if rustic design and “The South Will Rise Again” mentality had a love child… Then we added some shotgun shells for good measure.
Of course there are still a few bugs to be worked out.
Why would we debut a new look without fully debugging it? Well, if it’s good enough for Microsoft, then it’s good enough for us. Let us know what you think of the new us, and check back throughout this week to see
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By Patrick, on January 23rd, 2010 Me and Brianna were sitting on the couch last night talking about something when all of the sudden something amazing happened. A line of spit came flying out of her mouth-but it was still attached to her lips by a microthread of saliva. So it flew out of her mouth, reached its apex, and came back to smack her on her chin. I guess you had to be there…
Just thought I’d share. You may now carry on. You know we never stoop too low to keep you entertained with our important doings.
By Brianna, on January 22nd, 2010 Today our 9 week old son had surgery. I’m going to sum that up in one word: Hell. While, he’ll be fine Patrick and I have learned how much you can hurt for another.
That being said we had a very long and trying wait in the waiting room which was CHOCKED full of people. We met everyone from young New Yorkers to old mountaineers. Being so tightly confined you could not help but hear other people’s conversations. One of which started “These socialists don’t want jobs to come back”. I lifted my eyebrows, did a mental double-take and went
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By Brianna, on January 22nd, 2010 As I was checking out at the grocery store the other day, buying white gold for the baby, I was hit with a question to myself: Why the hell do they always print coupons for shit I don’t buy? I mean, I buy a certain brand of cat litter, toilet paper, apple juice and hemorrhoid cream every time. I’ve bought them my entire life. I will continue buying them. So, why would I change now if I can save $0.50 on a new brand of stool softener when my old brand works just fine?!? I mean, I’ve got some brand
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