Category Archives: Just Life

Posts about the good normal everyday life stuff: eating out, family outings, coloring, just living life and loving it.

I Hate Rit Dye

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It all started with Halloween and then lasted for several months after that, but let’s just say I haven’t had the best experience with Rit dye. How do traces of it still pop up in my laundry, completely unexpected? For instance, I have no idea how that one stubborn cleaning rag escaped my original Rit dye purge, or where it’s been hiding out in my house for the past four months, completely undetected. And when did the Rit dye choose to strike again? Of course, when I was washing the new (white) dish towels that Josh bought me for Christmas – the dish towels he bought me to replace the ones I ruined last October. Rit dye, you and I will never be friends.

Dinner a Really Long Time Ago

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So these pictures are really old…like, last October, I think, but I realized we never posted them. Every other Sunday, we try and have our siblings over for dinner. Josh’s brother Caleb and my sister Brenn joined us for dinner and then cupcake-making afterwards. We thought we’d try out a book Heather gave me for my birthday with the cutest cupcake decorating ideas I’ve ever seen: Continue reading →

Tron Marathon

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I guess Josh and I are both kind of geeky. That’s probably why sometime last year when we saw a preview for the new Tron Legacy movie, we were pretty excited. It’s a sequel for a 1982 movie, Tron, and neither of us had seen the original, but we have played this sweet game called Armagetron, which was based on the 1982 movie. (We have very fond memories of playing Armagetron with our siblings over holiday vacations, once at my house  until 3:00 am. Ahh, good times.)

Anyway, since we had so much fun playing the game, we hatched the idea for a Tron Marathon, which would include watching the original, playing the game, listening to the soundtrack, and then seeing the new movie in theaters.

The movie came out over Christmas break, and we were all ready for our marathon. On new Year’s Eve we watched Tron, the original. Hehe, we didn’t quite think it was a cinematic masterpiece, but I guess the special effects were pretty cool back in their day?

…yeah, maybe back in their day. Anyway, it was entertaining. And then after some fun rounds of Armagetron, we saw Tron Legacy in theaters, and it was pretty awesome. The premise and plot was similar to the prequel, just with special effects that were a whole lot cooler:

The best part is that seeing the first one made the second one way more enjoyable, in our opinion. We got little jokes and similarities we would have missed before (like the best line of the movie, “I fight for the users!”). It was a great movie experience.

Now we even have a Tron poster that Caleb bought us for Christmas. I guess we’re official fans!

Our Calvin Snowman

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If you’ve ever read Calvin and Hobbes, you’ll know what type of snowmen Calvin creates – full of character, pretty funny, and maybe just a bit morbid. In December we got the first big snow of the season, and Josh and I (inadvertently) created our own Calvin snowman.

He started out just fine, see?

We used some remnants of our Halloween costumes for the hat and glasses. Cute, huh?

But the next day, to our horror, we looked out the window and saw this:

Alas, someone had shot our snowman in the back! Okay, not really. It’s actually just another disaster with Rit dye (will that stuff ever stop haunting me?). I guess the hat had some traces of red dye on it. And then it rained during the night and, voila, our snowman has a red bullet stain on his back.

But the funny part is, our snowmen started to act like he did get shot. Observe what happened over the next day and a half (with no intervention on our part):

Tragic, isn’t it? And we didn’t even mean to make such a morbid snowman…still, he gave us a lot of laughs. :)