This is a classic. Hope this has never happened to you. It’s just a guy scraping ice off his car.

I found this video interesting. Maybe not all that entertaining, but interesting at least. You’ll find me sending you to this site quite a bit (www.i-am-bored.com), because they’ve got a lot of good stuff. But I’ll wee d out the best, and give it to you here! Click here to see the video.

This is a video of Derek, Dixie’s younger brother, performing at his school’s talent show. Looks like he’s gonna go pro! Go Derek!

Here’s another great movie remix. If you’ve ever seen “The Shining”, you’ll know it’s no walk in the park. Preaty freaky thriller if you ask me. And here is the remix. (Note: If you haven’t seen “The Shining” you probably won’t get it. Just wait till next Halloween, they always show it on TV then.)

This one is just great. There’s a fad going around where someone takes a movie, and remakes the trailer for it, but makes it out to be a completely different movie. Here’s a great one of Mary Poppins. Maybe if I showed this to Maddie, she’s stop being obsessed with Mary Poppins.

This is an oldie, but a classic. I always loved this rendition of oriental dudes playing ping-pong “Matrix” style.

This is a little video clip of Maddie on Thanksgiving. We just had a hard time getting her to look at the camera. We enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner at a church house in Orem, near some of Dixie’s relatives. There’s always tons of food, people, and of course, the traditional game of lightning. This photo doesn’t do justice, because it was taken early on in the night. By the end of the night, there are usually anywhere from 20 to 30 people playing. Lot’s of fun. Dixie’s Grandma, Nila Carlson, has 12 children, so you can imagine how many people show up to this thing. Heck, Dixie has an aunt who has great-grandkids! What does that make them to Dixie? Hmmm. Anyway, the video is short, but as always, cute as can be!

I always thought it was the other people’s kids that liked to store things in their noses. I mean, I know they’ve got a lot of stuff, and not too many places to put it. Heck, they can’t reach their underwear drawer, so where are they going to put all their spare change, marbles, thumbtacks, goldfish crackers, lint balls, magnet letters, popcorn seeds, batteries, potato bugs, cd’s, usb thumb drives, hair thingy’s, and other miscellaneous doodads they find all over the house? So I can understand if there is a need to store a large amount of stuff, with no place to store it. But, your nose? Surely, not my Maddie.

Well I was wrong. Just the other day, Maddie came up to me with a worried look on her face. She is currently in the process of learning how to put semi-coherent sentences together, and it sounded like she was mumbling somthing like “bouncy ball, uh, nose.” And with her finger stuck up her right nostril, I guessed she was saying “I have a bouncy ball in my nose.” Well I KNOW we don’t have any bouncy balls that small, and her nose wasn’t bulging any larger than normal, but I took a look nevertheless. I didn’t see anything, so I just thought maybe she was complaining about her runny nose. Well about 10 minutes later, I noticed she still had her finger up her nose. So I got out the flashlight, and sure enough, I saw something glinting waaaaay up in there.

We took turns, Dixie holding her down while I dug, then I’d hold her down while Dixie rooted around. Regular tweezers didn’t work, and we were about to give up and take her to the doctor, when Dixie went into her magic scrapbooking toolbox and came out with some sort of hook-nosed tweezers. That did the trick. She dug out a little plastic diamond-looking bead, probably from some necklace or something. Now where to look for my usb thumb drive?

I thought about ridding the house of anything with less than a half-inch diameter, but then thought she probably has learned her lesson.

Only time will tell…

Seriously, don’t carry batteries in your pocket.  I just learned the hard way.  So here I am, sitting at work, it’s about 10:30 pm, and I’m just minding my own business, reading my email, when all of the sudden, I feel this warm sensation on the side of my leg.  No, it’s not what you think.  At first I shoved it off to some poorly arranged keys in the pocket, so I shifted them a bit.  But then it started seriously burning!  So I stand up and reach in my pocket to pull the contents out and see what’s going on.  The second I placed my hands on my car keys, I gave out a shriek, and my cube-buddy looked over to see me tossing keys, coins, and batteries all over the place.  To make a long story short, I think a couple fingers on my right hand are short some fingerprints now.

Don’t ask me why I had batteries in my pocket in the first place.   It’s actually really coincidental that I had more than one in my pocket.  I had put one rechargeable AAA battery in there as a backup for my MP3 player, as I was in the middle of a good audio book, and wanted to have a backup battery with me in case it died.  That was 2 or 3 days ago.  (Ok, now you know how long I wear my pants without washing them.)  Then the other day, Maddie was playing with a couple of batteries, one of which was a AA rechargeable battery.  Well in case you didn’t know, NiMH rechargeable batteries aren’t cheap, and I didn’t want to lose it, so I took it from her and promptly placed it in my pocket.  So I guess tonight, sitting at my desk, the keys must have shifted to the perfect position so as to create a short between the two batteries, thus causing the easy-bake oven in my pants.

The chances of this happening are probably really slim, so I can’t imagine it happening again, but needless to say, I’m now paranoid, and will probably never carry batteries in my pocket again.  Don’t ask me why I felt I had to share this useless information with all of you.  I guess the website was getting a little stale, and needed some freshening up.   And I don’t have anything better to do at 11:00 pm at work.