What else could happen?

Just when we think we have weathered most of the storm another round beats down. Many of you know that Dan's dad died 5 days before our wedding in May. The last few weeks of May we traveled around for the memorials and dealt with things as they came.

This week, we got some terrible news from my uncle. I'll keep it private but there are a lot of emotions involved and we have been dealing with all of that this past week.

Today my mom called and said my grandfather was in the hospital following a collapse. He has neglected his health for years and is not in renal failure, has a suspicious mass in his chest and just looks downright terrible. My mom drove up from Corpus and as we headed back from the hospital my dad called to tell us that his mom, my sweet, sweet grandma from Del City (whom many of you have met) is also in the hospital and has been for the past ten days! No one called us! To top it off she was only four doors down from my Granddad and we didn't see her!

So, tomorrow morning we'll be up there rotating between two rooms with two loved grandparents struggling for health.


Please pray. It doesn't look good for either of them but only time will tell.

Thanks

Hmmm.

Ten points to anyone but Debby, Rita or Dan who can tell me who these cats look like!

I want free stuff

Okay, I think I am turning cheap. I WANT FREE STUFF!

I am signing up for all kinds of contests and coupons.

You all can help and I'll share my prizes. If any of you drink Coke Products, I would like to have your caps! They have codes inside that get points towards prizes. Soooo...maybe you could save the codes for me and we can all watch the movies I get to rent for free.

Okay? Sounds like a plan!

Enormous Savings!

I am having a fantastic day! You know those days when you just get a lot of errands done and you feel free? I mean, I got paid on Friday, spent no money this weekend and am now broke because of my bill paying but I feel fabulous!


For those of you outside of Norman, it was 110 degrees yesterday. I felt my face literally melting off! Dan and I are housesitting at my Aunt Karen's and the pool water evaporated by 2 inches! That is huge! We still swim!


For other exciting news...since Monday I thought the wrought iron bars outside my office window were loose and clanging in the wind but in all actuality it was a skunk climbing up the window to try to escape the drain. He has been in there all week...who knows. Dan and I put a board down there to see if he would climb out of it. He sniffed the board and then went back to shimmy up the window and attempt to get on the ledge. What dumb, smelly animals.

We thought he was all alone but another skunk comes out from under the fence around the air conditioner to check on him every 20 minutes or so. Eww..I think Kels should take care of them old west style...if you know what I mean.

And now for my enormous savings. Okay...maybe I am an idiot but I have never been too good at finding the books I need for school online but today, after seeing the money I would need to buy my books from the University Bookstore I wanted to cry.

$165.00??? Yikes. For 5 books? Yikes! So I went to Amazon.com and got them all for $63.00!!! Yay. I saved $102.00!

I should take myself on a shopping spree! Or pay more bills! So, children, if you believe in father Christmas like your uncle billy, buy your festering turd of a bookload from Amazon and stickittotheman!

Ewww?

Uh...this is cute or gross...or something odd. In Ohio there was a two faced kitten born with two noses and two mouths that meow at the same time. Weird.

Get the full story here.

More Stumbles

These are some of my favorite stumbles!

A Japanese Show with a bunch of complex Intros. My jaw dropped!

Napoleon Sound Board!

A very new kind of paint brush!

Virtual Bubblewrap!


Have fun!

A fun Game...75 bands!

Can you find 75 band names in this picture? Comment with your answers.

Click here for a bigger picture!

In love with Mozilla

Okay...so I am in love with Mozilla Firefox! You all should get it! You can have multiple pages as your home page and if you click on the "getting started" button you can download a bunch of add ons that make Mozilla even more fun.

I have colored tabs witch helps me see my pages more clearly and a thing called "Stumble Upon" which is basically a button you push to take you to some top rated sights according to what you tell it interests you. I found some really weird stuff and some really fun stuff.

Here ya go.

Mysterious Game

I played with this for an Hour.

Learn your world geography.


I got a bunch more cool ones at work but it'll have to wait until tomorrow.

Happy Independence Day!

More Wedding Pics

If you're bored you can check out my bridal portraits.

Degree Check

Well, I got my degree check today and it looks like I have put together a perfect schedule to graduate by December. Yay! I will even complete a history minor!
It is about time! I am so ready to have my diploma like all the other people my age. Sigh.

Dan is taking me on a date tonight. He also does the dishes after dinner. Isn't he great?

HUGS!

Amy Hay

Searching for Kristin Eidemiller

I have become an internet stalker. Anyone with Google can become an expert on people they barely know. It is frightening really.

I mean, have you ever googled your name?

I have been looking for a friend I used to know in Seattle for months! I spend hours scrolling through Myspace browses for her or her siblings. For $24.95 I can look up her criminal history and see her credit rating along with her last four addresses but this, for me, is overstepping the bounds just a little bit.

Kristin, Where are you?

During this whole process though I have reconnected with a ton of friends from high school and some even from middle and elementary school. There is something therapeutic about forming a new mental image of people when they have been perpetually twelve in your mind.

I found a girl I used to know who became a swimmer in college and married a pro football player. Another of my friends, whom I adored at age 10, is an accomplished Ivy league graduate who has been published many times over. I am stunned! Some are married with kids already.

I just wonder if these new inventions like Myspace and Facebook will keep people interested enough in each other to actually have something to talk about at their 10 year reunions....Or even to show up at their 10 year reunions.

Okay...I think I am done. My new obsession is Myspace. You can find all sorts of people, blog, put up pictures and music and edit the html in any field. It is a thing of beauty.

I miss you friends. Please say hello.

Love from Amy Van Hizzle.

P.S. Irony of all ironies...I just spell checked this post and the checker didn't recognize the word "blog." Hello!

We're Home!

We made it home safe! Honeymoons are great! I just never ever ever ever want to get married again!

I thought I would add a few pics so you could live the vacation with us!








Dan and I saw a Houston Astros Game!















Dan spent a few hours in a hammock on a private beach. Ahhhh...vacation!







Dan on Stateroom Balcony...the most common sight! He was fascinated with how the ship worked and he loved the water!




















This was our dinner group. Meeting new people is fun! We ate every night in a formal dining room with fab food like steak, lobster, shrimp, etc. Coming home was very hard!















We met a pirate near Tortuga!

















And we weren't the only ship in port. Imagine an extra 10 thousand people coming ashore from just these four boats! Go economy go!

We got a chance to swim with the StingRays! This was soooo cool. They were super soft on the bottom.








I even got to hold one!













Dan was keeping it real!














I was trying to get a self portrait but saltwater/sunscreen was burning Dan's eyes out of their sockets...sooo...this is what came out. I am sure my goggles in his eyeball really helped the situation.

All in all we had a great time! I hope you thought these were a laugh. I should really take a picture of the apartment that awaited us when we got home. Man O Man I thought we had a tornado in there.

Anyway...more later.

Love from the Hays

CRUISE! not like tom!

Dan and I are on our balcony aboard our cruise ship in port at Key West Florida. While we are waiting to get back at sea we are mooching internet from a hotel rigt across the dock. 'Tis very funny. We are having a great time but also are eager to get back home and start our life in Norman...but not for long because we are leaving next weekend for Phoenix to attend Dan's dad's memorial service.

Thanks for all your prayers and for your support at our wedding! Hope everyone's summer is going well.

Love from Dan and Amy Hay!!

There are so many things in my life that I don't understand...this is one of them.

1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles with it.

2. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction!!!

I told you so... And there is nothing you can do about it.

Uh...umm....shuh...?!

What?!

Nineteen days? That is less than 20 days which is less than 30 days. No wonder I am on the verge of insanity!

Will you guys please dance at my reception? It'll make me feel like a bit of a success.

A public apology

The time comes in every blogger's life when a post turns sour and controversial. This is my public apology for writing misleading threads that make me seem like a hater.

I love reading all of your blogs. I really am just asking for more! Clayton says he will give a little more when he posts songs...that will make me smile.

Anway, I love you all. And melancholies are my favorite people in the world...that wasn't a slam. All of my best friends are melancholies and it is one of my future husband's most attractive features. Amy and Melancholies are like peas and carrots. They just have a tendency to be cryptic and happy go lucky, apt to be a bit dim-witted sanguines like myself need a little help understanding your meanings.

I wish I could just bake a cake of rainbows and sunshine and we can all eat and be happy like we were in junior high...

Happy Birthday Allison!

Today is Allison's birthday. Consider this an official sanction to drive her to tears with positive attention! You should ask her about the geenie that gave her three wishes this morning...top that people.

Allison. I love you! You are the marshmallows in my lucky charms, the chocolate in my milk, the

whipped cream on my sundae.

Happy Birthday!

My Two Cents

Okay. I have to put my two cents in. I gotta be honest pals....all the song lyrics as posts are beyond getting annoying.

I know music is important to all of you melancholies but it is like an ongoing mystery as to what the heck you mean by them.

Are you trying to be aloof? Do you want us to google the song and find out what the artist meant by it? Are we supposed to examine your life and guess at the correlations?

I am not trying to be a butt, I really want to know! Because to continue with the honesty thing I just skip right over the lyrics....especially if you put the chorus in over and over.

Maybe I am asking too much to desire to read your actual thoughts when I go to your blog. But I really do.

If this is asking too much maybe if there was just one lyric post per every 5 normal entries...that would be better.

Tell me what you really think or I'll send this guy after you...and nobody wants that!

Bad News

Been getting some really bad news lately. But this makes me feel a little bit better or a little bit worse...depending on your perspective.

Rusty