Hallelujah

This is my new obsession song. I absolutely love it. ^_^ I wanted to save the lyrics somewhere so I didn't have to track them down again.


Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah


Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah


Baby I have been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you.
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah



There was a time you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
The holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah



You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light in every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah



I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

She's so cute!

My new neice Anika is being blessed on Sunday. I just needed to share how cute she is. ^_^

Time O' Finances

Wow, its been a while since I posted. I suck. So, I got a second job.... yay..... We used our tax returns to get almost completely out of debt! So now as long as we're careful we shouldn't be scraping by so bad anymore. This whole cutback at Invisus thing really sucks though. I got paid last week, and I had the same amount on my check from Teleperformance as I did on my check from Invisus. So, with the more expensive insurance and the cut in pay and hours, I'm now making at Invisus the equivalent of $4 an hour less at 40 hours a week. So I am now working 80 hours a week and making $200 a month more than I was making 2 months ago. That sucks. Oh well, I guess that's life. At least with the second job we'll be able to pay our bills.

I am happy about the new stimulus package if only for one reason. It means the government gave me $8000 that I don't have to pay back! Yay! That really helped us out too. Because of that we were able to get out of debt and are able to buy food now. I'm a big fan of Obama for that. Although, watching the congressional address last night cracked me up. They gave him a standing ovation in between every statement he said. They kept standing up. Shouldn't the standing ovation be saved for the end? I mean, seriously, are you guys just trying to stay awake or what? It was humorous to me. And at one point Obama said something about starting to export American goods to strengthen the economy. I'm like, since when did America have goods? >.> We don't make any exportable goods. We get all our stuff from Asia. We have WoW. That is our contribution to the world. I thought it was funny. No one else in the break room did. :P

So, that's my life right now. Work, live for Saturdays, try to find humor in not so funny places. You have to laugh at life. If I couldn't laugh at life, I wouldn't be able to do what I'm doing now. That is the moral of today. Laugh at everything you can.

Office Christmas Spirit!

Oh crap! Someone left the roof open!






Now there's snowflakes everywhere!





All over my bulletin board.......




All over my calendar......




Oh well, at least they look cute with our garland! ^_^





We really had fun with our office Christmas decorations this year. And we're not even done yet! I love office Christmas spirit! ^_^

Ludo Concert Report!

So, went to the Ludo concert last night and I have very mixed feelings about it. One thing is for sure, I am never going back to the Avalon Theater again, no matter who is playing there.

On the tickets it says the doors open at 6:30. So everyone gets there at 6:30, and they wouldn't let us in. They didn't open the doors till 7:15. The concert was supposed to start at 7. It had snowed and was freaking freezing, and no one had coats because its a concert, if you take a coat you're just gonna end up carrying it. Once we finally get inside its still freaking freezing because they had no heaters and doors open everywhere. I heard later that they made us stand outside for 45 minutes because someone forgot to print out the will call list. WTF? And this place was ghetto. It was basically a gutted old theater, like the old Huish in Payson. They didn't even give the will call people tickets. They crossed my name off on the list and said go in.

So we get into the theater and they start warming up. At around 7:30 the opening band starts. They weren't too bad, they weren't great, but we listened to them. They did their thing and got off the stage. So another group comes out and starts warming up stuff, we're thinking its the warm up crew, turns out its a second opening band. I watched the lead singer for about 30 seconds and realized I could not watch him and possibly leave with any opinion of the band. He was just irritating to watch. So I started playing sudoku on Sam's phone, just listening to the band. That worked for the first song, it wasn't bad, I could listen to them without wanting to murder them. But as they kept playing their songs kept getting more and more annoying. By the time they were done I was ready to shove the mic down that nerdy kid's throat.

So they finally finish and get off the stage and another group comes out and starts warming up. Again, we think its a warm up crew for Ludo, again we're wrong. Turns out, its a third opening band. Three opening bands? Seriously? Thankfully, these guys were fairly entertaining. The lead singer was sick and you could hear it in his voice, and he openly admitted it and apologized for a lower quality performance. :P I wouldn't buy their music myself, but they had a great stage presence and a good connection with the audience. They were really good performers.

Finally, at 9:30, Ludo comes out. But not to perform, to warm up. The place didn't even have a warm up crew for the main band. They set up all the stuff themselves. Then the theater's sound system started to fail and they had to switch out mics. The lead guitar was not happy. So, after 20 minutes of messing with the sound, they walk off the stage and start their official entry.

From then on it was great. Ludo are great performers and so much fun to watch. One thing I love about them is the lead singer is not the only one who talks to the audience. The other members of the band are spokesmen too, so it gives the band a feeling of equality. They really work as a group. Since there was snow outside, they had the audience sing Jingle Bells. It was hilarious. When they were done, we demanded an encore, of course, so they came out. Apparently, their bass player was a substitute for their regular player and had already played all the Ludo songs he knew. But, they were prepared, for he knew one more song. They played Ghost Busters as their encore song. It was awesome.

So we left the theater in a great mood, and I would say for Ludo, enduring all the rest of the crap was worth it.

I love my office! ^_^

Welcome to the Invisus Halloween 2008! I love how much fun we have at Halloween, so I thought I'd share!

Cindy won the costume contest with her Medusa costume! Go Cindy!

I came in second place as Altier from Assassin's Creed. Everyone kept calling me a jedi. >.< I'm like, I look nothing like a jedi! I am offended both as an Assassin's Creed fan and a Star Wars fan! Yes, I am a geek. The whole day I had one thought....."He's a null, okay?"
(Penny Arcade reference here: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/10/15/)



Travis had a way cute Mario family.





This is Jamie, the CEO of my company, dressed as a hippie. He's awesome.

His wife is freaking cute too! I love her!

Such a fun family.






Go Doug as Captain Morgan! He didn't do the pose though....






Doesn't Lacey make such a cute s'more?

Customer service gets frisky around holidays!






Yes, this is Ryan, my boss, dressed as a Chip n' Dale dancer. Its things like this that remind me of why I love where I work.








Pumpkin carving contest! The day team, night team, mentors, and customer service each carved one pumpkin.




The day team's Mario pumpkin won first place.

My Jack pumpkin came in second place. I was very proud of this pumpkin. ^_^

Night team's Marylin Monroe got honorable mention. I thought it was pretty cool. The judges said they didn't win because nothing was ever carved through.

And customer service's horseman's head was just cute. I still think we should have set it on fire.


All in all, it was fun. After work we went to Pirates and had more fun! The show was a lot better than I had expected, so I was pleasantly surprised. :P It was nice to see some old friends too. A pretty good Halloween.

Ding!

Second anniversary! Yay for us! We went to Bryce Canyon and had the most relaxing weekend we've had in a year. It was so nice. We got some nice pictures too. I get frustrated with pictures though, they just don't do Bryce Canyon justice. They just can't capture the scale and grandeur. I really came to love Bryce in the one day we were there. Inadequate as our pictures may be, I'm kinda proud of them. So here they are!

One thing that blew my mind was how it looks like little cities built out of rock. I could totally see a whole civilization living in the canyon. It was straight out of a scifi book. It was awesome.

Cool rock formation. There were a lot of them there. :P

Sam is cute. ^_^

Sam's smile is cute. ^_^


Its like peeking through the trees onto a castle.....

This is me being artistic and taking a picture of a stick. ^_^




This just has really cool coloring in the cliff.



Sam being pensive....


More pretty colors. ^_^

Its in the shape of a rook.


"The Arch" that everyone was swarming around and wanting pictures of. I thought there were cooler pictures elsewhere, myself, but hey. It is pretty.



Sam's so cute when he's being patient with my obsessive camera-ness.

He's cute when he's trying to smile for my obsessive camera-ness too. ^_^

I blame Sam. -_-

Cute little squirrel.

Hiking down the canyon picture. Remember this picture....

That's right, this is a frozen stream. It was completely frozen, not moving at all. It looked like it had been frozen for a long time. What's cool about this picture is at the time I was wearing a t-shirt. :P
More frozen stream.

This was a pretty dang cool arch.
Probably because we got to walk under it.

Isn't it gorgeous!!!

Just plain cool.

This is looking up a cliff. Again, the picture just doesn't do it justice.

So, I was hiking up out of the canyon and we stop to take a break, and I look to the side and say that's a cool scene, I should take a picture. So I take my picture and right as it takes I think wait, I recognize that rock. That's right, I took the same exact picture while hiking down, known to this blog as "hiking down the canyon picture." It is interesting how different it looks at first glance with the shadows.

Sam loved these little plants trying to grow out of wide expanses of dry dirt. They were just tiny little things and you would see one in 100 yards of desert, all by themselves. Points for determination.
More coolness....

We hiked down there.

I thought this looked really cool with the lights and shadows....

Pretty cliffs.

Lots of magnificence.

We hiked down there too.

We were pretty much done by the time we took the last two pictures. The camera was too. :P I went through two brand new batteries in 3 hours. >.> It was way fun though. We did the pansy hike this time. Next time, we're doing the full 5 mile hike all around the canyon. I'm stoked for it. And I will be sure to bring more than two batteries. Dum dum duuum!