A Sad Moment in History.

Literally, I was in History today. It's World Civilization or something like that. Anyway, we were talking about the Persian Empire and discussing some crazy religion called Zoroastrianism. Well, in this religion they don't believe in burying or cremating the dead. Apparently after three days the spirit has moved on so they just leave the body outside and let the vultures have at it. Weird, so someone asked if Zoroastrianism was still practiced today--yes it is. Now here comes the sad part...The professor was trying to relate it better and said that there was someone famous we probably knew that belonged to this religion--Freddy Mercury. The entire class of 30 something people was silent. Nobody knew who Freddy Mercury was. Even the professor said she only knew because her father always listened to "crazy music." There are even older people in my class, people who were old enough to have been there and nobody had a clue. I started to explain to them who he was and they didn't have a clue until I mentioned "We will, we will rock you...!" Awful. Shameful. INCONCEIVABLE! Utterly saddening. When I got to my car, I immediately turned on my ipod and had my own little tribute to Freddy Mercury. 

Roll Tide Roll.

Mitch and I also got to go to an Alabama game at Tuscaloosa. We got up really early, but luckily his parents drove so I got to take an awesome nap. I am the worst company on a long drive to anywhere. Cars just put me to sleep--especially when it was dark and raining cats and dogs! It poured all the way down there. We walked around the University for awhile before the game and even with all the rain and muck, I fell in love with the University of Alabama. As soon as we got into the stadium and to our seats, it stopped raining. Amazingly, it didn't rain at all throughout the game. We walked around the campus some more and as soon as we got back on the rode, it started pouring again. The Crimson Tide kicked some major tail. North Texas didn't stand a chance. It was a great game, and we've decided to eventually move to Alabama. It's so pretty and I'd love to move somewhere. So Alabama seems like a good choice..hopefully we can move, get in state tuition and both finish up at the University of Alabama. Mitch has always wanted to go to school there and I'd love for him to really be able to. We'll see how all that turns out in a few years..Roll Tide Roll!

No Pictures.

Sorry, there are still no pictures. So I've given up and gone ahead and started posting. I didn't think it would be a big deal to go buy a battery charger for my camera. I was wrong. I guess Sony doesn't think anyone will ever lose a wall charger!? I finally found one at Best Buy and it was $56--for a wall charger. So I'm still trying to find one. I refuse to pay sixty bucks for a charger. Enjoy the stories for now, and hopefully I'll be able to provide pictures to go along. 

Go Braves!

Mitch and I got to go to the Braves game against the Reds. We drove down early that morning and got there in the nick of time. When we got there we stood in one line for about ten minutes and then was told we were in the wrong line. So we stood in another line for another fifteen minutes. Then we found out that we were right the first time and had to go and get back in that line. We finally got to the window and got our tickets. We had pretty good seats in the outfield for them being free. We got Mitch's favorite, dipping dots, and sat down right as the first pitch was thrown. The only thing we didn't think about was the sun. It never occurred to us to bring sunblock. Poor Mitch got burned. I just ended up with some bad tan lines. But it was still a good game, even though they lost. After the game we went to visit my sister, Katherine. We had dinner and visited for a few hours. Maddie barely paid attention to me, apparently she likes Mitch better. Not like it matters... Katherine gave Mitch more insight on Fantasia and the impact it had on our lives. Haha. It was very nice to get to see everybody and enjoy a Braves game.

My dog ate my homework, I mean ticket..

So, as you know I got a ticket for my wreck. Well, I went to court to try and get it dismissed. Last time I had to go to 201 Poplar for a ticket it was a disaster. I didn't have cash for parking, fifty cents for a locker (because you can't bring a camera into court), couldn't find the right court room. It was a mess, but I had it together this time. I had cash for parking and left all my electronics in the car. I get in line to go through the metal detectors, which are the serious ones like at the airport. They make you walk through and they scan your purse. So as I'm in line, I start digging through my purse to find some chap stick and I realize I have four box cutters in my purse. Dang it..I decided to just play dumb and act like I didn't know they were there. So I put my purse on the conveyer and went to walk through. As I started through, the security guard called me over and he asked me if I had any tweezers in my purse. So I ended up having to throw away my tweezers because they were considered a weapon, but walked into court with four razor blades! Crazy, crazy people. I finally got to the courtroom and got in line again. There are always a million people at Memphis court. Well, the guy finally called me up to discuss my ticket and asked me how I plead. I told him NOT guilty, so he had to get up and find their copy of my ticket and accident report. But turns out he could find their copy, so he asked me if I had mine. I just smiled and said I was hoping he wouldn't ask me that because my dog chewed up my ticket. He just laughed and said oh well, we'll just dismiss it this time. I was amazed that the "my dog ate my homework" excuse actually worked in traffic court. :) Nobody can top that. Haha. 

House.

Mitch and I have a slight obsession with the TV show House. Okay, maybe more than slight. We have seen every episode and have it all on DVD. We've always liked the show, but we really got into it when we first got married. We had our little apartment, but didn't have cable yet. So we started going through the DVDs and found the first season of House. We watched all of it within the week. Then we immediately went out and bought season two and three. It only took about two weeks to watch all of those episodes. When we got season four, we took a little more time to watch it because season five wasn't out on DVD yet. We preordered season five and had it sent to us. The high point of everyday was going to check the mailbox. Awful. When we finally got it, we ended up watching all 24 episodes in a day and a half. Insanity. We stayed up until about 2 in the morning to watch it, went to bed, and woke up at eleven to finish it. A very productive weekend. Now season six just started on TV. But sadly it's on Monday nights. I don't get out of school until 6:55. :( I guess we'll have to go find a VCR so we can tape it. Life is so hard sometimes.

A thick envelope finally arrived and it's, it's---HOUSE! Instant satisfaction!

Meet Murray.

Yay, Mitch and I got a new car. We decided to go ahead and trade in my Explorer and get something more dependable. Since my truck's trade-in value was only about $1,900, we decided it'd be best to go ahead and take the cash for clunkers deal. As much as I didn't want a car note, we thought it'd be better than waiting for my truck to blow up and really sink us in the hole. We looked around at smaller sedans and finally decided on the Nissan Versa Sedan. It's small, but not tiny like the Chevy Aveo and Toyota Yaris. And Danny got us the hook up at the Nissan dealership, so we got the nicest Versa with all the bells and whistles for a great price. It's black with tan interior, but it's the nice luxurious fabric. :) I also have the neat Bluetooth thing where I can talk on the phone and it comes through the car speakers. It's pretty sweet--Mitch loves it because now it's impossible for me not to hear my phone in the car. It has taken me awhile to realize that I'm not in a taller vehicle with a V6 or V8 engine anymore. That is all I've ever driven, so I've almost gotten run over several times pulling out in front of people. But oh well, we are very happy with our little coke can car which gets 30 mpg. We have named her Murray and she's the first "big purchase" Mitch and I have gotten to make as a married couple.

Mitch and I patiently waiting for them to get our loan approved--scary!

This folder was blank when we arrived, but I had to pass the time somehow--some of the salesmen wanted to frame it. :)

THE DESK, we waited forever to get here--the final stretch.

This is George, he introduced us to Murray--and was a super sweet man.

Goodbye Explorer, thank you for saving my life--we had a good two years.

There's Murray, she was sitting there waiting on us to take her home!

Welcome home, the Ivy's are a Nissan family..

Wreck.

Yep, I had another wreck. Luckily nobody got hurt and I didn't even get hit by the airbag. :)

So this is the story. I'm driving down Shelby Drive on my way to work. It's pretty congested and everyone is just poking along. Then I get behind a red Camry and we are chugging along at a nice pace. So we're in the far left lane, then change into the middle lane--and completely unaware that a cop has someone pulled over in the far right lane (because there is an 18 wheeler in the lane blocking the view)--the Camry changes lanes, I follow and in that same moment the Camry swerves back into the lane and almost hit me. I swerve even harder now that I am about to hit the cop. I cross over Shelby Drive almost to the other side and then back again, crashing through a fence into someone's backyard. I missed the cop by about 5 feet, almost hit several cars, almost flipped due to my complete over correction, and hit the fence about 30 feet in front of the cop. Basically I made a big U shaped maneuver across Shelby Drive and the cop was amazed I didn't get hit. Of course he thought I was crazy as I bailed out of thetruck and took off running--this is my usual reaction when I have a wreck. I'm always afraid the truck is going to blow up like they do in the movies and I didn't want the airbag to have a late reaction or something and get smacked in the face. But yeah, I made it out alive! It barely even did any damage to the truck! Thank the Lord. But the stupid cop gave me a ticket for "failure to maintain safe lookout." I almost wished I had hit him because there was a side street like 30 feet further he could have pullled the man over on, rather than on Shelby Drive in 8 o'clock traffic. But oh well--things could have turned out much worse.

Paper Mache Soup.

I attempted to make mom's banana pudding. I started to get out the ingredients, but had to send Mitch to get flour and sweetened condensed milk. I didn't even get to the 3rd step before I had to call mom and ask a question because the recipe doesn't say at what temperature to heat the milk and flour..it just says remove from heat on the fourth step. I'm one of those people that needs to have EXACT directions. As I mentioned earlier, it said to combine the flour and MILK together--this recipe calls for milk AND sweetened condensed milk. But considering I left the little can of sweetened milk in the Walmart sack, I completely overlooked it. Still unaware of my blunder, I began layering everything and realized I wouldn't have enough pudding. So because I'm a genius I grabbed a box of Jell-O instant vanilla pudding and finish off my layering. I made the meringue, which I was most worried about screwing up, and put it in the oven. As I am cleaning up, I find the sweetened condensed milk---$&%*@)#!---ugh. So when the timer goes off, I am totally not excited anymore. The meringue was perfect, but when I spooned some out it was nasty soupy muck. There is a reason that the pudding has flour and whatnot in it, instant pudding wasn't a good substitute. And because I didn't put the sweetened milk in it, the pudding was like paper mache! So Mitch and I ate all the meringue off the top and tossed out the paper mache soup. It took forever to make, made a mess of the entire kitchen, and turned out awful. Mitch and I were completely disappointed.

Hah, I would like to note that the first picture is quite ironic. I didn't notice until I uploaded it, but my "Anyone Can Cook" cookbook is a screaming contradiction as I am preparing the paper mache pudding--on top of a Domino's box because I gave up on making dinner the night before.. :)

Teaser.

Well, as you can see--Mitch and I have been busy bees. I have a lot of updating to do. But sadly, I cannot find my battery charger for the camera. And I just cannot bring myself to tell a story without pictures to go along with it. I have a system, and I'm sticking to it.. So there won't be any serious blogs yet. I'm buying a charger tomorrow. SOOO, by Thursday there will be at least six blogs for you to read. Yes, they will be overflowing with all the hilarious anecdotes of our action-packed life that you crazy nuts love so much. (I know it's the highlight of your life) So check back Thursday and you can delve into the intoxicating activities that Mitch and I have been up to lately. Yippy. So back of mom--we don't need another brick crashing through the window with threatening notes. :)