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Friday, 04 July 2008

For the 4th of July

Tuesday, 24 June 2008

20 Ways To Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity.

1. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.

2. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.

3. Every time someone asks you to do something ask if they want fries with that.

4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label It "In."

5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For Three Weeks. Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch To Espresso.

6. In The Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write "For Smuggling Diamonds."

7. Finish All Your sentences with "In Accordance With The Prophecy."

8 Dont use any punctuation

9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.

10. Whenever you go out to eat order, with a serious face, a diet water. Or a large medium.

11. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is "To Go." And/or drive through the drive-through backwards. :D

12 Sing Along At The Opera.

13. Go To A Poetry Recital And Ask Why The Poems Don't Rhyme.

14. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area And Play tropical Sounds All Day.

15. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can't Attend Their Party Because You're Not In The Mood.

16. Start your answering machine with, "Hello!…………………………………………………… I'm sorry, but I'm not able to get to the phone right know."

17. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream "I Won!, I Won!"

18. When Leaving The Zoo, Start Running Towards The Parking lot, Yelling "Run For Your Lives, They're Loose!!"

19. Tell Your Children Over Dinner: "Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go."

20. And The Final Way To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity......
Send This In an E-mail To Someone To Make Them Smile. It's Called therapy.

Thursday, 07 February 2008

CHOCOLATE

For all you chocolate lovers may I present “The Worlds Largest Piece of Chocolate.”

It stands 12 feet tall and weighs 30,540 pounds. Built in nine days by 152 people, the giant chocolate is covered in 16,460 square feet of the classic silver foil.

“The World’s Largest Hershey’s Kisses Chocolate celebrates the 100th anniversary of the iconic Hershey’s Kisses Brand, and features a seven-foot-long plume that reads ‘100 Years of Kisses.’”

Sunday, 06 January 2008

Videos having to do with math

This is really cool!!

Do you need a school project? Try this!

Have fun....

Wednesday, 05 December 2007

Well, as most of you can see, I have not posted in a while (as a matter of fact not for 6 months). But as some people say, "No news is good news." And in this particular case it's true.

Life has been wonderfully busy, emphasis on the full in wonderfully. Anyways, moving right along!

In the months that followed Sam & Chelsea's Wedding, getting HEAV's Convention items underway and finished was my full-time job. This included two magazines, the convention brochure, the convention program, a volunteer button, and the tape and CD labels and box covers, along with about a dozen different little things. Of course, all these things are done with the help of my wonderful Mother. Thank you Mom! These are my favorite months, the ones before the HEAV Convention. (I'll be posting another update with pictures of my work. Visit http://heav.org/convention/2007/index.html!)

Among the spare moments I had here and there, I got to know my new sister-in-law better (for she and Sam where staying at our house while theirs was being finished). And now we are best buddies (or friends, as some people say :) ), getting together almost every week and having a blast-of-fun-and-adventure. Thank you Chelsea for being my friend! :D

Well to continue my... (I'm not sure what to call it... ah-ha)... whirl-wind-post-of-the-year. A couple days before HEAV's convention was to begin (June 7, 8, and 9, 2007), Ruth was asked by Jason Cooper to become his wife, and of course she said, "YES." Or something like that. He did a lovely dinner for her, with her knowing all along about it, but not knowing that it was for herself. What a surprise for her! So all before, during and after convention she was in a la-la land. :) Until it came to planning the wedding....

First she wanted a small out-door wedding back in the park behind our house with the reception at our house. Then things began to change. The next plan was to have both the wedding and the reception at our house, but then we began to think about trying to take pictures with everybody standing around watching and getting in the way of food preparation and things like that. During this time, we three younger Millers (Micah, Joseph, and myself) and two other friends where taking a math class taught by Jason and Ruth so that we could enter into a pre-calculus class in the fall at a local community college. Well, where we were having our classes was in the basement of a building belonging to a little church in Yorktown, on the York River. Jason and Ruth went to see the church (which was from around the time of the Civil War... I think) and they both really liked it, the only problem was that it could only seat about 127 people. And after having started to make their wedding invitation list, they would have to do some drastic cutting, which was going to be very difficult. But just around the corner from this little church was a larger church, nice but not as nice as the other one, and right off the Colonial Parkway. Well this is the one that we decided to use. (Some of you may be wondering why we didn't get a church from somewhere in Colonial Williamsburg. Well the answer to this is.... After Ruth had decided not to do the wedding ceremony back in the park nor at the back of our house, she really wanted people to be able to drive down the Colonial Parkway (a lovely drive and about 30 minutes away), she also wanted to be able to drive down the parkway with her new husband. :D Getting a church in Yorktown was ideal, with the river and lots of tourist attractions near by, people would be able to spend the roughly two hours between the end of the wedding and the beginning of the reception exploring the little historical town of Yorktown. Thus the reasons for picking this area.)

To add to our Miller way of doing things, we began planing for a 65th wedding anniversary for my Dad's parents. Their anniversary party was to be held on the 6th and the wedding was on the 8th. Our reasoning was that it would be better to do two big events back to back then have them spread out.

While the plans for where the wedding was to be held were solidified, Ruth was out trying to find a wedding dress that would be the one for her special day. I believe that she probably tried on as many wedding dresses as there are bytes in a terabyte (this is another way of saying, "She tried on a trillion different dress,” the geeks way of saying it anyway {one trillion bytes (1,000,000,000,000) go into one terabyte}). Not really, but it sure did feel that way. And as God would have, it she did find her dress. This dress also has a wonderful little story that goes along with it, but I think I will save that for some cold night by the fire.

Before and while Ruth was looking for a wedding dress, she and Mom were also looking for party/wedding favors or “boons,” as Jason called them, wedding invitations and programs, and all the little things that go along to make a wedding and an anniversary. I must say that if it had not been for the hand of God in all the big and little details that make up a wedding (and an anniversary), none of what came to pass would have been possible. God is an awesome God, so never try to put Him into a box by saying, “God is too busy to care about something little in my life." This my friends is mistake number one in living a life for the Lord.

The invitations are another wonderful part of a wedding or party. In order to make our lovely invitations we had to: hand address envelopes, print out the invitation wording on pieces of vellum, then punch two holes through the vellum and the cardstock, taking ribbon cut to about 7 inches, and stringing or tying bows through both the vellum and the cardstock. We also had to print out the RSVP envelopes and cards, stamp and sort-of-half-stuff the cards into the back of their envelopes. After that was accomplished, the larger envelopes had to be stuffed with the invitation and the RSVP items. This was all being done under the darkness of night and early morning. Those where the days when you would watch (or rather listen) to two movies and go to bed anywhere between 2 and 5 in the morning. But all this was still lots of fun!

The wedding was sneaking up on us a day at a time. Well, it felt more like huge leaps and bounds, but no, it was days, one after another, never stopping to ask if it was okay to end the short 24-hour period before we could get finished all we needed to get done. Shocking, I know! Rude and impolite! What has the world come to? :D Anyways....

The wedding was getting closer and closer, and then it happened the days came (for there was the wedding anniversary, too). Saturday was the wedding anniversary. It was a beautiful event, my grandparents look wonderful and happy. Sunday morning Ruth, Chelsea, and Tatum got up bright and early to bake and ice the wedding cake (spice cake with cream-cheese filling and butter-cream icing... Oh, so yummy!). Sunday evening we had to make a dash for the town of Yorktown for a wonderful rehearsal and rehearsal dinner at the Carrot Tree (a yummy affair).

Drum roll.... Monday morning found the house bustling with life. Ruth was being turned into a queen, a lovely picture she was. :) All of us were here and there and everywhere, cleaning, making or doing something. Then the time came to get ready... the boys got into their matching tuxedos and looked all so handsome. Some family pictures where taken (well, a few more then just some) before we all started for the church. We had to wait in the basement of the church while everyone was being shown to their seats. Then the real excitement started when the music for the wedding processional began. Slow steady notes of Pachelbel's Canon in D began to float down the stairs, we slowly mounted the stair waiting our turn to go down the aisle. And then it happened, Dad and Ruth came walking down the aisle. The rest was like a dream, the vows said, the knot tied, and the kiss exchanged, and then the presentation of the Mr. & Mrs. Jason Earl Cooper. The rest is like a lovely screen of mist (that is, I could go on forever).

Jason and Ruth are living happily ever after, and their duo is soon to become a trio. Praise God!

I must add one more paragraph to thank all the people who made that special day possible. There are so many that I don't remember all their names. But if you happen to be one of these people, for my family and myself, I thank you.

P.S. Another update will be coming your way soon to enlighten you with the joys of math and somethings of life that fill my own life. :)