Monday, May 21, 2012

Christmas in May?

I was going through some photos on my phone and re-discovered some pictures that I took at Tod's work party. This event was on December 16th 2011.

There was a sumptuous feast of turkey, ham and roast beast, and the salad they had was fresh and delightful, and cheesecake was for dessert with berries that you can top the cheese cake with yourself. I  ate a whole bunch of berries instead of cheesecake. 

We had fun with the large Christmas displays.

We danced too, but I don't have  any pics of that, it's pretty difficult to take a self-photo when swing dancing. The Hosts/MC's of the evening saw us dancing so they drew attention to us using their microphone and telling everyone in the room (probably about 300-400 people) to check out the "swingers".  They even played another song for us, that common folk associate with big band music, but that is very fast and very hard to swing dance to.  Sorry Host/M.C., we're not quite that talented yet.

There were raffle tickets that folks were given and could use to gamble with to increase the amoutn of raffle tickets they got. Some folks ended up with hundreds of tickets. The tickets were used to put into each "bin" for the big ticket gifts such as TV's and cool electronic equipment. The Boss of course drew the winning ticket to give away all the garb, as is typical for Holiday company parties. It was kinda nuts watching the folks who gambled and won lots of raffle tickets go through all the little numbers to check if they won something.

Unfortunately, we didn't win anything. Instead of gambling we had fun dancing instead.
BIG PRESENTS!
How big? This Big!
Raffle tickets for the big giveaway at the end of the night.
It's a Rose fork!
















Another random Christmas photo includes Santa Claus riding a motorcycle, and pulling a u-turn, on State St in Orem near University mall. The Driver was stopped at a red light when taking this photograph.


Thursday, May 10, 2012

This blog post brought to you by the Urban Dictionary and the letter K.

Ringo, our little black and white dog (his breed is yet to be determined, perhaps some Chihuahua, Manchester terrier, min pin . . . ) is officially ours!  Tod and I have adopted Ringo. Yesterday we got all of Ringo's current medical records and we discovered Ringo's real name.

Ringo was formerly known as . . .

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Krispy!

Ta da!

We were a little surprised, so I looked it up online and turn out that Krispy is straight out of the Urban Dictionary.  Krispy:  Krispy; adjective - describing one's fresh style and unique swagger. It also means fresh, super exclusive, raw, dope.. and so on. The phrase was coined by Kinfolk KiaShine and Hi-Powered.
I'm so krispy,
I'm so kripsy,
my jeans 900,
shoes 850,
(what the heck does all that mean??!!!)
Ringo/Krispy is also from California (San Bernadino, a sub-suburb of LA) so, take the Urban Dictionary + his "hood" = Krispy!  "Krispy" perks up so much when we call him that, and his eyes sparkle with recognition a little bit like "You know my name!!!".

All of this really makes me wonder about the people who owned him in the first place . . . where they black? Where they hispanic? Where they crazy white people who were big on rap?  Meh, who knows. I'm glad that our little doggie made it here safe and is now living a happy life in our home.

Tod and I have been thinking of re-naming Ringo and this whole Krispy thing has certainly tipped the scale in favour of a name change!  So, what should we rename Ringo?  Should he forever be known as Krispy the name given to him "in the hood", or should he have a similar name (Taralee suggested Frisky), or should he be like his big brother who is named after a Marvel comic book character??? (Banner is from The Hulk, Dr. Bruce Banner).

Leave your ideas in the comments below. ;)