Dec 17 2006
Last night was Heather (my friend from work) and Tom’s wedding. It was a beautiful ceremony, and the reception was at The Madison in Covington. A lot of people from my work showed up, and we had a great time hanging out and dancing the night away. Check out pictures, below.
-ec
Dec 10 2006
Saturday night was the Car-Part.com Christmas Party at the Drawbridge Inn. We had a great time – really good food this year, Jaime drove down from Pittsburgh and Molly and Andy showed up too. The highlight of the night was a Kareoke contest (The Car-Part Idol Show) where the winner would be awarded a $100 gift card to Best Buy! After much nagging encouragement from the group at my table, and Emily submitting my entry for me, I was 3rd to perform my rendition of Ice Ice Baby.  My performance was highlighted by the finale – I did the worm across the floor :) I got two 10’s and one 7 from the judges – the highest score of the night. The finals were between myself and Patty. The original plan for the finals had each contestant performing the other finalists song – so Patty would have had to do Ice Ice Baby and I was going to have to sing some country song (something about a County? Can’t recall). However, Jeff Schroder stepped up and mandated an executive order to allow the finalists to perform a song of their choosing. Sounded like a good idea to me – because while they were cueing up the song for me to sing, I had already performed part of Patty’s song, part of a Garth Brooks song, and one other!
I closed my performance with my all time favorite song for kareoke – Just a Giggalo! I had some dance steps (can you really call it that?) and a lot of liquid courage in my veins, but I put on a performance that would have made David Lee Roth proud! I think my final scores for that round were a 10, 10, 8. So,yes…I won 🙂
After the party ended at midnight, we went down to the Drawbridge’s night club, The Crossbow (which actually has a sign that says “Ft. Mitchell’s Number One Nightclub” or something like that!) and hung out with the work crew down there. That place is a riot though – its seems to be “the place” for the 40+ crowd to play hookup with people half their age ;) I was taking pictures of coworkers and was actually told by a bounce that we were not allowed to take them. Guess the married guys don’t want their wives to see their pictures popup on some website.
We’ll get the photos online tomorrow.
-pc
Dec 05 2006
We had a fun night for Paul’s birthday. I tricked him into taking his Durango to my mom’s house to ‘open presents’ before we went out to eat. We surprised him by telling him that the whole family was going out to eat with us at Carlo & Johnny, a Jeff Ruby restaurant in Montgomery. It was great, we all pretty much had our usual filets (you just can’t beat ’em), then Paul opened all his presents.
The funniest part of the night was the travel time. Paul’s Durango is supposed to seat 8, and it sure did. We packed ourselves in like sardines; 8 adults. It reminded me of a clown car, we were all sitting sideways and on top of eachother. It must have been a funny sight to see us all pile out of the car at the valet!
Nov 10 2006
The Blog | Paul Hipp: METH AND MAN ASS | The Huffington Post
First of all, I got a kick out of the story about Ted Haggard, but the link above is a song about it. Its not safe for work and probably small children, but I think its pretty darn funny! 🙂
-pc
Nov 06 2006
My mom had her every-other-year Longaberger Basket party tonight. It was great. There was lots of great food, fun games, and an awesome scavenger hunt throughout the house that had people running finding clues for about an hour! Cathy won the scavenger hunt and got a great prize! Yay Cathy!
My mom is placing the official order on Thursday. If anyone missed out and still would like to order something, email me or my mom!
Check out Longaberger’s website to see all the stuff.
-ec
Nov 01 2006
We had a great Halloween; it was our first one in our new house! We had a lot more kids than we thought, considering it’s a brand new neighborhood. Meg sat on Paul’s lap most of the time, greeting the princesses and goblins and vampires that walked up to the house. They all wanted to pet the cute puppy!
She got a Halloween hedgehog (her favorite squeaky toy) that she quickly disemboweled and a new pink argyle sweater to keep her warm this winter. Check her out:
Oct 04 2006
That’s right! Now Megabyte can be seen all day long on this fun thing called the Internet! She’s going to be famous! OK, maybe not. I picked up a Logitech Quickcam STX from Best Buy last night because I had $25 in reward zone coupons (love that program!). They were out of the Microsoft camera that I wanted, so I thought I would try this. The program I am using is called WebCam XP and it does a live stream, has quite a few config options and can use more than one camera! I’ve got a TV Tuner card in the PC and a camcorder @ home that I am going to try out with it as well. The software I’m using supports up to 8 cameras, and you can have all 8 feeding at the same time. Pretty nifty. Would like to get a camera angle inside her kennel and maybe one aiming outside towards the driveway or front door.
–pc
Sep 21 2006
From Digital Wilderness
Appetizer
What was the very last song you listened to?
A Tribe Called Quest – Electric Relaxation
Soup
What is one company/store/corporation you would recommend that people stay away from?
Max and Ermas in Crestview Hills, KY. I think Emily and I have been there 5 or 6 times since they opened, and everytime we go, excedpt one time probably, the service has been terrible. Orders screwed up, 30+ minutes for food to arrive, empty glasses for an entire meal, etc. Too bad too, because they have really good pretzel sticks.
Salad
On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being highest, how much do you enjoy having your picture taken?
5 -I’m usually the one taking pictures.
Main Course
Besides a bookmark, what is something you’ve used to keep your place in a book?
Post-in notes, magazine subscription cards
Dessert
Name a food that you like that most people don’t.
Peanut butter and Bologna sandwhiches. I think my Dad is the only person I know who has had one besides me.
