How my Husband Won the Internet

This guy is hilarious!   This is a conversation via IM through our office system. 

Athena M Miller 10:13 AM
I'm going to leave in about 5 minutes to walk in the development next to PGR, alone.
just letting you know in case I come up missing
Adam K Miller 10:13 AM
ok

**Adam K Miller 10:26 AM
Are you alive?
did a panel van offer you candy
are you now in the human trafficing industry
hello
HELLO

I'm calling the Marines
and TSA, they have good tools for finding things
do you think you'll be back in time to pick up the kids?

**Adam K Miller 10:30 AM
NASA is realigning the hubble telescope to search the area
GOOGLE is bringing over their mapping satilites to plot the area
I contact Benidict Cumberbatch about finding you... he said it was only a character he plays on TV and not real.

**Adam K Miller 10:35 AM
soooo... if you're kidnapped.... can I buy a motorcycle?

**Adam K Miller 10:38 AM
The KGB said I would have to be a spy for them to help, I told them no and yelled "YEE HA! 'murica." The sales floor wasn't amused by my patriotism
this might be my last msg... security is walking towards me
security told me if I do it again I'd be promoted to "customer."
I also asked them to help find you. they said they could only search the campuses. I gave them boarder patrol duties
called Donald Trump. He's going to build a wall around Mayfield. I think he's lying, but if it comes true. It will be a great wall. a huge wall. and mexico will pay for it too.
I've started to pray...
i've stopped
the Magic 8 ball wasn't nice, it "fell" down the steps.
trying the Ouiji board.
it wasn't any help, but I met a friendly demon... he's going to come over for diner and a conversation about my soul.

**Adam K Miller 10:50 AM
the demon told me there's a special place in hell for me. I answered, "I know, it's called a throne."
have the marines found you yet?

**Adam K Miller 10:53 AM
the airforce is re-activating the SR71 spyplane and are scrambling all their current U2s (not crummy band).

**Adam K Miller 11:01 AM
Sold the house to finance the same people OJ is using to track down Nicole's murder
Ballpark is going to be sad, called the vet to get anti-depressents
this isnt some variance of "gone Girl" is it?

**Adam K Miller 11:07 AM
You'll need to be back by Feb. 10th for the release of Fifty Shades Darker.
I'm having my new hire class make posters to hang around town

**Adam K Miller 11:11 AM
Contacted Trish, she's closing down campus 1 due to safty conserns and asking everyone who is able bodied to start a radial search for you. the media has labled it "prog. pride" it has a nice ring to it.

**Adam K Miller 11:16 AM
ISIS just took responsiblilty for your disappearence. France has united with the US in our search efforts.

**Adam K Miller 11:19 AM
I searched for you on Google too, it wasn't much help

**Adam K Miller 11:21 AM
I'm afraid to tell your mom you're missing, I'm just going to text from your phone and make up excuses as to why you aren't visiting until she figures it out.

**Adam K Miller 11:25 AM
Jared Leto is shaving his head to raise awareness of cute girls going missing in subdivisions.

**Adam K Miller 11:27 AM
Contact Hillary Clinton about this issue too. She PROMISED to make it better if I swore allegance to the darkside... she then tried to use the force on me. Odd... she might be Emperor Papatine.

**Adam K Miller 11:30 AM
I just checked the background of those private invetigators I hired. They still haven't found Nicoles murderer. I think I'm going to fire them and get 100 monks to meditate and attempt to find your aura and locate your exsistance.

**Adam K Miller 11:34 AM
so, all the searching is yeilding results. We've found Bigfoot, proof of ghosts, Carmon Sandiego, Dora the Explorer, the Lost Arc of the Convenant, an entirely undiscovered civilivation that lives on the ocean floor... but not you.
the olympic athletes are protesting until your safe return. This is the first time in history!
Chuck Norris said you'll be found safe. He's never wrong.

**Adam K Miller 11:38 AM
the monks are having a hard time locating you. they tell me Miss Cleo is trying to return from the afterlife through their chanting and they have to Crouching tiger/hidden dragon her back into the spirit realm. they are a little preoccupied, but will return once they're able.

**Athena M Miller 11:47 AM
I"m back I'm back I'm back.

**Adam K Miller 11:47 AM
oh good, soooo I was thinking sloppy joes for dinner

What We've Done With No Kids

3 weeks, without either child.   I'm super grateful, as I have had the time to study for an exam without needing to wait until they were in bed when I would be exhausted.  Then, I got to go car shopping without them around (which was amazing, and nice alone time with adam, since we didn't really see each other while I was studying).  We miss the kids now, though.   So here's what went on at the Miller House:




Week 1:
Athena:  Study - every day, no fun
Adam:  Either ran, or played disc golf everyday.  Sometimes both




Week 2:
Both:  Worked on the shelves in the morning room and went to a 4th of July Party. Car shopping.
Athena:  Study - every day, no fun (even left the party early to study), got into car accident, passed exam, painted 'believeland' with my mom,   went to dealership, told a dealer they were ridiculous for trying to sell a particular vehicle at the price they wanted, left dealership
Adam:  Ran and played disc golf. 




Week 3:
Both: Stained the swing set AND the stairs to the patio.  Bought a car, went grocery shopping, went to a concert (Disturbed and Breaking Benjamin), ate dinner at my parents, made Adam's dad a (late) father's day gift. (We had the plans for weeks, but never got around to making it - until 10:15 the night before leaving for Cinci).




It sucked that I had a majority of the first two weeks studying for the exam, but it was nice to have some time after the exam to enjoy being with Adam.   I am SOO ready to get the boys  now.  I'm sure they'll be rough the first few days, but I miss their hugs and kisses and wrestling and laughs.



Disturbed, from inside the pavilion during the storm

The concert (at Blossom) was fun, but a little crazy, as a HUGE fast storm came through.   Disturbed stopped mid concert to tell people to get into bathrooms or the pavilion to protect from the wind/lightning.   After about 20 minutes of the lawn being emptied out into the Pavilion (Yes, 10,000 people fit into the pavilion, haha) they started playing again.  It was awesome, because the lawn wasn't very packed at all, and it was tough getting into the concert mentality, but it got all better once we were squished (but not uncomfortably at all) into the pavilion.   It was also pretty awesome to run into my sorority sister, husband and friend (Jessica, who we both know from different places) and hang out with them for the concert.   Good Times!

The hard part is done, now all I need to do is put another coat or two of stain on.

Much darker steps, very pretty,
they match the swingset now

Happy Father's Day - 2016

For Father's Day this year, Adam wanted to the family to play 18 holes of disc golf.  (Not my favorite activity, but hey, it's father's day!)   We pushed Atlas in a stroller, and he got out a few times to throw, Ares did very well for a very technical course.  He and I played from the red tees (between 5 and 25 yards from the white tees that Adam played from).   I played really well - as in, I beat Adam.  I kinda had fun.  It was about 89* out, and bugs everywhere, but aside from a tick on my leg, no one got bit by anything.  After the 18 holes of golf (which took us about 3 hours), we went to the lake to have a swim.   The disc golf and lake are right next to each other - they even share a parking lot, so it was perfect.  Beautiful weather, the boys played in the sand and the water for a couple of hours before we packed it in to make dinner and watch GAME 7 of the NBA FINALS!!!  2016 BABY!  

We told Atlas 'no'.  He doesn't like that.  He cried for about 30 seconds this entire day, but it happened to be
when I was trying to take a family photo.   Ah well, such is life.

 

The Answer is..... Drum Roll Please.....

..... something that we weren't originally looking at!  *Sound the trumpets!*  I'm excited! 

We drove the Focus again Monday.  It worked MUCH better than what it did the first time.   The guy still blamed Adam on not knowing how to drive stick right, but I was there, Adam drove it exactly the same way the second time, AND he ALWAYS drives a manual, so he knows what he's doing. Aside from being cramped as Hell, it's a very nice ride.  That being said, I have no desire to ride in a car with my knees in my chest.  (They did not hit the dashboard when Adam configured the car-seat differently, but were about 1/4" away, and when Adam slammed on the brakes for a quick changing red light, I hit the dash.) I like the car - really like it for two, maybe three people, but it's not family friendly.

I realized that the only reason we're getting another car is so that the four of us can go on trips together without always  using my vehicle.  He doesn't need one to go to work and back (for now he uses a work vehicle), he doesn't need one to hold all 4 of us, because he has the Jeep if he really  needs to take both kids somewhere without me being around, and if I'm around we have my car, although it's not ideal to only drive my car around, all of the vehicles work just fine.  

Now, Adam has finally come to the realization that's he's being extremely unrealistic.  Thank goodness.  I understanding him wanting a specific type of vehicle because it's cool, but at this point in our life, it's just not going to happen - we have kids, and they are the reason for the new vehicle, after all. 

Here's his opinions of any results that may come up in vehicle searches:

Versa - Ugly
Matrix - Cheaply made
Focus hatch - Too small
Fit - Too small
3 hatch- Too small
5 hatch- Too big
Accord hatch- Too big
Ford C - Ugly/$$
Elantra hatch - Ugly - but will test drive
Soul - Ugly
Fiesta - Too Small
Mini- Too Small/$$
Fiat - Won't consider
Scions - Ugly/Small, varies
GMC - Won't consider
Chevy - Won't consider
Subaru - Bad gas mileage/$$
BMW/Audi- Maintenance issues
Anything else - no, no, no, no

So now, he's considering a Honda Civic.  It's still (fairly) small, but not ridiculous, it's reliable, good gas mileage, four doors and should* fit all 4 of us.  Goodness, I sure hope it does, because it's what I've been pushing him towards for months now.  He'd ALWAYS liked the Civic, until the hatch's came out, and that's what he's wanted since then.  So off we go to search AutoTrader for an affordable Civic.  Wish us luck!

Master in Education vs Masters in Business Administration

It has been a while since I've posted anything. We've told the parents that we're expecting. Everyone is excited. It sure is easier to live when others know our secret. Keeping secrets really suck. I hope to never have to keep another one. One person at work knows, which kind of makes it easier to say something when necessary. I haven't told my friends, or my coworkers yet. Not sure when a good time for that is. We'll see

I'm collecting diapers (clean ones only please). Size doesn't matter, as long as they're not adult diapers. I figure, we've got 2 years of diapers ahead of us, might as well start collecting coupons and diapers now!

So Adam decided two weeks ago that he wanted to go back to school. Kind of abrupt, but I'm really impressed that he got his butt into gear, got his transcripts, student loans, and admissions stuff together VERY quickly. Within one week he knew he started school in 12 days. He's going to Walden, an online school for K-8 Science education. It's exciting. While I'm sitting here reading how to "apply DCF analysis to valuing companies, businesses and strategies", he's watching ice melt. No joke. Right now, I hate him. I'm taking a short break because what I'm reading is fairly boring.

OSU played OU yesterday, I thought they were going to lose. I was really scared for a while. Luckily (for them) they pulled it out in the end. Adam accepted an invitation to an out of town wedding for next weekend, which is great... except OSU plays USC next week and that's a game that I have NO desire to miss. Luckily, it's an 8pm game, so I think we'll be headed to a bar very early to watch and only make an appearance.