I Love Technology (She says with a sarcastic tone)

I have been wanting to blog lately. I have so many fun pictures from this month of Christmas that I want to post but sadly, I cannot. Our computer has died. Adam had his old computer (a Dell) and it worked for a short time, but then it died. Do not bring your laptops to our house...its a dead zone apparently. As soon as we get a working computer, I plan on posting pics of events from the entire month of December.
We went and looked at new Macs the other day and Adam is pretty ready for a new one so we will probably be purchasing one soon. On another slightly sad note, the scroll ball fell out of my phone and I sent it off to get fixed and they have had it for 3 weeks already. We went to check on it last night because we hadn't heard anything and they said that the target completion date was January 18th!! Ugh! In the meantime I have this wonderful little nokia phone that looks like its from the 90s. I am thankful that I have a phone, but its hard to go from a Blackberry to a nokia...gosh darn technology!
Anyways, as soon as our computer situation changes I will get pictures up!

I hope that you all had a Merry Christmas!

The Big Loser

Tonight Adam and I were subs for my mom's bunco group. For those of you who aren't familiar with the bunco ritual, twelve ladies meet once a month to eat and roll dice. Its usually ladies only, but in December the males are allowed to join in the fun for one night only. One of the "bunco babes" was unable to attend tonight so I filled in....lucky for Adam, it was couples night! Anyway, numerous prizes are given at the end of the evening: most buncos, most wins, and the big loser. I am proud to say that I was the big loser. Yes, I came in with a woppin 3 wins (there was talk that this might have been the least amount of wins in the history of the game.) On the bright side, I won my money back so I wasn't out anything.

On a different note, I hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We enjoyed spending time with our family and just relaxing. Its always good to take it easy for a day and have the opportunity to really enjoy each others company. Plus, there's amazingly delicious food, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, and a wonderful Christmas movie to kick off the Christmas season. I've never done the day after Thanksgiving shopping and this year was no different. I was going to try it, not because I needed anything, I just wanted to say that I had experienced the madness but when 3:30am rolled around I decided sleep was way more important. Speaking of sleep, I should probably get some. I've had that weird cold thing thats been going around. Sore throat, runny nose, head feeling like its expanding...not fun. Even though cold weather brings yucky colds, I love it! Great clothes, scarves, hot chocolate, and the occasional fluries. I can't wait. I heard we are supposed to have a really cold winter this year. Maybe, just maybe, we'll have a white Christmas!

Christmas and Audrey Hepburn

What a good weekend. On Friday Adam and I got all of our Christmas stuff out of the shed and put up our tree. We didn't decorate it, we just put it up. It was beautiful. I love Christmas trees, with or without decorations-there's just something about them that I find cozy and warm. I've yet to see one I didn't love. Everyone decorates them differently, I love that. Once we got it up, we cozied up on the couch (with the Christmas tree lights on, of course) and watched Roman Holiday, probably my favorite Audrey Hepburn movie ever. Adam liked it too, I think-the parts he was awake for anyway. Saturday morning we woke up and waited for my parents to come over. We made a huge breakfast (it was lunchtime, but whatever) and began to Christmasify our house. My mom is amazing at all things decorating, and she helped me with my tree and mantle. (A few weeks ago, my dad built us this amazing mantle, he's a genius.) Anway, so we decorated for several hours while listening to lovely Christmas music to get us in the Christmas spirit, not that I needed music to get there. I love Christmas. Everything about it is wonderful, everything is magical. The guys went out to get lights for the outside, while the girls took care of the inside. Way to go guys, and Gidget, the lights look awesome. Sunday, we went over to my parent's house to return the favor. We helped get their stuff out of the attic. It only took about 25 minutes, record time I think. My parent's house is a winter wonderland at Christmas time. Its amazing. After all our hard work, my mom made a delicious dinner- hot dogs and krinkle fries. Yummy! Then we go to work on their tree. It looks gorgeous. Yay for Christmas trees!

Oh, and I didn't forget about Thanksgiving, I am thankful for Christmas.

Here are a few pics of my tree and mantle :

(They're kind blury, I took them with my phone)

Stuck Between A Wall and A Chair...

Have you ever had one of those moments that make you laugh so hard you feel like you've done about a bazillion crunches? You know, those moments you are still laughing about days later? Yesterday, a few of us were sitting in the office, each of us doing our own thing, when all of a sudden, Lauren (my precious little sis), falls over in her chair out of nowhere. (If you were on this side of the screen you would see the tears coming down my face as I am still laughing about this.) I, being the caring sister that I am, immediately bust out in laughter while the others were a tad bit more concerned and made sure she was ok before they started laughing. Turns out she was trying to throw something away without having to get up and she leaned too far over and just kind of tipped over. She just laid there for a few minutes, stuck between the wall and the office chair. It was hilarious. (Its ok to laugh, she's ok.) This story is extra funny to me for two reasons: one being, if you know her, you know we don't often have the opportunity to a laugh at her and secondly, for about a year she has been giving me a hard time about falling off of an elliptical machine (another story for another time.) So, it felt really good to be able to laugh at her. Is that bad? I don't think so. She is my sister and I love her very much. We can laugh not only with each other but at each other. Lauren, thank you for making a stressful and busy day at work, a little more fun.

Thank you Jesus for belly laughs!

What's In a Name?

Me, a blogger? Its true. I am going to attempt to do this. Attempt being the key word. I'm not so sure I'll be an avid blogger, but at least I am a member of the club now, huh? I must say, I was rather excited about starting my very own blog, until it was time to pick the name. I turned to my family and friends for help. These are the suggestions I was given (not even lying):

BareNaked Blog (this was my mom, she's new to technology itself)
Mac and Cheese (Kari, not bad, kinda weird)
Mac and Cheese with Weenies (our last name is McInturff and we have a weenie dog)
Munchkins & Money - Life without either (this would be Lauren, I almost went for it)
mac splat (this was Adam's suggestion, he likes lowercase letters)
Missouri (this was Michelle's idea, I think the she said this because I am leaving for Missouri next week?)
And the winner is.......... iMac, take uMeg (a collaborative effort from Lauren and Kari)

If you know my husband, you know he is a believer in all things Mac (short for Macintosh, also known as Apple). And it just so happens that thats the first part of our last name. So this one was kinda perfect. (For those of you who still operate on a PC, the iMac is computer made by Apple.) Anyways, now that I have a name, I think I am ready for the blogging world. Wish me luck!
I guess this wraps up my very first blog post. I'm feeling pretty good about this one.