Scooter0979

Wedding Website is up!!!

2007-07-19T15:18:00.001-07:00

Hello all,

The wedding website is up for all to look at. It is not finished yet, Laura is updating as we get other stuff accomplished. I would update as well but, I don't know how to. I have not asked either, ;-). If you have any questions that aren't on there let me know.

http://registry.weddingchannel.com/wedding_websites/PersonalWebsite.action?occ=567018622&view=home&c=567018622&s=10&t=100&p=20&l=46433

If link doesn't work just got to registry.weddingchannel.com and search with my name and look for Scott and Laura wedding in Texas!

Take care,
Scott

My Memorial Weekend

2007-06-02T12:30:00.000-07:00

Well, in Retail you always work most Holidays. So this is my Memorial Weekend. No I don’t get three days off, but I haven't had two in a row in a while and I'm working overnight Monday, so it kind of is. But I plan to be a bum, lie around and do very little. Laura works today, so I'll watch TV, play video games, or go to the movies today. Tomorrow I'll sleep in, and then we'll go to church, and then who knows.

So in other news we go a kitten from a friend of ours. Great right, not so much. Our cat is very territorial. She doesn't even like other people coming to the house. Of course this will be a problem when we decide to have kids, still a few years off, but let’s tackle the problem now. Hence, friend has kittens, let’s start there. Well like you'd imagine the cat didn’t and doesn’t like the kitten. It’s been a week and we've tried the short busts approach. I little here, a little there. At this moment the kitten is hiding in the bathroom and the cat is lying in the living room. Now remember small apartment, but not bad distance. Well see how they continue to react, but if the cat can’t get along with the kitten it doesn’t look good long term for her staying with us.

Married?

2007-05-19T23:11:00.001-07:00

Nope I didn’t get married over the weekend, but I'm posting to make sure everybody knows I'm engaged and the Wedding is April 12th, 2008 in San Antonio, Texas! Things are coming along well for the wedding. We have the Church, Reception venue, Photographer, wedding dress, tuxes, cake place, florist, and I'm sure I left some stuff off. We are still looking for a DJ and videographer. We haven't set up the wedding website, but it's coming. Tal to you soon.

Tagged

2007-05-08T10:19:00.000-07:00

Ok let’s see what I can do.

1. I can sit for hours and play video games. I will put the TV on a channel for background noise, grab a drink, and play video games for hours. I will only get up to refill the drink or go to the bathroom.

2. Movies, I love movies. I love to go watch them every weekend if I get the chance. There are always movies I can go watch. This summer is going to be crazy for me, so many movies, so little time. FYI Spiderman 3 awesome.

3. Adrenaline, there is nothing like an Adrenaline rush. I work in a job where you can get one everyday. You see them more with customers stealing than employees, but you can get them with both. That rush, that shaking, wow. I never get tired of that feeling.

4. BBQ and Steak, there's nothing like Texas BBQ or a Texas Steak House. You don’t know how good you have it tell you leave it. California has no good BBQ or Steak places. I ship my BBQ sauce from Rudy's in Denton and only go to Outback Steak House for Steak that I don’t cook. In Texas you can throw a rock and hit a god BBQ or Steak place. In California you couldn't find one to save your life.

5. I'm with Holly in the fact that families, friends, and the state I grew up in are missed. All my family is in Texas. Most of my friends are their. And when I went San Antonio last week to plan my wedding it felt so good just to be back in Texas. It didn’t have to be DFW, just Texas.

6. Popeye's Chicken and Taco Cabana, I didn't ever eat Popeye's or Taco Cabana before dating Laura. We went to each place at different times, but I can’t get enough of either one. I never knew the difference between "real" and fake tortillas till I ate at Taco Cabana. The biscuits at Popeye's are the best and I can always eat some spicy chicken strips.

7. My cat is a little rat. What do I mean by that? When you here the phrase the cat runs the house. My cat thinks she does. She won’t let you walk anywhere when you come home or wake up with out her. If you sitting at the computer or on the coach where is she? She’s in your lap. When I was unpacking my suit case from my last trip, she hopped inside, like she was saying take me with you next time, I'm good on the plane.

Since I’m not sure who and who hasn’t been tagged, I’m tagging everybody who hasn’t been.

2007-04-27T22:40:00.001-07:00

What Disney character are you?

Goofy!
You are GOOFY! and you actually really are! You are crazy and sometimes don't think things through. But, hey, you are likable.

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What kind of Car am I?

2007-04-27T22:27:00.000-07:00

What model of new car are you?

BMW 335i
This is BMW's top-of-the range 3 series model. Equipped with a twin turbocharged 6 cylinder engine producing 300hp, it has a quick 5.4 second dash to 60mph. It also sports superb handling, and sophisticated German engineering - making it the best medium sized prestige car on the market. It costs $38900(US).

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The Evolution of DANCE!

2007-04-19T21:46:00.000-07:00

I saw this on a frinds blog had to pass it along.

The Evolution of DANCE! (Funny video!) Current mood: amused
If you like dancing / music / pop culture at all, you will love this video!!
Click on the link below.....the video is a little long, but well worth it....make sure your sound is on!
Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg

What's up!

2007-04-12T22:55:00.000-07:00

So Dallas Stars are in the playoffs. Go Stars! Lost first game in 4th overtime, sad :-(
Star will have to come back in game two! Blogging a little more on myspace, still not very good at it, but some old friends said hello which was really cool. I use same blogs on each page, less work that way. heheh (picture John Stewart George Bush laugh, funnier than my laugh) Work is busy, lots of people stealing and being stupid, but I guess that's why I have a job. Cat is sick, not sure why. Doesn't like to take medicine, but she gets over it quick. Got a bonus this year yeah, and a nice raise, double yeah!! Living in Cali still costs a lot, bummer. Well that's it for now.

Later all.

Drunk Names

2007-03-19T21:17:00.000-07:00

put your name down here but you have to do it with yourELBOWS and you CAN'T ERASE!
p.s. copy and paste with everyone elses too!repost as Drunk names!
This is fun!

NICK- niiiiiiiiiiick
DESEREE-dcedsxedrfeded
LINDSEY-----lin dcsdxdfe
ANA - aqnm aqw
STACEY - srgftacxwety....yeah that did not work out to well.
Ashley M.--qawshlery
Ashley G.--ashglkey
Robyn--erd45p[ vujkm , m,
Meredith---,,mlereddikgtnhbg----it's in there somewhere :)
Toby-tgolb yh -not too bad
Scott- sz xdc0potgty6g5- I seem to have big elbows

My Space

2006-09-13T19:32:00.000-07:00

So, I tried to set up a My Space page because some other people out here use it and I wanted to mess around with it a little. So I tried is the key word. I don't know what it is, but it just doesn't seem to be working for me. Blogspot is much much easier. I cant even post a simple blog on My Space. Oh well, guess I'll try again some other time. My first blog was just going to be a link to this site anyway. I didn't really see the point in writing things on two sites.

Day off and dinner

2006-08-24T18:22:00.000-07:00

It doesn't seem we can ever have enough days off, and when you get days off you have to house chores. Is that really a day off? I'm not sure. I have gotten good at splitting my time. For exmple playing video games or watching TV while I do the laundry, but there are always some things that you can't split you time with either.

Well that's all have to say about that.

I got in to a Leadership Essentials Training Program at work. After the first day we went out to dinner with some the the District and Group Leaders. We went to this fish restraunt and I had a phone from the store as we were sitting down. So I walked to the table after everybody else. The only seat left was next to the Group VP (The Store Mangers boss' boss), so I sat there. There were still two seats open and the last two people to sit down were the Human REsource Manger (the Stores HR boss' boss) and the Group Assets Protection Team Leader (my boss' boss). So depending on how you look at it I had the good seat of the bad seat. The night went well. I didn't make a fool of myself. Food was ok.

And I just came across this picture and wanted to post it. The boys are always lifting me up. And E I'm not that heavy.

Friday, back to Golf!

2006-08-11T19:35:00.000-07:00

Well Dad and I slept in and then finally got up. After a slow start we went to the driving range and split 75 balls. Then went back home had some lunch and then hit the course. Today we played at the $5 dollar course. It was a nice little par 3 course. We were the only two on the course. I hit my first real par. Real meaning it was the first ball. I had a not real birdie, it was my second ball. I have gotten a little better already. I just need to keep working on it. Overall it has been a fun week. It was good to have Dad come out and spend sometime up here. Who's next?

Off to San Diego on Thursday

2006-08-11T17:06:00.000-07:00

Well Dad has a cousin (George) that lives in SD and we wanted to go down there anyway. So we met up with his cousin and went out to lunch. George took us to lunch at a restaurant on the beach. We got a window view that looks out over the beach and ocean.

It had some great sea food. We then went out to a look out point that looked out over the city, it as a little hazy but was still neat. We were able to look down at the Submarine base, but there weren’t any subs docked there. We then went into the city and took a tour of the USS Midway. It is an Aircraft Carrier docked there. Across from were the Midway is docked there is Navy Base and the USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Regan were docked, also Aircraft Carriers. It was a neat tour they gave you a audio tour for free. You got to walk through the hanger, second deck and on the flight deck. You could also go through the bridge but we didn’t make it there.

After that we went back to George’s house and he cooked steak and potatoes for dinner. All around it was a good day and nice to meet family I had never met. George also said I have to come back down sometime and go sailing. He has to really twist my arm, let me tell you. And one neat thing is you can sail year round down here.

Wednesday off to COWBOYS Training Camp

2006-08-10T08:27:00.000-07:00

So one of the cool things about Cali at this point is Cowboys training camp is held about two hours away. So a short Texas drive and your there. That is what Dad and I did on Wednesday. We drove to Oxnard, CA. to watch the Cowboys training camp. Another cool thing is you only have to pay $5 dollars for a day of parking and it's free to get into watch the camp.

So into the helmet we go! It seems they built the training field just for the Cowboys camp. It had two 100 yard fields and sidelines. A fence area aroud the fields for the fans to stand at. If you didn't want to stand you could sit in some bleachers and watch.

It was pretty neat watch them practice. If you ever played football it was a lot like our own practices. Imagine that! Roy Williams and some rookie almost got into it. That was funny. We saw the injured Terrel Owens working out with the trainer. We saw Tyson Thopmson who is a born and nread Texan from Irvung. The first Cowboy from Irving. I got to seem him play in High School when he had his second bet overall rushing game against Richland rushing for over 300 yards.

As we were leaving after the second practice I saw one of the buses they had out the complex out there and decided to have a look. Well it was kind of a show off trailer. IT had all five of the Superbowl trophies displayed along with big replicas of the three most recent Superbowl rings. They were also letting people take pictures in frot of the trophies while wearing the five superbowl rings. So of course I had to do that. The rings were huge, and had lots of diamonds. As you can see the first two are white gold and the last three are yellow gold. Pretty neat huh?

Tuesday Golfing

2006-08-10T08:13:00.000-07:00

So on Tuesday Dad and I went an played nine holes of golf. Fun to say the least. I really suck, but it was still fun. I just need to get out to the range more. Last year for my birthday Dad gave me a set of his old golf clubs and a new bag. I haven't had the chance to really use them till now. When searching for a place to play we found a course that had $5 green fees. Ya buddy, but it was closed. So we went to the course that had $12 green fees. Still really cool. Most green fees are in the $30+ range. So I don't know what I shot because I didnt keep track. I think the par was 36, even with the handicaps, I didnt come close to par. I had a couple of really good shots though. We also found this cool golf shop. ANd that was Golf day.

The F-16 in Question

2006-08-08T10:00:00.000-07:00

Here it is. You can see the Navy marking on the mid section.

The Museums

2006-08-07T22:27:00.000-07:00

Well day two. Dad and I went up to Victorville and visited the Route 66 museum there. Not a bad little place since we didn’t know a whole lot about Route 66. There also a museum in Texas in McLean Texas. Have to go there some time. Not a whole lot to report really. Saw items really associated with early time driving. Signs, maps, etc. Took some pictures outside the museum of Dad and I. Drove down Route 66 in Victorville for about a mile then headed back south towards home.

On the way home we decided to go to the Palm Springs WWII air museum. This was pretty cool. A lot better than I thought it was going to be. They had three hangers full of planes all but two that still actually flew. Some of the more notables were the B-17 G Flying Fortress, P47 D Thunderbolt, F6F Hellcat, MKXIV Spitfire, and P51 D Mustang as well as others. Out in front of the museum they had several fighter jets all Navy except for the F16 Falcon, but that was painted Navy colors and used as an aggressor at Top Gun. Inside they even had maps of the major battles of the Pacific and in Europe during WWII. Overall it was pretty cool. I also have to go back and get the playing cards they had. They had one set the showed the silhouettes of all of the planes in WWII as well as a set of cards that had the silhouettes of the war ships during the time period of WWI and WWII. Pretty cool huh! After that we came home and BBQ on my gas grill. OH YA. Chicken baby.

I had to put this picture in just to tease Armand. Although they do give props to the Falcon. And it has always been one of my favorate fighter jets.

I wanted to put this bad boy in here. It is the F6 Hell cat. It had the best kill ratio during WWII, 19-1 by the end of the war. and had the most total kills by the end of the war. 5,562 (or something like that.) Crazy numbers. It was the fighter to fly.

LA Day

2006-08-06T16:09:00.000-07:00

Well, Dad and I went into LA today. We stopped off at the Roman Chinese Theatre. Walked around the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and looked at some cemented hand and foot prints. Ate lunch at the California Pizza Kitchen. We traveled around to look for the Hoolywood sign on the hill to get close to it. Couldn't find our way up there. Not really surprising since we kind of winged it. Did travel through Griffen Park in North Hollywood through. After that drove through Beverly Hills. We were going to drive down to Long Beach but ran out of time. Not a bad first day.

Boy how time flys

2006-08-04T22:04:00.000-07:00

Well it didn't seem like that the last time I posted was in May, oh well. I start my vacation tomorrow so I guess I'll post something today. THe world of Scott in sunny California hasn't changed much. Work is work, never enough time in the day, but what can you do.

So I did get to interview for a program at Target call Leadership Essentials Training or LET. Just to get into the program you have to take three online tests. A Critical Thinking, Psycholoical, and Math and Verbal test. The math and verbal were in the same test. Then I got to have a phone interview with a real Pyschologist! Let me tell you that was interresting. Talk about questions from out of no where. After that I had three sets of interviews with six people, consisting of two District managers, a District HRM, a Group Operations Manager, a Group HRM, and the Group VP. Fun!

It seems to have gone well, but I have not heard any offical feedback yet. So I could be wrong. I am waiting the test and doc review of how I did. We all know I'm crazy so I won't be surpised to hear that.

Well back to vacation. Dads flying in tomorrow. Going to try to see some of the sites I haven't seen yet while he is here.

Well I'll blog again in three months, jk; maybe, we'll see.

The Token

2006-05-19T18:17:00.000-07:00

So yes it has been awile since I posted. In my defense work has been crazy and I changed stores.

So The Token! Laura and I went to Santa Monica for the day last Friday. We went to see a Restraunt where one of the contestants from "The Next Food Network Star" worked and to try the restraunt. Well we went to the wrong one but we decided to still spend the day in town.

We went and saw the Pier and rode soem rides. We went to the shops. There is this shop out here called Lush. You women would love it. It carries all of these naturally made bubble bathes, bath balms, massage bars, face scrubs, and much, much more. We ended up eating at Johny Rockets before the mivie we were going to see. It seems all of the restrooms have a lock on the door and you need a Token to get in and use the restroom. You have to ask the waitress or staff to get this token. All of the shops out there were like this. Some had signs that said you good use coins or the token and that it was to help maintain the costs of vandalism. So you think well I'll just get a bunch of coins from one place and use them at every other place. Well it doesnt work like that. We went to a French restruant for desert to get some desert on a desert I cant spell, and they had a different smaller token.

Now I think to myself and wonder how bad does the vandalism have to get before I have to put a token lock on my restroom door? i dont know the answer to that and just in two restraunts I saw how easier it is to get around the token locks. I got a little kick out of the token lock and though ya'll might too.

Until next time, be safe and Happy Hunting.

New Years Eve Problems for Scott

2006-04-15T17:37:00.000-07:00

Kilroy the one thing you didn't figure in to your plan is my job. I work for a retail company. The biggest time of year is the holiday season of Thanksgiving through the end January. And during this time Target has ths nice little term called "Black out dates." This term tells you when you can and can not take time off. And guess what times are blacked out during the holiday season. You guessed it, I believe it is two weeks before Thanksgiving through the end of January that are "blackout". So great idea and don't let me stop everybody from getting together in Omaha, but I wont be able to make it. Even if I could get away for a quick weekend trip it is highly frowned apon not to work New Years eve on my line of work. You know the crazies all come about then. Now I'm not saying no, but the likely hood of me making it is very slim. But stranger things have happened. And since not everybody will see this here (in Kilroys comments section) I will post it on my blog to see what comments come out of it.

Dance, Dance

2006-04-03T20:16:00.000-07:00

No, I'm not talking about the song by the Fall Out Boys, although it is a good song. I'm talking about East Coast Swing Dance. That is the class Laura and I are taking at the community center. It was my Christmas present to Laura that she picked out. I dont mind going, I have always wanted to learn how to doance so I don't look too much like a fool when I do dance. First night was tonight. It wasn't bad and I am picking it up quick. Although we are starting slow, so maybe I'm not. Laura is also taking Ballet and Jazz classes after that. So she has a full night monday nights. Laura also signed us up for some dance workshps that shouldn't be to bad. I don't remember what they are at this time, but I'm sure I will write about them when we have them. Well that's it for now.

Later gators

Awesome Bowling, Bad Neighbor

2006-04-02T22:48:00.000-07:00

So I always look forward to bowling on Sunday. This was probably my best round yet. 133, 150, 170. With out handicap. I'm stoked! There were coupel times that I just choked to. So if I can eliminate those mistakes I think i could be a god player. Not great but good.

So I have this, how do you say this PC, a inconsiderate ass hole of an upstairs neighbor. Not only inconsiderate to me but mother earth as well. The third floor tenates will smoke on thier balcony. Ok that's not a crime, but when there done they will throw the butts off the balcony. Where do they end up you ask? Mostly in my pattio on Laura's plants! So for the last three or four weeks we weren't sure if it was the second floor or the third floor. But tonight whe Laura and I were going grocery shopping there he was, smoking on the balcony. Now your probably thinking if we didn't see him throw off the butt how do we know it is him? Well I think it goes along way to say that when they don't have anything on the balcony except a bird feeder that we can pretty much guess that they don't leave the butts on their balcony. Anyway I digress, Laura will be turning the butt throwers into the apartment complex mangers to put a stop to it. We will see if that actually works or not. Till then we will keep watching.

Where's my Blog

2006-03-21T19:39:00.000-08:00

So I cant fid my blog? WHen I log on to look at it it's not there. Does anybody else see it. I'm writing this blog in hopes that maybe it will come back. I guess we'll see.

Hockey

2006-03-20T21:08:00.000-08:00

Anbody who knows me knows I love hockey. In 2004-2005 I had season tickets to the Texas Tornado Junior Hockey Team in Frisco. That was an awesome year. The Tornado when third national title in 4 years and their first back to back national titles. So of course I get tickets for the next season again. Little did I know at the time that I would be moving to California and wouldn't get to go to only a hand full of games. I just went home for vaction and got to go to two games. Both games were awesome. First game we just dominated the other team winning 6-2 with the final goal being a shorthanded, empty net, from the defense zone on a face off. Think about it a minute. The next game was a little closer ending in a 3-3 tie at the end of regulation. Now on to overtime. Like pro hockey Junior has the 4 on 4 five minute sudden death overtime and if it gets past that a shoot out. Well the Tornado are a good team as you can imagine sitting first in there division and second in the league. So their chances are pretty good to come out on top. There I am sitting on the home side by the goal at the glass. The tornado are in the offensive zone moving the puck and push back to the point on the left side and a slap shot and SCORE!!!! Tornado win in overtime.

Needless to say Scott goes home a happy camper and his hockey team remains 3 points ahead of their division rival Texarkana. As you might have guessed this is one of the biggest things I miss not being in Texas. You would think that a town that had the Great One win a Stanley Cup in it would do more to promote the game of hockey, but oh well. I will just have to wait till I get back to Texas to go watch my favorite sport in person on a regular basis.

Guild Wars Down!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!!!?!!??!??!?

2006-03-13T22:44:00.000-08:00

So I'm in Texas on vaction and I get back from grocery shopping for Mom. I try to get on Guild Wars to play and it doesn't come work? Ok, I figure there is something wrong with it will get fixed and be up later. After all it tells me there is soething wrong and to try again in a few mintues.

I call E to see what he is doing it's 3pm and he should be up by now. E's not up soI try back a 4:30pm and he is finally up. We hang out, go to Mi Hacenda Mexican restraunt (something they dont have in Cali, good Tex-Mex), then go see Brad's (my brother) new house and visit our friend Chris.

By this time it's 9pm and Guild Wars is still not up? What's up? Chris, E and I can't play our favorite game. I mean how are we supposed to interact with each other if we can't get on Team Speak and play games together. It must be a sign of the end of the world!

So I would like to take this time to tell everybody how much I love you all and I don't know what I would have done with out ya'll in my life. See you when and where I see you.

LIfe in Cali

2006-03-11T10:45:00.000-08:00

Well Life in Cali where do I start. Let’s start with the bad and end on a good note.

Traffic? Bad! If you don’t like the traffic in Dallas you will die in the traffic in California. The only times it seems there is not traffic is between 9pm-5am.

Unions? I don’t know your feelings on unions but Grocery unions have made shopping for essentials items not very convenient. Maybe I'm just spoiled, but I loved going to one place to get all the things I needed. But since their are only a view Super Wal-Mart’s and no Super Targets I have to go to both Grocery stores and Retail stores to get everything I need. I don’t know about you but my time is worth more than that time it takes to go to both stores. Not to mention the cost of gas. This brings me to my next topic.

Gas$$$$$!!!!!. The cost here is on average about $0.30 more than in Texas. Not to mention you have to drive farther or more to get to were your going. Who thought I would be saying that coming from Texas, drive farther? Texas may be spread out, but at least when we set up and area or city we make things convenient. Who cares if there are two of the same stores 5 minutes apart. At least you don’t have to drive every where to get what you want.

Good?? Well I'm sure there is some good I just haven't found much of it yet. With as busy as I am with work, not to mention it takes an hour to get their because of traffic, and the long hours Laura works, we haven't seen a whole lot of good.

Bowling League!!! Some good. Laura and I have been in the league since we got to Cali. It's been fun. My average is still only a 115 with a 94 handicap, but I have my own ball and shoes and my high game is 151. So I am improving!

Well I’ll wrap up here and save some thoughts going threw my head for my next couple of topics. Later.

Thoughts?

2006-03-09T18:04:00.000-08:00

So how did I do?
This is kind of cool.
What shall we do?
How about you?

ok, ok, I'm done rhyming.

Later

First Post?

2006-03-09T16:49:00.000-08:00

Hello All,

I am atttempting to setup my blog. Justin and Holly you're not alone in dealing with this type of thing. We will see how long it takes me to get this down. ;-)

Scooter