Now THAT'S Marketing!!

I always notice good marketing and branding when I see it. Likewise, I usually pick up on haphazard schemes to foist unwanted items on customers at ridiculous prices. The display below definitely falls into one of these categories. I saw it in a shop in Roswell, New Mexico. Its useful to note that there aren't any major golf courses in the area.


Because if THESE aliens (???) are golfing, then you might want to golf, too. Somewhere, at some point, and with these plain, white golfballs, packaged in ziplocs.

The Coming Human Aliens Part II: The Message

While we were in Roswell last month, Mike spent some time listening to the presentation of a guy named Don Ray Walton, a self-proclaimed alien/human hybrid who had hooked himself up to a car battery and kept not shocking himself to prove that he is half alien. I have transposed (word for word including random punctuation, capitalization and mispellings) the intro to his second book at the end of this post.

I also found his bio on the Galde Press ("Quality Books that Make a Difference") website:

Don Ray Walton was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He was home-schooled until he was 16 because weird things always happened when he was around other children. In 1954, his mother was abducted by aliens and impregnated. Don was born the following year. When he was a child, strange visitors would take him onto spacecraft to examine him and teach him to understand what was happening to him as he grew older. At the age of ten, he learned how to use electricity to jam the aliens’ tracking implants in his head.

By Don Ray Walton

Please Note

That this book you are about to read will not be revealed as fact or fiction in order for those that read it to determine The real truth by the gift of their own free will. Our main goal is to let you the audience make the decision and decide weather or not you choose to accept the knowledge by your reasoning alone. Hint? Some names in this story may be factious in order to protect their true identities.

By the power of reason you can determine the truth of the matter by the matter in question. The answer is the truth of the truth behind the question? The question here is what is the Truth? To exist is to have purpose. To be of purpose you must have a reason for your existence in the first place.

Magical, Magical Camera.

Mike's new video camera was delivered today! Very exciting. He immediately started to read the manual. Several pages in, he pointed out the passage below under "Pre-recording Function":

The biggest question we have is:

HOW DOES THE CAMERA KNOW WHEN WE ARE GOING TO PUSH THE RECORD BUTTON?

Its a real Christmas Miracle!!

U R Not Going To Like This...I Didn't

What the #@?&%* were "we" thinking?

Nummy Lemon Mini muffins: Part II

You can find the recipe for the nuggets of joy below a Rencher Recipes! AND some other family favorites are available for you at that same site.

Num

We made food for a photo shoot at work, and these are my tiny lemon muffins. They are VERY NUM. The glaze is made using both lemon zest, lemon juice, and for work, I added a drop of super concentrated lemon essential oil, so it turns out just the right combination of crusty, sweet, tangy and lemony. I eat about 4 of these at a time. But I want to eat more.

Photo and design courtesy of Elka and David Engle, who are as talented as these muffins are nummy.

Another Fashion Question

Which side of the family does this kind of fashion sense come from? Dylan has some kind of innate talent for spontaneous fashion that DEFINITELY does not come from ME.

He even dressed "THE KARL" bobblehead doll.

Open 24 Hours

Have I mentioned how much I really love my laundry room? When we came back from Moscow we totally rearranged it. It took me awhile to find the right art work for the wall:

And Mike built these lovely racks so I can AIR DRY anything and everything I want!! And I have 15 feet of counter that, when not cluttered with bulk-sized TIDE, DOWNY, and other cleaning products, I can use to lay out sweaters for drying. Lucky I like it in there, since I spend LOTS of time in my little laundry. Notice the window is dark: that's because its 2am, and i'm just finishing my last load of the day.

LAUNDRY LAUNDRY I LOVE YOU WHEN YOU ARE PILES OF CLEAN, DRY CLOTHES. BUT NOT WHEN YOU ARE IN THE SMALL RACK BY THE DRYER BECAUSE THAT MEANS I HAVE TO IRON YOU, DAMMIT.

Feels like home

Okay, so it took me awhile to get settled in... but I finally did get my map up on my office wall. Its much easier to breathe knowing that if I can't see everyone, at least I can see where you all are!

Birthday Bracelet

THANKS JEN, I LOVE IT!!

Fashion Sense

FASHION SAVVY or FASHION FAUX PAS?

YOU make the call (PS, notice the "toe" socks)

New Friend

A new friend came to our house at Christmas, courtesy of Angie! Hope he doesn't mind the snow...

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