A-J of randomness

A

• Are you available?: No - what a sad statement for single men everywhere (not!)

• What is your age?: 31

• What annoys you?: When people don't return shopping carts.

B

• Do you know anyone named Billy?: I used to work with a Billy - Hello Billy Miller in Plano, IL!

• When is your birthday?: 12/15

• Who is your best friend?: I guess I "have" to say Jonathan huh? ;0)


C

• What's your favorite candy?: Man - that's too hard to choose! Skittles, gummy bears, Dots, Mike & Ikes - basically anything fruity. Oh yeah - what are those purple and white things called that taste like licorice? Love those!

• Crush?: Dave Grohl (from Foo Fighters)

• When was the last time you cried?: Watching Kathy Griffin's show (her father just died)


D

• Do you daydream?: Not too much

• What's your favorite kind of dog?: Pug

• What day of the week is it?: Wednesday


E

• How do you like your eggs?: not on my plate - gross!

• Have you ever been in the emergency room?: yes

• Have you ever pet an elephant? I don't think so ...


F

• Do you use fly swatters?: it's called a rolled up magazine

• Have you ever used a foghorn?: no

• Is there a fan in your room?: ceiling fan


G• Do you chew gum?: love gum!

• Do you like gory movies?: love gory movies!

• Favorite board game?: Has anybody ever heard of Picture Picture? It's a classic!


H

• How are you?: hot and dirty (ok - that sounds sexy, but in actuality, I've been cleaning and doing yard work all day)

• What's your height?: 5'

• What color is your hair?: brown


I

• What’s your favorite ice cream? butter pecan

• Have you ever ice skated?: I suck at it!

• Ever been in an igloo?: Yes - it's called an Illinois winter when your car door is frozen shut


J

• What's your favorite Jelly Bean?: BLACK!!!

• Have you ever heard a really hilarious joke?: lamest question ever! Of course!

• Do you wear jewelry?: Just my wedding set. I want to wear jewelry, but I just feel silly for some reason.

K-R of randomness

K
• Ever been kayaking?: Super fun! But no kayaking in the gator infested waters of Florida!
• Have you ever flown a kite? Who hasn't?!?
• Do you think kangaroos are cute?: Kind-of

L
• Lions or tigers?: Lions
• Do you like black licorice?: MY FAVORITE!!!
• What are you listening to right now?: Cardinals vs. Padres

M
• Favorite movie as a kid?: Pee-Wee's Big Adventures
• Ever shopped at Moosejaw?: Never heard of it
• Favorite store at the mall?: Old Navy

N
• Do you have a nickname?: Nicknames from my past: Am, Ambie, Ambo, Sis, Bee, Beaner, Lovey Howell, Skinny Minnie, Slackender, Ambros E. Burnside
• What’s your favorite number?: 2
• Do you prefer night or day?: day

O
• What's your one wish?: Not have to work
• Only child?: no
• Do you like the color orange?: yes

P
What are you most paranoid about?: ???
• Piercing?: 5
• You know anyone named Penelope?: I used to work with a Penelope

Q
• Are you quick to judge people?: yes
• Do you like Quaker Oats? Love oatmeal!
• Know anyone that makes quilts?: Go Terry!

R
• Do you think you're always right?: yes
• Do you watch reality TV?: TV rules!
• Reason to cry?: Movies involving old people

More Florida ghetto-ness

Driving home today, I pass 2 college kids, hanging out on the side of the road -- underneath a highway underpass.

They were shirtless, sitting on some lawn chairs with refreshments, just waiving at people. I didn't see any cars parked on the side of the road, so I really wonder how they got there.

*cheers* to the weird-os!

Happy Anniversary

Saturday and Sunday was our 6 month anniversary! Where does the time go?

1/14/07

1/15/07

"Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart ...

... I dooooooo!"

We are so freaking lucky that one of the 11 7-11s around the country that have turned into Kwik-E-Marts is near Disney World!

If you know what episode this quote is from, then you are a true Simpson's fan.

We bought 2 boxes of Krusty O's, a 6-pack of Buzz cola, some Radioactive Man comic books and a Squishee!

To quote Comic Book Guy, "Greatest day ever!"

You know your drive home from work is ghetto when . . .

. . . you aren't phased to see:


1. A boat selling fresh shrimp.

2. 5 cars for sale

3. People fishing in a 5" lake

4. A bright orange stalker van selling turtles

5. $10 orchids

6. DVDs $3 each!

7. Tourists peeing (hide your shame!)

House Tour - master bathroom

Aloha again!

Here is a continuation of the bathroom tour.

I painted 2 walls this crazy green color. I'm not super fond of it, but it's growing on me.

I have a little bamboo / pewter thing going on.

I cut some big pieces of bamboo and tied them with raffia to make the frame around the medicine cabinet mirror. And I bought a live bamboo plant that I haven't killed yet!

This shower curtain is from Port Orleans Riverside (a Disney resort). I love it!

This is too darn long ...

... so I'm shortening the heck out of it!

1. When’s the last time you ran? 1 week ago. My stupid left hip is killing me!

2. Do your jeans have rips, tears, and holes in them? In 7th grade they did.

6. Favorite ice cream? Butter pecan

7. When was your last doctor’s visit? LOL! When I got my physical to become a teacher. I'll let people who know me do the math on that one!

8. Do you get the full 8 hours of sleep a night? 11pm - 7:45am every night!

12. If anyone came to your house on your “lazy days” what would they find you wearing? Not a whole heck of a lot!

15. Do you own a pair of Converse? They look horrendous on me, since I have cankles.

17. Do you eat raw cookie dough? Heck yes!

24. Are you cocky? In my mind I am.

30. Could you live without a computer? I could live without pretty much anything, but that would probably be pretty boring.

34. How many phones, house phones and cell phones are in your house? 2 cell phones

37. Last time you saw your best friends? 10 months ago

50. How do most people spell your name? Howard. The captain who married me even said HOWARD.

51. Would you wear a boy/girlfriends clothes? As PJs I do.

58. Favorite name for a girl? Katie

59. Favorite name for a boy? Scott

67. Do you return your cart? Hell yes! That is one of my biggest pet peeves!

77. Do you know anyone with the same name as you? Every white trash female on TV!

103. Do you go online everyday? Yes

Rat-a-too-y!

Jonathan and I attended a mini Ratatouie (sp?) party at the Boardwalk a couple weekends ago.

Our goal was to get some free stuff (of course!). Jonathan won a movie poster!

I think this will be the next big summer movie on our roster.

The King!

Richard Petty, aka: The King, threw out the first pitch at a Devil Rays game a couple weeks ago. Luckly Jonathan found out about it ahead of time, so we were armed and ready for autograph hunting.

Easily enough, he hosted an autograph session before the game. Richard had colorful 8X11 photos of him and his car that I got signed.

Jonathan had him sign his little Pixar car of The King.

Althogh I still think Nascar is super lame. Take that mom!

Bling, bling!

Could my face be any redder? (is 'redder' a word?

On a totally different note: I am officially the biggest nerd on myspace: www.myspace.com/acavender308

I need friends!

Old School

Here is a classic photo of my brother and I. I'm guessing this was taken in 1982.

Check out my stylish plastic snow boots, and his rockin' belted snowsuit.

Mmmmmmm ... movie

Jonathan and I enjoy walking around inside the AMC 24 at Downtown Disney looking at all the movie posters. Since it's a huge theater, they always have big cardboard popups of movies.

I was pleasantly surprized to find this display!

It's huge!

House Tour - toilet room

Ahoha and welcome to our home!

Our master bathroom has what I like to call a 'toilet room'. When we moved in it was plain white. Now it looks like this!

I would like to proudly say that I put up the crown molding on the ceiling and also the molding around the middle. All by myself!

I also made this cute little H thing. Well, I bought the H at a craft store, but I glued down the decorative paper. (Don't look at the ceiling, it's still beigh. I still have to finish painting that. Painting ceilings is a pain, but a great arm workout!)

I bought this white thing from Target. Man, was it a pain in the !@&*^# to put together!!! Those 2 big shells, and all the small shells in the jar are genuine Kwajalein shells. I was extra proud of that giant white one. It was 3/4 buried in the sand when I dug it out.

Speaking of Kwajalein, the photos in the frames along the wall is a 180 degree panoramic of one side of the island.

Viva Mexico!

The Grand Fiesta Tour staring the Three Caballeros is officially open in Epcot.

I am happy with the changes. The old ride was good and (maybe???) authentic.

This new ride is cartoony and fun! I recommend it - although I don't recommend waiting in line for more than 5 minutes. It's not that great of a ride!

Here are some random photos of the ride. I didn't use flash photography b/c I didn't want to be that annoying tourist flashing all the time.

I'm still trying to find the characters of the 3 Caballeros! I want a photo and their autograph.

I guess the topiary versions will have to do for now.

Monsters are funny!

At least, they are kind-of funny.

The Monsters Laugh Floor Comedy Club is officially open in Tomorrowland. It's a cute attraction/show. There are 3 or 4 monsters who tell jokes, make fun of the audience, and even interact with people in the audience!

The jokes are kind-of lame. I think I spend more time playfully saying, "Arrrrrg!" instead of "ha ha ha ha!", but it was all in good fun. (example: Why is 6 afraid of 7? Because 7 8 9!). Arrrrrg!

I think it will be cool to do the show again, b/c it will be a little different each time.

All these photos are from the queue line.

Previews

Everybody loves previews, right?

I haven't blogged in a while, so here's a preview of what's coming up (it will help me remember):
Richard Petty
Sammy Sosa
house decor
Hail!
Epcot
other boring stuff

Stay tuned . . .

It's fun to wake up at 5:15am ...

... if you are waking up for the Minnie Marathon on Sunday, 5/6/07 (wow - cool date - 5 - 6 - 7)!

AMBER CAVENDER / CLERMONT FL / 2:04:39

My goal for the 15K was 2:06 - which would've been 14 minute miles, and I did under that. I was very pleased with myself.

The race started at Animal Kingdom and ended at Epcot.

Mile 1 - This is really hard. I can see the end of the pack. Crap!
Mile 2 - What have I gotten into? I'm never doing a race again.
Mile 3 - *waking up a bit*
Mile 4 - I can see MGM
Mile 5 - I can still see MGM, but I'm not there yet!
Mile 6 - I am inside MGM and kicking some butt!
Mile 7 - Walking towards the Boardwalk and I'm still able to run a little bit
Mile 8 - Inside Epcot - now is the time to pick up the pace
Mile 9 - Where the heck is the finish line? Oh, it's around this nasty corner.

I have the uncanny ability to sprint to the finish line. There was an old lady about 50 yards ahead of me. I managed to finish 1 second behind her. Grrrrr!

It's not every day as an adult you can push yourself to a semi-limit, that's why I find Disney races so enjoyable. Plus I got a super cool Minnie Mouse head medal for finishing on time!

And now the soreness begins. I am fully prepared for old age now. My shins hurt, my lower back is sore and I can barely squat down to go to the bathroom. Good times.

Bring on the 13K in October!

Top 5: Summer movies I plan on seeing

2007 - The summer of sequels! And I pathetically plan to see them all!

In no particular order:
1. Spiderman 3
2. Pirates 3
3. Harry Potter 5
4. Knocked Up 4. Ahhhh - how could I forget about the Simpson's Movie!?! Sorry Knocked up, but I guess you are going in the Honorable Mention list.
5. Ratatouie (sp?)

Honorable Mention (which means, I'll be renting these movies)
6. Shrek 3
7. Rush Hour 3 (I loved the first 2!!!)
8. Hostel 2 (If I am brave enough!)
9. Transformers -- I have never EVER had an interest in Transformers the toy or the cartoon, but I've seen some photos stills of the movie, and it looks so strange and fastinating!
10. That wedding movie with Mandy Moore and John Krasninski (the cute guy from the TV show The Office).
11. Knocked Up
12. I Now Pronounce you Larry & Chuck - Kevin James and Adam Sandler -- this HAS to be good!

I also missed Die Hard 4 (or what ever it's called). Arg! I better sign up for some overtime!

I'm sure I'm missing something major - help me out!

More more movie fun, check out my other blog:  Movie Yak

"Jonathan - kill it!"

A week ago I pushed a bunch of wood chips aside, exposed some soil, and planted some seeds. The seeds are starting to grow.

As I bend down to take a closer look, I noticed a big white thing sticking out of the wood chips.

There is no way in heck I was falling for this trick again -- it had to be a snake egg! I bet a snake saw my pile of wood chips and a nice little nest.

I yelled for Jonathan to confirm my finding. Being a typical man he just yelled, "smash it with your trowel!", but I wasn't going near that thing with a 50 foot trowel.

So I went for my nightly walk/run. A half hour later, the white thing was gone. Jonathan had taken care of it, thank goodness.

When I walked back into the house, Jonthan says, "I took care of that golf ball for you". Doh!