Random Thoughts Thread

[Pelado]

The tooth fairy must have something against my house. She keeps forgetting to pick up the 4 teeth under my 11 year old's pillow. He lost the first one last Sunday, and the last of the four two days ago. Someone should fire her!

Finding a replacement would be tough - the pay is terrible and it seems like she has to leave money wherever she goes.

[Soccermom]

Ha! This happens at our house all the time. And then, after my daughter finally got her dollar, she went to soccer practice, excitedly telling her teammates about it. One of the girls then let her know that her tooth fairy gave her $20 for her tooth. All in all, I think my daughter feels we got a loser tooth fairy.

Oh, yeah! Our tooth fairy is cheap too. Wonder if the Rock is available.

[creekster]

The tooth fairy must have something against my house. She keeps forgetting to pick up the 4 teeth under my 11 year old's pillow. He lost the first one last Sunday, and the last of the four two days ago. Someone should fire her!

Our tooth fairy had this problem too, so we convinced our kids the best thing to do was to put the tooth in an envelope and leave it in the hallway. It turns out as long as they are getting paid for the tooth, kids arent too worried about where they leave it.

[Soccermom]

Our tooth fairy had this problem too, so we convinced our kids the best thing to do was to put the tooth in an envelope and leave it in the hallway. It turns out as long as they are getting paid for the tooth, kids arent too worried about where they leave it.

That's a good idea.

[RC Vikings]

How exactly does that work?

That sort of happened to me. My wife and I were heading towards marriage, but I hadn't purchased a ring or officially proposed. I wanted to be married in the SLC Temple where all the rest of my family has been married. She was leaving on a 2 month study abroad trip, and SLC Temple spots fill up fast, so we reserved a date before she left. I proposed a week or so after she came back.

This is one example. My boys tell me about several couples getting everything all set up before there is a formal engagement.

[Paperback Writer]

This is one example. My boys tell me about several couples getting everything all set up before there is a formal engagement.

That was the case with me and my wife. I had an uncle in the jewelry business that allowed us to pick the diamond, the setting, and custom design the wedding band. But that would take a little time before the engagement ring was ready. In the meantime, I called the SLC temple and got the only available date that could work for us as we were both students at the time. Like falafel, getting married in the SLC temple was very important to me. It was also a big deal to my parents. I was about to be their 3rd kid to get married and my older siblings had whiffed on getting married in the SLC temple. I didn't reveal the SLC temple reservation to my fiancée at the time, just wanted to make sure I grabbed an open date in case we were in agreement.

Meanwhile, my fiancée picked out a wedding dress and didn't tell me about it. By the time the ring was finished and I proposed, we had the date and location already set (she agreed to the SLC temple) and the wedding dress procured. She didn't tell me until after we had told family and friends the good news about our planned nuptials that her father had made an offer many years earlier to his daughters that he would assist them with wedding costs at any location in the world as long as it was an LDS temple. Hawaii, Switzerland? Nope, 50 miles downriver in SLC it was to be.

[Soccermom]

That was the case with me and my wife. I had an uncle in the jewelry business that allowed us to pick the diamond, the setting, and custom design the wedding band. But that would take a little time before the engagement ring was ready. In the meantime, I called the SLC temple and got the only available date that could work for us as we were both students at the time. Like falafel, getting married in the SLC temple was very important to me. It was also a big deal to my parents. I was about to be their 3rd kid to get married and my older siblings had whiffed on getting married in the SLC temple. I didn't reveal the SLC temple reservation to my fiancée at the time, just wanted to make sure I grabbed an open date in case we were in agreement.

Meanwhile, my fiancée picked out a wedding dress and didn't tell me about it. By the time the ring was finished and I proposed, we had the date and location already set (she agreed to the SLC temple) and the wedding dress procured. She didn't tell me until after we had told family and friends the good news about our planned nuptials that her father had made an offer many years earlier to his daughters that he would assist them with wedding costs at any location in the world as long as it was an LDS temple. Hawaii, Switzerland? Nope, 50 miles downriver in SLC it was to be.

I didn't have the SLC temple problem. Aristides and I were married in the Provo Temple. I got the ring then reserved the place.

[il Padrino Ute]

That was the case with me and my wife. I had an uncle in the jewelry business that allowed us to pick the diamond, the setting, and custom design the wedding band. But that would take a little time before the engagement ring was ready. In the meantime, I called the SLC temple and got the only available date that could work for us as we were both students at the time. Like falafel, getting married in the SLC temple was very important to me. It was also a big deal to my parents. I was about to be their 3rd kid to get married and my older siblings had whiffed on getting married in the SLC temple. I didn't reveal the SLC temple reservation to my fiancée at the time, just wanted to make sure I grabbed an open date in case we were in agreement.

Meanwhile, my fiancée picked out a wedding dress and didn't tell me about it. By the time the ring was finished and I proposed, we had the date and location already set (she agreed to the SLC temple) and the wedding dress procured. She didn't tell me until after we had told family and friends the good news about our planned nuptials that her father had made an offer many years earlier to his daughters that he would assist them with wedding costs at any location in the world as long as it was an LDS temple. Hawaii, Switzerland? Nope, 50 miles downriver in SLC it was to be.

My father-in-law offered my wife-to-be a check in the amount of the total wedding cost if she and I would "elope" - meaning it could have been used for a honeymoon/car/down payment on a condo on a beach/whatever. My mother-in-law shot that down really quick because this was her baby daughter and there was no way she would allow that to happen.

So the mother-in-law and the daughter did the planning for the wedding thing and the father-in-law took his sons and invited me, the future son-in-law to go on a fly fishing trip to Alaska.

It was a win-win for me.

[Clark Addison]

My father-in-law offered my wife-to-be a check in the amount of the total wedding cost if she and I would "elope" - meaning it could have been used for a honeymoon/car/down payment on a condo on a beach/whatever. My mother-in-law shot that down really quick because this was her baby daughter and there was no way she would allow that to happen.

So the mother-in-law and the daughter did the planning for the wedding thing and the father-in-law took his sons and invited me, the future son-in-law to go on a fly fishing trip to Alaska.

It was a win-win for me.

My FIL did something similar, and both my wife and I wish we would have taken him up on it. Wedding days are overrated.

[BigPiney]

My FIL did something similar, and both my wife and I wish we would have taken him up on it. Wedding days are overrated.

Absolutely. If the wife and I would have had that offer, we would have taken it. We could tell going through everything that the day really wasn't about us. It was about what everyone else wanted for us.

[Uncle Ted]

Look for Ted at the state of the union...

Gun lover/Obama hater Ted Nugent to be guest of Rep. Steve Stockman at State of the Union

A Fort Worth Democrat, Rep. Marc Veasey, has invited an illegal immigrant to the State of the Union speech Tuesday night.

Now, fellow freshman, Rep. Steve Stockman, a Friendswood Republican, has announced that he’s invited musician and gun advocate Ted Nugent.

“I am excited to have a patriot like Ted Nugent joining me in the House Chamber to hear from President Obama,” Stockman said.
[...]

[Jeff Lebowski]

I keep getting e-mails inviting me to attend this event:

http://www.pryor.com/mkt_info/semina...ampaign=485870

Looks like great training for running an internet forum.

[clackamascoug]

I keep getting e-mails inviting me to attend this event:

http://www.pryor.com/mkt_info/semina...ampaign=485870

Looks like great training for running an internet forum.

"Yes" it sounds wonderful.

[LA Ute]

It's 70 degrees here today.

[smokymountainrain]

It's 70 degrees here today.

I'm sorry.