Saison

I credit the following to my faithful friends at Yahoo! Babel. I don't know French very well, so correct me for any outstanding errors. Now, mind you, that doesn't mean I can't understand some French, but without having ever taken any French, I think it's best I use the translator for this. The translator is great by the way; it's gotten me through a lot of language barriers in the day. You just need to know enough about the language to avoid any serious errors.

Je parle français pauvre, mais je me sens obligé à saisir français pour faire cette justice d'écriture. Pour ceux de vous qui n'a pas su, nous avons assisté à un mariage la semaine dernière au Michigan. Amanda a aidé à commander la cérémonie, alors que j'étais l'un des membres du groupe de mariée. C'était un beau mariage et une beaux mariée et marié.

J'avais prévu pendant longtemps le mariage, en raison de mon amitié avec les deux et aussi parce que j'étais excited pour toute les bière brassée à la maison de marié. Quand nous sommes arrivés à la réception, je n'ai perdu aucune heure en trouvant la bière pour célébrer le mariage et le maître de bière. J'ai une histoire de longue date avec des bières flamandes, et une des bières que la nuit a été brassée pour refléter une histoire de la région française de la Belgique.

Saison: un genre de bière qui a été faite pour des ouvriers à la moisson (et la mort de moi). C'est une bière d'or avec 6% a.b.v. La belle bière a fait un imbécile de danse merveilleux de moi. Qui est étonné? Avec reconnaissance, Amanda était là pour prendre soin de moi. J'ai inclus une image pour votre divertissement. Si seulement le mal de tête le lendemain matin étaient aussi drôle que cette image.

Merci à mon épouse merveilleuse de prendre soin de moi, et les félicitations aux ménages mariés. Bonne chance à tous les deux vous!

Good Morning!

It's officially a beautiful day outside and despite Amanda turning off her alarm clock last night, she still work up at 7 am this morning so I can blame my being up this early on her. But hopefully today promises to be a day full of productivity. I'm planning to start by tidying up some of the stuff I've left sitting around the house over the past few days, then work on a presentation I have to give Thursday, go to the bike sale to look for bikes, weed out the garden, start my stats homework and keep the dog out of Amanda's hair while she tries to study.

Something of interest to note as well is that Amanda and I both have pedometers now. Starting today (Amanda started yesterday), we're going to keep track of who takes the most steps and I'll also be correlating my weight everyday with the number of steps I take. If that proves interesting I might even go into caloric intake, but I think I'd rather measure the easy stuff first. I really have to get into gear and lose the 10-15 pounds for Kaitlin and Colin's wedding. So here goes and I'll keep you posted as things progress. It's so beautiful outside this has to be a good day.

Michigan State Spartans

I don't even need to say anything to tell you that I am thoroughly excited about my Spartans being up to #13 in the National polls. It was probably more thrilling to get the text updates amidst a mixed crowd at the wedding in Gull Lake. We have won every important game this year. It's not to say that I wouldn't love to see MSU in the Rose Bowl this year, but I set the same standards every year and they have met them. Way to go guys!

Speaking of the wedding, it was very strange to be away from Amanda and at a wedding by myself. Fortunately for me I wasn't actually by myself but instead went with Mom and Katherine for a good old family-style roadtrip. I think I'm going to working off the Combo's and wedding meal all week but I enjoyed going up there and the area around the lake was absolutely gorgeous. Congratulations to Elizabeth and Shawn and you two couldn't have had a better day for a wedding.

We stopped to see a market heifer on the way up to the wedding and that has gotten the cattle sale bug in me. Hopefully Jacob will be able to find what he is looking for and we will be able to help him do his best in the projects for next year. Every year we are close and it'd be nice to win the steer show while it is still competitive. Andy's blog featured this song this week and so I just thought I would include it here. It's just a small part of my background music today as I try to get caught up and back into gear for another week of school. My first biochem exam is this Friday and I'm nervous to be taking a test again; I'm out of practice.