Hope you all had a happy fourth. We had a fabulous weekend!

















Btw, any of you ever have Carpenter Ants in your house?

I am so frustrated.
I placed an order at etsy, and I've been waiting for a couple of weeks for it to come. Today I finally got a message from the seller saying that my package was returned to her and it said my address was undeliverable?!! What the? She had my address right. Why would it say that and get sent back to her?

There isn't much on tv at all right now. I have been watching Design Star on HGTV and 30 Days on FX (If you watch these, any thoughts?). Otherwise I catch some Jon & Kate Plus 8 here and there and watch whatever is on HGTV or TLC. I don't think I've watched TV in a week.

I'm pretty excited for Project Runway to start up again July 16th!

What are you watching/DVR'ing this summer?

Yesterday when I was driving us home from Fergus Falls, driving south on 94 at 75mph, I saw a small ball bounce from the median of tall grass right across the highway to the other side. This happened about ten feet in front of me and I almost didn't believe my eyes. Then I looked over to the east and saw a golf course. Hahaha. Trevor was reading and missed it. He was pretty bummed.

This weekend we are heading to Fergus Falls, Trevor's hometown, to hang out with his parents and our other friends there. Guess who else is hanging out in Fergus?
Gotta love the small town newspaper angle.

Trevor pointed out that the formal announcement that the Minneapolis Police Department put out basically says they don't care about fireworks. I mean, we knew that already from the chaos each 4th of July, but it is funny to see it in writing. I'm sure they put this out because we've already started to hear random fireworks going off. Anyway, this is the part that I think is funny:

911 will take calls about illegal fireworks; however, fireworks complaints are most prevalent on summer nights, when the police are most busy. Please provide the exact address and some kind of a description of the person(s) setting off the fireworks. Because of the volume of calls over the 4th of July holiday, the 911 dispatcher will put out general info to the squads, but will not dispatch a specific car, except in situations where a fire hazard or a direct threat to personal safety is present. This is to assure that the police officers can respond to more serious crimes in progress. When prioritizing 911 calls, calls about fireworks will take a longer response. Please be patient.

The Minneapolis Police Department asks that you enjoy your celebration with only legal fireworks—those that are non-explosive and non-aerial.


Enjoy your celebration with the lame fireworks but if you use the cool ones we won't do anything anyway!

( Here's the whole thing in case you are curious )

To hear what my neighborhood sounds like on the 4th of July, reference this entry where I made a phone post.

This is us just about exactly four years ago. Wow how time flies.

I just bought some unmounted stamps from http://www.purpleoniondesigns.com/. I'm pretty excited to get them and use them! I don't think I've ever mentioned my stamp obsession, but I have one. I haven't been buying many lately, but I have a lot, and I just started buying them one 1/2 years ago. I have normal mounted stamps (on wood blocks), unmounted, and acrylic/clear stamps. I use them in card making and scrapbooking. Fun fun.

Carpet was supposed to be put in today and we are waiting for it to be installed before we finish painting the hallway and put everything back and clean the house...

My family (without me) celebrated Father's Day yesterday with brunch and a movie. I miss my family! Happy Father's Day Dadio! I love you so much. You are such a smart, funny, cool Dad.
Hope everyone had a great Father's Day!

Trevor's pool team got 1st place in the pool league they were playing in this past season, so they qualified for the regional pool tournament (the only one in the state) that was this weekend. 34 teams qualified, and Trevor's team got FIRST PLACE! In the state! And not only that, now they qualify to go to the National APA Tournament in Las Vegas! So they are going to Nationals. It is unbelievable. They worked so hard to get to where they are and I am SO PROUD of all of them! Too bad Nationals are in August. Vegas in August? Um...yeah. ;-) They got huge trophies, prize money, and then they get money for travel expenses. :-)

It was a long weekend of pool this weekend. The tournament started Friday evening, and they finished around 11:30 last night! Kyle stayed both Friday and Saturday night so he wouldn't have to drive down to Burnsville and back. I went to some of the matches but I wasn't there for all of them. It was really exciting to be there last night and watch them win though! I was there with some of the other SOs and friends. What a fun and tiring weekend!





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Betsy and I are going to the Varsity Theater in Dinkytown tonight to see our friend Elizabeth Hunnicutt open for Brooke Fraser. I'm very much looking forward to it! We'll probably see some of our friends there that we haven't seen in a long time, and get to hear good music. It will be fun to see Elizabeth, because it has been quite a while!

For those of you who have been following the West Memphis Three case, or those of you who haven't heard a thing about it, take a look at this video.


West Memphis Three: Time for Truth from Brian Quist on Vimeo.

I only know about this because of the Paradise Lost documentaries.
I don't know if the West Memphis Three are innocent for sure, but they are innocent until proven guilty, and I believe that they were not proven guilty.
This video talks about newer evidence. People are working hard to get them out of prison.
What do you think?

Thankfully the only plan we have for this weekend is attending our nephew Milton's birthday party tomorrow afternoon. I can't believe he is already two!

I came down with a nasty cold Wednesday night. I stayed home yesterday and worked from home and hacked away all day. Stuffy nose, congestion, cough, sore throat, and aches and pains. I had very little energy to do simple things. I had Cash Howard by my side. He was very cuddly yesterday. Thankfully this morning I feel a bit better and I'm back in the office.

I haven't scrapped since last week, except for making some birthday cards.

I added a music playlist to my facebook profile and that's sort of fun.

Just wanted to add a reminder that I sell Tupperware here at my web site: http://my.tupperware.com/ktungseth and if you want an actual catalog in your hands I can mail you one. :-)

Wasn't the Lost finale last night great? I thought it was pretty much perfect. And now we have to wait 8 months for the continuing story!

Last weekend we saw the new Indiana Jones movie which was very entertaining. I am hoping that we can see Prince Caspian soon but I wouldn't want to go now and disturb everyone with my nasty cough.

Lost finale tonight people! I can't wait.

sassy_red_head posted this entry called the international food challenge. She challenged us to post a recipe from our area and try her recipe for poutine.

I can't think of anything specifically American or Minnesotan that I could post a recipe for. I know, lame, right? All I could think of was how at San Juan Festival in Paraguay, the food they had out for America was brownies. Yes, brownies.

I don't know if this is completely midwestern, but I am guessing so, as this past weekend my great aunt and mother discussed how you have to pay a pretty penny for rhubarb in other parts of the county, so I decided on a recipe my mother sent me for rhubarb crisp. It's my grandma's recipe. I have never made it myself, but grew up eating it at my grandma's and my mom and brother Andy also made it at home. I am looking forward to trying it out myself once I get some rhubarb from a friend's yard nearby.

( RHUBARB CRUNCH #1 )

and another:

( RHUBARB CRUNCH #2 )
Anyway, Trev and I tried out Tiana's Poutine recipe. I have been to Canada, but I've never had poutine. I'd never even heard of it, but I had to try it. So when we were in Wisconsin last weekend we bought some cheese curds (yellow because we couldn't find white). Then tonight we made poutine.

Here are the photos:




( the process and end results )



It was good, and I don't even want to think about how many calories were in that thing. But I am feeling sick and it cheered me up. :-)

I have mosquito bites on my ankles.

http://www.myspace.com/liveinjapan

I used to see Live in Japan play at the Coffee Shock in college. I've known Russel for a long time. He helped us record our album back in the day. You know, the day when I was in a band that was recording albums. Life goes back fast. Anyway, glad they have a new album out and it's lovely.

Sigur Ros has a new album out soon. They released one of the new songs yesterday. You can go here to learn more. NSFW album art. Just sayin. Oh, and the new song is also on their myspace: http://www.myspace.com/sigurros

Weezer's new album, Red, is out next week.

New Beck track here. It's called "Chemtrails".

I still haven't downloaded the new Death Cab or the new R.E.M.

So much new music from old favorites!

Sadly I did not go to the Jeremy Enigk/Damien Jurado show last night. I wasn't up to going alone, so I didn't go. I'll catch them another time. Instead Trev and I ordered Chinese food and watched "August Rush" on blu-ray.



What are you listening to?

Weezer made a video for the new single "Pork and Beans" using youtube celebrities. It's hilarious. You see such celebs as Tay Zonday, Chris Crocker, the numa numa guy...

check it out (embedding is disabled or I would have put it here).