Blogging Again... Just For You.

Hello family. Friends. Moms. Dads.

We figured that during this new time in our lives there will be lots of little and big things that you might want to hear about and that we might want to share... so what better way than to start using this bad boy again.

So save this page to your bookmarks and check it out every now and again to see what we've been up to on this entertaining, humorous, exciting adventure of becoming not only Army people, but Texans as well.

Will post a recap of events tonight. Love you guys.

Deuces,

Thomas and Laura

Summer Time Blues

ok people lets talk music. because I cant decide on anything else.
Thomas's Top 10 Albums that he can not stop listening to. Starting from 10 and then working its way down till the best album aka oneness.

10. Taking Back Sunday's album New Again.
These dudes have been out on tour for far to long so its good to see some new tunes from the guys. If you liked Taking Back Sunday's last album Louder Now, you will have no problem eating up New Again. To be honest I was kind of hoping they would take a new direction and get more away from the pop punk but it is still a great album if you like memorizing the lyrics and singing along with friends.

9. Octahedron by The Mars Volta.
OK! The Mars Volta continues to amaze me with the depth of lyrics and unreal songs that they keep putting out. It seems like every song has a mind melting moment where you just have to stop what your doing and let that jaw drop to the floor as you listen to these psychedelic melodies of heart pounding chorus's filled with soft easy tunes that suddenly erupt into a dance off between John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John (Grease 1978). Everyone should have a song by The Mars Volta on their playlists!

8. Old Crows / Young Cardinals by Alexisonfire
Alexisonfire continues to build there sound better and better every album. Why I remember when Alexisonfire was young and Dallas was skinny.. they where the band you went to see if you wanted crazy riffs and head exploding screaming. Now you can expect to hear soft piano in the bridge followed by Dallas's soft voice... sigh... sooo dreamy!

7. A State of Trance 2009 by Armin Van Buuren
I dont know what it is but there is just something about turning on the dance tunes way up and dancing all night long! Armin Van Buuren pours out another compilation of tracks recorded for one purpose. The purpose of letting go of everything around you and just groovin to the music! Trance music is all about having a good time. And trust me, with A State of Trance 2009 you will have a great time relaxing to some beats that make your mojo flow.

6. The Glass Passenger by Jack's Mannequin
It seems that everytime I turn my ipod on to listen to some tunes, I always end up clicking on Jack's Mannequin. There is something in the music that makes me want to hit the replay button after each song. I love every moment when Jack and I meet in the speakers. Plus this is Laura and I's fav band! So it makes me think of her which always puts a smile on my face.

5. Redeemer by Norma Jean
Finally we get to the good ol sreaming makes you want to throw down, thrashing the floor with your jumping. Always hard, always fast, always gets you pumped on everything! Norma Jean will forever remain first on my hardcore playlist because you can never grow tired of the bang.

4. Geuro by Beck
Oh Beck! You continue to play in our heads and make us long to listen to your white rap/rock/folk/noise tunes that make us giggle with delight. E-pro will forever be cemented into my cranium for all round good times. Beck's lyrics and melodies are all fantastic. Oh Beck! You can do no harm when it comes to making music! You are and will remain one of the greats.

3. Fantasies by Metric
Metric is by far one of my favourite bands ever in the history of music, Metric constantly puts out dynamic tracks that just blow your mind. Live in concert they are brillant. Emily Hanes proves time and time again that she can write drool producing lyrics and along with the rest of the band they come together to create sheer bliss in music.

2. Forever the Sickest Kids album Underdog Alma Mater
Whether your dancing in the shower pretending your a star or bouncing along in your car to the tunes. FTSK will always provide the umffft to do anything. The catchy tunes produced by the band are complete with all the nessesary ingredients for life and fun. They can take anyone who is in a bad mood and make them smile with there girl drama filled songs. FTSK will always be playing in my house.

1. Yes! by K-OS
I bought the album as soon as it came out and I cant stop listening to it. K-OS again just blows my mind with his in depth lyrics and his spell bounding songs. I would even say that K-OS is one of the underground scenes best preformer in what he does. He has been blessed greatly with his musical skills and shows them all in his newest album Yes! Which captivates audiences and motivates them in all aspects. K-OS is my number one. And it seems I will keep him up here for a long time still.

thanks everyone
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thomas

Raccoons and their razor sharp claws

Last night I accompanied two of my lovely friends to an evening of Leslie Blodgett and QVC (Leslie being the famous face to our makeup brand/employer, and QVC being one of the many avenue of which they make millions of dollars... and by "they" I mean Leslie). The evening started out somewhat boring but exciting all at the same time because when you are watching Leslie and all these QVC nutties, you never know whats going to happen next that will cause you to break out in laughter. We laughed quite a bit... in between rants about how they do not do things correctly, and how the packaging they choose is obsurd, and how Sarah cannot stand when everything is not uniform... all the while Amanda did her part to dispense of a half a bottle of wine and I did what I could to stay comfortable on Gloria's (Sarah's grandma) wicker-like chair... Once we reached the 12:00 hour, we were ready to wrap things up... Now, let me explain where we were each sitting at this point.. Well, Sarah was down stair asleep, but Amanda was on the north side of the kitchen table, and there is a sliding glass door leading out to the small deck on the south side of the kitchen table. I am currently located on the west side of the table, facing the window outside. Amanda is going on about something that I don't remember, and I was staring aimlessly out the windown at the pitch blackness... and I noticed something on the deck, right along side the sliding glass door, heading east from the wester direction... and my initial thought (mind you, all of these thoughts took place in a matter of miliseconds) was that it was a cat, because random cats roam around neighborhoods, right? And so I didn't think anything of it... Amanda is talking and talking and I'm sitting and dazing, and all of a sudden I realize that the "cat" I see outside of the door has a cute little black stripe over it's eyes, and a pointy little nose and a round head, and just so happens to look NOTHING like a cat, but a LOT like a freaking raccoon! I didn't even have words.. I didn't know what to say but I didn't want Amanda to miss this, so I reached over and slapped her arm a few times and just pointed out the window. She stopped talking, looked out, and we both just had a stare down with this raccoon... He literally stared at us for at least 4 seconds... and all that stood between us whas a small pane of glass... out of fear and gut reaction, I pulled my legs up off the floor so it couldn't eat my feet (yep, even through the window... it's totally possible) and then we laughed so hard we could barely breath as this little death monster trotted away.

Needless to say, Amanda had to walk me to my car...

-Laura

facebook is gone like the chickens in the dream i had

well I did it! I got rid of facebook! I am now no longer trapt to the face of the books in the internet thing with the books... ok so now the dealio is that I, Thomas William Ferguson Esq, am going to start bloggering.

STORY TIME!

The time eludes me as my phone is stuck far in my pocket right next to my crotch and people are giving me weird looks while I try to get it out.. Stupid phone. I get into my car and crank up some melodies from the great master mind Elton John. I drive into winnipeg. Today is beach day and I am supposed to be meeting up with some friends to enjoy the sun and water and sand and the excuse to be half nude. I get to one of my buds houses. I walk in to notice that my friend is not ready to go but he is in fact waiting to watch himself on tv. Sooo predictable! We finally get to the beach. The sun was out. The heat was on. Who brought sunscreen? We all forgot. Crap. No worries we are men. We laugh at the sun because we can. We say to the sun, Do your worst you dumb fire star thing! We then spend the next few hours running around playing volleyball, swimming, fighting fire breathing sharks named Jack and Bary... not realizing that while doing all this the sun, that stupid fire star, had slowly started cooking us. I am a tomato. A red fruit.
You win this battle fire star! But I will prevail!

k. thats all.
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Thomas

Stupid

This is Laura...

I am super mad at North Korea... why do they have to threaten to send missiles over when myself and the love of my life have plans to honeymoon in the very place they plan to send them... what the crap! ahhh!

Don't plan a honeymoon.. they are too hard to plan.

This is Laura

Decided last night, in my restless efforts to get tired so I could go to sleep, to begin reading a book that was borrowed to me years ago (sorry to the borrow-ee). I've made my way to about chapter 5 already and have come to quite a few conclusions.  

1. I do not talk to God.  I make requests and I being sentences but I don't talk to Him. I dont cry out to Him. I don't beg for the forgiveness I so don't deserve, and I sure as heck don't wrestle with Him over the things that plague me minute by minute, day by day.

2. Forgiveness is something I don't understand. I do but I don't.  I began to ask Him to show me who I even need to forgive.  First up... me.  Which brings me to...

3. How do you forgive when the person you need to forgive is yourself. It's easier, way way easier, to forgive another person because you may not see them again, or see them rarely, or whatever. But you are always with yourself. Always.  And maybe it's not necessarily yourself you have to forgive but Satan... but I feel like that doesn't work because he doesn't deserve forgiveness... so I think it's really just ourselves... it's forgiving myself for giving in so easily to his temptation to sin... temptation to say things to myself that contradict the truth of Christ.

So maybe this is why I don't talk to God... because it makes me feel things and makes me open up areas that seem to be nicer and neater when they are just kept shut.

Well, I guess the clutter is a comin and there is nothing to stop it.

Oh Jesus let this become a habit. I beg of You.

Ok ok ok... I'll post.

Here I (Laura) am... posting... because I recently heard that you don't blog for other people to read it but for yourself... so... self... how are you? Do you enjoy reading blogs? Not retarded ones like this? I totally understand.

Enough.

So I am presently trying to print out my bank statements for the past 3 months and my printer has become russian or something. I can pring a document that is, say, 4 pages, and the first one comes out in english, then the rest of them come out in like, russian or czech or something crazy like that... I think that my printer has gotten a travel bug just like me... to bad I can't start speaking another language to make myself feel better.

I decided yesterday that I would also love to receive gift cards to Patina for wedding presents... that would be lovely.. because lets face it, bed bath and beyond and Macy's don't have the things that Laura and Thomas like... definitely not our style.

And I am STILL waiting to hear where I will be come July as far as work goes. At first I was thinking I had a good chance of moving over to Rosedale as the Assistant Manager, and then I heard that that probably wouldn't happen, and so I was settled in that, and then I found out who the manager is and I can totally see her wanting me there because she is the one who hired me waaaaay back in '03... so now I really don't know... All I can say is that I am sooo thankful that God already knows whats up... and I am so thankful that I can actually find peace in that.

Gosh He is just so great.


Thats all.

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