This one goes out to Kristi and Chuck

Congratulations grads. I'm proud of you all! Not only have you most likely graduated with a much higher GPA than I, but you probably don't have a second unfinished degree for which you you are still paying...alot.

This weekend is gonna be exciting. It's road trip time. Last year, about this time, a group of friends let me tag along to see our friend, Kristi Rabenhorst, at her college in Virginia. It was just an excuse to get cheap labor out there to move her (you KNOW it was!) but we enjoyed it thoroughly anyway. This time, she's graduating!! Yeah!! Even though that's reason enough to go...there is one reason why I cannot NOT go. Chuck Norris is giving the commencement speech at Liberty University. That's right. I'll give you a minute to let it sink in. It's pretty heavy.

In honor of Chuck, here are a few of the top fun facts (out of hundreds) you may not know about him.

-Chuck Norris has two speeds. Walk, and Kill.
-The chief export of Chuck Norris is Pain.
-There is no chin behind Chuck Norris' Beard. There is only another fist.
-Guns don't kill people. Chuck Norris kills People.
-The Great Wall of China was originally created to keep Chuck Norris out. It failed miserably.
-Chuck Norris can win a game of Connect Four in only three moves.
-If you spell Chuck Norris in Scrabble, you win. Forever.
-The opening scene of the movie "Saving Private Ryan" is loosely based on games of dodgeball Chuck Norris played in second grade.
-When Chuck Norris falls in water, Chuck Norris doesn't get wet. Water gets Chuck Norris.
-How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could Chuck Norris? ...All of it.
-Chuck Norris CAN believe it's not butter.

So, packing is always a stressful thing for me. Not because I can't decide what to take, but because I make those decisions 1-5 hours before leaving. For Thailand, a 10 day trip, I pretty much packed from 2am-5am the morning we left. We left at 5:30am. However, for this trip, we leave 30 minutes after I get off of work. So packing started at 10pm last night. Without the pressure, it's really hard to get motivated though!

Here's a picture of the folks going on this little trip today.
The two on the right (jean jacket and sassy...actually they're both sassy) are not going. Apparently, they love their moms. j/k I LOVE YOU MOM!!!

Let's not forget the proud parents coming along as well.


Results of the arm wrestling match between Doug and Chuck will be posted as soon as humanly possible.