Photo-A-Day #1238

Today is Shelby’s 30th birthday. I took the day off and we went to the Cape for an extended long weekend. I also have tomorrow off. Allison and Eva and I got up to the house about 12:30pm. We fed Eva and then went to the beach. We spent the afternoon with Shelby and her friends. Eva wowed them all. She is so personable. The way she is around new people is great, if only her daddy was as comfortable around new people and made friends that easily.

Around 4:00pm Shelby and her friends left, they went to get ready to go to Twin Rivers Casino. Except, that is not where they were going, they were keeping her distracted until 7:30pm when we were having a surprise party for her. My sister Tara coordinated the whole thing. For the past couple weeks she has employed myself and Allison to scan photos and get them ready for a slideshow. It was fun looking back through the past 30 years in photos. Tara took all the photos from our scans as well as a bunch from Shelby’s friends and created a wonderful slideshow with awesome music that everyone enjoyed. We showed the slideshow with Tara’s projector. It was projected onto the side of my Dad’s van. This photo is out makeshift outdoor theater.

Don’t laugh I think we’re gonna watch a movie on it tomorrow night.

the night was a wonderful one and Shelby was totally surprised by the party and having all her friends at the house. Everyone had a great time too and they LOVED the slide show. Everyone had some laughs and it was a real testament to the person that Shelby is.

I also want to mention that I should be expecting 2 bottles of Country Bob’s All Purpose Sauce sometime soon because I won Lisa’s giveaway contest.

Photo-A-Day #1237

That Ted Murphy, he went and brightened up my day today. He sent out a tweet around noon. I totally missed the part about plugging my blog for doing this too. I only saw that he wanted people to make some crazy Pringles photos. He wants them for a presentation. I can see where he is going with this. His influence online in networks like Twitter and Utterz give him reach, reach and influence. So he puts an idea out there on Twitter, “hey send me photos showing that you love Pringles!” That is a pretty innocuous request, many people like Pringles, own a camera and can do a crazy photo.

So, On the way home I picked up a ton of Pringles, I mean, if I’m gonna do something like this I am gonna do it up big. I got the small ones for sandwich bags and the large tubes as well (for the beach). I took some photos while I was in Target and then as I was checking out the woman at the register said, “Boy you must really love Pringles.” I said, “Yes I do!” I would have gotten more flavors if there were more in the store. But I got all that they had.

Once home I started arranging the Pringles on the Lazy Susan, I was going to try for a spinning photo but settled for a spinning video.

I took some photos of Allison and of Eva with their Pringles and then Allison took some of me taking a huge bite of a stack of Pringles. Here are the other photos.

Needless to say, we had a lot of fun with the Pringles.

Now you might be saying to yourself, why would you buy Pringles because someone Twittered about it? Well, mainly because the idea behind it was a cool on and Pringles are just fun. This definitely got me out of my funk from yesterday. Although a Pogo would still be nice.

After that we went out tonight with our friend Meghan. She took us out because she wanted to thank me for helping her with the family slide show that I helped her make for her parent’s 50th wedding anniversary. We went out to Red Robin. We are completely stuffed. We had an awesome time. We got bottomless steak fries and I asked for Mayo and made Fry Sauce. And they didn’t charge for the Mayo either. I’m still working on the details of the Fry Sauce Recipe Challenge and will announce that contest sometime after vacation and all the conventions that I have coming up.