{"id":61,"date":"2008-08-03T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T04:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2008-08-03T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T04:07:00","slug":"it-is-hot-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"It Is Hot In Texas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">The weekend is almost over.  Well, it pretty much is over.  I plan on hitting the sack very shortly, but first, let&#8217;s recap!<\/p>\n<p>Thursday Night:<br \/>We met Wendy for a little coffee and a game of Scrabble.  It is hard to know what&#8217;s going on in Scrabble when you don&#8217;t keep score, but hopefully I proved to Wendy that I&#8217;m not all competitive.  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Friday:<br \/>I worked.  It was a long day.  Jason and I did go out for lunch which made it somewhat better.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after arriving home from work, Bryan and I headed to my belt ceremony&#8230;finally!  It was short and to the point, but still it was awesome to finally get to wear that senior green!  I can&#8217;t stop staring at it and talking about it.  I love it!  I&#8217;m so happy to be moving up in the ranks.  I learned some very strange news at the end of the ceremony.  Our school was sold to someone else so it will now be under different management.  I&#8217;m not sure what this means&#8230;about anything.  It will simply be a wait and see game.  I have no real information at this point.  I am both excited and nervous.  Things may only change slightly or dramatically.  I really don&#8217;t know.  It will still be an ITA school so, it can&#8217;t change that much.  I will let you know when I know more.  I&#8217;ll definitely be anxious to go to class tomorrow though I doubt much will have changed over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the little boy sitting beside me at the ceremony &#8211; He kindly pointed out that I didn&#8217;t have a yellow stripe on my belt (he is the same rank as me).  Yeah well, they don&#8217;t give that one out to adults.  Thanks for reminding me of how old I am.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan offered to take me out for dinner in celebration, but I was still feeling pretty full from lunch so, I opted out.  Instead we spent an awesome night in drinking mimosas and watching movies\/television.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the pictures that Bryan took of the belt ceremony:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.facebook.com\/photo.php?pid=30301534&amp;l=d56ea&amp;id=163200356\">Bowing In<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.facebook.com\/photo.php?pid=30301535&amp;l=c9d64&amp;id=163200356\">Removing Our Belts<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.facebook.com\/photo.php?pid=30301536&amp;l=75124&amp;id=163200356\">Getting My New Belt<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.facebook.com\/photo.php?pid=30301537&amp;l=74dab&amp;id=163200356\">Back To My Seat<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.facebook.com\/photo.php?pid=30301538&amp;l=fb54f&amp;id=163200356\">Top Belt Awarded<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.facebook.com\/photo.php?pid=30301539&amp;l=3c5b6&amp;id=163200356\">Sporting The New Belt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saturday:<br \/>We slept in which was awesome!  We finally managed to drag our asses out of bed to hit downtown for the farmer&#8217;s market.  It was soo hot which caused Bryan to be irritable quickly.  \ud83d\ude42  We bought a few things, but we had to escape the heat pretty quickly.  We headed for lunch &#8211; Greek &#8211; yum!  After engulfing some very awesome gyros, we went the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffaloexchange.com\/\">Buffalo Exchange<\/a>.  I had never been there before and wanted to at least see what it was about.  I bought some jeans and a shirt.<\/p>\n<p>After all of that, I suggested that we go paint pottery!  Haha..yeah, I know, but it was a lot of fun.  It was something we&#8217;d been talking about for awhile.  I quickly googled and found this place on Bee Caves.  It was a pretty cool little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceramicsbayou.com\/\">place<\/a>.  We decided to paint coffee mugs for one another.  We each picked out a mug we&#8217;d like, and then the other one painted it.  I was surprised to see Bryan choose colors and a design that I loved.  Who knew he knew me so well?  We can pick them up as soon as Wednesday.  I know we are both super anxious\/excited to see how they turned out.  Plus, it&#8217;s time we started sippin&#8217; in style.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>We were exhausted by all the activities and the sun so, we took a great nap upon returning home.  We didn&#8217;t leave the house all Saturday night, but instead opted for another great night in.  We watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0230011\/\">Atlantis<\/a> and ate then slept.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what Bella did that night:<br \/><\/span><object width=\"320\" height=\"266\" class=\"BLOG_video_class\" id=\"BLOG_video-eab99a3cc0a3a67e\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/img\/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DqAAAAEbqiT-pXmimn7VDny7-dKpNDEYpbK8tOa5HoyT9T0NUz0cStczCPI_PxufWvS54YCB1eOsfS27Ez6d6cPMtvyLhdxf8a6O3d9QPcnAIepM2fTnycHgpXlepVq3X7376CpreOSAuj8-K5pSMpBwGwLxwBPC7SyEZbVqYECAZbi0_XagfsSBcEJtqtXrNM-DubiOpuOgco5e-zZRI1DZqHhTGMPLjdf011M2qXI8SvHnY%26sigh%3DGhAnAjGrocSW_VLfdr6pUddG2Kk%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26docid%3D0&amp;nogvlm=1&amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Deab99a3cc0a3a67e%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3D58kfQaT8p2_g7QBUDEOf4MyEh_0&amp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\"><embed width=\"320\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/img\/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DqAAAAEbqiT-pXmimn7VDny7-dKpNDEYpbK8tOa5HoyT9T0NUz0cStczCPI_PxufWvS54YCB1eOsfS27Ez6d6cPMtvyLhdxf8a6O3d9QPcnAIepM2fTnycHgpXlepVq3X7376CpreOSAuj8-K5pSMpBwGwLxwBPC7SyEZbVqYECAZbi0_XagfsSBcEJtqtXrNM-DubiOpuOgco5e-zZRI1DZqHhTGMPLjdf011M2qXI8SvHnY%26sigh%3DGhAnAjGrocSW_VLfdr6pUddG2Kk%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26docid%3D0&amp;nogvlm=1&amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Deab99a3cc0a3a67e%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3D58kfQaT8p2_g7QBUDEOf4MyEh_0&amp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<br \/><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\"><br \/>Sunday:<br \/>We slept in again.  We hung out around the house doing nothing until it was time to leave for Ryon&#8217;s birthday lunch in South Austin.  The whole gang was there, and we devoured much pizza and desert.  It was awesome to see everybody; it&#8217;s been awhile since I&#8217;ve seen everyone.  After leaving the pizza place, we ran by Wal-Mart for a few essentials.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a funny picture Bryan snapped of me there:<br \/><\/span><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_khDrAG4ZNjM\/SJaE_03S59I\/AAAAAAAAARg\/ERROimBJpPw\/s1600-h\/photo%282%29.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_khDrAG4ZNjM\/SJaE_03S59I\/AAAAAAAAARg\/ERROimBJpPw\/s400\/photo%282%29.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230514249294604242\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">Basically we&#8217;ve been lounging ever since coming home.  Bryan&#8217;s been helping me work on my tattoo design.  Think I might be getting close to locking in on something. \ud83d\ude42  We are currently fasting.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the rest of Bella&#8217;s weekend in pictures:<br \/><\/span><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_khDrAG4ZNjM\/SJaHE8ovXXI\/AAAAAAAAARo\/6D3i1EM_qxM\/s1600-h\/bella+by+the+bed.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_khDrAG4ZNjM\/SJaHE8ovXXI\/AAAAAAAAARo\/6D3i1EM_qxM\/s400\/bella+by+the+bed.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230516536303639922\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_khDrAG4ZNjM\/SJaHPOiFwAI\/AAAAAAAAARw\/VZ9d2zmo65c\/s1600-h\/zvchkjxvkxcn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_khDrAG4ZNjM\/SJaHPOiFwAI\/AAAAAAAAARw\/VZ9d2zmo65c\/s400\/zvchkjxvkxcn.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230516712906276866\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weekend is almost over. Well, it pretty much is over. I plan on hitting the sack very shortly, but first, let&#8217;s recap! Thursday Night:We met Wendy for a little coffee and a game of Scrabble. It is hard to know what&#8217;s going on in Scrabble when you don&#8217;t keep score, but hopefully I proved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}