i am ryanarrowsmith

I was having a conversation at work today with a few friends and we were all talking about how we could really lose a few pounds and be happier.  I could actually lose about 25 pounds be back where I was when Brian and I met.  I don’t think I’m huge or out of control [...]

Holy crap. American Idol totally freaked me out last night. The thought that Katharine, probably the best voice in the competition, could be sent home made me as nervous as President Bush in a Spelling Bee.
Have I told you lately how much I am enjoying using Wordpress again? Sure, working with Textpattern is much less [...]

07/20/2006 - July 20, 2006

Added an Ajaxed navigation panel to the top of the site (based off of Derek’s table on his Foliage Mod).
Tweaked comment boxes to appear individually with a 5px margin and alternating colors.

07/17/2006 - July 17, 2006

Implemented latest and greatest theme Firebolt (’cause it’s faster than a Nimbus).
Added related posts on [...]

Man, am I tired today. 
Yesterday was a lot of work, but also a lot of fun.  I met Brian’s Dad at Monica’s house around 8:00 AM.  Monica and her Mom were in OKC closing on the new house since it got pushed out from Monday.  The movers arrived and the house loaded pretty quickly.  No [...]

Brian is offically 33! And I am only 25. He’s 33. I’m 25. He is old, where I am young. He is well into the autumn of his life while I am still enjoying the end of spring. :)
That’s just for him, sometimes he looks at me and thinks [...]

 Just 2 short days until my baby’s birthday!  Happy birthday to you, you live in a zoo.  You smell like a monkey and you look like one, too!  :P 
And then just 6 short days until Brian and I begin our 6th year of (unrecognized) wedded bliss. 
Life is great, don’t you think?   
We’re probably going to [...]

I was sad to see Kevin go last night on AI but he knew he wasn’t going to win. Buckey should have been gone, he totally sucked it up.  His days are numbered, though.
Glad to see Lost was new again.  It seems like it’s been more repeats than anything this season and that’s a bit [...]

That’s me up there.  What do you think?  Wasn’t I the perfect picture of autumnal yumminess?  ;) 
It has been cold and rainy here in Oklahoma since last Friday and I have to say, I’m enjoying the hell out of it.  Before this cool off, we were in the 80’s…which is bad.  Very, very bad.  If [...]

Just so you know, I am tinkering with the layout of this site and I’m doing it with the site in production.  So hang tight.  If things look crazy, it will pass.  :)

I had this whole grand, sweeping post in my head that, in my opinion, was going to change the face of blogging as we now know it. But now I am pooped so I am going to bed instead. Nighters.

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I love the Dixie Chicks. No, scratch that — I adore the Dixie Chicks.
It was love at first listen. I bought their CD the day it came out and so on with all of their subsequent CDs. Natalie Maines is one of the most talented voices in music today. No [...]

Here are my plans for the weekend:
1. Paint my orange office two shades of green.
In an oversight on my part, I thought orange would terrific on all four walls. I will be spending at least one day correcting this mess up. I will post pics once I am done. Should turn [...]

A personal milestone passed earlier this month and I didn’t even know it. On March 3, my commitment to continous blogging turned one-year-old.
In a bit over a year, I’ve posted 338 entries (this one makes 339, hence the title). I’ve received 130 comments. I have had 230 trackbacks to my blog (basically [...]

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Brian is getting excited: the big 3-3 is less than 2 weeks away now.
This really is a birthday to celebrate. When I think back 12 months, it amazes me how far we’ve come. Last March, we were celebrating his birthday without even knowing he was in heart failure. Less than two months after that, he [...]

Brian and I are planning a trip down to Dallas in April so that we can make an Ikea run.  For those unfamiliar with Ikea, it’s a furniture store based out of Sweden that offers brilliant products at prices that would make Sam Walton roll over in his grave.
There is one draw back with Ikea, [...]

Thanks to Laura for sending me a new pic of my beautiful niece, Casey. Ain’t she just about the cutest thing you’ve ever seen?
Love my kiddos.

Brian sent me a link to this video or the “Fruitcake Lady“. Oh my goodness, is she ever funny.
Well, this has been on hell of a week. With the election and my own trip outta town on Tuesday to help Laura with a doctor’s appointment, Brian and I haven’t spent more than 2 hours together [...]

For those don’t already know, I believe that Ella Fitzgerald is , without a doubt, the world’s greatest vocalist. There’s no one better and I doubt there will ever be.
The point of this post? I happened upon a website called www.YouTube.com. It’s a community site where members upload video (it’s like [...]

So I’m at work today and sorta sleepy ‘cus Brian got home way too late last night (and I was fool enough to think I could wait up for him and be coherent in the AM).
I’m feeling pretty good once I make it to my desk because — hey — I managed to put on [...]

This is entirely too cute to keep to myself. Oh, how I miss Diff’rent Strokes and Arnold!
My guy is working too late again covering the local hoorah.  I am feeling greedy tonight; I want him with me, not doing his job.  So I am going to sit here and pout for a bit.

So, I get my X-box 360 home and play it non-stop Friday and Saturday.  About 7:00pm on Saturday evening, one of my friends gives me a ring.  She informs me that Sam’s Club has the X-box Platinum bundle for about $140.00 more than I paid for the Core System.  The Platinum has the actual X-box [...]

After months of trying to convince myself that I did not need a X-box 360, I have been defeated.  Shortly after writing the previous post, the X-box tightened it’s death grip on my will power, crushing it to a powdery like substance.
So on Friday, after work Brian and I went to Best Buy and purchased [...]

For months now, there is a situation I have been avoiding facing because, well, I wasn’t at a place in my life where I could deal with it.
I’ve hidden the same, surpressed my feelings and moved forward with my life.
But, X-Box 360, I love you.  And I hate you for making me love you. Okay, on [...]