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more middle

last night micah was eating his grilled cheese sandwich and I noticed he had not touched it in a few minutes.  I asked him if we was done with the sandwich and he responded, “No Daddy, I need more middle”.

It was so amazing.  You know I agree with him the best part of a grilled cheese is the middle and for that fact the middle of most sandwich, burgers, etc is the best part.  I even have a friend from high school that would eat his sandwiches in a circular pattern so that the middle was his last bit because it is the best.

chick-fil-a + micah = awesome lunch

 

absolutely he did wear mr.incredible to chick-fil-a

Just the two of us went to lunch today at chick-fil-a.  It was so much fun.  We had french fries, ice cream, and we got to play on the playground (well at least mr.incredible did).  a little daddy & dude time is more fun you can possibly know.

starting over

this is a new blog for me.  i had an old blog and after using it for over a year or so it got old. well also my wife wanted a place of her own to do some blogging, which is awesome.  well when we did this we unknowingly created a second blog under the same profile and thus we are now both christie otts. it is really not a huge deal but I figured starting a new blog is really easy so why not.

 

so the post you see below are from the old blog.  they are the most recent post, well not the one about the house, but thought it would be cool for people to see.  

 

I try to be consistent in blogging but it is hard.  I have two boys that are almost 3 and 2, plus my job keeps me very busy.  so many times for me being consistent is blogging once a week or so.  I don’t know maybe I will post more and try to keep it short and to the point. we will see or maybe I will just see because you may never look at this again.

crazy or bored

i had this project for work a few weeks ago to create a survey for all of our stores. we decided to make these surveys a little more than just a sheet of paper with some questions. we wanted our customers to look at them and know that we spent time on this and that we care about what they think. well i said all that to say that i got the opportunity to create the survey. now let me preface by saying it is nothing special and honestly anyone who knows anything about graphic design would probably laugh at it but for me it was a first and it was a blast. to be perfectly honest it was maybe one of the most enjoyable things i have done at my job. it wasn’t that i loved the survey but rather that i got to create something. this is strange for me because i never considered myself to be all that creative but now that i look back i never had the chance to be that creative. when i lived with my parents i wasn’t self aware enough to know what i wanted to do or what would be enjoyable. so i did like most people do, fit in. and in college i took the route that seemed best which was a business degree and i don’t have to tell you that business school is not the place to explore your creative (or artistic) side. i am not blaming anyone or regretting my decisions but now that i have created something i want to do it again. maybe it has just been a boring last few days of looking at contracts but i find myself thinking about how in my job i can create something again.

blogging again, kind of

looking at my yard it is obvious that it needs to be mowed.  and that is where the problem lies. how do you mow when the mower is broken?  the answer is simple, you use the weedeater.  which in my situation is perfect because my yard is all weeds and no grass. so if I am abiding by the proper usage of my equipment I should have been using the weedeater all along. if i would have been doing from the beginning that would the mower still be broken?  now that is a very deep and serious problem….ok solved it, I will just weedeat it all, that wasn’t as hard as I thought. 

I decided this past weekend that I wasn’t happy with the way the furniture in my office was positioned.  I know exactly what you are thinking.  he moved it around and then it ended back where he had it from the beginning. well you are wrong, it is all in a new position plus I removed the fake tree from the corner. I think I like the look better now or maybe I don’t and I only enjoy it because it is different.

at work I created a survey that will be used for multiple purposes and it needed to be translated to spanish.  I don’t speak spanish much less read or write it.  but I did find this website that translated it for me.  but then i had the thought that the website was a hoax and it was going to make me look like a total dbag. so I sent it to one of our spanish speaking/reading/writing employees.  he changed a bunch of it up and didn’t mention that any of it was off color but merely it just wasn’t perfect translation.  but now that they are being printed I am hoping this guy likes me and is not trying to hose me. I am so paranoid.  really I am not worried about but I didn’t have those thoughts.

and finally my parting thoughts. my wife started running a couple months ago and she is so awesome.  she had never run before, i mean never and now she is running three miles three times a week easy.  her legs are smoking and she looks freaking awesome.

facebook

I joined Facebook today. Yes I know I am way behind the times and really the only reason I did is because my mom joined and friended me so I knew it was time. But on my Facebook I put that I have a blog so I guess I have to start updating it. That is what I just did.

the home

So, we’re finally settled in our new home in Waco, TX. We’ve been terrible about keeping our blog updated recently. We absolutely love our new home and we feel abundantly blessed by the Lord to have such a great home for our family. It was a little bit of a bumpy process up until closing, but it’s officially ours! We’ve loved having people over and getting to share this blessing with others. We pray that the Lord will use our lives and our new home as a way to bring joy and healing to ourselves others. Praise the Lord! We’re home at last and we’re hoping to put down some roots.

our first house is huge. God blew us away with this