Place of Employment

Okay this is where I work. I know you all have been secretly wanting to see. Enterprise Vision Care, AKA Vision Care, AKA Dr. Maddox's Office AKA my 9 to 5 (which is really 7:45 to 5 or 5:15).


Vision Care located in downtown Enterprise, Alabama. Conveniently across the street from Walmart and next to Alltel, how can you miss us?


This is my little cubby hole that sometimes I like to sit in but most of the time I don't. Sometimes it's okay if I don't but most of the time it's not. Misty and Renee are my friends and co-workers, both live in Elba, Albama and we are all shown in our lovely smurf outfits. Don't fret we ordered new uniforms and they do not include the colors of bubble gum pink or smurf blue.

Family Day

It was family day this past Friday. The original plan was that I would get to go out to the flightline and watch Jimmy fly in. The weather kind of ruined that idea. It was really disappointing but still enjoyable. We all went to the stagefield and ate lunch and then got to walk around and look at the TH-67 helicopter that they have been training in. It was fun to go out and get some kind of an idea what Jimmy does all day.

Did I mention that Jimmy has already done his solo flight? Jimmy and his stick buddy Fred went up without the instructor pilot....scary! They did really well and are still in one piece...hooray!

Flight school is moving along. Jimmy is still studying a ton and doing really well. Here are a few pictures of family day.

Jimmy and his IP Mr. Leach

Inside and outside of the TH-67

This morning as I was driving to work I realized that the gas light coming on in my car makes me not want to stop for gas. Why is that?? I was driving home from Dothan last night and the gas light came on and rather than pull over and get gas I kept on driving. This morning as I got in my car to drive to work the first thing I saw as I turned the ignition was that lovely light. Still...I did not stop. How many gallons are really left once that litte light decides to shine? I am secretly testing that out and that is why the little light will greet me when I get in my car to drive home from work. (yes I am doing this at work....shhh...it is a burning question that must be asked) I really should stop for gas. What is it about that little light that makes me resist? I know it's not just me, I mean look at all of the people who run out of gas...I wouldn't take it that far...yes you know who you are.

Office Pranks

Okay we are big fans of The Office...very big fans. We have recently watched seasons one and two and are currently working on three in preparation of season four. We're nerds we can definitely accept that.

One thing you have to realize about the office is that they play great pranks...well Jim and Pam play great pranks and I love pranks. Today I couldn't resist and with much encouragement from my friend Misty we pulled a prank on our boss. We took the prank from the office. You can watch the clip below to get an idea of how funny it was.

I work for an optometrist and she loves her cell phone. This morning she hid my chocolate milk from me soo....it seemed appropriate to play a trick on her. We took her most valuable cell phone put it in a plastic bag and stood on her desk in her office while she was in with patients and stuffed the phone into the insulation in one of the ceiling tiles. Hee hee. When she came back into her office Misty sat in a close by room and called her over and over while I assisted in telling her where I thought the ring was coming from and hadn't she found it yet. It was too hillarious. I was going to bust a gut so we came clean and took the phone out of the ceiling. I wish we had a video of it. She was in there moving things all over her office while carefully listening and saying "am I going crazy?" Oh, it was too good. We got a really good laugh out of it. That's what you get when you hide my chocolate milk!

Andy Phone Incident

Armadillo

There are a lot of armadillos around here. Have you ever seen an armadillo? If not don't worry, Jimmy has and this is his impersonation of one and it is perfect.

The Wet Dance

When Ashes gets wet she does this funny thing where she rolls on the floor and rubs it with all sides of her body. This is her doing the same thing on the couch. You can't really see but periodically she would stop and stare at Jimmy. It's funny...we quite enjoy her.

Random Pictures

It rained like crazy over the weekend so the pups got to get wet and as muddy as they wanted. They love being wet! Here they are in the rain along with some other random pictures we took this weekend.





My oh so handsome Jimmy.

Ahhh Labor Day!

We have come to be big fans of this holiday. A nice three (or four) day weekend and absolutely nothing that we have to do. I can proudly say that we have spent the majority of the weekend in our pajamas and have loved every minute of it. We decided to stick around and be extra lazy while allowing plenty of time for Jimmy to study. Our lives now consist of flying, studying, classes, studying, occasional breaks for bathroom and eating, and more studying and then sleep. Why do we have labor day? What is the purpose of it....really? I'm glad you asked(here comes me pretending to be super knowledgeable.) ....Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.

So, to celebrate the social and economic achievements that we and all of our fellow American workers have made we went to the local Enterprise High School season opener football game. Jimmy and I learned a most valuable lesson. If you ever go to a football game in Alabama and it looks even slightly overcast bring a poncho, or an umbrella or some sort of water repellent item or you will be soaked, drenched, dripping. We were soaked before the game even started. It was pouring buckets and then came the thunder and lightning. I'm talking about thunder that shakes the lampshades and lightning that lights up the entire sky and makes it feel like the middle of the day when it's really the middle of the night...okay maybe a little exaggeration on the lightning but seriously the lampshades shake! They ended up pausing the game because of rain but then started again. Enterprise won and we had a drippingly wonderful time.