Random Happenings

I haven't blogged in a while, but I'll give a brief summary of semi-mentionable things going on with us.

Yesterday we received our car renewal notices. In Tennessee everyone pays $60 per tag no matter if you drive a pinto or a loaded Mercedes. However, Alabama prefers to tax you based on the value of your car. My 2000 civic rang in at $82 this year. We were billed in arrears for Jen's Jetta, plus for the coming year. Thus meaning that we received a bill of $332 dollars to renew her tag. For those of you who didn't major in math that is $400 in car tag renewals for us. If we lived in Tennessee, which is the state in the union we prefer to live in, our renewals would have been $120. We could have even gotten one of those specialty plates for cheaper the here. Yet, we'll just put a new sticker on our "stars fell on Alabama" license plates.

I'm still playing in the tennis league. I clocked a match last week lasting for over two hours. For those of you not familiar with competitive tennis, that is a long time to be on the court. I was soar for days. We also bought a wii fit, which Jen really enjoys. We compete nightly to set the new records on the games.

Speaking of why Tennessee is better than Alabamistan, they had snow this week. Schools got called off for 2 1/2 days and banks were closed early. Apparently it snowed for two days. Enough to make everything look nice, but not so bad you couldn't get out and drive. In Alabama we got rain, followed by freezing temperatures. However, they did not coordinate before they each arrived, so we got no snow.

That's all I've got for tonight.