A Little Video About My Hometown

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Last month I signed up for a hometown video contest to showcase the good, bad, ugly, or even hilarious stuff about my hometown. After nights of battling with Windows Movie Maker I finally have a finished product to share with you guys!

A little about my hometown:

I’ve lived in Walhalla, SC, practically my entire life. I live well outside of town in the middle of BFE, but when I need something, Walhalla is the closest town 15 minutes away. Walhalla was founded my German immigrants, which is where it got it’s name. Walhalla means “The Garden of The Gods.” Walhalla is considered the gateway to the Blue Ridge mountains because it sits at the bottom of the mountain on Highway 28. We’re 16 miles from Clemson University, and the population is around 4,000. You can read more information on Walhalla, SC via Wikipedia!

Now, let’s get on to the video! I present to you Walhalla aka “Hogwaller”!

Relationships Are Hard Work

Oh what to do…

It seems like lately Hubby and I have become the poster relationship for all of our newly married friends. We get bombarded with questions about how we’ve kept our relationship so strong at such a young age.

To me, I don’t feel like we were extremely young when we got married because around here most girls are either knocked up and married or running off to get married to escape this place right out of high school. I was 1 1/2 months shy of 22 when I got married, and I do see how a lot of people in this day and age thing that’s young.

Anywho, now most of our close friends are in the 24-30 range and either newlyweds or are about to get married…and every single one of them think they should come to us for advice. Your husband got mad because you bought the wrong kind of soap? What would Jenn do? Your wife caught you looking at a porno mag? What would Ben do?

Hubby and I have never really had to deal with hardships in our relationship. We’ve had our ups and downs, but I guess I could say we’re lucky. We’re completely 100% honest with each other, communicate about everything, neither of us have any sort of insecurity/jealousy issues, and we just live our lives. If we have a rocky patch, we do what we have to do to get past it. We might have a knock down drag out fight, and the next day forget it ever happened, but we’ve never gone through anything either of us consider to be an extremely tough time in our marriage. Heck, we’ve been married 5 years, and even though a lot of our friends say that’s like a lifetime with the divorce rates of today, we both feel like we’re still practically newlyweds.

So back to the questions. Most of it is silly little stuff, but now we’ve got a friend who has been asking me what seriously could be relationship ending questions for the past few days now. I understand he and his wife haven’t even hit that 6 month mark yet, and I understand he’s really got a lot to learn about women and marriages. I also know this falls into a gray area for me.

He keeps asking me to give him a woman’s perspective on their issue. I could totally give him a woman’s perspective, but it definitely wouldn’t be his wife’s perspective. I completely disagree with her 100%, but I can’t tell him that. I can’t tell him I think she’s acting childish, immature, like a total bitch. They’ve got to learn to deal with these things themselves. Yes, they’re going to fight over stupid shit. Yes, they’re going to completely disagree and piss each other off. Yes, she might be acting stupid in my opinion, but she fully believes she’s in the right. She’s a completely different person than me, and I can’t judge her just because we don’t see things from the same perspective.

No, I can’t tell him what to do.

I’ve been friends with this guy for years, and I really don’t know his wife. They live on the other side of the country, and I’ve never physically met her. I’ve talked to her online a handful of times, but I don’t know anything about her. Any advice I gave him would be totally biased, and I just can’t do that.

I gave him the best answer I thought I could give…I can listen to you, give you an out to release your frustrations, but I can’t give you advice on this. If you want advice, I think you need to discuss that with a professional. Sit her down, talk to her about it, and if you two can’t resolve your problems by communicating with each other like adults, maybe you should find someone, a professional, to talk to.

I think that was the best answer I could have given him. What would you have done?

Win A Flip Video Ultra Series Camcorder

The Domestic Diva is giving away a Flip Video Ultra Series Camcorder, and I’d totally love to win it.

I entered a contest last month that requires me to make a video to share with you guys of my hometown, and the only reason I haven’t made it yet is because a. I just haven’t had the time, and b. I’ve been putting off using the crappy video on my Kodak digital camera because I wanted to borrow my best friend’s Handycam. The Handycam borrowing didn’t work out, so you’ll get to see how crappy the video capabilities I do have are when I do get my video up.

Oh, how I wish I had a camcorder I could use. I would seriously love a Flip Video Ultra because they’re so easy to use. Not only are they the perfect size to carry around without feeling bulky, but the built in usb connector flips out so you can connect the camera to a pc or a mac in seconds. It’s so easy to record then transfer the video straight to your pc, and we all know I love simplicity! Did I mention the software you need is built into the camera? Seriously, who wouldn’t love this camcorder!

If you want to check out the quality of videos this thing can take, check out the Domestic Diva’s Money Saving Tips videos on the Walmart Youtube Channel. She uses the same camcorder to make the Money Saving Tips videos! Then head over to The Domestic Diva to find out how you could win this cool little camcorder.

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Birthday Shopping

Whew. I got the bathroom mess taken care of, and believe me it was a horrible mess. I washed each load of towels twice because just the thought of those towels being soaked in toilet water freaked me out. I scrubbed the bathroom down twice as well.

We didn’t make it to Home Depot to get a new toilet, so for now I told Hubby to just turn the water off on it, then we can turn it on when we need to use it. We’ve been running around doing so much over the last few weeks that we never make it to the store when we need to.

Hubby said he’s going to definitely set aside time to go shopping without me one day this week. He has to get birthday presents for his dad, sister, and of course ME! He figured out a long time ago not to buy my present early and try to hide it. I always find it, on accident. For awhile he didn’t try to keep my presents a secret. He’d just take me to the store and tell me to pick something out because he can’t keep a secret.

That’s mainly because he always buys me the one thing I talk about the most. This year he’s asked me to make a list of a few things I want, so I know I’ll be getting something off the list but I won’t know exactly what. If I don’t give him the list he’s going to buy me some sexy lingerie and be done with it. I told him I have enough lingerie as it is, so I better get to making that list.

Maybe I should put “toilet” on the list and see if he actually buys one!