Super Hottt Wife

Hey ya'll!

Hot Wife and I are cultured. Like you didn't know already, right?

For those of you who are scratching your heads with the previous statement, don't let the southern drawl, burps, or the occasionally confused synonym trick you - the Duffey's are a cultured bunch. This weekend Hot Wife and I had the wonderful opportunity to have a date night with the Trolard's, but for identity protection, we'll call them Computer Guy and Lightroom Lady. "Lightroom" being a program she uses for postproduction in the portraiture business that she and Computer Guy own.

I digress... Anyway, Hot Wife, Lightroom Lady, Computer Guy, and myself went to Sip's N Strokes for our date night. For those not familliar, I recommend you visit the link herein, but Sip's N Strokes is a great concept where you drink wine, beer, Coke (whatever your poison) and paint a picture with the help of an instructor. We began the night with a nice cheese and fruit tray. Hot Wife did an awesome job picking out the cheeses! The spread was great and Computer Guy and I ate about a pound of grapes. Argh! Hot Wife, Lightroom Lady, and Computer Guy drank Menage a Trois (great wine, bad name) while thanks to hepatitis, I drank near beer. In summary, we had a blast. No, no, we had more than a blast! We had so much fun, it has no name.

Anyway, we painted, painted, and painted some more, and the final result was.

Drum Roll!



Yes, yes, you can comment and tell us that we should quit our day jobs and persue a carreer in art. Ha!!!

Furthermore, the Duffey's continued the weekend with more artful intentions. One of the perks of my latest photography class, is individual studio time in a "real" photographer's studio. Ooooo! We'll I picked the hottest subject I could find (Hot Wife) and asked her if she'd kindly join me. She did. She was a good trooper since no one that I know is truly confortable in front of a camera. And guess what, if you are just starting in portraiture, you, the photographer, are probably not comforatble behind the camera either. As you can imagine that could make for a train wreck.

Well my instructor, we'll call her Cool Curly Red Hair, helped a ton and the results are great so far. Here's a quick example of Hot Wife strutting her stuff.



One word... Awesome!

So, Duffey = Culture; no matter what we do or might do to negate it.

Order Yours Today

I just ordered my first custom t-shirt from Custom Ink. Inspired by our mayor here's the sneak preview.




For you Birmingham folks who want to join my cause, I can order you one too. They are white and about $22 plus shipping. Just let me know.

Super Idiot

I have heard it all. Birmingham's mayor, Larry Langford, says that local banks are discriminating based on credit scores. Credit scores! What the heck? If the banks were doing more "discriminating" based on credit scores, we wouldn't be in this mess. What a idiot! No... Super idiot!

Photography Class Portrait

You know, being the family photographer, I rarely get images of myself. Thanks to my recent photography class where we took pictures of each other, I've got one to share. Maybe I should put it on my business card.

Don't Drink the Duffey Water!!

If you want to stay well do not come to our house and drink our water. Who knows what you might be diagnosed with. You all know how brave my husband is and you read about his journey of "the juice" to treat his Hep C. Unfortunately as you know, "the juice" did not work but he is trying some natural things we are excited about and we will keep you posted.
Well today I received the news that I have rhumatoid arthritis. I have been battling horrific joint pain over the last year and I went back to the Dr. the other day because of our sleepless Monday night filled with knee pain that kept me from walking. After more test I was told this afternoon of our great news. Many of you might say but you are too young for that. Well that is what I think too. But that is not what my cards dealt to me believe. I mean Satan leave the Duffeys alone!!! God is only making us stronger to fight you.
I try to make light of the situation, our water is not contaminated, but we are going to get a new filter for the BRITA just in case. Never the less, we would still love and appreciate your prayers.

My Stimulus Package

Sorry for the stiff political post today, but I have been disturbed by what is going on in our government these days.

Let me set the stage with a quick economics primer... In our economy, a very consumer driven economy, when a dollar is injected it has a multiplier effect. It is spent time and time again and beause we have very skilled workers and servicers that dollar's value is multiplied time and time again.

Well, that is the premesis for the government's stimulus plan. If they inject capital into our marketplace then it will have a return greater than the base amount. Hmm... Confused yet? Well, I agree with the theory, but don't forget that this is yours and my money that they are playing with here.

However, think of this... If the decision makers in Washington are so confident in the multiplier effect of capital into the market place, why aren't they interested in cutting taxes for everyone in the first place?

Answer... Control.

If taxes are cut, then you and I have control of how the money is spent (and multiplied). But, if our government get its hands on our taxed money, then they get to choose its destination to be spent. Hence, the ultimate big government control scheme, and the repbulicans and democrats are all guilty.

Now, to clear up my position about the stimulus... There is a portion of the stimulus bill that offers tax breaks and cuts. For this I am pleased that our government decision makers are not completely oblivious to the power of the peoples abilit to stimulate our economy.

I 'Tuck Mommy

Ok friends and family of the blogworld, I must share with you an experience that occurred this morning around 4 AM. Yes, we shouldl all be asleep but not in our house. You read the post that was written a few entries ago about the "big girl bed". Well O did super the first 2 weeks but now she is waking up many times a night. I really feel like I did when she was 8 weeks old, it is that bad. Well Stud the husband and I have been trying to brainstorm on how we can nip this in the bud. We started our process a few nights ago and I think it might be helping. Well last night was just a funny adventure. At 4 AM I hear this "pappy ( which is the paci) ere r u" several times so I go check out the situation. I walk into O's room and she is nowhere to be found. I say O where are you then I look down with sleepy eyes and I see half a person hanging out from under the big girl bed and this sweet little voice say "I 'tuck mommy". The poor thing was looking for her paci under her bed and yes she got stuck. She did not cry, but she was becoming a bit agitated as I tried to save her from her great location on the hardwood with toddler bed on the head. She was quite stuck because I could not pull her out, instead I had to lift the bed up and we had to work a little to get her out but we managed and she went back to sleep with no problem. I just had to share this story because not many things make you smile that early in the morning but hearing those sweet soft words "I 'tuck mommy" were just too comical for me not to share with you.