We would like to cordially apologize for the largeness of our faces in the above picture. As we are still new to the world of blogging, we have not been able to figure out the basic things, i.e. getting the picture reduced but also getting rid of the poopy brown color behind the picture. We will most likely continue to struggle until everyone forgets about it.

-Danda

Cinderella

As a pig tailed chubby-cheeked youth, one of my favorite movies was Cinderella. I believe I thought it was enchanting that birds and mice called upon her melodically in the morning to awaken her. Plus Cinderella had such a beautiful singing voice. As my mother tells the story I would walk around the house humming and singing (in the spirit of Cinderella) while my arms flailed in the air to the rhythm of my songs.

It is now, approximately, 18-20 years later and for those of you who know me, I hate mornings. If I get up before noon I am proud of myself and feel like I have accomplished some rare feat unknown to human kind. Also, Cinderella is no longer my favorite movie, actually Inglorious Basterds is in the current top running. So why now does God decide that he will grant my childhood wish of living the life of Cinderella?? Why now, when I live in the "f-ing hood" does he decide that birds need to melodically fight and screech outside my window at 6 'o clock in the morning, EVERY morning? They are resilient, feisty and most of all LOUD! Throwing M&M's at them does not deter them, neither does yelling or sticking my "bird" finger at them out the window. All I can help think now, is what a cruel trick it was for Disney to play on a small impressionable child. They manipulated me into thinking it was glorious and beautiful to be awaken to the beautiful song of a bird, when in reality it's something similar to what I might imagine hell to be like.

If they would at least be useful and eat the massive amounts of Box Elder bugs we will soon be having poor through our windows, then I will accept them. Until then I am getting a water gun! And possible writing a letter to Disney Incorp.

True Crime

Although we are glad to be out of Logan, some days we get a reminder of how amazing it was.

Case in point, this police blotter item I just read:

"USU Police and Logan City Police responded to a report of a domestic dispute at Aggie Village. Upon arrival police discovered that there had been no domestic dispute and that there had been a pillow fight going on that was a little loud. Police advised the residents to keep the noise down and cleared the area."

For those of you who haven't had the pleasure of living on the USU campus, Aggie Village is the married student housing and apparently there are some OUT OF CONTROL pillow fights.

Now, a little back story as to why our blog is named what it is. One morning Deven awoke to find her poor jeep had been broken into. After warning our neighbor, he simply glared and said, "Welcome to the f-ing hood." This prompted us to do a search for all the crime in our area. Not much to report except, oh, approximately 30 assaults in the past 6 months on our block. One occurring basically on our porch.

So yes, sometimes it would be nice to still live in a town where a late-night married couple pillow fight is what we need to be worrying about.

At least we have a legitimate mall now.

Name Game

As an entity, we need a name. Like Brangelina and TomKat before us, we are looking for that special moniker to establish ourselves as a famous couple. Please take the time to vote on what could eventually define our ENTIRE BLOGGING CAREER.

Here are the final contestants:

1. Danda- a lovely combination of D and A, this name could easily be accented with an exclamation point.

PROS: Rhymes with panda, fun to say.

CONS: Less of a combination and more of two things smashed together.

2. Devanda- a logical pairing beginning with Deven and ending with Amanda. Very symbolic.

PROS: Possibly the most catchy name combo.

CONS: Sounds like a stripper name.

3. Amen- The yin to Devanda's yang.

PROS: Very spiritually enlightened.

CONS: Could get confusing when talking about ourselves in front of religious figures.

4. Demand- A delightful mish-mash, a little DEven, a little aMANDa.

PROS: We could incorporate a slogan- Always in DEMAND!

CONS: That slogan is kind of lame.

Vote below and feel free to explain your vote via comment!