Our first Knoxville Show

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Lilia Neville

Two days ago, on Tuesday night, we went to our first concert here in Knoxville. We went and saw Widespread Panic. Panic is a southern rock band, and they are one of our most fav bands to go see. We always have an awesome time and this last time was no exception.

There wasn’t any flash photography allowed, but I did get two pics on my phone:

One more thing…. I added a few more pics to the Susan & Derek post. Their friend Taylor sent me some more and then I found some on my phone that I had forgotten about. I must admit we got quite rowdy that weekend and not all the pics made it to the website because of their level of rowdiness.

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New MacBook Pro

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Lilia Neville

After sending our replacement laptop to Wisconsin, State Farm got it re-routed to Knoxville and we got our new laptop last week.

It’s a brand new 13″ MacBook Pro and we are so happy with it! It’s actually a much better laptop than the one that got stolen, so it’s really quite exciting. We also got our replacement AppleTV (that, as well, was originally sent to Wisconsin) last week. We can’t hook that up yet because our little 19″ TV is too old and doesn’t have the right hook-ups. BUT, we should be replacing our TV and PS3 within the next week or two, so the AppleTV will work when we get our new TV.

And… Mark bought me really pretty flowers last Thursday, so I took a picture:

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2010 Weekend with Susan & Derek

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Lilia Neville

A week and a half ago we drove to Thomasville, GA to visit our friends Susan and Derek. Around the same time a year ago, we visited them in Casey, IL, but this past spring they moved to Thomasville. Mark had never been to Georgia, we hadn’t seen Susan and Derek in a year, and we hadn’t been a road trip since we moved to Knoxville, so we had a lot of reasons to be excited about this trip.

We had a GREAT time!! We got to catch up, grill food, have some drinks, visit with their friend Taylor, watch the dogs play, watch TV, have a ’90s moves dance party, and all sorts of other fun and ridiculous things. While we were there, we went and saw Thomasville’s Big Oak tree, a really cool local attraction, and got our picture taken in the pouring rain. This oak tree has been there since 1680!! It’s almost 400 years old and the circumference is about 10 people holding hands. It’s HUGE and BEAUTIFUL!

Thanks to Susan, Derek, and Taylor for showing us such a FUN time! Can’t wait to do it again!

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-25

Posted on July 25, 2010 by Lilia Neville
  • 2 hours to go! TGIF. #
  • took 40 minutes to get to work today. yowza! worst traffic I've ever seen in Knoxville. not like i've seen a lot tho… #
  • after first sending them to Wisconsin, UPS has our new macbook laptop & appleTV here in Knoxville. Can't wait to go pick 'em up! #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-11

Posted on July 11, 2010 by Lilia Neville
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And then there was one… dog.

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Lilia Neville

Well, undoubtedly life throws curve balls. And we’ve seen our fair share lately. But this one, neither of us was expecting.

Mark is allergic to Fungus.

Yeah, exactly. Curve ball. Mark is not allergic to cats, dogs, rabbits, ferrets, gerbils, hamsters, or anything else with fur and four legs!

We took Fungus on Monday night. By Tuesday he had suspicious looking “bites” on his arms and legs. We checked and made sure Fungus had gotten Advantix or Frontline recently, and he got his dose within the past 2 weeks. On Wednesday, we could tell that it was not any sort of insect bites, but hives instead. Thursday, the hive patches on his arms and legs had increased in size, pain, and itchiness. Friday morning, this morning, the hives have now grown large enough to join together and become a large, red, raised, giant hive rash–AND they have spread to completely cover his chest. We called Austin first thing this morning and let him know that we just can’t do it; we can’t take on Fungus. So sadly, we’re giving Fungus back to Austin this evening after work. :(

And then there was just one dog left… the Big Sky Montana.

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Meet Fungus

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Lilia Neville

Well, to make a long story short — we now have two dogs.

Meet Fungus, a 2 and half year old, 85 lbs. boxer mix:

Our friends here in Knoxville, Austin and Melissa, are moving in together and Melissa is deathly allergic to Fungus (literally, her lung capacity was down to 60%). They’ve been trying to figure solutions for them all to co-exist but her health takes priority and they just can’t have a dog. A re-homing effort was attempted with his family, but when that did not work out, we ended up taking on Fungus.

Given the recent robbery and our general desire to increase security measures around the house, we figured investing in another big dog was a smart choice. We’ve had him for less than 48 hours and things have been going fairly well; we’re planning on doggie training classes to keep the two of them manageable.

We’ll keep everyone updated on how things are going, and many many thanks to everyone that has been supportive of the decision to take on another dog.

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Mark’s BDay & 4th of July

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Lilia Neville

For Mark’s bday I fed him all sorts of delicious food and we had a little bday party at home. I made him biscuits & gravy & hashbrowns for breakfast, went and bought Cinnabons, took him to Jimmy John’s for lunch, got drinks at Crown and Goose, went out to dinner at a Thai food restaurant, and came home and opened presents and cards, and then had Baskin Robbins ice cream cake.

The next morning we woke up and went to the pub at 10am and caught the World Cup quarter-finals Germany vs. Argentina came. Man, was that a killing!

For the 4th of July we grilled up some delicious food, hung out in the backyard, and caught the fireworks at nighttime. Just about every house in our neighborhood starting setting off fireworks at around 8:30pm and it didn’t stop until well after 10pm.

All in all, a great birthday and holiday celebration!!

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State Farm = Santa Clause

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Lilia Neville

I just got off the phone with our latest State Farm claims agent less than 20 minutes ago and our check is going in the mail TODAY. We are so happy and relieved, it’s exhilarating. Now we can really start to move forward. We accepted the replacement service for our laptop and AppleTV, so those items were ordered this morning and should be arriving shortly. On all the other items we accepted the pay out, AND no depreciation on any of the jewelry. We’re so excited; we’re shopping online right now for our new TV! It’s like Xmas and State Farm is Santa Clause!! :) Except for in this analogy the robbers are the mean Grinch and they obviously never have the revelation that the Whos in Who-Knoxville wanted their things back. Anyways….

DO THE HAPPY DANCE!!!

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USA and England lose in World Cup 2nd round

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Lilia Neville

Last weekend was a sad weekend for USA and England soccer fans.

USA and Ghana played on Saturday afternoon, 2:30pm EST. Us and our buddy Austin got our game faces on and went up to The Crown and Goose again to watch the game.

At the pub, all three of us got interviewed by the local TV station, WLVT, because we were a few hours early for the game to get the pre-game spirits flowing and completely decked out in with USA T-shirts, temporary tattoos on our face, and assorted facial/head garb.


We met some great people at the game, and had a great time. Well, I had a great time the whole time because I love Ghana and I love the USA. Any time there was a goal, I cheered. As for Mark and Austin, they only cheered for USA and were DEVASTATED when Ghana scored in the first three minutes of overtime.

All of us were ecstatic about Germany just tearing England to shreds on Sunday morning. That was an action-packed, totally awesome game. Argentina vs. Mexico game on Sunday afternoon was a good game too, it was just sad to see the Mexico team play dirty once Argentina got that offsides goal. Especially because England was denied a legitimate goal that morning. Bad refs have been through out this World Cup and you just gotta roll with the punches, not start playing dirty and just ruin the game for everyone.

Anyways, great games this past weekend.

WE CAN’T WAIT FOR THE GHANA GAME ON FRIDAY AND THE GERMANY GAME ON SATURDAY!!!!

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