Rock The Vote

We need everyone to vote on the title of our blog. Yes Becky, I did feel the need to come up with a clever usage of Excell, and as was pointed out, some readers might not understand the significance of Lucky Number 8. So here is my post to encourage you to help determine the fate of our blog title and to inform you on the candidates.

Lucky Number 8

This is the McCain of the election. Lucky Number 8 has been around for a while, but there is more than meets the eye. 

When Jeff and I were first starting to like each other, we frequently met up in the library to..."study." One of my favorite nights there was when Jeff sheepishly whispered, "How many guys have you kissed?" My favorite because A) It's pretty safe to say a guy likes you if he's interested in the number of guys you have kissed and B) He thought I had kissed a lot more people than him so that was kind of flattering. 

Well, I don't know how we got this idea, but we decided to each get out a little sheet of paper and write down the number of people we had kissed and then slide our little pieces of paper over to each other so our numbers would be revealed at the same time. I wrote down my number, slid it over to Jeff, and snatched his number out of his hand. I slowly unfolded the paper to read the same number I had written down: 132. No, not really, but I had to make the real number look smaller. 7 for each of us. So when our first kiss finally came, that was number 8 for both of us.

Then, of course, we got married on August 8th, 2008 and we want 8 kids and 8 fish when we grow up, so...kind of significant.

Double Excell

The Obama: The young, "not as experienced" contender. I was listening to country music the other day and there was a song on by Keith Anderson called Double XL. Here is the chorus just to give you an idea:

Well Double XL, Double XL

Don't call me on the phone just ring my dinner bell!

Double XL Double XL

I'm a lean mean love machine that likes to be held,

Oh brrrr baby I'm a double XL!

I was listening and realized that could be the new name for our blog, and that's how I got this whole idea. And then when we start having little baby XLs, the blog title can easily adjust to XXXL or XXXXL. So yeah, it doesn't have much to back it up, so I need to see if the people want to vote for CHANGE.

How to Excell at Life

The Mitt Romney: Motivational, but might not make the cut. This one kind of speaks for itself, and is actually doing surprisingly well at the polls so far.

Jeffarah

The Hilary Clinton: A joke, and was never really expected to be taken seriously.

The Write-In

Dad, here you go. Write-ins will be considered. Send them in via a comment on this post.

Now you are informed. And you need to vote! There are only a few days left.