Married In Ohio » Santa Hats http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog The life and times of a happily married couple in Ohio. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:53:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 HNT – 329 http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2011/12/22/hnt-329/ http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2011/12/22/hnt-329/#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:00:52 +0000 Midwestern City Boy http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2011/12/22/hnt-329/ As he does every year for the week of Christmas, Osbasso requested that everyone pick three HNT/blogger participants, but only three and then tell the world what you’d get them for Christmas, if you had the means to do so. We’ve done this every year since its inception and always pick three new people to receive our imaginary gifts. We’ll leave a comment or send an email to everyone sometime before Christmas to make sure that they see their gifts.

Our three Christmas wishes go to:

Chickie: I know that you will be a fantastic mom; but, if I could, I would give you a crystal ball to help navigate the perils of parenting. Children are the best things ever; but, at times, parenting can be difficult.

Osbasso: An extra special thank you for everything that you have done organizing and keeping HNT going for so long. We’ve really enjoy participating.

SapioSlut: A “rewind” button for the evil that has befallen you this year.

And, as always, here is some gratuitous half-nekkidness for those of you who read this far. Happy holidays from us to you.

Happy Holiday HNT. To find out what Half Nekkid Thursday is all about, visit Osbasso.

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]]> http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2011/12/20/two-for-tuesday-321/feed/ 4 Two For Tuesday – 271 http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2011/01/04/two-for-tuesday-271/ http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2011/01/04/two-for-tuesday-271/#comments Wed, 05 Jan 2011 02:00:14 +0000 Midwestern City Boy http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2011/01/04/two-for-tuesday-271/ It’s become something of a tradition (except when we forget) to post a Flash movie of all the pictures we used for the previous year’s Two For Tuesdays in our first Two For Tuesday post of the new year. We originally posted a Digital Photo Frame with all of the photographs from the year’s TFT posts for our last post in December; but decided it worked better if we did it in January. It takes a long time to compile our “Year In Review” post which we also post the first week of the year, so it’s nice to have something which doesn’t require any editing to balance things. So here is a Flash movie of all of the pictures we used in 2010 in our Two For Tuesday posts. We’ve started transitioning to the FLV format instead of Windows Media; but plan to continue using the SWF format for slide shows.

Get Adobe Flash player to see this video.

]]> http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2011/01/04/two-for-tuesday-271/feed/ 2 2010 A Year In Review http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2011/01/03/2010-a-year-in-review/ http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2011/01/03/2010-a-year-in-review/#comments Mon, 03 Jan 2011 23:00:15 +0000 Midwestern City Boy http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2011/01/03/2010-a-year-in-review/ January
Had an occasion to do the Snoopy Dance because of something that happened at work.
Took a cool photograph of California Girl with the flowers she received at The Girl’s last senior night.

We reviewed the proofs of The Girl’s senior photographs and made our selections. It was a bit discomforting how rapidly her high school days were winding down.

February
Commemorated the fifth anniversary of MarriedInOhio.Com.
MarriedInOhio.Com went over 2,500,000 visitors.
Took some neat photographs for Two For Tuesday and Half Nekkid Thursday in the aftermath of a huge snowstorm we had.

March
The Girl had an epiphany and decided where she wanted to attend college. It hadn’t really started to sink in how different things were going to be without any kids around.
Decided to see if I could hold up a hat with no hands for Two For Tuesday.

Worked on a special project for California Girl that kept me busy in the evenings. We still found time for our weekly photo session.

April
Changed the image in the “About Us” area of our sidebar. We haven’t changed much wanted to create a new one since the photograph was many years old. We posted the candidates that we were considering for Half Nekkid Thursday.

Went on a 900 mile round road trip with The Girl for an out of state soccer tournament. Then two weeks later, watched The Girl win the last trophy of her club soccer career.

May
Celebrated our 22nd wedding anniversary. Went out to eat at our favorite restaurant. Posted a photo from our anniversary dinner for Two For Tuesday.

The Girl graduated high school. Then the next day, she registered for classes in the fall and got her college ID.
Got a new camera. Took nekkid photographs of ourselves to test it out.

June
Wore boxing gloves in one of our more interesting Two For Tuesday posts.
The swimming pool is still where we retreat when things aren’t going as well as we would like in the real world.
For Half Nekkid Thursday we did a documentary of our bedcam setup.

July
Created and published our favorite HNT photo post of the year.
Practiced being empty nesters. Posted a NSFW tour of our home for Two For Tuesday culminating with a grand finale in the study for Half Nekkid Thursday.

Photographed and posted a lot of pictures of California Girl in a bikini showing her summer tan lines for Two For Tuesday and HNT.

August
Finally got an Android smartphone. California Girl got a Droid too. We should have upgraded years ago!
Installed a special, mobile friendly theme for Androids and iPhones.
Took both kids to school and officially became empty nesters. Posted about our first pizza night without kids for Two For Tuesday.

September
Posted some cool sexting photographs for Half Nekkid Thursday.

Watched The Girl play soccer at the next level in college. We’re not in Kansan any more, they play rough.
Got another new camera. Again took some NSFW photographs of ourselves to test it.

October
Discovered that I still own a hairbrush despite not needing to use one in years.
Went to Florida for vacation. Posted some photos from our trip for Two For Tuesday and Half Nekkid Thursday.

Added a new hard drive to the server. The old one was getting filled up since we have posted so many pictures over the years.

November
Took another “instant favorite” photograph of California Girl.
California Girl changed the color of her hair. Heather was the first person to notice.

Decorated the Christmas tree on the Saturday after Thanksgiving now that both kids are in school. Posted a NSFW Christmas card style photo for Two For Tuesday.

December
Made an animated slide show of some of our recent photographs using JavaScript.

Click here to stop the animation. We also posted a more traditional slide show for our Christmas tree Half Nekkid Thursday.

Get Adobe Flash player to see this video.

California Girl and I both got new glasses. We featured them in an artistic Two For Tuesday post.

Created our and posted first high definition video for Two For Tuesday. It was also our first movie in FLV format.

Get Adobe Flash player to see this video.

MarriedInOhio.Com went over 3,000,000 visitors, a milestone we noted in our Christmas Wish Half Nekkid Thursday post. It’s definitely not 2005 anymore so we removed our hit counter widget.

]]> http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2011/01/03/2010-a-year-in-review/feed/ 2 HNT – 274 http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2010/12/02/hnt-274/ http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2010/12/02/hnt-274/#comments Thu, 02 Dec 2010 05:00:46 +0000 Midwestern City Boy http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2010/12/02/hnt-274/ Happy World Cup 2022 Decision Day everyone. We hope that today is the day that the World Cup returns to the USA. We have attended Women’s World Cup games; but we’ve been to never been to a men’s World Cup game. If the World Cup comes back to the United States in 2022 we will definitely be attending. We’ll all know soon enough who the successful bidder is.

We were going to do a soccer themed post today; but, with the weather turning cold and wet, decided on a more traditional December post. So here we are again wearing our Santa hats. Some things never really go out of style; especially when there is a NSFW component.

For a fun time wearing a Santa hat, talk to your significant other. To find out what Half Nekkid Thursday is all about, visit Osbasso.

]]> http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2010/12/02/hnt-274/feed/ 2 Two For Tuesday – 266 http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2010/11/30/two-for-tuesday-266/ http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2010/11/30/two-for-tuesday-266/#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2010 04:45:41 +0000 Midwestern City Boy http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2010/11/30/two-for-tuesday-266/ We decorated the Christmas tree on Saturday before the kids went back to school. We’ve had it for many years; but haven’t replaced it because it reminds us of when the kids were much younger. We’ve also have many fond adults-only memories of the tree. In addition to our traditional “Christmas Sex” post which we still plan to publish sometime later this month, we often take NSFW Christmas card style photo. We’re featuring this year’s versions in today’s post. We hope that you like it.

For a great NSFW Christmas card photo, talk to your significant other.

]]> http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2010/11/30/two-for-tuesday-266/feed/ 4 2009 A Year In Review http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2010/01/04/2009-a-year-in-review/ http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2010/01/04/2009-a-year-in-review/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:30:01 +0000 Midwestern City Boy http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2010/01/04/2009-a-year-in-review/ January
Did a lot of tinkering with the number of posts on the front page to speed up page load times. Finally I wrote a plugin that shows all posts published in the last seven days on the home page.
Created and published our favorite HNT photo post of the year.

February
Got California Girl a nice skirt and blouse set for her birthday.

Neglected to mention that Married In Ohio celebrated its fourth anniversary.
Survived one of those good news, bad news situations where the “good news” was that the bad news wasn’t as bad as it could have been.

March
Went over 2,000,000 Visitors which is a lot for us.
Created and published one of our favorite Two For Tuesday photo posts of the year.

April
Created and published our favorite HNT video post of the year.
Updated our theme to support threaded comments.
Posted a true click through HNT.

May
Posted our version of Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater on the Titanic.

Celebrated our 21st wedding anniversary by going to dinner at our favorite restaurant.

June
Reminisced about the days that we used to watch us having sex in the mirror.

Had some good pool weather for one of the few times this past summer.

July
Posted a video edition of our Independence Day Sex series.

[Video]

Posted a Digital Photo Frame with all of the TFT photographs from 2008.

Get Adobe Flash player to see this video.

August
The Girl passed her driver examination and got her driver’s license.
I weighed 164 pounds on the scale at the doctor’s office.

September
Repaired the car that The Girl drives after it dropped dead and smoke started coming form underneath the hood.
Visited a college with The Girl. Realized how close we are to becoming “empty nesters”.

October
Had a LOT of problems after upgrading our server to PHP 5.3. The upgrade also broke our OpenId sever too.
Started working on the project from hell at work. It’s still radioactive.

November
Added a visitor map to the blog that showed where their visitors were from. Check it out in the sidebar just below the local weather.
Took some fun photos of California Girl changing one of the spotlights in the kitchen

Posted one of my one of my favorite photographs of California Girl for the week of Thanksgiving’s HNT.

December
Published an illustrated post explaining our “bedcam”setup”.

Got a new HDTV to replace our old one which started smoking and had a burning electrical smell.
Created and published the fourth edition of our Christmas Vacation Sexseries.

]]> http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2010/01/04/2009-a-year-in-review/feed/ 4 Christmas Vacation Sex 4 http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2009/12/29/christmas-vacation-sex-4/ http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2009/12/29/christmas-vacation-sex-4/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:40 +0000 Midwestern City Boy http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2009/12/29/christmas-vacation-sex-4/ As we mentioned in a previous post, California Girl and I made the 2009 edition of our Christmas Vacation Sex series. It is a long standing tradition of ours that we began in 2002 and have been doing every year since then. Some of this year’s photographs have a matrix-like effect since we did not use a flash and the only light was coming from the scones above the fireplace. You can see both the fire in the fireplace and the twinkling lights of the Christmas tree.

We’ve got rug burns in various places so it’s not something that we would do all of the time; but it was nice being near the fire with the Christmas tree in the background. We didn’t make a move this year since we knew it wouldn’t come out because of the lighting; but we think the background is a lot more interesting. And, in another change from previous years, we only used the infrared remote. This is a tradition that we hope to continue for a long, long time.

You can find all of the pictures here.

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]]> http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2009/12/23/coming-soon/feed/ 2 HNT – 224 http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2009/12/17/hnt-224/ http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2009/12/17/hnt-224/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:00:21 +0000 Midwestern City Boy http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2009/12/17/hnt-224/ As he always does the third week of December, Osbasso requested that this week’s HNT feature a Christmas tree. We decorated the tree over Thanksgiving weekend; but we haven’t yet made the 2009 installment of our Christmas Sex series. (We usually make it during Christmas vacation when the kids are out and about.) In place of our tree, here is a photo of California Girl dressed as a naughty Santa. I think that she is a lot more interesting anyway. Stay tuned. This year’s installment of our Christmas Vacation Sex, Christmas Vacation Sex 2 and Christmas Vacation Sex 3 photo/video posts will be coming soon. 

For a great alternative to sex under the Christmas tree talk to your significant other. To find out what HNT is all about visit Osbasso.

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