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Murray Park Dental

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:08:00 +0000

My husband is an excellent dentist. He opened his new practice in Murray, UT (in the Salt Lake City valley) last year. It is a beautiful practice. It's called Murray Park Dental. I highly recommend going there. Mention this blog post for a friends and family deal :)

A little about the office from Adam's website at ( http://murrayparkdental.com/McLachlan/ ):

Murray Park Dental is a brand new state-of-the art dental facility where the patient’s comfort comes first. We provide the highest standard of dental care. We see patients of all ages and provide a comfortable environment both in the reception area and in the dental operatories. Dr. McLachlan’s dental operatories are equipped with 19-inch monitors to provide patient education as well as entertainment during exams and procedures. Our reception area has free wi-fi for patients and their families. We also provide a play room adjoining the reception area for children. Our goal is to make your trip to the dentist as comfortable and pleasant as possible.

Murray Park Dental specializes in family, restorative and cosmetic dentistry for people of all ages. This includes regular exams and cleanings, fillings, teeth whitening, veneers, composite bonding, tooth extraction, dental implants, dentures, endodontics and oral surgery. If we believe a dental case may exceed our scope, we will refer you to specialists whose work we have come to trust so that you can receive the best care available. At Murray Park Dental, we put the patient first.

We accept most insurances and financing is available.

Seriously, it's time for a new Sinead Lohan album

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:55:00 +0000

Wikipedia's and producer Malcolm Burn's websites have described a Sinead Lohan album as "forthcoming" for over a year now. It's time people. Sinead, release that puppy! Your fans are in need!

I'm married.....and loving it!

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:01:00 +0000

On July 19th 2008 Adam and I were sealed in the Salt Lake City Temple. That is, we were married for time and eternity. It was the best day of my life so far. I was sooooooo happy to be sealed to Adam. The wedding went spectacularly well. The family dinner reception that night was fantastic, and the larger reception last Saturday (August 2nd) was so much fun. Our honeymoon at The Caves resort in Jamaica was better than I could have imagined. Basically, it's all been perfect so far! Pictures of the wedding and honeymoon will eventually make it to http://www.mclachans.com. Also, my facebook profile has some pics up now. Overall I feel very very blessed by God and very grateful. That's it for now. - Julie

Adam and I have a new website

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:23:00 +0000

Adam and I just rolled out our own website. Right now the majority of it focuses on our upcoming marriage, but go ahead and check it out! It's at http://www.mclachlans.com .

Engagement pictures

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:26:00 +0000

Yesterday Adam and I got our engagement pictures taken. The photographer was great and her turn around time is amazing. We already got our pictures today for review, and she's posted some on her blog. Check us out HERE.

I'm Engaged!!

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:25:00 +0000

Amazing isn't it! Adam and I got engaged last night. We're planning on a summer 2008 wedding. Adam took some pictures right after the proposal, and here they are:

Andy's Airplanes

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:31:00 +0000

So my brother's 3D-animation company, Eggington Productions, did all the animation for the first episode of Andy's Airplanes, a cool kid's show that is being marketed right now. Here's some previews for it. It's worth buying the DVD for your kids and as gifts for other families. It's real fun, aviation educational, and kids LOVE IT!

And also look at:

UPDATE: My brother went and home video filmed the kiosk that's at University Mall in Orem for Andy's Airplanes. Cool! Click HERE for his blog entry with video.

My Drive, Ode to Joy - the very short movie

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:45:00 +0000

Oh yes people, I've done it again. My short film answer to a friend's brilliant short film can be watched/downloaded by clicking HERE. Be aware that this is a 22 MB file, although it only takes 3 min and 23 seconds to watch. This is a sped up movie of my 45 minute commute I often take on the weekends. Fast forward is always funny.

My proposed cure for the common cold

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:42:00 +0000

So last week I went to a conference in Ventura, California. I was very happy to be in sunny California while the rest of the nation was in a deep freeze. Granted, it was still chilly in Ventura, but no where near the rest of the country. Check out this cool video of some cars sliding around last week in Portland on the icey roads. I'm going to assume no one was physically hurt. Anyways, I got to the conference fit and healthy....well, "healthy" at least, I'm still working on the "fit." On the third day of the conference I was hit like a tonne of bricks with a nasty cold. Of the five people in the group from Utah, three of us got it bad. Probably about 20% of the other participants of the conference also had the cold by the end of our stay. I know this as the back third of the conference room seemed to become the sick bay, coughing and spluttering abounded. The cold is still lingering in my weakened body a week later and has now moved up from being a chest cold into a head cold. There are pros and cons to this, but that's a tangent. So as I was sitting there feeling sorry for myself, it dawned on me, there is actually a cure for the common cold! It is as follows:

Every human being on the planet, at the same time, has to quarantine themselves for 1 month, maybe 2 months just to be sure.

That's it, that's the cure. Simple and elegent. To my knowledge (and you virologists out there can correct me if I am wrong) the common cold has no natural resevior in anything but humans, unlike the flu. So, with everyone sequestered seperately for 1-2 months, anyone carrying the cold, will fully recover from their cold, and pass the stage of being contagious. Thus, when we all emerge from our quarantine two months later, all the world's cold viruses will have met their end. Can I have my Nobel Prize now?

There she blogs!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 02:06:00 +0000

Well, it's December 4th 2006 and it's been almost a year since I blogged. I'm sort of missing it actually. This year I actually graduated with my PhD, decided what to do with the next phase of my life, and started a postdoc. Life is relatively good. A few hiccups here and there, but good overall. Tonight I'm trying out YouTube.com for the first time and uploaded a fun and silly little Christmas music video my sister, Dad and I made last year. Hope it works! It's Elvis & The Ornament's singing Santa Bring My Baby Back to Me. Merry Christmas everyone!

It's a Big Ad

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 06:33:00 +0000

Must watch funny advertisement. It's a Big Ad. (Firefox doesn't work with it, but Safari at least does.

(Oh, just because the ad is funny doesn't mean you have should go drink beer...)

I am alive

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 06:08:00 +0000

Roger that. Over.

I'm back

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 16:20:00 +0000

I left Louisiana several weeks before Hurricane Katrina. I'm still getting some emails from friends down in Baton Rouge, and it sounds like just a really terrible situation down there even in Baton Rouge. 100,000 refuges from New Orleans, and very few places for them to go. I hope and pray that blessings will come out of this national nightmare.

After leaving Louisiana, I went to Graceland again with my Mum. (I had already been there on the way down to LA with my sister). Randomly I ran into Shawn, my x-boyfriend and his mother in one of the rooms of Graceland. We chatted for a couple of minutes, it was good to see them, then we moved on. I'm brainstorming now on the next random trip I can take somewhere in the world so I can run into another x-boyfriend or two. It's always fun to catch up. I'm taking suggestions. The more exotic the better. It will make the blog entry all that much more exiting.

I'm back in Wisconsin now and am writing the paper I didn't finish this summer. I am also doing a lot of job investigations. I need to grow up and be an adult soon, so my goal is to have a career choice locked in by next summer when I turn 30.

There won't be as many posts as there have been in the past. I have a lot to do in order to graduate so I am having to prioritize. Anything amusing or important I'll be sure to post.

Where have I been?

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 16:04:00 +0000

Extremely busy. That's where I have been. Posts have been and will be slim over the summer. Right now I am in Louisiana at Louisiana State University doing an experiment with our collaborator down here. I am loving life and absolutely loving the south. The weather, the people, the southern hospitality, everything, I love it down here! Posts will be slim as I am trying to pull off two time consuming experiments down here, and trying to finish a draft of a paper I was meant to have done a month ago. But life is great!

If you think a stranger is on your balcony....they probably are

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 23:02:00 +0000

I live on the third floor of an apartment building and I have a balcony off of my living room. Lately I've been having some insomnia issues, and I can't fall asleep till 4 or 5am, which means I sleep in later than my usual. This morning, around 8 am, male voices woke me up. They were so clear and loud, I could hear every word distinctly, I thought to myself "gosh, they're being so loud it's almost as if they are on my balcony!" Later in the day, after picking up my sister from the airport, she noticed that the iron railing of our balcony had been freshly painted. Go figure.

Why one should always carry a sharpie

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Mon, 30 May 2005 19:53:00 +0000

Oh what I would have given to have a permanent marker on hand this morning. I flew out of Las Vegas this morning back to Madison, and who should I walk past this morning...yes, you guessed it, Tony Bennett. I don't own any of his stuff, but I know who he is and would have been thrilled to have him sign my iPod which was in my pocket at the time. I guess he played in Vegas the night before.

The American Idol 4 Finale - The Best thing on TV since the Sydney Olympics

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Thu, 26 May 2005 19:57:00 +0000

Wow, what a show! Carrie Underwood won, and to be quite honest, although I voted for Bo, I was thrilled for Carrie. I think deep down I wanted her to win because she is a lot less experienced than Bo and, as Simon put it, was very brave. Regardless of the winner, I will be buying both Bo and Carrie CDs. Oh it was great!

What do you do when the rule you fought against ends up going your way?

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Wed, 25 May 2005 17:31:00 +0000

You throw a victory party. At least, that is what I hope the Queensland team did after game 1 of the State of Origin last night. The game was won on a "golden point," a recently introduced tie breaker overtime play that was being contested by the Queensland team last I was in Australia a couple of years ago. The argument in contesting the game was that a tie is a real outcome of a game, so why should we force either team to artificially win. Interesting thought. Real in many ways.

So what happens if Bo and Carrie perfectly tie tonight on American Idol? Wouldn't that be something. I think Fox executives would feint in unparalleled joy if that happened.

Bo Bice 4.0 points, Carrie Underwood 3.7 points

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Wed, 25 May 2005 01:52:00 +0000

The USA has until midnight tonight to vote on your American Idol. It was close, very close. Watching the show it seemed that both performers were very nervous, with Carrie being more nervous than Bo. Turning the visual off and listening to just voices (which I did after watching the show), as one would on the radio, and ranking each performance of a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 being the best, I gave Bo an average of 4 points and Carrie an average of 3.7 points. So, I am voting for Bo tonight as my American Idol. However, if I threw in just a 0.5 point advantage for Carrie due to years less experience then Bo, which could be more fair, I would actually be voting for Carrie tonight. But I decided to vote on an as-is basis. Do as you will America. Here are the numbers:

To vote for Bo: 1-866-436-5701 or 1-866-436-5703 or 1-866-436-5705

To vote for Carrie: 1-866-436-5702 or 1-866-436-5704 or 1-866-436-5706

And remember, you can vote as many times as you can get through until midnight tonight!

My Committee Meeting, Star Wars, Apprentice and a Hail Storm, A Series of Unfortunate Events

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Fri, 20 May 2005 16:23:00 +0000

Yesterday was a doozie. In order of sequence:

1. I gave my 2005 Committee Meeting (I'm in PhD school). I had spent two solid days, and well into the nights, re-working my slides to include enough background and context so that the one committee member who does not attend our regular lab meetings would be able to understand and appreciate the headway I have made.....He showed up 5 minutes after my last slide.

2. I dragged my tired, sleep deprived body to Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, because I thought it had to be better than the first two recent films. I was wrong. Three times the audience actually burst out laughing the script was so aweful. Do not go see this film if you are hoping to see a good movie. See it only to know the details of how Anakin goes from point A to point Darth Vader.

3. While in the cinema I missed one of the best Thunder/Hail Storms Madison has seen this year. It flooded the street I live on which was actually quite cool. Kids were out playing in it and city-bound SUV drivers were out in force actually using their 4WD setting in splashy shows of automotive power. The unfortunate thing is that I actually missed the downpour because I was busy watching a poorly scripted and badly acted movie.

4. I sat down to watch the Tivo'd finale of Apprentice 3. Ouch. Donald Trump manage to prove on live TV that he doesn't remember all the contestant's names, doesn't really know what is going on behind the scenes and that he is a male chauvinist. He offered the winner, a female, a choice of either running a beauty pagent or renovating a beach house. The last two winners, both men, were put in charge of two huge realestate and construction projects in major cities. Needless to say, that is my last time watching Apprentice.

But I did get a phone call from my Mum last night, and that was nice. She's overseas right now and I don't hear from her much when she's out of the country.

Download Bo Bice and Carrie Underwood mp3s

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Wed, 18 May 2005 18:51:00 +0000

Yes, I love Bo. And he will win American Idol 4. And I will buy his record. BUT... the competition is a good one. Despite Carrie's apparent botoxed facial expressions and body movement, she is actually VERY good. No you say? Can't get past her lack of expression? I understand. Nor could I. And then I discovered Amercian Idol By Request. It is a yahoo group allowing you to freely download every song in mp3 format for American Idol. So I downloaded them, put them on my iPod, and have been listening to them at work. Without SEEING Carrie, I find myself listening to her covers as much as I listen to Bo's. Her voice is amazing. I think she channels all the emotion that would normally play across a person's face right into her voice. Don't believe me? Try it yourself. Go to American Idol By Request, sign up, and start downloading. If you are still unconvinced go ahead and leave a comment telling me so. All I know is that I would pay big bucks for a Bo and Carrie duet album.

Amazing Race 7 - Finale

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Wed, 18 May 2005 18:36:00 +0000

Some things are right in this world. In a nut shell (because I am so incredibly busy right now and don't have time this month to really keep up with the blog):

Uchenna and Joyce came last on the first leg so lost all of their stuff. Spending hours trying to get money, they fell far behind. But then reality TV karma decided to intervene, and POW and beauty queen got lost on the way to the airport in Peurto Rico. Then Uchenna and Joyce got on the same plane going to Miami as Rob and Amber by the good grace of the pilot, tying up the game on the last leg. And then luck of all luck, Uchenna and Joyce got a bilingual cab driver which gave them a BIG lead over Rob and Amber, eventually allowing them to win. It was FANTASTIC.

So my question is this. When is the movie "Million Dollar Haircut" coming out?

Amazing Race 7 - Episode X

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Thu, 05 May 2005 17:34:00 +0000

From Istanbul to London. Nothing particularly interesting, except that beauty queen lady looks the worst out of all of them without make up on. (She even borrowed some strangers lipstick in a desperate attempt to make herself look better). As expected, Meredith and Gretchin finally get the boot. They went far but they and everybody knew they couldn't win. Next week is the finale! I hope Uchenna and Joyce win!

Finally, an experiment worked

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Mon, 02 May 2005 21:02:00 +0000

I've been very sick, very busy, and very sick again (a resilient cold) trying to get a new assay working with my experiments. I calculated some of the data today, and amazingly, it works! I'm actually going to start writing the paper this afternoon. I can't believe it! I've been working on this paper for 18 months now, always thinking I'm just a few days away from being able to write. I found this cartoon by Tom Cheney which summarizes my feelings today. (Original here).

Amazing Race 7 - Episode IX

noreply@blogger.com (Julie) — Mon, 02 May 2005 20:58:00 +0000

In one of the finest examples of Reality TV karma, Rob (of Rob and Amber) tries to throw off two other teams by ambiguously asking "Did you get on the earlier flight?," not thinking there was an earlier flight. Uchenna and Joyce and Meredith and Gretchin take the bait, and using a strangers telephone, find an elaborate, but earlier flight, arriving in Instanbul 2 hours ahead of Rob and Amber and the POW & Beauty Queen team. Brilliant. No eliminations this week. Rarely justice does indeed move swiftly.