My wife will definitely tell you I have a few eccentricities, but today I noticed myself looking through the Sunday news paper and organizing the ads. I laughed because I know I have been doing this ever since I have been reading the paper. I read the paper in order by section but my favorites I leave for last so I can enjoy them. The funnies are of course last.
For the ads, I had to think about it and understand what the pecking order was. For the most part, I leave the same ads last: Wal-Mart, Target, K-mart as these we frequent the most, but I also order them based on whether or not we have the funds available to buy something from certain stores. For instance, I hardly ever look at Best-Buy as we don’t really go there often and it’s usually on a special occasion. It’s just something I noticed silly about me today.
I made some biscuits and gravy today using sausage my daughter brought me from Tennessee. Tasty! I also folded some butter into the biscuit mix and almost have it as light as I would like. I need to use some buttermilk and I think it will be just right for jam or honey.
Tonight I had beef stew I had stewing all day. The vegetables really turned out good in it. I will be having that tomorrow for lunch with some left over rice for sure.
Now I am sitting here fighting a sinus pressure head-ache as I can feel bad weather coming. We have a storm on the way that is supposed to bring us near 18 inches of snow this week before it’s done. I think my body heard the yelling about it before my ears did because it’s been hurting since last night.
I got to see a few minutes of the Bulls game last night but had a lot of fun reading to Keira from her Bug Book. She knows the Giraffe Beetle exclusively but the others she still has to be reminded of.
It was good to see the Celtics beat the crap out of the Lakers today, YES! Although, I slept through the game, I was awake enough to change the channel to some cooking shows for the rest of the houses liking. I am finally getting to see some basketball that is decent and some players I really like are all on the same team so it makes it much better to watch. The Bulls are doing very well. I really hope they get into the finals this year. Big road to head down though.
I need to get off here and relax. I have lots of work to do this week.
XO ILY YM
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
The Titans will truly stink now...but will my Bears be better for it?
I’m feeling a little sad and excited right now. I just saw Jeff Fisher is no longer with the Titans. Sad that he stopped his career with them but it was obviously time to go for him. Now the next step: COME TO CHICAGO! OR another team I like but Chicago would be good. Problem is I think his leaving may signal the shape the NFL is in we are headed for a lockout. He is on the rules committee and other teams as well and for him to call it quits definitely says volumes.
I know the Bears have one year left on his contract and Angelo is thinking of extending him but with a lockout looming and the crap he has allowed to happen, why in the world extend him? I would love to see Jeff Fisher up here. Get rid of Cutler and let him bring Cecil and the rest of the staff here and keep the O line coach, that guy did some good work. Head into the draft with some hole-filling selections and pick up a few veteran receivers so these kids can learn how to play.
Enough of that, I guess we’ll see how it all plays out. On the Baseball front I se the Padres are embarrassing themselves with new uniforms. Yuck! Sox look like they are trying to head the right direction. I hate that Jim Thome isn’t with them but I still like them as I always have since I was a boy.
Off now, not much of a blog but I had a thought or two and wanted to write it down.
XO ILY YM
I know the Bears have one year left on his contract and Angelo is thinking of extending him but with a lockout looming and the crap he has allowed to happen, why in the world extend him? I would love to see Jeff Fisher up here. Get rid of Cutler and let him bring Cecil and the rest of the staff here and keep the O line coach, that guy did some good work. Head into the draft with some hole-filling selections and pick up a few veteran receivers so these kids can learn how to play.
Enough of that, I guess we’ll see how it all plays out. On the Baseball front I se the Padres are embarrassing themselves with new uniforms. Yuck! Sox look like they are trying to head the right direction. I hate that Jim Thome isn’t with them but I still like them as I always have since I was a boy.
Off now, not much of a blog but I had a thought or two and wanted to write it down.
XO ILY YM
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Hamburgers, Bugs and Ritual oh my!
“Do you know how those bags under your eyes come to be? It’s capillaries that bust and the blood pools there.” YUCK! Whoever came up with that ad idea alienated 50% of the country and attracted 50%. Maybe I’m off on the percentages but still, yuck.
Now that I have your attention, do you have an appetite? I need help with a hamburger recipe I want to try. Trouble is my grill has snow on it and I am a wuss when it comes to the cold and wont be out there grilling any time soon.
I was watching Worst Cooks in America last night, I know, this isn’t getting any better is it? But I was watching that show when they had to create a burger for a taste challenge and it hit me when I saw a few ingredients. I have cooked burgers with cheese in them before, not a very neat trick as much as it is done. Then I thought, I know exactly which one I would make and here it is:
A teriyaki burger with ginger and sautéed onions mixed in topped with a grilled pineapple ring or a pineapple chutney on Hawaiian sweetbread buns. I’d have a honey Dijon mustard as well. The side item would be a red cabbage slaw with sesame seeds and a sweet dressing. So one day soon I will be trying it. If you get the nerve before I do, test it and see if it works out and let me know.
I was reading a book about bugs with Keira tonight. Every bug she would ask me, “What it doos?” I’d tell her and if it had pinchers, I’d make the action of the pinchers and creep my fingers toward her and she’d say “No! That’s no good!” I’d also tell her when they would bury in your skin or bite you and make it itch and she would dig at her neck and scratch it: So funny. She was getting creepy crawlies!
The next thing I want to write about is yet another selfish thing. It is my blog. I have lately had a particular little ritual of my own that has provided me much relaxation at night. It is bad for me, but relaxing. I get my sunflower seeds, a root beer, some chewy sprees and my on demand TV. I eat the seeds till I am tired of them: loaded with salt of course but I love them! Eventually I tire of them and hit the sprees for a little. Watching my stupid TV this allows me to relax and mull over the upcoming baseball season. I know it’s stupid. But it allows me to let go of work and stress and think about eating seeds while the Sox are beating the crap out of the Indians or Twins: I CAN DREAM!
It’s a very important part of my day. I get to sleep easy after that and it really does relax me a lot. This has been a disappointing football season, I don’t watch hockey, and at least the basketball season is looking up. The Bulls are getting a lot of attention and my 3 favorite players are racking it up. Boozer, Deng and Rose are really playing well. I could care less about Noah. The one guy, Asik I like an usually has some break out games. I’d like for them to keep the lead in the fourth quarter and increase the winning side of the record a little more. I have had a few problems with Thibadeau and his style of holding players out in the fourth like one game he took Rose and Boozer out with 12 minutes left because he said he had a better defense in at the time. You lost. Was it really better and maybe it was offense you needed since you were OUTSCORED!
Anyway, they play the Heat this week and I would LOVE to see them join the ranks of the teams that have spanked their butts this week.
All right, back to reality and waiting on Spring and baseball and fishing.
XO ILY YM
Now that I have your attention, do you have an appetite? I need help with a hamburger recipe I want to try. Trouble is my grill has snow on it and I am a wuss when it comes to the cold and wont be out there grilling any time soon.
I was watching Worst Cooks in America last night, I know, this isn’t getting any better is it? But I was watching that show when they had to create a burger for a taste challenge and it hit me when I saw a few ingredients. I have cooked burgers with cheese in them before, not a very neat trick as much as it is done. Then I thought, I know exactly which one I would make and here it is:
A teriyaki burger with ginger and sautéed onions mixed in topped with a grilled pineapple ring or a pineapple chutney on Hawaiian sweetbread buns. I’d have a honey Dijon mustard as well. The side item would be a red cabbage slaw with sesame seeds and a sweet dressing. So one day soon I will be trying it. If you get the nerve before I do, test it and see if it works out and let me know.
I was reading a book about bugs with Keira tonight. Every bug she would ask me, “What it doos?” I’d tell her and if it had pinchers, I’d make the action of the pinchers and creep my fingers toward her and she’d say “No! That’s no good!” I’d also tell her when they would bury in your skin or bite you and make it itch and she would dig at her neck and scratch it: So funny. She was getting creepy crawlies!
The next thing I want to write about is yet another selfish thing. It is my blog. I have lately had a particular little ritual of my own that has provided me much relaxation at night. It is bad for me, but relaxing. I get my sunflower seeds, a root beer, some chewy sprees and my on demand TV. I eat the seeds till I am tired of them: loaded with salt of course but I love them! Eventually I tire of them and hit the sprees for a little. Watching my stupid TV this allows me to relax and mull over the upcoming baseball season. I know it’s stupid. But it allows me to let go of work and stress and think about eating seeds while the Sox are beating the crap out of the Indians or Twins: I CAN DREAM!
It’s a very important part of my day. I get to sleep easy after that and it really does relax me a lot. This has been a disappointing football season, I don’t watch hockey, and at least the basketball season is looking up. The Bulls are getting a lot of attention and my 3 favorite players are racking it up. Boozer, Deng and Rose are really playing well. I could care less about Noah. The one guy, Asik I like an usually has some break out games. I’d like for them to keep the lead in the fourth quarter and increase the winning side of the record a little more. I have had a few problems with Thibadeau and his style of holding players out in the fourth like one game he took Rose and Boozer out with 12 minutes left because he said he had a better defense in at the time. You lost. Was it really better and maybe it was offense you needed since you were OUTSCORED!
Anyway, they play the Heat this week and I would LOVE to see them join the ranks of the teams that have spanked their butts this week.
All right, back to reality and waiting on Spring and baseball and fishing.
XO ILY YM
Friday, January 21, 2011
Vesuvio or Vesuvius? I think the latter actually...
I hate when I have a lot of negative vibe in my writing. I don’t like to post so much negativity or ranting and raving unless there is humor in it. Tonight I may find some humor but I am not sure.
The week has been a bit rough on the eating out front. Given that the majority if not ALL of my dining has been eating out this week due to my work trip; it’s been a suck week. To sum up, the only meals that were actually good in terms of quality and not company, were Papa Johns on Cedar Bluff in Knoxville, Arby’s, again on Cedar Bluff, Cracker Barrel on Cedar Bluff and finally, the holy grail, Mecca and the only place left besides the hills, mountains, rivers and lakes of East Tennessee that remain holy: Los Amigos. Truly awesome every time I have been there.
Add to this problem that my wife and daughter got sick this week with some type of stomach crap and I have to take my daughter to the doctor due to her fever and stomach tomorrow, this has not been a good week.
Work went well and I did get a lot accomplished.
Now to the events of the night: We decided to order out one last time given that we were arriving home and didn’t feel like cooking and figured surely we can’t have another bad experience. GUESS WHAT? Yeah we can!
We order from this place called Carmen’s Pizzeria, Pasta House and Catering. It’s on Golf Road in Schaumburg, IL and yes, I will be telling all here as well as I plan to report to the Better Business Bureau and find every yap and yip site there is to tell everyone about how crappy from start to finish this place is.
Item 1: We order our food and it dose arrive on time. Check 1 for them as good.
Item 2: The delivery guy says, “Um, I forgot to run your card at the store, can you sing this piece of paper for me?”
“What?” I say.
“I didn’t get a receipt because I didn’t run the card before I left. You can sign this.”
“A piece of paper you wrote my order down on? I don’t think so.”
I give him his copy and he says to me, “You not gonna give me a tip?”
“Are you kidding me? You show up at my door and don’t even have my receipt, hand me a smelly bag of garlic, you don’t give me anything that says how much my bill is going to be and now you have the nerve to ASK me for a tip?”
I shut the door, go to my phone, and immediately call the manager to tell him about this unusual occurrence. I get the manager, maybe Carmen, as he wouldn’t give me his name of course. Says the delivery guy is a good kid and forgot to run the receipt. Then tells me he was going to have him bring out a receipt. I said, “I don’t care if he is a good guy or not, this sounds like a scam. I don’t know how much my charge is or how much will go through. He didn’t plan to come back with a receipt and he had the nerve to ask my for a tip for not doing his entire job. Now you, his manager make it seem like this is a normal occurrence and I’m supposed to feel comfortable that this is all right because he is a good kid.”
He, the manager then says, this is the way they do it and it’s not unusual. He then tells me I am blowing this out of proportion and should calm down about it. He’ll send him back with a receipt and I can give him whatever tip I felt like. HAHAHAHAHAAH.
“Don’t send him anywhere near my home again, I am never doing business with you again, everyone I know will know about your practices and my charge card better show the right amount which is how much again?”
He tells me and I write it down and finally get his name. Again, he launches in about how I am unreasonable and they drive back on every delivery to deliver the receipt. ARE YO KIDDING ME?! You send your drivers out to deliver all the food without receipts, then send them all back with receipts after the fact. OKAY, keep lying to me moron as you cover for this kid you obviously have had issues with in the past or you wouldn’t be feeding me this bull shit right now. Not once did he EVER say, you know what sir, that was an error on our part and we can rectify that for you. We will get you a receipt and I will instruct and remind my drivers to make sure they are prepared before they go out on their deliveries. HOW FRIKIN HARD IS THAT!!!!!! You can’t just swallow your ego for a minute and admit that your boy screwed up and was maybe a little shady in what he was doing? Of course, you can’t because legal problems may ensue.
So that over, door slammed in delivery a-holes face, phone conversation with moronic restaurant manager complete, I sit in my hair and brood trying to calm down so I can enjoy my first night back home. I have on demand to watch and a couch crying for me to lie on and watch Letterman. So, I go to check out the food and the stench of garlic is ridiculous. I look at my wife and she has the disgusted look on her first of nasty flavor, although, I may be confusing it with fear over my ranting on the phone earlier and she is just wincing in the corner. I find out later, it sucked: she wasn’t wincing, too much.
I didn’t want the interaction and ridiculous conversation to ruin my evening or my dinner as it partly did so I thought, maybe the food is at least good. Guess what? No way will they disappoint. IT SUCKED HORRIBLE BUTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Check out the picks below.
The fettuccini alfredo had no alfredo really. The shrimp was left with the tails on and not de-veined. The chicken was basically bits of chopped up chicken. They gave us two rolls that were hard and bland. I am assuming processed rolls that were left over from yesterday. Garlic bread wasn’t toasted at all. It looked like grinder bread that had been left in a pan of garlic, butter and oil. It was literally soggy soft bread drenched in garlic and stinking my house up. No chance any vampires are biting us until garbage day comes and goes.
I got Chicken Vesuvio which was supposed to be award winning. I am now questioning who the judges were, what the award was and when and where was this contest judge and did anyone else enter when they put this crap in the contest. The chicken was dry, greasy and drenched again in garlic and oil. I guess this is there special sauce or something and everything gets a dose of it but pasta since the fettuccini was dry. The potatoes were not cooked all the way and as the chicken was sitting in a pool of the sauce. It was also covered in a dry Italian seasoning that just layered the chicken: very thick. Just nasty.
The best part though was the salad. A 6 oz cup filled with chopped iceberg lettuce and a single sliced cucumber. On top. Wala! Salad!
I tried. I mean I had already given my dinner to Nic because I knew I would have a hard time eating it out of my irritation. I am picky that way in that I get frustrated to the point my appetite is gone. However, I wanted to at least give the food the benefit of the doubt. Had my billing situation gone well, and I had given a tip without the little moron asking for it, I would have STILL been ill with this man and his business as his food SUCKS!!!!! And so does his business and customer skills. So there it is, the infamous interaction with the Italian ristorante manager.
Now et me relate one other nice little ditty from the week of my trek to the eating out world.
Texas Roadhouse, Turkey Creek, Farragutt, Knoxville, TN. We go in and everyone is very cordial, waitress was very nice and seemed to be good at her job from what we witnessed. I went in with the positive thought of, (AS I HAD ALL WEEK INCLUDING TONIGHT), this cant end badly too can it? Oh my guess what?
We ordered probably the most simple dishes you could order there. Staples actually. My wife, a chicken salad. Come on now, a little lettuce, tomato, cheese, slice the chicken and bring some dressing right? Me? Beef tips with mushroom gravy and mashed potatoes. The beef I said rare so it won’t take too long. Over 45 minutes goes by and I still am not complaining. I had a side salad, my wife and I were talking and having a nice time, Keira was playing and munching on some bread and tomatoes. Then the food finally comes out. As I am sitting there I look down and I think, “Aw! Man! This looks like its been sitting there for ages.” The gravy is set and congealed, the potatoes look set as well. But open mind I take a bite of each and sure enough, cold. I was done. My wife’s salad was okay but the chicken was definitely cold and dry. We summon the waitress and I send the food back because I am just done with it. I don’t want another one with cook spittle in it. I don’t want another dish period. This has been a bad week anyway and the last time we ate here, a year ago at least, the same thing happened to us and a few of our friends. Cold food that had been set under a warmer because thy cooked it in the wrong order or waitresses took the wrong food or whatever and tried to pass it off instead of making it right.
So the manager comes out to try and make it right. Now for me, I know when a customer tells me something, I listen and I take it as gospel and apologize. I told her, I don’t want another meal, I don’t want a card for a free meal because I am not coming back. I am done with the chain.
She says “this is good for two meals up to $15 each.”
I said, “I don’t want it, but thank you. I appreciate your effort.”
“She says, “I just want to make this right.”
As I hear this, I am getting pissed and my internal dialogue is going, you listened to me, you know what happened and what needs to be fixed, ENOUGH! I don’t want your frikin certificate! Outside in my big voice I say, we wont be back for at least a year and wont use it at all.”
She goes “well they don’t expire.”
My wife seeing me about to come unglued says thanks, grabs a box and boxes her salad as we take the certificate to give to my sin to use with one of his rock climbing friends.
As I stood there, my wife heard the table next to us talking to our waitress and she was giving them the same spiel about their dinner being late. There were 6 at the table and 3 had plates eating. One was asking, “Any news on that plate yet?”
She responds with “I think its about to come up soon.” And trots off quickly.
“Come up soon? It’s been 40 minutes?” We left and they still had not received their meals yet and the rest of the guys were over half done. I didn’t feel so bad then. What’s bad, IT WASN’T REALLY THAT BUSY AND THEY WERE STAFFED UP PRETTY GOOD!!!!!! AND IT ISNT TOP CHEF or CHOPPED MENUS!!!!!!!!!!!! DANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then economy is bad, you should be putting your best effort forward when you are providing less for more cost. Service is all you have left.
Anyway, for the second time this week I had pork rinds, sunflower seeds and a myriad of other snacks for dinner. I am in the middle of chips and salsa right now.
Tomorrow is another day and this weekend I tell ya, “Châteaux Jimmy Ray” is open and it’s salt pork great northern and pinto beans with jalapeno cornbread time. And next week my barbeque brisket will be in full force! Finger to you restaurants! You know which one man!
Now for other good things that came about this week. My wife got me a cool blanket. I really like it. It is white sox colors and has the right weight to it. She also got a new UT shirt for but it was only to replace a UT shirt she got for me that I love that has an ink spot on it and looks like I got shot through and through. It’s grey of course cause I like that.
A friend of ours got me a nice UT jersey in the new black colors. COOL SUFF! Things are on track for the house and its repair and possible use that will ease our minds a lot.
My boy is Rock climbing which scares me ut it’s a healthy exercise that lets him enjoy the outdoors too and I love it.
My girl is till in college and doing well and I hope to see her do even better.
A friend of mine seems to be doing well with his band and I have other band members I used to play with and we are missing each other. Shout out to Rick and Marty! You guys rock and I miss our jams.
So, enough for now, I have TV to watch and salsa to eat.
XO ILY YM
The week has been a bit rough on the eating out front. Given that the majority if not ALL of my dining has been eating out this week due to my work trip; it’s been a suck week. To sum up, the only meals that were actually good in terms of quality and not company, were Papa Johns on Cedar Bluff in Knoxville, Arby’s, again on Cedar Bluff, Cracker Barrel on Cedar Bluff and finally, the holy grail, Mecca and the only place left besides the hills, mountains, rivers and lakes of East Tennessee that remain holy: Los Amigos. Truly awesome every time I have been there.
Add to this problem that my wife and daughter got sick this week with some type of stomach crap and I have to take my daughter to the doctor due to her fever and stomach tomorrow, this has not been a good week.
Work went well and I did get a lot accomplished.
Now to the events of the night: We decided to order out one last time given that we were arriving home and didn’t feel like cooking and figured surely we can’t have another bad experience. GUESS WHAT? Yeah we can!
We order from this place called Carmen’s Pizzeria, Pasta House and Catering. It’s on Golf Road in Schaumburg, IL and yes, I will be telling all here as well as I plan to report to the Better Business Bureau and find every yap and yip site there is to tell everyone about how crappy from start to finish this place is.
Item 1: We order our food and it dose arrive on time. Check 1 for them as good.
Item 2: The delivery guy says, “Um, I forgot to run your card at the store, can you sing this piece of paper for me?”
“What?” I say.
“I didn’t get a receipt because I didn’t run the card before I left. You can sign this.”
“A piece of paper you wrote my order down on? I don’t think so.”
I give him his copy and he says to me, “You not gonna give me a tip?”
“Are you kidding me? You show up at my door and don’t even have my receipt, hand me a smelly bag of garlic, you don’t give me anything that says how much my bill is going to be and now you have the nerve to ASK me for a tip?”
I shut the door, go to my phone, and immediately call the manager to tell him about this unusual occurrence. I get the manager, maybe Carmen, as he wouldn’t give me his name of course. Says the delivery guy is a good kid and forgot to run the receipt. Then tells me he was going to have him bring out a receipt. I said, “I don’t care if he is a good guy or not, this sounds like a scam. I don’t know how much my charge is or how much will go through. He didn’t plan to come back with a receipt and he had the nerve to ask my for a tip for not doing his entire job. Now you, his manager make it seem like this is a normal occurrence and I’m supposed to feel comfortable that this is all right because he is a good kid.”
He, the manager then says, this is the way they do it and it’s not unusual. He then tells me I am blowing this out of proportion and should calm down about it. He’ll send him back with a receipt and I can give him whatever tip I felt like. HAHAHAHAHAAH.
“Don’t send him anywhere near my home again, I am never doing business with you again, everyone I know will know about your practices and my charge card better show the right amount which is how much again?”
He tells me and I write it down and finally get his name. Again, he launches in about how I am unreasonable and they drive back on every delivery to deliver the receipt. ARE YO KIDDING ME?! You send your drivers out to deliver all the food without receipts, then send them all back with receipts after the fact. OKAY, keep lying to me moron as you cover for this kid you obviously have had issues with in the past or you wouldn’t be feeding me this bull shit right now. Not once did he EVER say, you know what sir, that was an error on our part and we can rectify that for you. We will get you a receipt and I will instruct and remind my drivers to make sure they are prepared before they go out on their deliveries. HOW FRIKIN HARD IS THAT!!!!!! You can’t just swallow your ego for a minute and admit that your boy screwed up and was maybe a little shady in what he was doing? Of course, you can’t because legal problems may ensue.
So that over, door slammed in delivery a-holes face, phone conversation with moronic restaurant manager complete, I sit in my hair and brood trying to calm down so I can enjoy my first night back home. I have on demand to watch and a couch crying for me to lie on and watch Letterman. So, I go to check out the food and the stench of garlic is ridiculous. I look at my wife and she has the disgusted look on her first of nasty flavor, although, I may be confusing it with fear over my ranting on the phone earlier and she is just wincing in the corner. I find out later, it sucked: she wasn’t wincing, too much.
I didn’t want the interaction and ridiculous conversation to ruin my evening or my dinner as it partly did so I thought, maybe the food is at least good. Guess what? No way will they disappoint. IT SUCKED HORRIBLE BUTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Check out the picks below.
The fettuccini alfredo had no alfredo really. The shrimp was left with the tails on and not de-veined. The chicken was basically bits of chopped up chicken. They gave us two rolls that were hard and bland. I am assuming processed rolls that were left over from yesterday. Garlic bread wasn’t toasted at all. It looked like grinder bread that had been left in a pan of garlic, butter and oil. It was literally soggy soft bread drenched in garlic and stinking my house up. No chance any vampires are biting us until garbage day comes and goes.
I got Chicken Vesuvio which was supposed to be award winning. I am now questioning who the judges were, what the award was and when and where was this contest judge and did anyone else enter when they put this crap in the contest. The chicken was dry, greasy and drenched again in garlic and oil. I guess this is there special sauce or something and everything gets a dose of it but pasta since the fettuccini was dry. The potatoes were not cooked all the way and as the chicken was sitting in a pool of the sauce. It was also covered in a dry Italian seasoning that just layered the chicken: very thick. Just nasty.
The best part though was the salad. A 6 oz cup filled with chopped iceberg lettuce and a single sliced cucumber. On top. Wala! Salad!
I tried. I mean I had already given my dinner to Nic because I knew I would have a hard time eating it out of my irritation. I am picky that way in that I get frustrated to the point my appetite is gone. However, I wanted to at least give the food the benefit of the doubt. Had my billing situation gone well, and I had given a tip without the little moron asking for it, I would have STILL been ill with this man and his business as his food SUCKS!!!!! And so does his business and customer skills. So there it is, the infamous interaction with the Italian ristorante manager.
Now et me relate one other nice little ditty from the week of my trek to the eating out world.
Texas Roadhouse, Turkey Creek, Farragutt, Knoxville, TN. We go in and everyone is very cordial, waitress was very nice and seemed to be good at her job from what we witnessed. I went in with the positive thought of, (AS I HAD ALL WEEK INCLUDING TONIGHT), this cant end badly too can it? Oh my guess what?
We ordered probably the most simple dishes you could order there. Staples actually. My wife, a chicken salad. Come on now, a little lettuce, tomato, cheese, slice the chicken and bring some dressing right? Me? Beef tips with mushroom gravy and mashed potatoes. The beef I said rare so it won’t take too long. Over 45 minutes goes by and I still am not complaining. I had a side salad, my wife and I were talking and having a nice time, Keira was playing and munching on some bread and tomatoes. Then the food finally comes out. As I am sitting there I look down and I think, “Aw! Man! This looks like its been sitting there for ages.” The gravy is set and congealed, the potatoes look set as well. But open mind I take a bite of each and sure enough, cold. I was done. My wife’s salad was okay but the chicken was definitely cold and dry. We summon the waitress and I send the food back because I am just done with it. I don’t want another one with cook spittle in it. I don’t want another dish period. This has been a bad week anyway and the last time we ate here, a year ago at least, the same thing happened to us and a few of our friends. Cold food that had been set under a warmer because thy cooked it in the wrong order or waitresses took the wrong food or whatever and tried to pass it off instead of making it right.
So the manager comes out to try and make it right. Now for me, I know when a customer tells me something, I listen and I take it as gospel and apologize. I told her, I don’t want another meal, I don’t want a card for a free meal because I am not coming back. I am done with the chain.
She says “this is good for two meals up to $15 each.”
I said, “I don’t want it, but thank you. I appreciate your effort.”
“She says, “I just want to make this right.”
As I hear this, I am getting pissed and my internal dialogue is going, you listened to me, you know what happened and what needs to be fixed, ENOUGH! I don’t want your frikin certificate! Outside in my big voice I say, we wont be back for at least a year and wont use it at all.”
She goes “well they don’t expire.”
My wife seeing me about to come unglued says thanks, grabs a box and boxes her salad as we take the certificate to give to my sin to use with one of his rock climbing friends.
As I stood there, my wife heard the table next to us talking to our waitress and she was giving them the same spiel about their dinner being late. There were 6 at the table and 3 had plates eating. One was asking, “Any news on that plate yet?”
She responds with “I think its about to come up soon.” And trots off quickly.
“Come up soon? It’s been 40 minutes?” We left and they still had not received their meals yet and the rest of the guys were over half done. I didn’t feel so bad then. What’s bad, IT WASN’T REALLY THAT BUSY AND THEY WERE STAFFED UP PRETTY GOOD!!!!!! AND IT ISNT TOP CHEF or CHOPPED MENUS!!!!!!!!!!!! DANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then economy is bad, you should be putting your best effort forward when you are providing less for more cost. Service is all you have left.
Anyway, for the second time this week I had pork rinds, sunflower seeds and a myriad of other snacks for dinner. I am in the middle of chips and salsa right now.
Tomorrow is another day and this weekend I tell ya, “Châteaux Jimmy Ray” is open and it’s salt pork great northern and pinto beans with jalapeno cornbread time. And next week my barbeque brisket will be in full force! Finger to you restaurants! You know which one man!
Now for other good things that came about this week. My wife got me a cool blanket. I really like it. It is white sox colors and has the right weight to it. She also got a new UT shirt for but it was only to replace a UT shirt she got for me that I love that has an ink spot on it and looks like I got shot through and through. It’s grey of course cause I like that.
A friend of ours got me a nice UT jersey in the new black colors. COOL SUFF! Things are on track for the house and its repair and possible use that will ease our minds a lot.
My boy is Rock climbing which scares me ut it’s a healthy exercise that lets him enjoy the outdoors too and I love it.
My girl is till in college and doing well and I hope to see her do even better.
A friend of mine seems to be doing well with his band and I have other band members I used to play with and we are missing each other. Shout out to Rick and Marty! You guys rock and I miss our jams.
So, enough for now, I have TV to watch and salsa to eat.
XO ILY YM
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Just a Check in Before the Trek
The two females are getting better. They were out today and were able to gain some appetite again. Tomorrow should be better and I wont be in the car trapped in a vomit fest as I thought I would be. Short lived for sure but they didn’t look good last night, especially the little one.
Had Los Amigos tonight and no one noticed I didn’t order my usual Carne Asada with a Guacamole salad. I had a taco, beef tamale and a chicken enchilada. Very nice with a mild mole sauce. Tasty.
I’m watching Mad Money while waiting on Letterman. Man, that guy is in tune with the market. I need to get some stock going again and make some money.
Not much to write about really. Went to McKay’s today and got some books for Keira and Melina. Did a little work and actually was productive. Had dinner tonight with two good friends and my oldest son. Met their little boy in all his cuteness and he seemed to get along with KB well.
Back here now and ready for bed. We start back tomorrow to Chicago and there’s some weather in between us and there right now but I am thinking with the traffic for the work week, most of it will be cleared and melted by the time we hit the major areas where it dumped.
I’m a little tired right now so I will sign off and not monologue about anything deep. See ya!
XO ILY YM
Had Los Amigos tonight and no one noticed I didn’t order my usual Carne Asada with a Guacamole salad. I had a taco, beef tamale and a chicken enchilada. Very nice with a mild mole sauce. Tasty.
I’m watching Mad Money while waiting on Letterman. Man, that guy is in tune with the market. I need to get some stock going again and make some money.
Not much to write about really. Went to McKay’s today and got some books for Keira and Melina. Did a little work and actually was productive. Had dinner tonight with two good friends and my oldest son. Met their little boy in all his cuteness and he seemed to get along with KB well.
Back here now and ready for bed. We start back tomorrow to Chicago and there’s some weather in between us and there right now but I am thinking with the traffic for the work week, most of it will be cleared and melted by the time we hit the major areas where it dumped.
I’m a little tired right now so I will sign off and not monologue about anything deep. See ya!
XO ILY YM
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Meetin' Day...and sea sickness has hit the crew...
My wife and daughter are sick with some stomach thing. Not sure where it came from but when you eat out everyday on a road trip, you takes ya chances. I hope they get better soon. We have to travel Friday and that will be miserable for all of us if they have to do that. I know it stinks when you have to be cramped in a car and don’t feel good during crappy weather.
Changing the subject, I often think and talk about these things that give me pause or make me try to understand myself better. Watching American Idol, and no I am not being facetious. I am watching American Idol and I was mainly doing it for the wife. The auditions are my favorite for obvious reasons, see the loons and guess at who will be in the finals. I also like to hear people I identify with in terms of music and such. However, tonight I was pleasantly surprised not by a contestant but by Steven Tyler. I don’t like Aerosmith. I don’t like his sleaze bag tendencies, which I don’t know if he is truly a slut or if he was just doing the persona thing. What I do know is he was someone I could easily see me working with or hanging out with as long as he wasn’t trying to act like a teenager.
I saw him truly look into people and enjoy what he was doing. I saw him be constructive and grow through the auditions and I hope he and Jennifer Lopez continue to grow. They need to experience what happens when you don’t work with someone and five them direct constructive feed back and then they will never soften a message again or beat around the bush. Other than that, I think the chemistry that I saw tonight and the dedication that was exhibited will be a good fit. I think there is still a lot of difficult things they must go through before they gel but so far so good.
One girl I think should not have been let through as she won’t make it past the first week anyway and they know it. It was early on and they felt guilty. That needs to change and I think it is. So I actually think Steven Tyler is a good fir. He was amiable and approachable and gave a good calm to the room that I didn’t expect. I cant wait to see his input and instruction through the whole process once this really gets kicked off with single performances.
Had a good meeting today. I didn’t care for the breakfast much but I am picky. Lunch was okay and dinner was better but I ate too much of course. I am trying to catch up on my water drinking today as I am woefully behind and had too much coke and Mt. Dew.
All right, off to wait on Letterman and then sleep.
XO ILY YM
Changing the subject, I often think and talk about these things that give me pause or make me try to understand myself better. Watching American Idol, and no I am not being facetious. I am watching American Idol and I was mainly doing it for the wife. The auditions are my favorite for obvious reasons, see the loons and guess at who will be in the finals. I also like to hear people I identify with in terms of music and such. However, tonight I was pleasantly surprised not by a contestant but by Steven Tyler. I don’t like Aerosmith. I don’t like his sleaze bag tendencies, which I don’t know if he is truly a slut or if he was just doing the persona thing. What I do know is he was someone I could easily see me working with or hanging out with as long as he wasn’t trying to act like a teenager.
I saw him truly look into people and enjoy what he was doing. I saw him be constructive and grow through the auditions and I hope he and Jennifer Lopez continue to grow. They need to experience what happens when you don’t work with someone and five them direct constructive feed back and then they will never soften a message again or beat around the bush. Other than that, I think the chemistry that I saw tonight and the dedication that was exhibited will be a good fit. I think there is still a lot of difficult things they must go through before they gel but so far so good.
One girl I think should not have been let through as she won’t make it past the first week anyway and they know it. It was early on and they felt guilty. That needs to change and I think it is. So I actually think Steven Tyler is a good fir. He was amiable and approachable and gave a good calm to the room that I didn’t expect. I cant wait to see his input and instruction through the whole process once this really gets kicked off with single performances.
Had a good meeting today. I didn’t care for the breakfast much but I am picky. Lunch was okay and dinner was better but I ate too much of course. I am trying to catch up on my water drinking today as I am woefully behind and had too much coke and Mt. Dew.
All right, off to wait on Letterman and then sleep.
XO ILY YM
Monday, January 17, 2011
Back in Tennessee
The trip wasn’t so bad. First hotel was decent considering it was way cheap. I like how over all I am spending way less than many would spend for a one night trip here by flying. So I am over all saving the company some dough as well as getting some work done face to face and getting to cruise around Knoxville and the Midwest.
During the stay in Indianapolis, not my favorite of cities, we stopped at an Extended Stay. It wasn’t a shining example for the franchise by no means but it upheld its purpose nicely for the price. While there, we had dinner at a KFC. Let me tell you, I am getting angry about that Podunk piece of crap place right now. I was so irritated with the crap I was handed that I won’t even acknowledge that the Pepsi’s they gave me tasted good. I will be letting the wife handle that complaint: I wand a coupon or something for a free lunch from a KFC that has food. First, the order wasn’t right to begin with but even worse, the food was inedible. Cold, stale and nasty. Honestly, and I am meaning this 100%, the worst I have ever had from any restaurant EVER! I have the store number available if anyone wants it to avoid when you go to Indy. Now onto better things.
We got up later than we expected from Indy but were still on the road and made good time so we (Melina), could watch the second half of the Bears game. I didn’t care really but I like trying to take time off the GPS estimator for arrival. I shaved 35 minutes in this case and 10 of it twice because of stops for gas and bathroom.
We got here and I ran to Arby’s and got our lunch. That actually went well. A big Montana for me, baked potato and Jamocha milkshake. YUM! Roast beef with cheese and curly fries for the misses. No problems at all there and it was tasty. Later that night the kids came over and we went to Wasabi for dinner. Very nice meal although the waiter was a dimwit. I seem to be attracting them lately. I got three glasses of water total for the entire meal. Had to beg and borrow to get some water for my daughter. Mel had to get her high seat, I had to steal a plate after we asked for it all numerous times. The cook was decent though. Food was prepared as normal and I wasn’t looking for flashy other than to let KB experience the show now that she could understand it better. (FOR THOSE NOT FAMILIAR WITH WASABI IT IS SIMILAR TO BENNI HANA.)
BTW, my wife made a bet that the JEts would beat New England. I was dead wrong as was over 3/4 of the country and she was right. I told her though, if they played again today I still would bet New England. But she did it.
She saw fire go up on one hibachi and then Keira said, “I want a fyewa.” So the guys comes by and starts his grill and WAM! Fire! And hse shrieks and hides behind her plate as she holds it up li,e a shield. “No more fyewa!” She finally came back out and had a few bites of rice and chilled while we all ate. It was very nice to take her somewhere and she not lose her mind!
So today I go to lunch with Mel and Keira and the teen convention is in at the Chic Fi La and I feel like the crabby old man down the street protecting his lawn. I mean I was totally agitated. Just this large hoard of idiot teens loud mouthing every chance they got, crowding into the Chi Fi La like there isn’t a restaurant around that could feed them but this one. Then when I order the lady behind the counter wants to argue with me on every aspect of my order, I finally said, you know what, just order it please. However it is called or organized, I need my food. Thanks!” DO I HAVE A SIGN ON ME THAT SAYS I WOULD LIKE TO EXPERIENCE A BAD TIME PLEASE. I STILL HAVENT HAD THE WORST YET SO GIVE IT A SHOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” YES I HAVE HAD WORSE! It was in Indianapolis remember?! Done it, I want regular mediocre now. Not even looking for wow factor.
Anyway, back at work now and finishing reviews as well as organizing for this weeks work. I have some meetings and a Quarterly to attend as well as a few project calls. Then I will be taking a vacation day to drive back to Chicago. I am actually looking forward to going back already to tell you the truth. Not because things are better I just feel after coming back and experiencing things I used to love, they don’t seem as good anymore. They were only good being here with family and doing it on the fly spontaneously. Oh well. Time for new memories and maybe one day, all the kids will circle back around and live near us again.
I am still anxious for baseball and fly fishing so the winter doldrums must be setting on me heavily. It will be nice when its warmed up some and I can get to the river and throw a line in to wet it.
Back to work!
XO ILY YM
During the stay in Indianapolis, not my favorite of cities, we stopped at an Extended Stay. It wasn’t a shining example for the franchise by no means but it upheld its purpose nicely for the price. While there, we had dinner at a KFC. Let me tell you, I am getting angry about that Podunk piece of crap place right now. I was so irritated with the crap I was handed that I won’t even acknowledge that the Pepsi’s they gave me tasted good. I will be letting the wife handle that complaint: I wand a coupon or something for a free lunch from a KFC that has food. First, the order wasn’t right to begin with but even worse, the food was inedible. Cold, stale and nasty. Honestly, and I am meaning this 100%, the worst I have ever had from any restaurant EVER! I have the store number available if anyone wants it to avoid when you go to Indy. Now onto better things.
We got up later than we expected from Indy but were still on the road and made good time so we (Melina), could watch the second half of the Bears game. I didn’t care really but I like trying to take time off the GPS estimator for arrival. I shaved 35 minutes in this case and 10 of it twice because of stops for gas and bathroom.
We got here and I ran to Arby’s and got our lunch. That actually went well. A big Montana for me, baked potato and Jamocha milkshake. YUM! Roast beef with cheese and curly fries for the misses. No problems at all there and it was tasty. Later that night the kids came over and we went to Wasabi for dinner. Very nice meal although the waiter was a dimwit. I seem to be attracting them lately. I got three glasses of water total for the entire meal. Had to beg and borrow to get some water for my daughter. Mel had to get her high seat, I had to steal a plate after we asked for it all numerous times. The cook was decent though. Food was prepared as normal and I wasn’t looking for flashy other than to let KB experience the show now that she could understand it better. (FOR THOSE NOT FAMILIAR WITH WASABI IT IS SIMILAR TO BENNI HANA.)
BTW, my wife made a bet that the JEts would beat New England. I was dead wrong as was over 3/4 of the country and she was right. I told her though, if they played again today I still would bet New England. But she did it.
She saw fire go up on one hibachi and then Keira said, “I want a fyewa.” So the guys comes by and starts his grill and WAM! Fire! And hse shrieks and hides behind her plate as she holds it up li,e a shield. “No more fyewa!” She finally came back out and had a few bites of rice and chilled while we all ate. It was very nice to take her somewhere and she not lose her mind!
So today I go to lunch with Mel and Keira and the teen convention is in at the Chic Fi La and I feel like the crabby old man down the street protecting his lawn. I mean I was totally agitated. Just this large hoard of idiot teens loud mouthing every chance they got, crowding into the Chi Fi La like there isn’t a restaurant around that could feed them but this one. Then when I order the lady behind the counter wants to argue with me on every aspect of my order, I finally said, you know what, just order it please. However it is called or organized, I need my food. Thanks!” DO I HAVE A SIGN ON ME THAT SAYS I WOULD LIKE TO EXPERIENCE A BAD TIME PLEASE. I STILL HAVENT HAD THE WORST YET SO GIVE IT A SHOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” YES I HAVE HAD WORSE! It was in Indianapolis remember?! Done it, I want regular mediocre now. Not even looking for wow factor.
Anyway, back at work now and finishing reviews as well as organizing for this weeks work. I have some meetings and a Quarterly to attend as well as a few project calls. Then I will be taking a vacation day to drive back to Chicago. I am actually looking forward to going back already to tell you the truth. Not because things are better I just feel after coming back and experiencing things I used to love, they don’t seem as good anymore. They were only good being here with family and doing it on the fly spontaneously. Oh well. Time for new memories and maybe one day, all the kids will circle back around and live near us again.
I am still anxious for baseball and fly fishing so the winter doldrums must be setting on me heavily. It will be nice when its warmed up some and I can get to the river and throw a line in to wet it.
Back to work!
XO ILY YM
Friday, January 14, 2011
Musha rain dum-a-doo dum-a-da
I must say we are having some good conversations at work recently. The teams are working well as always but the direction, goals and discussions are really centered on good production and quality. We are getting more granular and raising expectations. Most would think this is not a good thing but what I se is we are providing a higher level of product and it has become an expected deliverable and thus, we must provide better if we are going to measure ABOVE the bell in the future. This is a great indicator for my team and me.
On to more interesting stuff. I played guitar for a short time last night. I had been contemplating not getting a new amp good enough for playing out and just taking over my son’s amp, which I gave him for Christmas. Reason is it is used, one speaker doesn’t work, and the buttons are a bit floating otherwise a great amp. My amp is a Fender Frontman 212. A solid state that is a good amp but just doesn’t afford me the flexibility and tone my Cybertwin gave. I loved that amp and shouldn’t have sold it but I felt it was the right thing to do. Vox has a great amp out that is new but similar to the Cybertwin and I plan to go that route. It is $549.00 over half less than the Fender is. My son is saving his money to buy mine, which I can put towards the purchase of that new amp.
My main discussion started about how I had originally decided not to pursue purchasing a new amp. After playing last night, I still want to. The short time I played let me feel first that I am still too Rusty to play out anywhere, but it reminded me of how good my drummer and I were together not too long ago. Just he and I used to play in his house and draw folks out to hear us. We would play Pride and Joy, Tight Rope, Whiskey in the jar and so many other songs including some originals. We would jam and jam and before we knew it, it was after midnight and we were sweating and ready to go for another 2 hours.
I messaged him on Facebook yesterday when I heard Thin Lizzy’s original version of Whiskey in the Jar, we used to play the Metallica version. “Mush a rain ramma do ramma da!” Occasionally we would aggravate each other in meetings or assume the other was asleep and text something stupid like that to be annoying. It was funny at the time. Guess you had to be there. Sooooooooooooooooo
So yeah, new strings are needed, an amp and practice and then to find some musicians so I can begin again. It is a shame he doesn’t work up here or I don’t work down home because I have a lot of connections to gigging in Knoxville. I can build it here as well but it isn’t that often you connect with a musician where everything just clicks and you begin to just KNOW each other. He and I could write, practice and jam all day and hardly ever screw up a timing or hand off. He was very cool and I miss him.
Must get back to work now. I have things to do and to get ready. I have the big road trip this weekend, a hair cut at some point and I plan on relaxing as well. :-)
XO ILY YM
On to more interesting stuff. I played guitar for a short time last night. I had been contemplating not getting a new amp good enough for playing out and just taking over my son’s amp, which I gave him for Christmas. Reason is it is used, one speaker doesn’t work, and the buttons are a bit floating otherwise a great amp. My amp is a Fender Frontman 212. A solid state that is a good amp but just doesn’t afford me the flexibility and tone my Cybertwin gave. I loved that amp and shouldn’t have sold it but I felt it was the right thing to do. Vox has a great amp out that is new but similar to the Cybertwin and I plan to go that route. It is $549.00 over half less than the Fender is. My son is saving his money to buy mine, which I can put towards the purchase of that new amp.
My main discussion started about how I had originally decided not to pursue purchasing a new amp. After playing last night, I still want to. The short time I played let me feel first that I am still too Rusty to play out anywhere, but it reminded me of how good my drummer and I were together not too long ago. Just he and I used to play in his house and draw folks out to hear us. We would play Pride and Joy, Tight Rope, Whiskey in the jar and so many other songs including some originals. We would jam and jam and before we knew it, it was after midnight and we were sweating and ready to go for another 2 hours.
I messaged him on Facebook yesterday when I heard Thin Lizzy’s original version of Whiskey in the Jar, we used to play the Metallica version. “Mush a rain ramma do ramma da!” Occasionally we would aggravate each other in meetings or assume the other was asleep and text something stupid like that to be annoying. It was funny at the time. Guess you had to be there. Sooooooooooooooooo
So yeah, new strings are needed, an amp and practice and then to find some musicians so I can begin again. It is a shame he doesn’t work up here or I don’t work down home because I have a lot of connections to gigging in Knoxville. I can build it here as well but it isn’t that often you connect with a musician where everything just clicks and you begin to just KNOW each other. He and I could write, practice and jam all day and hardly ever screw up a timing or hand off. He was very cool and I miss him.
Must get back to work now. I have things to do and to get ready. I have the big road trip this weekend, a hair cut at some point and I plan on relaxing as well. :-)
XO ILY YM
Thursday, January 13, 2011
My Kingdom fo ra Slim Jim, a Hotwheel and a Root Beer...
Pretty good day today. Productive and got to see a work friend I haven’t seen in a long time. I follow his many adventures on Facebook and foursquare as he checks in across the country. He’s a good guy and I like hearing from him.
Since we are in transition between the post season of football and the start of spring practice for baseball, all that is left for me is the occasional good match up in basketball. However the Bulls look good this year and if the coach would apply some consistency, I think they could make a run this year. Spurs have the best record in bball this year as well but I don’t really get to see them play up here.
I am going to start yoga soon. Yep! Yoga. Saw a friend who is pretty deep and adept at it and he looks awesome! He runs a yoga and Tai chi place in Knoxville. I know I am not using the right terms so if you want to look it up and check his credentials he has a web page and Facebook page. His name is Dan West.
Anyway, I will be starting. It looks very interesting to me and can be done rain or shine. I also like the idea of the quiet calm meditation as you exercise. That really appeals to my old fat butt.
I was talking with some of the guys at work today and we got on the subject of how kids are having so many problems with bullies and the high rate of suicides and I boil it down to one problem. You may think I am going to say parents. Nope. Tertiary to the main problem. You may say no God or faith of any kind to guide them. Nope. Wrong again. That I just a symptom of the problem.
My thinking is they have lost or never gained their coping mechanisms. Why did they lose this? Toys. Yep. Toys. Not too many. Not that they are spoiled. It’s the TYPE of toy. How many kids do you give a gift to and the first thing they ask is “WHAT DOES IT DO?”
What does it do? Back when we grew up, you got a hot wheel or matchbox, a doll, some play clothes, a stick or box and you made do. You went outside and you made them work and used your brain! You didn’t get out a dinosaur that walked, roared and operated its mouth with a remote control and then put it on your dresser. You had to cope and work it. Come up with your own stuff and work together.
You built cities in the dirt with sticks and your vehicles. You brought a friend over and you made a neighbor city and connected them with dirt highways. Then you traded cars and fought over stuff and learned to COPE! When you were disappointed, you learned from it and went with it.
You had camp outs and went to the park and played baseball and basketball and tennis. You played hide and go seek not Kinect or Wii. Mario and Pacman didn’t have crap to do with anything until you went to Pizza Hut for that once in two week shot at eating out. You went to McDonalds and had a burger and fries with a regular coke. NOT A TUB OF COKE, A VAT OF FRIES AND A CHUNK OF SUGAR RIDDEN COATED SAUCE! And that wasn’t splurged on either.
Even teens now, they go to Applebee’s and Chili’s or Olive Garden maybe even TGI Friday’s. We went to McDonald’s, shared gas money, split what was left to get a shake and fries that we shared. WE DIDN’T GET TO BLOW $30 on a Friday night date BEFORE we went and spent $30 more on a movie! We sat on the hoods of our cars at the Midland Shopping center as we watched the other kids drive around and show their rides off. We met girls from other schools because we thought they were different than the girls in our school. We split those fries and licked the salt off the box to stretch the gas money so we could cruise the shopping center some more.
Then for me in the south, we went home, slept and got up early on Saturday and went fishing for the fish fry Saturday night. Unless there was a singing at church. We had regular lives and worked for our money as we enjoyed each others company and learned how to be a contributing part of society. We enjoyed being around our elders and learned from them. We did what we were told because if we didn’t we would get panged with a hammer across the head!
I could go on but there are many, many reasons these kids are having troubles with bullies, being teased and prodded. Bullies aren’t new. They have been here forever just like nerds, geeks, jocks and preps. It was just different names in different times. We failed the kids brought from our generation and the ones before us in that we relied on technology to teach and nurture our children. That’s why they don’t truly VALUE love or even know what love is. They don’t know what sex is because people are too scared to discuss it. And to tell a kid to be scared of strangers caused them to rely on authority figures so much that THEY now abuse our children because it is a perfect scam to treat them that way.
So I will now be partaking of my root beer and slim Jim as I watch Dave and relax so I can go to sleep. I have a big week end ahead in preparing for my drive and then driving. I am looking forward to it and getting excited. I love road trips.
XO ILY YM
Since we are in transition between the post season of football and the start of spring practice for baseball, all that is left for me is the occasional good match up in basketball. However the Bulls look good this year and if the coach would apply some consistency, I think they could make a run this year. Spurs have the best record in bball this year as well but I don’t really get to see them play up here.
I am going to start yoga soon. Yep! Yoga. Saw a friend who is pretty deep and adept at it and he looks awesome! He runs a yoga and Tai chi place in Knoxville. I know I am not using the right terms so if you want to look it up and check his credentials he has a web page and Facebook page. His name is Dan West.
Anyway, I will be starting. It looks very interesting to me and can be done rain or shine. I also like the idea of the quiet calm meditation as you exercise. That really appeals to my old fat butt.
I was talking with some of the guys at work today and we got on the subject of how kids are having so many problems with bullies and the high rate of suicides and I boil it down to one problem. You may think I am going to say parents. Nope. Tertiary to the main problem. You may say no God or faith of any kind to guide them. Nope. Wrong again. That I just a symptom of the problem.
My thinking is they have lost or never gained their coping mechanisms. Why did they lose this? Toys. Yep. Toys. Not too many. Not that they are spoiled. It’s the TYPE of toy. How many kids do you give a gift to and the first thing they ask is “WHAT DOES IT DO?”
What does it do? Back when we grew up, you got a hot wheel or matchbox, a doll, some play clothes, a stick or box and you made do. You went outside and you made them work and used your brain! You didn’t get out a dinosaur that walked, roared and operated its mouth with a remote control and then put it on your dresser. You had to cope and work it. Come up with your own stuff and work together.
You built cities in the dirt with sticks and your vehicles. You brought a friend over and you made a neighbor city and connected them with dirt highways. Then you traded cars and fought over stuff and learned to COPE! When you were disappointed, you learned from it and went with it.
You had camp outs and went to the park and played baseball and basketball and tennis. You played hide and go seek not Kinect or Wii. Mario and Pacman didn’t have crap to do with anything until you went to Pizza Hut for that once in two week shot at eating out. You went to McDonalds and had a burger and fries with a regular coke. NOT A TUB OF COKE, A VAT OF FRIES AND A CHUNK OF SUGAR RIDDEN COATED SAUCE! And that wasn’t splurged on either.
Even teens now, they go to Applebee’s and Chili’s or Olive Garden maybe even TGI Friday’s. We went to McDonald’s, shared gas money, split what was left to get a shake and fries that we shared. WE DIDN’T GET TO BLOW $30 on a Friday night date BEFORE we went and spent $30 more on a movie! We sat on the hoods of our cars at the Midland Shopping center as we watched the other kids drive around and show their rides off. We met girls from other schools because we thought they were different than the girls in our school. We split those fries and licked the salt off the box to stretch the gas money so we could cruise the shopping center some more.
Then for me in the south, we went home, slept and got up early on Saturday and went fishing for the fish fry Saturday night. Unless there was a singing at church. We had regular lives and worked for our money as we enjoyed each others company and learned how to be a contributing part of society. We enjoyed being around our elders and learned from them. We did what we were told because if we didn’t we would get panged with a hammer across the head!
I could go on but there are many, many reasons these kids are having troubles with bullies, being teased and prodded. Bullies aren’t new. They have been here forever just like nerds, geeks, jocks and preps. It was just different names in different times. We failed the kids brought from our generation and the ones before us in that we relied on technology to teach and nurture our children. That’s why they don’t truly VALUE love or even know what love is. They don’t know what sex is because people are too scared to discuss it. And to tell a kid to be scared of strangers caused them to rely on authority figures so much that THEY now abuse our children because it is a perfect scam to treat them that way.
So I will now be partaking of my root beer and slim Jim as I watch Dave and relax so I can go to sleep. I have a big week end ahead in preparing for my drive and then driving. I am looking forward to it and getting excited. I love road trips.
XO ILY YM
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Dreams, Alligators, Idiots and back to the Blog life
Okay, yeah! Hello there. Been a week or so. Sorry ‘bout that. Anyway, I am perusing the newspaper when all of a sudden I have a definite subject for my blog today.
In Wheeling, IL at the Indian Trails Public Library, a nature or wild life expert brought some exotic pets for kids to see. Among them were lizards, a tortoise and some snakes. In addition, he brought an American Alligator named Bubba. In a picture there is a 3-year-old girl riding him. RIDING HIM!!!! Are you kidding me?
(Link posted here so as not to anger the copyright gods about the photo I had wanted to publish.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20101229/news/712309888/
Man I would lose my mind if I saw my little girl on the back of an Alligator. Now if this were a school I would be the lead party in a lawsuit and never have to work again. However, since it is a library, these stupid parents obviously don’t have that option BECAUSE THEY WERE THERE WITH THE KIDS AND CONSENTED!!!! There are as many opinions out there about stuff and kids as there are parents and kids I know, I am just voicing mine here.
The last few days Keira has been very attached to me and I must say I love it. She has been very sweet and showing signs of growing up. As I have mentioned in previous blogs I don’t like that because that means eventually she won’t want to be around me as much just like other children have done. They get their own lives, run down their own paths, and worry the crap out of me while they grow up, test the waters, branch out and become adults with their own ideas and decisions.
I remember my little girl looking at me and saying in a low voice as she points down to the ground saying “DOE!” By now, we figure she meant down. She wanted to get down. She is so stubborn and strong willed. I think often that I need to break her before she goes to school but I feel that would be a travesty. Regardless of what she will do and what calls I will get, I think seeing her creativity and decisiveness harnessed would crush her fearless approach on the world and I am eager to see what she has to say about the world and how she smacks it right in the mouth and does whatever she wants the way she wants.
Then I think, man I will have to save my benefit time or retire early because she’s going to keep us busy. LOL
In the last week, I have been focused on a lot of decisions at work. We have reviews starting u and are focused heavily on those as well as finalizing goals and getting ready to attack this year which will be loaded with some very exciting things.
I don’t want to beat it to death or drone on it but I do want to give a thought to the folks in Arizona and the shootings that occurred last week: Yes, there were two: One in Chandler and one in Tucson. People died in both yet one has and will be in the press due to a politician being the target. Dreadfully, that is what drives ratings.
And to the morons protesting that little girls funeral like you have the soldiers funerals, I really can say that I harbor more ill will and suffering on you than Saddam Hussein, Bin Laden, Hitler, insert other dictators and killers in here. You people are sick! And you need a wake up call and I hope Jesus brings it soon. I have never, in all my years wished bad things on a person until I had witnessed the crap you people spawn as you breathe my air.
Why don’t you people do a Jim Jones and drink the frikin’ Kool-Aid and get it over with and stop hurting everyone else in the world in the worst time of their lives? Or stand on the bridge or roof top and we’ll all stand below and be very supportive in your jumps! Hell we’ll push you to go higher and then PUSH YOU! Just get out of our way and let us continue to live without the memory of your stupidity. Hell gang bangers and drug addicted morons have more morality and sensitivity than you do and you are supposedly Christians. DEFINITION: Christian – Christ like. UM NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don’t associate your dumb ass with anything of my faith.
Done with the rant. Now that I have flagged my blog with some of the most popular provocative search terms of the recent history, I am sure to get some readers now. Thanks morons, now I will have all kinds of nuts hitting my link because of your stupidity.
Nice things now. I have a trip to Knoxville this next week for work. This will be a great trip minus the snow. I hope it is melting by then and our trip will be safe. I like watching Melina get excited about going back to Tennessee. Summer trip I will be bringing the fishing rod for sure! There will be a trip to Mckay’s I say as well as Wasabi and possibly to The Christmas Store. And if we do hit Pigeon Forge, Huck Finn’s will be visited for some vittles and catfish.
I played a little guitar Saturday night and the little one got a guitar and in her words, “Rocked Out!” with me. She says we are rock stars. She sings and dances and all kinds of stuff. A very good performer I watch her skate. She does the opening scene of Charlie Brown Christmas and sings the song. I think she is on the road to being a performer of some sort. I had hoped for a women’s golfer and vet with a trip to Stanford or UT but we’ll see.
I looked at the aquarium tonight and I think I finally need to do a huge water change and cleaning. I try not to do but a few partials so the balance stays clean and normal but it’s looking grungy and can use some cleaning. I need to get that done but probably not until after I get back from Knoxville.
About a week ago I had the feeling I was on the verge of something but couldn’t say what. That sounds very vague and it is. So deal with it. But I felt that way and I still feel that way so we’ll see.
On to dreams. I had a dream the other night, very weird and I haven’t looked its meaning up yet. I was at an amusement park with my daughters and Keira was still very little. I have no idea why I left her in the comedic car, like a clown car alone, but it felt very acceptable and right to do in the dream, while I go to look for a bathroom because I needed to pee bad. Of course, I really needed to pee bad in real life so naturally it would be a symptom in a dream.
So, I and Melanie went to find a bathroom. As I searched I felt like I had been there many times and knew which bathrooms were full all the time based on the time of day. On my way back from the bathroom, here comes Keira running up to me and I freak out yelling at her to get back in the car. Scared me to death. Then I look at Melanie and here she comes with a big ass hotdog on a pretzel bun with cheese. I’m like, “DID YOU PEE?!”
Most of my dreams are pretty symbolic and prolific leaving me with a sense of “That’s profound and prophetic in that I can make an upcoming decision about something.” With this I am left with, “Where do you get a big ass hotdog like that and which bathroom is the best to use when I am at this amusement park?”
Actually symbolism for my dream:
KEIRA AND HER RUNAWAY FROM THE CAR: Keira will be independent as she is now and go her own way. She will enjoy her life with her family but she is who she is and everyone needs to understand that and get over it.
To see or eat a HOTDOG or sausage in your dream, symbolizes material values. I hear Melanie seems materialistic sometimes and I don’t think so.
To see or be in an amusement park in your dream, indicates that you need to set some time for more relaxation and enjoyment in your life. The rides, booths and elements in the amusement park are an expression of some aspect of yourself or some area in your life. Look up the symbolism of specific rides for more details.
To see your daughter in your dream, represents your waking relationship with your daughter and the qualities that she projects.
I like the overall synopsis and understanding of the dream but still, it was pretty freaky. Oh and the urge to urinate:
To dream that you are urinating, symbolizes a cleansing and a release of negative or repressed emotions. Depending on your dream context, urination is symbolic of having or lacking basic control of your life. You are literally "pissed off" and not expressing yourself in a positive or constructive manner. I STILL THINK IT HAD TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT I DRINK A LOT OF WATER AND NEEDED TO WAKE UP AND PEE BEFORE MY LAZY ASS WET THE BED,
XO ILY YM
In Wheeling, IL at the Indian Trails Public Library, a nature or wild life expert brought some exotic pets for kids to see. Among them were lizards, a tortoise and some snakes. In addition, he brought an American Alligator named Bubba. In a picture there is a 3-year-old girl riding him. RIDING HIM!!!! Are you kidding me?
(Link posted here so as not to anger the copyright gods about the photo I had wanted to publish.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20101229/news/712309888/
Man I would lose my mind if I saw my little girl on the back of an Alligator. Now if this were a school I would be the lead party in a lawsuit and never have to work again. However, since it is a library, these stupid parents obviously don’t have that option BECAUSE THEY WERE THERE WITH THE KIDS AND CONSENTED!!!! There are as many opinions out there about stuff and kids as there are parents and kids I know, I am just voicing mine here.
The last few days Keira has been very attached to me and I must say I love it. She has been very sweet and showing signs of growing up. As I have mentioned in previous blogs I don’t like that because that means eventually she won’t want to be around me as much just like other children have done. They get their own lives, run down their own paths, and worry the crap out of me while they grow up, test the waters, branch out and become adults with their own ideas and decisions.
I remember my little girl looking at me and saying in a low voice as she points down to the ground saying “DOE!” By now, we figure she meant down. She wanted to get down. She is so stubborn and strong willed. I think often that I need to break her before she goes to school but I feel that would be a travesty. Regardless of what she will do and what calls I will get, I think seeing her creativity and decisiveness harnessed would crush her fearless approach on the world and I am eager to see what she has to say about the world and how she smacks it right in the mouth and does whatever she wants the way she wants.
Then I think, man I will have to save my benefit time or retire early because she’s going to keep us busy. LOL
In the last week, I have been focused on a lot of decisions at work. We have reviews starting u and are focused heavily on those as well as finalizing goals and getting ready to attack this year which will be loaded with some very exciting things.
I don’t want to beat it to death or drone on it but I do want to give a thought to the folks in Arizona and the shootings that occurred last week: Yes, there were two: One in Chandler and one in Tucson. People died in both yet one has and will be in the press due to a politician being the target. Dreadfully, that is what drives ratings.
And to the morons protesting that little girls funeral like you have the soldiers funerals, I really can say that I harbor more ill will and suffering on you than Saddam Hussein, Bin Laden, Hitler, insert other dictators and killers in here. You people are sick! And you need a wake up call and I hope Jesus brings it soon. I have never, in all my years wished bad things on a person until I had witnessed the crap you people spawn as you breathe my air.
Why don’t you people do a Jim Jones and drink the frikin’ Kool-Aid and get it over with and stop hurting everyone else in the world in the worst time of their lives? Or stand on the bridge or roof top and we’ll all stand below and be very supportive in your jumps! Hell we’ll push you to go higher and then PUSH YOU! Just get out of our way and let us continue to live without the memory of your stupidity. Hell gang bangers and drug addicted morons have more morality and sensitivity than you do and you are supposedly Christians. DEFINITION: Christian – Christ like. UM NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don’t associate your dumb ass with anything of my faith.
Done with the rant. Now that I have flagged my blog with some of the most popular provocative search terms of the recent history, I am sure to get some readers now. Thanks morons, now I will have all kinds of nuts hitting my link because of your stupidity.
Nice things now. I have a trip to Knoxville this next week for work. This will be a great trip minus the snow. I hope it is melting by then and our trip will be safe. I like watching Melina get excited about going back to Tennessee. Summer trip I will be bringing the fishing rod for sure! There will be a trip to Mckay’s I say as well as Wasabi and possibly to The Christmas Store. And if we do hit Pigeon Forge, Huck Finn’s will be visited for some vittles and catfish.
I played a little guitar Saturday night and the little one got a guitar and in her words, “Rocked Out!” with me. She says we are rock stars. She sings and dances and all kinds of stuff. A very good performer I watch her skate. She does the opening scene of Charlie Brown Christmas and sings the song. I think she is on the road to being a performer of some sort. I had hoped for a women’s golfer and vet with a trip to Stanford or UT but we’ll see.
I looked at the aquarium tonight and I think I finally need to do a huge water change and cleaning. I try not to do but a few partials so the balance stays clean and normal but it’s looking grungy and can use some cleaning. I need to get that done but probably not until after I get back from Knoxville.
About a week ago I had the feeling I was on the verge of something but couldn’t say what. That sounds very vague and it is. So deal with it. But I felt that way and I still feel that way so we’ll see.
On to dreams. I had a dream the other night, very weird and I haven’t looked its meaning up yet. I was at an amusement park with my daughters and Keira was still very little. I have no idea why I left her in the comedic car, like a clown car alone, but it felt very acceptable and right to do in the dream, while I go to look for a bathroom because I needed to pee bad. Of course, I really needed to pee bad in real life so naturally it would be a symptom in a dream.
So, I and Melanie went to find a bathroom. As I searched I felt like I had been there many times and knew which bathrooms were full all the time based on the time of day. On my way back from the bathroom, here comes Keira running up to me and I freak out yelling at her to get back in the car. Scared me to death. Then I look at Melanie and here she comes with a big ass hotdog on a pretzel bun with cheese. I’m like, “DID YOU PEE?!”
Most of my dreams are pretty symbolic and prolific leaving me with a sense of “That’s profound and prophetic in that I can make an upcoming decision about something.” With this I am left with, “Where do you get a big ass hotdog like that and which bathroom is the best to use when I am at this amusement park?”
Actually symbolism for my dream:
KEIRA AND HER RUNAWAY FROM THE CAR: Keira will be independent as she is now and go her own way. She will enjoy her life with her family but she is who she is and everyone needs to understand that and get over it.
To see or eat a HOTDOG or sausage in your dream, symbolizes material values. I hear Melanie seems materialistic sometimes and I don’t think so.
To see or be in an amusement park in your dream, indicates that you need to set some time for more relaxation and enjoyment in your life. The rides, booths and elements in the amusement park are an expression of some aspect of yourself or some area in your life. Look up the symbolism of specific rides for more details.
To see your daughter in your dream, represents your waking relationship with your daughter and the qualities that she projects.
I like the overall synopsis and understanding of the dream but still, it was pretty freaky. Oh and the urge to urinate:
To dream that you are urinating, symbolizes a cleansing and a release of negative or repressed emotions. Depending on your dream context, urination is symbolic of having or lacking basic control of your life. You are literally "pissed off" and not expressing yourself in a positive or constructive manner. I STILL THINK IT HAD TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT I DRINK A LOT OF WATER AND NEEDED TO WAKE UP AND PEE BEFORE MY LAZY ASS WET THE BED,
XO ILY YM
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Ghost Hunters and Two Dickens Stories in One: What a Deal!!!!!
Master has the heat down again. I had to find my house shoes, (a southern term according to my dear wife. It endears me.) my feet were freezing. I look over and she is crocheting a thick yarn blanket sitting under a thick yarn blanket. It’s so cold the dog is hid under the blanket. I turn on Iron Chef America and instead of cooking stuff they have the chill battle going on! Ugh! I feel like Bob Cratchet before Scrooge changed. I’m hunched over with my tight little pants and my over coat on whilst checking the coals for an ember to hold in my hand. Anybody want to send more Snuggies I could use one!
Actually, it is cold but not due to anything my wife has done. I also searched out my house shoes in order to warm my feet up because I am telling you, if I am cold, it’s cold.
Had a good day at work: Very successful meetings with a lot of team work and one mindedness.
Fish are fed, kids, me, my wife, dogs and cat all taken care of and tucked in bed. The cat I hear is lying in the middle of my bed right now. He’ll be down soon to perch on my blanket or Snuggie.
Tonight Keira put together a letter. One of her things is to write letters to us and seal them up. She brings them to us and stands there waiting for us to open them and then right as we do and we are about to unveil the surprise she says “It’s a pikcha!”
“Ah it is. Good job Keira.”
In this case, she wanted to send it to Grandma. So I staved her off a bit by saying, “I don’t know Grandma’s address.”
She said “What?”
I repeat myself and she says, “Who does?”
“Mommy.” I say.
“Oh. I be right back.” She ran over to mommy and had her write the address on the envelope and then came back to me pointing to the ledge where mommy’s keys were for the mail box. She wanted that firkin letter put in the box and now!
So we got the keys and I took her to the mail box to put her letter in. She was very proud of herself and is expecting correspondence from the grandparents now. Trouble is, the letter had no postage and I went right back out and put it in my pocket. As cool as it would be to send that letter, we need to be a little more organized next time and make sure it is a legitimate letter with a sealed note or picture; a stamp would be good too. And then we can really send something from Keira. This letter might get flagged and searched for Anthrax or something.
End result, she’s happy and feels good about the letter and the post of it to our mail box.
Have you ever HEARD a cat come down the stairs. I mean you hear him lumbering along but cant see him. If I didnt know it was him I would be on the road looking for something to record EVP's for Ghost Hunters. (EVP is Electronic Voice Phenomenon. THats for Mel.)
Oliver is so weird. He is a cat and is supposed to be all agile and fast as well as stealthy. He’s clumsy, loud, getting large, slow and agility is not in his near family tree and apparently a pyromaniac. (See previous stories a few entries ago.
I’m sitting here right now and hear he is tired because I heard him thump on the floor as he stretched. Isn’t he supposed to be quiet? Then out to the landing he strolls as I hear a groan and some claws and then here he comes, lumbering down the stairs like a tiny hare with a big ass! Thump, thump squeak on each step. What the heck? You’re a cat dude!
Now he’s on the pony wall staring at me wanting food. He’ll get mad in a minute and come sit on my lap and stare at me as he paws on my stomach saying “Hey Jim, remember that stuff over there y the sink? I could take care of some of that for ya. I don’t have thumbs so I kinda need ya in there with me and then I will leave ya alone. Just a little hep…hep I say. My name is Oliver! Some more please suh!”
Lord. Lets feed the cat. I need some water anyway. Till tomorrow y’all!
XO ILY YM
Actually, it is cold but not due to anything my wife has done. I also searched out my house shoes in order to warm my feet up because I am telling you, if I am cold, it’s cold.
Had a good day at work: Very successful meetings with a lot of team work and one mindedness.
Fish are fed, kids, me, my wife, dogs and cat all taken care of and tucked in bed. The cat I hear is lying in the middle of my bed right now. He’ll be down soon to perch on my blanket or Snuggie.
Tonight Keira put together a letter. One of her things is to write letters to us and seal them up. She brings them to us and stands there waiting for us to open them and then right as we do and we are about to unveil the surprise she says “It’s a pikcha!”
“Ah it is. Good job Keira.”
In this case, she wanted to send it to Grandma. So I staved her off a bit by saying, “I don’t know Grandma’s address.”
She said “What?”
I repeat myself and she says, “Who does?”
“Mommy.” I say.
“Oh. I be right back.” She ran over to mommy and had her write the address on the envelope and then came back to me pointing to the ledge where mommy’s keys were for the mail box. She wanted that firkin letter put in the box and now!
So we got the keys and I took her to the mail box to put her letter in. She was very proud of herself and is expecting correspondence from the grandparents now. Trouble is, the letter had no postage and I went right back out and put it in my pocket. As cool as it would be to send that letter, we need to be a little more organized next time and make sure it is a legitimate letter with a sealed note or picture; a stamp would be good too. And then we can really send something from Keira. This letter might get flagged and searched for Anthrax or something.
End result, she’s happy and feels good about the letter and the post of it to our mail box.
Have you ever HEARD a cat come down the stairs. I mean you hear him lumbering along but cant see him. If I didnt know it was him I would be on the road looking for something to record EVP's for Ghost Hunters. (EVP is Electronic Voice Phenomenon. THats for Mel.)
Oliver is so weird. He is a cat and is supposed to be all agile and fast as well as stealthy. He’s clumsy, loud, getting large, slow and agility is not in his near family tree and apparently a pyromaniac. (See previous stories a few entries ago.
I’m sitting here right now and hear he is tired because I heard him thump on the floor as he stretched. Isn’t he supposed to be quiet? Then out to the landing he strolls as I hear a groan and some claws and then here he comes, lumbering down the stairs like a tiny hare with a big ass! Thump, thump squeak on each step. What the heck? You’re a cat dude!
Now he’s on the pony wall staring at me wanting food. He’ll get mad in a minute and come sit on my lap and stare at me as he paws on my stomach saying “Hey Jim, remember that stuff over there y the sink? I could take care of some of that for ya. I don’t have thumbs so I kinda need ya in there with me and then I will leave ya alone. Just a little hep…hep I say. My name is Oliver! Some more please suh!”
Lord. Lets feed the cat. I need some water anyway. Till tomorrow y’all!
XO ILY YM
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
My Realm from a Snuggie Covered Throne...
Sitting under my camo Snuggie won from my boss’s boss in a white elephant this year while writing an perusing blogs and Facebook. It’s a bit cold. My wife is a budgetmeister and keeps us freezing all the time. Especially when she goes to bed and I am left with my couch and TV. So I have to roll up under a Snuggie as seen on TV, so I don’t get hypothermia or frostbite. Seriously though, I did tease her about it today just playing around but she let out a little acknowledgement about always approaching the mail box with trepidation dreading the Nicor bill. AHA! J'accuse!
Actually, we don’t have a split heating and ac system for the upstairs/downstairs and we have HUGE cathedral ceilings in the living room so the heating and conditioning of our house sucks. So while I freeze down here, they sweat and lose weight up there. I hate heat man so I turn it down and wrap a Snuggie up. It’s a lot cheaper and easier for me to do that and let them have a decent temp to sleep in and besides, I like a blanket or something on the couch with stupid TV. I get some sunflower seeds, a glass of water and a little Numbers or NCIS and I’m good. And she got me all the Dexter books too so I have plenty of interesting things to read to let my eyes relax for sleep.
Speaking of sleep, while the kids were here I thought I may need to have a little help getting to sleep so I got some Tylenol PM to kid of help me a long. As most of you that follow me know, I tend to stay up late and if I miss the window for the sandman, it is TOUGH trying to get back into the moment and fall asleep. Then throw my temper into it and the night sucks. So I hit some Tylenol PM and it worked that first time. A few days later I had a head ache right before bed and some upset stomach so I hit it again with something for my stomach, fell asleep like a baby and relaxed well. NO DREAMS! I was just Nyquil out man! Down and then up the next day.
Then the kids were gone, I was back to my routine and before I knew, it was time to go back to work. I had rested well to get ready for work, no errands that were hard, my wife took it easy on me Sunday and we had a great weekend. Then she ironed for me so I didn’t have to but that night, Sunday that is, I couldn’t get to sleep and I had sinus pain building. Man I cant go in with that going on I have too much to do and get started on: This is going to be a big year for us and way too much to do. So I hit the Tylenol. I woke up and felt like I was a walking dream. Remember that scene in Young Guns? “We’re in the spirit world…they can’t see us!” (Stated all slow and dumblike.) That was me all day.
And first thing that morning I have an extended staff meeting with the guy I stole the Snuggie from, I can’t be lethargic and drug induced! That day was difficult to focus but I did it and it is behind me now. I hit it one more time on Monday night and it was late. I couldn’t get to sleep and head was feeling sinusy again like the original headache never went away and yep…Tuesday was a drag at first but I pushed through! NO MORE TYLENOL PM FOR ME! I cant handle it. Natural fatigue and boring TV will suffice.
I came home today with Taco Bell for dinner. I wanted to try that new Beefy Crunch Box. $5 man! That’s a lot of food! It was awesome as I thought. It created some excitement for me and Mel, well for me, I’ll let her chime in I she wishes. But we didn’t have to cook, no dishes, new meal to try and we had a party man. I, the wife and the little baby, a dose or two of AFV and the news and the dogs getting stupid because they cant have any it was fun. My stomach is stuffed and I dread tomorrow physically after the Taco Bell, but I think it was worth it.
Had some good discussions today at work with some folks. Things are heading in the right direction and it is exciting to see and hear the changes in people and seeing the energy that is there. We need to harness that this year and really focus on how we can develop and help each other grow this year. I am very excited about that for our company but really excited for our teams and what it holds for us in terms of personal and career growth. I have such a great team of people to work with. It is really growing into a family. They make me mad, they make me laugh, they inspire me and make me want to be better so I can be the leader they need as well as be the person I should be personally.
I have learned a lot in the training I have been to and in the ways I have applied different things and the more I take the time to reflect on those things, the better I become in all areas of my life. My family deserves the best of me and I should strive to provide that.
As long as I come home with the energy tomorrow, I think I may begin a regimen of guitar practice and get my fingers back in play. I need to play some Stevie and Jeff Healey as well as Gary Moore.
So it’s off to the couch to relax a little and get out from under the Snuggie and under a throw with my Dexter book and wait on Dave to pop on the tube. No on demand TV worth watching this week with all the reruns on TV but I have some DVD’s and a book and that will do. NIGHT!
XO ILY YM
Speaking of sleep, while the kids were here I thought I may need to have a little help getting to sleep so I got some Tylenol PM to kid of help me a long. As most of you that follow me know, I tend to stay up late and if I miss the window for the sandman, it is TOUGH trying to get back into the moment and fall asleep. Then throw my temper into it and the night sucks. So I hit some Tylenol PM and it worked that first time. A few days later I had a head ache right before bed and some upset stomach so I hit it again with something for my stomach, fell asleep like a baby and relaxed well. NO DREAMS! I was just Nyquil out man! Down and then up the next day.
Then the kids were gone, I was back to my routine and before I knew, it was time to go back to work. I had rested well to get ready for work, no errands that were hard, my wife took it easy on me Sunday and we had a great weekend. Then she ironed for me so I didn’t have to but that night, Sunday that is, I couldn’t get to sleep and I had sinus pain building. Man I cant go in with that going on I have too much to do and get started on: This is going to be a big year for us and way too much to do. So I hit the Tylenol. I woke up and felt like I was a walking dream. Remember that scene in Young Guns? “We’re in the spirit world…they can’t see us!” (Stated all slow and dumblike.) That was me all day.
And first thing that morning I have an extended staff meeting with the guy I stole the Snuggie from, I can’t be lethargic and drug induced! That day was difficult to focus but I did it and it is behind me now. I hit it one more time on Monday night and it was late. I couldn’t get to sleep and head was feeling sinusy again like the original headache never went away and yep…Tuesday was a drag at first but I pushed through! NO MORE TYLENOL PM FOR ME! I cant handle it. Natural fatigue and boring TV will suffice.
I came home today with Taco Bell for dinner. I wanted to try that new Beefy Crunch Box. $5 man! That’s a lot of food! It was awesome as I thought. It created some excitement for me and Mel, well for me, I’ll let her chime in I she wishes. But we didn’t have to cook, no dishes, new meal to try and we had a party man. I, the wife and the little baby, a dose or two of AFV and the news and the dogs getting stupid because they cant have any it was fun. My stomach is stuffed and I dread tomorrow physically after the Taco Bell, but I think it was worth it.
Had some good discussions today at work with some folks. Things are heading in the right direction and it is exciting to see and hear the changes in people and seeing the energy that is there. We need to harness that this year and really focus on how we can develop and help each other grow this year. I am very excited about that for our company but really excited for our teams and what it holds for us in terms of personal and career growth. I have such a great team of people to work with. It is really growing into a family. They make me mad, they make me laugh, they inspire me and make me want to be better so I can be the leader they need as well as be the person I should be personally.
I have learned a lot in the training I have been to and in the ways I have applied different things and the more I take the time to reflect on those things, the better I become in all areas of my life. My family deserves the best of me and I should strive to provide that.
As long as I come home with the energy tomorrow, I think I may begin a regimen of guitar practice and get my fingers back in play. I need to play some Stevie and Jeff Healey as well as Gary Moore.
So it’s off to the couch to relax a little and get out from under the Snuggie and under a throw with my Dexter book and wait on Dave to pop on the tube. No on demand TV worth watching this week with all the reruns on TV but I have some DVD’s and a book and that will do. NIGHT!
XO ILY YM
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Little Pink Houses, Andrew Luck and a Faked Orgasm..I'm not kiddin'!
I was supposed to be working on reviews but I fell asleep for a short nap watching cupcake wars and woke up in time for Chopped. Now I am just watching Sports Center while waiting on David Letterman to begin.
I will definitely have time to work on the reviews tomorrow and will probably take a day from the office to focus on those alone before the due date. I’m not trying to bore you to death I promise. It’s just that reviews are taken more seriously with our company than others. All the leaders are involved in helping understand the real contributions our associates make to the company. We help each other with identifying strengths and development areas as well as growth opportunities. It also gives other leaders insight into the associates in case they are looking to move into another area. We help with guidance on how to work together and help our associates grow personally as well as with their career.
A lot of time goes into writing, reviewing, editing and ensuring that the reviews are not just representing the history of the associate but it provides a path and marker for future progress.
I’m very proud of our company and the way we focus on our teams growth and development and its only getting better.
Enough of that, so, coaches are dropping like flies all over the NFL and college. This next year is going to be interesting. I am thinking if the lockout doesn’t happen, this might be Peyton Manning’s last season and I will have to look for a new hero to admire. Andrew Luck will be coming in at about that time if he doesn’t declare for the draft this year. If he does declare for the draft, I may have a use for the Panthers jersey I have since Carolina said they will pick him as their #1 pick this year. I don’t particularly care for that bit of news but hey, that’s something to root for. Andrew Luck is a great find for the NFL with Brady and Manning coming near twilight. Both great QB’s but everyone gets figured out finally: And these guys may not have enough left for more than a year and may not want to frankly. And btw, I had Andrew Luck on my radar a long time ago as I did Clay at Wisconsin and Poole at Tennessee. I’m in the wrong profession.)
I also like the Chiefs next year for the play offs and maybe the big game. They look good. They’re young, running well and the team is just working pretty good all together. If they true up that defense this year through the draft and some off-season transactions, they look good. Also, if my wife finishes my afghan in Chiefs colors, it’s a lock. I know this because I picked the Titans to go all the way this year at the end of the super bowl last year. Obviously, that didn’t happen. And it’s all because she didn’t finish my Titans afghan. So now, all that powder and dark blue, crimson and white yarn needs a home. But next year, the red, yellow and white will be supporting the Chiefs until Lovie is rode out of town and I hope Martz an Cutler go with him. (For my Bears pals out there.)
Now for the Hollywood segment. What the heck is wrong with Meg Ryan?!?!? I mean really? John Melencamp? And this guy, just separates from his wife and announces he is running around with her. I’m sick. Such a pretty woman whom I thought was smart but now I wonder if she hit her head back when she threw her head around in that scene at Katz deli in When Harry Met Sally. Enough of that.
Well, David is on and I need some dry humor to open up my brain waves and help me relax into oblivion for the night. I may have something more informative for you tomorrow yet tomorrow isn’t here and I ain’t promisin’ nothin’.
XO ILY YM
I will definitely have time to work on the reviews tomorrow and will probably take a day from the office to focus on those alone before the due date. I’m not trying to bore you to death I promise. It’s just that reviews are taken more seriously with our company than others. All the leaders are involved in helping understand the real contributions our associates make to the company. We help each other with identifying strengths and development areas as well as growth opportunities. It also gives other leaders insight into the associates in case they are looking to move into another area. We help with guidance on how to work together and help our associates grow personally as well as with their career.
A lot of time goes into writing, reviewing, editing and ensuring that the reviews are not just representing the history of the associate but it provides a path and marker for future progress.
I’m very proud of our company and the way we focus on our teams growth and development and its only getting better.
Enough of that, so, coaches are dropping like flies all over the NFL and college. This next year is going to be interesting. I am thinking if the lockout doesn’t happen, this might be Peyton Manning’s last season and I will have to look for a new hero to admire. Andrew Luck will be coming in at about that time if he doesn’t declare for the draft this year. If he does declare for the draft, I may have a use for the Panthers jersey I have since Carolina said they will pick him as their #1 pick this year. I don’t particularly care for that bit of news but hey, that’s something to root for. Andrew Luck is a great find for the NFL with Brady and Manning coming near twilight. Both great QB’s but everyone gets figured out finally: And these guys may not have enough left for more than a year and may not want to frankly. And btw, I had Andrew Luck on my radar a long time ago as I did Clay at Wisconsin and Poole at Tennessee. I’m in the wrong profession.)
I also like the Chiefs next year for the play offs and maybe the big game. They look good. They’re young, running well and the team is just working pretty good all together. If they true up that defense this year through the draft and some off-season transactions, they look good. Also, if my wife finishes my afghan in Chiefs colors, it’s a lock. I know this because I picked the Titans to go all the way this year at the end of the super bowl last year. Obviously, that didn’t happen. And it’s all because she didn’t finish my Titans afghan. So now, all that powder and dark blue, crimson and white yarn needs a home. But next year, the red, yellow and white will be supporting the Chiefs until Lovie is rode out of town and I hope Martz an Cutler go with him. (For my Bears pals out there.)
Now for the Hollywood segment. What the heck is wrong with Meg Ryan?!?!? I mean really? John Melencamp? And this guy, just separates from his wife and announces he is running around with her. I’m sick. Such a pretty woman whom I thought was smart but now I wonder if she hit her head back when she threw her head around in that scene at Katz deli in When Harry Met Sally. Enough of that.
Well, David is on and I need some dry humor to open up my brain waves and help me relax into oblivion for the night. I may have something more informative for you tomorrow yet tomorrow isn’t here and I ain’t promisin’ nothin’.
XO ILY YM
Monday, January 3, 2011
Well let me tell you....
Actually, this is going to be very deep this evening (SARCASM) so any lightweight intellectuals may want to disregard reading this. So I was thinking about American Idol this weekend and the naming of Steven Tyler to the judges chair. Nice pick, I don’t like him or Aerosmith but he has talent obviously, has reinvented his sound to a younger generation and is living the dream again. Obviously, he qualifies for judging and will undoubtedly help some of the singers on their way: They will definitely be better if they listen to him.
But my judging chairs would be as follows: Jon Bon Jovi, Madonna, John Cougar Melencamp and Pat Benetar. I mean these people have reinvented, written, choreographed, produced and lived it all. They would be great I think. My opinion of course.
Enough of that. I have been looking at pictures and videos of folks I used to play with in different places around the country and miss it. I haven’t played guitar in a month or so and I would like to play more and eventually find a couple of folks to do some cover stuff locally just for fun. I don’t want to get signed and open up for Justin Beiber (OH GOD THAT WOULD SUCK!), I just want to play out in a comfortable setting that’s not too loud, be able to enjoy some other people playing and maybe do some impromptu stuff with them. But I haven’t sought that avenue out with anyone or any locations that do that sort of thing.
A place down in Knoxville used to do that and I played a couple of times with a friend of mine but I never really prepared or let myself go so that I performed as well as I can or as well as I should have. Missed opportunity and now I am missing the opportunity.
Anyway, watching the Orange Bowl and looking for friends that play up here maybe trying to get something going one day again. We’ll see I guess.
XO ILY YM
But my judging chairs would be as follows: Jon Bon Jovi, Madonna, John Cougar Melencamp and Pat Benetar. I mean these people have reinvented, written, choreographed, produced and lived it all. They would be great I think. My opinion of course.
Enough of that. I have been looking at pictures and videos of folks I used to play with in different places around the country and miss it. I haven’t played guitar in a month or so and I would like to play more and eventually find a couple of folks to do some cover stuff locally just for fun. I don’t want to get signed and open up for Justin Beiber (OH GOD THAT WOULD SUCK!), I just want to play out in a comfortable setting that’s not too loud, be able to enjoy some other people playing and maybe do some impromptu stuff with them. But I haven’t sought that avenue out with anyone or any locations that do that sort of thing.
A place down in Knoxville used to do that and I played a couple of times with a friend of mine but I never really prepared or let myself go so that I performed as well as I can or as well as I should have. Missed opportunity and now I am missing the opportunity.
XO ILY YM
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Interesting Discovery
It’s funny how many blogs there are out there, or in here, whatever. But as I look through the many, many “blogs of note”, seeking a kindred spirit that just wants to write down their thoughts and post it for the world to see and critique, makes me giggle a little inside. I mean some of us blog to just put thoughts down. Some of us do it to keep friends and family up to date and some of us do it for attention.
Of course, there are many more reasons to blog and I am sure as many as there are bloggers at least. My main reason is to put down thoughts and musings that come to me through the day that I will most likely relate verbally with friends. However, I also want to try and paint a picture with written words and convey the scents, sounds and feelings of the event without voice inflection. To me that is power and strength. To write something and have someone else feel it with their imagination: To fill in the blanks left there either purposefully or not.
I see things occur every day that in my mind send me on a journey of "Why did that happen?" and "What could have been different?" or I think, "What thing in the past had to occur for this to have occurred right here in front of me now, this way?" I know, it’s either deep to some or ridiculous to others but I think like that. My mind stays busy with these things as I go about my day. I wonder if everything is just cause and effect. For example, I see a wreck in front of me and wonder if that was all set into motion because one person ten years ago handled a part on that car in the manufacturing plant instead of someone else because they went on break. I mean am I crazy for thinking like that?
If that person that was on break had waited ten minutes to take a break and DID handle that bumper, would that wreck have occurred? Silly but it keeps me busy wondering about the electric responses in our world as it is connected to our brains.
So I see these blogs and I wonder, "How many things have I actually effected just by my thoughts expressed, my words I use or the incidents I relate?" It gives me pause to ensure that I preface opinion appropriately and state facts intelligently. We live in an impressionable time and the more we present our lives, thoughts and beliefs online, the many more hundreds of people we have reading it and reacting to it somehow.
Many times I will read something and later that night I am lying awake and thinking to myself, “I wonder what they were really thinking when they said that?”
As the weather changes this year, my blog will revert more to the outdoors and the things I love to do and within that, there will be little stories of my family and our experiences peppered in there. In no way do I think I am special and my stories and experiences deserve the attention of the world, but I think that a small portion of us want to see what the other person is doing and see how much love and real compassion we have in us. We don’t see it enough in application and I believe blogs give us the few ounces of human dignity and compassion that we expect is truly resident in a being. The goodness that needs to exist to make sure our society keeps going in the right direction: The direction of taking care of each other and helping in the way that is from our strengths, even if it is just encouragement in the written word. We're all looking for something whether concious or subconciously.
So keep writing, keep reading. Some of these blogs are entertaining and some of them are just reaching out to see who is listening and can lend a kind ear and a word of support through a rough time. It’s not about superiority or ego. It’s about shrinking our enlarged community down to the true caring and interested readers that can help us help others and stay amused.
XO ILY YM
Of course, there are many more reasons to blog and I am sure as many as there are bloggers at least. My main reason is to put down thoughts and musings that come to me through the day that I will most likely relate verbally with friends. However, I also want to try and paint a picture with written words and convey the scents, sounds and feelings of the event without voice inflection. To me that is power and strength. To write something and have someone else feel it with their imagination: To fill in the blanks left there either purposefully or not.
I see things occur every day that in my mind send me on a journey of "Why did that happen?" and "What could have been different?" or I think, "What thing in the past had to occur for this to have occurred right here in front of me now, this way?" I know, it’s either deep to some or ridiculous to others but I think like that. My mind stays busy with these things as I go about my day. I wonder if everything is just cause and effect. For example, I see a wreck in front of me and wonder if that was all set into motion because one person ten years ago handled a part on that car in the manufacturing plant instead of someone else because they went on break. I mean am I crazy for thinking like that?
If that person that was on break had waited ten minutes to take a break and DID handle that bumper, would that wreck have occurred? Silly but it keeps me busy wondering about the electric responses in our world as it is connected to our brains.
So I see these blogs and I wonder, "How many things have I actually effected just by my thoughts expressed, my words I use or the incidents I relate?" It gives me pause to ensure that I preface opinion appropriately and state facts intelligently. We live in an impressionable time and the more we present our lives, thoughts and beliefs online, the many more hundreds of people we have reading it and reacting to it somehow.
Many times I will read something and later that night I am lying awake and thinking to myself, “I wonder what they were really thinking when they said that?”
As the weather changes this year, my blog will revert more to the outdoors and the things I love to do and within that, there will be little stories of my family and our experiences peppered in there. In no way do I think I am special and my stories and experiences deserve the attention of the world, but I think that a small portion of us want to see what the other person is doing and see how much love and real compassion we have in us. We don’t see it enough in application and I believe blogs give us the few ounces of human dignity and compassion that we expect is truly resident in a being. The goodness that needs to exist to make sure our society keeps going in the right direction: The direction of taking care of each other and helping in the way that is from our strengths, even if it is just encouragement in the written word. We're all looking for something whether concious or subconciously.
So keep writing, keep reading. Some of these blogs are entertaining and some of them are just reaching out to see who is listening and can lend a kind ear and a word of support through a rough time. It’s not about superiority or ego. It’s about shrinking our enlarged community down to the true caring and interested readers that can help us help others and stay amused.
XO ILY YM
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Football!!!!!
And the bowl games keep getting worse for me. I have no idea what Wisconsin’s staff was thinking tonight. You have three running backs averaging 7 yards a carry and you throw twice as much as run. ARE YOU STUPID? Wait, don’t answer, I’ll do it for you…
YES!
Now with that said, time to move on with my life. Pro is back on tomorrow and I have to watch with interest to see either the Bears, Chiefs or Colts get to the Super Bowl or it’s going to be a boring game for me. I mean, if Philadelphia and the Pats get in, I will be a Patriot fan for sure. That is unless Kevin Kolb is the QB and Michael Vick is nowhere to be found then I am an Eagles fan unless I’m betting on the game and I become a Pats fan again. What teams do I feel can make it in and what will the game be like?
Pats and Eagles – Interesting
Pats and Bears – Seen it already but interesting and nostalgic.
Pats and Falcons – Blow out and boring
Pats and Saints – Boring
Pats and Rams – Interesting with a good new QB starting against an experienced one.
Pats and Packers – Boring
Steelers and Anyone, boring, I’ll be rooting for anyone from the NFC.
All these games will be fun to watch I think…
Colts and Anyone but the Bears or Rams and I will be rooting Colts. Rams I will be rooting for the Rams, Bears, I will probably be a Colt fan.
Ravens or Chiefs I will be a Ravens or Chiefs fan unless the Bears or Rams are in then it will be tough for me.
Jets and anyone but Eagles I will be an NFC fan but the game will be boring.
Tampa Bay and Jacksonville aren’t ready yet and just don’t have it to get there this year.
So there you have it: “Jimmy Da Greek Marrier’s” entertainment evaluation for the Super Bowl.
Now for my predictions: One of these scenarios is what I feel will be the Super Bowl Match Up.
Most likely match ups?
New England vs. Chicago or Philadelphia
Pittsburgh vs. Chicago or Philadelphia
Indianapolis vs. Philadelphia
My wish match-up given the teams strengths and most likely out come?
Indianapolis vs. Chicago
New England vs. Chicago or Philadelphia.
I’m still holding out hope for St. Louis and Kansas City though. That would be cool to see Eric Berry get a ring and see Sam Bradford in his first.
I am sure to some of you this dialogue is riveting, but I was just playing some of this out in my head and weighed my effort and want to see the super bowl based on the match ups and the stigmas or draws associated with each.
All righty then. Nothing enlightening to impart today so I will send you on your way until next time…adieu!
XO ILY YM
YES!
Now with that said, time to move on with my life. Pro is back on tomorrow and I have to watch with interest to see either the Bears, Chiefs or Colts get to the Super Bowl or it’s going to be a boring game for me. I mean, if Philadelphia and the Pats get in, I will be a Patriot fan for sure. That is unless Kevin Kolb is the QB and Michael Vick is nowhere to be found then I am an Eagles fan unless I’m betting on the game and I become a Pats fan again. What teams do I feel can make it in and what will the game be like?
Pats and Eagles – Interesting
Pats and Bears – Seen it already but interesting and nostalgic.
Pats and Falcons – Blow out and boring
Pats and Saints – Boring
Pats and Rams – Interesting with a good new QB starting against an experienced one.
Pats and Packers – Boring
Steelers and Anyone, boring, I’ll be rooting for anyone from the NFC.
All these games will be fun to watch I think…
Colts and Anyone but the Bears or Rams and I will be rooting Colts. Rams I will be rooting for the Rams, Bears, I will probably be a Colt fan.
Ravens or Chiefs I will be a Ravens or Chiefs fan unless the Bears or Rams are in then it will be tough for me.
Jets and anyone but Eagles I will be an NFC fan but the game will be boring.
Tampa Bay and Jacksonville aren’t ready yet and just don’t have it to get there this year.
So there you have it: “Jimmy Da Greek Marrier’s” entertainment evaluation for the Super Bowl.
Now for my predictions: One of these scenarios is what I feel will be the Super Bowl Match Up.
Most likely match ups?
New England vs. Chicago or Philadelphia
Pittsburgh vs. Chicago or Philadelphia
Indianapolis vs. Philadelphia
My wish match-up given the teams strengths and most likely out come?
Indianapolis vs. Chicago
New England vs. Chicago or Philadelphia.
I’m still holding out hope for St. Louis and Kansas City though. That would be cool to see Eric Berry get a ring and see Sam Bradford in his first.
I am sure to some of you this dialogue is riveting, but I was just playing some of this out in my head and weighed my effort and want to see the super bowl based on the match ups and the stigmas or draws associated with each.
All righty then. Nothing enlightening to impart today so I will send you on your way until next time…adieu!
XO ILY YM
Quick Quip...
Well I’m up, it’s 2011 and I don’t feel different. I am still waiting for spring. I still see pictures and entries of friends in bands across the country that make me long to play again. I see pictures of the outdoors that make me want to hike and fish as well as take pictures and water color. I have so many things I love and I have not yet reached a level of satisfaction with any of them.
I saw my friend Mickey has an active band life going again. He is pursuing his interest healthily and sounds and looks great. I applaud you my dear friend. I miss you even more.
I got news of an old high school friend passing yesterday. I am not sure how he passed though. I saw pictures of him with his wife and he looked very happy. I wish the best for his family and children and if the pictures tell the story I believe he left after living a happy life. I feel sorrow for his family and their loss. I remember him as a kind and happy person and from the looks of it he only got happier and kinder. He must have left a large hole in the lives of his friends with is passing.
My eyes seem to be blurry this morning and make it hard to read: Very watery and allergy like. It’s making me angry as I try to see the updates and news articles on the internet here.
I shall stop rambling now and try to focus on waking up fully. I have no reason to be hung over or tired as I didn’t stay up all night partying but stayed up and watched boring TV until I fell asleep.
More later as I become inspired and maybe even informative or funny. We’ll see I guess.
XO ILY YM
I saw my friend Mickey has an active band life going again. He is pursuing his interest healthily and sounds and looks great. I applaud you my dear friend. I miss you even more.
I got news of an old high school friend passing yesterday. I am not sure how he passed though. I saw pictures of him with his wife and he looked very happy. I wish the best for his family and children and if the pictures tell the story I believe he left after living a happy life. I feel sorrow for his family and their loss. I remember him as a kind and happy person and from the looks of it he only got happier and kinder. He must have left a large hole in the lives of his friends with is passing.
My eyes seem to be blurry this morning and make it hard to read: Very watery and allergy like. It’s making me angry as I try to see the updates and news articles on the internet here.
I shall stop rambling now and try to focus on waking up fully. I have no reason to be hung over or tired as I didn’t stay up all night partying but stayed up and watched boring TV until I fell asleep.
More later as I become inspired and maybe even informative or funny. We’ll see I guess.
XO ILY YM
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