Monkey's, Storms and blow outs...

As I wrote earlier, I got my truck back. Then on Saturday, we had a tire go out because the tread was separating: Wonderful. I ended up spending almost to the penny exactly what we saved on the registration. I had snapped a picture in Elgin on the way to the DMV that made me laugh and I wanted to write about it. Now looking back, I think it was the supreme being telling me, SAVE YOUR MONEY. You’ll need it.”


The picture below, as you can see, is a Jesus picture next to a spoke rim. When I first saw it, I thought, “Now that’s an eclectic shop there. You can get everything from rims to Jesus pictures.” Now it makes more sense, “You’re going to have a blow out and in the end, you will need the money you’re about to save.” Thanks. Didn’t make it any better for my wife having to spend the money she “BANKED”, like on ‘The Weakest Link’, but it was an omen I guess.

Fast forward to Sunday, now I am achy because I tried to change the tire myself and I couldn’t get the jack to work properly and no way was I going to risk causing more damage to my truck so soon after I got it so we called a tow service to change it out for us. That’s another story. It caused me to be late to pick up my desk I wanted. No big problem there I just don’t like looking lie a flake. We had to change the time from the morning for reasons I want get into and then this made it look like I was a loser and flaked when I really missed the time because of real incidents. Anyway, passed that now.

We had Keira’s early birthday party and she had a lot of fun. There were a lot of people there. We went to Monkey Joe’s, which, for those that don’t know is a huge air jumper place where kids go and behave like monkey’s and it’s okay. I only have to pay $10 and make sure she isn’t an evil bastion from hell and she can romp and frolic about as much as she likes. We had some folks from the NOC bring their kids as we haven’t really got her socialized with anyone in Schaumburg yet, and they were extremely cool. She liked having them there but I think she was overwhelmed with the ability to lose her mind and see so many kids in one place she didn’t get time to really bond with them. She will have opportunities in the future as we live closer to two of the families and we will have picnics and such for her to get more fun in with them.

While at the party, we had a huge storm roll through. Knocked the power out twice. All the air jumps were deflating, kids were screaming like they were on the Simpson’s and riding on flaming amusement park rides. It was a bit funny but it was also a little concerning as the rides deflated and kids were on top of them. Afterward we found out the worst of the storm was directly over us, we received the largest amount of hail and lightening in the area. Nice.

Back to work now, lots going on and I am tired.

ILY XO YM

It's My Blog...

This will probably be a ramble but oh well. It’s my blog.


American Idol

Sucks this season. Many reasons. The contestants suck. The judges suck. Although Steven Tyler did provide me a different view of him and see him as a cool and considerate person, the judging has been awful. Every performance regardless of how crappy and error filled as well as just having no substance to them to even say it was good karaoke, is met with THAT WAS AWESOME! You Owned it! You were terrific! BLAH BLAH BLAH!” How about giving these kids some direction they can use so they can improve and be better instead of just so touchy feely nice?! Eventually these kids have to perform and one of them will be doing it under contract. I’ve them some frikin direction! That’s why you’re there!

Work

I am glad to say two folks in my department have been promoted this week. Great for them but now I have to begin the process to back fill.

Home

Got my truck back. I go tomorrow to get it registered again and I am back on the road. I plan to get some things to dress it up and repair the cosmetic problems lingering as well as maybe some renewed lights and such to make it a little cleaner and better at night.

Home Front

My wife has been an organizing and knock out a list fool the past few weeks. She has made it so we can get everything done we need done and appropriated the right amount of fundage to purchase me this!

Also she is packing and stacking so we can move easily. Next week we go paint some in the new place and take our first truck load of boxes up to store.

Now I should get back to work and quit complaining about American idol crap.

ILY XO YM

OO OOO that smell....

Been awhile since I posted, but I have been under the weather and not in the mood. Also for me, I have been tied up with work and none of it is anything I should post about really. Nothing bad but nothing that should make it onto a BLOG.


So review time is over. All our reviews are done and we have been working on informing folks of raises and such so it has been a happy week in that regard. We have been doing a lot of house keeping items getting ready to improve our processes and such so no one has been running slowly.

We took another trip up to the house we will be renting and took both kids to see it. Keira of course loved it and is all ready. She loved seeing horses and cows and wanted to jump right in. She saw the rooster and hen and said they were loud and didn’t like them. She wants to paint her room and be a big girl and sleep in it. Awesome! On track! The boy seemed to like it as well. We shall see.

After we viewed the house, we went to Walmart to try the new Walmart out and make sure it fit the bill. While shopping for our groceries, we went down the drink aisle. In the aisle was a gentlemen using one of the wheel carts for the handicap. Now I know some folks have it difficult to clean properly and have a hard time bathing. Apparently this gentlemen did. And wow! I swear to you I haven’t smelled anything that made me gag and throw up in my mouth in years. That smell, even when he was gone, lingered and hung around. I walked backwards past where he was hoping maybe that traveling in the opposite direction will thwart the lingering. Nope! OMG I was in a backwash of funk and it floored me. Melina was walking on looking at the ceiling lights covering her nose as he passed and left me in the wake of the drifts. I was gagging and hacking and wanted a life alert to get someone’s damn attention! HELP! I’m smoten and cant smell anymore!

I was so close to puking and to now I can think of the funky fungus odiferous melodious mess that was this man’s “eau de toilette” and I weep. Lord that was funky and strong. Putting anything George Clinton could play to shame. Lets hope we don’t cross paths again or I may actually hurl next time.

My wife has some funny stories about the folks that came to see the house and her day on Monday but I will allow her to relay that as it is first hand evidence.

Now the house was supposed to be showed on Saturday. No one came. Then on Sunday, a hoard of people came through babbling and looky looing . Nothing of fruition.

On Saturday I also took that opportunity to take little miss to the theater for her first moving. SHE LOVED IT! The experience was awesome and she had a blast. We didn’t watch the entire movie because she got bored but we got drinks and popcorn and treats and relaxed the whole time. It was a great time.

Looking to this week we plan to start more packing and fixing things and moving on! Woodstock here we come!!!!!!

XO ILY YM