Clouds and Cars

Speeding by at 100x faster than normal.

A view from the bedroom window:

When I’m bored I sit and watch the cars and clouds go by.
Yes, I’m easily amused when I’m bored.

from www.flickr.com posted with vodpod

Make a Wish

A lot of people are freaking out over Flickr’s new video service. I think it’s a great idea if people use it how it’s intended to be used.
Flickr only gives you 1.5 minutes of maximum video time to use. The reason for the limited time is because Flickr video is intended to be used to capture brief moments of time similar to a photo…except..well…it’s a video!
Here’s one I made of Gabriel attempting to understand what he’s supposed to do with his birthday candles. He can’t figure it out so someone finally blows the candles out for him. I call it “Make A Wish”.

from www.flickr.com posted with vodpod

Changing my looks.

I’ve decided that along with changing my lifestyle by becoming healthy and fit that I would also change my looks too. So I decided to shave off my mustache and just stick with a goatee. I’ve had a full mustache/goatee thing for around 4 years now and I’ve grown kind of tired of it. Especially after the other morning while I was trying to eat my cereal and all I was getting in my mouth was hair from my overgrown mustache.

So I went in to the bathroom and shaved it off. My daughter freaked out quite a bit because she doesn’t ever remember seeing me without a mustache.
I think that I look better and I think I’ll stick with this look for a while

Before and After

Sesame Street - How DARE YOU show that on T.V.!

Daniel and Skylar were just sitting here watching Sesame Street. Ernie came on and he’s sitting in the bathtub singing about his Rubber Ducky. Suddenly Daniel starts freaking out about how inappropriate it is to show “something like that” on t.v.
I ask him what he’s talking about and he says he’s talking about them showing Ernie sitting in the bathtub and how gross it is. Daniel is sitting there eating his waffles and he tells me that it’s just ruined his appetite and he can no longer eat. Then he leaves the room until he hears that Ernie has finally quit signing about his rubber ducky.
Daniel then comes back in the room and tells me that Sesame Street should be taken off t.v. for grossing kids out like that. LOL

Being as intelligent Daniel is, I think it was just an elaborate story to get out of eating his waffles.

Settling In

A crappy tour of our cluttered “new” house.

Update soon.

We got our internet on a couple days ago at the new house. I haven’t felt like updating yet though. I’ll try to get around to it in a day or two.

I love this house and I’m glad to finally be out of the ghetto. I’m tired though… So, I’ll have an update soon about everything….

Busy Busy

We officially MOVE out of this crappy neighborhood tomorrow. Tomorrow is going to be a busy day.

We still have stuff to get done around here which will have to be done in the morning.
I have to go get the Uhaul in the morning too.

Donna has a bunch of friends from work and elsewhere coming over to help move which will be really good too.

Our internet isn’t going to be on until the 7th at the new house so I won’t be around for a week.

Then, come to find out, they can’t give us our Elite internet speeds (620 kb/s) at the new house for some reason. So we’ll be knocked back down to the measly Pro speeds (320 kb/s)…and we’ll still have to pay the same price!! That sucks.

I need to get off here and go take a shower and get ready for tomorrow! I’ll be glad when it’s over.

Still recovering and preparing to leave The Ghetto!

My god, I thought I was finally getting over my sickness the other day but it turns out it STILL wasn’t over.
On Saturday, the crap I had in my chest started to break up which caused me to have severe chest pain due to congestion.
Everytime I coughed or sneezed it felt like someone was stabbing me in the chest with a knife. It’s still a little sore today but it’s almost healed (I think; I HOPE!)
I don’t think I’ve had any shit like this for a long time. I usually have something for a day or two and that’s it and it’s usually mild. Not this time.
I honestly think I never hardly used to get sick because I smoked cigarettes…constantly. When I smoked I didn’t get sick and when I did it was for a very short time. Not that I’m going to ever start smoking again. I’d rather be sick for a week than have to inhale ONE puff off of one of those Godforsaken things.

We are officially moving in six days. Which means I have about five days to pack up the rest of the house and get it ready for the move. I also have to go out to the garage and see what kind of shit we have out there. The garage is nothing but a place where we store our crap we don’t want in the house.

Donna has decided that we are going to rent some storage after we move since we definitely don’t want all that stuff from the garage piled in the new house we are renting. We definitely need storage because we have a lot of crap. I should say my wife and the kids have a lot of crap. I don’t have the packrat syndrome like they do - thank God. In fact, sometimes while I’m cleaning I throw their crap in the trash and they never even miss it

So Saturday is Uhaul day when we officially move. Looks like I am going to be the one packing most everything again. I think that’s how it was last time too.
Doesn’t really matter, I’ll just be glad to get into the new house because it’s huge and it’s awesome! I love the fact that it has two bathrooms. That’ll be really nice in the morning when I wake up and have to take a leak something terrible. I won’t have to piss out the back door like I do now because someone else is in the bathroom taking their sweet-ass time.

And, as I’ve mentioned before, we’ll be out of the ghetto. So instead of watching the police and ambulance stop down the street or next door, I’ll be able to watch them race down Kansas Avenue towards this shitty neighborhood.

So I only have to say one thing before I leave this place: Goodbye and good riddance to all you gang bangin’, dope selling, coke snortin’, juvenile delinquent spray paintin’, brand new gold rimmed car drivin’ even though you don’t have a job uneducated worthless pieces of ghetto crap!

And here I shall refrain from any more stereotypes. Though all stereotypes are true for this neighborhood.

Have a nice day… fo shizzle!

Unsexy am I

I started getting sick on Monday - Yesterday was the worst. Today I’m feeling better and recovering.
Four days of being sick hasn’t done anything for my looks.
I’d like to say I look like this because I’ve had the flu. In all honesty, I probably look like this 75% of the time whether I have the flu or not. Just ask my wife who sometimes affectionately refers to me as “a bum”.

Perhaps it’s time for a shower, shave, and a change of clothes!

Sick X2

So I thought what I had was a mild cold. And I thought that I was over it on Wednesday.

Turns out I wasn’t over it at all - it was just beginning.

I woke up yesterday morning with the worst headache of my life, my whole body hurt, I was cold and couldn’t get warm, and I was so tired I couldn’t keep my eyes open.

I slept almost all day yesterday.

Last night I didn’t sleep worth a crap because my body hurt.
Finally, about 4 this morning my fever broke. I knew it had broke because I started to sweat…profusely.

Today I feel better other than I feel like I’ve been ran over by an 18 wheeler and I still don’t have too much strength..

No, it wasn’t a cold….it was the damn FLU!

Weird thing is, I never got nauseous and I never puked. In fact, I was starving and all I wanted to do is eat. I’ve never had a flu like it.