Weekend Recap

So this weekend was my B-Day.  I’m going to do my best to post a quick weekend recep.  On Saturday (My Actual B-Day) I ended up getting up around 7:30 8:00 and hitting up Destroy All Humans until around 10:30am when we needed to head over to the vet to pick up shadows medicine and then the weekly trip over to my parents house to make sure everything was ok and it was.  From their I headed to Golden Corral for lunch with Jess’s family to celebrate my birthday.  After that, we headed home and I hit up some more Destroy All Humans until about 2:00pm in which we head to the Swim Center in middleburg to take shadow for his normal saturday swim.  (We had Fun!!!).   When I got home I played some more Destroy All Humans until around 11:00 when Jess got home.  We then headed out for a quick bite to eat at BK and then the day was over.   YAY for an awesome birthday.  I really only wanted to game all day and just have a day when I can relax and chill.  I did enjoy taking shadow for swimming cause it is always fun!

Sunday was the party day.   The morning as taken up with some light cleaning (I say light cause I really didn’t do much besides a bathroom, vacuming the stairs, the living room, and the dining room and moving some stuff around so we could put the food out).  Jess really took care of the rest and she did a fantastic job… YAY JESS.

Around 11:00 Jess showed up after running some errands with Michael.  He had brought me a gift that they said I just had to open right now.  Upon opening it, it revealed a…. WII.   YAY!  That totally shocked me, and was awesome.  Michael and I spent the rest of the time before the party hooking up the WII and running some WII related errands like getting a points card, and picking up a game.  We also ran to two different stores looking for cake decorating frosting tips for Jess and she didn’t even end up using them.  But ohhh well.

Nick and Megan arrived first.  Megan brought her awesome Monkey Bread that was a HUGE hit.  To be honest, Nick was being an ass for a good majority of the party.  He ended up pouring beer on shadows head while he was laying on the carpet.  That really really really pissed me off.  Like WTF, what gives you the right to come into my house, and 1. even think it would be funny to pour beer on my dogs head, and 2. pour beer inside of my house, (it got on the dog and the carpet).  Like WTF.

Melissa followed up next and brought with her the newest edition to the family.  Lula Belle.  She is a 10 week old teacup Pomeranian.  I don’t have pictures but I think Mel has some on her myspace account.  Mel was pretty chill throughout the party but had to leave early cause she is getting ready for the trip to Florida. YAY Mel.

TJ and Laura followed in next, followed by AJ and Dana, and finally Zach.  I would say all in all it was a great party.  We had some Wii Super Smash brothers going which Dana, AJ, and Michael totally was killing everyone on.  AJ by far was kicking everyones butt.  Thanks goes out to Jess for putting it all together.

Finally someone drew what I wanted to say….about pokemon

I have to admit that when I was younger I found Pokemon fascinating just because it was a crazy game boy game that I happened to enjoy. Recently I like to leave Cartoon Network and other kid programs on for my dog and I happen to catch it again every so often, but have been interested to find that good old Team Rocket is still in the show… I mean dam, they are still following this kid around???? Finally this awesome comic from VGCats puts it all into perspective.

Havn’t written in awhile

My grandma is very sick…  Thats all I have to say right now.

IRS Stimulus Plan

Curious what your tax refund for the 2008 Stimulus plan is? I know that I am. Well wait no longer because the IRS has a website where you can answer some simple questions and it will tell you what your going to get.  Just make sure to have your 2007 tax return paperwork with you and check out: http://www.irs.gov/app/espc. Let me know your thoughts and such below.

Finally got Shadow Pictures Up and Working

So I was finally able to move my “Shadow Pictures” from my myspace account over to rock you so I can post it on WordPress. YAY. You should see the link at the top of the page and it is called Shadow Pictures, if not you can navigate here: http://nonatheninja.wordpress.com/shadow-pictures/. I have added some of the most recent pictures of him. Just to recap when we got him he was very under weight at 7 pounds. As of last Sunday when we took him swimming, he is now an impressive 80 pounds even. YAY! I love my puppy.

Father Forgive Them — Cross Movement

Havn’t heard this guys in awhile. When I was at my brothers this weekend he happened to play this on his IPOD. I have to say that after doing some YouTube video searches I kinda like the group and probably gonna check out their more recent albums.

http://optemo.imeem.com/music/OSugSmTO/cross_movement_father_forgive_them/

I’m suppose to write about life

So lets see if I can write a quick update about life.

1. My dog just cost me $300 bucks because he got a stick stuck in his mouth and had to be sedated in order to have it removed.
2. I went to Myrtle Beach last weekend and had a great time. We are going back next year, probably gonna end up buying a time share there if shadow doesn’t eat up all my money by then.
3. Heading to Nicks this weekend for some Best Man time and to pick out tuxes. YAY! Tuxs
4. Melissa is now dating a new guy. But he kinda looks like nick… but shhhhhhh
5. I Love my Wifey
6. I might be changing jobs soon or maybe doing some part time consulting on a more frequent basis.
7. Semi – Pro the movie sucked.
8. Check this out to see a guy beat Mario 1 (The original) in 5 minutes (World Record).  http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ie4E3Bmqb5w  Please don’t bitch about it until you read the information he included with the video as why some things worked.

Thats all

Remember when gas was $0.99 a gallon?

Is anyone else getting the Wake Up call when it comes to Renewable energy sources? I mean lets take a step back here and examine some quick math. In 1997 Regular Unleaded Gasoline was $0.99 per gallon. As of 2007 the average price of gasoline was around $2.80 per gallon. That is almost a 200% increase in 10 years. Recent “experts” say gas this summer will top $3.80 per gallon for regular unleaded. Why haven’t we funded more renewable energy research? In my opinion it all comes down to the money. Gas companies are simply making too much profit, why should they fund something that is going to take out of their bottom dollar and remove money from their pockets? Hydrogen alternatives have been out since at least 2000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_station) yet they still are not fully implemented? Gas companies help control the researching and funding into building new cars and why build a more environment friendly car when you can simply build a car that will continue to line their pockets? Not sure if anyone has told you yet, but the environment is running out of Oil and other natural resources that help run our cars and heat our houses and yet Japan has a more wide-spread hydrogen fueling stations then the USA?

To me it is just intesting to see that the world is more concerned with money then it is with actually keeping the world intact.  What is the point of money if you have no place to spend it huh?

More on T. Johnson

Looks like here is the latest http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/032008/03012008/360385.  More people have come forward…. Sad… really sad.

Help Save Manassas!!!!

So I have to say that this weekend, we didn’t have shadow as he was doing a trial border at Waggin Tails so we had some time to just sit back and relax without worrying about him. During this time, Jess was goofing around on the internet finding articles regarding my last post here, and came across Help Save Manassas. I have to say that after doing some research I can agree with this group and I hope that many others will as well. I have always been the person to say that if you are not a Refugee and then you need to seek the legal way to come into this country.

Illegals in this country are a BIG Gear Grinder for me. My grandparents on my mothers side came to this country legally and followed all the proper channels and I don’t understand why they can’t. Not to mention that once they are here, they expect to have all the same rights and abilities as everyone else, yet continue to break the law by not paying taxes, or obtaining work illegally. To make things worse, there are companies that actually help and employ these people and the government / police have done minimal to solve it. I can get in my car right now and drive by at least 4 labor sites in Manassas and watch as the police drive by the same places and do nothing. I see company vans pick up illegals for a day of work and yet the government does nothing to fine and shutdown these companies. It really is ridiculous.

Yes I know of the excuses, “We don’t have enough staff” or “We don’t want to raise taxes to take care of the problem”.  I mean I would support a tax increase if it would resolve the problem.  I have heard that “they are an important part of the economy doing the jobs we don’t want to do”.  Um… WTF, I bet I could find plenty of people willing to do the jobs if they were available and the people were not being paid $2.00 an hour.  It really is crazy how people justify illegal activities and they are no better then the junky who steals from someone because they need their next fix.  What makes it sad is the majority of the world don’t look at it as illegal acts, they look at it like “this is how it is.”  What would happen to the world if we looked at the drug business or bank robberies as “this is how it is”?

The only word to describe this problem is a virus.  A virus takes up resources, and overpopulates consuming more and more resources until it kills the host.  A virus can literally trick the body into thinking it is a good thing and should be kept around, keeping the body from fighting it off…  How long until this host is killed?

That is why I whole heartedly support Help Save Manassas.  I urge you to do the same..  and yes I’m open and ready to hear comments on the subject from any person who agrees or disagrees or really doesn’t care.