Another day another Dollar…. or maybe $400… LOL

New job is working out well.  I love it.  Training, and challenges and work, and better drive, and just lots of good stuff so far.  Keep in mind its only been like two weeks so far, so I’m sure I’ll find something to grip about eventually but hopfully not.

Today is Nick’s B-day so I gotta give him a quick shout out.  “HEY NICK!”.

Jess is graduating Friday.  She is dying to know what I got her for a graduation gift.  I think she is going to love it.  If you want to know, send me a note and I’ll tell you as long as you promise not to tell her.

Gotta jet, work calls.

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.

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

Red Robin

Yay, so yesterday I was able to head out with the wifey and sister over to Red Robin. I love their burgers and I hadn’t been there in over a year.  It was nice to get away and hang out with the wifey and sister.

Today is Shadows 3rd swimming appointment.  We should be leaving here in like 2 hours or so to go and take him over to Middleburg.  Man the drive out there really really sucks.  Jess picked up his new medication on thursday.  So far he seems to be fine on it.  I think he is still trying to adjust to such a lower activity level.  I mean we can’t play or anything like that.  All he has are walks and swimming and recently he has been bailing on his walks.

I actually have the day off from work tomorrow.  YAY!. I have a meeting with a consulting client earlier in the morning but after that I’m good to go.  Then its back to work on Tuesday (no telecommute day for me this week cause of the Monday holiday).

DirecTV got installed yesterday.  I have to say that it is really different and I’m still trying to learn what channels are what.  The DVR appears to be cool and we have already decked out our shows for when to record what.  The installation was great, a little slow though as the person doing the install was training, but thats ok.  Funny thing was I called Comcast to cancel all my service and they told me I couldn’t because I had to return the box first.. Well I’m not gonna pay for two days worth of service that I’m not using so I called back a couple of hours later, got someone different and they cancelled my account fine….  As you can see a main reason I’m leaving comcast (every person you talk to you get a different answer).

The downstairs toliot over at mom and dads is running which I believe explains their high water bill.  The water had been shut off, but I don’t think my parents know about it, so I’m gonna give them a call soon and see if they want me to fix it.

I guess thats all for now.

 

Its a Miracle

WOW.. I cannot believe my eyes… I actually just experienced my first meeting at work in which something actually got done that was productive.  I mean don’t get me wrong, we have meetings all the time, but I never walk out of there feeling like something productive got done.  This time I did .

Nothing really new happening.  My foot has been hurting me recently and that has kinda sucked, cause its hard to drive and walk when your right foot is hurting.  Not sure why it is hurting, but I figure if it still hurts in like a week, I’ll make an appointment to see a doctor.

Another miracle happened last night.  Shadow was 100% calm.  What made him so calm…. No MOM it wasn’t Valium…. It was exercise… Cherokee (Jess’s Parents Dog) came over and played for like a couple of hours.  Its hard to believe that all this time, maybe all he needed was some hella hella exercise…  The down side of Cherokee coming over is it really really really hurt his beg leg, to where he could bearly walk anyways… So maybe he wasn’t tired, but just really unable to move much because of his back leg… I don’t know.

Jess started school this week.  You’d have to ask her how it is going cause I can’t speak for her.

Not much is going on this weekend.  I believe Jess is heading out with Dana for some wedding expo stuff on sunday which leaves me with the day by myself.  Not sure if AJ is gonna want to game the entire day but he might.  Anyone that wants to hang out feel free to let me know now so I can plan.

So I ran through the taxes via Turbo Tax on the internet today.  Should be getting something back, but we’ll just have to wait and see when the final W-2’s hit the mailbox.  I did some estimates off of my last pay stubs.   I’m thinking that the day I get my last W-2 (Just waiting for my current employer to get there shit together) that I’m gonna head over to HR Block and see if they can help find me all these deductions I keep hearing about on the internet.  Who knows, maybe I’ll get some more…..  I wonder if they do something that if you don’t like the refund or got a bigger one some place else they will give you the different or something… If anyone knows or has comments about HR Block, please post comments.

Well I guess thats all for now.  Lunch break is over, and its back to work.  I have to say that this week has been the first week in which I have actually kept busy at work…  Next week will suck cause I’ll be in DC on wednesday… Man I hate dc… and the metro, and everything.

Wedding

SO I’m suppose to post a big blog about the wedding and honeymoon and stuff. Well since I’m at work and playing a week worths of catch up I don’t really have time so I’m gonna give you a couple of bullet points.
1. Wedding was on oct 20th
2. It was Awesome
3. Reception was very cool with lots of dancing
4. YAY for Free French Fries
5. Night of the Wedding was Awesome
6. YAY Sex
7. Got evacuated from hotel at 2:30 in the morning
8. Some asshole used a fire extinguisher on a smoke detector
9. Left for Airport around 3:30 am
10. Long flight and bus ride Finally Arrive at the Resort
11. YAY for Free Food, Drink, and Service
12. More Sex
13. Lots more Sex
14. Pool Time
15. Even more sex
16. um… Sex
17. Time to go home
18. Long flight again back home
19. HI SHADOW!!!! WE MISSED YOU
20. I wanted to have 20 things..

Soo Close yet soo Far Away

Wedding is coming up this Saturday now. Pretty darn close and interesting to look back on the past 3 years with Jess and see how many times we looked upon this date and thought man it would never come. How many things changed from the original plan, and the first time her and I sat down in front of a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to work out finances and decide when it a good date to get married would be. I have to say that nothing goes according to plan because man that original plan couldn’t have changed more. We bought a house, I changed jobs, we got shadow, my brother moved in, and moved out, furniture was delivered and destroyed, I entered school, and graduated not having to take any student loans . But I guess that is life right. I’m guessing the next couple of days are going to go so fast, yet so slow at the same time. So much to do at the house to get it ready for people to see, and then Jess has to finish out the last couple of wedding things. I still gotta get a bathing suit for Jamaca, and get something for the groomsmen for the wedding. BTW if anyone has any good ideas, please let me know.

Not really sure what else to say right now. So I guess thats all for now folks.

Once Again

Alright lets try this post again.Much has happened since the last time that I posted so I will try to cover each topic quickly yet still giving it the respect that it deserves.

Jess’s Grandfather past away June 19th 2007 at 19:35. This really hit us hard and took much of our time. He will be deeply missed.  Check out this poem as just something that always comes to mind when I think of people dying.

Dad has moved on over to England.  Mom and Tiffany should be joining him sometime in November time frame.  He will be back for the wedding in october, in which time they will pack up all their stuff.  Once mom sells the house she will join him.  Tiffany has to be over their no later then end of November because of the laws over in England.

Shadow is being shadow.  We will have had him 12 weeks this saturday.  YAY!.  He has finally started going outside I would say about 90% of the time.  Now we just need to start working on the other 10%.  Currently his favorite toys include, Jessica’s feet, his 2 liter bottle of coke (which is bigger then him so its fun to watch him play with it) and his big bone.  YAY for puppy time.

David is dating a cuban.  Not sure if we can say “dating” but well he is seeing a cuban.  At least online, not sure about real life, she still could be made up.  (Just messing david).  See david, I told you that you just can’t get rid of us.  First Me, then Angela, then Lourdes, and now your women.

Uncle Fidel made a 100% recovery, or at least that is what the news said.  Maybe I can take over the country the next time he iis near death.

The Fourth of July came and left .  YAY for things that go BOOM.

Nick actually stayed two consectutive nights at the house.  I’m begining to think he lives here and pays rent or something…  Ohh wait he does… LOL, just playing nick.

My mom got a myspace.  Here is what I think the URL is: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=207417095

And last but not least, I just farted a little ways back their.

CYA

~NARF

No AC

So my rents finally decided to turn off the AC because it is sooo “cool outside”. What they failed to realize is that it is now cooler outside then it is in my house. I’m personally a low 70 degree type of person. last night it was 80. That is way too high for me. I figure it this way. If you are cold you can always throw on an extra shirt or something to help keep you warm, however if you are hot, their is only so much that you can take off. :’(

The engagement party was last night. It was fun and we all had a good time. Even scored some gifts, and Jess loves those candle sticks from mom. I can’t wait to crack open the book that nickshadows got for me. It looks intersting and should offer some good advice and guidence. I also can’t wait to read what everyone wrote in “The Book”. No its not the Bible, it is a book that my co-workers got me so that everyone could write their realtionship/marriage advice in it. I really want to see what people say, and some people have already written the same exact thing not knowing it was already in the book. Interesting though uh? I guess it must be important…. “NEVER GO TO BED MAD….”

POKER NIGHT is coming soon. So keep open a $10 bill and come enjoy some beer and good times. Time to start up a guy night or something so that we can get away from all the crap that goes on during the week. More details to follow later. Let me know if you are up for the game.

Work this week has really really really sucked, Lots of problems or more so over, 1 BIG problem. We got it resolved without even knowing what caused it and therefore we have no way to protect from it in the future which is really annoying. We need to start doing some root cause analysis and not let things just sit on the back burner forever until they happen again. THen we dust them off from the shelve and find a “fix” and put them back up their.

I’m heading out to lunch soon with Jessica’s grandparents(her dad’s side). It should be fun. Then we are heading back to my house for more school work, and the game. Come on skins, 0-2 can change today. Your going up against the worst team the in the leauge. Don’t make us 0-3.

Gotta jet, I’ll post later.. by later it could be months.

NARF