The 13th
Today has been a very lazy day because I happened to wake up with back pain. My wife says it's my psychotic nerve and gave me a good rub down a couple of times, threw a heating pad on me and showed me some stretches to do that will help with the issue.
Either way, the pain I was in this morning sucked and I'm glad that it has let up a bit. Still hurts if I move the wrong way and sitting in certain positions doesn't feel too good but I will live to fight another day.
I am just hoping it feels better tomorrow because walking around work all day long feeling like this is going to suck, not to mention tomorrow is National VD and all.
So, while I was being lazy today I decided to finally sit down and beat the game on my 3DS that I started playing sometime in December. Considering the only gaming time I have gotten in is on portable devices it just goes to show how much this little tiny human spawn has cut into my gaming time. When I could normally be playing a game I find myself staring a this creation of mine in awe and wonder, but that's a good thing.
So In Love.
Final play time (per the save file) to beat the game and get ONE of the endings is 50 hours 5 minutes and 24 seconds. My 3DS shows me that I've spent nearly 60 hours playing the game (because when I am in battle for 45 minutes and die that time goes to a void that does not get counted and I have to start from my last save).
The game is Devil Survivor: Overclocked and I'm quite happy with it. I started playing Devil Survivor sometime around 2009 or 2010 when it first game out and I was on my original DS and had an R4 card that I was bringing to work so that I could let my customers try some games out as kind of an In House Demo and also put music on there because a quiet store is a boring store.
Needless to say I started playing Devil Survivor to try it out for myself and absolutely loved the game except for the fact that when I got to the first real boss I could not beat him for anything. I probably tried about 20 times or so before giving up and putting the game to rest.
Years later the 3DS comes out with a re-mastered version with full voice acting and an extra day tacked on to the end that added extra endings and I decided to give it a go again.
It wasn't until I hit the first boss again that I remembered why I stopped playing it to begin with. However this time I did a little extra level grinding and I stuck with it and I got through it. After beating the game I am happy that I did because this game was simply a joy to play.
There is a Devil Survivor 2 out and I actually own it and was going to jump into it but doing a random search came up with Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker which is their re-mastered version of the game that adds extra stuff and a ton of extra play time (based on what I am reading online) which almost doubles the length of the game.
Also based on what I am reading is that I can import my old save from the vanilla game and jump right into the extra content or I can start a new save but I think I am just going to sell off/trade in the vanilla version and wait for the new version to come out before getting to it.
In the meantime I need to move on to another handheld game and after a lot of debating I think I have decided to go with Persona 4 Golden for the PS Vita. This is most likely going to be another long journey and I really don't expect to be done with it for a couple of months because based on what I know it's pretty easy to sink 100 hours into the game.
I'd like to also go back to DS: Overclocked to get some of the other endings but I probably won't do that. Either way it's nice to get a game beat this year and I am looking forward to getting back my console systems so that I can finish Shadow of Mordor and a few other games that I have been looking forward to like Dragon Age and The Walking Dead Telltale games.
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Friday, February 13, 2015
Thursday, January 15, 2015
All is Quiet
The house is currently quiet.
While her job might not know it at this point my wife is done working for the next four months. She was supposed to work today and tomorrow but she just physically cannot do it, and probably mentally as well. She is tired, she is weighed down. She has this big baby inside her currently waiting to come out and be welcomed into the world and into our lives and this is just 8 days away.
Eight days until everything changes.
Eight days left to enjoy the quiet, the calm. There is a storm a'brewin' and that storm is another member of the grrouch household.
This past weekend everyone in my family (except myself) was sick. Both the wife and son slept the entire weekend away save for a few moments to turn the TV on or have a light snack before falling back to sleep. This weekend was supposed to be about getting the house back into order but, as they say, the best laid plans of mice and men.
Last week we had laminate put into the bedrooms. This all happened while I was working my week of inventory and even though we knew it was happening it still felt as though it all happened out of nowhere and was a big surprise. Life is happening fast and furious and that is how it just kind of snuck up on us. (Snuck is not a word according to the red underline on my page, but I'm leaving it there.) So, after working a horrendously long day of inventory I got to come home and spend until about 11 pm moving stuff and making sure that the workers had room to put the laminate down.
The chaos is slowly lifting. All of the 3 bedrooms are currently livable. The living room and garage, not so much. Hell, we still have our X-mas tree up which is something I'll have to rectify tomorrow on my day off. There is still a lot of stuff that has to be sorted through to find out what we are keeping and what we are getting rid of. I've already thrown away 3 garbage bags worth of stuff while no one was looking and there is more to come.
People are scavengers, at least in our neighborhood. While putting out the garbage this past week I set out an old TV/Monitor which doesn't work and two electric heaters to go with the numerous trash bags. Ten minutes later I went outside to put another bag in the garbage and the aforementioned objects were missing. It was late. It was dark. The stuff wasn't outside for long but it was gone just as quick. I guess that's good because it's less crap the garbage man has to deal with, but I am curious if I am going to see that broken TV back outside in front of someones house next trash day to clue me off to who is going through my garbage.
By the end of the night I added a window blind (in a box) and a bed frame, both of those were not there when the trash-man came.
I have five more working days until my two week vacation, to spend time with the baby, is here. I need a vacation. I'm killing myself at work and home life is chaotic with everything that has been and is about to happen. A screaming baby is just what I need to reset my inner work clock and go back refreshed but slightly disheveled due to lack of sleep (so I'm told).
I did a major refresh on my cover letter and resume and put in for a new position just yesterday. The posting comes down at the end of the week and I expect to hear back and hopefully have an interview set up during my vacation. Maybe I'll be able to come back to work after my vacation just to inform my current store that I'm movin'on'up. Who knows, stranger things have happened.
Other than my clanking on the keyboard the only sound in the house is coming from the snoring dog in my lap which is soon to be replaced by snoring baby. I have a feeling that there is going to be a lot of jealousy in this house for a while and managing it is going to be less than fun.
The dog has his place, in bed, between my wife and I but usually on my side or between my legs. He is going to have to adjust to having this other small beast taking up some of his favorite spots, like my lap. He is going to have to be more gentile and he is going to have to not jump or get defensive when this other small beast grabs him randomly and tugs or smacks him. I don't feel that will be an issue because he has the 9 year old who has been a typical abusive boy over the years to him - but that jealousy that someone, something, else is getting attention he feels he deserves.
Which leads to the biggest area of jealousy that will occur and that is with our nine year old. He has been the one an the only for nine years now. All the attention, all of the everything has been showered his way. He is used to it and now he is going to have to share it, he is going to have to take a back seat for a little while because, lets face it, no matter how much people say that they will make sure he still gets his attention the first while is all going to be focused on this new pooping crying creature in the house.
The nine year old is used to more than his fair share of attention, I'd dare say that he has gotten too much over the years and aspects of his development are behind the curve because of it. I've never seen a nine year old who has issues functioning (it could be my limited exposure to the world of children though) when other people are not giving him attention. He doesn't like to play by himself, he always wants someone playing with him or at least watching him. He doesn't even like watching TV by himself, he always wants someone else there. To me it is strange but I am adapting and have been over the past couple of years. I am trying to steer him to becoming more independent even though I'm probably going to bitch about it in a few years when he wants nothing to do with us and just wants to be out with his friends all the time. So, let's see how we can bridge that gap from him getting, wanting, craving, needing all the attention to him sharing it with his new baby brother. Life is going to become infinitely more interesting.
So all is quiet but complete and utter chaos is just around the corner. I can smell it and I am looking forward to my life changing.
While her job might not know it at this point my wife is done working for the next four months. She was supposed to work today and tomorrow but she just physically cannot do it, and probably mentally as well. She is tired, she is weighed down. She has this big baby inside her currently waiting to come out and be welcomed into the world and into our lives and this is just 8 days away.
Eight days until everything changes.
Eight days left to enjoy the quiet, the calm. There is a storm a'brewin' and that storm is another member of the grrouch household.
This past weekend everyone in my family (except myself) was sick. Both the wife and son slept the entire weekend away save for a few moments to turn the TV on or have a light snack before falling back to sleep. This weekend was supposed to be about getting the house back into order but, as they say, the best laid plans of mice and men.
Last week we had laminate put into the bedrooms. This all happened while I was working my week of inventory and even though we knew it was happening it still felt as though it all happened out of nowhere and was a big surprise. Life is happening fast and furious and that is how it just kind of snuck up on us. (Snuck is not a word according to the red underline on my page, but I'm leaving it there.) So, after working a horrendously long day of inventory I got to come home and spend until about 11 pm moving stuff and making sure that the workers had room to put the laminate down.
The chaos is slowly lifting. All of the 3 bedrooms are currently livable. The living room and garage, not so much. Hell, we still have our X-mas tree up which is something I'll have to rectify tomorrow on my day off. There is still a lot of stuff that has to be sorted through to find out what we are keeping and what we are getting rid of. I've already thrown away 3 garbage bags worth of stuff while no one was looking and there is more to come.
People are scavengers, at least in our neighborhood. While putting out the garbage this past week I set out an old TV/Monitor which doesn't work and two electric heaters to go with the numerous trash bags. Ten minutes later I went outside to put another bag in the garbage and the aforementioned objects were missing. It was late. It was dark. The stuff wasn't outside for long but it was gone just as quick. I guess that's good because it's less crap the garbage man has to deal with, but I am curious if I am going to see that broken TV back outside in front of someones house next trash day to clue me off to who is going through my garbage.
By the end of the night I added a window blind (in a box) and a bed frame, both of those were not there when the trash-man came.
I have five more working days until my two week vacation, to spend time with the baby, is here. I need a vacation. I'm killing myself at work and home life is chaotic with everything that has been and is about to happen. A screaming baby is just what I need to reset my inner work clock and go back refreshed but slightly disheveled due to lack of sleep (so I'm told).
I did a major refresh on my cover letter and resume and put in for a new position just yesterday. The posting comes down at the end of the week and I expect to hear back and hopefully have an interview set up during my vacation. Maybe I'll be able to come back to work after my vacation just to inform my current store that I'm movin'on'up. Who knows, stranger things have happened.
Other than my clanking on the keyboard the only sound in the house is coming from the snoring dog in my lap which is soon to be replaced by snoring baby. I have a feeling that there is going to be a lot of jealousy in this house for a while and managing it is going to be less than fun.
The dog has his place, in bed, between my wife and I but usually on my side or between my legs. He is going to have to adjust to having this other small beast taking up some of his favorite spots, like my lap. He is going to have to be more gentile and he is going to have to not jump or get defensive when this other small beast grabs him randomly and tugs or smacks him. I don't feel that will be an issue because he has the 9 year old who has been a typical abusive boy over the years to him - but that jealousy that someone, something, else is getting attention he feels he deserves.
Which leads to the biggest area of jealousy that will occur and that is with our nine year old. He has been the one an the only for nine years now. All the attention, all of the everything has been showered his way. He is used to it and now he is going to have to share it, he is going to have to take a back seat for a little while because, lets face it, no matter how much people say that they will make sure he still gets his attention the first while is all going to be focused on this new pooping crying creature in the house.
The nine year old is used to more than his fair share of attention, I'd dare say that he has gotten too much over the years and aspects of his development are behind the curve because of it. I've never seen a nine year old who has issues functioning (it could be my limited exposure to the world of children though) when other people are not giving him attention. He doesn't like to play by himself, he always wants someone playing with him or at least watching him. He doesn't even like watching TV by himself, he always wants someone else there. To me it is strange but I am adapting and have been over the past couple of years. I am trying to steer him to becoming more independent even though I'm probably going to bitch about it in a few years when he wants nothing to do with us and just wants to be out with his friends all the time. So, let's see how we can bridge that gap from him getting, wanting, craving, needing all the attention to him sharing it with his new baby brother. Life is going to become infinitely more interesting.
So all is quiet but complete and utter chaos is just around the corner. I can smell it and I am looking forward to my life changing.
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Getting Ready Before the New Year
The year is about to end very suddenly and without much notice, at least that is the way it feels like.
I can tell the coke nail on my left pinky finger is a bit too long because it's getting a bit harder to type using that finger which means I should totally bite it off....er... clip it. Totally meant clip it, with nail clippers like the rest of the normal functioning world.
I've got a dog resting comfortably on my lap and my boy sleeping about 4 feet from me on a huge pillow so now is better than later. Nail bitten off, lets go.
In preparation for next year I withdrew approximately 6 grand from my company stock account. I have paid off a three thousand dollar debt and all that is left is debt from the wedding and honeymoon and the plan is to have that vanish by the end of 2015.
My goal is to get myself ahead so that I am not living month to month but I am living one month ahead. So, All of my bills for January will be paid with Decembers money. This will give me more focus and I will be working with set figures. I already know what I made in December so while I am shopping or deciding to get an extra Big Mac for lunch I will be able to see how much money I have left until the end of the month. I like this idea a lot an think it is going to help me focus and help me pay off the remaining of my debt faster.
I also am setting aside some of that money as Poker Money so that I can get back out and play once in a while, specifically during the Super Bowl and March Madness.
2014 was by far the most exciting year I have ever been a part of so that means I must be getting better with age right? Getting married and enjoying my wonderful,but crazy, family has fulfilled me more than I ever thought possible.
2015 can only get better thanks to the birth of my spawn and pending one year wedding anniversary. Nothing can top our Honeymoon (which I still daydream about lustfully to this day) but I'm hoping to be able to come up with something for the anniversary to make it special. I've never been so in love in my life.
Today is Xmas Eve which means we will be heading to my parents house for Xmas Part 1, then tomorrow is with the in-laws for Xmas Part 2.
I will have my annual new years revolutions post of stuff I want to accomplish but I'm not going to look back on last year because this past year was freaking amazing and none of my goals actually matter compared to what actually happened.
I can tell the coke nail on my left pinky finger is a bit too long because it's getting a bit harder to type using that finger which means I should totally bite it off....er... clip it. Totally meant clip it, with nail clippers like the rest of the normal functioning world.
I've got a dog resting comfortably on my lap and my boy sleeping about 4 feet from me on a huge pillow so now is better than later. Nail bitten off, lets go.
In preparation for next year I withdrew approximately 6 grand from my company stock account. I have paid off a three thousand dollar debt and all that is left is debt from the wedding and honeymoon and the plan is to have that vanish by the end of 2015.
My goal is to get myself ahead so that I am not living month to month but I am living one month ahead. So, All of my bills for January will be paid with Decembers money. This will give me more focus and I will be working with set figures. I already know what I made in December so while I am shopping or deciding to get an extra Big Mac for lunch I will be able to see how much money I have left until the end of the month. I like this idea a lot an think it is going to help me focus and help me pay off the remaining of my debt faster.
I also am setting aside some of that money as Poker Money so that I can get back out and play once in a while, specifically during the Super Bowl and March Madness.
2014 was by far the most exciting year I have ever been a part of so that means I must be getting better with age right? Getting married and enjoying my wonderful,but crazy, family has fulfilled me more than I ever thought possible.
2015 can only get better thanks to the birth of my spawn and pending one year wedding anniversary. Nothing can top our Honeymoon (which I still daydream about lustfully to this day) but I'm hoping to be able to come up with something for the anniversary to make it special. I've never been so in love in my life.
Today is Xmas Eve which means we will be heading to my parents house for Xmas Part 1, then tomorrow is with the in-laws for Xmas Part 2.
I will have my annual new years revolutions post of stuff I want to accomplish but I'm not going to look back on last year because this past year was freaking amazing and none of my goals actually matter compared to what actually happened.
Monday, December 22, 2014
Life and Video Gaming
As life actually starts to come into some sort of balance (I know that I am jinxing myself by saying that just a mere month before my spawn is scheduled to be born) I find myself being able to balance out my hobbies as well.
I think this is coming mostly in the form of handheld gaming (and reading comic books which I'm a bit behind in). With playing my DS or Vita or PSP or whatever I am finding that I can play more games because I'm still in the same room with the family and spending time with them and having conversations with them, all at the same time. It also helps that the boy has a DS as well that he likes to play now and then and that the wife has started to get into basic mobile games (candy crush, etc) now that she has upgraded her phone to a Note 4.
So, I can sit there and play Pokemon or Persona Q (my next DS purchase) while she bitches and moans about running out of lives in whatever candy game she happens to be playing. It is truly a win/win.
With that being said I created a games tab above (I've created so many and follow through with so few) just so that I can track what I have been playing and what I actually beat, etc.
I've got to sit down and come up with my new years revolutions shortly, some basic and simple things which I should be able to follow through with over the course of the year. I've had such good intentions the last couple of years but life has come at me fast and furious and everything I know has changed.
Life is truly wonderful.
With that being said, last night I beat Pokemon Omega Ruby. Well, at least beat the story mode. I still have some fighters to challenge and I have not caught them all at this point. In all honesty I am not sure how much more time I'll put into it right now before moving onto the next game.
I'm in the process of listing my "backlog" of games which I own and have to at least play. I'm excluding some older games that I don't intend on going back to but I'm also trying to start instilling the discipline to not overbuy in games so that I don't end up with 50 games owned and only 8 beat with the rest waiting to be played.
I think this is coming mostly in the form of handheld gaming (and reading comic books which I'm a bit behind in). With playing my DS or Vita or PSP or whatever I am finding that I can play more games because I'm still in the same room with the family and spending time with them and having conversations with them, all at the same time. It also helps that the boy has a DS as well that he likes to play now and then and that the wife has started to get into basic mobile games (candy crush, etc) now that she has upgraded her phone to a Note 4.
So, I can sit there and play Pokemon or Persona Q (my next DS purchase) while she bitches and moans about running out of lives in whatever candy game she happens to be playing. It is truly a win/win.
With that being said I created a games tab above (I've created so many and follow through with so few) just so that I can track what I have been playing and what I actually beat, etc.
I've got to sit down and come up with my new years revolutions shortly, some basic and simple things which I should be able to follow through with over the course of the year. I've had such good intentions the last couple of years but life has come at me fast and furious and everything I know has changed.
Life is truly wonderful.
With that being said, last night I beat Pokemon Omega Ruby. Well, at least beat the story mode. I still have some fighters to challenge and I have not caught them all at this point. In all honesty I am not sure how much more time I'll put into it right now before moving onto the next game.
I'm in the process of listing my "backlog" of games which I own and have to at least play. I'm excluding some older games that I don't intend on going back to but I'm also trying to start instilling the discipline to not overbuy in games so that I don't end up with 50 games owned and only 8 beat with the rest waiting to be played.
Saturday, December 06, 2014
666
So, my timing was horrible but such is life sometimes.
My last post was my 666th and I really wanted to do something special for it - alas that cannot happen.
I thought about just lying and saying this one was, but I'd know the truth and it would haunt me until my dying days.
I also thought about going back and deleting an old one so this would then technically show up as the 666th but didn't feel that was a valid way to go through it.
Today is my wife's baby shower. We will have family and friends over and receive gifts and love and play the "what poop is in the diaper" game and a good time will be held by all, but the reality is I'm burnt out on everything and just want this little grrouch spawn to enter the world already.
This past year has been such a whirlwind. It has all been exciting with the wedding, honeymoon and now the pending child but shit man, nobody tells how that in order to get there you have to do all this other little shit that will tax your willpower, patience and pocket book. The baby shower is the last in line and it's amazing how much money you spend just to get some people together so they can buy you shit you need for the baby. You could probably skip the baby shower, save your money and just buy the shit yourself.
Shit shit shit.
My life is going to be covered in shit in the near future so I'm using the word a lot.
I've got most of my xmas shopping done. I'm down to just some minor things left to buy and all will be good.
After the baby shower is done today I am meeting up with Nick for some poker. I hear there might be a side of Rob and Lightning as well. I'm excited to get a little card time in and catch up and then hit the sports book to place some action on tomorrows games.
My wife has off on Sunday so I'm going to try to convince her that it is in our best interest for me to go out and play poker all day. I'd love to hit up the MGM for their football promo's early in the day and then head over to Caesars for their grand re-opening promos to end the night. I'm not sure how much I'll actually get in but I suppose as long as I am out for a few hours I'll be pretty content.
My latest stock purchase has come and gone and I still just can't seem to pull the trigger on selling. The stock has gone over $64 now and continues to gain on a weekly basis at this point. I think I'm just going to leave it in there and see what happens for a while longer. I currently have a couple of buy-ins in my possession so all I have to do is run hot tonight and tomorrow and the whole situation will have resolved itself.
I've been watching Hulu at work on my phone - and after watching the Cowboys game on my wife's new phone (Note 4) I really want to upgrade to the larger screen.
I want a new phone, I want a new phone, I want a new phone.
However, I feel it is best to hold off as our money is best used elsewhere right now.
But.... I want.....
want
precious
My last post was my 666th and I really wanted to do something special for it - alas that cannot happen.
I thought about just lying and saying this one was, but I'd know the truth and it would haunt me until my dying days.
I also thought about going back and deleting an old one so this would then technically show up as the 666th but didn't feel that was a valid way to go through it.
Today is my wife's baby shower. We will have family and friends over and receive gifts and love and play the "what poop is in the diaper" game and a good time will be held by all, but the reality is I'm burnt out on everything and just want this little grrouch spawn to enter the world already.
This past year has been such a whirlwind. It has all been exciting with the wedding, honeymoon and now the pending child but shit man, nobody tells how that in order to get there you have to do all this other little shit that will tax your willpower, patience and pocket book. The baby shower is the last in line and it's amazing how much money you spend just to get some people together so they can buy you shit you need for the baby. You could probably skip the baby shower, save your money and just buy the shit yourself.
Shit shit shit.
My life is going to be covered in shit in the near future so I'm using the word a lot.
I've got most of my xmas shopping done. I'm down to just some minor things left to buy and all will be good.
After the baby shower is done today I am meeting up with Nick for some poker. I hear there might be a side of Rob and Lightning as well. I'm excited to get a little card time in and catch up and then hit the sports book to place some action on tomorrows games.
My wife has off on Sunday so I'm going to try to convince her that it is in our best interest for me to go out and play poker all day. I'd love to hit up the MGM for their football promo's early in the day and then head over to Caesars for their grand re-opening promos to end the night. I'm not sure how much I'll actually get in but I suppose as long as I am out for a few hours I'll be pretty content.
My latest stock purchase has come and gone and I still just can't seem to pull the trigger on selling. The stock has gone over $64 now and continues to gain on a weekly basis at this point. I think I'm just going to leave it in there and see what happens for a while longer. I currently have a couple of buy-ins in my possession so all I have to do is run hot tonight and tomorrow and the whole situation will have resolved itself.
I've been watching Hulu at work on my phone - and after watching the Cowboys game on my wife's new phone (Note 4) I really want to upgrade to the larger screen.
I want a new phone, I want a new phone, I want a new phone.
However, I feel it is best to hold off as our money is best used elsewhere right now.
But.... I want.....
want
precious
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
My Life is Not A Porn Script
A few weeks back I was out picking up dinner and upon leaving the establishment I was approached by a man and his wife who started to talk and I immediately said that I didn't have any money on me.
While walking the man was speaking and said that he wasn't looking for any money or a handout he was just asking for....
And I cut him off and said that I didn't have any.
Then he finished by saying he just was looking for someone to give his wife a ride home because it was cold outside and they had their 4 month old baby with them and they didn't want the baby to catch cold.
Indeed there was a 4 month old child with them and indeed it was bloody chilly that evening.
I thought briefly about it and decided that I couldn't let the child suffer because the parents were fucking idiots.
After deciding that I was willing to be trusting and that I wasn't going to be stabbed and left for dead somewhere I helped the lady load up the stroller and get into the car where I proceeded to drive her about 15-20 minutes out of my way so that she could get her baby home.
On the way we had basic small time conversation which mostly centered around how shitty her life was and how useless her hubby is. They needed $300 by tomorrow to pay the rent or were evicted, they have no food at home, they blah blah blah. When we arrived at the final destination I got the stroller out of the trunk.
Here is where the problem occurred.
Not once did she reach over to the driver's seat to rub on my junk.
Not once did she try to undo my zipper and give me road head.
I didn't even get an invite up to her apartment so that she could repay in kindness with a hummer or a toss.
Nothing.
I went out of my way and did this great deed and I received no type of compensation for my services, oral or otherwise.
I'm a nice guy. Trusting, too trusting and as such my life is not and never will be like a porno movie.
Everything I know is a lie.
Sunday, October 26, 2014
One Crappy Sunday
I currently sit here in front of my TV/PS4 and my computer and haven't really been glued to football for the entire day like any normal Sunday.
My cheapness is partially to blame but I'm going to instead focus all of my blame elsewhere.
First, I pay good money to have the NFL Sunday Ticket. In fact, Directv and the Sunday Ticket are set up at my parents house and I shell out the extra money for MAXX so that I can stream the games from my phone, tablet or PS4 while at my house or on the go so that I can still watch football since we don't have cable at our place.
That being said, with the amount of money that I (and many others) pay it would be nice if we could watch all of the games. I didn't get to watch the Detroit/Atlanta game this morning (even though I woke up for it) because it was on FOX.
Ok, I can deal with that although I missed a hell of an ending.
The 10 am games I watched (kinda) the Cincy/Baltimore game which ended great but was boring for most of the game. I really wanted to watch the Patriots game but couldn't due to NFL Blackout policy. I wanted to watch Seattle but couldn't due to antiquated policies.
Ok, skip to the middle games and what do I want to watch? Of course I want to watch my Steelers as I have pretty much every fucking week this year. In fact, this is a HUGE game for us as we are playing the red hot Colts who are blazing teams with Andrew Luck and cast. But "Due To NFL Blackout policy that game cannot be played."
Oh for fucks sake. So, I have to settle for the Browns (not a chance) or the Eagles/Cardinals game and while the Eagles/Cardinals won't be a bad game it's not my Steelers and by default I'm already agitated and annoyed and just generally pissed off and don't feel like watching inferior teams play.
Fuck The NFL.
To top it all off I'm normally supposed to work on this Sunday but I requested it off because this is normally a Sunday that my wife has off so what happens there? Her boss decides to screw her over and schedule her on her day off and have her work 9 straight days before a day off.
9 straight working days for a pregnant chick who is going on 7 months pregnant and when she mentions it to him he says "oh, I thought I was hooking you up by giving you a 3 day weekend."
The guy has his head up his ass and no sense of what it is like to actually work at this point.
So to recap - I'm not spending the day with my wife and I'm not watching a single football game that I wanted to.
And I can't head out to watch the Steelers game because I have two boys with me who can't sit at the sports book or a bar or whatever to watch it with me and even if they could they would be bored off their asses.
To make matters worse I need one set of level 70 legendary leg armor so that I can complete my level 70 collection for my trophy on Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls (which is one of 3 left that I need) but instead I have had 10 legendary weapons drop, 5 legendary plans, 2 shields, a necklace, a ring and a few others but no legs....none.. I also have spent about 500 in blood shards and haven't gotten a single legendary (or even a set piece) for what I want.
I swear the game knows that it's my last piece and is basically saying "screw you hippy."
Happy Sunday all.
My cheapness is partially to blame but I'm going to instead focus all of my blame elsewhere.
First, I pay good money to have the NFL Sunday Ticket. In fact, Directv and the Sunday Ticket are set up at my parents house and I shell out the extra money for MAXX so that I can stream the games from my phone, tablet or PS4 while at my house or on the go so that I can still watch football since we don't have cable at our place.
That being said, with the amount of money that I (and many others) pay it would be nice if we could watch all of the games. I didn't get to watch the Detroit/Atlanta game this morning (even though I woke up for it) because it was on FOX.
Ok, I can deal with that although I missed a hell of an ending.
The 10 am games I watched (kinda) the Cincy/Baltimore game which ended great but was boring for most of the game. I really wanted to watch the Patriots game but couldn't due to NFL Blackout policy. I wanted to watch Seattle but couldn't due to antiquated policies.
Ok, skip to the middle games and what do I want to watch? Of course I want to watch my Steelers as I have pretty much every fucking week this year. In fact, this is a HUGE game for us as we are playing the red hot Colts who are blazing teams with Andrew Luck and cast. But "Due To NFL Blackout policy that game cannot be played."
Oh for fucks sake. So, I have to settle for the Browns (not a chance) or the Eagles/Cardinals game and while the Eagles/Cardinals won't be a bad game it's not my Steelers and by default I'm already agitated and annoyed and just generally pissed off and don't feel like watching inferior teams play.
Fuck The NFL.
To top it all off I'm normally supposed to work on this Sunday but I requested it off because this is normally a Sunday that my wife has off so what happens there? Her boss decides to screw her over and schedule her on her day off and have her work 9 straight days before a day off.
9 straight working days for a pregnant chick who is going on 7 months pregnant and when she mentions it to him he says "oh, I thought I was hooking you up by giving you a 3 day weekend."
The guy has his head up his ass and no sense of what it is like to actually work at this point.
So to recap - I'm not spending the day with my wife and I'm not watching a single football game that I wanted to.
And I can't head out to watch the Steelers game because I have two boys with me who can't sit at the sports book or a bar or whatever to watch it with me and even if they could they would be bored off their asses.
To make matters worse I need one set of level 70 legendary leg armor so that I can complete my level 70 collection for my trophy on Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls (which is one of 3 left that I need) but instead I have had 10 legendary weapons drop, 5 legendary plans, 2 shields, a necklace, a ring and a few others but no legs....none.. I also have spent about 500 in blood shards and haven't gotten a single legendary (or even a set piece) for what I want.
I swear the game knows that it's my last piece and is basically saying "screw you hippy."
Happy Sunday all.
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Odds and Ends
Man, I'm sitting here bored while the kid is sitting next to me playing Spider-man Web of Shadows on the Xbox 360 and I just finished a small session of Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls.
The whole reason I am bored is because I've got this deep down craving to go play some poker. Oh, I want to stack some out of town fish and drink a few beers and come home a couple hundred dollars richer.
The wife is sleeping in the other room because she slept for shit last night and I'm about to flip a coin to figure out if I'm going to wake her up to let her know I'm going to play poker or if I'll just fire up a video game and do that for the rest of the night.
My first week of Sports Betting went horribly awry when the Saints, Patriots and Bears all decided that they were allergic to winning. One or a combination of those teams cost me on every parlay card that I had out there.
Tomorrow I am planning on going over to one of the Stations and putting in a Parlay card and hitting up Alienate for their "Pick every game right and win $150,000" thing.
Right now my sports betting (in a casino) is at negative $20. However, that will all change this weekend as I will pick better AND win at least one of my parlay cards.
Tomorrow is a busy day though.
Gotta hit up the DMV so that I can renew my drivers license.
Gotta baby doc appointment - this is the 20 week one complete with another Ultrasound which will depict my spawn showing off his wiener for the world.
There is Soccer Practice at night which I have wormed my way out of by telling my love that I absolutely have to watch the Steelers Game because I'll die if I don't.
I'll probably have to watch said game at a casino somewhere which will involve poker. I could watch it at a bar but then I'd be forced to drink heavily and might require a ride home.
I should get a hold of the ford dealership and get my car in to have a tire looked at, it appears to be allergic to air recently.
The whole reason I am bored is because I've got this deep down craving to go play some poker. Oh, I want to stack some out of town fish and drink a few beers and come home a couple hundred dollars richer.
The wife is sleeping in the other room because she slept for shit last night and I'm about to flip a coin to figure out if I'm going to wake her up to let her know I'm going to play poker or if I'll just fire up a video game and do that for the rest of the night.
My first week of Sports Betting went horribly awry when the Saints, Patriots and Bears all decided that they were allergic to winning. One or a combination of those teams cost me on every parlay card that I had out there.
Tomorrow I am planning on going over to one of the Stations and putting in a Parlay card and hitting up Alienate for their "Pick every game right and win $150,000" thing.
Right now my sports betting (in a casino) is at negative $20. However, that will all change this weekend as I will pick better AND win at least one of my parlay cards.
Tomorrow is a busy day though.
Gotta hit up the DMV so that I can renew my drivers license.
Gotta baby doc appointment - this is the 20 week one complete with another Ultrasound which will depict my spawn showing off his wiener for the world.
There is Soccer Practice at night which I have wormed my way out of by telling my love that I absolutely have to watch the Steelers Game because I'll die if I don't.
I'll probably have to watch said game at a casino somewhere which will involve poker. I could watch it at a bar but then I'd be forced to drink heavily and might require a ride home.
I should get a hold of the ford dealership and get my car in to have a tire looked at, it appears to be allergic to air recently.
Friday, August 01, 2014
August has Blown in
The year continues to march forward at such a rapid pace and things that I thought I wanted to do have been put to the back burner like playing poker and gambling at real money USA casinos.
I mean, it seems like just yesterday but I guess it was really closer to 2 months ago that I was all excited about getting back into poker (and craps) and I think that lasted all of 5 sessions before the real world bore down on me with its demands and expectations. A wife, a kid and another on the way have all eaten into my free time more than truly expected.
I have plans, most of them unfulfilled. Why, this past Tuesday was the PS4 release of The Last of Us and my whole goal was to pick it up and spend my two days off playing it.
Tuesday ended up with a trip to Wet n Wild, taking the kids and some of their friends along as a pre-birthday celebration. A fun time was had by all (well, except for me because I have always hated pools). The day was a success and I'm happy it happened.
Wednesday I started to play some of TLoU but then my 8 year old wanted to watch me play. He can't really handle horror movies and as such I think this game is going to be too intense for him. Plus, when he watches he thinks we should be taking turns so any time that I die he thinks he should try and I'm not willing to allow that to happen with a majority of the games that I play until he gets a little older.
However, on that same front - we have begun playing Injustice because it was put on sale on PS+ for $8.40 at one point and even though I generally don't get into fighting games that's a price that I'm willing to spend.
Next week we are leaving for California for 5 or so days and this is going to be relaxation time for papa grrouch. We will be bringing along my wife's brother and his kid plus her sisters kid and taking the 3 of them to Disney for one day. I feel like we'll spend about 8 grand on that trip and there is where all my poker money will have went to. But, the rest of the time we will do a little shopping, a little sight seeing and most importantly a little beach time. While I hate pools I absolutely love the beach.
Hopefully my sunburn from Wet n Wild will have went away by then so I'm not doubling up on the pain.
In other news I'm trying to increase my activity levels as my goal, once August 10th hits, will be to beat my step total every single day for a year (as calculated by my Fitbit). I've also gone into a weekly competition with a guy from work who just got a Fitbit as well. We said something minor each week so it will probably be something like the loser buys the winner a Mountain Dew. I'll be requesting a Super Big Gulp of the Solar Flare from 7-11 which, while delicious, doesn't actually taste like a soda at all. It tastes like fruit punch just whoring off the Mt Dew name.
And one final thought - it's almost time for football season to begin and as such I'm going to be starting a Pick-Em league made up of co-workers and friends across the states. This will most likely be $20 to enter and I'm pretty much going to be copying Lucki Ducks format because that was pretty damn fun.
No MoJo's allowed :)
If anyone is interested please email me or post a message. I am going to have everything set up by the end of August so we can begin week 1.
I mean, it seems like just yesterday but I guess it was really closer to 2 months ago that I was all excited about getting back into poker (and craps) and I think that lasted all of 5 sessions before the real world bore down on me with its demands and expectations. A wife, a kid and another on the way have all eaten into my free time more than truly expected.
I have plans, most of them unfulfilled. Why, this past Tuesday was the PS4 release of The Last of Us and my whole goal was to pick it up and spend my two days off playing it.
Tuesday ended up with a trip to Wet n Wild, taking the kids and some of their friends along as a pre-birthday celebration. A fun time was had by all (well, except for me because I have always hated pools). The day was a success and I'm happy it happened.
Wednesday I started to play some of TLoU but then my 8 year old wanted to watch me play. He can't really handle horror movies and as such I think this game is going to be too intense for him. Plus, when he watches he thinks we should be taking turns so any time that I die he thinks he should try and I'm not willing to allow that to happen with a majority of the games that I play until he gets a little older.
However, on that same front - we have begun playing Injustice because it was put on sale on PS+ for $8.40 at one point and even though I generally don't get into fighting games that's a price that I'm willing to spend.
Next week we are leaving for California for 5 or so days and this is going to be relaxation time for papa grrouch. We will be bringing along my wife's brother and his kid plus her sisters kid and taking the 3 of them to Disney for one day. I feel like we'll spend about 8 grand on that trip and there is where all my poker money will have went to. But, the rest of the time we will do a little shopping, a little sight seeing and most importantly a little beach time. While I hate pools I absolutely love the beach.
Hopefully my sunburn from Wet n Wild will have went away by then so I'm not doubling up on the pain.
In other news I'm trying to increase my activity levels as my goal, once August 10th hits, will be to beat my step total every single day for a year (as calculated by my Fitbit). I've also gone into a weekly competition with a guy from work who just got a Fitbit as well. We said something minor each week so it will probably be something like the loser buys the winner a Mountain Dew. I'll be requesting a Super Big Gulp of the Solar Flare from 7-11 which, while delicious, doesn't actually taste like a soda at all. It tastes like fruit punch just whoring off the Mt Dew name.
And one final thought - it's almost time for football season to begin and as such I'm going to be starting a Pick-Em league made up of co-workers and friends across the states. This will most likely be $20 to enter and I'm pretty much going to be copying Lucki Ducks format because that was pretty damn fun.
No MoJo's allowed :)
If anyone is interested please email me or post a message. I am going to have everything set up by the end of August so we can begin week 1.
Monday, July 07, 2014
The Hunt for Solar Flare and other nonsense
I remember back when F to da Boy was my favorite person to comment on this blog but as my poker posts went so did he. My new favorite though is angerisagift and as such he gets a few silent shout outs.
Since my last post in which he commented that there was a new Mt Dew flavor I still have been unable to locate it. I have, however, seen several past flavors come back to the shelves but I have been avoiding them. I only want new and improved or I'm sticking to the classic and true.
I'm currently about one month away from my year anniversary with my Fitbit and looking back at my numbers it all looks good except for the fact that I have put back on some weight recently. It all started when I got a bit lazy after visiting some friends and then the holidays hit and Wedding planning then Honeymoon and now pregnancy. By the way, I now fully understand and will never make fun of the whole hubby gaining weight during pregnancy thing. I get it, it's real but I'm trying to combat it a bit.
With that in mind I'm really looking forward to reporting my first year totals and work on a plan to increase my daily activity to make the second year that much better.
Currently I'm over 4 million total steps taken and a little under 2 thousand miles walked.
I'm in the process of seriously debating with myself to change my phone and my carrier in order to save money. At this point I'm pretty tired of shelling out $80+ per month for just my phone. When you combine my wife's phone the numbers increase and it would be really nice to get both of our phones for that price or less. So, I'm going to be experimenting for myself and then if everything works out well I'll convince the wife to join me as we save money for our future, for our family.
Work has been hell pretty much since the start of June but everything is about to get easier in the next few weeks and I'm really looking forward to that. I should not only be full staffed but have extra staffing so that I can focus on doing my actual job better and work on training others to take my position after my head explodes.
Since my last post in which he commented that there was a new Mt Dew flavor I still have been unable to locate it. I have, however, seen several past flavors come back to the shelves but I have been avoiding them. I only want new and improved or I'm sticking to the classic and true.
I'm currently about one month away from my year anniversary with my Fitbit and looking back at my numbers it all looks good except for the fact that I have put back on some weight recently. It all started when I got a bit lazy after visiting some friends and then the holidays hit and Wedding planning then Honeymoon and now pregnancy. By the way, I now fully understand and will never make fun of the whole hubby gaining weight during pregnancy thing. I get it, it's real but I'm trying to combat it a bit.
With that in mind I'm really looking forward to reporting my first year totals and work on a plan to increase my daily activity to make the second year that much better.
Currently I'm over 4 million total steps taken and a little under 2 thousand miles walked.
I'm in the process of seriously debating with myself to change my phone and my carrier in order to save money. At this point I'm pretty tired of shelling out $80+ per month for just my phone. When you combine my wife's phone the numbers increase and it would be really nice to get both of our phones for that price or less. So, I'm going to be experimenting for myself and then if everything works out well I'll convince the wife to join me as we save money for our future, for our family.
Work has been hell pretty much since the start of June but everything is about to get easier in the next few weeks and I'm really looking forward to that. I should not only be full staffed but have extra staffing so that I can focus on doing my actual job better and work on training others to take my position after my head explodes.
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Las Vegas ComicCon - the Pre Post
Tomorrow is the last day of the Las Vegas ComiCon and the only day I'll be able to attend this year due to having to work late at work yesterday and today. I already have my tickets bought and this morning I'm going through the lists of people who will be attending and going over my meager physical comic book collection trying to pick out some stuff to get autographed by the people who do the work I enjoy.
Sitting here trying to figure out if I want to get a second copy of that #1 issue autographed or if I want someone to autograph my favorite cover out of the series has me feeling like a giddy high school kid who just touched a boob for the first time.
Sure, some of this stuff is easy even if the artist is a douche and charges extra to autograph certain issues just because those issues are worth more and he can get away with it.
Yes, I'm looking at you Rob Liefeld.
Last year one of my friends went and got a few things signed for me and they told me they waited in line for Liefeld and by the time they got up there they learned that he was charging extra for New Mutants #98 and a couple of others. Oh Deadpool how ye hath cost me so much money over the years. You and your bloody popularity and your 3 million variant covers and your whoring your ass out to every bloody variant cover for comics you don't even appear in. I will never complete your collection but I'll gobble up the cheap shit as I can!
So this year has a lot of Deadpool people and a few of them I'll have to miss out on because I don't own anything they did. One guy did a Kid Deadpool one shot but I never got my grubby hands on it.
However, I'm hitting up the Creator and two others which makes me all happy in the pants.
In addition to Liefeld, Gerry Duggan is going to be in attendance and he is one of the guys responsible for the entire run (ongoing) of the Marvel Now Deadpool series which I absolutely love. Last year my friend got an autograph for me on the Baby Cover variant of Issue Number one and this year I'm trying to figure out a couple of other issues to get signed. I'll probably get another Variant cover signed and then pick one or two of my other favorite issues or covers from there. As from the pic above I'm totally going with the Wedding Issue as the cover is now in the Guinness Book of World Records as having the most characters on a comic book cover, like in the history of EVER.
Next up is Charles Soule who took a book with a great premise but whorable delivery and turned it into something worth reading, the Marvel Now Thunderbolts. Honestly the only reason I even got into this book in the first place was because of the inclusion of Deadpool and he is the only reason I stuck with it. The book floundered through the first part of the run and then Soule took over and it became one of my favorite books to look forward to. I was very disheartened when it was announced that starting with issue #27 another creative team was taking over. However, I have found a writer I like and am now looking for other things he is doing so I guess all's well that ends well. I think I'm going to take the 1st issue he was part of and the last issue as well (even though I kinda hated the ending) so that I can have the bookends of his Thunderbolts run.
Then there is some minor stuff that I've found I can get signed by various people as well. The guy who colors Wolverine: Origin II is going to be there and I ended up picking up a Variant Cover for the 1st issue with Deadpool (of course) on it. Haven't bothered to read it yet but whatever.
One of the artists doing the new Harley Quinn series will be there so I'm bringing issue #0 (with 17 artists, and I hope to get them all before I perish) and #1 along. And a guy involved with The Chew (comic, not that show on TV) will be there and I have a partial issue of that which was attached to Revival which I have been getting. That pretty much rounds it out for me. I'm going to also try to hit up the Liefeld panel when he speaks at noon and hope my boy doesn't get too bored with it. Well, just generally hoping he doesn't get too bored with the whole thing but there should be enough awesome stuff to look at that he should maintain a bit of excitement most of the time. Now to prepare myself for "Dad, can we buy this, can we buy that, can we can we can we Oh I'm hungry and I want you to buy me that over priced whatever right here then let me touch your new shiny autographed comic books with my disgusting dirty greasy ketchup covered hands oh I'm sorry it will wipe off I didn't mean to smear it good thing you didn't pay for it oh right you kind of just did but hey it's the memories that count right dad?"
Sitting here trying to figure out if I want to get a second copy of that #1 issue autographed or if I want someone to autograph my favorite cover out of the series has me feeling like a giddy high school kid who just touched a boob for the first time.
Sure, some of this stuff is easy even if the artist is a douche and charges extra to autograph certain issues just because those issues are worth more and he can get away with it.Yes, I'm looking at you Rob Liefeld.
Last year one of my friends went and got a few things signed for me and they told me they waited in line for Liefeld and by the time they got up there they learned that he was charging extra for New Mutants #98 and a couple of others. Oh Deadpool how ye hath cost me so much money over the years. You and your bloody popularity and your 3 million variant covers and your whoring your ass out to every bloody variant cover for comics you don't even appear in. I will never complete your collection but I'll gobble up the cheap shit as I can!
So this year has a lot of Deadpool people and a few of them I'll have to miss out on because I don't own anything they did. One guy did a Kid Deadpool one shot but I never got my grubby hands on it.
However, I'm hitting up the Creator and two others which makes me all happy in the pants.
Next up is Charles Soule who took a book with a great premise but whorable delivery and turned it into something worth reading, the Marvel Now Thunderbolts. Honestly the only reason I even got into this book in the first place was because of the inclusion of Deadpool and he is the only reason I stuck with it. The book floundered through the first part of the run and then Soule took over and it became one of my favorite books to look forward to. I was very disheartened when it was announced that starting with issue #27 another creative team was taking over. However, I have found a writer I like and am now looking for other things he is doing so I guess all's well that ends well. I think I'm going to take the 1st issue he was part of and the last issue as well (even though I kinda hated the ending) so that I can have the bookends of his Thunderbolts run.
Then there is some minor stuff that I've found I can get signed by various people as well. The guy who colors Wolverine: Origin II is going to be there and I ended up picking up a Variant Cover for the 1st issue with Deadpool (of course) on it. Haven't bothered to read it yet but whatever.
One of the artists doing the new Harley Quinn series will be there so I'm bringing issue #0 (with 17 artists, and I hope to get them all before I perish) and #1 along. And a guy involved with The Chew (comic, not that show on TV) will be there and I have a partial issue of that which was attached to Revival which I have been getting. That pretty much rounds it out for me. I'm going to also try to hit up the Liefeld panel when he speaks at noon and hope my boy doesn't get too bored with it. Well, just generally hoping he doesn't get too bored with the whole thing but there should be enough awesome stuff to look at that he should maintain a bit of excitement most of the time. Now to prepare myself for "Dad, can we buy this, can we buy that, can we can we can we Oh I'm hungry and I want you to buy me that over priced whatever right here then let me touch your new shiny autographed comic books with my disgusting dirty greasy ketchup covered hands oh I'm sorry it will wipe off I didn't mean to smear it good thing you didn't pay for it oh right you kind of just did but hey it's the memories that count right dad?"
Friday, June 13, 2014
Throwback Thursday pics on a Friday Morning
We finally received all of the pictures and videos and such from our wedding so a little bit over time I am going through them and reliving the moments. This is one of the last pictures from the reception that was taken and I thought with the party favor we were giving out this would be perfect for me and my guys.
My vision was kind of like an old western whore house where you had a line up of girls to pick from but with the cartoon slant of you didn't quite know what you were getting because most of the face was already covered. Is it going to be a handsome bachelor or is there a horrible scar lurking underneath.
Last night we went to Walmart to get some Graham Crackers because that happened to be the current craving and I was about to ask if she wanted to go anywhere else or if we were just heading back home but I was interrupted by a phone call. So, because I'm lazy and a great husband I waited until she got off the phone before I left the parking lot - mostly because if I made it back home she would b shit out of luck and I wasn't about to go anywhere else.
While waiting for her to get off the car the most amazing "woman" happened to come to her car which was park basically in front of ours.
I do realize that Karma suggests that some day in the future I will also be subject to this same justice but I honestly cannot help myself.
If there was one person whom I was disappointed didn't end up making it out to my wedding it would be my old high school chum Spank. You see, through modern social media we just became re-acquainted after having lost contact for the last decade or whatever but to this day he remains one of my favorite people. So, the other day his wife adds me to the book of face and throws this old happy picture onto my wall. Prom Picture of which there appears to be very few pieces of remaining evidence that I ended up in a dress. Of every picture I have ever had taken of me this still ranks as one of my favorite lifetime moments. We were the reason Swag is now a word.
My vision was kind of like an old western whore house where you had a line up of girls to pick from but with the cartoon slant of you didn't quite know what you were getting because most of the face was already covered. Is it going to be a handsome bachelor or is there a horrible scar lurking underneath.
Last night we went to Walmart to get some Graham Crackers because that happened to be the current craving and I was about to ask if she wanted to go anywhere else or if we were just heading back home but I was interrupted by a phone call. So, because I'm lazy and a great husband I waited until she got off the phone before I left the parking lot - mostly because if I made it back home she would b shit out of luck and I wasn't about to go anywhere else.While waiting for her to get off the car the most amazing "woman" happened to come to her car which was park basically in front of ours.
I do realize that Karma suggests that some day in the future I will also be subject to this same justice but I honestly cannot help myself.
If there was one person whom I was disappointed didn't end up making it out to my wedding it would be my old high school chum Spank. You see, through modern social media we just became re-acquainted after having lost contact for the last decade or whatever but to this day he remains one of my favorite people. So, the other day his wife adds me to the book of face and throws this old happy picture onto my wall. Prom Picture of which there appears to be very few pieces of remaining evidence that I ended up in a dress. Of every picture I have ever had taken of me this still ranks as one of my favorite lifetime moments. We were the reason Swag is now a word.Thursday, May 29, 2014
Getting Back to Normal
Whatever normal is, that is.
It's about that time to start fixing up the house we are living in and also to keep improving my house, where my parents live.
My house has the biggest bill currently as we just had to have the HVAC replaced - OH YEAH! Other than that we got someone to do the back yard for us. Put in stone and planted a bunch of plants around the wall to give it some color and life. Everything looks good.
The fun part will be fixing up the place we are living currently, which is her Aunt's house. Granted, all of the home improvements get deducted from the rent but I really just don't want to do the work.
We have a couple of interior doors that need replaced because they have fist holes punched through them. They are all basic hollow-core flat doors, but when we start replacing them she wants to go with the 6 panel doors. This means that every interior door is going to have to be replaced because the ones that aren't will look out of place. So this puts the total at 6 interior doors.
The door from the garage to the house also needs replaced, or at least just the self closing hinges since the door does not self close as per code.
The exterior doors (2 doors and a sliding patio door) are also on the hit list, but not as important.
And, I'm told, she also wants to add at least 2 closet doors since none of the closets have doors.
On top of that, she would really really really like for me to put laminate throughout most of the house, before the end of the year.
So, It looks like I have a lot of fun lined up for me.
Other than that the next 6 weeks or so at work are going to be less than fun.
My longest tenured employee is off for 6 weeks for surgery and my number 2 in command is going to be off for 2 weeks during that same stretch. This leaves me with just myself and another guy.
However, have no fear, the retail police have come to my rescue by allowing me to borrow a guy during that two week period. A guy with very little experience with the company (hired as a seasonal person currently) and no experience in my department. And, if that wasn't enough he also cannot work anything but open shifts leaving the rest of us (all two of us) to take all the closing shifts for those two weeks.
It is retail and these are the shitty situations you will find yourself in when you work there long enough. It is only 6 weeks though and then things will be back to normal on that front.
It's getting to be about time to start planning our trip to Disney for the kids birthdays this year. We only plan on doing one day at Disney to save on costs and probably two days at the beach for rest and relaxation, but it will be 3-5 days of getting away from the desert and life as we know it.
Married life is awesome. Every day I wake up feeling blessed to have my wife next to me and our boy sleeping on the couch because he hates the idea of sleeping in his room (this we will be trying to fix soon). Life is amazing and I have a hard time not having a smile on my face.
Time to go read some new comic books and sort some others!
It's about that time to start fixing up the house we are living in and also to keep improving my house, where my parents live.
My house has the biggest bill currently as we just had to have the HVAC replaced - OH YEAH! Other than that we got someone to do the back yard for us. Put in stone and planted a bunch of plants around the wall to give it some color and life. Everything looks good.
The fun part will be fixing up the place we are living currently, which is her Aunt's house. Granted, all of the home improvements get deducted from the rent but I really just don't want to do the work.
We have a couple of interior doors that need replaced because they have fist holes punched through them. They are all basic hollow-core flat doors, but when we start replacing them she wants to go with the 6 panel doors. This means that every interior door is going to have to be replaced because the ones that aren't will look out of place. So this puts the total at 6 interior doors.
The door from the garage to the house also needs replaced, or at least just the self closing hinges since the door does not self close as per code.
The exterior doors (2 doors and a sliding patio door) are also on the hit list, but not as important.
And, I'm told, she also wants to add at least 2 closet doors since none of the closets have doors.
On top of that, she would really really really like for me to put laminate throughout most of the house, before the end of the year.
So, It looks like I have a lot of fun lined up for me.
Other than that the next 6 weeks or so at work are going to be less than fun.
My longest tenured employee is off for 6 weeks for surgery and my number 2 in command is going to be off for 2 weeks during that same stretch. This leaves me with just myself and another guy.
However, have no fear, the retail police have come to my rescue by allowing me to borrow a guy during that two week period. A guy with very little experience with the company (hired as a seasonal person currently) and no experience in my department. And, if that wasn't enough he also cannot work anything but open shifts leaving the rest of us (all two of us) to take all the closing shifts for those two weeks.
It is retail and these are the shitty situations you will find yourself in when you work there long enough. It is only 6 weeks though and then things will be back to normal on that front.
It's getting to be about time to start planning our trip to Disney for the kids birthdays this year. We only plan on doing one day at Disney to save on costs and probably two days at the beach for rest and relaxation, but it will be 3-5 days of getting away from the desert and life as we know it.
Married life is awesome. Every day I wake up feeling blessed to have my wife next to me and our boy sleeping on the couch because he hates the idea of sleeping in his room (this we will be trying to fix soon). Life is amazing and I have a hard time not having a smile on my face.
Time to go read some new comic books and sort some others!
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Throwback Thursday - Two weddings
The first picture is I believe from the end of 2008 at my buddy's wedding. The 2nd photo was from my wedding just recently.
What a difference a few years makes right?
Hopefully I'll be adding to this in another two years with yet another dramatic difference.
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
The Last Post
In what will probably be my last post before my nuptials and honeymoon I need to report that I am sick. Sick in the head. Literally.
Diagnosed with a head cold today. Run down and beat up and at the worst possible time. I'm sure the "stress" and "worrying" about all the last minute stuff left an opening in my immune system and BLAMMO.
This is some sort of twisted revenge for missing out on every other illness that has run rampant at work and with the children in the past 8 months or so.
However, I am armed with new drugs designed to kick this shit out of my system so that I can be ready to go come Friday.
Yesterday was the worse and I'm sure yesterday is really what started it all. The day before a few of us went to the mountains and played around for a few hours and I think I got too much sun. The sun wore my body down and kicked my ass. The next day I woke up with the shits, had headaches, sore throats and anything else that could be wrong with a person. By the time I woke up today it all left except this horrid nagging head cold and that is why I ended up seeing a doctor to get drugs.
Being a fat boy with asthma, I fear not having drugs and letting this thing develop into something such as a chest cold which would put me down for at least a week. Normally I'd take my chances and see if it develops but I cannot risk feeling that bad when I'm trying to remember my vows and wiping snot onto my rented tux in front of all my family, extended family and about to be family.
That might also kill the honeymoon.
One of the last things I have to do is put our (her) music selections on an iPod for the actual ceremony. They also told me to select some music that might be about 30 minutes long for the guests as they are arriving and being seated before the ceremony. This is something I think they failed to tell my love earlier because she looked shocked when I told her they wanted an additional 30 minutes and I just told her to let me take care of it because I have something in mind.
The direction I was given was just some mellow music and when I heard 30 minutes only, ONLY two songs came to my mind.... well 3 if you count the extended full on drum edition of In-a-ga-da-da-vi-da :)
The 1st was, as a joke only, Arlo Guthries Alice's Restaurant. (yes, it only clocks in around 23 minutes or so).
However, the song that I really want to use is a classic from the 70's and I'm going to play it for her tomorrow and see if she approves. She is very skeptical but I absolutely love this song and don't feel it's out of line.
Saturday and Sunday are busy days and we take off for a lush paradise come Monday. So, probably, until after I get back to Vegas.....
Take care my friends.
Diagnosed with a head cold today. Run down and beat up and at the worst possible time. I'm sure the "stress" and "worrying" about all the last minute stuff left an opening in my immune system and BLAMMO.
This is some sort of twisted revenge for missing out on every other illness that has run rampant at work and with the children in the past 8 months or so.
However, I am armed with new drugs designed to kick this shit out of my system so that I can be ready to go come Friday.
Yesterday was the worse and I'm sure yesterday is really what started it all. The day before a few of us went to the mountains and played around for a few hours and I think I got too much sun. The sun wore my body down and kicked my ass. The next day I woke up with the shits, had headaches, sore throats and anything else that could be wrong with a person. By the time I woke up today it all left except this horrid nagging head cold and that is why I ended up seeing a doctor to get drugs.
Being a fat boy with asthma, I fear not having drugs and letting this thing develop into something such as a chest cold which would put me down for at least a week. Normally I'd take my chances and see if it develops but I cannot risk feeling that bad when I'm trying to remember my vows and wiping snot onto my rented tux in front of all my family, extended family and about to be family.
That might also kill the honeymoon.
One of the last things I have to do is put our (her) music selections on an iPod for the actual ceremony. They also told me to select some music that might be about 30 minutes long for the guests as they are arriving and being seated before the ceremony. This is something I think they failed to tell my love earlier because she looked shocked when I told her they wanted an additional 30 minutes and I just told her to let me take care of it because I have something in mind.
The direction I was given was just some mellow music and when I heard 30 minutes only, ONLY two songs came to my mind.... well 3 if you count the extended full on drum edition of In-a-ga-da-da-vi-da :)
The 1st was, as a joke only, Arlo Guthries Alice's Restaurant. (yes, it only clocks in around 23 minutes or so).
However, the song that I really want to use is a classic from the 70's and I'm going to play it for her tomorrow and see if she approves. She is very skeptical but I absolutely love this song and don't feel it's out of line.
Saturday and Sunday are busy days and we take off for a lush paradise come Monday. So, probably, until after I get back to Vegas.....
Take care my friends.
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
24 hours
I've officially gone 24 hours without a soda and thus far I haven't killed anyone.
I posted about this one my Facebook as I was in the middle of the first day and got a lot of good comments from people but because of one of the comments I will clarify that I am not without caffeine, I am only trying to cut out the soda's and the carbonated energy drinks.
I do realize that I have a horrible caffeine addiction and will need to slowly cut back on that as well but that is for another time. Right now I am focusing on not drinking soda's and getting rid of (or at least severely cutting back on) that portion of my unhealthy life style.
I grew up drinking Mountain Dew like it was water so I know this isn't going to be an easy process.
However, yesterday I turned to water and alternative energy sources and made it through the day. There were a couple of times that I wanted to reach or a Dew but instead I refilled my water.
Early in the day I added some caffeine to my water and that got me through about half of my day. After work I did need to get a little bit more caffeine because I felt myself wearing down and starting to get a headache. I used a little of the Mio Energy in another water and slowly sipped that for the rest of the night.
I read somewhere that you should drink about 2/3rds of your body weight in water every day (in ounces) and that puts me at about 150 ounces of water per day.
Yesterday I succeeded.
Today is another day.
Lets go for 48 hours.
I posted about this one my Facebook as I was in the middle of the first day and got a lot of good comments from people but because of one of the comments I will clarify that I am not without caffeine, I am only trying to cut out the soda's and the carbonated energy drinks.
I do realize that I have a horrible caffeine addiction and will need to slowly cut back on that as well but that is for another time. Right now I am focusing on not drinking soda's and getting rid of (or at least severely cutting back on) that portion of my unhealthy life style.
I grew up drinking Mountain Dew like it was water so I know this isn't going to be an easy process.
However, yesterday I turned to water and alternative energy sources and made it through the day. There were a couple of times that I wanted to reach or a Dew but instead I refilled my water.
Early in the day I added some caffeine to my water and that got me through about half of my day. After work I did need to get a little bit more caffeine because I felt myself wearing down and starting to get a headache. I used a little of the Mio Energy in another water and slowly sipped that for the rest of the night.
I read somewhere that you should drink about 2/3rds of your body weight in water every day (in ounces) and that puts me at about 150 ounces of water per day.
Yesterday I succeeded.
Today is another day.
Lets go for 48 hours.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
600
Welcome to post 600 - in here you will find nothing special. I just felt obligated to point out that I have published 600 bastard posts and y'all have read most of them.
Any other bloggers out there tell me what is so special about March? Does anyone else have the same noticeable increase in traffic during this month?
March and April of 2012 were my biggest months at the time. Then in 2013 it happened again where I had a spike during March and it continued during April.
As I sit here in 2014 March is currently less than 100 hits away from being my best month ever and I know it's not because I constantly churn out posts that you all are clamoring to read. For the most part all of my new posts get about the same amount of views so I realize it's just the scandalous fun posts of the past that are getting all of the hits when people are trying to search for ways to inflate their penis or looking for chicks in Yoga Pants.
I just don't get why March (and assuming April) seem to have more of these people than the other months.
Honestly I shouldn't care because it's all about the small, loyal few who keep coming back for the newest babble that I have pushed to the world.
Today is March 25th and exactly one month from today at this very hour I will be enjoying my reception. Shaking babies and kissing hands and thanking everyone for enjoying this feast which I have paid for and hoping everyone leaves soon so I can get to the baby making.
The past year has gone by pretty damned fast. Honestly it feels like it was just a week ago that I was telling myself that there was still 100 days till I was married and I needed to hit up the exercise and cut back on the snacks. 70 days later I pretty much weigh exactly the same but I'm happy and I'm about to marry the love of my life and that is all that matters.
Life really doesn't get much better than this.
Though, in less than 2 months you'll finally get to stop reading about me and this whole nuptial thing and I'll have it all in my rear view mirror and move on to posting things that are more interesting. Hopefully playing poker again and doing other fun degenerate things.
Oh the glory days - how I miss thee.
Any other bloggers out there tell me what is so special about March? Does anyone else have the same noticeable increase in traffic during this month?
March and April of 2012 were my biggest months at the time. Then in 2013 it happened again where I had a spike during March and it continued during April.
As I sit here in 2014 March is currently less than 100 hits away from being my best month ever and I know it's not because I constantly churn out posts that you all are clamoring to read. For the most part all of my new posts get about the same amount of views so I realize it's just the scandalous fun posts of the past that are getting all of the hits when people are trying to search for ways to inflate their penis or looking for chicks in Yoga Pants.
I just don't get why March (and assuming April) seem to have more of these people than the other months.
Honestly I shouldn't care because it's all about the small, loyal few who keep coming back for the newest babble that I have pushed to the world.
Today is March 25th and exactly one month from today at this very hour I will be enjoying my reception. Shaking babies and kissing hands and thanking everyone for enjoying this feast which I have paid for and hoping everyone leaves soon so I can get to the baby making.
The past year has gone by pretty damned fast. Honestly it feels like it was just a week ago that I was telling myself that there was still 100 days till I was married and I needed to hit up the exercise and cut back on the snacks. 70 days later I pretty much weigh exactly the same but I'm happy and I'm about to marry the love of my life and that is all that matters.
Life really doesn't get much better than this.
Though, in less than 2 months you'll finally get to stop reading about me and this whole nuptial thing and I'll have it all in my rear view mirror and move on to posting things that are more interesting. Hopefully playing poker again and doing other fun degenerate things.
Oh the glory days - how I miss thee.
Friday, March 07, 2014
Forty Nine
We have started to get our R.S.V.P cards back from a few people, though most of the people whom I sent out invitations to openly just told me "I'm not sending this back because you bloody well know I'm going to be there."
R.S.V.P. always reminds me of this song by one of my favorite groups during my high school years.
I had one invitation get returned to me because the person gave me the wrong address. A case of fat fingers on the phone which is even more amusing because you can see the text that you just sent and it still didn't register to you as being wrong. But whatever, technology forces us into more errors. I'll just re-send it and make add a snarky letter to boot.
30 seconds ago I sneezed (beginning a sentence without spelling out a number looks horribly wrong but I'm not going to fix/change it) and the only reason that I'm bringing this up is because I went to wipe off my computer screen from the few pieces of spittle that hit it and upon doing it my screen reminded me that it is a touch screen and made everything REALLY BLOODY HUGE. Now I'm having issues getting it back to where it was and nothing looks right.
I've received my Grand Wizard Edition of South Park: The Stick of Truth and this will be the next game I play and beat. It appears as though I've mentally given up on Final Fantasy XIII currently as I haven't expressed any desire to get back to it. I enjoyed the few hours I played but I only appear to have a couple hour tolerance for playing. After a couple of hours I find myself wanting to quit and do something else where as games like Borderlands and Diablo I find myself playing for 8 hours and not wanting to quit.
Today is my day off from work and I was wanting to sink my teeth into the game for a few hours before having to take my kid to school but he decided it was more important to get into a fight yesterday and get RPC'd instead. So now we have a PTC with the assistant principal at 10 am instead.
And speaking of irritating things, it appears as though my body has finally decided to get sick after everyone around me was coming down with something over the last few months. Mine appears to have stopped at a bit of a sore throat so It's not too bad when others were having to call out of work for a few days at a time because things were violently coming out of both ends.
Two nights ago I started to get my love into Game of Thrones. We are half way through season 1 and she is enjoying it (except it's a bit more brutal than she would like and she reacts adversely when they kill off animals) so I'm happy to have a show, finally, that we both really enjoy. I suspect by the end of March we will have gone through all 3 seasons that I have on Blue Ray. Then it's on to playing catch-up with The Walking Dead for me and I'm going to try to get her into that one as well but I do not have high expectations.
Come 9 am I have to make a phone call and hopefully by the end of next week I will have all of our honeymoon plans booked. Quite excited. With under 50 days to go things are moving along nicely.
Toodlz my friends
R.S.V.P. always reminds me of this song by one of my favorite groups during my high school years.
I had one invitation get returned to me because the person gave me the wrong address. A case of fat fingers on the phone which is even more amusing because you can see the text that you just sent and it still didn't register to you as being wrong. But whatever, technology forces us into more errors. I'll just re-send it and make add a snarky letter to boot.
30 seconds ago I sneezed (beginning a sentence without spelling out a number looks horribly wrong but I'm not going to fix/change it) and the only reason that I'm bringing this up is because I went to wipe off my computer screen from the few pieces of spittle that hit it and upon doing it my screen reminded me that it is a touch screen and made everything REALLY BLOODY HUGE. Now I'm having issues getting it back to where it was and nothing looks right.
I've received my Grand Wizard Edition of South Park: The Stick of Truth and this will be the next game I play and beat. It appears as though I've mentally given up on Final Fantasy XIII currently as I haven't expressed any desire to get back to it. I enjoyed the few hours I played but I only appear to have a couple hour tolerance for playing. After a couple of hours I find myself wanting to quit and do something else where as games like Borderlands and Diablo I find myself playing for 8 hours and not wanting to quit.
Today is my day off from work and I was wanting to sink my teeth into the game for a few hours before having to take my kid to school but he decided it was more important to get into a fight yesterday and get RPC'd instead. So now we have a PTC with the assistant principal at 10 am instead.
And speaking of irritating things, it appears as though my body has finally decided to get sick after everyone around me was coming down with something over the last few months. Mine appears to have stopped at a bit of a sore throat so It's not too bad when others were having to call out of work for a few days at a time because things were violently coming out of both ends.
Two nights ago I started to get my love into Game of Thrones. We are half way through season 1 and she is enjoying it (except it's a bit more brutal than she would like and she reacts adversely when they kill off animals) so I'm happy to have a show, finally, that we both really enjoy. I suspect by the end of March we will have gone through all 3 seasons that I have on Blue Ray. Then it's on to playing catch-up with The Walking Dead for me and I'm going to try to get her into that one as well but I do not have high expectations.
Come 9 am I have to make a phone call and hopefully by the end of next week I will have all of our honeymoon plans booked. Quite excited. With under 50 days to go things are moving along nicely.
Toodlz my friends
Tuesday, March 04, 2014
Fifty Two days remain
Everything is going full force at this point. All the last minute prep is making itself known. Just today, in fact, she had a trial run for her hair and make-up with some people whom she is considering. From what I am told the hair looked great but "they don't know how to put make-up on brown people."
So, 50% of the way home in that category is my guess.
My tux is being prepped and hopefully everyone else has gotten their measurements by this point. I'm looking to drop 10 more pounds before I have to go back in for the final alterations. My weight loss has been stuck for the last few months but I'm pretty comfortable where I'm at.
I had a great idea for the honeymoon, but it kind of fizzled out like a bad far. I did not pounce on the opportunity quickly enough but more will pop up. Worst case scenario we are taking a small one to California to spend some time away from everyone and some time on the beaches before our true honeymoon happens a bit later this year or early next year or in a decade or two, you know the routine.
I've started to think more and more about work and my future. I'm pretty sure that this probably should have come about before my 12th year but in all honesty it didn't matter too much when I was single and not planning a family. Now that all of that is in the plans I'd like to focus more and move up and to do that I need to position myself where I think I will have the best opportunity. I'd really like to only spend one more year at the most as a Department Manager before I can get into a salaried position so with that in mind I have a whole lot to think about.
I have an interview at a different store on Thursday to run a completely different set of departments than I have now that will pose all kinds of new challenges for me. I also have strong loyalties to my current store as I really like a lot of the people and the customer base. Both stores and positions have their advantages and disadvantages. Leaving where I currently am for a lateral position is a really tough decision that I didn't take lightly but it's one I ultimately decided to attempt because it would allow me to spend more time with my family. It's bloody difficult working retail and trying to maintain a home life sometimes.
Let the good times roll and now I'm off to continue working on my last Diablo 3 achievement which is still probably 15 hours away lol. I can't wait to put this game behind me for a while and start working on a few others.
So, 50% of the way home in that category is my guess.
My tux is being prepped and hopefully everyone else has gotten their measurements by this point. I'm looking to drop 10 more pounds before I have to go back in for the final alterations. My weight loss has been stuck for the last few months but I'm pretty comfortable where I'm at.
I had a great idea for the honeymoon, but it kind of fizzled out like a bad far. I did not pounce on the opportunity quickly enough but more will pop up. Worst case scenario we are taking a small one to California to spend some time away from everyone and some time on the beaches before our true honeymoon happens a bit later this year or early next year or in a decade or two, you know the routine.
I've started to think more and more about work and my future. I'm pretty sure that this probably should have come about before my 12th year but in all honesty it didn't matter too much when I was single and not planning a family. Now that all of that is in the plans I'd like to focus more and move up and to do that I need to position myself where I think I will have the best opportunity. I'd really like to only spend one more year at the most as a Department Manager before I can get into a salaried position so with that in mind I have a whole lot to think about.
I have an interview at a different store on Thursday to run a completely different set of departments than I have now that will pose all kinds of new challenges for me. I also have strong loyalties to my current store as I really like a lot of the people and the customer base. Both stores and positions have their advantages and disadvantages. Leaving where I currently am for a lateral position is a really tough decision that I didn't take lightly but it's one I ultimately decided to attempt because it would allow me to spend more time with my family. It's bloody difficult working retail and trying to maintain a home life sometimes.
Let the good times roll and now I'm off to continue working on my last Diablo 3 achievement which is still probably 15 hours away lol. I can't wait to put this game behind me for a while and start working on a few others.
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Under 60 days
As our longest month, February, trickles to a close I find myself with less and less free time but I also find myself more and more living with the fiance.
It appears as though we had good intentions with the whole "not living together until after marriage" thing but ultimately we failed so close heh!
I've got the most important stuff moved over, though I still have to get some more clothes over here and I'm working, slowly, on getting my movie and video game collection over as well.
I've decided to go into space saving mode and I will be removing my games and movies (most of them) from their cases and putting them into sleeve binders for storage instead. For the time being I'm still planning on saving the cases and I'll just have them in boxes in the garage until a time comes when I realize I have no use for them or I decide to sell some stuff off. I do know I'll never play most of these again but selling them is only going to net me a couple bucks from each of them and it doesn't feel like it's worth the time or hassle.
I recently upgraded my fitbit flex to a fitbit force and so far I am enjoying it. I like having something with a watch function on my wrist so I don't have to take my phone out to tell the time. I also like that it counts how many flights of stairs you have traveled during a day so that I can push myself to get more in every day. Mostly this will be at work but if it means I'm running up and down a ladder a few times extra every day just to make sure I hit my goals then it's helping and motivating me in the right direction.
We are officially under 60 days left and yesterday we just went for the tux fitting. We picked out the style and the colors we wanted and I sent off the information to my buddies so that they could go get their measurements as well. I really need to order my gifts to the best men folk as I have been slacking on that.
Doing the little things like actually mailing the invitations and getting fitted for the tux make this a bit more real that it was previously. I knew it was coming but these are big steps towards solidifying it. I'm still not nervous but I am getting a bit more excited about it. Mostly I can't wait until it's all over, this way I can resume a normal (semi-normal) life and we can turn our focus towards fixing up the place we are living in, paying out miscellaneous debt and saving for a house of our own.
I foolishly let my caffeine collection disappear over the last week (ie: drank it) and now I am sitting here wishing I had a Mt Dew but having to wait until after 9 am because I can't just leave the kid alone while I run out for my fix. I have to wake him up somewhere around 8 - 8:30 so that he can get ready for school. I usually drop him off around 9 am so he can have breakfast before settling into his classes.
My lady just signed up for supplemental insurance through Afflak. We had a friend do this recently who was having a child and it's a pretty great deal so we jumped on it as well. Basically once signing up you cannot take anything out of it for 10 months, but if you go on leave from work (for having a baby or whatnot) they will pay you 30 or 35% percent of your income for 3 months. They give it to you upfront in a lump sum but that doesn't make a difference. So, with work giving 65% when you go out on leave for having a child the supplemental insurance will cover the difference and there will be no real loss of pay while on maternity leave. This means it's not really necessary for me to get a second job during those fun months.
One final note, I have finally moved my computer over to the fiance's house which means that I'll actually have access to it more often which hopefully means more updates on this hear blog.
I miss typing to you all some days.
It appears as though we had good intentions with the whole "not living together until after marriage" thing but ultimately we failed so close heh!
I've got the most important stuff moved over, though I still have to get some more clothes over here and I'm working, slowly, on getting my movie and video game collection over as well.
I've decided to go into space saving mode and I will be removing my games and movies (most of them) from their cases and putting them into sleeve binders for storage instead. For the time being I'm still planning on saving the cases and I'll just have them in boxes in the garage until a time comes when I realize I have no use for them or I decide to sell some stuff off. I do know I'll never play most of these again but selling them is only going to net me a couple bucks from each of them and it doesn't feel like it's worth the time or hassle.
I recently upgraded my fitbit flex to a fitbit force and so far I am enjoying it. I like having something with a watch function on my wrist so I don't have to take my phone out to tell the time. I also like that it counts how many flights of stairs you have traveled during a day so that I can push myself to get more in every day. Mostly this will be at work but if it means I'm running up and down a ladder a few times extra every day just to make sure I hit my goals then it's helping and motivating me in the right direction.
We are officially under 60 days left and yesterday we just went for the tux fitting. We picked out the style and the colors we wanted and I sent off the information to my buddies so that they could go get their measurements as well. I really need to order my gifts to the best men folk as I have been slacking on that.
Doing the little things like actually mailing the invitations and getting fitted for the tux make this a bit more real that it was previously. I knew it was coming but these are big steps towards solidifying it. I'm still not nervous but I am getting a bit more excited about it. Mostly I can't wait until it's all over, this way I can resume a normal (semi-normal) life and we can turn our focus towards fixing up the place we are living in, paying out miscellaneous debt and saving for a house of our own.
I foolishly let my caffeine collection disappear over the last week (ie: drank it) and now I am sitting here wishing I had a Mt Dew but having to wait until after 9 am because I can't just leave the kid alone while I run out for my fix. I have to wake him up somewhere around 8 - 8:30 so that he can get ready for school. I usually drop him off around 9 am so he can have breakfast before settling into his classes.
My lady just signed up for supplemental insurance through Afflak. We had a friend do this recently who was having a child and it's a pretty great deal so we jumped on it as well. Basically once signing up you cannot take anything out of it for 10 months, but if you go on leave from work (for having a baby or whatnot) they will pay you 30 or 35% percent of your income for 3 months. They give it to you upfront in a lump sum but that doesn't make a difference. So, with work giving 65% when you go out on leave for having a child the supplemental insurance will cover the difference and there will be no real loss of pay while on maternity leave. This means it's not really necessary for me to get a second job during those fun months.
One final note, I have finally moved my computer over to the fiance's house which means that I'll actually have access to it more often which hopefully means more updates on this hear blog.
I miss typing to you all some days.
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