Thursday, August 07, 2008

terribly early in the morning

It’s My Birthday - So, Back to Bed for a Nap

I apologize for my long absence, and I’ll explain it all once it’s no longer my birthday, because birthday blog entries shouldn’t be about bad bad bad and more bad things.  So, we’re off to take a little nap, feed the pets, then take showers and go out to get me my birthday presents - an ink cartridge from Office Depot, so I can print out my free ice-cream offer from Cold Stone Creamery, a free burger from Red Robin, and then a marathon of recorded “So You Think You Can Dance” episodes, while eating said free ice-cream.  Oh yeah, and if Leigh-Ann can find a little cash amongst her belongings, she’s gonna buy me a blaster box from Wal-Mart or Target.  A blaster box is a box of sports cards from a retail store, not the fancy expensive boxes of cards from the hobby stores that are priced from $100+.  I can get a blaster box for ten bucks.

Today, we’re not going to read the mail on my birthday, because last year’s mail on this date contained a foreclosure notice on the house.  And we read that right as we were going out to dinner to celebrate my birthday.  To add insult to injury, while we were eating, Barry Bonds broke Hank Aaron’s home run record, so it replayed five gazillion times while we were eating.  Ugh, Barry Bonds was almost worst than the foreclosure notice.  Oh, and we’re still in the house for now, so that’s good.  Anyway, I’m off for a couple hour nap, but before that, I’m going to eat my favorite new cereal (dry, it’s better that way), FiberOne w/ Honey Clusters (good for me and tasty) while reading the Ty Cobb book by Al Stump.  I recommend it highly.  You’ll even find yourself feeling sorry for the poor guy lots of times and see that a lot of his behavior was brought about by the tragic death of his beloved father, and then the way he was treated right afterwards as he first made it to the big leagues with the Detroit Tigers.  He was treated so poorly that a less determined person would’ve quit and gone home.

Also, a happy birthday to childhood school friends who shared our birthday, Shaun Robertson & LeeAnne Hayashida.  I have no idea where they are now, but I hope they’re doing well.  I do know that LeeAnne’s brother is the coach of our high school football team though, so I should probably see if I can track her down.  Also, a very special birthday wish to one of the nicest people I’ve ever met, and not only does she share the same birthday, but she shares the same name.  Happy birthday, Nancy - you’re the best!

Thursday, July 17, 2008

terribly early in the morning

The Things You Can Find At Grocery Stores…

Phoenix thought it was delicious though.

I apologize for not being around, but life called...and I went and hid under the covers until it called someone else.

Friday, June 06, 2008

terribly early in the morning

How about something more pleasant?

Here’s my brother, my niece, and my grand/great (dictionaries can’t seem to decide) niece on the tv news.  Isn’t Jordyn one of the cutest babies ever?

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

terribly early in the morning

Another Lesson Learned

If you sleep for 48 hours, when you wake up, nothing will be different in your life.  Unfortunately.  In fact, things might be a little worse.  For instance, those pool motors won’t be fixed and the pool is just that much closer to being green with algae.  Do you know anyone who might like to buy a baseball card autographed by Yogi Berra & Les Moss for $1000?  There are only 25 in the whole wide world like this. 

Saturday, May 24, 2008

terribly early in the morning

It’s not fair! ::stomp::  ::stomp::

A couple of weeks ago, our pool equipment started making terrible noises.  Yesterday, we had someone from Paddock come out to look at the equipment so we could find out what was wrong with it.  Let’s start with the fact that we had a five year warranty on the motors and we’re now in year six.  Yep, you guessed it - the motors for both the cleaning system and the filter are blown and need to be replaced at $500 each.  Seriously, in a previous life did we do really really bad things?