Why Is it

•August 16, 2008 • No Comments

that people you have never met want to talk to you in line at wal-mart if they have to wait a few minutes for the person in front of them.  Happened to me today. I was minding my own business, and really not making eye contact. Trying to avoid the awkward inevitable…

“How are you today?”

huh?  Who are you… oh you got your shit on the belt and you’re still waiting so you’re gonna talk to someone you don’t know in hopes of making a connection, or what the fuck ever..

So, now comes the delimna and what makes me cringe…

Does this person expect me to open myself up and tell them what a busy week I’ve had with in-laws needing visiting, parents, plumbing problems from hell at home, and how I just don’t feel good anymore and that I want to quit smoking by the end of September? Is she going to pay my rent for me this month? Is she going to leave thinking that maybe there are people out there that our worse off than her.

Or, maybe she thinks I’m cute. This is Elizabeth’s take.  I disagree, but still, it’s a possiblitiy for making an otherwise comfotable silence, awkward as a preschooler walking in on a preist getting head from a nun.

Or, get this, she may just want me to lie and be polite so she can feel good about having had human contact with someone outside her normal every day faces she has filed away.

Basically, I think she was bored and wanted me to lie to help her pass the time…

anyway, this was one of the conversations that Edribble and I had today… and I said, “i’m blogging that!”

and so I did… read it or not, I blogged it… :P  to all the naysayers and eat your damned peas kids!

I Was Wrong

•August 15, 2008 • No Comments

This is so NOT Patrick!  I thought it was, but it’s not. Look closely and you’ll see some key maintenance device attached to his belt.  Never.  I think he’d wear a fanny pack (or a belly bag for those of you who get it..moving on) before he’d wear one of these things.

Not Patrick... but patrick-like

Not Patrick... but patrick-like

I almost flava flayved myself.

Elizabeth is the most awesome wonderful loving wife in the whole entire galaxy.  And speaking of galaxy…

lifted this from a site I stumbled on... can't remember where...sorry

lifted this from a site I stumbled on... can

Also, we counted spare change tonight.  We have 62.38 in loose change.  Our cable bill (tv and internets) was 62.15.  We paid our cable bill in pennies…

No we didn’t…she paid with a check… cause it’s expensive to mail 30 pounds of change..

bye

You Tube Goodness

•August 5, 2008 • No Comments

Yes Chuck Norris is still a BadASS!

It all started with Elizabeth and I going back and forth playing songs from our childhood.

Elizabeth’s videos came from the 90’s pretty much including hits like Too Legit To Quit, whereas mine were a bit older, Boy George and Vanilla Ice…

And that’s how the elves saved Christmas

stumbled on this

•August 4, 2008 • 2 Comments

I’ve seen and read many things like this, but thought I’d share ’cause I laughed to myself at some of these..

oh..btw… I copied and pasted from http://help.com/post/124066-funny-metaphors-used-in-high-school

Funny metaphors used in high school essays

Just in case you need some writing inspiration. Every year, English teachers from across the USA can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers across the country. Here are last year’s winners:

1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli, and he was room temperature Canadian beef.

5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.

8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife’s infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.

9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t.

10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.

11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another
city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30

12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.

13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan’s teeth.

16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River.

18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.

19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.

22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.

23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.

25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.

sleep…

•June 6, 2008 • 1 Comment

seems like lately I can’t get enough of it…  and that can be read either way

maybe the next few weeks will be tame enough that I can finally relax like I’d like to.

Tonight (Thursday) was good for me.  I treated my wife to a sensual massage… and we all know where that went.

I love you Elizabeth. You’re the best thing that’s happened to me.

Yours always…

Grillin

•May 26, 2008 • 2 Comments

Just got my new grill together this morning.  Grilled burgers and dogs this afternoon.

The burgers were so good Edribble started singing “Have I Told You Lately” by Rod Stewart to me.  heh

I am the man of the house.

It’s been a while

•May 5, 2008 • No Comments

since I’ve looked at Proof of Purchase.

I glanced at it this evening just to see what he was up to.  It would appear that he took a hiatus from blogging as I did…albeit mine was much longer.

It’s kind of cool. Somehow, even though I don’t know the guy, nor will I ever meet him, I feel a certain similarity in our experiences. I envy him for his dedication to continue to write what’s going on in his life and mind every time he buys something as trivial as a cup of coffee. I wish that I could keep up with stuff like that. It seems that every time I’m in line, I’m in a hurry to get something else done, taken care of or going somewhere to be in a hurry.

I don’t know how he keeps up with it all or finds the time to scan so many receipts.  But It’s entertaining and I kinda feel like a fanboy crossed with a soap nut.

I’d say if you don’t know what I’m talking about, you should check it out, but if you’ve never been you ABSOLUTELY have to start at the beginning to get caught up with where he is now.

Recently, he watched fight club and said that it changed his disposition for the day. That is one of my favorite movies, (I still don’t know why he was wearing a rubber glove Elizabeth). I also feel the effects after watching the movie.  I just want to tell everyone exactly what I’m thinking about them and their petty shit.  Sometimes, I wonder what would happen to society if everyone did that.

You never know who you really are until you’re in a fight.  I haven’t had a fight in a while… but yet I still know who I am.

I need to go back and reread all of the posts that I missed.  Kudos…

Elizabeth is basically moovveedd!!!!

•May 3, 2008 • 1 Comment

Pat and Christina came by today and we were going to get them to help us move the heavy stuff.  We got it all actually.  We are, right now, at this very moment, sitting on our new front porch smoking a cigarette.

It’s chilly out here but we are tired and happy.

We may or may not get my stuff moved before we get married, but that’s ok.  We’re not on a time table for my stuff though like we were for hers.  We still have a few things to get and to clean up when we’re done but we’re staying here tonight.  We moved in in one day.  Thanks Pat and Christina… we couldn’t have gotten it done without you.

That is all for now…  as you were… I may actually blog more in the near future.

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Cheers and Jeers

•January 30, 2008 • 1 Comment

First off Jeers… cause I want to end on the positive.

Last night, as we were leaving the walmart, Elizabeth and I noticed either a very new driver or someone who should never have been given a license. This driver did something that no one that has driven for more than 6 months could possibly think was the right thing to do. Those of you from the area that know the stoplight near walmart will understand this. For others a diagram will follow.

This driver gets the green light to turn left at a three way light. Generally, all other traffic is stopped at any intersection except opposite left turns, but this was a three way light, not a four way. No opposing traffic at all. Of course the East West lanes had red lights to allow for the glorious aforementioned left turn. The driver stops at the red-light, directly under the red light.  It was funny and quite sad as well to see this car basically held in place by a light that was meant to let them go. Funny because I’d never seen anyone make this kind of driving error, and sad because they must have felt trapped by the traffic signals.

Conflicted–

and now for the Cheers!

Hardees in UC. It always always takes a long time to get food to go from Hardees. “Quality takes longer.” they say. I’m sure it does. The cheer is for the lady working the register inside. Even though it was 12:15 in the afternoon. Even though I’m sure that Hardees isn’t really the career choice for aspiring entrepreneurs. This lady had a great attitude. Enjoyed her job, enjoyed the people she worked with and enjoyed the people she served. Kudos to you for being a bright spot in my day.

Oh, and I got lots of ketchup with my fries.