Happy Blogiversary to me

1 year ago this week I started three blogs. While 2 of them have been merged into this blog, the fact remains that their spirit is all alive and well.

I am so very thankful for the wonderful friends I have made through my blog, and the help it has provided over this past year to share with people the wackiness, tribulations, and triumphs in my life. Thank you all for making this blog the moderate success that it is.

I will be celebrating my one year blogiversary by reposting my favorite posts from the past year under the title "Year in Review". These will start being posted next week, as I am on vacation this week from pretty much everything, and I'm thoroughly enjoying myself.

I would like to wish all of you a Happy and Healthy Thanksgiving, and I'll see you next week.

Leia Mais…

Music for my monday

Since this week off is the closest I'll come to a christmas vacation, I decided to put this up for today's Music for monday

Leia Mais…

Favorites for my friday

My favorite moment today will be at 4 pm today when I zip out of the parking lot at my job and even though I'm going to my friend's mother's wake...after that I'm heading off to a week...a SOLID WEEK OFF.

That's one week where I can:

Play WoW

Play WoW with my wife

Celebrate this Blog's one year Blogiversary on tuesday.

Have a great thanksgiving

Have my family swoon over my wife's chocolate cream pie recipe that she came up with last week

Start listening to Christmas music, which I love, and decorating my house for Christmas

It will be a glorious week

Leia Mais…

thoughts for thursday

Who am I? You sure you want to know? The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.

Peter Parker, Spider-man

That about sums up my feelings over the last two days. For while I have a wonderful wife, and a relatively happy and peaceful home life (when the MIL is not around anyway). My work life, and just life in general seems to be perpetually stuck in adolescence. Bullies waiting to pounce. Jerks running the show. And then there's me, the nice guy just trying to make his way, but apparently this cannot stand. Not without the two previous parties trying their best to drag and pound me down until I end up in tears on the way home.

Yes, I'm a 6'3", almost 300 pounds man reduced to tears, because my coworkers treat me like dogshit and there is nothing I can do about it. My only solace...I only have 5 more months here. Only 5 more months...*sigh*

Leia Mais…

Good Idea, Bad Idea

Good Idea: Getting a dog

Bad Idea: Getting a purebred pitbull on a whim, bringing it home where it almost eats all your cats.

You see, my MIL got it into her head last thursday that in addition to getting engaged in possibly a Guiness world record amount of time, she would get a dog. Despite being the champion of the "I will never get a big dog again" argument for the last two years, she inexplicably came home with a flyer, and said she was going to bring the dog home this past weekend for a trial period. Last Thursday and Friday my wife and I were just floored. I mean what was next, a clown car driving up the driveway, was Ashton Kutcher going to hop out and say "You've been punkd!". It was literally our daily dose of crazy.

So the dog comes home, and then leaves within an hour. Apparently, pit bulls like small prey animals...like cats. While Chance (the pit bull's ironic name) could have cared less about our dog Bon Bon, she was so fixated on trying to eat the cats, that she broke her cage trying to get out. Needless to say that Chance went back almost immediately to the man who'd owned her previously. I was so relieved when that dog left, you have no idea. Interesting Saturday though.

In this case interesting is defined as

4 freak outs

3 panic attacks

2 tired loveys

and 1 crazy cat eating dog !

Leia Mais…

On of the cutest things ever...

I asked my wife what she wanted for 4 hard years of work that are rapidly coming to a close. Her response was simple. For graduation she wanted her own World of Warcraft account. My wife loved playing Dungeons and Dragons with me, and she's missed it ever since we stopped playing. Since WoW is about as close as you can get without actually playing, she couldn't wait. So during our trip to Target which turned from a "quick trip" to a 200 dollar stock up for the holidays trip (sigh), I picked up the World of Warcraft disk, since her big assignments are over as of this coming Wednesday. So I bought it, and put it in a bag on the side of my desk. Then of course fate intervenes. I learn after logging in that my Guild is capping membership soon. Now I've been assured before that my wife was an exception, and would get in no matter what, but people were talking in vent about how exceptions shouldn't be given, etc etc. So in an effort to not have my wife be "an exception" we signed her up last night.

After she finished her lesson plan for today, we made her characters. She named them Ruubey, Saapphire, and Diiamond. This was in reference to my main character's name being Rhokk. Her logic?..."These are pretty Rocks"

She started on Ruubey who is a warrior, and me playing my Shaman. I showed her how to quest, and she learned very quickly. Soon I was asked to join a RAID with the guild on a dungeon, so I went to that and she made ravioli for dinner. After dinner I was still in the Raid, and she went back on Ruubey. During a break, I went over and asked her what she was up to. She responded with what I think is possibly the cutest thing ever.

"I'm fishing and picking vines"

"Why's that's?" i said

And with absolute sincerity she turned to me and said "Because their ship crashed, and they are hungry darling. They need fish, and I'm helping them."

I didn't know whether to crack up or be thankful that this is my wife for the umpteenth thousand time. I think I ended up hugging her while laughing.

Anyway, so that was my Sunday

Leia Mais…

Blogger having issues

Has anyone else had this problem?

I usually log into blogger through my gmail, but the last three days it's been saying "Page not found" and not been loading. I got through today by going in the back way (aka typing my blog address directly, and getting to the dashboard through my profile).

Is anyone having this issue cause it's happening on my home and work computer.

Also, welcome to my new followers.

Leia Mais…