Late Night Blog

8:53 Pm

Okay so i am real serious about getting The best "Forgotten Carols" Seats i possibly can, i am pretty sure i can get the front row tickets on Friday 12-5-08. Because i have ordered online in the past, i usually get a presale notification, that provided i have the right password i can get tickets ahead of time, and almost always i have gotten great tickets. The catch is they go on sale at midnight tonight. So the plan is to make a serious attempt at being awake at midnight and on the website ready to order. in order to stay awake i plan on playing a little Pacman, and maybe perusing the Internet, staying away from the "You know better.com" sites! This blog will contain my continued efforts to maintain brain functions until midnight. so if there is anything that offends anyone, don't be offended, i am just delirious!


9:19 PM


Why Pacman? Well that's just my latest craze i guess. Being a mostly '80's child i kind of enjoy spending time with things that where popular during the '80's. Who can forget Atari, Underoos and and movie classics such as "Goonies" & "Spaceballs" !



9:42 PM
So my thoughts are drifting to my work. (i hope i don't get sued for putting that on my blog!) Perhaps because i have another week ahead of me, perhaps, the mandatory overtime this week is irritating, as it's time spent away from my family. I hesitate to say anything, because you never know who may be reading, at work i have heard at times something to the extent of "If you don't like it you know where the door is" (doesn't that make you feel like your needed?) Which is why it's tough to say anything, you feel frustrated and burned out, but the money and the benefits is to good to just walk out the door. I keep saying that at some point i either need to move up or move out (meaning somewhere else in the company) but there seems to be no current opportunity to move up, and the only other things i am qualified to do out of the building i work in, requires a serious drop of pay, which of course i can't do, especially with the new house.
So now that my grip session is over, i guess i will just have to resign myself to the fact that tomorrow is another day, another week, and on and on and on. I know Boo Hoo, Pity Party for me!

10:35

An hour and a half to go.
And now on to my family,

boy i am off on everything tonight! i was thinking of the mother in law who accused me of beating my wife, the father in law that supports her (I won't include pictures of my inlaws, Pat will probably throw a fit, by just knowing i mentioned them in my blog) Sorry Rob, i know you recommended not saying anything about my inlaws, but there it is oh well.

Then there is the father, who i won't say much about, let's just say it's been a interesting 9 almost 10 months. My mother who is showing what a strong person she can be, my 3 brothers, 1 lost in California somewhere, and 2 close by.

We had dinner tonight, with everyone but my father and my brother in California. It's amazing to me the relationship we have now, we didn't exactly get along when we where growing up, but somehow now that we don't all live under the same roof, we get along quite well.


11:17 PM

I suppose i could say that i am really tired, but you probably know that.

I am sitting here looking at a bat, spider, and a really scary looking monster that J.D. has taken to calling Bob, (For some reason it doesn't scare him so much with a name like Bob) We just started pulling Halloween out this morning, and we have a living room full of Halloween decorations, can you believe it's that time of year again, my how time flies.


11:55 Pm

Almost time, i am going to be ticked if all of a sudden there is a web site problem or something, i better get good seats, because if i don't i am really going to be regretting it tomorrow! It shouldn't be a problem them, i have always been able to get order them at midnight!

12:05

Well it wasn't a friday night like i hoped, i got a tuesday night, front row center, but hey the concerts worth it!

Melissa

Okay so i have individual pictures of J.D. and I but nothing just of "T", Evie, and Melissa on this blog. We'll start with Melissa, she would probably say she doesn't like this picture of her, of course she would say that about every picture that i take of her, but i like this picture!

Pick you favorite name!

Okay, there is a poll to the right of names Melissa and I have chosen, Please pick your favorite, when the poll closes we will let you know, no guarantees we will pick that name, we just want to see what everyone thinks!

Good Morning!

Okay, so i am sitting here early in the morning contemplating life and "Pacman" and reflecting back to almost a year ago, actually first part of October and recalled landing on my face and twitching on the ground, i don't actually remember this of course, but i sure remember the way i looked when it was over. Most out there have probably not seen the picture, it was included in the Christmas video card that we made last year, but due to some computer problems most people didn't get to see it, so here the picture is. It was real fun, you'll notice i hit my nose pretty hard, i had scratches on my face and a pretty good rug burn, and a chipped tooth. This was the first seizure i have had in about 5 years. Hopefully the last. my coworker who saw it happened, said she couldn't eat for days, it scarred her so much. I'm glad i can have that kind of affect on people!

We are planning on going to the state fair today, we have about enough money to get into the place and have something to eat. Financially we are a far cry from where we where last year, the mortgage payment is killing us, although if we could get rid of Melissa's school bill it would help tremendously, it just won't go away. We should have fun today though, everyone will be there except Brian and my Dad.

The saga with my parents seems never ending, but this too shall pass, If you don't know what i am talking about, then you probably shouldn't know, so no offence but don't ask!

So back again to the baby, what are we going to name the kid, who knows, no decision has been made, we throw out names all the time, but we get mostly frustrated (i say we but i really mean she, don't tell her that!) we just can't agree on anything If only this was a girl!

And so in the Immortal words of ABBA (and no i don't mean Give me, Give me, Give me a man after midnight!) "Don't know how to take it, don't know where to go, my resistance running low, and everyday the hold is getting tighter and it troubles me so, you know that i am nobodies fool, and yet it's clear to me, i don't have a strategy, it's just like taking candy from a baby and i think i must be Under Attack, I'm being taken, about to crack, defenses breaking, won't somebody please have a heart, come and rescue me now cause i am falling apart."

Some of that's true for me, some not, you decide! (i wish i could write something so profound!)

Camping

We went camping Saturday morning, we had fun, but had to come home early, we knew it was supposed to storm Sunday night, however when we woke up Sunday morning in a downpour, we knew it was time to come home. Good thing too, we had someone come through our camp aria, and told us that there where 2 storm fronts that where going to colide together over where we where camping, we would have been camping in the snow and as bad as the roads where in dry conditions, we probably wouldn't have gotten out. We would have lasted a few days, but then we would have had to decide who to eat first! We joked about it some, through out a few names, but never could commit to who would be the first one, sad fact is, i am probably the biggest, so i would have probably been the first to go. morbid thought though. melissa probably wouldn't have minded, she could collect on the insurance, pay off the house, and provided she didn't quit her work, she probably would have been set for the rest of here life.

Can you imagine what the Donner-Reed Party had to go through to reach that point? YUCK

Well anyways, we got home and had to pull out all the tents to dry them off, and concidered camping another night in my mothers backyard, it didn't happen, another storm came through. we where rushing to get the tents taken down just so they wouldn't get blown away.

We must have been tired from all of this, here it is about 8:30 am and i am the only one up, and i was even up a hour later then normal, Think goodness it is a holiday, i would never have made it to work today!