I'm sorry to say.....

Unfortunately I am sad to announce that today's contest has been postponed due to a lack of participation. Although there were 3 lovely, talented and sexy beyond your wildest dreams, contestants entered. 3 was not enough for the contest. We will attempt to run this contest again in the near future.

Maybe with prizes.

Random Todayness

So today is my wife's first real day out and back on her feet since she had surgery. Sure it's just a doctors appointment but it's good to see her up and around again and after about 3 months of bed rest she is happy too!

She hates this picture I took today but I don't care.

Schools were closed today and all we have to show for it was 1 inch of snow. My 7 and 2 year olds were happy about it.

My youngest boy decided it was too cold to be outside. He gets that from mommy.

That's it soon it will be nap time.

Here is an idea.

This is probably dumb and has probably been done before but.......

1) Go to a blog that follows you.

2) Then go to a blog that follows them and doesn't follow you. ( I know that's hard for you Dr. Zibbs because EVERYBODY follows you.)

3) Go to a blog that step # 2 follows. (And once again doesn't follow you.)

4) Read blog entree and write small blog about it. ( Nothing negative there is already enough of that in the world.)

5)Leave comment saying you are in a race and need them to comment on you blog about the post you wrote about their blog.

6) First one with a response wins. What? I dunno!

I say we start at noon on Friday.

You can let me know if this is just dumb or too much like homework. I'll take my meds now.

Ohh I know. The losers have to all write a glowing entree about the winners blog.

Are we scared yet?

Hi ya'll I'm from Coatesville Pa. To be more precise, I live about 5 minutes from Coatesville Pa. Where and what is Coateville Pa. Well you must not be keeping up with the news lately. Here is the latest.

Lights distributed to deter arsonists in Coatesville, Pa.
by Associated Press
Tuesday February 03, 2009, 5:28 PM

A Philadelphia suburb plagued by arsons is giving away free motion-activated lights in an effort to thwart the fire-setting.
Firefighters in Coatesville have battled 15 arsons so far in 2009, including one that gutted 15 townhouses and left more than 50 people homeless.
In response, City Hall gave special lights to about 200 residents Monday, and plan to distrubte another 800 on Thursday morning, Coatesville spokeswoman Kristin Geiger said.
Authorities in Coatesville have warned residents they must clear porches of flammable materials. A trash task force is slated to help residents clean up on Wednesday.
The city has also banned parking on more than a dozen streets to improve emergency access.

That's right 15. That doesn't include the fires now being set in neighboring communities like mine.

Now my house is mostly stone but I have taken in and down everything that I can that is flammable.

Other than that, it's a great place to live.

Congrats

Let's start the new month with (as the kids would say) some shout outs!!!

Congratulations to the smart, funny, sexy, capable, loyal, genuine, imaginative, and adventurous Gwen at Everything I like Causes Cancer.

Congratulazioni to the great at picking up chicks (when he was single), really honest, creative, great multi-tasker Dr. Zibbs at That Blue Yak.

Gratulacje to the in love with her husband, knows how to pole dance, not ready for kids Tova Darling at Secret Life of Tova Darling.

Gratulationer to the lawyer who works too much but not enough, lets me be the judge of that, mad skills at picking football games LegalMist at LegalMist.

поздравления to the Wealth of Knowledge and Experience, obviously obsessed with this cloche thing, 30 year old photo Diane at cooking blind.

They are the first 5 followers to this here blog and have written their names in history. To them I will soon package and ship prizes and adornments that will shock, amaze and boggle the mind.*

And to those lucky 5 I say Thank you.

*There are no guarantees expressed or intended that you will actually be shocked, amazed or boggled.

It's different.

I don't wear jewelry except for my wedding ring which I wear on the wrong finger of the wrong hand.

Until now.


Soon I will have a little silver cross that I will wear around my neck.



It looks like this.






Now I know this may not be very exciting but the cross comes from the Batesville Cremation Catalog. I believe they purchase them from the Funeral and Cremation Emporium.

If you are trying to figure out why I am buying something from Batesville then just read this previous post.

These are the features as stated on their web site:

FEATURES:
-Discover an elegant way to hold loved ones close
-Sleek designs offer a form of expression that is both fashionable and loying. (This is not my type-o)
-A fresh twist on traditional style touches the heart and pleases the eye.

I don't know if I am buying their sales pitch at all but before 2 days ago I did not know these things existed and my wife was very shocked that I wanted it after she suggested it.

Here is what I told her, no matter how much we talk, I will never know what she was going thru. Weeks of ultrasounds, and heart beats, growth measurements, and movements. Prenatals, bleeding, cramping. I watched it all. But as close as I was I was still a step away. She doesn't know how amazing she was and is thru the whole situation. Not jus with me but with our kids and with herself.

I want this to remind me of the person I sleep with every night. I want this to remind me of the person I wake up with everyday. I am willing to admit that sometimes I forget how great she is. I hope this helps.

To old for this .

First I would love to steal the words of the great Dr. Zibbs and congratulate all 3 of you good people who have subscribed to this blog. I hope these words console you in your times of disappointment which will happen because you are now following this blog.

And in conjunction with this congratulatory announcement, I will soon announce that the first 5 subscribers will be receiving a special (and certainly not from the back of my closet) prize.

Now on to bigger and different things.

I just got into a fight.

Well let me re-phrase that.......I just dented the hood of my Jeep with another individual.

I feel weird and can't stop thinking "What the hell, I'm not 17!!!!!!"

So here ya go:

It's a little past 8:30 EST and I'm taking my daily trip to the local mini-mart. I look forward to this trip because being unemployed, it's one of the few reasons I have to get out of the house.

Not many cars were in the parking lot so I got to park relatively close to the door. There is a man standing if front smoking. Not uncommon but less common when there isn't a line of cars in front of the store. When I step out of my Jeep, the man makes a bee line and steps into my path before I am past my front bumper.

(I will admit her that all of my sensors are at full tilt.)

Man: Where you going?

Me: (Dumbest answer I've ever given) Into the store.

Man: You got time to gib (Yes GIB) me a ride somewhere.

Me: Nah man, ain't got no time.

(I usually don't speak in an urban vernacular and when I do it's really, really bad. I start to walk past him on his right but he kind of steps in front of me so we both kinda turn and now I am almost facing the front of my Jeep.)

Whiny pleading Man: Come on Man.

Me : Nah.

So I walk into the store. The guys in there tell me they told him to leave the store because he was acting inappropriate. I asked them why don't they call the police and have him nudged off the property. They all shrugged.

So I make my purchase and head for the Jeep. As I walk out of one of the two glass doors I noticed "Man" was back to his original smoking position. Sensors are still on full but I proceed to my vehicle. Three steps into my walk back to the Jeep I get grabbed on the back of my sweatshirt and It's like I'm being pushed forward. I don't push so easily.

Here is where I skip the bull****.

I don't know what this guys problem was.

I have made assumptions on what new medical issues he may be suffering currently but here is the weird part that makes me kind of uncomfortable.

I get in my car and my cell phone rings. It's my wife. She asks if I can pick up 2 of those strawberry crunch covered ice cream things she likes. I say yeah and get out of my Jeep, walk past the "Man", go back to the store and purchase said ice cream . I come out and he is still in a submissive position. I get in my car and drive away.

I can't quite wrap my head around how I feel right now except "What the Fuck!"