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The night before… January 4, 2009

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And I’m nervous.

Joanna and I moved in her friend Kristi into the dorm this afternoon and then got to work with shopping where we found nothing.

I came home and helped her rearrange the cabinets and throw out more stuff that needed to go.

Hopefully you all had a great weekend.

Tomorrow back to work.

Work, work, PLAY! January 3, 2009

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Today was a busy day getting stuff done at work so I didn’t have to do anything on Sunday.  An actual SUNDAY OFF!!!!

Weeeeee!

Joanna and I went to get some software I needed for ‘09 and one of my best friends, Mitchell came in from Ralls to see me and Jo.

We spent the afternoon and evening catching up and I can only say that the lessons learned by Joanna include:

Snow Boots, Cow Print=getting laid, and Church Nazi Girlfriends are -EV.

Joanna picked up pizza and we sat watching Real Genius.


The Original Trailer

After that we went to Louie, Louie’s for drinks and a song or two.

Joanna popped in Mamma Mia and LT called me keeping us busy all day long.

Tomorrow we rearrange the kitchen…

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Tech didn’t want it…

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Yup, I spent most of the day at work, first on air then at a remote during the Texas Tech game.

I wish they could have won the game, but the team had lost its heart, it didn’t want to be there and I feel for all the fans who hoped for a better ending to the season.

I spent most of the evening in bed with a migraine and pains in my back.

I got confirmation Monday that the Surgeon will take a look at me and we will schedule the procedure, no not “THE PROCEDURE” made famous by Pauly and the crew before a big blogger poker tournament.

I still have issues with my voice and it bothers me.  I use my voice for my gig, my livlihood, and not to have it is scary to me.

Joanna woke me up and made me comfort food, mac and cheese and we watched The Shawshank Redemption.  Get busy living my friends, cause you never know when the road ends.

I miss my kids, this last week is the same as all the first weeks after the kids leave, I get down, try and stay busy and yet still get sick.  Gotta figure a way around this shit.

I’m starting the countdown, 70 days till I leave for Ireland.  Yup, my family and I are heading to Ireland for St Patrick’s Day.  I’m going to be doing “research” for “The Castle”.  How can I finish my book that has an Irish castle as a major character without ever being IN an Irish Castle?  I can’t.  So I’m going to go and take a vacation for me, no nothing for nobody else, just me.

Yes! January 1, 2009

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Yes, it is a New Year and I would normally do a lot of things, but I changed my mind and did nothing today. Yup, NOTHING.  Joanna and I had a wonderful dinner last night at Stella’s, she had the Shrimp and Scallop Linguine while I had a sausage and cheese stuffed manicotti.  One of my best friends Joe Woodyard and his fiance Ann were in town and we spent the night playing games, Cranium, even though the clay had died on us we had a great time.

Then the challenge came.  We started to play hearts and the tossing of the queen of spades was everywhere as no one wanted her.  I made a valiant effort to shoot the moon and was denied by Joe who then uttered the words…

“No one will shoot the moon tonight.”

The challenge was there and I had to take it.  I had the ultimate hand to start 6 hearts and a three low with the top three hearts after the queen and 4 of hearts were passed to me.  I also had the Ace and 4 of spades and ace king of clubs plus the Top 3 diamonds.  I knew that if I could get the biatch first then it would be mine.  After taking the first trick with the King of clubs I through out the 4 of spades.  If the queen wasn’t given to someone else, then I was home free.

Joanna and everyone sloughed off and when someone lead with spades and I through the Ace out, I thought Joanna’s eyes were filled with glee and she through it down.

Then I started the punishment!

When it was all done, Joe knew he was doomed.

“You let him shoot the moon!”

Actually Joe, you did.

Never put something in my mind that can’t be done.

This morning Joanna made sausage balls and I made bacon and eggs and we fed Joe and Ann before they started the trip to hell, I mean Kansas.  By the way, I love you guys, but K-State SUCKS!

After we said out goodbyes this morning and Joe and Ann were on their way at 11A we went back to sleep.  I mean who VOLUNTARILY gets up at 8 a New Years Day?  We slept till 3 and then Joanna went home to get stuff accomplished at the apartment while I got up to watch the second half of the Nebraska Clemson game.  Dad and Mom stopped watching it after it was 14-3 and I kept calling them, trying to get them to watch it.

Finally I tempted dad and he and I were excited when Nebraska won.  I am glad they won because Dad believes in Bo Pelini.  He did a great job versus Texas Tech this year and I am dreading the return trip to Nebraska.  Bo does good.

I called Joanna and we went to Dinner and a Movie.  We saw Yes Man.

I would like to say that I hated the movie, but I can’t.  There were people in the movie saying Yes! everytime someone in the film yelled yes.  That got annoying but the film is cute.  It’s a one watcher though.  Some of the bits, you just can’t see happening again and again, though Persian wife finder dot com, now that’s RICH!

I give it the standard 3 stars.  Not enough to make me see it again, but I would recommend people go see it.

Tomorrow I work during the Cotton Bowl. UGH.

Good News, Bad News… December 29, 2008

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Good News :

Double Ear Infection.

Sinus Infection.

Bad News:

I go in on the 5th for a Surgical consultation.

Good News:

I’m going to Ireland!

Bad News:

I’m not taking Joanna.

Good News:

I have a Trans Siberian Orchestra Concert to go to tomorrow…

Bad News:

My ears are extremely sensitive. OW!

Good News:

I am alive, happy and comfy trying to sit in my home.

Bad News:

My friend Vinnay who has never been a friend to me asked for a favor.  I can’t help but accept…

He asked for a pimp:

A friend of mine, Jeff, has had an unfortunate Christmas. His home was destroyed by a fire on christmas morning and declared a total loss. Fortunately, he was not home at the time and no one was hurt, but he did lose his cat Maurice, along with all of his possessions. The fire was started in his tenants apartment, and quickly spread throughout the house. To make matters worse, he was just laid off from his long time manufacturing job.

Jeff is a home game poker player, and reader of many of your blogs. He is a RPG’er, and beer drinker. He is a hard-working fucker who has battled dyslexia his whole life. He’s a toker, and he only has one ball. He’s a flyers fan (I guess I can forgive him for that). He’s one of the most generous people I know. And he needs some help.

We have set up a site to help raise some money for him to help get him back on his feet. If you can give that would be great, but please do me a favor and link up the site for me.

http://helpjeffout.blogspot.com

I’ll owe you one. I’ll pimp your affiliate codes, I’ll pimp your blogs, I’ll buy you drinks at the Bash or next gathering, whatever you want, just ask.

The hell with Affiliate codes, the man needs money.

Please donate.

Sean

Vacation is over, now time for a concert! December 28, 2008

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Every time my ex-wife sends me my kids for a visit it seems that one of them are sick, 0nce again, she sent them to me sick.

I finally got home to my home, my bed…

and…

I’m sick.

Severe head cold.

Hopefully I can give it to people that I don’t like :-)

After becoming a mouth breather overnight cause no medicine would break the log jam in my nose, I’ve been under the care of Joanna and hopefully we can get this thing beat before the concert on Tuesday.

I’d hate to be at Trans Siberian Orchestra and all congested.

Back to bed…

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If not now, when?

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Today I’ve been reminded as I looked across a tree filled with presents and food that I am lucky.

For I ate today, there was someone who went without,

For I was warm today, there was someone who was trying to stay warm,

For I was clothed today, there was someone who was wearing a handy me down, from a handy me down,

For I laughed with my family, there were people who lost loved ones today or never said what was in their heart before they left.

For I am a lucky man to have been blessed with friends, with family, with the love of my life, my two children, I am truly a blessed man.

But it is not the present that makes me happy, or the food or the clothes…

It’s being with people who love and who love.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.

P.S. Happy Haunakah to the Wife and Doc Chako as well as any other celebrants of the 8 CRAZY NIGHTS.

Lachaim!

Sean

Watching for Santa December 24, 2008

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Today we spent the majority of the day watching for santa.  Yes St. Nick was on his yearly ride across the world and Shelby, Ryan and I were watching http://www.noradsanta.org to see the entire adventure.  We watched the great cgi videos and examined different places around the world.  As Santa hit the east coast Ryan came up to me and asked,

Daddy,

Is there really a Santa Claus?

and I read him the great New York Sun Editorial …

 

Dear Editor,

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun it’s so.” Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

Virginia O’Hanlon

115 West Ninety-Fifth Street

 

 

  

 

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove?

Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart.

Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus?

Thank God, he lives, and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

 

Yes Ry Ry, there is a Santa Claus!

Booking a trip… December 23, 2008

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Today, I did something for me.  Now some people will be concerned, some will be mad.  Personally, I really don’t care.  Because I booked today a trip out of the United States of America.  No, it wasn’t to Canada, I was tempted to see my friends north of the border, but instead I think I may go over the pond to see ancestors.

Dates and further notices to be announced at a date when I give a damn, but right now I want to tell you  story:

The princess slept as this prince slept near her, guarding her, for no one would hurt his sister on his watch.  The princess dreamt of presents and of finding the one man of her dreams, the prince dreamt of mighty battles and vanquishing evil.

And the King watched over his two charges and looked with a smile and a tear.  His charges were not small anymore, they tried to solve their problems without involving the king, but sometimes their arguments brought down the house. 

The Princess was the oldest and wanted all of the things done first because, she was the oldest and that’s how it was supposed to be, and of course she was a tween.

The Prince was the youngest and wanted all the things for him done first, because unlike the princess, he never knew his father, just coming over twice a year didn’t build a relationship with him.

The King tried his best to make their time with him in his kingdom a happy time, some times he ruled for the princess, and some times he ruled for the prince.

But he saw his time on this earth coming to an end, not today, tomorrow but years down the line.  He wanted to make sure that he taught his charges the right from wrong and helping others.

Times the old king dreamed would come faster, seem to come at a price.  Each time he saw his princess and prince, he was older, wiser and greyer.  His prince was handsome, and his princess a wonder and all he thought was the times he wasn’t there, running his kingdom, trying to help out the prince and princess.  Each time they came it felt like it would be the last.

But then one day as he lay in the infirmary, he knew that he wouldn’t be there forever and tried to tell them often how he felt.

But then sometimes young princes and princesses hear the words and yet don’t understand the true meaning.

I love you my prince and princess.  May your dreams be filled with treasure, learning gallore, may you find the one who loves you without pause and may you find everlasting happiness with your charges.

Love,

Your King.

Stuck, sick and tired… December 22, 2008

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Its amazing how much energy these kids have, because no matter what we do, they continue on and on like some energizer bunny.

They are finally asleep.

We went to go see a movie and had dinner at the Outback.

When I got home, I got sick.  Must have been something with the Medium RARE steak I got rather than the Medium WELL steak I wanted.

Now before some of you mention that I should have noticed the difference in the steak before I took the 5 bites and then sent it back…

well, you try to focus on food while you have two kids fighting in a restaraunt.

Now I solved the problem, which was Ryan got a special Outback coloring contest in his menu.  Shelby did not.  So to Shelby’s dispair Ryan teased her about it, which caused Shelby to take the contest form from Ryan.

“It’s ok, I’ll let you color and when you are done I’ll put MY name on it,” was Ryan’s solution. I took Ryan aside and told him the letting someone else do his work was only acceptable if he was to grow up to be a football player (JUST JOKING), and he stomped back to his seat mumbling how I liked Shelby more.

I then went up , got the woman at the front to give me another contest entry and let Ryan color it in.  Shelby turned in her entry to the waiter and she was beaming because “I know I’m going to win, I hope. I’d like to win really I would.”

At the end of the night when I had my steak recooked and brought back by the manager, Ryan was done and he turned in his drawing.

“So mister, is my picture as good as my sissy’s?” Ryan asked.

The manager turned to him and said, “It’s going to be a hard decision to pick between the two of you.”

Shelby asked him, “When will you pick a winner?”

He looked at her and said, “Next week, and I have a feeling that someone at his table might win.”

In my sarcastic mind, it felt like Shelby and Ryan were the only entries, but in my proud daddy mind, it was because they stayed in between the lines.

Between stress from Fredicksburg and Corydon, I brought the kids home and immediately threw up.

That rare steak just didn’t agree with me.

I’m feeling better and going to crash.

After I take a couple of pictures of the kids sleeping. Their cousins are sleeping over.

Very +EV evening beside the illness.