Finally
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Posted:Mar 14, 2011 7:49 pm
Last Updated:Apr 11, 2011 3:39 am
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All I can say is I FINALLY Filed my Tax return!!!!! I'm DONE!
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I'm a Rat
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Posted:Mar 8, 2011 6:42 am
Last Updated:Mar 10, 2011 2:07 pm
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Well it looks like I will have to be a Rat again. My wife has been sick now on/off for three weeks now. She is one of these people who are in total denial about being sick. This is not the first time and nor will it be the last time I've had to call her doctor and rat her out.
She and I both share the same primary care physician. She is a good doctor but laughs at our little dynamic. As I said, this is not the first time I've ratted her out so should I decide to call again, the drill is already known. The nurse calls my wife and fusses at her while she calls in a prescription to the pharmacy.
Am I the only one that gets their spouse in trouble for NOT taking care of themselves?
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Attitude
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Posted:Mar 6, 2011 1:31 pm
Last Updated:Apr 11, 2011 3:41 am
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Yesterday, we had some errands to run and shopping to do in the morning so I didn't get to be as lazy as I had wanted too. The low tire pressure light came on on the wife's vehicle again so we went to the tire place to get it taken care of. When we got there, the place was packed. So instead of just driving up and having it taken care of, I decided to walk inside and wait to speak with someone.
As I'm standing in line behind others, in walks this man. he marches straight up to the counter cutting several of us off. He starts making demands and drawing attention from the entire store. As the worker politely tells him to please wait his turn, this only seems to aggravate the man even more. When this same worker finishes with his customer, he looks past the irritated man and begins to assist the next guy.
Now I can recall myself being just as upset and irritated before so I really did understand this guy's emotions. When he realizes that the store workers will not assist him out of turn, he looks directly at me and begins to attempt to justify his anger and needs. Surprisingly even to myself, I spoke back to him without harshness and stated to him that there were people in front of him. me being one of them and he just needs to calm down and wait his turn. I assured him that this particular store will take care of his needs. Even though they may have made a mistake the day before, be patient and they will resolve their issue. Our conversation continued and so did his attitude. I finally told him in a calm voice that his attitude will only bring about more attitude issues.
He told me he wishes he had my better attitude. I assured him I wasn't always that calm but again promised him that his matter would be taken care of. Right after that, I was called up to the counter. They took care of me immediately and told me where to pull the car. When we walked outside, the store manager who had witnessed the entire scene reached out his hand to me and thanked me for calming the gentleman down and restoring order in his shop.
Now I'm not normally the one to intervene in situation that don't necessarily involve me but in this particular circumstance, I guess I was the right voice of reason. The neat part about the whole thing is that one circumstance seemed to create a positive environment that worked its way throughout the remainder of my day. Keeping a good attitude and outlook always manages to make my world a happier place.
So how is your weekend proceeding?
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Frustrated
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Posted:Mar 2, 2011 6:49 pm
Last Updated:Mar 7, 2011 5:40 am
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I'm just wondering how much more do we have to struggle through before things ease up a little bit. Tonight my SIL wrecked my car. It's minor and no one was hurt. I know it's just a car and all but I'm really tired of the crisis.
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Another Why
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Posted:Mar 2, 2011 7:22 am
Last Updated:Apr 11, 2011 3:41 am
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So why is it so difficult to talk about God but easy to talk about premarital sex?
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Why
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Posted:Mar 2, 2011 4:41 am
Last Updated:Mar 7, 2011 7:49 pm
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Why is it that we will fall asleep in church and it only last one hour yet we will be wide awake in a 3 hour movie.
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Just a Thought
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Posted:Mar 1, 2011 7:24 pm
Last Updated:Mar 5, 2011 8:07 am
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I thought I wanted a career..... Turns out all I really wanted was the pay check.
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Strange Dreams
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Posted:Feb 27, 2011 2:46 pm
Last Updated:Mar 7, 2011 5:44 am
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Typically I don't often remember my dreams. I know I dream and often times I tell myself I should even keep a notebook next to the bed so I can write stuff down when I wake up. My sleep patterns are odd to say the least. i rarely get a good solid nights sleep as I'm constantly waking up throughout the night.
Lately, I've found it odd to be having so many dreams. I will have several per night but as normal, i never remember what they are. Most of the time it involves someone I know and care about or a nightmare involving work. 
Last night, I had a strange dream. If my wife eats before bedtime, she is assured to have the strangest dreams of all. I have no excuse for mine. This morning when I first wok up, I woke up laughing in my sleep. In fact, I think it was my own laugh that woke me up. I can't remember all the details but I was a movie character. In this movie, I was playing the role of Bruce Willis of all characters. If you saw his recent film Cop Out or Red, you will notice that his same Die Hard character is at play but he has added a great deal of humor to his roles. In the dream, there was the typical chase and action but there was lots of humor and teasing going on. I really wish I could remember more. None of the supporting characters did I recognize. All I do remember was it was difficult to keep a straight face in just about every scene.
Do you remember your dreams?
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Have you Found what YOU were looking for?
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Posted:Feb 15, 2011 9:00 am
Last Updated:Feb 25, 2011 8:18 pm
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One of my favorite bloggers today asked the question why we blog. It's unclear to me why I blog but I raise another question. Have I found what it is I was looking for when I got here to this site?
When I got here, my motives were probably a bit different than a lot of folks here. I wasn't looking for sex. I'm still not in fact. My life felt passionless when I found this place. IN face, I was doing an online search for the simple word "Passion" when I Passion.com popped up on the search engine.
Well of course, I'm a man and being visual that I am, seeing boobies and the like, grabbed my attention so here I am. What I found was not at all what I was expecting. Very quickly I was introduced gladly to the blogs. What I discovered was that the passion that was missing in my life wasn't with my marriage. It was passion missing from inside of ME!
Discovering that simple fact puts everything on a different playing field. I've blogged before about my depression and the dark places it can carry me. Meeting others on the blogs pulled me out of the darkness and opened that door to my own inner passion. I am capable of loving again today because I can feel lovable myself. TO say there aren't issues to face with my marriage would be total stupidity. We all have areas of our life to improve and grow in. I never know where my next lesson will come from or know how someone else's experiences can benefit me or how mine can benefit others. So I open my mind and heart to meet all people from all backgrounds. I only hope that I can contribute as much to others as I myself have received.
So to answer my question of have I found what it was I was searching for when I go there? Well the answer is plain and clear. Yes. Have you?
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Weekend
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Posted:Feb 13, 2011 8:42 pm
Last Updated:Feb 14, 2011 3:30 am
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Well I only have a few minutes before I call it quits for the night. I think I drove between 600 and 700 miles this weekend. I'm ready to call it quits. When I picked up my from school on Friday to leave town, I knew we were heading in for trouble. I no more hit 59 North when we hit grid lock due to an accident. When I finally reached the wife to pick her up, she just didn't' look well or feel well.
Off to I-10 East we went and when we arrived at out destination, things had not improved for the wife at all. She ended up having a MAJOR stomach virus! In ALL the years I've known her, I've never seen her this sick. Typically, when the wife isn't feeling well, I'm run off and head for higher ground. She wants no one near her. This time I even started to get a bit worried as she actually WANTED me next to her and TOUCHING her! I was about to ask if she had her Will up to date.  I figured it might be best to leave that conversation for another time when she wasn't feeling so bad. Needless to say, she was forced to stay in bed at my mom's all weekend long until time to drive home today.
My and I made an appearance at the wedding and had a great time. He was having such a good time, he didn't want to leave so I could go back and take care of his mom. Being at the wedding reminded me of our own wedding and how much I enjoy being married. Sure we have our difficult moments. It's all apart of being married. For better or worse. Luckily, times are difficult but I don't think they have been worse.
Of all the married couples in attendance, there were many under 5 years, only ONE with 10 years or under and one with 17 years. The last remaining dance partners, were 37 years, 42 years, 55 years and 56 years married. I felt very proud to have made it 11 years so far and I look forward to reaching that 50 year mark. There are many thing in my life I feel are missing but a good marriage isn't one of them. I'm proud of who I'm married too and what we have accomplished in our short 11 years.
I'm glad the wife is feeling better today as well. She is still recovering but will at least be able to go to work tomorrow. Have a great week and a Happy valentines Day too!
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Too Much to Do
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Posted:Feb 10, 2011 6:49 pm
Last Updated:Feb 13, 2011 8:15 pm
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So why is it all of a sudden that we have far too much to do. It seems like there is never enough time to get everything accomplished. I've recently started teaching a new curriculum that someone sure didn't put enough thought into it prior to rolling it out. I know I'll end up doing my own thing with the material but unfortunately, I have to weed my way through a bunch of chaos.
This weekend, I get to travel to see my mom. I haven't had an opportunity to see her since prior to Thanksgiving so this will be nice. The family and I are heading out of town for a wedding to attend. Sadly, there won't be much visiting time as both the wife and I will be having studying to do as we both prepare fro new material.
I hope each of you have a great weekend and enjoy some of the sunshine we are supposed to have.
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Texting is EVIL
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Posted:Jan 31, 2011 5:03 pm
Last Updated:Feb 5, 2011 2:33 pm
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After having my test frenzy this morning, I'm convinced Texting is EVIL! One of my long time friends and ex-lover still knows too well how to push my buttons and get me all worked up. As after getting me all hot and bothered with NO means of getting ANY relief, I'm now convinced these cell phones and their ability to text are EVIL. 
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New Cell Phone
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Posted:Jan 31, 2011 2:58 pm
Last Updated:Jan 4, 2012 3:44 pm
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Well this past weekend, I finally broke down and bought a cell phone. Now when it comes to cell phones, I've always been of the notion that they should ring when they need to ring, be quiet when they need to be and simply, both parties should be able to clearly hear one another. That's it. Nothing more. I never got into the texting thing either. I just used phones for business reasons. The last time I held a personal cell phone, I had a prepay plan that I'd put 1000 minutes on and be able to go an entire year without running over on my minutes. After all, I had a work phone to do business with.
After this past month or so of not knowing if I had a job or not, I really got to thinking that a personal cell might come in handy again. So after much talking it over, it was off to the AT&T store.
There are FAR too many choices and plans today!!! It's ridiculous!! My wife has one of these so called "Smart phones" I prefer to call them dumbass phones. I can't even seem to figure out how to dial a blasted phone number on it. Forget trying to find a name in the contact list! My fingers just weren't made to mess with things that small. I'll admit to being a bit intimidated by some of these new phones out there.
I'll end up one of these days with a smart phone that can be a hot spot but those are too pricey for my tastes today. So I ended up with one of these touch screen phones that slides to the side with a keyboard. It's neat but at the same time, drives me nuts. Each time I grab it and the thing slides open when I don't want it, I think it's broken. Another stupid flaw.... Each time I grab the damn thing, the camera seems to come on. Then this miniature keyboard that looked so cool in the store, requires two hands and is too small for my big hands. 
Today, I got into a testing frenzy with one of my sweet friends in Atlanta and I really started to like to dumb thing. It even has a GPS thing that I can speak into and I even managed to make that work! At heart, I hvae always been a techno geek but I hvae refused to fall into the cell phone trap. Now that I'm held captive again, I might just learn to start having some fun with it.
Now why does these new phones NOT come with Games??? And ALL of the ones I find COST EXTRA???!!!
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