I am so Bored

It has been awhile since I have updated this with the happenings in my life, so I figured it was time to do so. Things have been pretty boring lately. Friday night is my “nephew’s” birthday party at Dan and Amy’s. I feel so sorry for Amy, what was supposed to be a small party has blossomed into a huge party through no fault of her own. I will declare that I will not give Amy any crap tomorrow night due to this fact. On Saturday my band has a show in Blue Springs Mo, at a venue called The Link. I’m pretty excited about that. It amazes me sometimes that I get to play in a band, it was always such a big dream for me and I am so glad it has come true. So here are some upcoming things I am looking forward to. Charlie, Carrie and all the kids are coming out on a Sunday in June. I like having new friends, don’t get me wrong I LOVE my old friends but it’s always fun to hang out with new people. Besides I don’t think Charlie and I have even begun to scratch the surface of how bored we can make everyone with our passion of history. Also my mother just returned from a vacation to Illinois to see her sister. That may not seem like a big deal but she had a traveling partner…MY GRANDMA! All my mother would tell me is that she has A LOT of blog material for me so be on the lookout for that. Well that’s about all I have in my mind right now..

Updates abound

Ok I need to post today to counter balance my mushy side. There is SO much going on this weekend, well only one thing really but it will take all day. Saturday Morning Brooke and I are heading to Bolivar Missouri to see my brother in law Caleb graduate. I am looking forward to spending some time with him and his fiancée, I’m just not looking forward to all the driving. Last weekend was a blast!! I went to my good friend Josh’s house Friday night to help him prepare for the BBQ we were going to have the next day. I had to stop by the liquor store on my way to pick up some beer for the mopping sauce we were going to use for the brisket. S0 I bought the beer and I also bought some Wild berry Country cocktails because that sounded good and I bought Josh’s wife a bottle of wine just to say thank you for letting be hang out over there for 2 days. Well as it usually does with Josh and myself things got a little out of hand, we went to lowes to get some quickcrete so we could put some fence posts in at his house. We got back from Lowes and headed over to Brandon’s house to cut some of the fence posts. When we got there Brandon offered us a beer, So we took him up on his offer. We got all the posts cut and went back to Josh’s house to start making our mopping sauce for the brisket when we realized that we had more beer then what we needed for the sauce..5 cans to be exact. So we couldn’t let it go to waste so we drank them. Then we drank some of the cocktails and decided to go put in some fence posts. There we were, half sober at 11:45 am putting up fence posts when we heard some creepy music coming form the woods behind the house, it was like crazy clown ice cream truck music…I almost wet myself. We realized about 12:30am that we needed stuff from Wal-mart so we took another trip to Bonner Springs to get what we needed and made a pit stop at McDonalds mmmm!!! I finally made it to bed at 2:30am and woke up at 5:30am to start grilling. It took 9 hours for the brisket to smoke but it was well worth it.
After all that was said and done Brooke told me the my brother in law Seth was home for mothers day, so we went to applebees in Ottawa to have dinner with him. It was nice . I like seeing him whenever we can and seeings how he is moving to Colorado in a month or so we try to get as much time with him as we can. Well That’s all I got,

Last night....I made myself look stupid....as usual.

So last night was the awana closing program. It was good to see all the kids decked out in their uniforms an awards they received. Everything was going well until it came to my part. I had been working for the past month or so on this slideshow in power point of all the pictures that were taken over the year. This was no small task seeings how I had never used power point before. Well needless to say I got it done. I ran through it twice before the program started and was really excited about how good it looked, fast forward to that point in the program. Pastor introduced me and told how long I had spent on this video and the lights went out. “Oh boy” I thought this is going to be awesome. I started the music, clicked the button to start the show and reclined to watch my masterpiece..but wait a minute, the music is going but why is the screen black? Panic starts to completely envelop me. What’s going on why am I here WHO AM I!! I finally realized I had the screen on blank up front so people couldn’t see me working. Whew…..let’s try this again. I hit start and DOH! It was on the last slide…so me trying to look professional take 3 . Finally I got it to go. And I think it looked ok, but then again I am biased.

New Friends

Where to begin. Friday that’s where. Friday was a bad day. I was so tired from the night before and all the crazy storms and our power going out that I was really dragging and it was hard to get anything done. Friday night Brooke and I went to couples night at Josh and Tara’s house and we had a blast. The food was out of this world and the the company was great…well everyone except for Amy..she has an attitude. We left there around 10ish I think and when we got home I went straight to bed. I slept 11 hours Friday night for the first time in 8 years…it was AWESOME.
Saturday was nice, I went to the church around 10:30 to get all the stuff done for the service on Sunday, then I went home and Brooke, Glenna and I spent the evening together with nothing to do. It was wonderful to just all be together. And then came Sunday. Church was great as usual and the potluck…holy cow. I love church potlucks the old lady’s in the church sure can cook. We got home around one and Brooke and Glenna took a nap. SO I went fishing, I don’t think the fish like me one bit. I didn’t catch one thing…that ticks me off. Sunday night Brooke and I went to dinner at Carrie and Charlie’s house. I have to admit I was REALLY nervous. I kind of get that way when meeting new people. But we had a blast!!! I felt like we had known them for years. I do have one admission to make though. On the way home Brooke and I felt bad. We felt like we talked about ourselves to much and Carrie if we did we apologize, we were just having a good time. We really want Carrie and Charlie and the kids to come out to our house sometime. I think we have a lot for the kids to get into. Two things before I go..One, I want to go play paintball if and when Charlie and the kids decide to go..I even have my own Gun! Two…If Carrie and Charlie ever plan on going to the zoo..I hope they let us know because Brooke and I might be up for a trip to the zoo sometime..I love having new friends!!!

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Ok so I’m bored. Actually I’m busier then all get out but I was urged to update my blog so people would have something to read. I really don’t have much going on right now but I will try to unleash some tidbits of information I am looking forward to Sunday, Brooke and I are going to eat dinner with Carrie and Her husband Charlie. I am super stoked (90’s flashback.) about hanging out with Charlie, he’s a history guy and I’m a history guy so that means one of two things will happen, we will sit and talk about history for HOUR’S and bore everyone else in the room to tears with our smartness OR we will disagree on something and have to settle it in the 6 sided ring of fire. I really hope it doesn’t come to that. I am looking forward to seeing one of their kids in his natural environment I have a feeling it will be crazy.
I am also looking forward to next Saturday, Brooke and I are going to Tongie to have bbq with some of our friends. I am actually going on Friday to hang out with my buddy and get everything ready so we can start smoking around 5am. It should be a good time.
Ok so that’s all the information I have. Now it’s time for a game. I am going to put out some of my favorite movie quotes and the person who can guess what movie they are from wins.. I don’t know what the win yet but it’s something, so here it goes..

Mac: Oh, c'mon, we're like the sons you never had.
Captain O'Hagan: If you were my son, Mac, I would've smothered you by now.
Mac: Smothered me in gravy you big dirty man.

Mac: How's your shooting, Thorny?
Thorny: Good. I've been dead on all morning.
Mac: What about that little guy? [points to a bullet hole in the shooting target's neck]
Thorny: Who, that little guy? I wouldn't worry about that little guy.


Mike: Hi there, this is Mike Donnelly. I work over here at the recreational center. To be honest with you I pretty much run the place ha, ha, ha. Is this ah Pat Gyles? Good, Good. Hey, hope everything's going great in your fine town of er Avery? Edward! Ha, ha, ha. Say, the reason I'm calling is I wanted to tell you a little bit about the candidacy of Al Donnelly. Al Donnelly's a guy with a dream. His dream is to become governor of this great state of Washington. Hell, every guy's got his dream, am I right? Between you, me and the wall here, I doozy myself last night. Ha ha, ha, ha. Get this: A corn-fed harvest mouse, a hooker, a nun, a Flemish peasant woman, whips, chains, whistles yo-yo's, a circus midget. My grandmother riding by on a bicycle give me the finger, and a duck! Now, I don't know ha, ha, ha. Are you crying? Oh my lord. I am sorry honey, please don't ! Could you get your daddy on the phone. No, don't hang up please I... [phone hangs up]

Tommy: Hey, remember your brother Duane? Whatever happened to him? We used to go to Safeway all the time and get caught trying to steal doughnuts.
Michelle: He's a cop. He had to get a real job when my parents moved to Cuyahoga Falls. Tommy: Wow! [awkward silence]
Michelle: [holds up box of Dunkin' Donuts] Want one?
Tommy: I'd better not. I have what doctors call a little bit of a weight problem. I used to grab bear claws as a kid, two at a time, and I'd get them lodged right in this region here.

Crow T. Robot: Hey, Mike, you think you can toss me my calculations? Thanks! Ah, here it is. "Breach Hull - All Die." Even had it underlined.

Cal Meecham: [after German scientist comments on Mozart at dinner] What do you think of Mr. Mozart, Exeter? Exeter: I'm afraid I don't know the chap.
Tom Servo: "I'm not an alien!" Exeter: My mind must have been wandering. Your composer, of course. Cal Meecham: *Our* composer - he belongs to the world! Exeter: Yes, indeed.
Mike: "I'm not an alien." Cal Meecham: That dinner, Exeter, was even more perfect than you promised. Now if you'll excuse me, I could do with some fresh air myself.
Crow T. Robot: He's gonna get high! Cal Meecham: Would you care to join me, Dr. Adams?
Tom Servo: "Uh, no!" Cal Meecham: You, Dr. Carlson?
Mike: "Your turn to walk the Cal." Exeter: Why don't you? Show him the grounds.
Crow T. Robot: "I dare ya!" Exeter: We won't start cracking the whip on Meecham until tomorrow.
Tom Servo: "Then I ram my ovipositor down your throat, and lay my eggs in your chest! But I'm *not* an alien!"

Mike: Boy, the landlady's gonna be mad.
Tom Servo: Are you boys cooking up there?
Mike: No.
Tom Servo: Are you making an interositor?
Mike: No!

My weekend and Soap Boxes

Ok First off Rachel, the only reason I am posting today is because of your remark about it being 4 days. Ok with that out of the way , this weekend was great. On Thursday of last week I got to have dinner with a friend of mine whom I haven’t seen in forever! It was a blast we talked about old times and brought each other up to speed on where we are at in our lives now. I am still riding the high from that night. It’s amazing how you can pick up where you left off over a decade ago. I look forward to many more good times with him and hope we can get our good friendship back.
Friday night was a blast as well. It was couples night and we had a new couple join us. It was a great time with games and food and Amy telling everyone she got knocked up again. Way to go Dan! On Saturday I went to the church to get things ready for Sunday when I struck up a conversation with a guy I go to church with. We talked about history mainly but I feel the roots of a friendship were planted. I sure hope so. After that my mom and dad came out to the house to spend time with Glenna, they are completely head over heels for her. Then came Sunday, Church was awesome, Pastors message was great as usual, but I have found something that really bothers me. Talking/whispering during the message!!! Call me old but I think that is the biggest sigh of disrespect one can have. We are taught when we are little that we are not to be talking when ever someone else is talking, so why is it any different to do it while the pastor is preaching? I see it this way and I have told the Jr. Highers in my former youth group this exact thing “ I do not put pastors on a pedestal. They are mere humans just like I am, they are no closer to God than any of us, BUT they do bring the message of God to us and when we talk and do other things during their message we are not only disrespecting then we are also disrespecting God as well.” Ok I am now stepping off of my soap box! I hope you all have a gooooood week and Look out for my Crazy Grandma Fridays…oh this is gonna be fun!!