Ok I am serious folks, I am loving these CROCS. I am wearing them so much I am going to become known in the office as “the guy who wears rubber clogs”. Oh what the heck. They are starting to make a weird noise when I wear them w/o socks.

I took Karina it the INS place where she was fingerprinted yesterday in San Antonio.

That took forever. USA-USA-USA-USA. It is hard to be patriotic when government offices are so inefficient.

We went after to all the little missions in SA. The Alamo is only one of them you know. Probably the most well preserved. The rest of the missions there are still used as churches. It is sweet. The furthest one south was super small and built like in the 1750s. There were candles lit in little red glass vases, and the interior was so diminutive that the little stand of candles lit the complete end of the church with a reverent feeling red glow.

Ok I maybe getting old but I saw a PBS show that I thought was so moving, it was called Walking the Bible. It was so good. I was expecting something more of discrediting nature on Public TV but no. What I got in stead was a warm fuzzy.

Ok the woman I work with is a Nut case I have said this before. So, she is a bigger woman and I do not mean heavy set. Well yes, heavy set plus tall, 5-9ish. So, she found some aqua blue corduroy pants that fit her great everywhere except for they were about 5 inches too short. I suggested she Hem them into Capri’s, as they are a light cotton fine wale cord. “No” she said “I am going to buy some pretty fringe to put on the bottom to make them long enough.” Well that is not going to look right at all I told her but what ever they are after al your pants and you have to wear them right?” So today, she came in again wearing these pants but now they are lengthened with Black Satin. Oh yes friends black satin on the aqua cords. Now that is Classy. The outfit is complete with cowboy boots, a black leather jacket and a nice wool Tam Hat with an Aqua ribbon tied around the edge of the hat for coordinating effect. It is classic and if I could come up with a reason for a picture I would show you. I live with this woman 8 hours or more a day, so I have to be nice. And I am sure Jesus would want me to be nice to her too. But my lord, she is a freak.

Blah blah blah

My eyes are itching. I want to scratch them right out of my head or smear Vicks vapor rub on the m so they will feel cool. The doc gave me flonase to squirt up my nose for allergies. One question sir. If I cant breath out my nose because that artery is blocked, what then am I supposed to do? So here I sit so dazed, I do not know my name. A rose by any name is still a rose & antihistamine by another name: drugs.

I watched Team America world police last night. Lets just say I am glad those were puppets and some mighty fine puppeteering that was. I love political comedy and it was much easier to take with puppets doing it than having to watch Bill Maher rip into something. I love though when his writers are searching for something to be funny and slip him a joke about anal sex. It is as if he has to spin the joke, “taking it in the rear with a positive spin” so as to not offend any one. I don’t know I get into it something about his weak little shoulders. It might be good to be generous compassionate and liberal we just need a good leader. Some one with nice square features like Kennedy, the one who fancied both brunettes and blondes not his dork of a cousin. It is a Supreme Court hearing, broseph; take a nexium before you explode. I do not like Ted, he makes us all look like fools.

Well I am off to headphone world again at work. The woman sharing my space is crying and spewing. It is an overcast Monday, lord I hope she took her hormone pills today. She is such a meanie if she forgets.

I am feeling much better. In fact, this was a good weekend. Things went my way, which is sad huh?

My cold is almost gone.

My Boss is being replaced by my friend Roger (this is a very cool deal)

I went for a 6.5-mile hike with my friend James and had a marvelous time on the greenbelt.

Went cd shopping Saturday with my pal Chris. Found a cd I have been searching for a while.

Wished a happy birthday to my friend Zach on Saturday with a party at this Tapas bar. And that part of it was somewhat stressful. Pretty girls just make me nervous now. This place was packed with them, my wife and her friends included. I do not think it is pretty girls that make me nervous. It is just that Last year at the super bowl I was sitting with my friend, who about 30 days later took his life. I think that happiest I ever saw him was when Janet Jackson’s Boob Jumped out and said “Hey ya’ll”. I missed it because I was looking down concentrating on salsa and chips. Dang it.

I left my cell phone at work when I left early on Friday in a haze of sneezing.

Karina and had pizza and stayed in last night watching our shows. Desperate housewives & Greys Anatomy. Hers is the housewives show and mine the Hospital one. It sometimes makes me cry, then we watched About a boy. Great show, Nice evening to be inside with the one I love.

My friend Scott told me to stop dying my hair. Well he did not tell me that but he told me something I cannot tell any one else and it made me so happy. Directly correlates to the song I have on repeat today.

I want to go to the bar where you can order shots of Dayquil!

Home again home again giggity jog. Karina the math magician says we went 32 miles short of 2500 in a one-week time span.

It is 81 degrees outside as I type at 15 past 3 and I am thinking. Oh, my I should just go home and relax.

Special thanks to all who came to the little friendly get together at my moms.

Fun times. Next year I will be in CA for Christmas, or so that is the plan. So maybe given that we have two years to plan we can do a friends night right, you know with food and stuff. The next time we could have kids and the works. Crap mine, who is nothing more than a glint in my stare at this point, should then be a couple months old. However, since our parents are glued to the ground chances of a move and a further scattering of “the Village” seems unlikely. I miss the family unit about the town most of all other than that I miss the cheap car washes. One quarter to start the crazy thing and that gives you a full minuet. I washed Karina’s MINI like 4 times in a one week span that I spent half of in Iowa getting salt and road grime on it that I could wash off again when I passed through on my way home.

And folks I was so stinking good all year long, and let me tell you it pays. I got good stuff for Christmas. First the U2 show was my “gift” from Karina so I was not banking on anything else to come from my account, but no I scored a bad ass belt buckle that is vintage and just rocks to say the very least. Also I scored a pair of Crocs. A couple of handmade picture frames and some sweet shirts from a favorite old shop of mine Houndstooth in Fayetteville, AR. Over all we had a wonderful Christmas and a great time with family. Ok I am going to start missing them really bad if I keep thinking about them. So, if you want tell me about your time or more specifically your trips to your perspective homes.

Oh yeah I came to work today to find out that my Boss is Resigning. Happy New Year!

What is your new years resolution? Mine is to loose 20 pounds by this time next year. I think it is an attainable goal. God please help me to like water and veggies. Beer and Chips are so good though.

There is this song “You don’t bring me flowers” by Barbra Streisand that I just can’t get off my head.

I think it is my sub-conscious telling me to get Karina flowers. She is sick as a dog. I think she gets to feeling better when I get home from work and then by the morning she feels so bad that she calls into work. That was Monday and then yesterday she went in and lasted until noon and the Judge sent her home. So today she did not feel any better so she called in again. I feel bad for her, and I feel bad fro me too cause I don’t know what to do for her. When I am sick which is pretty rare I load up with Garlic, Vitamin C, and a few hours extra of sleep and I get over it. With here t is a whole different ball of wax. She never breaks out and feels real good again for a long time. We should probably both be taking a good multi-vitamin but which one? With our eating habits I would say that we could take double the vitamins and it would be good.

So in the attempt to get Karina well and back up on her feet I have made a couple of trips to the grocery. She hates it when I go to the store. I leave with all the things that would have been the coolest thing to eat when you were like 6. I loved 1983. I was too young to know that the world I live in was different from the rest of you and I still had the one friend I still miss. Papa Branham. Here i am with him in 82 or 83. We had so much fun

Any way so I went to the store for vitamin c and orange juice and some cereal and 50 bucks and a basket looking more full of junk than it should I left thinking she is going to string me up fool. I bought gummy worm style pizzas that you can make and then eat and chocolate and soup in a cup that you can just pop in the zapper-wave, I bought this new strawberry limeade stuff that looked good. It was fun. What I bought that was out of character was a DIET Dr. Pepper. I heard it tasted like children’s Tylenol, which I love so I picked one up and tossed it back, yeah it is awesome I love this stuff. I know there is nothing special about hearing about my DIET soda but it is like a free pleasure. It is Diet, and it is good. It will probably make me fatter but who cares right. Have you ever noticed that people who drink diet soda seem to call that in itself a diet plan? I know this guy who I would call dangerously obese and he drinks Diet Mt Dew like it is what is going to keep him alive, and of course he wants to live forever.

Have you ever been so stinking good at some thing that it turned out to be a bad thing? I don’t like to toot my own horn but, oh who am I kidding yes I do. I think I would rather toot my horn than having someone else toot it for me. I am just kidding. I was never good at being in front of people. Every one is like what that is a crock you are funny as all get out in front of people, Yeah but it is always me acting as another character. The thing is my act would probably be better suited to the Chappell show if it were still on. Not that is that funny but it might be that controversial. So if any one has ideas of how to step off of a character, I am open for pointers. So I mentioned this program we call the Buzz at church. I love the fact that I like what I do at church so much that is to me more of a hobby and a chance to make people say my God how does Karina live with him? It is like my hobby and not so much drudgery. I always hated and I realize Hate the word is big and mean, but yeah hated church for all its rules. Now that I have an inch I think I might have done the Christian thing to do and went the Extra Mile!

I love my church, and for me to say that is a milestone in my Christian development, or so I’d like to think.

So what is my point? I don’t know I just wanted to write something. I want my blog to be a place where you can come, read through and get a kick out of something. Not a place where I just use as therapy, to spill all my angst. I realize that that little confidentiality agreement that the paid therapist agreement includes is really what is the world needs. Somewhere to unload and have the law on your side as far as your crap. So I’ll save all my crap for the Dr. Ha no I wont I am way too cheap for a Dr. I will let it build up and then I will snap one day and I will be found snagged in barbed wire fencing some where in western Kansas. I will be there with my drum and what is left of the pain med’s I got from my last dentist appointment, just rocking back and forth unable to speak, not knowing if what I feel is pain or the lack thereof. At least I know where and how I could end up right? Sweet thanks that is what I needed was that my god this guys on crack look.

No it is not crack. It is some energy drink I got the other day, it tasted like flat soda and it was in a tiny can. Royal Lion or something. I need another one I can tell. This would all start making since if I only had another one. Why did I only buy one? Stink why do I do this to my self. Oh where is my drum? Am starting to feel all primitive and …

Nothing new for today just a picture, enjoy it people. There are children in India starving, imagine how many more of them are starving for attention! That is not funny but this picture is! I want to paint this on my Mini but Karina wont let me.

I just took my wife to the airport to go shopping and a weeding for the weekend. On the way home I am struck by the thought and a panic “ whatever shall I eat”

Ok so I guess I’ll get to know the waitresses at Chili’s by name again like I did in Springfield. No you know what is gross. I got on this kick of eating at the Waffle House over By James and Stephs house and then like 2 weeks after I got sick of waffles and omelets they shut the place down for a while for hepatitis. YIKES.

I gave a mustang chase on the way back from the airport. Of course his “all muscles, not a lotta brain” car also attracted the motorcycle cop. HA-HA. What an idiot. I gave him a beep beep when I went past him idling in furry with the spandex wearing motorcycle cop doing the “saunder” up to his window.

So I said that I was going to write about what happened on my Vacation a week after it happened.

The first night we did not do much. The second day was Karina’s Birthday. So we did what she loves to do we went shopping again. Across the street fro our hotel was the BAL Harbor shops all these top of the line designers that are lucky I don’t do what they do for the sheer competitive edge that I possess. I would be in the leather imprint of every well made purse and on the side over every over priced set of sunglasses there would be in the Hollywood eye. I know big head.

No really what is great about a mall like this one is that they don’t have a JC Penny. When a mall has a Penny’s they usually don’t have valet parking. The two don’t mix. And I would much rather the mall I frequent not have a valet because like I said I do like to my own parking and the illegal aliens dressed in nice little suits to make them disappear don’t like to park my FOCUS either. The winning combo is thought where a mall like this fancy pants place also has a GAP. Having been a GAP employee for several years I will tell you they have great sales. But sales and stuffing a 10 into Jesus’ hand to park your 100 grand worth of Bentley, they just don’t go together. (And I am being nice, to get a Bentley for 110k it would either have to be used or wrecked, New the cheapest one you can get Is 147k) And in Miami there are no men my size shopping at this mall. If they are my height they are a 28 waits and gay. Probably doing make up at the MAC store with their face painted like a water lily. The rest of the men who would be my size are not shopping. There is top-notch golf and the beach with all the women to objectify. Why shop? Did I mention that the beach is topless so you have these old nasty German Grandmas are out there looking as if they were the wet nurse to an entire orphanage. So I found jeans my size.

We went to a Cuban restaurant that was so good we went back two more times in the week we were there. Amazing food.

We went to the keys and then drove on out too the end to key west. That was cool. I so would not want to live there. I used to fantasize about Lining in Key West like it was some beach city on the sea. I think there are much better beaches down around Cape Lookout, North Carolina.

So here are some pictures of us on to old vacation. Try not to say “you look like your dad Dainer”. I know it is only in love but it is just not what I want to hear.

And one more thing. On the way to work this morning on NPR, I heard this great African Trio. It was the closest thing to speaking in tongues I have heard in a long time. Since I grew up judging a church services on emotional carbonation it was just the right about not a different language, you know other than Spanish. That is not even foreign anymore, I think I could be “in the flesh” and give a pretty good interpretation.

Hey folks I am back from my vacation in Florida. I am tanned and rested and ready for Christmas. I will be filling you in with pictures of what we did where we went all that jazz like a week after it actually happened. Like FCC delay that is on live tv! So a week ago today we were on a plane and no we did not take pictures of that but we did go shopping when we go there a the mall across from our hotel and Karina was pooped out afterward.

I am still in chill mode this morning at work. I want a cup of Cuban coffee and a good cigar. I need to be shorter so that I would not look so stupid in a straw derby.