the one where he is on holiday

Ahh here we go, the first full day of my February holiday. (I say holiday, over vacation, or the hated “vaca”, because it sounds nicer. ie; “I’m going on holiday.”) I’m off from work until 7am on the 15th. The day started off great. The animals let us sleep in until 8:30. And trust me, that is a sleep in when I’m up at 5am every week day morning. So we get up, and I make some coffee. I told Crystal that if she wanted to run she could, but I wasn’t going to go because my head had that “I slept in too much, and now I give you are headache”. Surprisingly, it went away faster than it usually does. So I finished a couple more cups of coffee, and got dressed.

In fact we both got dressed at almost the same time. I think Crystal was excited to go and get her haircut. I know I was. Like I told the hair stylist, “I don’t want to look like I’m homeless any more.” So in a matter of like 10 or 15 minutes, I had a whole new look, and I think I look pretty good with my new haircut. Hot even. Then it was the fun of sitting in the store watching Crystal get her hair done. I tells you it felt like 3 days if it was a 1/2 hour. No not really, but her hair always takes longer. So I sat there and tried not to listen to the stylist and a lady talk about how things were in the 80’s when the stylist was born in 1990. 1990? Man I feel really old. Hey, speaking of old, Crystal is having her birthday next Friday! All kidding aside, I think she’s going to have a pretty awesome birthday. Even Canada decided to give her a present; February 12th is also the opening ceremonies for the Winter Olympics up in Vancouver. (GO TEAM CANADA!)

Been playing on Ancestry.com. I finnly broke down and begged Crystal to upgrade to the international version so I could look up my family tree too, because Ancestry.ca sucks so much monkey ass its not even funny. So I did find out a few things about my great grandfather on my grandfathers side. My mom said his name was Rudolf Schappert. But now I think that was wrong, because I couldn’t find anything under that name. But I did find a Valentine Schappert, and all the information that I have found since has led me to believe that Valentine Schappert (Valentine is my grandfathers middle name. Hell even the signature on another document that I found, the Schappert looks just like my grandfathers writing.) is my great grandfather. all the little bits of information add up. But now after finding a lot of information out about him, I’ve hit a wall again. So I’ll keep poking around. the .com has some Canadian information, but not as much as all the US information out there. Crystals already in the 1700’s with her family, and it seems like my family started when my great grandfather got on the SS Amerika in Hamburg, Germany bound for New York in December 1908.

Other than that, there’s not too much to report on. There’s flurries outside, but nothing is going to stick. We have Zombieland for the movie tonight, and of course Vodka. Should be a good night. Sleep in tomorrow as well.

Monday, I told Crystal we can go up to the Emerald Square Mall, and she can use her gift certificate and get her nails done. Then I think after that, it’ll be Olive Garden for the Soup, Salad, and Breadsticks. And then just home to relax, and get ready for the long day that will be the Boston Museum on Thursday. Yup, I finally get to go to Boston! I can’t wait, its gonna be awesome. Does anyone know if the Cheers bar is close to the Museum? I hope it is. I wanna go where everyone knows my name! Wow, just surfing the interwebs, they renamed it from the Bull and Finch Pub, to Cheers Beacon Hill. They much really be hard up for the tourist cash if they did that.

I never know how to end these things, Sometimes…HEY WTF IS THAT? *points*

*runs away*

the one where he dislikes loud talkers

Slept in today. It felt really good. The bed was so nice and warm, I didn’t want to go, but the cats were starting to circle the bed. They were hungry. Mal was really hungry because I think he forgets to eat in the middle of the night, and just waits for me to feed him at 5am when I get up for work. I think he is slowly starting to learn that I only do that 5 times in a row, then the next two times, he gets fed later. But both were very good, because they let us sleep in. I only had to pull Mal out of the dresser once this morning. I think it was around 7.

So we got up around 10ish, and I made some coffee and fed the kittens. Crystal was up shortly after, and we decided since it was 12 degrees out, we were not gonna get dressed and go running. We’re actually hoping that it will be slightly warmer in the morning, and we’ll go out then. So she ended up doing some Wii yoga, while I drank some coffee and surfed the net.

Crystal wanted to get a running vest or something like that, so we headed off to Old Navy because there’s a 30% off sale going on there, and its the last day of it. So we wandered around there, and she found a green shirt for the St. Patrick’s Day 5k, I signed us up for. I on the other hand, found nothing that I just had to have.

After Old Navy, and Target, we headed off to get something to eat, and to look in Newbury Comics. We pulled into Newbury Comics first and looked around. I found a video game that both of us can play on the Wii, and its something better than the last two I brought home.

Then Crystal decided that we should go to TGI Fridays for lunch. Yummy! We haven’t been there for a long time, and its always good every time we do end up going. She got a Jack Daniels chicken sandwich, and I got the Cheesy bacon burger. Along with to soda’s, I orderd some Potstickers for and Appetizer. Shortly after we ordered, two giggly girls and their loud talker father came in and sat right next to us. Now my super power in restaurants is to be seated as close to children as possible. So when a couple of teenagers and their father sit down, I figure this should be pretty much ok. Nope, the girls giggled a lot. Like they just smoked weed a lot. And the father sounded like he was trying to hard. Did I mention he was a loud talker? Yes? Ok, just had to make sure.

Not that there’s too much of a point to this story or anything.

So we get home and start to play Ghostbusters. Its fun. Well worth the $14.99 I paid for it. And both of us can play at the same time! Woohoo! I finally found a pretty fun game. But I hear that’s one of the draw backs. Its a short game, like only 5 hours long. I kinda stopped playing after the 1st full mission. Now we’re 26% of the way done the game. Must take it slowly!

Tonight’s movie is Whip it. I can’t wait. I’ve heard nothing but good things about this movie, and I think Ellen Page is a pretty good actor. So I am counting down the hours until we can watch it.

And I am hoping we can run tomorrow, and its not freeze your ass off cold. I will veto myself running! We’ll see.

the one where he gets irked

A lot of things annoyed me, but what really irks me are people that talk like babies, get names of products wrong, and turn in their cars without their turn signals on.

And since Apple is introducing the “iPad” (worst name. ever.(Now with wings!)) today, it seems like the interweb is blowing up talking about what would be better, the iTouch (iPod Touch), iPhone, or the iPad. Well if you want shit that you can actually put IN YOUR POCKET, get the iPhone or the Touch. Honestly, has apple come out with anything in the last three years that wasn’t a rip off of the iPhone? One trick pony? Possibly. Frankly, I’m just a little bit tired of hearing that Apple is the best thing since sliced bread. I have an iPod Touch. Its pretty nice, I can surf the net while I do my business on the toilet. Whoopty doo!

But I digress.

Examples:

- iTouch. Oh my god people, its not called an iTouch. It’s called the iPod Touch. How hard is that to get right? I mean really, you kind of sound like a douche when you talk about your iTouch all the time. Plus it sounds kinda dirty, dontcha think?

- Sammich. If you are over the age of five you should probably be calling things by their proper name. It’s a goddamned sandwich. Simple. I would hope that you don’t go in to restaurants and order a nice ham and cheese sammich. Even if you have kids, teach them how to pronounce words. And if you do go in to a restaurant and order that ham and cheese sammich, I hope the waiter/waitress slaps the shit out of you, in front of your crotch monkey.

- People who turn, and don’t use their turn signals. What the fuck people, is it really that hard to turn or change lanes with the turn signal? Did you know they are not options on a car? EVERY car/truck/suv comes with them! Its not that hard to use them all the time. As some one who has been driving for like 5 years, I use them all the time. When you get into an accident because you didn’t use the signals don’t blame the other person, blame yourself. Jesus hates people that don’t use their signals.

- Frakking baby talkers. You are definitely over 2 years old, why do you insist on talking in baby talk? It makes you look like an idiot. I don’t even talk to my pets like that, and by some chance it slips out, it sounds more like Ace Ventura than baby talk. Grow the hell up and talk like someone your own age.

There, phew. I think I am done for a bit. I feel better.

the one where he cleans off his desk

Ahh a day off during the week. Yesterday I had plans. Plans I say! I wanted to clean, but we both know that probably won’t happen. I do have a revised plan. I want to clean off my desk. That will happen. In fact, I’m going to be starting it very soon.

Mind you, its not that bad. That’s what I am telling myself. It actually is that bad. I’m not going to post a picture of it, because its embarrassing. So, for a second, I’m gonna stop this post, and clean it. Really I am, I’m not just going to type “5 minutes later” and continue to post.

5 minutes later.

There, its all nice and clean! (I actually just typed that without getting up.)

Ok, that was actually about 5 minutes later as my screen saver came on, and my desk is clean. I found about 15 pens and sharpies and about $2 in various change. And some where in there was my payment book for my truck. Found that too! Also found a recipe for Beer bread. Want it? It’s untested by Casa McBride, but here you go none the less.

Beer bread

3 cups self-rising flour
1/2 cup of sugar
12oz beer – room temp

- mix all
- put in greased loaf pan
- gently brush with melted butter
- bake at 325 for 90 minutes
- brush with melted butter 2 times during baking

There you go. Easy huh?

Ok, time to go back to surfing the internet, and complaining that I have nothing to do, and being bored.