auto vehicular day

yep.. today i decided my power steering was going in my car.... get home... kiss wife.. she walks back in door frustrated... 25 yards into her drive to work .. flat tire.... easy fix.. i drive my wife and I in my car with balking power steering to her work.... we are now late enough so no wonderful coffee at java joe's.... come back... spend 20 minutes figuring out how to retrieve the spare tire from underneath the dodge grand caravan sxt... it's actually a cool set up once you figure it out... change tire.... got new tire for price of buying new road hazard warranty $14 w/tax.. get back home.. switch cars ... go get power steering fluid because it was bone dry.... ugh.... no cat food at end of day with family at wonderful meal.... back to walmart at 11pm to get cat food.... now finally took heavy jeans off.... ugh... and i thought it was going to be a layed back friday... the 7pm to 940pm part was great....well rambling... signing off...

things not to say to your beloved one

"i didn't read your post today.... was it important?...."


hmmmmm.... translation.... you usually never say anything of significance... why would now be any different....

i love my wife.. she gave me lots of grace for this statement....

an actual fully cooked meal made at home

yep.... mission successful... took a laundry basket to the kitchen (its portable and i needed the oven ... if you ever been pushed for time and the kitchen is a mess you should catch my drift)... magically made the kitchen instantly or almost instantly clean

boars head bacon..
2 eggs...
spinach/rice pasta (gluten free kind)
fresh ground parmesan
pinch of fresh ground pepper
butter..

blend while hot....tasty ... very delicious..

this is the original old style spaghetti carbonara... any thing else like garlic or cream has been added later is not traditional....

ps.... kids love this too...

now just to hide tonights dinner dishes....................... just kidding ...

it's hard to shop

well actually its hard to eat what you shop for.... i mean.... for myself... i would eat tons of fruit if someone would just cut it for me... i don't even need it skinned... talk about pathetic... then my wife... she got lunch bored.... see i can eat the same meal every day every week ... but my wife.. its a different story... anyways about 3 hours later and we only have enough food for a couple of lunches... but it's a good start.... please see 2 postings down about eating out...

it's a shame too... i had to throw out about 10 lbs of various meats.. all got freezer burned.. ugh... oh well thawing sometimes takes too long...


ps my wife wanted to point out she ate the same lunch since august....

pss. apparently our eating out also affected my wife's lunch...

on a good note... tomorrow's dinner is spaghetti carbonara ...easy..fattening and delicious... this wonderful meal is made or broken on the quality of the bacon...i prefer boars head due to its vast availability and quality

our love is electrifying

wow... talk about amazing.... my wife and i kissed and the hugest shock went from her lips to mine or mine to hers... i mean it--- our lips were both numb... for like 10 minutes... wow ... at least i know we still have it...

the secret's out .. life was busy.. eat out...

take the combination of being lazy (or lack of interest) with being extremely busy during the last 2 months of my wife's corporate job.... she was training for her new job while working extremely long days at her corp job...

the problem is in 2 parts:

part 1: we had no idea when wife would get off work...430pm or 730pm?... my poor wife was overstressed and overworked.. is it a light dinner or heavy dinner or just almost straight to bed?

part 2: during this time our kitchen saw amazingly low use.. i might dirty a pan..rinse and set aside to be cleaned later... repeat for next few commonly used pans.. along with the few favorite knifes... (so now its clean before eat...ugh)

the result: led us to eat out almost every night... wendy's chili/potato... it's fast and easy (and cheap)... or we could savor the company of each other in the late night's by also eating out at our favorite restaurant... we sit at table 37 and get treated like royalty by the staff there....

honestly .. the person that works the most does not want to help in the kitchen.. so we would have disjointed conversations at best while i made dinner (no complaint, i love to cook) but by they time dinner prep was over it was 830pm some nights.... heartburn city too because of it being so late...

so i think we maintained our sanity by avoiding the chore of making the nutritious meals ourselves... so the secret is out.... now through some conversational slips of thought most of our close friends now know that we have not reciprocated in the dinner invite because our kitchen is a disaster..no health codes ... just non-functional....

but time to celebrate for our joint guts... wife's last full day at corp job was jan 31, 09... ready for the irony.... we now have the time (and less stress) to eat meals at home knowing the exact out of work time (no more suprise late nights).......................... and get ready for it...................... we celebrate by ............................ yep.. you guessed it............ eating out.....

boy....start a habit....but that is another posting..

mother in law and the couch

standing on couch.... funny how our parents told us not to stand on the furniture... i just never knew they (the furniture) fought back.... the couch launched my poor mother/law off and into the corner of a wall.. 8 stitches later (ER visit required) ... she's all good though.... hard head... now don't be reading between any lines on that one either....

the funnest saturday in years

this has been the first saturday my wife and i had off without using vacation time for either sickness or business in years... my wife has a new noncorporate job now... just mon-fri noon to six... wonderful... well at the end of her first official week we both spent about 4 hours reorganizing the office... it was the funnest time we had in a long time... we turned the desk around and i used my navy skills of ceiling to floor cleaning along the way....we found out the baseboard is actually a true black..not a lighter shade of gray... and how does dust stick to a vertical surface anyways?...

yes her salary has decreased (we haven't felt it yet...) but it was just so much fun.... to discover that we will have weekends again.. to discover that planning a vacation no longer requires the corresponding meetings at work to plan and quible with all the other members of management of who gets what days off...

yep.. this is going to be fun....

old navy buddies

okay... the reason i haven't posted in 3 days...

old buddies... uss gettysburg (CG-64) and uss constition (old ironsides) have been taking up my time on facebook...boy it is wonderful to have technology to catch up with friends that are seperated by miles and years..

totally cool....now its almost just about a part time job to catch up...

bonds of friendship.. insight to self...

navy buddies... i have just spent probably 4 hours today making new links to old friends in facebook... we served on board uss constitution and uss gettysburg ... it's hard to explain, but there is nothing like the kinship that one achieves when serving so closely with others in the military... for some it's been 15 years since i have last seen them.... they have families now... or they just have a bigger family... some were men of weak moral aptitude and others were men of strength that honored their covenants to their wives and girlfriends when out to sea... but there was always a silent confidence that if i needed help... any one would speak up.... no matter the personal feelings of annoyance.. i guess this is what eventually turns men of weak characters into men of strength.. i guess they witness first hand what it is to disagree, even vehemently, at times with you (me), but then be the first to volunteer to do your (my) watch if the need arose...

the ethics of professionalism developed during the workday would bleed into the personal lives of the men during the off times...it just wouldn't do the other way around... the ones who could not wouldn't last very long...so this is why i have a special affinity for anyone that served more than just the minimum in the military...

it's the character of strength i admire and hope that in myself i have retained just enough to remain extra-ordinary... it would be a pity to discover in myself that i lost that character i learned 15 years ago...which leads to a very difficult question... what would the quality of the handshake be if i were to meet the mentors i had from this time? .. could i look them in the eye or allow my eyes to wander in embarrassment?... i think i'll leave the last question open/rhetorical for the moment as i ponder its significance.... (the wonderful thing is.. my wife knows the answer... 2nd scary ponder... am i ready to listen) ... (or jokingly should i just give up and buy the next most expensive toy.. NOT!!!... )


ps....
this is just amazing.. i love the technology that allows people from all over the country to reconnect and laugh at very old jokes and make new ones...

its a secret...

well actually not... just not as many people read my blog as my wife's... she just can't currently sit at the computer.. our red computer chair that is front of it isn't quite agreeing with my wife yet... so there it is.... no updates on her blog and an update on my blog about her.... but thankfully she can knit so i'm not being driven nuts.... lol...ha ha....

why i don't clean my windows

apparently it's for the birds... i mean really... not the saying of who cares, why do it?..but actually for real birds... just trying to minimize the headaches of birds... one of the blogs i follow shows a picture of feathers stuck to a window from a bird smack.... taken together with the cute dog pictures; it creates a good laugh... the kind of laugh where you have to poke the next nearest person incessantly until they notice and start laughing too... (my wife's back is hurting so i turned down my desire to do this) but i was still obnoxious during an episode of American iron chef ..

thanks for the laugh...

can we get a new back and hip joints ordered please

okay... my wife does this about once every 2 years... usually involving a slip in the tub.. but this time no tub... and she has no idea how she did it... but boy does it look pathetically painful... on the bright side... she was just able to leave a note at her new job and come home to recoup... i am so glad she is out of the corporate world...

borrowed from my other comments

how long can you ponder about nothing before you realized you have started to think?

i actually have nothing to say

here it is: "nothing"


ya ... i know...pretty lame..but i didn't want to miss a day... and i ran out of creative juices having fun on facebook....