Finally At Home!!

Soo, yeah, it's been like a week since I last posted. How are you? How was Thanksgiving? Ours was pretty good. We finally did Thanksgiving correctly by only going to two houses instead of three. The last couple years we've gone to my parents, her parents, and my grandparents. You end up with a stomach waaaaaay too full of turkey and stuffing, and a strong hatred of everything that is Thanksgiving. I dunno, it was pretty good this year - we got my parents to come to her parents house. The get together at Nana and Papa's was great as usual, about 25 people, and lots of Mimosas. That's champagne and orange juice. Yyyyyuuuuummmmmmm. Time off was great too, went shooting on Tuesday, played Halo 3 for six hours on Wednesday, ate and had fun on Thursday, and hung out with Melissa's family on Friday. Saturday was good too, we spent like five hours getting new tires put on the Impala, went out to lunch at Ninfa's, and then went home and watched Die Hard 4 followed by like five hours of Grey's Anatomy. Wait, did I say that Saturday was fun?? Well, yeah, I did enjoy spending time with my wife - We really don't get enough time to just be together. Sunday was pretty nice enough even though we had to watch more Grey's, but James and Lynne came home from their trip, so we got to hang out with them for a while, and that was fun cuz we hadn't seen them in like five days.

It felt soooo weird to go back to work today. It's not every day you get a week off work. Didn't have a bad day at all - it went by quickly and actually went pretty well, but it seemed strange to not be home with my wife. Didn't really get to ride my bike this weekend either. Of course, that's not really surprising because it either rained or just was freezing cold all weekend.

Can you believe it's less than a month til Christmas? Just think, one month from today, we will have all taken back all the Christmas presents we didn't want. Actually, I should change that to all you people instead of "we" because I neeeeever take presents back. Yeah, I had two presents on my birthday that I was gonna take back, and I didn't ever take one of them back, and the other one took me almost a month to exchange for something else. Is it a bad thing to take gifts back? I don't really think so, but sometimes it can be very awkward if the gift was meant to be seen by the gift-giver. For example, if someone gives you a watch, you can't go get a different watch or just go exchange it for cash. If you are given a CD or a book, that you can usually get away with exchanging because what, are they gonna come over and ask for proof that you still have that thing? Well, they might, but that would be rude and you could call them out on that. Seriously, do it. Later!

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Back to Work

I'm hoping to post sometime today!! Keep checking!!

Day Off Number One

So what's up people? I have today and tomorrow off from work because, well, it was now or never. I had two days of PTO (paid time off) left for this year, and we're not allowed to use it in December and we can't roll it over to next year, aaaand we can't use it during month end, so this literally was the last chance i had to use it! And you thought I was exaggerating. So you know what I'm doing with my free time so far? I'm watching videos on You Tube and posting to my blog! Yay so exciting!! It's really not so bad, I'm gonna go shooting later, and I'm having lunch with my wife. Other than that, I really don't have anything planned. Maybe I'll go for a ride. I usually wish that I could when I can't, and now I can, so maybe I will. Yeah, I'm so not making any sense right now. I just figured that I should post since I have time. This is a short and boring one though because I'm ending it now. Later!

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Sympathy

Aww poor Morgan. You are sick and away from your family. How was Paris? Enjoy the Transpo. strike? So sorry you're sick - that's never a fun feeling. Hope you get better soon!

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What's Happening to America?

I have read something this morning that-- well, I'm not sure how I feel about it. I'm shaking my head as I type this, because I'm thinking the idea is just so pitiful. It's a good example of how lazy and yet impatient Americans are getting. Yes I might mean you, but you are American, are you not? Anyway, Papa John's Pizza now has a new ordering option: TEXT MESSAGING!!! Is it really that much of a hassle to call the place? You say "well I don't have the number," but if you've called before, then you have the number in your phone, and you can call information and get the number too. Besides, in order to text the order in, you have to go to their website. If you're at the website, you can get the phone number. I'm ranting, and no one really cares about it as much as I probably do, so I'll stop.

Anywho, how's your life going? It's funny when I ask questions like that, cuz I'm really interested to know even if I don't necessarily know you. Sometimes people tell me, and sometimes people completely ignore the question. We'll see what happens now that I've pointed it out...

So I got my first insult about my motorcycle day before yesterday. One of our service techs walked in the door and says, "Why'd you buy a training bike? Where are your training wheels?" Now, a regular person would be insulted by that. I am a words person (See Five Love Languages (it's a book)) and that really burns. You have insulted my bike, my riding skill, my financial decisions, and I now loathe your existence!! The person insulting me then proceeded to say that he used to have a 90cc bike in college. 90. Mine is 234cc's and you're insulting me because you had a 90cc. Whaaaat the heck. I'd say this person has no room to talk! Bottom line, don't insult people because then they talk bad about you on their blog. No no no, don't insult people because it's not nice, and they get defensive, and they shouldn't have to defend themselves to you unless you are their spouse or accountability partner.

So how's the week going? It's over half way finished! YAY! I'm excited about next week cuz I only have to work Monday. I get to catch up on sleep! Hooray!!! Well, need to get back to work, just thought I'd put something up cuz it's been a couple days. Later,

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IT'S A GIRL!!!!!!

Yup yup! We found out yesterday that the baby is a girl!!! She's so gorgeous. She's about ten inches long right now, and weighs about 11 ounces, but she's getting bigger! It's so wonderful to finally know for sure! There's like no chance that it's a boy - you can tell in the ultrasound. We can finally stop saying "he or she" and "it." Scary thing though, now people are gonna start buying stuff. I am SO excited to be having a girl because I love girls, but I'm gonna have to make sure our whole apartment doesn't go pink! I'm so excited for my little princess to be here.

So what's goin' on with the weather? First they said the cold front would be here like Monday, and it was HOT. Then they said it was gonna rain on Tuesday, and it was dry. Now the cold front is here and good grief is it COLD!!! The low tonight by 8 pm is 48 degrees! BRRRRR!!! You can say "oh it's not that bad," but on a motorcycle, it feels like 42!!! You gotta admit, that's cold. Oh well, at least it's starting to feel more like a holiday-ish season. I like it to be cold for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Yeah, that took like two minutes just to color the words... So what? You like it cold, too. Who wants it to be t-shirt weather while you're eating turkey dinner or opening presents? Yeah, it stinks. Granted, once the holidays are over, I like it to heat back up a little bit. I'm thinking my perfect day in temperatures would be upper 50's in the morning, mid-70's in the afternoon, and lower 60's at night. A light jacket at most during the day, and snuggle weather with the wife at night. How about you? What would your perfect temperature be? It's different for everybody.

So I guess that's all for now - I'm trying to stay more current with my posting like I used to be, and I'm trying to post on all three blogs today. If you don't know the other links, they're http://brokenandrebuilt.blogspot.com and http://bikesilike.blogspot.com so check 'em out if you want. Later,


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MEEP MEEP!!!

Yeah, so I learned something today - don't drink two cups of SUPER strong coffee in the morning without eating something first. I am WIRED. If you read this stuff out loud as quick as you can, you'll have an idea how I'm feeling. Woo Hoo!! To add on to that, our system is down at work, so I can't do ANYTHING. I've only got like 2.5 minutes left till lunch, so I'll have something to do then. So how was your Halloween? Do anything? We didn't. Well, we hung out with people I think - I dunno, it was like five whole days ago, so that's hard to remember at this point. Had a pretty good weekend. What's up with the weather, huh? I mean, I thought a cold front was coming through, but the high today is like 85, and that is NOT cold. It's not anywhere near cold. It's like almost hot. That's just not cool. Sooooo yeah. Oh, we saw American Gangster on Friday, it was a really good movie, but don't take your children to see it. Violence and language and stuff, but the story line itself was pretty good. So anyway, it's lunch time now so I''m gonna go. Later!

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