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This past holiday season was honestly quite nice (warning...mushy crap)

>> Friday, December 26, 2008

Musashis5FLAMES, originally uploaded by Terpr13.

Me and Mary spent our first holiday as a couple this year. Awww.... (I will go ahead and give you a moment...don't mind me, i'll just be over here wiping the sweat out of my eyes...) -smile-

It was quite nice, we decided to go out to eat as soon as Mary arrived in town.

We went to a place called "Musashi's" I was a tiny bit nervious about going because it is one of my absolute favorite kinds of food of all time and Mary hadn't ever been. My fear was that she was going to hate it...eek!

So, we got in using a reservation I had booked online at opentable.com. (Excellent website and I will be using it many more times in the future) We were seated next to a family that was there celebrating the grandfather's birthday. Ugh! Imagine having a birthday TWO DAYS before christmas! That would suck! Poor guy... They were funny...as Mary mentioned in her blog the little girl that was with them didn't seem particularly fond of the whole Hibachi thing...and spent a majority of the time sitting well beyond arm's length from the table.

It was fun.

The next few days can only be discribed as a hell of a lot of driving, presents from family, seeing Coen (my cousin's new-born baby), meeting Mary's family, more driving, Mary meeting more of my family, being crazy tired, working, and a very VERY clean bathroom.

All in all I do believe I enjoyed this holidayseason more than I have any holiday season in a long time. I contribute this to the lovely Mary being with me. She is great. :)

~Micheal

Eight Words with two Meanings

>> Thursday, December 18, 2008

THese are pretty good....got them in an email -smile-

1. THINGY (thing-ee) n.
Female...... Any part under a car's hood.
Male..... The strap fastener on a woman's bra.

2. VULNERABLE (vul-ne-ra-bel) adj.
Female.... Fully opening up one's self emotionally to another.
Male..... Playing football without a cup.

3. COMMUNICATION=2 0(ko-myoo-ni-kay-shon) n .
Female... The open sharing of thoughts and feelings with one's partner.
Male... Leaving a note before taking off on a fishing trip with the boys.

4. COMMITMENT (ko- mit-ment) n.
Female..... A desire to get married and raise a family.!
Male...... Trying not to hit on other women while out with this one.

5. ENTERTAINMENT (en-ter-tayn-ment) n.
Female. A good movie, concert, play or book.
Male...... Anything that can be done while drinking beer.

6. FLATULENCE (flach-u-lens) n.
Female.... An embarrassing byproduct of indigestion.
Male...... A source of entertainment, self-expression, male bonding.

7 MAKING LOVE (may-king luv) n.
Female...... The greatest _expression of intimacy a couple can achieve.
Male.. Call it whatever you want, just as long as we do it.

8. REMOTE CONTROL (ri-moht kon-trohl) n.
Female.... A device for changing from one TV channel to another.
Male... A device for scanning through all 375 channels every 5 minutes.

AND;

He said . I don't know why you wear a bra; you've got nothing to put in it.
She said . . You wear pants don't you?

He said . . .... Shall we try swapping positions tonight?
She said That's a good idea - you stand by the ironing board while I sit on the sofa and fart!

He said ... What have you been doing with all the grocery money I gave you?
She said .....Turn sideways and look in the mirror!

He said . . How many men does it take to change a roll of toilet paper?
She said . We don't know; it has never happened.

He said . . Why is it difficult to find men who are sensitive, caring and Good- looking?
She said .... . . They already have boyfriends.

He said .. Why are married women heavier than single women?
She said . . Single women come home, see what's in the fridge and go to bed. Married women come home, see what's in bed and go to the fridge.

Sunflower sunset

>> Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Sunflower sunset, originally uploaded by Traces in the Sand.

OH-EM-GEE!! Frickin' AH-MAZE-ING!! haha

I updated my blogger header pic....I like it

I have no idea why, but I have always loved photography that singled out one color. I have no idea what the official fancy pants name for it is, but, there is just something great about it. For example, in the movie Schindler's List. The scene where Oskar sees the little girl in the streets and her coat is red. THEN, later in the movie when they are burning bodies and you see the girl's red coated lifeless body in the pile....It REALLY drives the point home.

Another example are the generic cards that are all black and white except for a single color...very nice...its as though they took some small piece of my soul and let it take the picture as it sees it. I connect SO much with them and if given the opportunity, I would have them on every wall of my house.

On a side note, I have decided that Wednesdays should be deleted from the calender! I have a worse time waking up on wednesday than any other day of the week. This morning, somehow without fully knowing it I managed to not only get out of bed, but also get dressed, get in my car, drive to work (and stop at McDonald's), walk into the building before ever ACTUALLY waking up! Ugh!

On a second side note, when to a friend's house yesterday evening and got a chance to play with Linux. Honestly, its funny. I consider myself pretty decently familar with computers and such and have done some reletively complicated repairs to computers before and yet every third time I sit down to a linux computer, it never fails that I feel dumb for the first thirty minutes or so that I am working on it... Luke was trying to install this awesome program on his laptop and all of the explainations seemed really simple....HOWEVER, it took forever. The one thing it didn't mention in any discriction was where to find the exicutable files....there are a few different places one would look depending on the developer that set up the exicutable file. You see, if they learned on a debian system, then it will be in /usr/bin If they are from Red Hat it will be in /usr/lib and if they are from fadora then it might be just about anywhere inside /usr! And if you have no idea, then check the first two, then begin the journey through a very large folder... :) It was fun...it was cool to hang out with Luke and meeting is toddler daughter Bella whom is clearly the apple of his eye and for good reason...real nice little lady. :)

Well, I guess that it all for now... I guess I will get off of here...

Peace out,
~Micheal

The Chairs

>> Monday, December 15, 2008

(no subject), originally uploaded by Terpr13.

So, Mary and I got a late start on saturday...which was relaxing. It was nice to just lay around and watch Scrubs...I don't do that very often but must say it was nice. :) Once we did finally get got of bed to start our day, we has several errands to run. One stop we made was to Goodwill... (I love goodwill...one never knows what exciting treasures they might find at that place!) We found these chairs....we fell in love...and, even though there are only the two of us for at least 50 miles that we even know, we wanted to buy them) After a bit of dicussion, we decided to leave it to fate. We were gonna finish our errands and if goodwill was still open and hadn't sold the chairs, we would get them. We did. They were. the chairs weren't. We bought them. They were nice...but...ugly. In the pictures, you can see the before and after we stained them. I like them. They are nice.

Yes, I am aware of how very poorly this reads. You see, I am flat out exhausted and am having trouble thinking straight. I will most likely read this later and see error after error...but thats fine...I dont care. =)