Happy Thanksgiving!!!

To all the turkeys in my life...I couldn't ask for a better rafter (group of turkeys) of family and friends to make my life what it is!!!

And I almost forgot...

While in Corpus Christi, we stayed in the hotel next to where the singer Selena was killed. No joke, my room was just across a parking lot. You can read a friend/co-workers blog about it here

Also, I learned Ineffably is a great driver who kept turning into the wrong buiding/driveways because according to here...."I was pretty sure I wasn't paying attention.

And every time we'd tell someone were we were staying...they'd tell us they were in the worst area of town and all about the hookers that we were basically living with. One of our last nights there...driving home, I'm pretty damn sure we saw several of the hookers stuffed in trunks of cars. But we only saw it because there had to have been at least 3 different cop/hooker busts going on while driving down Leopard street there in Corpus...

Hummers belong in the bedroom, not on the side of the road

As you may or may not have noticed...it's been neigh on a month now since I have added to this, my blog. I'd like to say there was a profound reason...but mostly just laziness and lack of motivation...not for a lack of stuff to blog about, just a total lack of motivation...so to all y'all, I profoundly apologize.

So...here's a brief synopsis of the past month...

I flew out to Corpus Chrisi, Texas for work on Saturday, November 1st. When my ride to the airport came and picked me up...she inadvertantly backed into someone's Hummer parked across the street. Now, that in and of itself was bad enough. But the reaction of the owner was pretty off the chart. Now..this little hatchback bumped into the tire of this monster SUV. No damage whatsoever...but the owner completely flew off the handle. So, after getting out of their, we hit a bitch of a traffic jam on the freeway. Needless to say, I barely made it to the airport in time to meet up with Ineffiably to grab a bite at the BK and then get on the plane.

I then spent the next week or so working 16 hour days...holy hell...I thought I was going to die. Thank god I had Ineffably to keep me entertained with adventures in the cobalt. And apparently, every order of chicken strips comes with gravy in Texas. We found this out when we didn't answer the girl at Jack in the Box's question fast enough and she repeated her question of "Would you like GRAVY with that?!?" in tones akin to the engines of a Boeing 747 at take off.

Birds in Corpus Christi are pretty much creepy and unnatural to say the least. Watching out of the window where we were working, we saw a flock of birds pretty much kick the shit out of some poor unfortunate squirrel.

I did get to see some really cool things down there. Like the Saturday night we went out to the bar and saw 20 or so marines in full dress uniform....I loves me a man (or men) in uniform! Also, got the chance to tour the U.S.S. Lexington. It's a WWII era aircraft carrier permantly docked in Corpus and had been turned into a museum. Also, the SciFi channel show "Ghost Hunters" filmed an episode on there. Pretty cool if you as me, I love that paranormal stuff. Dunno if there is anything really out there...but I'm not doubting it to be sure. The infermary still smelled like an old gross hospital too.

But I've been back in good ol' Salt Lake City for a little over a week now. I love the travelling, but it's rough being gone for so long. There were a lot of people and things (people mostly) that I missed here.

I think today, I'm going to go and buy a new frog. Chuck is looking pretty lonely there all by himself. I'll keep you updated...

In Memory....

In memory of Ed T. Frog. Ed is dead. He's now swimming in that great toilet bowl in the sky now.

I found him floating at the top of his tank this morning. Now, that's nothing new or unsual in and of itself. However, after a period of no movement of any kind (even when gently prodded with a stick), I came to the realization of the sad truth ... Ed is dead. A brief service was held in his name before he joined millions of gold fish in the sewers of Salt Lake County. Flowers are welcome and appreciated according to his last will and testament. Thank you.

On this day some many, many, many years ago...

It's official, I'm older than I have ever been in my whole entire life! Well, this life for sure, anyhow. Not to get all philosophical or religious, but I have no idea where we come from or if we've been here before or whatnot. But that totally was just a tangent that escaped my head and travelled down my fingers to plan itself firmly on this blog.

Back to the point though, it's my birthday. I sort of took a page out of Ineffable's book, I'm having a whole birthday week. She had a month (and still is having), but I figured I'd start small and then move on to the grandeur of a whole month next time or something.

It started with lunch/dinner thing on Saturday with my mom, cousin and my little one. Also included shopping for a couple new pairs of shoes from mom and jr. God help me, but I love 'em...yup I love my family even if they make me crazy a good portion of the time (oh, and I love the new shoes too). And then, we watched Ghostbusters. I hadn't seen that movie in years. And you know what, twenty something years later, I still love it! "Ray, if someone asks you if you're a god, you say YES!"

Sunday, my roommate and I had friends over for dinner, cake and drinks. It was a fabulous time. I love my friends, in fact, most of them are all but family in my eyes! And let me tell you, Jose Cuervo, yeah, he was a friend of mine on Sunday!!! Loved every single minute of it. Even the crazy, frantic, pull-my-hair-out minutes of trying to rush to get everything ready for people to show up. I thought since it was a Sunday, we'd better start earlier to drink and such, so I said 4:00 p.m. on the invite. But true to form, most people showed up late. Which was good since I wasn't ready. Then, margarita in hand, I decided to grill the burgers. Oh lord, was that a riot. P and I, yeah, we had a blast. My eyebrows should grow back soon, I hope. There was a frakin' bonfire! Loved it! Just surprised we didn't burn down the new house (yeah, moved into D's new house he just bought on Thursday and had a party on Sunday...crazy!)

Then onto Monday, some co-workers took me out to lunch to Pei Wei. God that is some good food. And it was all the better for the eye candy Ineffable and I ogled for a good ten minutes.

So now here it is Tuesday, the actual anniversary of my popping outta the womb. My life may have ups and downs, more downs than I really care for, but all-in-all, I love my life, dammit, I love it!!!

Gotta get me one of these....

An Ineffable Thank You

I want to thank Ineffably So for posting this on her blog in response to my question...

Have you ever been in love? . . . Horrible, isn't it? . . . It makes you so vulnerable. . . . It opens your heart & it means someone can get inside & mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life. You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it, They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, & then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out & leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like "maybe we should just be friends" . . . turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. . . . It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love.

I'm still open to hearing thoughts from other friends and readers on what you think of "Let's just be friends"....really, I am.