Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Posted by Break from Sanity @ 2:35 PM
Here it is Halloween time, the epitome of the Fall Season.
Because you don't need a house to fall on you to have fun on Halloween!!
Halloween brings a variety of faces, each with it's own inner light to shine through....
It's Halloween, dress up as you favorite scary monster, or let you inner "witchy" self out. The time to scare the daylights out of kids and adults alike.
So if your dressed up and heading out with kids, be safe and be careful. Have a good time, and take the time to enjoy the decorations, the houses, the kids around you that dress up as their favorite monster.
For those of you staying in, rent a scary movie, turn the lights of, light a dozen small candles and put them around the house.
Which brings me to How to Survive in a Horror Movie:
1. When it appears that you have killed the monster, never check to see if it's really dead.
2. If you find that your house is built upon or near a cemetery, that was once a church that was used for black masses, had previous inhabitants who went mad or committed suicide or died in some horrible fashion, or had inhabitants who performed necrophilia or satanic practices, move away immediately.
3. Never read a book of demon summoning aloud, even as a joke.
4. Do not search the basement, especially if the power has just gone out.
5. As a general rule, don't solve puzzles that open portals to Hell.
6. If you find a town which looks deserted, it's probably for a reason. Take the hint and stay away.
7. Don't fool with recombinant DNA technology unless you're sure you know what you are doing.
8. If you're running from the monster, expect to trip or fall down at least twice, more if you are of the female persuasion. Also note that, despite the fact that you are running and the monster is merely shambling along, it's still moving fast enough to catch up with you.
9. Do not keep all your sharpened kitchen knifes in one of those wooden block thingies on your worksurface.
10. When you're searching a house because you think there's something dangerous there, for God's sake turn the bloody lights on!
11. Never back out of one room into another without looking. It's always behind you.
12. Never, ever, ever turn off the paved road onto a gravel or dirt road.
13. Always make sure that your car has a fresh battery so it will start immediately in times of crisis.
14. Never say that you'll be right back because you won't.
15. If anything other than water (blood, thick goo of any color) comes out of a faucet, do not call a plumber. Leave the house immediately.
16. If, looking in a mirror, you see a figure behind you that you don't see upon turning around, you see a different room than the one you are in, you see a figure other than yourself looking back, or your reflection tells you to get out before it is too late, proceed to the nearest exit with all speed.
17. If you open a door and the room you see is not the room that should be there, do not explore it. In fact, even if you close the door and see the correct room after re-opening it, vacate the house.
Think you can survive?
Take the quiz
HERE
For months, some friends and I have been trying to figure out a way to take a "Girls Weekend" -- no kids, no husbands, just a weekend getaway with friends. Adult conversation, shopping, good food and drinks, and just plain old FREEDOM.
I guess that is why the wife is heading out tonight for some drinks and a little time away with a friend of hers, sort of her, "taking a sanity break."
And her break down of drinks between men, women and possibly what they mean is pretty funny:
"Are You Easy, or do you drink Blender Drinks?
Drinks Show Your Personality -- or does it?
Seven New York City bartenders were asked if they could nail a woman's personality based on what she drinks. Though interviewed separately, they concurred on almost all counts.
The results:
Drink: Beer
Personality: Causal, low-maintenance; down to earth.
Your Approach: Challenge her to a game of pool.
Drink: Blender Drinks
Personality: Flaky, whiny, annoying; a pain in the ass.
Your Approach: Avoid her, unless you want to be her cabana boy.
Drink: Mixed Drinks
Personality: Older, more refined, high maintenance, has very picky
taste; knows EXACTLY what she wants.
Your Approach: You won't have to approach her. If she's interested,
she'll send YOU a drink..................
Click on the link and go to her site to read the rest.....
[chuckles]
What about this wine?
Go check out Blonde Chick Bloggin' !!
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Posted by Break from Sanity @ 10:46 PM
Not sure what to call this post.
It isn't going to be on anything substantial or groundbreaking...
Just some random thoughts, which I guess is as good a post title as any.
One sec while I change the title.....
[changes title of the post]Ok, now that the title is done now what? I am writing blind, with nothing really in mind, typing as I go with whatever I am thinking. Where will it lead? Probably to a Mental Asylum since it feels like I am talking to myself.
[tries to stifle a yawn]Writing this at work only 4 hours into a 12 hour midnight shift and already feeling wiped. Last night around 3am I found myself blacking out (falling asleep) for a few minutes every little bit. I would be fine looking at the computer screen and then next thing I know I am waking up.
I haven't been getting alot of sleep lately, and weekends are even worse for me not getting sleep, but this weekend was even worse cause I kept waking up feeling sick to my stomach. I had a Hot Roast Beef Sandwich on toasted bread with a light coat of Beef Gravy over top of it shortly before laying down to grab some sleep before my next 12 hour midnight shift. Wife thinks we may have gotten a bad thing of roast beef or perhaps they didn't clean the meat slicer very well, cause she ate some and wasn't feeling the hottest either.
Ever feel so tired that you feel like you are not exactly in control of your own body? Sometimes I feel as if I am withdrawn inside my body, looking through a haze and feeling a bit numb and body feeling heavier than it normally is. Like a heavy coat that covers you.
[pauses for a moment, head slightly cocked listening to the song "Oh Yeah" from Ferris Bueller's Day Off]Reminds me of a movie I really like, actually one of my favorites:
Secret of my Success.Mmmm, this has a good beat to it.
[scans through the 65 MP3s on his USB key and changes song to David Bowie's "Little China Girl", listens for a minute then switches over "I'm a Bitch"]More fitting for my mood I suppose.
Still have no idea what to write.....
[smirks while silently singing...I'm a bitch, I'm a Lover...]{chuckles}
Reminds me of my days when I was single and alone. Oh granted I am not saying I was all THAT, but I was working out everyday, in decent shape, and wasn't hard on the eyes. I am not one to be full of himself anyways.
I don't know, I had the attitude that it was ME against the World.
I was an island unto myself during those times, most would call me a Loner, hell even now I can be classified as a Loner still. I may be married, have a wife and kids, but I have no one to really talk to, no one to call a friend. I don't have a couple of buddies to go hang out with, shoot some pool, throw some darts and have a couple of drinks with.
I guess I am still that island unto myself, just not with the type of ME against the World attitude. I miss that attitude, that strange sense of solitude of being wrapped up in loneliness at times. I wore it like an armor, that solitude and loneliness, it wrapped around me from head to toe as a buffer against happiness, fear, sadness, ect. I guess you could call it a shell, and it was hard, damn hard, because not alot got through. My wife once remarked it wasn't until my daughter was born did she really see it break away, and I actually smiled and laughed. I was always serious, very rarely a smile would light on my face, and if it did it was briefly and came out as a lopsided smirk.
Thinking back about this, I think my wife is right
[shhh..good gawd don't tell her I said that!], that when our first child came into the world is when that shell broke. I have been in relationships that don't last long, but with a child, I will NEVER leave. It will take the Hand of God removing me from this earth before I will abandon my family and my children - and yes, I feel that strongly about it. I guess when my children were born, it cemented in me the firm belief that this will last, this relationship, this marriage is something special and has grown. I sank my roots down deep and you will have to kill this tree to remove it.
Granted I would not trade my family for the world, love 'em to death, but looking back brings a sense of reflection on how I felt during that time when that shell was all I had.
Even before I worked Midnight shifts, I used to stay up most the night, throwing on a pair od headphones and walk around the city streets for hours, listening to music, watching the cars slowly thin down till I could walk out in the middle of the street and laydown right in the middle and look down the road both ways and not see a car for miles.
I used to walk around and wonder what the world would be like with no people.....
Walking through the neighborhoods, the empty streets, no sign of life at all. Turn off the music, hang the headphones around my neck and walk in silence...no cars, no people, no nothing. Just emptiness.
I eventually would make my way down to the beach and listen to the waves break on the sand, watch as the moon crests over the water, looking like a giant orange orb pulling itself out of the lake waters.
Drifting back toward home, walking through empty streets, just stirring with life, the buzzing of people intruding on my world of Solitude till I get home, climb the stairs to my apartment, crack open a beer and greet the morning sun as it lifts it's head above the horizon. Only then would I decide to sleep, because the world was waking.
Strange thinking back on those times.
Was it really ME against the World or was it ME and the World against the rest of the people?
Perhaps the World slept and I kept vigil, a careful watch on the night?
I do know one thing, I miss the solitude, that silence...
I really hate living in the city.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Posted by Break from Sanity @ 6:34 AM
I see a camera!
The "ham it up" twins....
Later the next morning, beginning of OCTOBER, it SNOWED!!
Snow for cryin' out loud. In October.
You don't understand, Michigan normally has a light coat of snow for Christmas, you know, in DECEMBER and then has the first snow storm two weeks in the beginning of the year in January.
Snow in October, never seen it. Though I have seen a snow storm in JUNE in Michigan about 10 years ago. Talk about freaky weather.
It must be the month of October, because shortly after the freak snow, the couch came alive and tried to eat the Drama Queen!!
She was sitting nice and calm on the couch, when the next time I turned around she was half-eaten by the couch, it had her it in its terrible clutches.....
Before I could react, the couch had just about sucked her all the way down, and she was going fast as I leaped up to save the Drama Queen....
I grabbed a hold of the couch, wrestling with the cushion, allowing for the Drama Queen to struggle free..........
What will happen next in this freaky October?
Go pay a visit to my tenant, enter in to her 2006 Halloween Costume Contest!!
Music playing: No music right now, I woke up before 6am to deal with Comedian who keeps waking through the night. So, no music because it is too early. Though wife did get up around 6:45a to ask if I was alright when she noticed me still up.
Monday, October 23, 2006
Posted by Break from Sanity @ 10:36 AM
I got to thinking earlier about LUCK.
Reason why is I was in a hurry, running late getting to work and was doing 85 MPH in a 65 MPH zone, when I glanced behind me and I had a State Trooper coming up on my rear.
Heart bagan palpitating hard.
[crap - this is going to be a painful ticket that I can't afford.]I ease off the gas, and speed drops down, meanwhile he is right behind me, close.
I act like I don't see him, making no sudden moves, nothing to make it look like I am distracted like talking on the phone, fiddling with the radio, eating or drinking - nothing to give him an added excuse. Not like he needed one at this point, he has me dead to rights.
I am down to just about the speed limit, and turn on my turn signal, and get over into the middle portion of the highway.
He stays in the fast lane, slightly behind me for a few moments, then moves on past me and begins to move over to the far right up ahead. Pulling off the road on the right side just beyond the curve of the road.
I pass by him and keep an eye on the rearview mirror waiting for the flash of that big red light and burst of the siren...that never came.
[breathes a HUGE sigh of relief - releasing breath I didn't realize I was holding]So why did I tell you this?
Well, we all have heard about things like Guardian Angels, Luck and God.
Some people will believe that I got "Lucky", that luck was with me and that is why I didn't get pulled over because of that Luck.
Others may believe I have a Guardian Angel looking out for me, that this Guardian Angel influenced the Police Officers actions and he didn't pull me over.
While others believe God may have had a hand in my situation.
Why do some people believe in something you can't see such as Luck, but not in God?
That was the question I thought about afterwards.
Personally, I feel like someone is watching over me alot of times. It is hard to explain. I really do feel as if there is someone who is near me.
I don't know, it's hard to explain.
I have always seemed to bounce back, if I got laid off, I found something better, or found something right away. If I know I wouldn't be able to make it though that light that should have turned yellow then red, seems to hold on just long enough for me to pass. If I am walking and walk past street lights, they will suddenly go out as I approach and as I leave them behind they would come back on.
Yeah, maybe I am nuts.
Regardless of which, I believe we make our own way, so "Luck" or "Chance" I don't really believe in. Yes, I believe in God and while I don't think He took some sort of interest in saving me from a nasty ticket for speeding, I do think he influences people, hearts and minds.
Perhaps that police officer ran my plate, saw I was not wanted for anything, had a clean record and decided to let me off after I slowed down. Luck? More like Decency and a Good Heart. Virtues I believe only God puts in.
Thank you sir.
Go pay a visit to my tenant, show some love, decency and that you have a good heart also.
If you do one good thing today, hopefully it is to make someone smile.
Music playing: No music right now, only the children show Caillou is playing for the kids. It's the life of a Parent ya know.
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Posted by Break from Sanity @ 4:38 AM
I'm a Husband.
I'm a Lover.
I'm a Man.
I'm a Father.
I'm a Jungle Gym.
I'm a Swing.
I'm a Wrestler.
I'm a Horsie.
I'm a Jerk.
I'm a Dreamer.
I'm a Music Lover.
I'm a Worker.
I'm a Cleaner.
I'm a Son.
I'm a Brother.
I'm an Uncle.
I'm a Nephew.
I'm a Cousin.
I'm a Believer.
I'm a Goof.
I'm a Klutz.
Don't forget to go check on what my tenant is up to.
I am sure she won't mind.
No peeking in the windows, just click and go right in.
Music playing: I'm a Bitch by Meredith Brooks.
Friday, October 20, 2006
Posted by Break from Sanity @ 4:26 AM
It is once again time to throw open the windows, let some light and fresh air in the room, clean the place up and make ready for the entrance of another tenant.
Welcome my newest tenant, Kailani at
The Pink Diary.
As you can tell by her name, she is from Hawaii, born and raised.
She is a flight attendant, as is her hubby.
And she won me over with
"I’m addicted to Starbucks Caramel Frappaccinos". Mmmm those things are goood. [chuckles]
I am a sucker also for things like this on family and children that Kailani wrote on her
"Rules I try to Live by":
1. I will find everyone’s shoes at least 15 minutes before we have to leave in the morning.
2. I will not stay up too late blogging or watching Friends reruns.
3. When I’m mad at my boss, I will not yell at my spouse.
4. When I’m mad at my spouse, I will not yell at my kids.
5. When I’m mad at my kids, I will give myself a time-out.
6. I will eat as many fruits and vegetables as I hound my family to eat.
7. I will remind myself that my child’s leftover pizza and half-eaten cake might be better off in the garbage than on my hips.
8. I will not let my eyes glaze over as my child describes the plot of Arthur.
9. I will not say, “Yes, sweetie” unless I’ve really heard the question.
10. I will not compare my child with my neighbor’s smarter, taller, sweeter one.
11. I will not compare myself with my skinnier, sharper, sunnier - and yes, childless - coworker.
12. I will not rush, worry, or over-schedule myself.
13. I will say “I love you” to each child at least once a day - when they least expect it and are most likely to hear it.
I hope I can live up to the same with my family. It is a good set of rules.
Read more of what she thinks and posts about by clicking
HERE to visit her site.
Aloha Kailani.
E lei kau, e lei ho'oilo i ke aloha.
I would like to thank those that were not chosen this time around for taking an interest in my humble little blog to rent from:
3T at
Stumbling Through Life With Grace.
I loved the red mountains in her picture of the Ranch. Other photos can of the Hyatt Regency Scottsdale Resort and Spa at Gainey Ranch
Ballroom,
Pool by Night,
The Courtyard. Ah, I am jealous. This looks like a wonderful place to visit.
Bozette at
Pictures From My World.
I loved your Wordless Wednesday, though I still keep going back to see what the Witch is actually flying into...is it a big garbage can?
Thank you for bidding on my humble blog for tenancy and hope to see your interest again.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Posted by Break from Sanity @ 10:58 AM
You ever have one of those days when nothing goes right?
When you feel like the world is out to get you?
That the stupidest things seem to happen for no reason?
Murphy's Laws is making a second list of Laws based on your Life?
One of those days when everyone is just in your face?
A day when they tell you to take the bull by the horns but forget to tell you that you might get it in the "end" for you troubles.
One of those days when the world is just breathing down your neck and is just to close for comfort?
When things are thrown at you faster than you can get out of the way?
When things seem to be coming apart all around you?
When Life is just an accident waiting to happen?
When it feels as if the World is going to swallow you whole?
When your a small fish in a large pond?
When you feel like a snack on the World's Plate?
Glad I don't feel that way today!
Besides, that stuff looks like it HURTS!
[Laughs]
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Posted by Break from Sanity @ 3:16 AM
• The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.
• We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.
• We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time.
• We have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.
• We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
• We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fact, get too angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
• We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
• We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.
• We've conquered outer space, but not inner space.
• We've learned how to make a living, but not a life; we've added years to life, but not life to years.
• We've done larger things, but not better things.
• We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.
• We've split the atom, but not our prejudice.
• We write more, but learn less.
• We plan more, but accomplish less.
• We've learned to rush, but not to wait.
• We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication.
• These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men, and short character; steep profits, and shallow relationships.
• These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.
• These are days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but broken homes.
• These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw-away morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer to quiet, to kill.
• It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom; a time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete.
Credit: Dr. Bob Moorehead, former pastor of Seattle's Overlake Christian Church.
Thanks go to S.W. in the comment section for pointing out the
Snopes Entry on this particular collection. I have made the correction to the Credits due to S.W. pointing this out.
I have added the rest of what was found written by Dr. Moorehead, called the "The Paradox of our Time".
Posted by Break from Sanity @ 2:16 AM
It's been an extremely long day.
[yawns]I have and still will be on Midnight shifts for another week, so it is playing havok with my sleep patterns.
Today was a test of fortitude.
I got off work, got the kids up, got the wife up and got us all out the door around 10-ish to head an hour away to a doctors appointment for the Drama Queen.
I got off midnight shift, being up all night, at 7am in the morning.
Wife wanted asked if I wanted to just re-schedule the appointment because of me working midnights for these two weeks, but as she pointed out it would probably take three months before we could get the Drama Queen in again. So I determined to push through it, figuring this wouldn't be too bad. Just a simple, in and out. A quick check-up, some small talk on her health and how it's going...and be on the road maybe after an hour....
Damn am I stupid sometimes.
Should have figured it would take forever.
We get there, and by now I am starting to drag cause it's 11am and I normally would be getting close to going to sleep around this time.
Wife signs Drama Queen in, but come to find out the idiots at the doctors office had the WRONG SHEET up for sign in. The one the wife was suppose to sign WASN'T EVEN OUT!
So after wife goes up to find out how come this is taking so long, been waiting for probably a good 30 minutes now, and they told her about the wrong sign in sheet.
At this point, I am slipping down the exhausted hill....
FINALLY, we end up going in, getting Drama Queen measured and weighed. Good news is she gained some poundage. By the way, if I hadn't mentioned it, Drama Queen was getting a follow up on problems with her stomach, most likely acid reflux and she is on prevacid for it. Funny thing, wife and I both have problems with acid also, but the worst we eat or drink to trigger it would be coffee.
I quit smoking, I am NOT quitting drinking coffee.
Don't go there. It's not an option. I will kill the person who takes my coffee!!!
It's mine. Mine, mine, mine.
[growls menacingly]Errr, where was I....Oh yeah!
Anyways, the nurse finishes up, and deposits us into a patient room to wait for the doctor and that is exactly what we did. We waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited.......
Meanwhile you have two cranky kids who want to get down and play with everything, one tired wife and one now catatonic hubby. It is now past noon, and still no doc, I am slipping into a coma for lack of sleep, my eyes are glazed and I am staring but not seeing things.
Wife has had enough of the kids tearing around, time to separate, so she sends me back with the Comedian to the waiting room where I sit and vegetate while Comedian plays with blocks in front of me.
Wife finally comes out and we head on home. Technically I should not have been driving as tired as I was, but what else is new.
My mind is slowly kicking through possible routes home and wife kicks on the radio a bit louder than normal to try and keep me up. I take a different direction hopefully cutting some time off heading home, stop at Burger King and pick up some food since no one really has eaten and its damn near 1pm or shortly after. I can't remember.
Get everyones food, and I am just too tired to strangle the Burger King workers. I am sorry if this offends someone, but why the hell would you serve rewarmed HARD and STALE fries? Don't you have a damn policy on how long you have to keep them before throwing them out and not serving them to customers?!? I am soooo sick of getting stale fries from places like this. Plus to top it all off, couldn't get a shake for Drama Queen and the wife cause their machine has been broken for sometime, as I was told. You MIGHT want to post that somewhere or take it off your food choices, so people don't think of everything they want, then have to revamp all their plans because you don't post what your out of!
[sighs]Sorry. It's been a long day, and Burger King just pushed the wrong buttons, especially when I am that tired, my tolerance level for ignorance and stupidity goes down.
Anyways, we make it back home and get everyone ready for a nap since it is now after 2pm and the last thing I remember was crawling into bed and was instantly out.
Wife let me sleep in later this evening before getting me up, but I feel so sleep deprived, I could have slept another 10 hours witout waking up.
[yawns]Here I am, back at work and it's only 2am. Only 5 more hours to go till I can go home and get the kids up.....
Well, since your up, go read visit my tenant at
Crayons, Playdoh and Wax, where Les seems to be a little too chipper about having SNOW.
Cool, crisp, the smell of a potbelly stove in the air, the burst of flaming colors across the trees - this I can handle, this I like.
Slush on the ground, getting shoes soaked or slush in your shoes, shoveling snow (off the car), ice on the roads, chiseling ice off the windows, all one color..white, two-trackin' while driving because the snowplows aren't out yet, or the snowplows are out and they splash snow and slush all over your windshield while driving and you can't see, or they bury you in your driveway and you can't get out, or you shovel your drive and they come right by and shove it all back in place.
Yeah, I'll stick to Fall - my favorite season. But go visit my tenant and hit her with a snowball!
Mwhahahahaha
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Posted by Break from Sanity @ 5:21 AM
Do you believe in re-incarnation?
Oh believe me, I believe in God, but I can't help think that it's possible that we get put back on this earth over and over again till we get it right. What "It" is, I have no clue. Perhaps till we have no regrets? No fears?
Reminds me a bit of the movie :
Defending your Life
Albert Brooks wrote, directed, and stars in this philosophical comedy about a man having a hard time making a case for himself in the afterlife.
When advertising executive Daniel Miller (Albert Brooks) finds himself in a fatal car crash minutes after taking delivery on a new BMW, he's whisked away to Judgment City, where the recently dead are put on a sort of trial to decide their fate. If in your time on Earth you were able to face your fears and learn from your mistakes, you get to move on to a life in a better world. However, if you didn't, you have to go back to Earth and try again.
As he spends the next several days watching various episodes from his life, Daniel gets the impression he doesn't stand much of a chance of moving on -- and his representative, Bob Diamond (Rip Torn), seems to have little confidence in his case.
In the meantime, he frequents Judgment City's many restaurants (where the food is delicious and you can eat all you want without gaining an ounce), pays a visit to the Past Life Pavilion, and meets Julia (Meryl Streep), who seems so kind, sweet, and noble that her advancement is practically assured. Daniel and Julia fall in love, but what's going to happen if they don't end up in the same place? Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep make a witty and engaging romantic team in Defending Your Life, and Shirley MacLaine appears in a highly appropriate cameo.
It is an interesting movie - and yes, a love story at the same time.
Or could it be more like the movie
What Dreams May Come?
Robin Williams stars as Chris Nielsen, a doctor who has suffered with his artist wife Annie (Annabella Sciorra) through the devastating loss of their children, Marie and Ian, who were killed in a car accident.
Although Annie's all-consuming depression nearly destroyed their marriage, the couple rebuilt their relationship and are now living out a comfortable middle age. Stopping one night to help a motorist in a wreck, Chris is struck by a car and killed.
At first confused about where he is, Chris meets Albert (Cuba Gooding Jr.), a spiritual guide who helps him to realize he's passed away and that he must move on to the next world. After trying with only limited success to communicate with the devastated Annie, Chris moves on and discovers an afterlife that can become whatever one envisions, where even his pet dog awaits him.
What Chris envisions as paradise are the paintings of his wife, and he happily takes up residence there, awaiting the far-off day when Annie will eventually join him. He also meets his children, although they have chosen different appearances than the ones they had in life.
Then tragedy strikes when Annie, inconsolable, commits suicide and goes to Hell. Although it is rarely done, Chris insists on traveling there, risking his eternal soul to save the woman he loves. Accompanied part of the way by Albert and a wizened guide called The Tracker (Max von Sydow), Chris finally reaches Annie in Hell, and must convince her of the truth in order to release her from her dark prison.
If you have not seen this movie, do so.
It is a VERY strong movie, a tear jerker that will have turning to your other-half and hugging the stuffing out of them. Seriously though, if you haven't see this movie, watch it.
Have you ever had Deja-vu, the feeling like you have done this before, or seen this before, or done something similiar - but you know for a fact you have never done that before?
I don't know.
I am not someone who knows all the Bible, ect and I know I have a lot to learn and understand, but I can't shake the feeling that re-incarnation exists and that it does happen.
Supposedly there have been people put under hypnosis and explored "past lives" of the people they have lived as through history.
Now could it be possible that we come back over and over again, without knowledge of what has transpired before, to keep "living" till the end of days?
It is something I ponder at times.
Being tired, having very little sleep and working 7 days a week (all midnite shifts) tend to make me maudlin and reflective.
Is it possible? What do you think?
Have you ever experienced Deja-vu and had that strong feeling you have done this before, or said that at one time, or smelled something somewhere - but you know for a fact that you have never done it before?
Confusing isn't it?
You mind will try and rationalize it by making you think, well maybe you had "forgotten" but have done this before, and you just don't remember. It's strange how we try and rationalize something when we are confronted with something that doesn't fit.
[Shakes his head to clear his thoughts]Well, while I ponder this more, visit my tenant, Les at
Crayons, Playdough and Wax.
Ah her comment made me laugh...
It is said that 86% of Canadian, American & British people believe in God.
Why don’t we just tell the other 14% to shut-up and sit down????
...because how often have a I so wished to say such things. I know Les, wasn't meant to be funny. Go read what she means. Go click her link.
Go on, I'll wait.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Posted by Break from Sanity @ 6:52 AM
Help me welcome my newest tenant, Les at
Crayons, Playdough and Wax!
What?!?!
You want to know a little more about her before you click that link?
[Grumbles that it's nice to WANT things....]Fine be that way....
Here is a little more about Les:
I'm Les, a 40 something SAHM in Colorado. I am a Christian and am married to my wonderful (most days) dh for 17 years.
Oh and for those that may not know (SAHM) means Stay at Home Mom and (dh) means Dear Husband or depending on how a wife feels, Dumb Husband. [chuckles]
She is part of that strange conspiracy of 13.....
Thirteen Things I Love about Fall
1. Pumpkins (My Grandma is known as The Pumpkin Lady)
2. The leaves changing color
3. The leaves falling from the trees… and the smell!!
4. Cooler Days
5. Crisp Cool Evenings
She won me over with the first five, though if you want to read the rest of the thirteen, your gonna have to click the link.
You know you want to....
What?!? You want to know more?
[Grumbling - "You have gotta be kidding me..."]A little more, then you better click that link or so help me I will start blogging in my boxers! Oh the Horror!!!
I was born in Michigan, lived there til I was 10.
[Thinks to himself, another Michigander. Born in Alpena, Michigan myself.]
Which reminds me, and my new tenant might appreciate this:
You know your a Michigander...
- If snow tires come standard on all your cars...
- If at least 50% of your relatives work for the auto industry...
- If you have ever gotten frostbitten and sunburned in the same week...
- If you can identify an Ohio accent...
- If owning a Japanese car was a hanging offense in your home town...
- If you learned to pilot a boat before the training wheels were off your bike...
- If you point at the palm of your right hand when telling people where you grew up...
- If "Down South" to you means Toledo...
- If traveling coast to coast means going from Port Huron to Muskegon...
- If the "Big Three" can mean either Ford, Chrysler and GM or Domino's, Little Caesar's and Hungry Howie's...
- If a Big Mac is something you can drive across...
- If you have no problem spelling Mackinac Island...
- If you have as many Canadian coins in your pockets as American ones...
- If the trees in your backyard have spigots...
- If you know that a place called "Kalamazoo" really exists...
- If you bake with "soda" and drink "pop"...
- If you know what a pastie is...
- If you drive 80 mph on the highway and pass on the right...
- If you think there are only TWO seasons, Hockey Season and Off-Season...
- If you know how to play Euchre...
- If You classify your friends & relatives as "yoopers," "trolls," "Canadians," or "not from 'round here," (also classified as "Green Bay Fans," "Detroit Fans," "Toronto Fans," and "not from 'round here")...
- If Fudge and Bicycles remind you of your honeymoon...
- If You can name all 5 of the Great Lakes, and point to their locations around your left and right hands...
- If You used to think Deer Season was included as an official school holiday...
- If You know that Pontiac and Cadillac are cities...
- If You've been to Hell and to Paradise & back again...
- If You had Tornado Drills in elementary school...
- If You can actually pronounce Ypsilanti...
- If your idea of reaching Climax is driving just past Kalamazoo...
- If the snow on your roof in August weighs more than you do...
- If you can travel through Detroit and not get mugged...
- If a Friday night out is taking your girlfriend shining for deer...
- You eat muskrat on Fridays during Lent because it's "seafood"...
- If you go "Up North" for every possible holiday...
- If you go to work in a snowsuit in the morning and return home wearing shorts...
- If you eat potato burgers in Elmira...
- When you tell someone where you are from and they say: 'I thought that was part of Canada'...
- If your idea of the seasons is Winter, Spring and the 4th of July...
- If formal wear is a flannel shirt, blue jeans and a baseball cap...
- If your children describe their summer vacation out of state as a "trip to Cedar Point..."
- If you know where the city of Ocqueoc is AND can pronounce it...
- If you have more fishing poles than teeth...
- If you know that there are two ways to spell Mackinaw/Mackinac...and know when to use them...
- If you know that Ontonogan isn't a geometry term...
- If you look forward to your retirement "Up North" rather than Florida or Arizona...
- If you know where the Cherry Capital of the World is...
- If you get wet going too far left or right...
- If three out of four of your friends work for "The Big Three"...
- If you know what "The Big Three" means...
- If you know WHY Paradise is colder than Hell...
- If you know that Saline isn't just a term for contact solution...
- If your town has a blizzard AND a tornado in the same week...
- If you want Toledo BACK...
- If you know the dollar value of a grocery bag filled with empty pop cans...
- If November 15 is a paid holiday from work...
- If "thumb" is a geographical rather than an anatomical term...
- If your fishing shanty is better than your house...
- If you have a bumper sticker that says "If they call it tourist season, what's the bag limit?"...
- If you drive six miles and wonder where the lake is...
- If you were the one who turned out the lights when you moved south...
- If your wife's Lady Remington is a 30.30
- If at least one member of your family disowns you the week of the Michigan / Michigan State game.
- If half the change in your pocket is Canadian....eh?
- If your idea of a traffic jam is 40 cars waiting to pass an orange barrel.
- When giving directions, you refer to "A Michigan Left."
- Your year has two seasons: Winter and Construction.
- Home Depot on any Saturday is busier than toy stores at Christmas.
- Driving in the winter is better because the pot-holes are filled with snow.
- Your favorite holidays are Christmas,Thanksgiving, and the opening of Deer Season, which you consider a National Holiday.
- You have 10 favorite recipes for venison.
- If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by.
- If your town has an equal number of bars and churches.
- "Vacation" means going up north on I-75.
- You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
- You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
- You find 0 degrees "a little chilly."
- You think owning a Honda is UnAmerican.
Remember - Click on my Tenants link or I swear by all that you hold dear, I will blog in my boxers if you don't go visit her!
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Posted by Break from Sanity @ 2:02 AM
Ok, normally I am not the type of person that goes in for this FOAD type postings, and normally I will just skip over them when reading other blogs...
BUT
After reading this article, my jaw dropped, and even though I have NEVER hit a woman, if I was this womans boyfriend or husband and she did this with my child, I would knocked her RIGHT. THE. HELL. OUT!!!
Dead on serious.
A woman used her 4-week-old baby as a weapon in a domestic dispute, swinging the infant through the air and striking her boyfriend with the child, authorities said.
The boy was in serious but stable condition Monday at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, police said.
"Never, never, never. I can never remember anything like this," District Attorney Bradley Foulk told the Erie Times-News.
Chytoria Graham, 27, of Erie, was charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and simple assault. She was held Monday in the Erie County Jail in lieu of $75,000 bail.
The infant, whose name was not released, suffered a fractured skull and some bleeding in the brain, authorities said. His head hit Graham's boyfriend, the baby's father, police Lt. Dan Spizarny said.
Authorities removed four other children from Graham's home and placed them with the Erie County Office of Children and Youth, Foulk said.
Story LinkThis fills me with such rage like you would not believe!
4-week-old baby as a weapon?!?!?
ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND?!?It sickens me that this type of person actually BREEDS!
This is a 100% FOAD to this so-called "lady", and I mean it in every sense of the word!
Monday, October 09, 2006
Posted by Break from Sanity @ 3:53 AM
Compiled from a Male Chauvanist Joke site (Something I am not), but some of these are funny and perhaps close to the mark?
| What a Woman says.... | What a Woman means.... |
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| You want | I want |
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| We need | I want |
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| It's your decision | The correct decision should be obvious by now |
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| Do what you want | You'll pay for this later |
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| We need to talk | I need to complain |
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| Sure... go ahead | I don't want you to |
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| I'm hungry | Stop what you are doing, scrape together your last $5, and go drive across town and get me something to eat. -- I don't care if what you are doing is important. |
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| I'm not upset | Of course I'm upset, you moron. |
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| You're ... so manly | You need a shave and you sweat a lot. |
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| You're certainly attentive tonight | Is sex all you ever think about? |
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| I'm not emotional! And I'm not overreacting! | I'm on my period. |
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| Be romantic, turn out the lights. | I have flabby thighs or you have a beer gut and I don't want to look at it! |
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| This kitchen is so inconvenient | I want a new house. |
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| The car is empty | Go fill it up. |
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| The trash is full | Take it out. |
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| The dog is barking | Go outside in your underwear and see what is wrong. |
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| I want new curtains | and carpeting, and furniture, and wallpaper..... |
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| I need wedding shoes | The other 40 pairs are the wrong shade of white. |
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| Hang the picture there | no, I mean hang it THERE! |
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| I heard a noise | I noticed you were almost asleep. |
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| Do you love me? | I'm going to ask for something expensive. |
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| How much do you love me? | I did something today you're really not going to like. |
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| I'll be ready in a minute | Kick off your shoes and find a good game on T.V. |
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| Is my butt fat? | Tell me I'm beautiful. |
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| You have to learn to communicate | Just agree with me. |
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| Are you listening to me!? | Too late, you're dead. |
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| Please Walk me home | Let's go make out |
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| It's all right, dear. | You'll pay for this. |
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| Yes | No |
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| No | Yes |
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| Maybe | No |
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| I'm sorry. | You'll be sorry. |
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| Do you like this recipe | It's easy to fix, so you'd better get use to it. |
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| Was that the baby? | Why don't you get out of bed and walk him until he goes to sleep. |
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| I'm not yelling! | Yes I am yelling because I think this is important. |
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| All we're going to buy is a soap dish | All we're going to buy is a soap dish It goes without saying that we're stopping at the cosmetics department, the shoe department, I need to look at a few new pocket books, and OMIGOD there's a sale in lingerie, and wouldn't these pink sheets look great in the bedroom and did you bring your checkbook? |
C'mon, tell me women don't think some of these things sometimes.....
Sunday, October 08, 2006
Posted by Break from Sanity @ 6:06 AM
I come into work, been here 10 minutes and the damn place seems to fall apart around my ears!
An alarm goes off for 2 seconds, and then is gone. I look for the cause of it and cannot see what caused the alarm.
Several of the systems I monitor suddenly restart, and come back up.
Ok, we have a clue, lets look at the place where the systems restarted....
Nothing shows on why they restarted.
Call the boss, no answer, call tech on call, no answer.
Decide to monitor for now, and start doing system checks, when the alarm screeches like a cat with its tail in the toaster! I run to where the alarm is and 2 of the systems are without power completely.
Me: "Oh Shit!"Call boss, no answer, call tech on call, no answer - several times on cell and home.
Me: "WTF - Where the hell is everyone?!?!?"Call another tech who is not oncall, but answers, and we run through checks, and looks like a portion of the powerstrip decided to fry itself.
Me: "Friggin Great"Switch the systems over to the otherside of the powerstrip that still had power and walk back around and notice the all the systems in that section are down. Fried the entire powerstrip.
Me: "WTF next is going to happen...ARGH"Tech I was talking to decides to come in from home to help - he is on his way.
I run, not walk and pull another powerstrip, and disconnect the fried powerstrip from the power under the floor, gashing myself across my knuckles as I do so, and get the new powerstrip plugged in and systems plugged in and powered up.
[Stressing big time]Boss calls finally and wants to know what is going on. Give him an update and what is happening. Tells me to get another powerstrip in, and I let him know I am already working on it!
Boss says he is on his way in.
Me: "Greeeat!"[Stressing more]Systems are powered back up but nothing is locking up and doing what it should.
Boss walks in and wants to know what is happening so far and I let him know that systems are powered but got no action on the systems.
[Stress level going higher because now my boss is here]We begin resetting systems.
Systems still not doing what they should....
Tech I was talking to gets in and begins work on systems.
Systems come back up and are doing what they should do now.
Boss wants report of what happened split into two, covering different sections of the systems
[confusing? Yeah, was to me also] that had problems.
[long pause as a couple of hours of getting counts, reports and other crap done up and sent out]
[De-stressing]You ever get so stressed that when the problem that caused your stress finally passes, you feel completely drained of energy?
It is like someone yanked all the bones of your body out and you want to fall in a heap of goo on the floor.
What a nightmare of a night......
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Posted by Break from Sanity @ 2:40 AM
Fifteen days ago, I read that smoking can kill you;
The next day I stopped smoking.
Twelve days ago, I read that too much red meat can kill you;
The next day I stopped eating red meat.
Eight days ago, I read that drinking can kill you;
The next day I stopped drinking.
Yesterday, I read that having sex can kill you;
This morning I stopped reading.
Friday, October 06, 2006
Posted by Break from Sanity @ 2:15 PM
I found something I wrote about long ago, it had to be 20+ years ago when I wrote this.
I had done extremely badly my first attempt at college after I had gotten out of the military, so I dropped out and was working as a painter in a local manufacturing plant. Afterwards, I went back to college and this was one of the first things I wrote about, a few paragraphs, about an experience in my life.
Not so long ago I thought I could do anything.
I was young, filled with pride and ego, to the point it now amazes even me. I figures that with a little training I would be ready to do any job; boy was I ever wrong.
Having gotten a job at Omni Metalcraft, I worked as a painter for five months, painting conveyor frames and parts. As work thinned out, I tried to gain more experience as a MIG welder to become even more valuable to the company.
I tried for two weeks welding on small bits of metal for practice and no matter how hard I tried, I could not weld very well. Each time I tried, the welds were sloppy, or incomplete. I found it extremely hard to start a weld while blind, since the facemask with darkened shield essentially makes looking around in normal light like looking into the abyss. The darkened shield will barely show the flash of the weld as it lights up so as not to burn into your retinas and that is the problem I was having, not being able to see before starting the weld.
Soon after I was laid-off and I began thinkng very seriously about giving college a second chance. I'm am still young and filled with pride, but perhaps my ego has been deflated a bit.
Although occassionally I still look at life as being simple, I have found that life is not as easy as I took for granted.
It feels strange to look back 20+ years at your life and what you were thinking back then.
Don't let time pass you by, enjoy every moment, so stop by and visit Dazed at
Adventures in everyday life, and seewhat she is up to.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Posted by Break from Sanity @ 5:41 PM
If you haven't had a chance, click on my tenant and go visit Dazed at
Adventures in everyday life!In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, something I am learning a bit more about since reading a bit more of my tenants blog, I will post a little bit each time I can about it. While I will not be sending in pics of my boobs [laughs], like someone is going to want to pay $50 to see that, I will dedicate humor, time and space in helping make more people aware of this cause.
Because as a man, women's breast are important to me also. Yes, this is said tongue-n-cheek, but beccause as a man I appreciate a woman's body both in it's beauty and it's entirety. I will admit it, I like looking at the beauty of women. Any man that says he doesn't is a liar.
But that also does not mean I don't appreciate many of the things women have to go through and have to endure for that beauty, and just in being a woman.
So, in my fashion, let's have a little understanding of what a woman has to go through getting a Mammogram:
Many women are afraid of their first mammogram, but there’s no need to worry. By taking a few minutes each day for a week preceding the exam, and doing the following practice exercises, you will be totally prepared. And you can do this right in your own home!
Exercise 1
Open your refrigerator door and insert one breast between the door and the main box. Have one of your strongest friends slam the door shut and lean on the door for good measure. Hold that position for five seconds (while you hold your breath). Repeat again, in case the first time wasn’t effective enough.
Exercise 2
Visit your garage at 3 am when the temperature of the cement floor is just perfect. Take off your clothes and lie comfortably on the floor with one breast wedged under the rear tire of the car. Ask a friend to slowly back the car up until your breast is sufficiently flattened and chilled. Turn over and repeat for the other breast.
Exercise 3
Freeze two metal bookends overnight. Strip to the waist. Invite a stranger into the room. Press the bookends against one of your breasts. Smash the bookends together as hard as you can. Set an appointment with the stranger to meet next week and do it again!!
The above may be said in humor, but I think there is more truth to it that humor.
I can say I, as a man, would not want my personal part, to be subjected to such and for a woman's breast can be just as sensitive, but they go through in a sense, a pounding to find lumps and/or abnormalities to search for breast cancer or try and find things before it gets that far.
I'm sorry, but we men have no clue and yes it is a sad thing that we may be wrapped up in our lives or not caring of the differences between the sexes.
So for the men out there, let me help put some of this in perspective...
Losing a breast [
Mastectomy] to breast cancer is no laughing matter. As a man, I can only think of losing a testicle as a possible comparison.
Mastectomy: In a simple or total mastectomy the surgeon removes the entire breast, including the nipple, but does not remove underarm lymph nodes or muscle tissue from beneath the breast. Sometimes this is done for both breasts, especially in women at very high risk for breast cancer.
Even after having a breast removed due to breast cancer, that is not the end of things, because there is the
emotional scarring and physical problems that still occur:
Study results: After finishing their treatments, women commonly had a number of emotional and physical complaints:
- being unhappy with their appearance (reported by 61% of women)
There are two most common emotional
side effects of mastectomy:
Body image changes
In addition to the physical changes that women experience after a mastectomy, many women may feel differently about their bodies after this type of surgery. A breast cancer diagnosis alone may create feelings of anxiety, depression, and uncertainty. When a woman faces surgery that—in the case of complete breast removal—is disfiguring, feelings of isolation, loss, and helplessness may also surface. To many people, breasts symbolize femininity, sexuality, and nurturance. Some women may feel that losing a breast to cancer also means they have lost their identity as women.
Sexual side effects of mastectomy
Following breast cancer surgery, a woman's feelings of being physically attractive may change dramatically. A woman may worry about being accepted by her partner, and she may be concerned about still being able to sexually please her partner as well. In addition to these feelings of self-consciousness, some women experience chronic pain in the chest and shoulders following radical surgery, weight gain, problems with breast sensitivity, joint pain, and muscle stiffness—all of which could impede enjoyment in many different types of activities, including intimacy. It's important to note that breast cancer surgery does not physically decrease a woman's libido (sex drive) or ability to become aroused. In fact, often women with early stage breast cancer treatment report the same quality of life one year following surgery as women who never had breast cancer.
Even with removal, there are options, artificial as they may be, for
replacement of the removed breast:
Seventy-five percent of women who have a mastectomy opt to have what one surgeon removes, reconstructed by another. Plastic surgeons can insert implants made of silicone or saline. They also can take fat and tissue from a patient's abdomen and move it to the breast, with the advantage of creating a more natural look than implants (not to mention that it gives some women a "tummy tuck"). They also can take tissue from a woman's back or her buttocks.
For those that have or will go through this, the best thing to have is support, whether from family, friends or other survivors.
Recovering from breast cancer surgery often involves a strong support system. Women should know they are not alone—that there are many other women who have had similar experiences. Finding a support group may help women in dealing with the physical and emotional effects of mastectomy.
I started this off opening with a little humor with the above "joke" but turning it more of into an indepth look of what women would have to go through if they ever had to go through a mastectomy due to breast cancer.
I hope this helps in a better understanding during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Posted by Break from Sanity @ 1:35 PM
Meet my newest tenant, Dazed at
Adventures in everday life.There are several reasons why I decided to choose Dazed for my newest tenant:
- She was quick on the draw. Not a reason why I normally would pick, but I had just listed and she bid, which I take for interest, which is always good.
- Her site based on Super Heroes, Wonder Woman to be exact. I have a soft spot in that category. I love super heroes, and in this day in age, there is just not enough role models, people or thinsg to look up to that teach a right from wrong. Many people think of cartoon super heroes as nothing but cartoons, but some people, like myself, see them also as role models in a way. Truth and Justice, Righting wrongs, Sticking up and looking out for the weak and those that cannot defend themselves. So, yeah, I am a sucker for Super Heroes.
- Last night I watched my favorite new show, HEROES. I took it as a sign. [chuckles]
- She is a participant in the Boobie-Thon, a cause for Breast Cancer Awareness. Womens Breast are very important issue to me, and they should be to you also. Yes, it is tongue in cheek, but there is a very serious aspect to the cause she is supporting. Womens breasts for men may be a something nice to look at, for children a source of nourishment and for women, parts of their body. So this is a cause that has concerns for everyone.
So, with my newest tenant so introduced unto you, go forth, visit her site and bask in her
Adventures in everyday life!
Posted by Break from Sanity @ 12:12 PM
Sitting at the desk lastnight, doing some blog surfing and reading on the computer, I decided to try and sneak up on the kids......
I slowly turn the swivel chair around and while they are occupied with the wife on the couch, I slip down to all fours on the carpeted floor and was spied by the Drama Queen, who immediately ran and jumped on my back....
Meanwhile, the Comedian saw what was happening and stood on the couch readying himself to jump from the couch to my back....
Wife interceded giving quick reprimand to Comedian not to jump on daddy from the couch. So he got down, and moved to try and join Drama Queen on daddy's back.
Drama Queen decided to try and find a few different positions to sit on daddy's back, so Comedian gets up, and she jumps down, and stands on my calves and climbs up behind Comedian, but then changes her mind, jumps down again, and climbs backup in front of Comedian.
I make my way on all fours to the couch and my wife, with two laughing children on my back, where she proceeds to tickle Drama Queen till she falls off (not hurt), and I flop down and spin Comedian around to where I am now sitting and he is in my lap upside down looking up at me.
[Wrestling Match Begins]
One down (Comedian), who is starting to get back up as I grab a hold of Drama Queen and spin her around and tumble her across the floor.
Comedian is back up and ready to pounce, running full steam at me, who plucks him right up and spins him around (cradling his neck with my hand) till he is on my opposite side, then roll him across the floor.
This continues for some time, Comedian can never get enough of it and will charge at me when I am sitting down on the floor to get me to play around like this. Also, if I am spinning them around, or rough housing with them, I am very concious of them, and so I will keep a firm hand on the back of their necks so they aren't hurt inadvertently, when I am flopping them around.
The funnier times for both kids are when they decide to try and run past me full speed, and I nab them in mid-run and spinning them around and they land upside down in my lap looking up at me and laughing.
The funniest times for me is when THEY have to take a break, and are sucking down water and juice, seeing both of them with cups raised in the air botom first at the same time, gulping away.
Awww, whatsa matta....daddy wearin' ya out?
Now there is a twist!
Monday, October 02, 2006
Posted by Break from Sanity @ 2:56 AM
Because it does....
[chuckles]
It's been a hectic time for me here at work, and things have been weighing pretty heavy on me lately, so I try and make attempts for a smile here or there.
Share with me some laughter.....
What should you do if your Wife / Girlfriend starts smoking?
Slow down and use a lubricant!
How can you spot a blind man at a Nudist Colony?
It's not hard.
Why is air a lot like sex?
Because it's no big deal unless you're not getting any!
Judy was pulled over for speeding by a Pennsylvania State Tropper on the PA Turnpike.
When the State Trooper walked up to her window and opened his ticket book she said, "I bet you're going to sell me a ticket to the State Troopers Ball."
The State Trooper replied, "No ma'am, State Troopers don't have balls."
There followed a long moment of silence while she smiled and it dawned on him just what he had said. He then closed his ticket book, got back in his patrol car and left.
Judy was laughing so hard she couldn't even start her car for several minutes!
Just grin and bear it....
Smile.
Now for the obligatory pimping, errr, I mean advertising of my tenant, so go check out my tenant
Ghost Works.
Halloween brings a variety of faces, each with it's own inner light to shine through....
It's Halloween, dress up as you favorite scary monster, or let you inner "witchy" self out. The time to scare the daylights out of kids and adults alike.
So if your dressed up and heading out with kids, be safe and be careful. Have a good time, and take the time to enjoy the decorations, the houses, the kids around you that dress up as their favorite monster.
