What you think does matter

Having just one of those days... You ever had one of those days - you know, the one you wish you could just rewind and do over completly different. I just wish life had a off switch or atleast a fast forward button. It's funny - it started innocent enough - then it started.... car problems, kids having problems, the spouse angry becuase of stress... Oh God she's comming at me with a knife... lol Please, someone explian it to me... Why is it that when something goes wrong, it seems everything goes wrong. Can't we have a system where problems can just take turns... I guess I shouldn't complian, my father-in-law just turned 50 and he's not complianing - probably becuase he is too busy complianing about me.... Ha, good one. Needed a luagh. Well, I guess life is just a never ending battle and i have to take my own advice - enjoy what you can, while you can, for as long as you can - becuase the kids grow up, the spouse gets old and you get closer to the grave [ the nice d...

How do you know your old? that is a good question. Well here are two tips: One - if you have to take time to count the candles - your old.... two - when the room fills with smoke after you blow out the candles, boy you are old!

Swimming Pool - My private curse My kids love animals or should i say - learning about animals. they both like to read books and watch programs about animals. There was a time there for a while that all we ever saw on TV was the show "Animal Kingdom" and the show with Steve Erwin - "the crocodile hunter" - crikie..... The problem is, for as much as they love learning about animals - they are not fond of swimming with animals. You see with all the rain we've been having lately, the swimming pool has become a haven for frogs looking to reproduce. So even though the swimming pool is fun for the kids - it has become a living hell for me... If it rains too much the frogs try to take over the pool with their offspring [ tadpoles ] and if it doesn't - the bugs [ like mosquitoes ] try to use it as a breeding ground. So if I don't want my kids to get sick - I have to follow a ritual: 1- check the pool in the morning to see if clean, pumps working and enough chlor...

Reminiscing about the good times Do you ever get bored? Try to find something to do and you end up doing something funny, stupid or silly? Well I was looking over some photos today with Kiki and Isaac and I ran across an interesting photo of my son when he was just a wee baby boy. You see kiki was in school, the significant other working and my son was taking a nap. And like any proud dad I was watching my son sleep. Then it hit me, a funny but brilliant idea. You know, the kind the you get only once in a life time…… I decided to take a photo of him while he slept - but just a regular picture was not going to do. Take a look and tell me what you think ? ............ I wonder if I can make a new one now????

Tip - how to keep home quiet As a Parent - a quiet home is a luxury - one that doesn’t come along very often. So I would like to take a second and offer up a small but effective way to do this. No medication, no games or distractions….. Just make sure they don't wake up ! Take a look at photo …..

The House of Mouse - NOT! I love Mickey Mouse, especially visiting the "House of Mouse" at Walt Disney World. It's been hard to take a trip to see Mickey Mouse because everything is so darn expensive. I feel bad because my son hasn't been to see Walt Disney world and he is already four - a perfect time to build memories. Ofcourse I bring this all up because we had a new visitor come to the house. yes, a furry little creature - a mouse, mice - what ever is the correct word to use. It scared the living daylight out of me. There I was sleeping in my bed when my daughter called saying there was a strange noise in her room [ probably thought it was a monster .. lol ] but it turned out to be the mouse. apparently my son had hidden some of "Generals" [ dog my wife was baby sitting for friend ] doggie treats around the house. For the next three nights i had to wake up to fears of my wife and children because the mouse was making noise crunching on doggie treats. Wh...

5 th Summer Day Things are getting hectic around here, but what can you expect when you have an eleven year old, a four year old and a yapping little dog running around your house. I think I’m going crazy. Today is not a good day. Last month I had a pin hole leak in the pipes and had to break part of the wall to get in there and fix it. Then the next day after that - the garage door “spring” broke. I mean broke, and it cost me almost $150 to get it replaced [ couldn’t do that on my own ]. Well, today the garage door opener broke. The gear inside apparently striped…??? First, I don’t understand why a gear that is used to raise a 200 pound or so garage door would be made of plastic - but it was. And boy did it get eaten up. I thought I could replace it, but once I opened it up - lets just say I don’t have those kinds of skills. So I had to convert the garage door back to opening and locking manually [ you know your lazy when you cringe at just of the thought of opening a door manually ]....

You ever notice - you give your children all the things you never had as a child. You buy game consoles, swing sets, a backyard [ God I lived in a apartment complex - I didn't know people had back yards....]. you have all day cartoon chanels, DVD's coming out of the wazu and board games, radios, and things you can't even mention [ toys invented for this yougn generation ] - you have the internet, social sites dedicated to children. You buy them paint, chalh boards, dry erase boards, remote control cars you name it and what do they say.... dad, I'm bored. There's nothing to do ????????

Chasing cheese down a hill - interesting. You know, when I was trying to figure out what me and the kids could do for fun this long three day week end - chasing cheese down a hill was not one of my ideas. May 27 - The wind and rain didn't stop thousands of people watching the annual cheese roll in Gloucestershire, England. Competitors from around the world flocked to Gloucestershire to take part in a sporting event with a difference, the giant cheese roll. As the cheese rolled down the hill, dozens of people ran, slipped and tumbled after it. Paramedics were on the scene to assist the injured and mud-covered competitors. Cheese rolling is thought to date back centuries. During rationing between 1941 and 1954, the wheel of cheese had to be substituted with a wooden circle containing a token piece of cheese inside.

This is a sick funny video! I wonder sometimes where people find the time to do these crazy videos, but I'm glad this one was made - I enjoyed it ! Probably better than the movie.... What do you think????

How stupid do you have to be to get arrested? Apperently - not that stupid after all. One man decides to slap, hit a baby camel on a dare - the other man, well he messed up a car jacking and decided to make his get away in a golf cart. yes, I said golf cart... hey stupid, a golf cart only goes 4 miles per hour, the cops could have had donuts and coffee and stil caught you. Moron..... What are people thinking - I guess we don't have to worry about super villians here in america.

Are these people sick or what? Has the art world fallen so much that any moron with no talent can come up with a crazy scheem and call it "art"....??? Just thinking of this Lice exhibition is making me scratch my head - no really, I think I cuaght something. Man, i bet if I took a pile of "Dung" [crap ] and smeared it on the wall, someone in this crazy world would call it art and buy it for thousands of dollars [ wait, that's an idea........]

Woman locked in bathroom 2YEARS!!! Let me just start off by saying - "why on Gods green earth did this man wait two years to get help for his girlfriend?" Come on, you think about it - he said [in the video below] they lived a normal life except that they did everything in the bathroom??? Like what? Eat, sleep, talk, .....SEX????? That’s not NORMAL - you retard...!! I Believe the police should consider charges of abuse or neglect. This woman must have some mental issues if she would come out of the bathroom. Didn’t he find it strange, odd. What about her friends, neighbors??? Doesn’t anyone find it strange. Boy, I can’t help it, but her boyfriend must be real kinky to want to always do it in the bathroom ........

You know, when your sick and you find yourself at three in the morning having a hard time breathing and you feel like your drowning in your own bed - you can’t help but think - "Am I going to die???? " Like the average person - I do not welcome death. I have so much to live for. If only to grow old, see my kids grow up, get married, and see my grand kids…. So even though I believe in heaven - I don’t want to be on the fast track to eternity. But when you think of death - you usually think of life insurance. There are two problems with life insurance - One: you the insured has to die. . . Again, not looking forward to that at an early age. Second: You pay out all this money and on the average - you live to atleast the ripe old age of 65 to 70 years old. At seventy - I’d probably would be welcoming eternity………. But who wants to spend $50 dollars a month up to $12,000 dollars over thirty years and live - knowing full well you can’t get that money back?! But I have good news! ...

For years I had a running joke with my friends. I could live on Chinese food and when people would jokingly say "Chinese food is made from Cat" I would laugh and say "have any pets....". Today, I think I may just have to reconsider how often I eat at my favorite Chinese restaurant. because they maybe serving up RAT???? Feb. 5 - A 58-year-old Taiwan eatery offers rat meat as winter tonics to welcome the Year of Rat. Rat meat, also eaten in China, became popular in rural Taiwan in the 1940s and 1950s among people who could not afford chicken or pork. Ho-la, a rural eatery at Taiwan's Chiayi county, serves 10 rat-themed dishes, including rat soup, black pepper-dipped and deep-fried rat. The diner goes through around 18 kg (40 lb) of rat meat per day. Christine Lu reports.

Flight attendants in Thailand are up in arms about a popular soap opera which they say insults their profession. "War of Angels" features flight attendants committing adultery and getting involved in cat fights. Air crew say the programme is "insulting." They're so fed up they've delivered a petition to the government demanding the soap is dropped from the schedules. --------------------------- I wonder what that says about us [America] we have television that not only fictitiously portrays adulterers and liars and so forth but now were on a being of reality TV where we can watch shows like "Cheaters" real adulterers and shows that show women going on a date with five men or hey - what about Apprentice and Survivor - you can really see dirt fly there..... they think their offended. I'm offended to be called an American.

Is it me or do they have a fixation with the toilet Bowl? First came the toilet Bowl shaped house - now thier eating out of toilet bowls.......? Nov. 17 - A diner in the capital of Taiwan is attracting clients with toilet humour. The Modern Toilet diner is one of 12 eateries with a toilet theme scattered across the island of Taiwan. Daragh Burke reports.