It's Been A While...

So, I'll spare a long antidote on how long it’s been since my last post/blog/random musing. In short, it’s been a long ass time. In fact, you probably saw this link and thought ‘hot damn, this blog is still polluting the interwebs?’

To be honest, that is a fair thought.

There is a lot of crap out there on the internet and I’m proud to say that this blog is part of that large ecosystem of crap. So, what do you do on these blogs now days? Do I rant about work? How those damn leaves are the bane of my existence? Talk about married life? Fantasy football? Or how no matter how often we brush Tessie’s hair; it always looks disheveled?

I’m sure all of those will bore many of you to death. Again, I have no clue what the kids are even blogging about, if they still blog or if they don’t read anything past 140 characters (damn U twitter & ur assault on the Eng. Lang #twittergripe).

And now back to our scheduled programming…

Have we already been married 1.6667 Kardashian’s?

This time last year we were starting to plan everything, my house was for sale and our plans for the wedding and what to do after were still being decided. Where would we live? What was the wedding going to be like? Where was the honeymoon going to be?

All of the anxiety of selling the house and wedding was just compounded by stress at work, car dying right before the wedding and just life happening. But the best part of all that stress in the first 7 months of 2011; starting 7/30/2011 the stress started to peel off.

First the house sold, got a promotion at work that has been years in the making, got the new car, moved into our place, the wedding was amazing and the honeymoon even better. I went into the busiest time for me with the lowest stress level that I could recall.

Following the wedding; when my watch hit 5:30pm I preemptively starting to wrap things up to get home. I had a new routine now. Aim to be home by no later than 6:30 to walk the dog, make dinner with my wife and more importantly spend time with her. Granted I may have to log back into work; but at least spend some time with her before she went to bed.

As cheesy as it sounds; I developed a new set of priorities. It’s getting off work in time to go look at Christmas trees. It’s trying a new recipe that I’ll try to wing part of and she’ll stick to the directions. After 4 months; it is waking up every morning and looking forward to that time we spend together; no matter how long or short of time it may be. But I’ll fight like hell to have it be as long as possible.

Random Thought Vomit…

One of my favorite things to do is just throw out some quick hits of what I’m thinking about. Here goes nothing:

- Say what you will about the Kardashian’s about having no talent. But they make serious bank for having ‘no talent’. 

- The NBA Lockout ended last week. I want to be mad at them; but I just have to watch college basketball long enough to realize how much better the NBA is over college

- When will people realize that there are three things you don't talk about at work? Salary, religion and politics. These conversations almost never end well unless you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the two of you are on the same page

- Oh, assuming typically just makes an ass out of you

- honestly, what is the point of Tumblr? 

- I guess you could say the same for twitter; but twitter is great for sports info, news, comedians and web discounts/local coupons

- I have Amazon Prime and yes, it has definitely increased how much I shop online. Also, I check Amazon on nearly all purchases online to see if I can get a better deal through them first. Well played Amazon...well played.

- I'm sure you've seen this link by now; but who doesn't get a kick out of the 'No Cat'?

- Bobby Valentine is the new Red Sox manager. I want him to do well, but remember his exit with the Mets wasn't pretty. But this article gave me hope for how he'll do at the Sox skipper
- I think cranberries get a raw deal. They are one of the stars of Thanksgiving dinner and rarely brought out as a side the rest of the year. I am going to make an effort to change that and so should you.
- Beermas is 10 Days away and that makes me very happy
- I love my wife very much. I hope she knows it and if you're reading this honey; it's etched forever on the internet my love for you.

And on that note; hope you are all doing well and thanks for reading.