2009 goals.

I can only hope that 2009 will be better than 2008. The outlook is grim but I have set some goals to hopefully make my 2009 the greatest year yet.

1. Help Kristina get Plan Four Started.
2. Cut my debt in at least half.
3. Lose another 15 pounds.
4. Become closer to my 3 girls.

2008

This was a hard year for many and I was not exempt from this. My debt has dramatically increased and my assets have dramatically decreased in value.

But with all this doom and gloom, I still make all my bills every month and have a beautiful family that loves me. I'm thankful that I have made it through 2008 with all that I love. I just hope 2009 is more positive than 2008 was.

Football day.

Yesterday I was able to enjoy the last Sunday of the regular football season. With all the holiday party's and craziness going on I have not been able to enjoy my Sunday football for weeks. Yesterday I popped popcorn and just enjoyed a day of the game I love.

Toys galore

My kids are very luck to have an excessive amount of grandparents to spoil them. My girls have 3 sets of grandparents, and 4 sets of great-grandparents. Jenna had her birthday party at the beginning of the month and now Christmas has littered my home with lots of new toys. This week we will be spending a lot of time getting ride of old toys and finding a home for the new ones.

Taking care of yourself.

Times are hard and people are putting their health at risk. Last night my grandfather endded up in the hospital with pneumonia and severe dehydration. He chose to not take care of his cold and play golf in the rain. It formed into something much worse than a cold. 

Don't ignore your body. If it says slow down you need to do it, or the body will make you sorry.

Odd Christmas.

This Christmas was very odd. I'm not sure what was wrong. I really had a hard time getting into it. I thought I was alone but I talked to some other people and they felt the same way. I never got the holiday excitement I usually get. I'm not sure if it was all the doom and gloom of the economy or what. I just hope the holidays are better next year. But ready for 2009 to be here.

Merry Christmas Sleep???

I was expecting a very early morning today. I have a hard time sleeping in past 7am and so do my darling children. So last night when I fell asleep at around midnight I was dreading this morning. Much to my surprise Christmas morning with a 5 year old I woke up at almost 9am. Jenna was already up and going through her stalking. I got up and we to gifts. It was the nicest morning I have had in sometime.

Merry Christmas everybody.

HO HO HO!!!! Merry Christmas.

This will be the first year that I will be doing the big Santa set up for Jenna. I'm very excited about the cookies she is making for Santa (wink wink) as I write this blog. Santa is going to be lazy this year and put the gift together this weekend. This year we bought the girls one big combo gift. It is a 15ft trampoline. My little helper uncle steve and I will be tackling that fun this weekend.

Cold pain!!!

Running nose, headache and a cough.  I have a cold and it just sucks. I'm fine during the middle of the day but I wake up a mess and I have a hard time falling asleep without medication. This is not helping with my lack of holiday spirit this year. Merry Christmas, hack hack, sniff sniff. 

The 2 week storm has arrived.

Starting today until January 2nd is called the storm at my work. We will deliver more then normal amounts of beer in 8 days instead of 10. It will create a storm of trucks and people to work long hours and very hard to try and enjoy 2,  4 day work weeks. Blogging will become complicated during this dash to the end of the year, but I will do my best to keep all 3 off you informed.

Recovery!!!

Last night was a blast. But today I'm reminded that I'm almost 30 and getting to old to party like a rock star. I had an amazing time with all my friends last night, but it will be some time before I need to be reminded that I'm a dad not a rock star.

Tis the season to party!!!

Tonight is the party I look forward to all year. I have friends in town and it is time for a great time. The day will kick off with lunch at our old high school hang out, Napoli. We will be leaving there to head out to total wine for Cigars and johnny walker.  Then we will head to my buddy Rob's house and get the party started. Good friends, good times, good booze, and good cigars will be the highlights of the evening.

Blah blah Holiday.

I have come to the conclusion that the holidays suck. Especially when you work in the service industry. I have been at my current job for almost 9 years. Before this job I worked in retail. I have not enjoyed the holiday season since I started working. The crap that comes with the holiday season makes me like it a little less every year. I enjoy thanksgiving but after that day I can't wait for January to be here. I don't like being a scrooge but the ugliness of people in December really turns me by Christmas eve. It's seems that people just become rude and nasty and care about nobody but themselves. 

It really ruins the season of giving when everybody is so rude.

Cough relief with a punch in the face!!!

I have found a product that is amazing for getting ride of cough and congestion. I recently suggested it to a friend online. He said it worked. He was happy with the results, but not the product. See the product taste very very very bad. To quote Drewbenz " I don't think one could properly prepare for how horrific this medicine is".  I warned him that it tasted bad and the box points out that it tastes horrible. I laughed at him that day because it had been at least a year or so since I had used it. I guess I had forgotten how bad the Buckley's tastes.

Last night after 3 hours of coughing and hacking. I decided the time had come when I would once again drink the Buckley's. As I took a teaspoonful of the medicine I was quickly paralyzed, my throat was burning, I was having a hard time breathing, I had the worst thing I had ever tasted in my mouth, and I was getting dizzy.  After about a minute or so my everything was normal except, I was left with the most horrific taste ever in my mouth. But my throat felt much better. 

20 minutes later I was fast asleep until my alarm clock went off the next morning. This is one of the greatest products I have ever used for a cough, but it comes at a cost.

I need vitamin D.

I have lived in Phoenix my entire life and I love the sun. I love it so much and I get to see it about 350 days a year. The past couple of days my sun has been hiding and I'm already starting to have withdrawals. Please come back my sun I need to bask in your glow.  I could never live in a place like Washington where it rains all the time. I would definitely become a very angry and bitter person.