so the holidays are upon us again… groovy to be sure…
the only downside is that the whole family is under the weather… hopefully we get better soon… uh… very soon…
love-of-my-life karen is off for 6 days starting tomorrow… this is good… very good… we’re gonna drug the kids so we can sleep in together…
we’ve got a pretty full social calendar o’ christmas events… hanging out with friends… k’s dad is in town with his trusty sidekick madison…
tomorrow i’m going to get an xbox 360… yeah right…
spank… the band… shall be having a little practice session this eve which i’m quite looking forward to… ‘s been a couple of weeks… some loud rock and roll is in order…
i shall be putting my at-times-pretty-kickin’, at-times-pretty-suspect, usually-somewhat-adequate poker skills to the test friday eve… i like poker…
and to top it off the chilluns and i dropped karen off this morning so we get to go pick her up this afternoon… and hopefully she can boogie a tad early so we can get this holiday-type festival/party started… i really like it when we go pick up mum from work… the kids are always overjoyed to see her and that makes me happy…
rock on…
ps- just kidding about drugging the kids…
wow… what a weekend…
so there were a couple of big things going on this weekend… a birthday party for my pal gabby… she’s two… and cj’s big ol’ first attempt at a race…
on friday morning i took the boy in for his one year doctor’s appointment… he passed… and when we got home i started to feel myself getting sick… bummer indeed… there i was minding my own business and bam… i could just feel the waves o’ cold-virus-type-baddies rushing through my body… bollocks…
i regretfully bowed out of attending gabby’s party on saturday morning… which i hated to do ‘cuz i really wanted to be there… the ladies went to represent the family whilst tugboat and i stayed home… from what i can tell fun was had and it was a ragin’ success… karen wrote about everyone’s adventures here… and the place where it was held looks pretty cool… the chilluns and i will be going back to check that out…
so after some hanging out and playing with the offspring in the afternoon/evening love-of-my-life karen was kind enough to let me go to bed early… after a crap night’s sleep but feeling marginally better i decided i was going to do the race… a) i’ve been all excited to do it for a couple of weeks now, b) it’s the first time i’ve been in one, and c) i’d already paid the $25 and got the t-shirt…
so we bundled up the kids and headed out in the hot-rod minivan to the race venue… and i’ve gotta say that it was one of the coolest things i’ve done… everyone was friendly and in great spirits and had a sort of standing-in-the-freezing-cold-on-sunday-morning sense of shared purpose that was kinda groovy…
i tottered off to get my official number thingy and karen and the chilluns went to george’s place for breakfast… i didn’t see anyone i knew as i was waiting around for the start so i just listened to some tunes and got into the standing-in-the-freezing-cold-on-sunday-morning shared purpose mindset… and sniffled and snorted and blew my nose about 25 times… and then it was time to go…
and it was a hoot… took off with the pack and saw the family at one of the first turns cheering me on… that was sweet… karen took a couple of pictures and blogged about their adventures here… i was expecting to do somewhere between 8 1/2 and 9 minutes per mile but i think adrenaline and being in the moment kicked in and i ran faster than i expected… my official time according to the race website was 24:42 which is under 8 minutes a mile… that makes me happy… not so sure why this “official time” using the high tech ankleband chip deal was 45 seconds slower than what my whiz-bang timex ironman triathalon stopwatch said but hell… i’ll take it… a success i’d say…
at any rate i think i’ve been bitten by the running/race bug… there’s a 5 mile trail run in january that i reckon i’ll take a shot at next…
as a bonus i felt significantly better cold-wise after the race than i did before… our pals andrew and christy and their little feller jackson came over and we watched the seahawks beat the titans… had a swell time indeed…
and to cap off the weekend i went over to spank drummer ebo’s place to do a little work on our little bob dylan cover tune side project… had a great time doing that too… even though we somehow managed to hose up the recording aspect of the evening… upon review when i got home i found that we managed to record 20 takes of silence for some reason… ah well…
Filed under: Friends
many sympathies and general get-well-soon thoughts to amigo steve who broke his toe on friday…
as a chronic toe stubber i sympathize… and as one with some experience using frozen vegetables as anti-swelling agents might i recommend c&w early harvest (r) petite peas (no salt added)… a superlative product imho… and extremely low sodium to boot… and we all know how important that can be…
hope you feel better soon buddy…
wow… what a sweet weekend… flew by as usual but we got to do some cool stuff…
on saturday k and i went to have dinner with my former colleagues from r.s. hughes… ’twas my amigo bob’s 50th birthday… fun was had and i can’t say thanks enough to my old work pals for inviting us along… i’ve been out of the official workforce for ten months now and have done an admittedly crap job of staying in touch… so it was awesome to see everyone and get to catch up a little… happy birthday bobby!!!…
and sunday afternoon our friend deb had a friggin’ insane blowout holiday open house thingie… kinda funny – five years ago that woulda meant all our circle o’ friends got together and had a liquor-fueled odyssey… nowadays it means there was a very high chillun percentage and all the craziness that comes along with that… was lotsa fun… santa made an appearance… many kids had fun… many kids freaked out… i was amused by pretty much everything… especially the fact that santa had a pretty wicked scottish accent… not that i’m saying he doesn’t or anything… ‘s just he reminded me of a friend of ours… a lot… an american friend… who doesn’t have a scottish accent… weird…
Filed under: Music
i love music… its a crucial part of my life… both listening to it as well as creating it…
along those lines… i’ve got a new fave band o’ the moment… kings of leon… i’ve heard about them for a while and finally checked ‘em out a few days ago… must say i’m amazed… and is the case, for me at least, when i’m blown away by a band it’s usually something i can’t quite put my finger on… whatever it is… i’m a fan of ‘em now…
and on the making music front… i’m pretty jazzed too… looking forward to spank practice this week… got some new-ish ideas kicking around that are nearing completion… and the band’s decided to branch out and play some gigs where we share the bill with other bands… thus allowing us to a) play one king-hell make-ya-wet-yerself-with-joy set and b) have more time for the beverages… hah… anyone knows of (or owns) a cool venue where we should play let me know…
so as of late i’ve been on a bit of a health kick… eating well… exercising… takin’ my vitamins and all that… and i’m starting to feel pretty good…
i used to run a lot… but for the last decade or so i’ve pretty much embraced the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle & diet plan… not much room in there for going running… so i’m jazzed that i’ve kinda reconnected with that… feels good…
and this very eve i took a somewhat monumental step and signed up to run in a race… i’ve never done that before… should be cool i reckon… its in two weeks… extra “training” starts tomorrow… actually its a) a fair bit shorter than my usual distance, and b) there’s no chance i’m going to be anywhere near the front of the pack… so i dunno if “training” is the right word… hah…
love-of-my-life karen has done lots of races and triathalons… ‘cuz she kicks ass… i’m pretty excited to see what it’s all about too…
Filed under: General
found one of the best web surfin’ thingies ever a couple of days ago… stumble upon…
its my new favorite internet-type thing and i’m totally addicted… basically it gets you random websites that are targeted toward subjects you’ve told it you’re interested in… the one drawback, as guitar steve so eloquently put it, “it’s a total time-suck”… hah…
highly recommended…
