i look tired he says....

I am sitting at the hotel across the street from our local airport. I'm on the clock, been working since noon on Monday and it is now 4:40 am on Tuesday. Weather in Sitka is bad and I have to babysit a couple of kids till 7am. Luckily I have my new laptop and the hotel offers free Internet, plus my cousin is working the front desk and I get free snacks. This is the best overtime shift I've ever signed up for!

Thought I might post something new since it's been awhile.

I've recently taken up the art of drinking coffee. I'm not quite a pro at it yet, I still add a over zealous amount of creamer. I haven't yet tried the fancy flavored coffee, just the cheap free stuff I can get here at work. This was picked up out of the necessity for the caffeine, not because I love the taste. In fact I hate the way my mouth feels after drinking a ton of coffee, makes me want my tooth brush. YAY, such stimulating conversation here isn't it!

The sun is coming up. I'm too tired to type anything interesting. Nick says I look tired. Isn't that a rude thing to say to someone!? I mean I KNOW I look tired, because I FEEL frickin' tired. But people shouldn't tell other people that they look tired. geeesh.

Maybe it's because I am SOOOOO tired, but I never noticed that the show Charmed is very inspiring. Three powerful sisters, fighting evil and juggling busy work schedules while still carrying out their personal lives.....INSPIRING, I can only hope to be as productive as they are. The TV has been on Charmed all night for background noise, weird that nothing else has come on, feels like it's been hours and hours of this one show....hmmm, maybe it's a marathon. WHATEVER.

I just pulled off over a thousand photos of my cell phone...off my CELL PHONE!!! Who knew a phone could hold so much. Maybe once I have a moment to go thru it all I'll post some pics up here on the blog.

GAWD! There is this ONE light that keeps flickering and blinking! Over and over again, and over again, it's getting to annoy me.

Soon I'll have to go wake up the kids. Lucky kids got at least four hours of sleep already and they'll get a bit more on the plane ride.

left on the bid after everyone else got to choose what they wanted for a schedule. I I think my schedule might be changing for awhile, changing to a night schedule. Not because I wanted it [even though I secretly wanted to be forced to take it] but because I get what ever'sSOOO got screwed over on my seniority when my job changed. I'm kinda disappointed in my union for not standing up for my cause because I know other people got the shit end of the stick like me. Things might be changing even still, we'll just have to wait and see.

Speaking of schedule changes, it changed this week due to me getting some training. I better get this Thursday off!! Damian and I are going to John Edwards at Centennial Hall. I can't wait. We've had our tickets for MONTHS now!

People are waking up now an joining me in the lobby. I better go check on the kids.

I'll post again another time later on.

Keep on, keeping on!

...Pride and Predjudice and Zombies...

I've decided to start sharing opinions of the current books I've read. My first book will be 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' By Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. I haven't read it yet but wanted to share already what I think about it.

I think this could quite possibly be the most genius idea I've heard of lately! I am ridiculously excited to tear through these pages. I am including a blurp from Amazon.com so you can see what others are saying about the book. SO EXCITED!

This may be the most wacky by-product of the busy Jane Austen fan-fiction industry—at least among the spin-offs and pastiches that have made it into print. In what’s described as an “expanded edition” of Pride and Prejudice, 85 percent of the original text has been preserved but fused with “ultraviolent zombie mayhem.” For more than 50 years, we learn, England has been overrun by zombies, prompting people like the Bennets to send their daughters away to China for training in the art of deadly combat, and prompting others, like Lady Catherine de Bourgh, to employ armies of ninjas. Added to the familiar plot turns that bring Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy together is the fact that both are highly skilled killers, gleefully slaying zombies on the way to their happy ending. Is nothing sacred? Well, no, and mash-ups using literary classics that are freely available on the Web may become a whole new genre. What’s next? Wuthering Heights and Werewolves? --Mary Ellen Quinn

It’s difficult to tell if critics’ reactions to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies should be characterized as praise or astonishment. Some reviewers treated the book as a delightful gimmick. Others found that, beneath the surface, the book actually constituted an interesting way of looking at Austen’s novel. Zombies answer certain puzzling questions: Why were those troops stationed near Hertfordshire? Why did Charlotte Lucas actually marry Mr. Collins? (She had recently been bitten by zombies and wanted a husband who could be counted on to behead her—of course!) But critics also pointed out that this parody shows that Austen’s novel has remained so powerful over time that even the undead can’t spoil it.Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC

Proof that I have really let myself go....

This is me, the picture was taken about a month or so ago. I am not happy about my current situation and that's why I am making it public, so that maybe I'll get my A$$ in gear and do something about it!!
This is proof that I used to be skinnier than I am now!

This is proof that I used to have a cleaner house than I have now, and proof that I used to be able to invite friends over!!

....AND....this is proof that I think I'd look HOT with my lip pierced!! Hmmm, think I am going to change my profile picture now!

Ack. Zombies....

I was thinking..... What would I do if the world ever became infected by a zombie plague, and I became one of the few survivors!? Good question, I know!

I think I'd have to become a pretty good shot with a rifle and pretty handy with a hockey stick. But all in all it wouldn't be that bad. I mean, zombies in theory would move pretty slow and really how much strength do they have? I mean, yes there will be difficulties adjusting, but take the proper precautions and we'll be just fine. Barricade your houses, build high fences.... can a zombie really break down a barricade!? My thought is not likely, they are mindless animals basically. In groups maybe they could do some damage, but you'd smell them miles away, and could run up to your look out tower and start popping them like zits on chess team captain. That's if you had a tower, or a roof of your local mall, anywhere high up would do. You'd get plenty of practice from up there.

I guess it helps that I don't live in a HUGE city...less zombies I'd have to off in the end.

So here's a plan, just in case, because you never know. Boy scouts say to always be prepared, I'm just being a good boy scout. [I know I'm not a boy, don't argue with me, stay on topic!]

IF the world as we know it is suddenly taken down by this zombie virus, all you need to do is build a floating city out in the middle of the ocean. You could live off seafood and take day trips to the shore to collect necessities. Drinking water can be distilled just like Kevin did in the beginning of that Waterworld movie. Yuck, I know, who wants to drink their own urine. Not me. That's why we'd hope the virus doesn't contaminate the near by streams and such. Since I live in land locked area I wouldn't have to live on a floating city, I could just find all survivors near by and we would start chopping some zombie heads off. Might take a bit and then clean up would take awhile, but in time Juneau could be zombie free.

Trick is, would we truly be safe from the zombies. Being dead already, could zombies continue to walk on the ocean floor!? But then would they float!? Would our ocean become polluted with mindless floating zombies!? As for Juneau, could a Zombie trek over the glaciers and mountains to get here!? If we were truly the last flesh and blood on the earth, would that be enough to keep them coming? Can a zombie in New York know there are five living souls in Juneau!? God, these are all such great questions!

All in all I think Juneau would be the safest place to survive a zombie apocalypse! Agreed!?

the best I could come up with....

Mom hated getting her pictures taken, so did I. So I never took any.

I HATE MYSELF FOR IT NOW!!!

I don't have ANY pictures of me and my mom, just her and me. I've got many of her with other people, like my sisters and the rest of the family. But none of the two of us.

It sucks. I've been looking since the day she died. I can't find any. Unless you count baby picture, even then there aren't many with just the two of us in it.

This was the best I could come up with.......