I Love My Puppy

I have a puppy who is almost a year old now and her name is Sookie. We got her from an animal rescue because I figured that there were lots of dogs out there that needed a home, so we picked Sookie. I cannot tell you how much joy she has brought to our family.......and also frustration. When anyone comes home, Sookie always meets them at the door with a full body-wag and lolling tongue....I have yet to see Jen or the kids come home and not smile when Sookie greets them at the door.

I will talk about the frustration part later on because it is not as important.

Here is a picture of me and my favorite puppy!!!
(notice she is smiling)

I'm Back!!!!!

Hey All:

I have been inspired by reading some other blogs by friends of mine to restart my blogging efforts!!! A big "thank you" goes out to Jennifer (my spousal unit), Alex Stenman and Jon Stolpe for providing me with a new zeal for keeping up with this blog.

Sometimes Your Jenni, Sometimes Your the BUG!!

So I am sitting in the family room one afternoon a week ago and I hear footsteps stomping around upstairs just before KT and Jen come downstairs yelling about a giant bug that was in the guestroom where Jen does the ironing. While I am trying to listen to both of them talk at once, I pick up words like: Huge / Weird / Tons of Legs / Gigantic / Fast / and so on and so on and so on.

Now I am nice and comfy in the Chair, so I decide to pass the honor of "Ultimate Bug Killer" on to Taylor as a Rite of Passage type thing. So Taylor heads up the stairs with the girls behind him.....I hear more stomping around and then all three of them are back in the family room and I start hearing things like: "I have never seen anything like it!" / "It had so many legs!!!" / "That thing was giant!!".........and then I hear the inevitable...."It got away!!!!!".

So now I am thinking, "that is just wonderful, I get to go in search of the illusive alien bug.....great!!". I get up head upstairs on my quest for the hideous monster........and nobody is following me.......which tells you a little something there doesn't it, "you go dad...we gotcha covered from down here". I started removing clothes from the bed that were ready to be ironed, shook each one out and no alien. I then removed the blanket from the bed and shake it out.......still no blasted bug. By this time Jen has ventured upstairs to see if I have been taken hostage by said bug and removed to the mother-ship for a good a thorough probing. I ask her, "how big was this bug, I can't find it anywhere?". Jen responds that it was "as big as my pinkie finger!!".

So now I am thinking that it should not be to hard to see.....I get down on the floor and see something run towards the wall......I yank the bed away from the wall and stare at this "alien". I killed it and took the following picture with my phone so that you can see for yourself just how "strange" and "big as my pinkie finger" this bug actually was..........the coin in the picture is a dime so that you can get some type of size comparison.

All I have to say is this.......Jen's pinkie finger is wwwaaaaaaayyyyyy bigger than this little bug!!!

Once again ........ Jen is all mine and I love her immensely for things just like this :-)

"Middle Name MeMe Answers"

I have consulted with my blog specialist and she has informed me that a "meme" is when you have to come up with an "acrostic" for your middle name that sort of describes you........

I will give it a go:

N = Nice - I try to be a nice person, considerate of others and kind. Sometimes I am successful and sometimes I am not.....depending on the day, it is a precarious balance :-)

E = Enthusiastic - when I want to be. If it has to do with playing guitar, watching baseball or hockey, or anything else that I have an interest in, I am pretty energetic and enthusiastic. If it is something that I "have" to do, then my enthusiasm can wane.

A = Attentive - I like to think that I am attune to my surroundings.....the needs of my wife and family, my friends, my staff and co-workers, etc. Sometimes I "read" things wrong and that upsets me, but Jen will usually straighten me out when I get something wrong.

L = Lovable - I have been called a big teddy bear by countless folks and what is more lovable than a teddy bear! I try to show that I care for people because I actually do. I apparently have the body shape, voice and hair of a bear....so I have also been told.

Well there you have it......a little about me!!!

Enjoy?

By the way........please be patient with me as my blog specialist (....yes it is Jen again!!!) teaches me proper blog etiquette.....like she just told me that I am supposed to visit others sites who comment on mine and leave comments as well.......I have committed this pearl of wisdom to memory :-)

Tagged!!!!!!

I have been tagged for a "meme" by radioactive girl....hhhmmmm, I will have to follow my "tagger's" advice and consult with my Blog Specialist (that would be Jen). Radioactive girl's blog picture looks cute....I think I like her!!

As you can see, I have not had time to fool with my site or add a new entry other than this one. I have been busy and promise to get to it as soon as I can....maybe this weekend??? We shall see!!

My best to all :-)

The Results Are In!!!!

Well, the results are in and I will keep this lovely little blog based on the overwhelming response to my little survey. Jen may not be ecstatic about it, but oh well....she loves me anyway.

I still need to spruce up my blog page here, but just have not found the time to do it. Jen is supposed to help me, but I am scared. Hopefully I can get this done soon.

Prelimary Results

Alright......so far 16 folks have voted and there is only one "no" vote....hhhmmmm, I wonder who that could be???

Just so everyone knows, I plan on writing more than just things about Jen on here.....some will be humorous, some will be serious, and yet some will be ramblings......you can bet that there will be some sports and guitar/music stuff on here as well since I love those things in addition to my lovely wife and kids. My goal is to post at least once a week and reply to comments as often as I can.

Are there any official or unofficial bloggerland rules that I should know about? (Jen - do not respond because I will not believe you when you say that white males in their early forties, sporting a bald head, wearing glasses, with two children and a Goddess for a wife are not allowed to have a blog.)

Also, my lovely wife will be helping me spruce up by blog this weekend. I am sure I will have to keep a sharp eye on her so that she does not do something that screws this up and then tells me "Surely I do not know what you are talking about!!!".