Hello world. It’s been a long time since I’ve last sat down and blogged. I’d like to say that life has been keeping me so incredibly busy over the last seven months – and it has – but truth be told, I’ve just been lazy. Of course, there’s been so much to write about… the war, the election, Kim Kardashian, my kids, Occupy fill-in-the-random-city movement, etc. In the deep recesses of my skull, I kept feeling the siren song to write, I just didn’t. I can’t, in good conscience, claim writer’s block. After all, writing is easy. All you do is stare at the computer until drops of blood form on your forehead and then the words come. The difficult part is unscrambling them.
But now, like any good virus, all these thoughts have started to back up in my mental stomach and have reached a point of no return. It’s time to regurgitate my thoughts onto the page again. Sorry. That was a bit visceral.
So here we go again. Over the last seven months…
- The “snow of reason” has started to fall on the nation and we seem to be on the verge of waking up from Obama’s spell of poppy socialism. Lord willing and the creek don’t rise and we should have a new President in November, 2012. I just hope that this weather holds.
- My son had a birthday party in the spring and I had an epiphany as to why parents eat their young. There I was, sitting at home cleaning the house so visiting parents wouldn’t think we lived in squalor, and all of the sudden the house was invaded with a dozen screaming banshees. It was as if a clown car pulled up in the driveway and dropped off 14 screaming, drunk midgets.
- We went on a great vacation this summer to Colorado. Love that state. Get rid of the people and that place would be nirvana.
- Did a lot of fishing over the summer. Here’s the family tally at the close of our annual summer fishing contest.
- Will – 63 fish
- Lauren – 58 fish
- Me – 46 fish
- Aunt Jen – 2
- Kerstyn – “Heck no I’m not touching that fish!”
- I ended up surviving my first full year of employment at my new job in Chicago. Fingers and toes crossed I survive year two.
- The greatest sports story ever told came and went on June 13 as the Little Dallas Mavericks won the NBA Finals for the first time against the hated and feared Miami Heat.
- I had to go on a diet for the first time in my life. With the added stress of a new job and a new city, I was eating everything in sight. I was going to Hooters for the food!
- Hispanic Heritage month came and went – That time of year when we honor those who pack too many people into a minivan and let their kids run wild at The Dollar Store.
- The second greatest sports story ever told came and went just before Halloween as the Little Texas Rangers lost the World Series for the second straight time against the now hated St. Louis Cardinals.
- And this just in… the Cowboys stink. It’s a good thing I can’t get all the games here in Chicago. The last game I watched, Tony Romo threw 3 interceptions and then came to the sidelines, took off his helmet and threw it… which was immediately picked off and returned for a touchdown. I’m buying a Bears hat soon.
That’s life in a nutshell up here. We’re as happy as a pig laying in the sunshine.
