Que the Camel

If you stand up on your tippy toes, looking just overt op that noon time hump, there on the other side of tomorrows flashback. Do you see it? Just over there you can see the dawn of another fun filled weekend off in the distance. Woot Woot.

My Lovely wife was in overdrive yesterday with that snow dance of hers. We didn't really get a whole lot of accumulation, but enough that her dad is throwing her out of his will due to all this white stuff she is causing. Come on Michelle, the man wants to go and play golf, let him play golf.

Erica and Josh were in a wreck yesterday morning on their way to school, but everyone appears to be OK. It was slippery out yesterday to say the very least.

Hopefully we have weathered the worst of this winter and it'll be warm and sunny for the rest of the winter. Have I ever mentioned that I Hate Snow. Is it Spring time yet?

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Tuesday's Tidbits

* Well that awful dreaded Monday is once again in our rear view mirrors, other than the blue footed boobie and sloth teaming up and conspiring to learn how to cook bananas I can't think of a better reason than that to do a tidbits.

* It was 2,097 days ago that my life changed forever, I had a date with this chic who took hours to get ready and we went to see a movie. The movie? 10,000 BC and it had to be one of the worst movies ever made, but the night was a life changer.

* 1,320 days ago in the wee early hours of the morning, out in the back yard after a sleepless night for Michelle, I proposed marriage to this wonderful life changer.

* 857 days ago, in front of a group of awesome people, we had a feast and exchanged our wedding vows. I have since had this piece of jewelry on my finger.

* 6,565 more days, that's all I need to get through so I can say I retire. Who knows though, I'll probably still do something, but that's 18 years away yet.

* 239 days to go until my third wedding anniversary.

* This is my 3,468th blog that I have written for George's Journal. I've written a few others around the web, but this was my first and my primary blog.

* Here is a monumental one for those of us who hate snow, cold and winter, there are only 100 more days to go until Springtime. I have to say, that is my favorite time of the year.

* 21 days to go until the final blog of 2013, and what a year it has been for both Michelle and I. Four Concerts, another cruise, and a trip to DC were all a part of our years highlights.

* You have 15 more shopping days left until Christmas. We are getting closer and closer to that magical time of the year, the only time when I do actually like about an inch of snow, but it needs to be gone in the next day or two after that.

*  I spoke to Pam through a couple of texts yesterday morning, they are wanting her to taker today off as well since her ankle hasn't healed yet. I tried to arrange for parking as close as I could, but we ended up with better spots from what I bought due to them just accepting our passes.

* I got some really nice deals from AARP yesterday. I got three $10.00 Gift Certificates for DP Dough  for $1.20 each and three $10.00 gift certificates to Daves Famous T&L Hot Dogs at the Morgantown mall for the same price each. So for $7.20 I got $60.00 worth of Gift Certificates around town. There were others available around town, and everywhere else, I just chose these to get started. Turning 50 has its advantages, those gift certificates and the cost of the membership just for this year I'm already bout $37.00 ahead and I'm JUST now getting started.

* There is a Winter Weather Advisory for the area today, calling for 2"-4" of snow in the Morgantown Area. Is it Groundhog Day yet? Phil, old buddy, where you at?

* If anyone likes ice cream, WVAQ still has a few 50% of 50% off Naticakes. That's 2, $25.00 gift certificates for $12.50.

* Have I ever mentioned before that I Hate Snow?

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Weekend Reflection

All good things must come to an end, and unfortunately that includes great weekends. Now it's time to put our noses back on the grindstone for another fun filled week of work so that we can do the things that we enjoy doing.

The weekend started with a very good Jeff Dunham Concert, that included traveling in some less than favorable weather, but not to complain as we made it both there and back. Next time Jeff comes back to Pittsburgh, I would consider going to see him again, he puts on a great show.

Then came two days of making and baking Christmas Cookies, although most of the cookies we made the second day were for other people rather than for us. We made Arron and Layla's cookies as well as making a batch for Christopher upstairs, unless Michael gets to them first...LOL

Now it's back to another week of work and planning ahead to next weekend. We have something planned every weekend for the past month and it runs up until Christmas. Next weekend we are headed up North to East Liverpool Ohio to do Michelle's family Christmas's as we do every year. Fortunately this year will be on a Saturday and the burden has been removed from Gigi, Michelle's 92 year old Grandmother as her cousin Julie will be hosting Christmas up North this year.

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Cookie Day Part II

Well we have one day of cookies completed, but we did get a little bit of a late start yesterday, so we did our grocery shopping last night and will do a second day of making cookies.

The dough that you see here is actually the dough to mine and Arron's favorite cookies, that is the famous butterscotch cookies that Michelle makes. We have a tray of them made, now we are going to do some for Arron and then move onto the spritz cookies.

We started yesterday by making Chocolate Chip cookies, and then went to the butterscotch ones before calling it a day.

It should be a nice relaxing day other than that, most of our weekend chores were completed yesterday, so now it's just time to enjoy a nice warm crackling fire and make the rest of the cookies.

One thing of note that I forget to mention in yesterdays blog. For those traveling north to Pittsburgh, the new exit/bridge going from I-79 North to the I-79/70 is now open and making the drive much easier. The old way was to go through that circle with all those rumblers and that big concrete wall that everyone used to hate, this make a much nicer transition and keeps traffic flowing much better.

Have a great day.

Cookie Day

Well here I sit doing a late blog, sitting in a quiet household just recovering from a ;ate night battle with the dreaded Sandman from last night. He got me a little late thanks to some 5 hour energies and laughing my butt off at the Jeff Dunham Concert last night. You were not allowed to take in any cameras, so there were no pictures. I think everyone had a great time, I know Michelle died laughing. It was a great show and he did not disappoint. We did get the chance to see the premier of a new puppet that he debuted last night. I don't think he even has a name for him and he was just starting to develop material for him yesterday. It's a puppet strung out on COFFEE.

On to today, as soon as Michelle gets up we'll probably head out for breakfast since it is a late morning and then do our Sam's Club shopping before coming home and setting up the real Michelle's Cookie Factory. Yes, it is the 2013 Christmas Cookie Day in the Hall Household. The day when Michelle makes all of her Christmas Cookies and I get to do the Quality Control work.

I see Jack Frost dropped a little bit of snow last night, but we hit the worst of it both heading North and coming South last night before and after the Concert. I have a fire in the fireplace all set up andf ready to go whenever we are ready for it.

Have a great day.

Big Ole Hairy Friday

Yes it is once again that time of the week that we all look foreword to, when we can take time to cease the labors for the week and take a little bit of needed time out to enjoy the fruits of those labors. It is once again the dawn of another weekend, and a Big Ole Hairy Friday.

Well today is the day, the day Pam, Moke, Ang, Michelle and I head north to Pittsburgh to see as Moke puts it, a guy sticking his hand up a puppets rear end. We'll be on the road this afternoon to the Consol Center in Pittsburgh to see famed Ventriloquist Peanut and his dummy "Little Ugly Jeff." WE also get to hear some of Walters infinite wisdom and we can not forget Achmed the famed Dead Terrorist.

This will be my first time seeing him live and my first trip to the Consol Center, and to be honest with everyone I never actually went into the Civic Arena in all those years it was there or was in existence. Hard to believe, but I never once stepped foot into that building.

I hope everyone has a great day, we plan on it.

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Photo Flashback Thursday

Once a week I like to take a little bit of time out and look through all my pictures. Pictures I have storied on my computer or on Facebook that I like to look through through and recall the  where and when or what about that lost moment in time. I like to select one of those frozen moments of time and post it on my blog and tell a little story about it. Sometime it's real easy to find the right picture and sometimes it's not that easy. I do have to say though it is always a whole lot of fun.

This weeks pic goes back to the days of summers gone by, about 39 and soon to be 40 of them if you must know. A time when the Pittsburgh Pirates still had hope of me being their future second basemen and when Summers were much simpler.

It was the Summer of 1974 and our coach and a few of our players were making some trend setting fashion statements with their choices of lower half attire, since we all had to have similar shirts and hats.

This was a time BEFORE I had hair, back when I was originally bald all the time only this time it was by choice (but not mine) rather than being follicly challenged as I am presented today. Back when my bike had one gear and I had spent the previous winter laying around in a body cast due to a broken leg the previous fall.

This was the 1974 Citizens B team, the greatest Little League Baseball team ever assembled. Of course the numbers on the scoreboard behind us pretty much reflect our win total for that season but alas, we were headed up by the legendary coach Danny Murtaugh. Since he was busy with coaching that other team, we were stuck with Fred Powell of the infamous "Let Fred Smoke" Facebook page to lead us to an un-undefeated season where we wreaked havoc and actually threatened the other team with our comical shenanigans that we referred to as baseball. I did have a very rare unassisted triple play one game asd I was playing second base and caught a line drive up the middle (one out) stepped on second base to get the runner than was there (two outs) and turned around and instead of throwing it to our first baseman who couldn't catch, I ran the runner down coming from first to tag him for the third out. All by myself and all un-assisted triple play. The Pirates talked about calling me up to the Majors at that point, but I opted to stay fourth grade.

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