Happy Birthday Amy Dalton

I would like to take this opportunity out to wish my very beautiful niece Amy a very Happy Birthday today. 

She is not going to be a hard person for me to find today, as I'm sure I'll see her a few times and probably in be in contact with her throughout the day.

Unfortunately it is probably going to be a very long day for Amy today, with that being said she is probably going to need more birthday wishes today.

If you have the chance to see or talk to Amy today, make sure that you take a little bit of time out and wish this special little girl a very Happy Birthday.

Monday

Looks like somebody has a case of the Monday's. 

It's time to stop all of the enjoyment and it's now time to stick our noses back on the grindstone for yet another fun filled week of work.

I guess Morgantown survived this Saint Patrick's day after all the wildness last year. I didn't hear of too many incidents and everything was pretty much kept under control, unlike last year when Get Shmacked was here filming a movie of the events.

I did get a chance to talk to my Sister Pam yesterday, we caught up on a few things including our Sister Terri and what is going on with her, the Skylar Neese case and what Moke and Ang have been up to. She's excited to know that she will have this coming weekend off.

This is the last week of classes before Spring Break at WVU. Students are here this week, but next week traffic should return to summer time levels for a week as the students are off and having fun. Should be about another month after that and they will be returning home for the summer, of course that just means they will tear up more roads around town in preparation for the fall.

It's going to be a cardio day today.

Hi ho hi ho

Happy Saint Patrick's Day

Here I sit once again, the only person in the household other than our cat Sophie who has recovered from a losing battle with the Sandman. I'm awake and watching the movie the Benchwarmers on the TV behind me.

If you are Irish, and even if you're not, today is Saint Patrick's Day. We were driving around a little bit downtown yesterday and you could tell the WVU students were about to get wild. Everyone was wearing green and I actually watched one idiot chug a beer walking down the street downtown and throwing it in BB&T's grass. What a Douchebag.

We did do a little geocaching yesterday, but only found one of the three we were looking for and that one has to be the easiest one we have ever found. I think that one was meant for young children, but you don't know that until you really get there. We did grab a travel bug called  US History 101 and we are going to place it in Ohio, a state it has not been hidden in yet.

Have a great day, wear your green and don't drink too much green beer.

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit once again in a quiet household, so far I am the only one here who has recovered from a losing battle with the sandman from last night. I'm up a little later this morning and have not even turned the TV on yet.

Last night Michelle and I attended the WVU Gymnastics meet at the Coliseum, I'm pretty sure that this was our first live WVU sporting event of the year. We used to go to a number of them, but have slacked off a little bit this year especially when most of the WVU Baseball Home Games will be played in places other than Morgantown.

I did go yesterday and found my Aunt Glenna Mae Hall Jackson Lemley's gravesite. Since she was buried in 1981 I have continually went to the wrong location thinking there was no headstone for her grave. I found her entry at find a grave and saw that there was one. So yesterday I headed up there to see it with my own eyes fro the first time. I've been there numerous times visiting my Grandfather and my Grandmother's grave and have continually and unsuccessfully sought Glenna Mae's grave and could never find it. I've also found my Dad's Grave, I've added a picture for all the gravesites and need to find a good picture of Dad to upload.

It should be another Yoga morning. We've missed the past couple of weeks for one reason or another, hopefully we can get back on track again this morning.

Not sure what the Day's agenda is, I did buy a digital copy of  the four hour movie The Hobbit: an Unexpected Journey yesterday on Amazon.

Some good news, Michelle did a little bit of detective work yesterday about our cruise, and it seems they are offering a special now and we have the price protection. Thanks to Michelle we now have $278 worth of on board credit on our sign and sail card. We booked early enough that anytime there is some kind of a special and we booked early enough to guarantee the price protection, we get the difference. We already had $100.00 worth of on board credit due to a coupon I purchased last year at the end of our cruise, now thanks to Michelle it added another $178 to that total. I love my wife, she is the best.

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.

You knew I couldn't not do the best blog of the week, I just had to write it to kick off the weekend.

As I previously stated Michelle and I are going out to dinner tonight, as we do every Friday Night, but tonight we're heading to the same Pizza Hut we visited five years ago today.

This weekends activities I guess will depend upon the weather, if it's nice we'll probably grab a few geocaches and if it's not then who knows what we will get ourselves into. Hopefully it can be something fun filled and enjoyable, since that is what we work all week to get to.

The Mountaineer basketball team is done for the year. It was a less than stellar effort this season, one that started out with high hopes and quickly developed into an uh oh all season long. This is normally the time I would start to organize softball, but with one diagnosed and probably a second torn labrum, that's just not happening anymore.

Have a Great Day

Five Wonderful Years

Your regularly scheduled Big Ole Hairy Friday has been interrupted this week to celebrate a milestone in my life. It was five wonderful years ago today that my life was forever changed.

It was five years ago today that Michelle took hours to get ready to go and grab Pizza at Pizza Hut and go and see a movie at the Theater.

I have to say that the dinner was good and memorable, so much so that we are going to repeat that experience this evening for dinner. I've always loved Pizza Hut and it's where we went to dinner on our first date.

After the dinner we headed out to see the Movie 10,000 BC. Arguably one of the worst movies that either of us have ever seen, neither one of us have bothered to watch it again and tonight will not be any different.

However after the movie I did get my first smooch from the at the time future and current day wife.

It was a day that has changed my life for the better ever since and a decision that I have never regretted. I have been very fortunate that she has not only entered but shared my life together with me.

I love you Michelle, Happy Five year Anniversary of our first date 1,827 days ago.

Photo Flashback Thursday

Once a week I like to take a little bit of time out and look through all of the pictures that I have stored on my computer, those lost moments in time that we captured to relive at a later date. Sometimes it's pretty easy finding that one special picture, sometimes it's not so easy, but it usually is a lot of fun and one of my favorite blogs of the week.

This weeks pic goes back about three years. back to a hot June Summer Day and Michelle and I were out doing a little bit of Geocaching on the day. We had one or two caches that were in the Core Arboretum that we wanted to get as well as a few others around town.

We loaded up the backpack with water, swag and a probably a snack or two and sought the hidden treasures. As I recall we found one of the two at that location that day, there was one hidden in the classroom that is there, we found the classroom but couldn't manage to find the cache. Not all geocache searches end up with a find or a happy ending, but we do manage to get the vast majority of them.

I'm thinking about doing a little Geocaching again this weekend.

Cardio day.

Hi ho hi ho

Hump Day

If you look up over that noon time hump, just on the other side of a photo flashback, you can see the dawn of yet another weekend off in the distance. We're pushing past the half way point in the workweek and heading towards another fun filled few days.

From what I am understanding Mother Nature wants to go out with a fight and since we're supposed to get a dusting of snow. If it does come something tells me it will be a very temporary thing, like gone by the end of the day of we even get any accumulation.

I'm needing to find another series to watch on Netflix, I've watched House of cards and now I'm needing to find something else to watch. Something I can watch a couple episodes a night of a show I haven't seen and can watch it at my own pace. Anyone have any suggestions?

Cardio day, holding off from lifting still. I do a four day workout program so I'll start again Monday.

Hi ho hi ho

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Monday is once again in our rear view mirrors and we are once again staring straight down the barrel of a Tuesday. Can anyone think of a better reason than that to do a tidbits because I sure as heck can't.

* It's been 1,824 days since mine and Michelle's first date. This Friday evening we're going to go to Pizza Hut, the site of our first date together five years ago on Friday. Happy Five years to my sweetie.

* 1,047 days ago I got down on one knee in the backyard, at 4:00 AM no less because Michelle hadn't slept, and proposed marriage.

* 584 Days ago in front of our closest friends and family we exchanged our wedding vows to each other and feasted like kings at the Marilla center.

* There are a mere 288 more shopping days left until Christmas. It's never too early to start.

* We're 180 days out from sailing the Atlantic Ocean and doing some much loved snorkeling in the Carribean again. We loved our trip last year, so we're more excited this year because we already know how much fun it's going to be.

* 128 more days and we will be partying down with Jimmy Buffett and the rest of the parrot heads in Pittsburgh. Fins up!!!

* 102 More days and Michelle and I will be partying down with Kenny Chesney at Heinz Field. I'm ready for a little "Summertime".

* 9 days until Spring when we can officially say we are done with old man winter. Bring on the shorts and sandals, I'm ready for warmer weather.

* Does anyone else shop at JC Penney? Is it just me or has that place went over a cliff in the last year or so. I used to buy all of my clothes there, now I'm starting to look other places. They screwed up their business model and screwed up that store last year, now they know it and they are screwing it up worse.

* I've decided to take another week off from weight lifting. It's like a never ending battle with my torn labrum(s). I'll always do cardio, but I keep injuring myself further with the lifting it seems like. I was doing 60 grams of protein and doing heavy lifting three days a week for about a year solid and then about six months on and off, now I'm just out to maintain.

* I'm liking this time change, it stays light longer in the afternoon which is awesome. It get's light later in the morning, but it was already dark when I was heading to work around 6:00 AM to go to the gym.

* No updates thus far on Josh Judy. He told me he was released by Louisville just before Christmas and has not been picked up by any other teams. Hopefully he can hook up with someone soon, this is the first Spring training in four years he hasn;t been with a Major League ball club.

* Hi ho hi ho

Monday

All good things must come to an end, unfortunately this includes the the things we like called weekends. So it is time to stop enjoying the weekend so much and time to stick our noses back on the grindstone for another week of work.

Yesterday's weather was absolutely beautiful, that is the kind of weather that you hope for on a weekend when you are off. Local temps actually got a little bit warmer than expected and reached the mid 70's. It's getting closer to that time when we start hitting the trails in the evening.

Today however it's back to work for both Michelle and I. I'm thinking sometime when the weather breaks we need to head out for a pic nic someplace, last year we made numerous trips to Ohiopyle and it's always been a favorite place of both of us.

Depending on how I feel later this morning, I may start lifting again this week after taking last week off and just doing cardio. I was throwing the football around a little last night with Christopher and I could really feel my labrum every time I tried to throw it. Cardio is an every day thing, I may try to switch a few things up on weightlifting again or just get back to what I was doing a couple of weeks ago.

Hi ho hi ho

Less Sleep Sunday

If you somehow forgot to set your clocks an hour ahead last night, it may be later than you think it is as we sprung forward for daylight savings time last night.

I thought my body had already made the adjustment, but then again I ended up sleeping in this morning even if we didn't turn the clocks ahead last night.

Michelle and I started out the 2013 geocaching season yesterday, I saw the nice weather out and decided to try and take advantage of it by doing a few caches. Nothing too difficult, but challenging us enough to a point where past skills had to be implemented on a couple of them. It's calling for it to be in the 60's today, might be a good outside day for anyone and everyone.

We're both up early, I'm writing my blog and Michelle is probably getting ahead of me in criminal case, we'll probably head out to the store within the next hour or so to do our grocery shopping.

Have a great day.

Saturday Morning Rambings

Here I sit once again, the first one to recover from a losing battle with the sandman in a quiet household. I've got the movie Tommy Boy playing in the background and am up collecting my thoughts for the day.

First things first, tomorrow is Less Sleep Sunday, meaning that you will need to set your clocks forward an hour before you go to bed so that you wake up at the new real time tomorrow morning. It's also calling for it to be in the 60's tomorrow, so that could very well be another sign of spring.

Last night Michelle and I traveled to Clarksburg for our Friday Night Dinner where were go out and eat. It had been a while since we had eaten at Denny's, not exactly a five star restaurant but we both tend to like it, so we took the drive down I-79.

No plans for Michelle and I this weekend as far as I know. I know last weekend she was under the weather horribly due to all the changing weather conditions associated with this time of the year. Maybe a trip to the mall sometime today to do a little bit of work clothes shopping.

Hope you have a great day today, don;t get caught sleeping in tomorrow.

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.

Once again Michelle and I really have nothing planned for this weekend. We're starting to become old fuddy duddys but spring time and weekend cookouts are just around the corner. It won't be too much longer and we'll be heading up to Ohiopyle or out geocaching on weekend days. Winter is starting to really draw to a close and we need to start making some plans.

I'm off once again today, making it a three day weekend for myself. I'll get some of our shopping done today and some of the chores before Michelle gets home. That way we are not rushed around this evening and Michelle can get a chance to come home and relax a little bit. She has earned it.

Have a Great Friday and a greater weekend.

Photo Flashback Thursday

Once a week I like to take a little bit of time out and look through all of the pictures that I have stored on my computer. I like to find one special image and reminisce a little about that last moment in time in my blog. Sometimes it's pretty easy to find that special picture, and sometimes it's not very easy, it is however always a lot of fun and a blog that I always like to write.

This weeks pic goes back almost five years. Michelle and I had taken Hayley out for her Birthday to Cheddars and then took her and her date out night out to see the movie Kung Fu Panda, and believe it or not Hayley chose the movie.

This is a picture that Hayley took of me and Michelle having dinner together that night. It was pretty early on in our relationship, we had only dated a few months at that time and were another six months from ever living together. I have always like this picture, you can see my baby is all smiles that evening.

Hi ho hi ho

Hump Day

If you look up over that noon time hump, just on the other side of a photo flashback you can see the dawn of another weekend. That's two days that we have in for the week and now it's over the hump and down the other side.

Hopefully by the time this posts, we will NOT have the foot of snow that everyone has been calling for and the temperatures will be a little too high for the snow. I know starting last October with that first large snowfall of the year, that I am done with snow for the season and am starting to get a little bit itchy for spring.

Just a reminder note to everyone, we turn our clocks forward on Sunday Morning. Meaning it will get dark a little after 7:00 PM now as the days start to get noticeably longer and warmer. Come on spring time is what I'm thinking, I'm tired of boots and Jeans and ready for shorts and sandals. I know our dog Sadie is really wanting the warmer weather as she is always wanting to go outside at this time of the year. For her that means walks on the rails to trails for a few months.

Hayley tested me yesterday and asked if she could steal the Wii. It's been sitting at least a couple of years since the last time either Michelle or I used to so we're going to let her have it. We never use it anymore, so at least this way a few girls can have a little bit of fun with it instead of it just capturing dust.

Hi ho hi ho

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Well Monday is once again in our rear view mirrors and we are staring straight down the barrel of a Tuesday, still can't think of a better reason than that to do a tidbits.

* It's been 1,817 marvelous days since me and the love of my life went out together on our first date nearly five years ago.

* It's been 1,040 days since I got down on one knee and proposed marriage.

* It's been 577 blissful days since Michelle and I exchanged our wedding vows in front of our closest friends and family.

* There are only 295 shopping days left before Christmas. It's never to early to start to shop or plan.

* In 187 days Michelle and I will once again set sail on the high seas to the Eastern Carribean. This will be our second venture off to foreign lands.

* 135 days until Jimmy Buffett, I received all the tickets in the mail yesterday. So tickets are in hand.

* In 109 Days Michelle and I will be spending a summer evening with Kenny Chesney and about 50,000 fans at Heinz Field.

* There are only 16 days left until Spring, but of course you know Mother Nature wants to throw yet another monkey wrench into my spring time celebration. Maybe I should send her a case of butter instead of chiffon margarine.

* Would you believe they are calling for another snowstorm in the area, it must be making up for last year when we really didn't get any snow during the winter. Hopefully this is the last snow of the winter and my daffodils can rise and bloom.

* Michelle and I are both still a little under the weather, hopefully this weather breaks and we both feel a little better.

* Hi ho hi ho

Back To Work

I don't know what I hate worse, Mondays or Snow? 

All good things must come to an end, unfortunately that even includes weekends that had nothing but bad weather. It's time to stick our noses back on the grindstone for the next week, and hopefully Mother Nature will be a little more cooperative next weekend.

Michelle was under the weather all weekend, it has to be less fun for her considering how many hours she sticks in at her job and then coming home to finish putting our dinner on the table every day. I would imagine that was partially a contributing factor to her illness this weekend. Maybe next weekend the weather will break and we can get a little bit of R & R. A number of new Geocaches in the area. =)

Not sure off the top of my head what is in store for me during the week ahead. I see the Farmers Almanac is calling for "4th-7th. Light snow or rain." fir the next few days, so at least the weather will be work weather where you don't mind being there as opposed to it being 80° and sunny out.

Chest and cardio today.

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday

Here I sit once again in a quiet household, Michelle is awake but I'm not sure if she is up for the day yet, and if she is I better get on my coffee duty ASAP. My wife functions the best when she has had coffee.

Yesterday's plans were a little bit sidetracked, Michelle woke up later than normal (I woke her up) not feeling that well. She had a sore throat and an upset stomach. Under the weather would be the best way to describe her condition.

Michelle's health altered our plans a little. The Mountainneer Women lost to Brittany Griner and the #1 Ranked Baylor Bears 80-49 in front of a record crowd for the women of 13,447. There were no free tickets, the men were in Kansas and this was an all-woman show. We've played the #1 team here numerous times, I've never seen a women's crown like that.

Coffee duty started, Michelle is up for the day and feeling horrible.

I stopped over to see my Brother Gary and take him some home made chicken noodle soup yesterday. He is also feeling under the weather and was home from work yesterday working on a computer. I gave him a copy of Windows XP and it seems to be working, he just needs the drivers for the ethernet card. Not sure if he got it, if not maybe I'll take a laptop and a flash drive over to give him a hand again getting this up and running.

It's going to be a day of rest, especially with all this damn white stuff on the ground. Phil delivered but Mother Nature must be wanting to be a pain in the butt.

Have a great day.

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit once again in a quiet household, being the only one other than the cats that was recovered from a losing battle with the sandman. I'm up watching a 30 on 30 special on Netflix about Millionaire athletes who were broke at the end of their careers. Looks to be pretty interesting.

It's Saturday meaning that this will be a yoga morning for me, I can feel it starting to really help a little. I need to get my flexibility back and that is a slow process and the yoga is really helping.

I think tonight Michelle and I will be going to the WVU vs #1 Ranked Baylor Women's basketball game tonight. I had this game circled as soon as the schedule came out for the year. It should be a good one and it's a gold rush night.

Have a great day.

Big Ole Hairy Friday

WEEKEND!!!!

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.

You know this is my favorite day of the week, the weeks labors are completed and it's time to relax for a few days and recharge your batteries that you call your life. It's the days that we actually have time to do what we want to do rather than what we have to do to maintain our lifestyles.

For Michelle and I not a whole lot planned this weekend, it just seems like the case during this time of the year. We are talking about going to a birthday party for Harper, the daughter of a few people Michelle works with. I'm also wanting to head to the Coliseum tomorrow night for the Women's Basketball game against Baylor. Baylor is the defending National Champions and ranked #1 lead by maybe the best womens basketball player ever to play the game in 6'8" Juwana Mann...er I mean Brittany Griner. There is not that often when a woman comes along who can Dunk a Basketball in a Division 1 Competitive game. The first woman to ever dunk was WVU's Georgeanne Wells a number of years ago, whom I think is close to my age. WVU is calling it a Gold Rush, wear your gold and come out and support Coach Carey and the girls. I think tickets are only $5.00 at the door.

I'm off today, so no work out for me today. I'll be breaking out the yoga mat tomorrow morning however and stretching my body and muscles into a number of positions it's not used to.

Have a Great Day.