This past weekend the Hodare Festival was celebrated in Niigata Japan. If you’ve never heard of this, let me bring you up to speed. It’s a fertility festival that dates back to the 17th century and done to help fertility and bring good marriage to new couples by touching a giant wooden penis. Did I not mention that yet? Sorry, guess I should have mentioned that first.
So today we broke out the BBQ for the first steaks of the season. I know that some of you BBQ all year long, but in our house it gets put away for the winter. Which is kind of good because then you really can’t wait to bring it out again when it gets nice out. Today as we where walking our Beagle we could smell others coking on their BBQ’s. It smelled so good my wife said we should bring ours out too. So once we got home I wheeled it out and cleaned her up. We where also lucky that we still had some propane left in the tank. Yup, it was a pretty good beginning of March Break… except for the damn Day Light Saving thing… I hate you so much…
I just got done watching Crazy Stupid Love with my wife. It was a pretty good movie and we both enjoyed it, but that’s not what this post is about. It’s about talking to girls.
In the movie there is this character that is one of those smooth talking guys that can easily talk to women. He could talk to any women in a room and end up with her in his bed. Amazing. I know that he’s only a character in a movie but I do know there are people out there that can do this. They are able to talk to the opposite sex with such ease and confidence that it boggles the mind. I was never the type to find it easy to talk to girls. I do remember some words that a friend of mine gave me when it comes to talking to women. He said “On a 1 to 10 scale, if you think you’re a 3, you’ll only ever get a 3.”
My wife always finds it strange that guys have such a hard time talking to women. She said that it’s all about confidence. If you walk up and are all wishy washy, you’ll never get what you want. But if you talk with total confidence, then you’ll stand a good chance at getting that lady you had your eye on.
Any smooth talkers out there with the opposite sex?
The other day I was getting rid of a few things laying around the house. One of those things was the kids Valentines Day cards. I just picked up this Tinkerbell one and my thumb just happened to fall in to the “right” place. Oh my! I love that Disney markets Tink as one a sexy little number. ^_^
I can’t stand’em. I know lots of people that do but I just can’t take them. I feel all kinds of nauseous afterwards and they scare the crap out of me (actually, that’s pretty much all canival type rides). Oh sure, they look really cool, I see people having lots of fun on them and to be honest, I wish I did like them… but I just can’t make it happen. From time to time I’ll get brave and try one out only to remember “oh yeah, that’s why I don’t like them”. I’ve even tried some large water slides. Nope, can’t do those ether. I guess it doesn’t help that I hate swimming, so really it’s my own damn fault right there. I’ve had friends tell me that it’s okay and I should just keep riding them until I’m use to it. Ugh… I think it’s the adrenalin rush that I get… or just plain fear. The only roller coaster I can do is Thunder Run at Canada’s Wonderland. It goes in the mountain and it’s pretty fun and short. Most of the people I know won’t go on it though because it’s pretty tame. Well, screw those guys! I guess I just prefer my roller coasters in tycoon form.
Do you like roller coasters or try and pressure your non coaster friends to ride them?
My son celebrated his birthday this weekend. It was lots of fun and he got some pretty cool gifts. I always find it interesting to think that, my kids are building memories at every turn. Years from now my son may remember this birthday because it was his first time bowling or because he got some cool Pokemon toys and got to go to Mc Donalds. Or he might not remember it at all. Lost in the sea of thoughts and experiences that we all store in our heads.
I’d like to think that I can remember quite a lot of my time as a kid. Not everything of course. My earliest memories are playing with my Spider-Man toy in the living room of our town house, touching the base of a hot iron and putting on finger puppet plays with my Mom. I think I was about 3 or 4. The collection of memories seems pretty good from when I was young. As I get older though I find that I can’t remember the day to day stuff as well as I used to. It’s kind of scary to think that there are events in your life that as just gone. I do suppose that something could trigger them as they’re still in your head somewhere. Never truly forgotten… just sort of lost.
How far back can you remember?
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