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I hope everyone’s having a great Valentines Day. ^_^  I bought my wife a bunch a rose, thus ensuring my chances of getting lucky.  Woo!

This past weekend we went to visit my Dad and Step Mom for Christmas.  Yup, that’s right… Christmas.  We had a great time, ate good food and I got a new pair of gloves and a cast iron pot, which we where very excited about.  What did you do this past weekend?

So today it would seem to be my birthday.  Yay me!  I made it though another year making my official age 34.  Good grief I’m getting old… o_O  which means I’ve been doing this for 10 years or so.  I think, I’ll have to remember my earliest pic on the subject.

Now I usually go off on a tail of how I’m afraid to die and so forth, but I’ll keep that for another post for now.  Today, I’ll be all about how my day went.  I woke up this morning and my wife gave me a sleepy kiss and a happy birthday before I took off for work.  I decided to shave that morning so I look my best for the day of my birth, but that seemed to put me behind just enough for me to miss my bus.  Crap.  Oh well, I caught my back up bus and was still to work on time.  Then I decided to head on off to Starbucks to get my free birthday drink (thanks to registering my Starbucks card).  But apparently, I was supposed to get something in the mail, a coupon of sorts, so I could get said drink.  I did not receive one.  But the nice lady behind the counter gave me a free tea for my troubles.  Which works fine for me since I don’t drink coffee.

So things where looking up.  I get back to the office to set up my new Summer Time Peaches figure and I find that one of my dear friends at work bought me some presents, and that’s putting it lightly!  I got a Dracula figure from Castlevania, a Resident Evil 5 art book, Udon’s Art of Capcom 2 book and The Art of Star Wars book.  Then I was told that I’d would be taken out for lunch today.  Holy crap!  Things where TOTALLY looking up!

Then I ran out and got a free buttermilk biscuit sandwich from McDonalds. ^_^

The progressed pretty well after that.  I did work, went out to lunch with a few co-workers and then got a ride home with my family (I usually take the bus).  I got home an my kids surprised me with some homemade birthday cake and a HUGE birthday cookie too (yay!), plus homemade cards too to go with my presents.  Which where two of the Futurama movies, No More Hero’s on Wii plus a little set of Mario character figurines.  We then had Popeye’s chicken for dinner.  A new franchise opened up close buy and… well… I don’t think we’ll be going back.  Yeah, feel’n kinda gross now.  Ugh…

So over all, it was a pretty good birthday (except for the chicken).  Yup, pretty good indeed.  Now if you’ll excuse me… I’m going to go throw up.

Bye ^_^

So today it would seem to be my birthday.  Yay me!  I made it though another year making my official age 34.  Good grief I’m getting old… o_O  which means I’ve been doing this for 10 years or so.  I think, I’ll have to remember my earliest pic on the subject.

Now I usually go off on a tail of how I’m afraid to die and so forth, but I’ll keep that for another post for now.  Today, I’ll be all about how my day went.  I woke up this morning and my wife gave me a sleepy kiss and a happy birthday before I took off for work.  I decided to shave that morning so I look my best for the day of my birth, but that seemed to put me behind just enough for me to miss my bus.  Crap.  Oh well, I caught my back up bus and was still to work on time.  Then I decided to head on off to Starbucks to get my free birthday drink (thanks to registering my Starbucks card).  But apparently, I was supposed to get something in the mail, a coupon of sorts, so I could get said drink.  I did not receive one.  But the nice lady behind the counter gave me a free tea for my troubles.  Which works fine for me since I don’t drink coffee.

So things where looking up.  I get back to the office to set up my new Summer Time Peaches figure and I find that one of my dear friends at work bought me some presents, and that’s putting it lightly!  I got a Dracula figure from Castlevania, a Resident Evil 5 art book, Udon’s Art of Capcom 2 book and The Art of Star Wars book.  Then I was told that I’d would be taken out for lunch today.  Holy crap!  Things where TOTALLY looking up!

Then I ran out and got a free buttermilk biscuit sandwich from McDonalds. ^_^

The progressed pretty well after that.  I did work, went out to lunch with a few co-workers and then got a ride home with my family (I usually take the bus).  I got home an my kids surprised me with some homemade birthday cake and a HUGE birthday cookie too (yay!), plus homemade cards too to go with my presents.  Which where two of the Futurama movies, No More Hero’s on Wii plus a little set of Mario character figurines.  We then had Popeye’s chicken for dinner.  A new franchise opened up close buy and… well… I don’t think we’ll be going back.  Yeah, feel’n kinda gross now.  Ugh…

So over all, it was a pretty good birthday (except for the chicken).  Yup, pretty good indeed.  Now if you’ll excuse me… I’m going to go throw up.

Bye ^_^

So back in January my family and I went on a huge vacation to Walt Disney World.  We don’t go on many big vacations.  Usually we just do camping in the summer and just take long weekends when needed during the year, so this was a pretty big adventure for us.  But don’t worry, I took pictures to share with everyone. ^_^ Continue reading

Sorry I haven’t been around much. Christmas was crazy busy this year… I’ll make a longer post about that later.

But for right now, just a quick one to get opinions about the kinds of pics they’d like to see more or less of this new year.

Discuss!