My boss dared to yell at me ...

Recently I have felt kind of bad for screwing with my boss so I have been going a little above and beyond at work; Getting some extra projects done and taking the lead on the prep for our annual meeting that starts on Sunday. It is great because it is close enough that I can drive, but far enough that I get a hotel room. Open bar every night and 3 catered meals a day. Sure I am busy the whole time...

A good day all around.

I broke in my new grill tonight with BBQ chicken and hot dogs. Throw in some potatoes and a ‘suddenly salad’ and I was off to the races with happiness. The grill worked well, I like the new grates over my old ones and the thermometer on the outside of the lid let me know when it got up to temperature. Now I have to plan on smoking my pork butt this weekend… So many jokes about pulling my pork...So...

Am not dead yet…

But my air conditioner is…. More on that in a minute.I had a great birthday on Saturday, I took my family to a baseball game. It was the first one my boys had ever been to.  We ate hot dogs and cracker jacks, I purchased them some foam fingers, and they had fireworks after the game… it was spectacular.I love fireworks  ;)We went to a good friends house for a father’s day cookout....

I might die tonight….

So tonight I am going for a run... I have picked out a nice route that starts with a 5 minute walk to get up a nasty hill near me and then a 2 mile circuit back to my house…  It could be fun! Or I could have a massive coronary.MAN DOWN!!!I will (hopefully) update you on my status tomorrow, until then I present you with a few of my favorite things… 1) Pour 1.5 Oz over a little ice and shake...

Stripper on my deck...

Not this kind of stripper!  So I stripped the old stain off my deck and am going to put down fresh this weekend.  It was a HUGE pain in the ass but totally worth it, the deck looks SO much better. When i fell back into a chair out in the sun soaking wet and tired, i did want to smoke, but luckily I don't have any so it only lasted for a second. Now I am looking...

Let me explain my current state of happiness.

This is "Running naked through the streets" Happy...(Dont get excited Jessica I am a middle aged guy on the other side of the planet!)My twin sons started their first week of summer vacation yesterday. My wife is a teacher so she is home with them all summer. Next fall they will start kindergarten. So this will be the first year I don’t have a day care payment!! What, that...

Smokes vs Gaming

So apparently I have swapped out my smokes for some console game time. And you wondered what I was going to do with all of the free time and money I got from quitting cigarettes.I TOLD you it wouldn't be strippers.Today I loaded up the 2nd free game from Sony, Infamous. In games like this I always play the good guy. And I have to say, infamous is kind of sweet, defiantly a better version...

Somehow, last night turned into a videogame marathon for me.

Now I love video games, I have spent years of my life (seriously, add up the hours and you will get YEARS) in front of PCs and consoles playing games. But as I get older, I dont think of my self as a gamer any more. But some things don't go away I guess.... My wife had tacos ready for dinner when I got home, they were just out of the box with some hamburger but she had the good shredded...

I lost track of the days….

Well on Friday it will be 4 weeks since I threw away the last of my smokes. I stopped in the gas station on the way to work today and didn’t even think about smokes so I am definitely moving in the right direction.Secret: This is one of my favorite shows of all time.Speaking of the right direction let me tell you about some hamburgers I made last night. These were absolutely the best burgers I have...

So as one of the people that owns a PS3 but does not use it much for online gaming the Playstation network being down did not impact me very much. Basically I just watched my Netflix on the Wii and had to wait to get my LA Noire free with my preorder downloadable content… So last night when I got to log in and download two free games, AWESOME!Almost but not QUITE as awesome as this.I picked little...

15-12

Well, the votes are in and I can keep saying that I quit 3 weeks ago! Yay!HAPPY!thanks for your input  ;)As for my weekend, yesterday I took my kids to a water park. It is always fun and for the first time the boys were big enough to spend time in the wave pool. For those of you that don't go to wave pools they are super fun and a great place to people watch, ours is good for an average...

Again with the margaritas!

So my wife took me out tonight to hang with a friend of ours. We ended up at a high class Mexican place. They have some amazing food… and margaritas specials…I love you sooooo muchI ate to much again, I don’t think I ate a lot tonight, I think I was just still full from last night! We ended up sitting out on a patio drinking our drinks and one thing led to another and I found my self with a smoke...

Have you ever eaten so much that your back hurt?

 For some reason today I have been hungry non stop. I had a breakfast burrito from jack in the box for breakfast, then I got to work and found we had Dunkin Donuts so I had a sour cream donut, then a coworker brought me in a chicken biscuit from chick-fil-a. That was all by 10am, so then on lunch I ran an errand and met some coworkers at Salsaritas where I had a Steak queso burrito with chips...

Not enough sex...

So ya, I have been trying to watch Torchwood but I think if it does not pick up soon I am going to step out. It is at best a mediocre show with badly developed characters, poor story lines and unclear direction. And even the common sex scenes are off set by all the boys kissing each other.She kills him... My wife was out late at a concert last night and I had a hard time getting to sleep in bed...

My free time...

So I have been working on something in my free time...I didn't want to say anything until I proved to my self I was going to stick with it...http://how-to-tell-a-joke.blogspot.com/Let me know what you think...

Not a great night.

So yesterday after work I stopped by my neighborhood pool to meet with the head guard and a repair guy who was coming out to tell us why the pool was so cloudy. He had just got there so we had to wait for him to check some things, and while we were waiting the guard lit up a cigarette. This was my first random run in with a smoker right next to me since I quit.Smokes taste better on hot days  ;(I...

Chantix

So the medicine I have been taking to help me quit is called CHANTIX (Varenicline). CHANTIX is a non-nicotine pill. It targets nicotine receptors in the brain, attaches to them, and blocks nicotine from reaching them. The best part about it for ME was that as I was on it for 3 weeks before I quit smoking (and started this blog!) so during that time it because easer and easier to not smoke, it let...