1. If you can only hear one song for the rest of your life, what would it be?
I’d go nuts if I could only hear one song for the rest of my life.
2. What one song would you like to be played on your funeral?
“Spirit In The Sky”
3. What one song that is best to describe your feeling right now?
“All By Myself”
4. What one song would you like to hear when you’re sad and depressed?
“I’m Walking On Sunshine”
5. What one song that you wished you have written?
“If”
This weekend ended way too early. Last night after the party for two, we went to bed and promptly feel asleep. Even without the alcohol we were both dead tired from running around, dinner, get chores done before dinner, and sending the kids off. We both ended up sleeping very late and most of the morning was gone before we got around to getting ready to pick up the kids. We decided to get a lunch for two before the getting the kids and what do we find… the U.S. soccer (futbol for those of you outside the U.S.) team made it to the finals! I tried to look in on our various soccer teams, both pro and non, but this surprised me. I had forgotten that the games were going on this week. Unfortunately the U.S. team lost but only after scoring twice before the Brazil team did (U.S. even drew first blood).
The rest of the day after picking up the children and hear them complain that they had a terrible time (I know better), I went back to doing chores outside. Now that I have practically painted the house in bug spray like I did last year, I am hoping our bug problems will soon be solved (they would be solved sooner if the kids would clean up their rooms).
Yes, I live the life exciting.
I’ve done something tonight I haven’t done in a long while. No, not run around naked making people scream, I do that on a regular basis. No, we decided that the two adults in the house might imbibe a bit in the spirits tonight. Yes, imagine me going out to buy hard liquor. The last time I bought anything with more alcohol than beer of wine coolers was back in my college days. The scene at the store with me trying to remember just what I needed was a classic in befuddled conversation. The wife convinced me to fix her a concoction that she swears that I fixed her when we were dating. I don’t remember trying to get her drunk (though I have seen her a bit tipsy and it doesn’t take much). I on the other hand seem to still be able to drink people under the table. All I feel is a little more happy than I usually am and that is after a half a liter of vodka.
We’ll see how I feel in the morning.
This is shaping up to be one of those weekends you plan to have a romantic interlude and everything works out exactly the opposite. It is going to be hot and muggy this weekend so there will be no fun in the sun. Uhm, no not that kind of fun – I do have neighbors with children. No, I was talking about all sweaty and manly smelling but not manly smelling to the point of “ewwwwwwww, you stink” which is what will happen if it doesn’t get below 100°. Next the kids do not want to spend the night away from home. Yeah, any other time and they would be begging to spend the night over at a friend’s or relative’s house. And then there is the cold that I seem to be coming down with. Yeah, my romantic weekend is going to be super.
1. If you could go back in time to change one choice in your life, what would it be?
Not to go into debt.
2. What would you like your dying words to be?
Rosebud
3. If you HAD to change bodies with someone you knew for 1 year, who would it be?
Michael Douglas, oh yeah and doing Catherine Zeta Jones.
4. Choose your favorite license plate combination. What does it read?
IB84STOP
5. What fantasy world would you live in (i.e., movie, tv show, book)?< br />The one in which I am rich and have lots of women begging for me. It is called the Yoggie Show. What, you haven’t seen it?
It seems that the governor of South Carolina was not just in Argentina, but he was in Argentina with a WOMAN! OMG, a Republican with a woman. What is this world coming to? I guess he will not be running for president and will probably be ousted our of the party for doing a woman on the side instead of a guy because it is obvious that he is a homosexual because it wasn’t a guy who was the object of the affair.
Dude, I don’t care if you are having an affair, male or female. The problem is that you lied about where you were and that you were out of touch for such a long period. As long as the person you are having the affair with is over 18 it is fine by me. Now that is not saying that I support adultery, but I’m not going to prevent you from doing it. I sincerely hope that the woman you are having an affair with is like a 22-year old supermodel. The problem is not the affair, it is the betrayal of trust for your state.
UPDATE June 25, 2009 7 AM: It seems the wife knew about the affair for months. I’m not saying that knowledge is approval or compliance, but if she did approve of the affair (maybe an open marriage or such) then really I am not judgmental about the affair, just the whole being out of touch thing.
Sometimes I wonder just how some people ever get enough brain power to get elected to office. I suppose you’ve hear by now that no one seems to know the whereabouts of South Carolina’s Governor Mark Sanford. He left his office last Thursday and hasn’t been heard from since. His wife and kids do not know, the security personnel do know, even Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer does not know of his Gov. Sanford’s whereabouts. Everyone thinks he may have gone hiking, though he seem to miss Father’s Day with his family. And only the lieutenant governor seems to be worried that the man is missing. The governor of the state is the highest authority for that state and is the only person who can enact emergency powers and such in the state (yes, the lieutenant governor can act in his stead but only if it is clear that the governor himself is incapacitated). The governor also turned off his phones. And he does this frequently. I’m sorry, but the man by his taking the office is never off-duty and is required to be in contact at all times. Even I am on call whenever I not at work and I am no where near as important as he.
And this is the same guy that refused to take stimulus money and was willing to let his state go into financial ruin.
UPDATE – 06/24/2009 11 AM: It seems that he was hiking, but in another country. Gov. Mark Sanford returned today (Wednesday) from Argentina! He decided that he wanted to go somewhere exotic and didn’t tell his wife, his family, his aides, his security personnel, and the lieutenant governor! If I was his wife he would have a lot “splaining” to do and may find himself sleeping in the dog house. If I were the voters in South Carolina I’d be asking for a new governor.
If you haven’t heard by now, there some deaths over the weekend in Iran during some of the protest over the elections results. The Iranian state run media confirmed 17 deaths at last count. It is not the number of people that has the world in an uproar but the death of one woman being called Neda (though that may not be her name – Neda means "the voice" in Farsi) who was a watching the protest and whom did not seem to be actually involved in the activities. The video of her death (warning video is very graphic to the point that YouTube requires age verification) has been circulating social and web sites. According to reports, the woman was shot by a Basij sniper stationed on a rooftop of a house in front of her father. The validity of the video and report has not been confirmed and some are skeptic of the video’s footage. Other videos are surfacing of attacks by government-supported forces feeding to the fire to the outrage of Iran’s handling of the protests.
If the reports and video of “Neda’s” death are true, I feel sorrow for her father and her family and hope that someday the persons responsible will have to answer for the senseless crime.
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