February 2007 Archives

parse it and win!

Let the rabbits wear glasses.

take a flying fuck at a rolling donut. take a flying fuck at the mooooooooooooon!

It's always an uphill climb, but the grade has become much less steep. After divorcing in 2004, hitting rock bottom and bankrupting later that year...buying a house, truck, and remarrying in 2005, 2006 was the year of getting a grasp of life again. A footing you might say. Transitioning. Struggling. Now in 2007 we have met many of our goals, we've reached the place we need to be right now. After seven years away, I am back in school studying for an MBA. Jaime is also in school, shooting for the business degree she was never allowed to pursue. Other than the house and two vehicles, we are debt-free. No revolving credit whatsoever. Despite having major health issues in 2006, those are now all under control and the bills have been paid. Even the most significant hurdle has been crossed. We both were desperate to have a child, to put the final corrective action in place. This seemed like an impossible dream, even to us. Jaime's tubes had been tied after her last child. Nothing to do but to have them untied, and that is what we did! We sought out the world's most renowned tubal reversal doctor, paid him a large sum of money (cash!), and continued down the path. We knew full well that even with this surgery, our chances were no better than 75% that we would ever conceive...and with the luck that I've had in my life I estimated those chances at near zero. Yet, three months after the surgery...we conceived. She is seven weeks along now, and everything is going just as it should be. So 2007, we're picking up speed now. We're moving with less effort. More obstacles remain, of course, but with more confidence can we face them. We must prepare for a little Lincoln, we must refinance the house, continue studies, look at other employment opportunities. These seem all so much less daunting because the foundation has already been laid. Here's hoping nothing comes along to fuck all this up!!

and she is an efficient purr factory at this very moment, churning out purr after purr for my mass consumption. It's Neekers! so, solo, i brought home a new riding lawn mower this morning. since the amount of my available fundage for the transaction was on the limited side...i purchased the grass-cutting and root-avoiding machine at the Store I Never Frequent - Sears. My previous machine had been a Craftsman, and I was not fond of it. Yet, here I go again. my unlikely decision was made when comprehending that i could save $200 by choosing the floor model machine that was on "close-out." i must admit, it's a sharp-looking contraption, bright red even. and anyway. i traversed the route to Sears, took them my receipt from the previous night's purchase, and the good ole boys brought'er on out for me and loaded it up. however, my tiny little truck was a hair and a half too small for the machine. the gait of tales would not rise and latch. back inside i go to gather some harnessing device for securing purposes. also in the bed of the truck were two 10" lenths of 2 X 12 lumber that would later serve as ramps. think ahead it did! the wench-type securing device a purchased was JUST long enough to do it's job properly. despite pulling on the secured mower with all my weight and effort (and if you've seen me lately, you know that is quite a tidy sum), the beast would not budge. this fact did not ease my sense of dread at having to drive the 30-ish miles home with several hundred pounds of steel and wood strapped into the bed of my truck with only my own ingenuity. i am happy to report that all went well on the trip home, with nary a movement from the back. upon entering my home, i promptly made my way to the facilities and removed the doody that had escaped from my bowel system and then opened a bottle of whiskey and got tanked.

only betty and bobby brown know.

I heard my baby's heartbeat for the very first time today. What an overwhelming thing that is. There are ten million things running through my head all at once...it's very difficult to tune them all out and focus on the one thing that is at the base of them all - pure joy.

i write to you tonight while laying in my bed. my strange little two-column lamp just barely on to avoid waking the sleeping lady next to me. i am able to do this because i now have a laptop computer. a really nice laptop computer, if i may be so bold. and tonight i've finally put to use the wireless router i've owned for nearly two years by setting up a wireless network here in the home. i'm able to access the internet anywhere in the house, and i'm sharing files with the old beast (ragnar computer). i hope to do so much more of this.