just half my life...

so i have smoked for more than half my life...wow - when you put it on paper like that, it really hits you...there are a gazillion reasons for me to quit...way too many to write out here...so, i have quit smoking...actually, i am in the process of quiting...i am in hour 94 right now...amy has quit as well...she is in hour 27...there are no more cigarettes in the house...all the ash trays have been dumped and cleaned...so to keep myself busy and to fill all the extra time i have on my hands (you really don't realize how much time smoking takes up) this is what i have been up to in the past 4 days...

• just baked some cookies...
• cleaned the bathroom...
• i mean CLEANED the bathroom...
• washed the 3 sets of blinds in our living room - slat by slat...
• read a 300 page book in 58 hours...those 58 hours include 24 hours at work...
• went to the dog park...
• cleaned and rearranged our bedroom...
• cleaned the kitchen every chance i got...
• took a nap today...

not smoking is why i am not at poker night tonight...i am feeling pretty good about my situation right now and where i am in this process...i don't want to do anything to sabotage myself...which is why i am home alone drinking beer...no cigarettes in the house...live too far away to go get any...

well it's not the only reason i'm not at poker night...i don't play poker...so i know that megan would see me coming from a mile away and take all my money...

kick her ass baby - we gotta pay that mortgage!!!

just last night...

before i get this one started, i have favor to ask of you...when that john wall kid gets to lexington, will somebody please pull him aside and teach him how to say 'school'? thanks...

while jeff was working on our air conditioner...

maddie stuck right by amy's side because, well, there was a weird guy IN our air conditioner...

pete did what he does best...contemplated life while being adorable...

notice the little sock on his foot? he cut the pad of his foot last weekend and has to wear a sock to keep it clean...if the little bastard would stop taking it off and running around the yard it would probably heal a lot quicker...but apparently he disagrees with mommy's logic...

and i found this picture when i was looking for something else...come on...how cute is that???

the giraffe looking dog is my brother's dog alex...

just a day at the park...

with mama in ashland doing inventory and peter with a big cut on his foot, maddie and i decided to go to the dog park...pete hasn't been able to play much this week because of his foot...and poor maddie had so much pent up energy that i thought she would explode...so we were off...i planned on bringing my camera, but of course forgot it...so i have this dramatic reenactment to share with you-

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here is maddie enjoying the beautiful weather before it started raining...

here is maddie standing on the table at the park...for whatever reason she jumps right up on this table...

once the park was safe from the birds...


it was time to go home...



she had behaved so well and protected me from the deadly birds, i let her drive...

just something my dad always said...

done it was
and done it be
wise is he who done it
let he who done it
do it no more
and let nobody know what is it

just leave it alone...

so i saw this in the store the other day...

Bud Extra

Introduced:
2005

Beer Category/Style:
High End – Specialty fruit-flavored beer.

Taste Profile:
A complex, yet well-balanced taste with notes of blackberry, raspberry and cherry. Unique flavor offers a slightly sweet and tart taste.

Ingredients/Brewing:
Brewed with barley, malt, hops, water and select cereal grains, fermented with Anheuser-Busch’s proprietary yeast strain and slowly matured at cold temperatures. When fully mature, it is then infused with a natural flavor.

just drink a wine cooler and leave beer alone...