On our way to Okeechobee with a diaper cake in the back with Em and Doyle. :-D

Inception

I managed to get Sarah to go see Inception. I think it's a great movie, one of the best I've seen in a long while. Sarah, however, didn't like it. I don't know if it was just because the law of gravity didn't apply in the movie at times or there's something else she didn't like.

For those of you who don't know, my wife has an extremely palpable fear of anything to do with space and/or gravity shutting off.

We used to have long talks while looking at the stars, but now just looking up at the sky causes her to panic.

Don't ask me where this fear came from or why she suddenly has it now after all these years, because I have no idea.

I'm going to let her drag me to a movie that she thinks I'll hate. Chances are if she likes it, I'll like it. I'll end up liking whatever movie she takes me to see because of the mere fact that she liked it. As long as she's happy, I'm happy.

And right now... she's a bit shaken, but she's got her headphones on and she's working. Hopefully that will do what it usually does and calms her down.

Thunder's Just a Noise

I just got home from a meeting and what do I find? It's pouring rain here in Stuart.

We're on break from the tour, which is great. We spent about four days in Finland and Newfoundland for a couple days. So it's great to just sit down and watch TV with the wife and the kids.

I let Sarah turn on Pretty Little Liars so she can relax and take her mind off the storm. She's not a big fan of thunder and/or anything that's loud.

Sarah and I will be going out to dinner with her sister and some of her sister's friends tonight. Hopefully we'll get some sleep sometime soon.

Newfoundland is crazy! Awesome people though and Sarah hasn't been arrested. Yet.

It's raining on Father's Day. A great omen.

My Wife Watches Football

I'm laying in bed, watching FIFA coverage.

I never imagined that I'd be in South Africa with my beautiful wife bringing me coffee and a tray of fruit and biscuits after she turned on the soccer coverage.

Sarah has gotten so into the FIFA World Cup. I'm actually surprised at how she has jumped head-first into the pandemonium.

It didn't really surprise me when the kids got into it. Jarrod came with us on Saturday and is still here. Mason arrived yesterday.

I'm sitting in my bedroom with my angel, eating breakfast, and waiting for the first game to start. Today's matches are Netherlands v. Denmark, Japan v. Cameroon, and Italy v. Paraguay.

Sarah was on Twitter yesterday talking about how we're sort of having a competition. She said on Twitter that she was for Australia so I said that Germany was going to win. Just so you all know, I won that bet.

Now, we are starting our own little world cup. We're going to bet on who's going to win each game and whoever has the most points at the end of the FIFA World Cup wins. We were talking about betting on who's going to ultimately win, but Jarrod made the good point of, "What if none of our picks win?"

So today's choices are:

Netherlands v. Denmark
Sarah and Jarrod is for Denmark
Mason and I are for Netherlands

Japan v. Cameroon
Sarah and Jarrod are for Japan (because neither know where Cameroon is.)
Mason and I are for Cameroon

Italy v. Paraguay
Sarah and Jarrod are for Italy
Mason and I are for Paraguay

Wish Mason and I luck because I can't fathom what will happen to us if Sarah and Jarrod win this competition.

For you NFL fans, "soccer" was called football long before your sport. I'm European and proud to be a fan of the original football.

Oh, to be a cat.

Oh, to be a cat.

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Beauty and the Angel and Love

Good morning, everyone.

As I sit here on the balcony with my beautiful angel (with the lovely sound of a lawnmower going back and forth underneath us), I decided to post.

Sarah posted about our anniversary yesterday. Link.

All day we were getting the same question: Are you doing anything special for your anniversary?

Like Sarah said, anniversaries and Valentine's Day are just not something we do. It's pretty cliche but every day for us is Valentine's Day and, if you think about it, every day is an anniversary. We really don't need to set a day aside to tell each other how we feel. After this many years, we still tell each other just how much we love each other... probably every time we see each other.

I have so much admiration and love for this woman. To compress all that appreciation into one or two days a year would be a crime.

No. People, if you love your partner, you tell them every chance you get.

How do you know you'll get another chance? How do you know you'll be able to wait until your anniversary or their birthday?

Don't think that the universe won't take her/him from you. The universe doesn't care if you love them. It certainly doesn't care if you've told them or not, but you will. You will regret not telling them that you loved them for the rest of your life. It will slowly destroy you.

So, everybody, stop what you're doing and call whoever it is you love and tell them that you do.

Now that I've gotten that out of my system, I can talk to you about the Galoria Hunter series. SEB, the "Creator", has finished Nephilim, book 2 of the GH series and has jumped into Beauty and the Angel completely now.

You can find all the links you'll need to purchase your copy of Blood Red Roses, book 1, and Nephilim, book 2, over on SEB's blog. Link.

I've also been very derelict in updating the Quote of the Day and the Weekly Angel Update. I will hopefully be able to get some more free time scrounged up some time soon. Bear with me.

Dearest One

When I came over to post on the blog, I found this waiting for me...

Dearest One,

Good afternoon to you, l deem it fit to contact you today based on your profile which l saw today in my private search, when l was looking for some one who l will in-trust my future living under his/her care for a better living of mine, please bear with me.. i will really like to have a good relationship with you, and i have a special reason why i decided to contact you, I decided to contact you based on the urgency of my situation here today.

My name is Vivian Diop. l am a single lady, of 24 years old, the daughter of Late Mr. Lambert Diop, my late father was a successful business man during his day's, it is sad for me to inform you that l lost my father in a motor accident on the 14th of November, 2006. during the time he was returning from a business trip from Jackson, Michigan to Ohio (USA), Dear, after four months l lost my beloved father, his second wife killed my mother so that she and his children will inherit all what my father left for all of us.

Meanwhile after my fathers second wife poisoned my mother to death, I wanted to escape to any where l can be accepted since she's also after my own life and no where is safe for me to stay with her and his children, but she went and hid away my international passport and other valuable traveling Documents which I'm suppose to travel with. luckily for me as God have his own plans for my life, she couldn't discover where I kept my fathers file which contains important documents of his deposited money of $5,8 Million which my father used my name to deposit with one of the leading financial bank. So after then, since l have no where to run to, I decided to run to the refugee camp here, where l am today by the grace of God, presently seeking asylum under the United Nations High Commission for the Refugees and Now I am out seeking for your humble assistance for a long term business relationship between us in your Country. Which l would like you to invest my inherited money for me in any lucrative moving business in your country for my future living under your care and control.

However, l wish to stop here for now as l have no much time to explain all the details to you as l wish, but please dear, as soon as l hear from you soon showing your interest and acceptance to assist me as l really need your help to me now and l am waiting so that l shall send you my pictures and forward all vital information's to you for your confirmation to help me out.

Thanks
Yours Sincerely
Ms.Vivian.

If this is real, I'm sorry but we can't help you. If this is a scam, you should be ashamed of yourself and I hope you get what you have coming to you.

Thinking of You

Found this quote and it made me think of you. I hope you get out of that stupid meeting soon. :<>

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." - Mother Teresa

Weekly Angel Update - 5/9/10

It's that day of the week again...

Nothing really to report. Sarah had her driving test on Friday. She didn't get her license and we deemed the Nissan Frontier not suitable for the test. So, she's going back tomorrow with the Toyota Rav4.

Oh! If you keep track of the blogs, you probably heard about Sarah's knee.

Nova, the cat who's probably more famous than any of us, likes to drop roaches in our bed. Dead or alive, it doesn't matter to him. It also doesn't matter whether or not someone is in the bed. Anyway, Sarah and I were watching Craig Ferguson Thursday night when his highness decided to drop one of the disgusting insects into bed with us. We both jumped up in time to escape the massive roach, who was still very much alive. Impatient, Sarah went into the main office and got on the computer. That's where we finished watching Craig Ferguson.

When Nova finally decided to get the bug off the bed, he didn't put it very far away (right at the foot of Sarah's side of the bed). I walked around it and got into bed. Sarah, who isn't fond of anything with more than four legs and/or wings, jumped from the door to the bed, pretty much diving into bed. Somehow skin was ripped off of her left knee.

It was so sore that she couldn't bend her knee for a couple days. It's scabbed up now and should be all healed up real soon.

Hopefully next Sunday I will be telling you guys about my wife's new license. ;-)

Mother's Day

It's 12:34 A.M so I thought it was safe to say...

Happy Mother's Day to every mother out there.

I'd like to especially say Happy Mother's Day to my beautiful wife, who without none of us would be able to function. I love you so much, Angel.

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My brilliant wife just ripped some skin off of her knee by sliding onto the bed. (Sigh)

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Weekly Angel Update - 5/2/10

As some of you know, Sarah can be pretty honest on here and on the blogs. She speaks her mind and tells the truth. I just thought it would be cool to do a weekly thing (every Sunday) where I tell you about the antics of my beautiful, but sometimes hazardous, wife.

This week had been pretty uneventful. We did have a big opposum on the back porch earlier in the week.The craziness didn't start until today.

Early today, Sarah found a bee in the conference room. If you didn't know already, Sarah was stuck a few years ago by a wasp and has hated bees, wasps, and pretty much anything with wings since. She sprayed it with spray and stomped into the carpet.

With the bee dead and all that resolved, I thought it would be alright to leave Sarah to her own devices for a while. Some of the guys and I left the office.

We came back three hours later to find Sarah swarmed by the "doctors". I have no idea what's going on. I thought she had been attacked or something.

I asked her what happened and she looked at me and said, "I locked myself out."

My beautiful, yet hazardous, wife had locked herself out of the office when she went to feed the outside cats. She was outside in the well over 90 degree weather for two hours (3:00-5:00) before her mother got to the office and found her pacing the yard.

It's 12:05 A.M on Monday, May 3, 2010. The week sure ended with a bang.

Sarah waited until after she needed the camera to charge it. Gotta love her. Night/morning, everybody.

Thanks to my wife, I am a proud member of the Robot Skeleton Army.

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