Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Now for a few things I thought you might want to know.

DO NOT CHECK OUT THIS WEB SITE!

Maxim's Hot 100

It has nothing but pictures of what the Maxim magazine readers think are the 100 Hottest woman in the world. This is offensive no matter how you look at it.

Now ain't this the truth?

Try this, it just might work

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!

Deer Tick Warning
I hate it when people forward bogus warnings, but this one is real, and it's important. So please send this warning to everyone you know:

If someone comes to your front door saying they are conducting a survey on deer ticks and asks you to take your clothes off and dance around with your arms up, DO NOT DO IT!

IT IS A SCAM; they only want to see you naked.

I wish I'd gotten this yesterday. I feel so stupid now
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Monday, June 12, 2006

Weekend Update

Our weekend went well and happily, there were no lettuce type incidences!

Friday night we got a hamburger for dinner and then went to the movies. We saw “Cars”. It's a very good movie and I highly recommend it for everyone.

Lightning McQueen and Sally Carrera are the stars of Pixar’s new animated movie.


The cast also includes, left to right: Sarge, Luigi, Fillmore, Guido, Mater, Red, Sheriff, Ramone, Flo and Lizzie.

After the movies, we went back to Lori's place. We watched some TV, had a couple of drinks and settled into bed for some well needed snuggling and finally got to sleep around 3:00 AM due to the fact someone couldn't sleep.

Saturday afternoon, yes afternoon, we finally got out of bed (hey, we were tired and wanted to snuggle some more) around 2:00. We went shopping for dinner and some more gin and tonic. Damn stuff just seems to disappear all on it's own for some reason.

The steak pin wheels looked good, so we got two of those. We also bought a giant sweet potato, a very large Valeda onion and some corn on the cob.


Since we were at Lori's house, she was going to cook dinner this time. Remembering the lettuce incident, I kept my mouth shut and only helped her dinner when she asked me. I sliced the onion exactly how we liked it, nice and thick so they would be a little crunchy when we ate them. Note: Lori is the perfect girl for me because she loves onions and garlic as much as I do!

Here's Lori setting up our plates.

Lori cooked everything just PERFECTLY, with just a little stirring of the onions by me. The steak pin wheels were medium rare, she prepared the sweet potato with a little butter and corn on the cob also with a little butter and a touch salt. I put pepper on the sweet potato and corn. YUMMY!!!!! I can still taste it!

It was late when we finished dinner, so we showered and went right to bed. We watched some of the Cooking Channel for a while, snuggled and then fell a sleep, but not too late. I think it was around 1:00 AM.

Sunday morning we were up just before noon, but stayed in bed and snuggled a little, just a little, because we wanted to get out of the house before her children got home. I helped her take their winter clothes down to the basement and bring up a few things that she uses during the summer. We also packed my car with some clothes she wanted to keep at my house.

You see, Lori will be staying at my house on weekends from now on. No more motels! I had a conversation with my son Brian and he’s okay with it. You see, Brian didn't like the fact I was dating, and made that perfectly clear to me. He told me he understood why I wanted to date, and wasn't mad at me for dating, but he said he thought it was too soon after the death of my wife (October 2005).

One night two weeks ago, Brian got home from work around 10:30 and I had a talk with him. I told him that Lori would be staying at our house on weekends from now on. I explained that the cost of motels had skyrocketed on Long Island now that the summer season is here. I explained how the prices had gone up from $99 to $139 a night in one place and from $79 to $125 a night in another. I told him that it was too expensive to stay in motels every weekend now. The prices surprised him (I could see in the way he looked that he had no idea it was so expensive). Guess what his response was? "Yep, ok." Then he just walked into his room to eat the food he brought home with him.

OK?! That's it?! I was expecting a negative response, I really was. But nope, he just said he was going to eat and then go to bed. I was very surprised he didn't say anything else and I'm thinking "what the fuck?!" No bitching or complaining or anything of the such like the last time we talked about her staying here. I thought he might be mad, but he didn't want to get into it, so he just went to his room and not talk about it. I just let it be.

My curiosity got the best of me in a few minutes, so I go into his room to see if he was mad or will even talk to me. We made some small talk. I asked him what he was eating, how his lizards are doing, reminded him we need to fumigate the house to get rid of ants, stuff like that. He was very pleasant and we had a nice chat.

Okay, so now I'm thinking, things are going so well, I'll bring up having Lori and her kids all over for 4th of July and that we need to open the pool and clean up outside. Guess what he said? He says, "Ok."
After talking for a few minutes, he told me he was tired. I could see that in his face. And he was going to finish eating and get to sleep. I told him good night and I love you. He replied with the same.

Now I'm surprised, shocked even. I'm thinking HOLY CRAP! Did this conversation really happen? I am so surprised it went so well. Damn, he must be used to Lori and I seeing each other now. How about that?

Sorry for getting side tracked.

After we left Lori’s place yesterday, we stopped at a diner for breakfast about 2:30. Then I took the long way to my house through the small towns on the North Fork of Long Island. I wanted to look at all the small towns, farm stands and thing like that.

When we got to my place, Lori put away her clothes, I opened the mail and then we sat down at my computer so i could download pictures from her camera. I downloaded a lot of pictures, about one-years worth. She has a very old Mac computer and can’t get the camera software to work on it for her. We spent quite a while looking at the pictures while I edited them, so I could print them out for her for an album she has. We’ll print them out next weekend.

After we were done with that, Lori wanted gyros for dinner so we went up into town and got take out of the gyros and Greek salad. We brought it back to my house where we watched a movie while we ate. After dinner, we snuggled on the couch (really just snuggled this time) watching the movie until about 10:30. We then showered and went to bed for a different kind of snuggling before we fell a sleep around 12:30.

Lori didn’t have to get up until 7:30 to go to work, but we woke up at 6:30 and snuggled before she finally got out of bed about 8:00 and got ready for work. I was awake by then, so there was no going back to sleep for me. I made a pot of coffee, some breakfast and here I am typing this post.

GOOD MORNING Y’ALL! How was your weekend?

Friday, June 9, 2006

Have a Great Weekend Y'all

I'm off to Lori's place in a few minutes. Her kids have left and aren't going to be home until Sunday. Then we are going to my place. My son will be out all day Sunday and won't be home until late Sunday night. I'll give you one guess on what we will be spending A LOT of time doing. Here's a hint.

Did you guess?