Movie Night

Well, Illinois weather kicked us in the butt again. We're getting hit with a pretty bad storm, so Steph and I stayed in tonight and watched a couple movies. The Prestige, which is based on a book I read a couple weeks ago, was fantastic. The other movie we watched was Thanks for Smoking. That was alright, but nothing to rave about. We also have An Inconvenient Truth, but we'll likely watch that later. Steph, the first shifter, can't stay up all night like some of us....

Dodge Loves Crackdown!

I recently bought this awesome new game for the Xbox 360 called Crackdown. I won't go into specifics, but basically you're a genetically engineered superhero running through this open city, fighting against organized crime. The first day I played, I ran across this billboard! It seems DaimlerChrysler's marketing department decided to advertise the car I build, the Dodge Caliber, in this game! You can also see billboards for the Dodge Nitro. I just thought that was cool.

Insomnia

God, I can't sleep. This happens to me about once or twice a week. I'm tired at work, tired on the way home, tired when I get home, then about 8:30, I wake right up. I gradually get tired again, but by that time it's about 11:00 and way too late for me to be going to bed. Steph usually wakes me up at 6:00, so I get less than 7 hours of sleep. That may be enough for some of you, hell for some of you that may be a lot of sleep, but for me, that's a disaster. I really need a lot of sleep in order to function.

I'm going to try to go to bed. Wish me luck.

Nap Time!

We don't let the cats sleep with us. That would be total madness. Since Steph and I work different shifts and are sleeping at different times, the bedroom is really only open for about 3 hours a day. As soon as Steph opens the door to get me up, at least two of the cats immediately get on the bed and go to sleep. This is typically enough to get me out of bed. We used to keep the bedroom open when we slept, but Punkin doesn't seem to understand that when I'm sleeping, I really don't want to pet him/play with him. Pretty annoying at 3 in the morning.

Yuck!

This awesome birthday card arrived to me today from my family in California. My nephew, Noah (that's him in the picture), drew this portrait of me! The caption needs some explaining.

A couple years ago, when Kathie and Noah came to visit from CA, Noah was felling a little under the weather. He had a seriously runny nose, and when I was holding him on the way out of the airport, I basically looked at him and said "Yuck!" He thought that was the funniest thing he had ever heard. All through their visit he and I would go back and forth with "Yeeeeeuck!" Fast forward another year, Kathie and Noah are here for another visit. Now understand, Noah is just a toddler, which makes this story much more awesome. As soon as Kathie and Noah came down the stairs into luggage claim, he looked at me, his face lit up with an amazing smile, and he said, "Yeeeeeeuck!" I'll never forget that as long as I live. It was great.

Mmmm..... sausage

I've just realized how much freakin food I post on this blog. There's a few reasons for that. One, food is good. I like food. It's tasty. Two, when it's too cold to even think about going outside, the last thing I want to do is take pictures there. Three, I'M RUNNING OUT OF THINGS IN MY HOUSE TO SHOOT!!! I'm not kidding. It's getting out of hand. I really can't wait until the weather starts to change again so I can actually go somewhere to shoot some pictures. This winter thing is getting a bit old.

Recharging

It's funny how small electronics have slowly integrated themselves into our lives. Even Stephanie, who is a self-proclaimed "tech-hater", has an iPod and a cell phone! You never know how much you "need" something until it's been invented and you own one. For example, before iPod, I carried around a massive CD binder, filled with about 80 discs. Now, I carry this little white and chrome device that not only has those 80 discs on it, but can also potentially hold another 250! It's really amazing. I'm to the point now where I couldn't imagine not having an iPod. Apple's marketing department would love hearing that. The best part about the majority of these devices is the rechargable batteries! Can you imagine how many AAAs we'd burn through if the iPod didn't recharge? Sheesh....