Just for Suz

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Just for you Suz.  Although I think that number is a little low.  I dont know if there are enough five year olds on earth to take me out in a fight.  Yeah I said it, and I think it makes me somewhat cold hearted, but no amount of munchkins like Jake and his buddies I think could ever overcome the raw brute force (and lack of conscious on the subject) of an adult male.  So there you go Suz.

 

K, everyone is wondering, so here it is....

35% Geek

Created by OnePlusYou - Free Dating Site

Yeah I'm dead serious.  I dont try to fix things with my awesome mind powers or anything.  I did however know that the ship on the show Firefly is the Serenity.  I 've never watched that show, but I have seen the movie.  The movie being called Serenity of course.  So put your curiosity to ease, this just shows that a computerized quiz is no real measure of a person geekiness.  If it couldn't detect me, how could it really accurately gauge anyone else????  Then again its not like I'm one of the guys on Big Bang or anything....

For some reason it doesnt want to embed.  Oh well.  And to dork it up once and for all, here is my latest project: 

 

This is my level 80 def capped Tankadin.  And this is her evil twin sister:

 

Her name of course means Zasht the Second.  She’s a level 62 Death Knight.  She pretty much farms for me.  And now that everyone has stopped reading…..:).  Yep I know, I’m a nerd.

Crushing Peer Pressure

K, so under the weight of the two comments I’ve gotten from Nat and Suz to gay it up and pick a “hottest” guy, I just can’t take the pressure any more.  A few words on my pick though, I dont necessarily think this guy is hot.  I like his character who so happens to be a real womanizer, but for the show he’s on, I consider him to be one of the only realistic characters.  Him and Dr. Bailey.  And thus I give you McSteamy in all his glory (his real name is Eric Dane fyi).

Just as a side note, guys really arent like girls in this aspect.  I know lots of girls who can tell you what girls they think are cute and all that.  Most if not all the guys I know don’t do this with other men.  It’s just how it goes.  Now eviscerate.

Eye Candy Post

K, so Nat posted about who she thought were the hottest actors. Here are my picks:

Megan Fox- most people know her from Transformers cuz I think thats just about the only thing that she’s been in that I have ever heard of. So yeah, she’s hot.

Kate Beckinsale is who I chose as the “runner up”. She has been in tons of things like Serendipity and the Underworld movies. I have to give her some extra credit though because she’s British.

K, with the TV picks, I had a really hard time narrowing it down, so I went with a three way tie:

Yvonne Strahovski from Chuck. She plays Agent Sara Walker and is a super hot hotty. I call her Rabbit though and if you’ve watched the show you know why.

Erica Durance- she plays Lois Lane on Smallville and has annoyed me going on like 5 seasons I think. This season though, Lana is gone so they’ve been kind of hooking her and Clark up and its been very interesting to watch. Oh yeah, she’s pretty hot too.

Blake Lively- she plays Serena Van Der Woodsen on Gossip Girl, the ultimate guilty pleasure show. She’s a hottie as well.

I must admit picking the music ones was very easy. I have:

Katherine McPhee- Yeah I never watch American Idol, but I still think she’s really hot and can sing really well.

And I guess in second place, but not far behind:

Carrie Underwood. Yeah she is hot and also sings very well.

Last but not least, I picked Grace Kelly as the old school hottie. I’ve only seen her in Rear Window but she was hot despite her weird 50’s clothes. Oh yeah, and this picture is really working out for her as well.

Now for the hardest one of all. I dont know of any guy who can honestly pick a man that they might consider a hottie. I’ll go with Nat that Justin Hartley is doing well for himself, but he has nothing on this guy:

Shrek. Yeah you know you’d like to tap that.

Lazy mans tag

I am: 30. I'm really going for originality on this one.

I know: the difference between molarity and normality. (It's the second definition for molarity and the fifth for normality)

I want: I don't know, maybe a hundred billion dollars. Yeah that'd do it.

I have: the best kids ever! So suck it!

I dislike: hmm, it'd be a whole post just putting the list down. Lets go with underpants gnomes.

I miss: the college days. I'm with Nat on this one. The thing that made the college days so awesome was that we had adult-esque freedom without the burden of mortgages and other things like that. Plus college is sweet action, learning new things, meeting new people all that good stuff. It makes me wonder why they make so many TV shows about high school, when they ought to make them about college kids.

I feel: like the Idaho winter is entirely too long. I mean come on, 10 months? Whats up with that? Although it does make my job easier.

I hear: this new song that I saw on Saturday Night Live the other day. Watch this video. Its not my usual thing, so I was somewhat surprised when I found out I was really feeling it.

I smell: donuts. Its good times.

I crave: escapism. Not so much from being with Nat and the kids but from the rest of it. You work and associated crap.

I cry: infrequently. I think the last time I even came close was when Ivy was born. I get pretty emotional about the kids. Like the time that the doctor was putting stitches in Jakob's forehead, it was a good thing I didnt have a baseball bat :). Needless to say I was a bit emotional. Last weekend Brock was feeling kind of crappy and they set some fireworks off at Bonneville High and it scared him. I got a bit emotional over his fearful pleas. I kept it on the down low though. Nat likes to tease me about it.

I search: constantly for new shows to watch. I pretty much ask people what they watch, read about it on wikipedia to see if I'll like it and then download a couple episodes. Thats how we got hooked on House, Grey's and many others.

I wonder: when the world is going to end as we know it? Oh yeah, the election is in a couple weeks and we're screwed either way.

I regret: nothing I will reveal here. On a related note I pretty much try to live life without finding things to regret. That is pretty much what drove me to chase after Nat for so long. I have kids though, and there is ample to regret when trying to be a good parent.

I love: wrestling with the boys. People I work with say it is a good way to wear the kids out before bed. But I know that is impossible. Could I possibly ever have more energy than Jakob? I mean come on the kid uses a complex process of fission and fusion to power his entire body of two bites of a hot dog. That reminded me of the day I went over to the schools track and ran a mile. I was huffing and puffing the whole time and ready to kill myself. Jakob ran it with me, chattering the whole time. Yeah not only did he do it, he did it while talking. I don't even know if he got winded. Oh yeah and on an unrelated note, I love Nat too.

I care:? I....I....care? I care? I CARE! Name that movie Kar. We used to do that on my mission a lot, but with pretty heavy sarcasm. It was usually a tactic we used when someone was getting overly optimistic about something. That kind of thing happens a lot on the mission. I think some people forget that God doesn't force people to the Gospel. Now you can leave me comments on my blasphemy I guess, but I'm sticking with my original point.

I worry: occasionally. I'm the type of person to go out and try and hedge my bets on things. About the only thing you cant plan for is things like natural disasters and what not. You can do some things but you never know. I guess I worry about America ceasing to exist as it does now and things getting all post apocalyptic and stuff, like Will Smith in I am Legend. Whenever I see those movies the first thing I always think of is “How much food does he have? Is he growing more? Where is he getting clean potable water from?” Stuff like that. For some reason characters in movies always still have utilities. This has always struck me as weird because those would be like some of the first things to go. Oh yeah I also worry that my kids wont grow up to accept the Gospel. Or that they'll become jobless hippies mooching off the government when they are adults. Yeah stuff like that gets me thinking.

I remember: why people do these tags. Man so much easier than coming up with stuff especially when you realize that real life is pretty much boring. Some people don't need it though, Nat for example could probably pull a totally entertaining post out of thin air about the time she got a dryer sheet stuck to her pant leg. No offense to frequent taggers of course, its a nice break.

I dance: when the boys and I are listening to music and the overwhelming urge to bust out the robot overtakes me.

I don't: say whats on my mind as much as people think I do. I think if that were the case people would upgrade me from insensitive jerk to @$$hole.

I argue: with a lot of people a lot of the time. It's kind of my job as a member of the safety staff. Most people don't look at us as the good guys, but how is it in my best interests to let people get hurt at work?

I write: because I am compelled to do so. The stories come into my brain and I have to expel them. That sounded a lot like a possession in need of an exorcism.... (This was also a shameless plug)

I win: here and there. My dad however wins all the time. Dont ever enter a drawing with him, he's bound to win something. I think he's the luckiest man alive when it comes to that. Good thing he's LDS or he'd be cleaning out the lotteries.

I lose: my mind when working with inanimate objects. Like when I was putting the blinds up upstairs (or attempting to) when we first moved in. Yeah two hours of being angry and not even getting one up before I called my bro Mike who came over and installed the rest of them in like a half hour or something. I'm not handy. Not even in the least. Ask me how your body uses Oxygen as the terminal electron acceptor and we can really get into it hot and heavy. Ask me to change a tire and be prepared to hear profanity.

I wish: I had Supermans' powers. I mean who doesn't? I'd quit my job and start a delivery service guaranteeing really fast delivery. I mean like so fast I can turn the world backwards fast. The strength, invulnerability, super hearing, heat vision and freezing breath would also be sweet.

I listen: to this and that. I kind of miss the good old days of grunge in the 90's though. 80's music was pretty good too. There are still things here and there that pop up that I end up liking. According to my current iTunes my top five played songs are: No One's Gonna Love You by Band of Horses, Cold Shouder by ADELE, Time Won't Let Me Go by The Bravery, Realize by Colbie Caillat, and Look After You by The Fray.

I can usually be found: in the respirator trailer at work. Or the RMU.

I am scared: of cancer, high places, open spaces like the open sea or outer space, enclosed places, losing my job, having Nat divorce me or one of my children dying. You know the usual.

I need: more time to sleep. Why can't I have like twelve hours to do whatever I want on top of the usual thirteen hours a day I spend going to work, working and coming home from work. Oh yeah and throw eight hours of sleep on there, so that gives us a 33 hour day. Sweet action.

I forget: here and there. I have a pretty good memory and rarely forget things. Sometimes I play dumb though when people ask me to do things I dont want to and claim to have forgotten it. Yeah thats a lie. Good old passive aggressive tactics :).

I am happy: on like a Friday night when I am either playing WoW really later or watching shows with Nat and all the cares of the world slip away cuz I still have two days until I have to work again. I think thats what I miss most about college. There wasn't a whole lot to get all worked up about except finals.I tag: nobody. Everyone I know who blogs has already done this one!

My Evil Master Plan!!!

Two guesses what Nats doing? Thats right, she's playing WoW. Okay, I'll be honest, I promised to clean the toilets if she tried WoW out. Notice Troy being important on her lap lol. So yeah I've got a date with these bad boys now.

Interesting Blog and Unrequited Love

Honestly, I dont know what to think about this blog.... Just about everyone I know has read it and me and my wife have been discussing it amongst ourselves. I have to admit, I almost dont believe that its real. I'm not saying it couldnt happen or isnt happening, I just think it could be cleverly engineered. I have to admit, I was hooked in like two sentences. Unrequited love holds a special place in my heart considering thats how I happened to end up with this fine woman:

Yeah I know, she's hot. And I'm skinny in that pic lol. See that look on my face? Thats the look of me winning.

A brief history: I moved to Logan in 2000. Nat was one of the first people I ever saw in the city and I remember her most of all for being the ward "flocker" and her eyes. So my roomies were in love with her and thats how I got to know her. For me, it was almost cliche to like Natalie H., in fact my bro who lived in Logan called her the Notorious N.A.T. because of her reputation as a flocker. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, was in love with her. I can no doubt produce at least 20 credible witnesses to this fact. Most of them still read Nats blog.

Anyway, God Himself pretty much had to tell me that I liked her. I really, really didnt want to like Natalie H. So one day while praying she suddenly sprang to mind and God was like "YOU DO LIKE HER, SO GET USED TO IT!!!". You know, how God does that still small voice thing that shakes the earth when He's talking thing. Yeah, it's happened a few times in my life two of which were in conjunction with that hot hot woman who's picture you can still see above. So the crush began. You may have noticed, Nat is much better looking than me. This is kind of, and continues to be, intimidating to me. I've even started a club called the "Hot wife, ugly husband club". Yeah it's thriving. So I spent the better part of the next year hiding my crush. I did make the mistake however of telling one of my good friends that I liked Nat. In fact I used this friend much in the same way that the girl in the afformentioned blog uses her blog. She was pretty much the person I used to obsess over Nat. This friend told everyone though. So yeah, it was good times having all of our mutual friends know that I liked Nat. It was a cliche to like Nat remember? Everyone liked her. EVERYONE.

So Nat moved next door to me and we hung out a lot. This is how I can relate to the bloggers feeling of torture. It was torture living next to Nat. It'd be like a heroine pig shacked up in the same room as the worlds largest stash of junk and being chained to the bed. The May of 2000 was the best time of my life in ways. The couple of months that followed were the exact opposite. Long and torturous. And then Nat's missionary came home. Yeah somehow in my mind I was still hanging on to the crush knowing she had a missionary. Good thing I am an R.M. and I know how those kinds of relationships went, haha. So she went and hung out with her boyfriend for a bit and then came back to USU.

K, this has dragged on for a long time, so here's an awesome Conchords video to listen to while you take a potty break or get a drink or something. Or go check out some other blog, cuz it's gotten old.....

I remember seeing her that first time after she came back. My brain had built it up quite a bit. So naturally she hardly acknowledged my existence lol. For those who may not know, I tend to being a little obsessive when thinking about things. Thats how I can write story notes in one fell swoop. So yeah, Nat came back. And she was a changed woman. And I hated it. So I buried the crush and disappeared. We didnt hang out. I didnt see her for the whole fall semester of 2000. I even chased after another girl, but once someone is placed on the pedestal, she isnt easily removed. Anyway, things went their course with her boyfriend and they broke up cuz he's a player. All that time I still ran into mutual friends who for some reason always kept me updated on Nat's current status. It was good times.

Anyway, I heard that she had broken up with the missionary and my heart caught a glimmer of hope. We had always been good friends before. So yeah, I reappeared one day out of the blue. Her roomies questioned my motives. I didnt care. This was in November. About a month later an impossible set of circumstances occurs which I will not mention here, but the outcome is the impossible. I'm of the opinion that God will not tell you who you are going to marry. I've actually had girls tell me that God told them that we were going to get married. I always pretty much laughed in their faces. So in this instance God told me that me and Nat were going to get married. I was serious stunned and losing sleep over it. I didnt believe and laughed about it. It wasnt going to happen. It was about this time that God put the plan into effect.

I went back to Logan armed with this knowledge that I didnt believe. Nat was there working for a CPA doing tax stuff. I went home early and we were the only people in Logan at the time so we naturally spent a lot of time together. I wasnt sleeping well, this excited energy woke me up every night. It was awful. And then I would sit and stew about Nat. All night. One night I was praying and God told me I had to tell Nat how I felt about her. I wasnt going to do it. Ever. The next day I was with Nat and the perfect opportunity to make a confession appeared. I think she even asked me point blank if I was interested in someone. I sat there shocked with what I'm sure was a stupid look on my face. Well stupider than normal. I chickened out. This happened again the next day. I chickened out. The next day she was going to her sisters wedding and I knew I only had one more chance to do it. I didnt. So I did the most shameful thing ever and sent her an email confession. Yeah, really manly of me I know. I wish I still had it.

Needless to say it was the talk amongst our mutual friends for a bit until Nat came back. Nat had even called one of our friends to ask if I was lying or not. Holy cow this is turning into a wall of text.

So yeah, Nat came back. We DTR-ed and she shot me down. I walked home that night relieved, like it was all over. But God told me then and there that it had only begun. Needless to say, that was like the first domino in the chain reaction that led to June 21, 2002 when me and Nat got married. There are a lot more details I left out, but I'm sure you've already gotten bored, all two of you (one of whom is Nat) and moved on to someones elses blog.

I guess the bottom line and my point of writing this is that I married someone who I had unrequited love for for years. Yes I'm serious, it took me years to catch Nat. So if I was Cordy, I'd already confess. Seriously. Knowing what I know now, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I don't think she should move on until she knows. For real. You'll never know if good old clueless Seth could/would/should ever like you until you lay your cards out on the table. I know it sucks. Writing that email was still one of the most cowardly and difficult things I've ever done. Ever. But at the end of the day, Nat is mine. Forever. And all that effort and all the pain and suffering were worth it. And I walked through fire to get her. I sometimes feel sorry for other guys cuz they dont have as awesome a wife as I do. That'd be a whole blog in itself.

P.S. Did I mention the hotness? Look at her, she is a total babe. And yeah that wasnt really a brief history was it?

Guilty Pleasures

Okay, so as a man I'm not supposed to admit to liking things like Gossip Girl and Twilight. I wonder how many dudes have actually read Twilight.... Anyways, I was talking to Suz earlier tonight and we got on a semi-strange topic of how you picture people when you read/write about them. I'm not talking about real people, more like imaginery people. The person we talked about though was the perennial housewife favorite- Edward Cullen. K, so when I first read Twilight, this is how I pictured Edward:





Work with me here for a minute. I think it was the hair. I dont exactly remember how she described his hair except that I think it was blonde. So yeah, Ziggy was Edward when I read Twilight the first time. Speaking of Ziggy's, here is a famous Ziggy that I think this video game character was patterned after... sort of:




I hadnt really thought of this connection until I was looking for pictures of Ziggy from Xenosaga and I found one of Ziggy Stardust and this guy side by side. This reminded me of an awesome FotC's video:





So back to my the topic at hand (I'm easily distracted) when I kept reading the Twilight books, Edward kind of transformed into two people- Angry Edward played by Ed Westwick (a.k.a Chuck Bass) from my favorite guilty pleasure Gossip Girl:




Man just look at him scowl. He does the whole brooding thing pretty well on GG too. Its good times. K, the other Edward is "hot" Edward (yeah, I cringe using that terminology) which is the Edward that I know that my sister-in-law Karlenn is in love with. The one that all the fangirls swoon over. That is of course the Edward that will be portrayed in the film by Robert Pattinson as seen below:







See he's kinda got the scowl thing going on here. Not quite at the Chuck Bass level, but what can you do?

Anyway, what an incriminating post.

EPIC!

Okay, this is my paladin. You may recognize her from previous posts. Anyways, she is substantially more powerful than last time I posted. She's so epic, she's making Grimace jealous of her purples. Yeah you know what I'm talking about April and Jer!

Dont believe me? Check it out.

Thats right, so sweet I tank Kara solo.

Check this out:

(Disclaimer though, he's kind of a potty mouth)

My crumbling self esteem

So Kar nominated me for the ridiculously prestigious 'I love your blog' award! And here I had struggled with feelings of self worth until I read Nat's blog about it, and then read Kar's blog about it. K, I was going to say I was bored and somehow stumbled my way into Kar writing about this, but I wasnt really. Nat told me about it. And I'm sure that I've hurt someones feelings about saying that, well the whole feelings of self worth thing. No, I take that back, no one who reads this blog wont know that I'm being sarcastic.

So yeah, I've actually been thinking a wee bit on the topic of blogs over the past few days. I've noticed a couple of trends in blogging. People tend to blog about their hobbies, like Suz and Marci. Other people blog about day to day things, which I must admit has to be an indomitable task. If I were to blog about my day you would all be exposed to a realm of government beuracracy the likes of which you only thought existed in the DMV. So I've decided to blog today about both things.

My hobbies:

WoW So Nat put me on the schedule. Yeah, the wife ag had runneth over for the last time. So yeah, things have been going good in ye olde Azeroth. I stood there and got my butt whooped with my tank and killed many an innocent woodland creature with both my mage and warlock. Good times were had by all. 11/13/08 cometh people. I've already got the day off!

Writing. Honestly and truly I havent written much since last december. My brain had shut down for awhile and I wasnt really coming up with much. Alas, I cant leave a short story unfinished and I've got two I'm finishing up right now. So if any of you dear readers out there find you cant sleep and need something to put you down like a dog, let me know. I can send something over that can guarantee to make you fall asleep. Or wish you were dead. Or wish I was dead. Yeah that is a foreseeable outcome. On a somewhat completely unrelated side note, I succumbed to peer pressure and read the Twilight books. Yeah I had to read them all before I could decided that I hated them. Well, they arent Shakespeare or anything, but they were entertaining. Well except Jacob Black. Man I sooooooo * 10^12 wish that Edward would have taken him out and beaten the living crap out of his annoying 17 year old wolf butt. Man that kid got annoying. All of the faux confidence got so irritating. I guess it isnt faux confidence if the person believes it.... I dont know. Post me your thoughts. So yeah the series didnt do it for me really until I read Midnight Sun, her as of yet unfinished book that is basically Twilight from Edwards perspective. Needless to say, I loved that story. I think it was my inner cheeseball (you know the part of me that writes all those pointless romcom stories) that really really liked it. I dare say I liked it as much as I hate Jacob Black. Anyways.......

Watching shows with Nat (one of lifes finer pleasures might I add).

It is a joyous time of year. Network TV started again this week, so all the good stuff is coming back. I must admit, some of summer TV isnt half bad. There are two shows that immediately spring to mind for me. They are this and this. The first one is kind of weird and stupid, but its supposed to be goofy like it is. It got crappy ratings though so I'm kinda hoping that it makes it. The second one is pretty awesome, probably the best summer show I've ever seen. I guess the main chick in it was on Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken. Not a movie I've ever seen. She's got weird lips though, I guess they injected them with collagen or something. I dont know, they just look weird to me. See now arent you dying to click those links? I mean they're right there begging and pleading for you to waste two seconds of your life looking at. Go ahead, I know you want to.

So me and Nat get a big kick out of watching shows together. And we watch a goodly number of them as I detailed in an ancient post, A LONG TIME AGO. But it is still some pretty sweet action. I would suggest Mythbusters, House, How I Met Your Mother, Supernatural and of course my favorite guilty pleasure of all (which there are many we watch) Gossip Girl. Yeah I said it. I like Gossip Girl. This shouldnt come as a surprise to anyone who's ever ran into the cheesy side of my personality. Oh wait, has anyone met that side of me?

If I had to suggest the awesomest new show this season, I'm throwing out Fringe for your consideration. Kinda sci-fi-nerdy. But its some sweet action.

Anyways, Kar, this blog is for you. Get to writing those notes. I wanna see something soon. You heard it everyone, Kar is starting to write something. Feel free to bug her to DEATH about it until I get a rough draft. Actually I'd be pleased with some story notes. Either way, hop to it Kar. You're on notice.

Here's my compulsory YouTube link. Funniest. Video. Ever. P.S. You gotta listen to their dialogue after Jemaine sings the song. Laughed til i cried. For real.

So yeah. Nothing about my day to day. Maybe you'll have to get used to disappointment.

(Kinda weird, the comment thingy isnt showing up when I post it. So if you so desire to escape the bonds of blog stalking and leave me a comment, click on the blog title. And now you know, and knowing is half the battle.)

Was gonna change the name of the blog... but couldnt come up with anything.

So yeah, thought about changing it, but I didn't. Also, this is a response to the tag that my lovely sister in law Karlenn tagged me on with the pet peeves thing. I thought long and hard about what my pet peeves were and I have to admit this was infinitely more easier to nail some down than the quirks thing. I know I'm living like two years ago in blog posting time, but whatever, I'm cool with that.

I would have to say that one of my ultimate pet peeves is people who are indecisive. When I decided that this is the one that I was going to post on, I realized that having such a pet peeve means that there are lots of other pet peeves that are tied into that. They all escape me now because its late and I'm listening to Oasis' Wonderwall, a perennial classic. I know and am acquainted with many, many, MANY, people who are very indecisive. So why does this bug me so bad? I have no idea, I guess I just weigh out the pros and cons of things as quickly as possible and go for it. As mentioned in the last post though, because I am very good at lying to myself (some people call this being deluded I think) I rarely, if ever, regret making a "wrong" choice either. To me, its all in the past, so deal with whatever came of it now and move on. This seems so simple to me, but maybe it isn't. The only time I am indecisive is at work. This is because decisions I make there set precedent sometimes and thus must be considered more heavily. So it might take me like an hour or two to talk to some other people or look something up. So yeah, compared to people who cant decide what they are going to for dinner tonight and end up eating at like 10 o'clock, I think the turn around time for me on those kinds of decisions is pretty quick. There you have it, one of my ultimate pet peeves.

Quirks pointed out to me by my lovely wife... and after you read this you'll know why

K, haven't posted in forever. Under the extreme peer pressure from Suz, I had to relent many many days later and post again. Oh yeah, and everyone's been writing these really awesome blogs about quirks. All of them that I have read have been really entertaining so I decided to add to the pile... assuming anyone reads my blog again. So here goes:

1. First and foremost I would say this is one of my biggest quirks- I am so good at lying to myself. I would say 95% of my ego is made up of lies I tell to myself. For example, lets say my hair looks like crap or something and I go out in public. The minute I can't see myself in the mirror I'm like "Hey, I'm looking as equally awesome as everyone else who takes care of themself!" Yeah, its a pretty sweet deal. Like before I lost weight, I don't think I ever looked at myself and thought "wow, what a fat pig", I just reverted to my mental self image which looks something like this:

Hot aren't I? I dare say hot enough to catch a Spice Girl. The ironic thing is that I don't truly believe I'm that good looking. In fact I have had a lot of people tell me that I look like Steve Buscemi. Subtle difference.

2. Here's where we start getting into stuff that Nat had to point out to me. I am a very compartmentalist eater. What is that? Its someone who hates to have food touch other food on the same plate. Thinking about it, that is kind of weird. It works for me though. It helps in my food purist streak.

3. I put my socks on first thing every morning and rarely if ever go outside barefoot. I hate being barefoot and I hate having cold feet. I think thats where that stems from. I pretty much wear shoes from the time I get up to the time I go to bed. On weekends where I try as hard as I can to not leave the house, I'll wear socks the whole time. Ironically I hate wearing slippers.

4. I have a chronic daydreaming problem. Yep, I'm pretty much in La-La-Land like at least half the time. Which it is only possible to function as an adult because of Quirk 5. I think about all kinds of things just whatever comes to mind. I think that is where all my stories come from. I also think about shows me and Nat watch and playing WoW and what not. Needless to say I am very self entertaining with this.

5. I am quite possibly the worlds best eavesdropper. I can listen in on what people are saying while talking on the phone. I can be in a room blaring with noise and tons of people talking and zero in on any particular conversation. I actually use this skill at work all the time to gather information on activities and stuff. I'm like the gossip ninja. It really works out for me, cuz I'll be daydreaming and someone will say something to me and 9 times out of 10 I'll here them passively through eavesdropping and respond accordingly, snapping back to reality for but a brief moment.

6. I'm like the Overlord of Fact Checkers. I think it gets on peoples nerves, but dont ever throw out some random statistic in my presence. I'll be running to the computer to make sure that what you say is totally true. I realize that this makes me look like I'm trying to be a know-it-all and maybe I am, but I try to diplomatically say someone is wrong. Sometimes they arent wrong too, and then I usually say something like "You're smart, I'm stupid. You're hot, I'm ugly. People like you and they wish I was dead" or something like that. I think this one stems from my profession. Industrial Hygiene is a very broad field that covers a lot of very very different things (like laser, heat stress, ionizing radiation, volatile organic compounds, the list goes on and on) and such we IH's pick up a lot of what I like to call 'fun fact knowledge'. This is where the fact checking comes in. I think I have a predisposition to wanting to learn about all kinds of stuff, so when people tell me things I want to know if it is true. Also, when people say stupid things that I know arent true, I go and get the proof and rub it in their face. Not so diplomatically I guess.

So yeah, there you go. Yuck it up, I've definitely had a good laugh at everyone elses. By the way, Karlenn, how can you be a connoisseur of tornadoes? The definition of connoisseur is 'a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, particularly one of the fine arts, or in matters of taste'. I think you mean expert by means of fear. LOL, sorry Kar, just being jerky old me again and fact checking your usage of the word.

Hmmm, a true connoisseur would know the difference between these.... j/k Kar.

Oh yeah, the reason I titled the post like that all goes back to Quirk #1. I know I'm a weirdo, but I'm so good at lying to myself I couldnt possibly think of these things without outside help. Probably oughta work on that. Good thing I have Nat! :)

Random Stuff

Following my usual pattern of not posting very often, I'm back! Is blogging a hobby? I definitely consider it a hobby. Lots of people are doing it now too. Nat showed me a daisy chain of sorts of people in our neighborhood/ward that all have blogs. It was interesting. I also noticed that most people put a lot more time into posting and they do it much more frequently than I. So be it.

So Nat said I should get on and retaliate against her ad that she posted on her blog. What is there really to say about a woman who is nine months pregnant? There is a reason God made me a man. I would have already shot myself.

So on a theme that Suzy introduced in her blog a while back, I realized (no pun intended) that my current favorite song is "Realize" by Colbie Caillat. It's pretty cheese-tastic. In all honesty though, it is kind of the inspiring notion behind my current short story idea. Well, this one isnt going to be so short. Considering my usual "short story" ranges anywhere between a hundred and two hundred pages, this one is going to be much bigger. If only I started writing it.... well I'm not too worried, I havent even finished my notes yet. Oh yeah, here is the Youtube link to the song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdQA6mC3ZWI

Here's her first song which I hate a lot. Sounds like a really lame childrens song that was picked up and run with by a fratboy. Prepare for ear bleeding action. Dont keep any sharp objects nearby, you'll want to stab yourself once you here about oh, 30 seconds of this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PWfB4lurT4&feature=related

Dont say I didnt warn you.

So network TV has returned. We were getting by watching past episodes of Numb3rs and Medium. Both are good shows and procedurals. But alas, nothing compares to my weekly dose of The Big Bang Theory, How I met your mother, OTH, another show on CW on Monday Nights that I wont mention (lol), Bones, House, Mythbusters, Smallville, Supernatural, The Office, Gray's Anatomy, Moonlight, new Numb3rs, and some other ones that I can't think of right now. So yeah, thats a lot of shows, and we're so trendy I guess. Its good times, makes me wish we could have sweet programming all year long. Makes me wonder what shows everyone else watches. We're always looking for another good show to check out.

Nigh Uncrushable

So I haven't blogged in forever. It isn't that I haven't thought of anything to blog about, the same rant keeps coming back to me again and again. But that will probably have to happen on a later post. I have been a little busy with WoW and good old Zasht has taken leaps and bounds in getting ready for the big stuff. I am currently nigh unto uncrushable. If you don't know what that means, don't worry about it, even most WoW playing dorks don't now what it means. Basically it is the ability to either dodge, parry or block a hit by a boss that has the equivalent force of a runaway dump truck. Seems awesome? Yes, yes it is. Here are some pictures of Zasht in my new gear. The only thing I need to be uncrushable is a new shield.

I also got my new sword, the Continuum Blade, which makes me a destructive force of nature. So yeah I'm pretty stoked.

Needless to say I've been busy with my favorite little hobby. It hasnt stopped me from doing other things though. I'm back to writing another cheesy chick story, which will probably end up being my biggest work to date. Can't help it, the cheese flows.

Response to being tagged

In response to being tagged by April, here is my report:

A-Attached or Single? Attached
B-Best Friend? Nat. I don’t have any other friends who aren’t related to me.
C-Cake or Pie? Pie all the way.
D-Day of Choice? Thursday, last day of the work week.
E-Essential Item? Gonna have to go with computer, the omnimedia machine
F-Favorite Color? Probably blue. Most of my clothing is blue.
G-Gummy bears or worms? Wow, hard one. I can’t decide, I love them both.
H-Hometown? Spanish Fork Utah
I-Favorite Indulgence? Probably One Tree Hill. I guess that’s more of a guilty pleasure. Food-wise I guess it would be cherry cheesecake.
J-January or July? July. Who picks January for that and are they seeking professional guidance for it?
K-Kids? Almost 4
L-Life isn't complete without? Oxygen, the terminal electron acceptor.
M-Marriage date? June 21, 2002
N-Number of brothers and sister? 5 brothers, 2 sisters
O-Oranges or apples? Oranges
P-Phobia or fears? I’m a little claustrophobic, and I really really hate flying over large bodies of water. Oh yeah, and heights a little bit.
Q-Quote? And now you know, and knowing is half the battle! (Tell me where that comes from Karlenn)
R-Reason to smile? The stone is gone. Doesn’t matter how it got out.
S-Season of choice? Spring, but not in Idaho. Idaho doesn’t have spring.
T-Tag 3 people: Jeremy, Karlenn, and Suzy.
U-Unknown facts about me? I have a tattoo on my chest that was put there by my brother Jeff and a vengeful pencil.
V-Vegetable? Peas, no wait corn.
W-Worst habit? I’m kind of a jerk to people
X-X-ray or ultrasound? For me, and I’ve got to admit with my other pregnancies I just couldn’t decide, but I have to go with CT. All that healthy radiation is just good for me!
Y-Your favorite food? Chocolate
Z-Zodiac sign? No clue, that’s like a heathen thing right?

Yep, that was good times.

Shout out to Beej on her Kidney Stone pain and a WoW film I made

Yeah, long title right? So I was stoked to make a WoW film, even though it's like thirty seconds long and super dumb. It all stemmed from a chat I was having with some of my WoW playing co-workers about whether my tank prot pally could go into Scarlett Monastery (a reasonably difficult instance at its level) without my armor on and still kick butt. You'll have to watch the video to see how it turned out. I know, you're on pins and needles right? Well prepare yourself for some great cinema, cuz here it is!

So yeah, I also want to shout out to Beej. She had a kidney stone today and I can feel her pain. Literally, the stent they left in me still hurts! Yeah I would recommend for everyone to steer clear of kidney stones at all costs. I would say they are good times, but that would only be true if experiencing the most excruciating pain I can think of was "good". And its not. For real.

On a completely unrelated topic, welcome to the blogoshpere Jeremy. Nice to see another dude blogging, sort of. Oh yeah, here's another awesome movie of Jakob giving Troy a taste of his own medicine (Troy is a very rough and tumble kid as you will see):

My favorite part is where Troy slams Jakob back. How awesome is that? :)

Peer Pressure and wasting a whole week of PL

Nat's been pressuring me with her overwhelming peer pressure to post another blog. And here I am. So yeah, had a really "awesome" week last week. All kinds of great things happened: turned 30, was too high on pain killers to play WoW cuz the 3D motion was too much for my fragile equilibrium to handle, had my fifth child, oh wait, my fifth kidney stone, wasted 40 hours of precious precious Personal Leave from work being sick. See, awesome, right? Yeah it was. Actually it wasn't all bad. I got to watch Reaper and South Park in the hospital while I was counting down each and every ten minute increment to push the morphine button again. Yeah kidney stones hurt that bad. I was already taking two days off last week to turn 30. Leaving my 20's behind was definitely something to not be at work for. Aww my 20's, those were good days! I remember turning 20 on my mission. We went and saw an opera in Stara Zagora. It was good times. Oh look heres a picture of Stara Zagora! How convenient. I think the funniest thing about this is that if you notice in the corner of the picture it came from a website called PicturesOfBulgaria.com. Wow, someone made a website about that. Boredom. Or lots of film and free time. Someone needs to start playing WoW. Yeah, cuz I was curious I just went to that website and it didn't really have a ton of pictures. Mostly tourist stuff. Weird.

Anyway, just did a ton of web surfing for some reason and now I'm back. Troy is obsessed with my cell phone. He keeps wanting it and his excellent memory helps him remember it even after he takes naps. Kind of weird. He reaches out his hand now when he sees me so I'll give it to him. Which happens sometimes. Yeah right now he is begging for it cuz he just dropped it on the ground and I stole it from him. Kids are great that way.

So my mother-in-law Cheri posted a comment on my last blog that is somewhat related to the previous topic. You'll have to read it, its pretty messed up but reminded me of a genre of manga. It was something like a man and a woman who are both married end up having an affair and then get married later on after divorcing and their respective spouses. Now for the weird part, they both have kids and custody and their kids end up getting a little friendly with each other if you know what I mean, wink wink. Yeah creepy. Don't think I'll be writing anything like that any time soon. Oh and for any interested parties, I can send you some of my work. Don't say I didn't warn you though, its bad. And cheesy.

Well got some WoW to play. The new patch came out exciting. Check this awesome link out too. I laughed and laughed. http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/features/bard/bardclass.xml

Gotta admit, it was the axe that could "go to eleven" that really killed me.

You know what the worst part of writing a blog is? Coming up with cheeseball content to post for peoples "entertainment." So yeah. Not that I'm calling anyone's blog cheesy or anything, because they aren't. I must just be a noob at all of this.

So last night me and Nat were having a conversation about weird impossible hookups. I was thinking of an idea for another one of my cheesy romcom chicklit stories and the thought of two people who are impossibly crushing on each other but couldn't hook up for whatever reason seemed very intriguing to me. So here's what we came up with:

K, first things first, my brother Jeff would be so proud of my computer drawing skills. For real. Okay so looking at this deftly drawn diagram we notice that there are five people. The top two people are Bob and Jane. They are married as indicated clearly by the little arrows pointed at each other. I know, it was a dead giveaway. Ok, Bertha and Eunice are Bobs sisters and Jon is Janes brother. Their family had like 12 kids, all with J names. It was good times. Anyways, here's how it breaks down, Jon hooks up with Eunice after serving in the same mission with Bertha. Eunice dies and then he hooks up with Bertha. Easy right?

So you're asking yourself what could possibly be wrong with this hookup? Where do I begin?

1. First of all it's really weird for Jonny boy to even think about dating the younger sibling of his sisters husband. Yeah I'm blaming him cuz it's a guys job to chase after the women. So yeah, really weird. I don't actually know anyone who has had this happen in their family, but Nat apparently does know someone like this. Ask her, I'm sure she'll fill you in on the details.

2. Oh yeah, important detail I forgot about the Jon/Eunice or Jonice hook up. They were engaged when she kicked the bucket. That's where the next detail of weirdness comes in: dating the sister of your deceased fiancee. Yeah that's weird.

3. Finally, with the Jon/Bertha hook up or Berthon (maybe Jertha) the mere fact that they would hook up after server in the same mission is weird. To even contemplate such an incestuous thing is repulsive. Although there are three couples I can think of off the top of my head who hooked up after the mission. Chad and Val, this is a shout out to you! I guess it happens, but that doesn't make it less weird.

So yeah, thanks to this glorious homemade super descriptive diagram, you can see how this would be the perfect set up for a really cheesy chicklit romcom short story right? Yeah I know that's exactly what you guys were thinking when I was going through the weirdness huh? Yeah it's late. I'm sleep deprived.

Today was Brock was saying the word Fank again. That's how he says spank. I asked him if he wanted me to "fank" Jakob. He of course was all for the idea. So I had Jakob come over and shook his hand and said "Thanks." Brock looked at me confused. Yeah, fank means thanks too. And forked spork is the same word twice over- foke foke. Infinitely entertaining.

I realized the other day that I put a Youtube link on like every blog I've written so far. Well I think I have, so here's one for this time around:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DelJrP3P7tA

Thought this was a bit nuts the first time I saw it, but the song is really pretty. He's beating it like a dead horse now though. And because Simon was on it, I thought of another video. Don't get too far into it though, your ears will bleed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWPTqdT79Rs

Baby wings and other cheesy topics

So today is Brock's 3rd Birthday which is weird cuz I swear I was just finishing school and looking for a job and Nat was having #2. Now #2 is 3. Weird. So we had my in-laws over and Nat's sister and her husband and kids over. In the process of the festivities, Karlenn (my sister-in-law) told me how her husband Ben told their son Dylan that babies are born with angel wings. My mother-in-law corroborated the story with one of her own about how Dylan told her that babies are born with angel wings and then their parents cut them off. Got to admit I laughed good and hard about that. Ben said that Dylan will believe anything he tells him which I think would be awesome. I think after all the years my kids have spent with me (and by long I mean almost 5, cuz that's how old Jakob is) they have come to expect such trickery from their father and it just doesn't work anymore :(. Oh well, it was still the funniest thing I've heard in a long time.

The other day in my carpool I was making fun of one of my co-workers because country artists steal songs all the time and inject them with their lame "honkytonk", whatever that is. Prime example- Vertical Horizons' Gray Sky Morning. I love that song, but turning it country is a violation. So yeah, I heard this really creepy song by Taylor Swift the other day. It's called Tear Drops on My Guitar. Yeah, it has the creepiest line I've ever heard in a song- "I'll put your picture down and try to get some sleep tonight" or something like that. Kind of stalkery. So yeah, I guess it was a country song first. So I looked it up on good old Youtube and sure enough its a country song. And here's the worst part: I almost liked the country version more! Yeah, that's a serious moral dilemma for me. I hate country music A LOT. So yeah, go check out the two versions of that song and let me know what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7DRtl6CTqc Country Version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EM8OpH79z8 Human friendly version

As a related side note, it's almost shameful that I'd even blog about this, but whatever. My brothers were giving me crap over the weekend for blogging. I guess only women blog. Well, I play WoW too and that is almost generally despised so I think I can handle a little blogging. Oh yeah, did anyone else notice that Tyler Hilton was in the video? If you are a OTH fan, you'll remember this lovable tyke.

This is Brock practicing the technique we used to remove his angel wings. Yeah it really worked out. Nat says he's squealing in delight. I think he's going for the monkey's ear. You be the judge.

Dance Dance Revolution

K, so Nat already blogged about this, so go and check out her post with Jakob "tearing it up". Dance Dance is pretty awesome, lets be honest. At first I was thinking 'Wow, can this really be all that great? I mean I've played Guitar Hero and didn't really see why people thought it was so awesome, and DDR is sort of similar." Well, I was wrong. DDR is some seriously sweet action.

Check out this video of a guy dancing to Jakob's favorite DDR song "Until Forever". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTzFM0DEH1M

So yeah, we are accepting all challengers, just come on over and feel the wrath of my pregnant wife's rhythmic skills!

Ode to WoW and getting hit on by guys online

Okay so first things first, upon review of my last and only post, I didnt say I hated blogs Ms. Smith, I said that I thought they were lame. Subtle difference you see.

So I was thinking about all of the stuff that people blog about the other day, and because Nat pretty much has the kids covered I had to come up with something else...... thus enters WoW. So I was playing the other day and I was standing outside of the bank and a guy asked me if he could ask me a question. I said sure and he asked if I was a dirty girl. The following illustration may help:

So yeah, I know I'm a woman online. I get a lot of crap from the guys I work with, but it's all good. No one has to know right? Except all the people reading this.....

Needless to say, I told the kind gentleman on WoW that I'm not a dirty girl, in fact I'm a dude. He got a little weirded out. It makes me wonder why he ever made the assumption that my character in any way represents what I would look like in real life. My favorite part about old Zasht there is the eyebrows. Definitely the eyebrows. Oh yeah, and that isnt a lantern she's holding, its her super duper hammer that she uses to hit stuff. It's good times. Oh yeah, this isnt an isolated incident. I get hit on all the time while playing World of Warcraft. 15 year olds? I would have to say yes, yes there are a few who play.

It makes me wonder about peoples online personna's though. I think this gets back to blogging too. Could this blog ever be a representative sample of me? Doubt it. Do I think other peoples blogs really cut it for them? Nope. Does it matter? Probably not. I think I'm thinking about this too much.

Anyway, hi mom, hope somebody's told you that I started a blog. So here's the obligatory picture of my kids! Oh wait, this'll be funnier- me fat, and me after fifty pounds. Can you tell the difference? Baby Troy is with me in the top one, an unknown masked midget and Brock are with me on the bottom. Good Times.

Now I can be cool like everyone else who hates to email

K, I've got to admit that I think blogs are lame. Yep, really lame. I also think that most people make blog entries to try and be "funny" or at least entertaining. Hmmm, don't know what I think about that. So alas, I have jumped on the bandwagon. Now I can be "cool" and have people check my blog too... oh wait, that's never going to happen. I'll have to tell my mom, she'll check it.