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.