Updates on Life

So it has been 9 weeks since I got in my accident. I am still doing the physical therapy thing. The PT is scraping the scar tissue in my knee and up my thigh. Wow, the pain is awesome. My shoulder still hurts and the back is still sore, tight, funky, etc. I had to have that mole removed because all the trauma made it turn black and the surgeon said Let's get that out of here! You know, I went in to visit him with certain expectations of just being looked at and him saying It looks great, have a Tootsie Pop, but I wasn't expecting to go lay down for 40 minutes of needles, cutting, snipping and yes, even cauterizing. (Is that bacon I smell?) It really was pretty crappy. But, the stitches are out now and I started trying to get a bit active. I ran outside in the beautiful fall weather. Man, I HURT! Oye. And I ran again with Jayton today. He's running nervous, you know, it's that 10k in 9 months. I hope the physical activity can loosen up my back. All the bouncing really makes the shoulder sore, but I gotta do something or go nuts.
The other fun thing was we are pretty well moved into the Sunset Heights building for church. It has been alright, but we kind of have the redheaded step-child feeling; those 2 wards have been there for decades and now we are showing up. The good news is our new building is being framed right now. Yeah! Wakefield is going to love when he is the bishop and will just have to walk out his back door. Boy, it will be so easy for him.
Chelsea had a band concert last night. She is also in the Jazz Band. She got to start their first song off (for the Halloween concert) by screaming real loud and shrill. She was good at it. Must get it from her uncle.
Can anyone tell me why they would actually vote for Obama? This is probably the 2 worst options we have ever had for President.
I think I will read the Masque of the Red Death, The Black Cat, and The Tell Tale Heart to the children, you know, for fun. Here's a picture of Edgar Allen Poe that I drew years ago.

Ohio

I had the opportunity to go to Ohio from Wednesday morning to Friday afternoon with my boss. There is a wonderful philanthropic couple out there by the name of Gib and Louella Reese who have built many buildings for the Ohio State University campus in Newark, OH and have bought and dedicated a number of bronze sculptures for the campus and throughout the town. We were outside of Columbus and I was impressed by the beauty of Licking County where were. I haven't really ever had the chance to be around gazillionaires, but they were both real cool, in fact everyone that we met and worked with were fun. The community has made a big commitment to giving back to the community and I thought how cool it would be if we could see more of that around our city. Oh well.
I stayed at the Cherry Valley Lodge. Man, it was beautiful and HUGE! My suite was bigger than the upstairs of our house! But, it was cold and my heater took forever to get it warm. I did get a chance to watch both World Series games. You know, once again being in a place that has cable TV proves to me why I don't have it here; I sat and flipped channels for hours. And there still was nothing on worth watching. I did enjoy watching Fox News, but that's probably it. So, don't try selling us a dish, cable, comcast, whatever, because I will never get off my butt!

It' Just Scoopy!

Back in oh, about April when I was shopping with Teresa, we were walking down the ice cream aisle when I saw the ice cream cone boxes. Sugar cones all the way! On the cover of the red box is that happy clown Scoopy! I pick it up and what's this?!?! A promotion for a Scoopy doll! You gotta be kidding me! You need to send in a check, or money order, and two UPC symbols and wait 6-8 weeks for delivery. Good thing the cones were on sale. Teresa wasn't happy, but who doesn't love an ice cream cone or Scoopy?! Upon further review the offer is valid until June of 2007. Crap.
Well, I sent in my check and the UPC symbols not even 2 weeks ago, expecting to get a note back saying the offer has expired, but what came in the mail yesterday! Aw whoopee! It's Scoopy! My wife said they probably have a ton of them left because who would order something so horrible?
So now we have Scoopy on the cabinet in the room. I tell my kids if they hear evil laughing in the night they know exactly where it's coming from. Man, what's better than an evil clown in the house?!

What the...?

So I was walking out to my car when I noticed something long on the driveway. Hey! It's a snake! It was over 3 feet long and was getting some sun and hanging out. I yelled for Teresa who walked out and freaked! She wanted me to stick in a bucket, but what do I grab it with? I stood on the grass looking like a moron with my leather gloves on, holding a box to trap it. Our cat, Sally, came over, rolled on the driveway for a moment or two, then notices...ooh, what's this? As she tries to sniff it, the snake gets into strike mode, hisses real loud and even shook it's tail like a rattlesnake. It was pretty weird. Teresa called animal control who promptly showed up and told us, "Aw, it's just a Blow snake. They eat mice and rats. You probably want to keep it in the yard, don't you?" Uh, no. I picked up a dead mouse this afternoon that the cat had killed, so we're OK in that area. The officer dude who picked it up with his little tong things (as it hissed at him) said he had just grabbed one that was about 4 times as big. Well, if we get one that big the cats, not the mice, will start disappearing. Wait a minute, maybe I should call him back...

Say Cheeeese

Yeah, we know which side of the family the girls get this from........their mother. Right?

Teresa's Birthday!

My lovely wife is another year older, or should I say, she's 35... again. She rocks. I made dinner for us tonight (I'm taking her out tomorrow night). The BBQed burgers were just a wee bit well done, but I kind of like the crusty-ness. Anywho, I hope she enjoyed her gifts. She made her own cake--I did offer, but she said she'd do it herself. Chantel and Skyler were over to play the Train Game (Ticket to Ride).
I quote from Pink Floyd's Time... "Shorter of breathe and one day closer to death". Just to keep it cheery!

I Was There, Too

I was actually there in the canyon, too, taking pictures and having a fun time. I thought I would put this picture on, obviously because my wife is a major babe!

Dad's Bevy of Beauties!

We made it up to the canyon to take some pictures of the Girlies, and yes, my little wife is included as a Girlie. Aren't they so beautiful. And fun!

On a sore note, at physical therapy the PT used these hard plastic torture tools, and cocoa butter, to scrape up and down my knee and thigh to break up the scar tissue. OYE! Man that hurt!!! I know, I know, Wuss.

I bought the Pumpkin Spice Kisses. I like pumpkin AND spice, so I'm diggin' them. They taste a little like a piece of pumpkin bread or something like that. Teresa will have nothing to do with them. "Just give me chocolate."