Hotel Motel No More!

Thank Baby Jesus! We found a new place! I'm hesitating to call it an apartment, considering it feels like a Condo with it's HUGE living room, 2 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms, washer & dryer (in the unit), deck and keyless entry! We met our landlord last night and discussed his philosophy on renting, and within minutes we signed a lease. He was very eager to rent the place and waived the standard fees, and deposits, I was completely amazed. Jen and I are super excited to finally be moving into a place that will feel like a home.

More fun stuff and pictures to come.

TOMORROW: Choosing paint from Home Depot!!

Picture Post

As promised...


Beene and her new toy...


Harper & Beene checking out the goods...


Me and the Mama...


Happy New Year's everybody!

Happy Over Commercialized Holiday

Ya I said it. It came. It went. I'm glad. I'm not by any means a fan of the "holiday" season. Personally, I feel like "Christmas" is just an excuse for children and spoiled adults to demand gifts from their families and friends. My point of view, it's a rip off.

Maybe Christmas would mean more to me if I was uber-religious, even semi-religious. I think people have forgotten the history of Christmas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas
and have just latched onto this over commercialized version, and are now passing it off as the real deal. Sorry professional Christians, your day of celebrating the birth of baby Jesus is now just another excuse for some spoiled ass rich kid to get that motorized Escalade from Toys R Us. Greed breeds all other nasty attitudes, thus I've chosen to not celebrate Christmas. Plain and simple, I'm boycotting. I refuse to get sucked into the obligation of buying people crap A. They don't NEED and B. I can't afford. So, I've taken the guess work out of it for my people, don't get me anything. Save your money, better yet, surprise me with something later in the year. Why does it take a faux-holiday to get people to do nice things for eachother? Again, its bullshit.

... end rant...

We decided since Christmas Eve is just like any other night to us, we'd go out and get smashed. We walked along 1st Ave looking for open bars, and spent a little time in Del Rey before being served a horrible Redheaded Slut w/ Crown Royal in it, BLAH! I talked Jen into walking to Sonya's for a proper drink, and we proceeded to get all kinds of tispy drinking perfect Cosmos. Yum. After getting good and liquored up, Jen made a necessary pit stop at McDonald's while I passed out in the passenger seat. Nursing a hangover, we gave our pups some new toys to tear apart. (Pictures soon) And went to eat a non-holiday related dinner... in a bar. Haha, we rule.

Mulleady's in Magnolia has got some of the best Stella Artois I've ever had. Try it.

I'm back at work today, a little bored, but spending my time removing decorations from around our office. Getting things cleaned up, and presentable again. I've got 2 more days of work before ANOTHER 4 day weekend. I'm thoroughly looking forward to getting trashed on New Year's Eve.

I do hope everyone was safe, did what they wanted, and got a good buzz on this last weekend. If not for the true meaning of the holiday, I guess for the sheer notoriety of it.