Life list additions

So the new Year is right around the corner and I have the full intention to mark lots of things off my life list. Here's a small list of things I would like to do this year or in the near future(organized in no particular order);

- Join the Polar Bear Clu officially......on Jan 1, 2008
- Snowboard out west
- Pay off my credit card debt
- Get my Fiat running again
- Fly a plane
- Fly a helicopter
- Cliff dive in Mexico
- Visit Micronesia
- Visit Bangkok
- Go to Canada
- Go rafting again
- Skydive again
- Do $100,000 in sales
- Find something I actually enjoy doing
- Start to learn spanish again and speak it fluently
- Build a capbinet
- Invent something useful
- Get my scuba diving license
- Grow a beard
- Tile a floor by myself
- Finish installing crown moulding
- Sand and finish my own floors
- Be able to lift 1/2 a ton!
- find a workout routine I actually enjoy
- Take another yoga class
- Fix my truck and sell the bastard!
- Build something substantial out of wood
- Get a safe and fill it with valuable stuff (gold/silver bars)
- Collect a bag full of precious gems
- Fill a large pool with something like Skittles and dive into it naked
- Survive one life threatening situation
- Tell my family members I love them as often as possible
- Learn as much as I can from my parents
- Continue to add things to this list...

Thanks for reading. Please comment with anything you think might be beneficial to my list.

Paprika and Hammers

I know I'm not the only one. You're out there! That, "What was it I needed again?" shopper that always has a fail-safe item to help the economy keep growing.

It's that itching in the back of your mind, gnawing at your insides, compulsion to buy something. Now I'm not talking about the kind of people that buy semi-automatic weapons and a new copy of the catcher in the rye every time election year comes around. No. I'm talking about those guys who hit Home Depot for some 12/3 wiring and end up leaving with a tractor, 1 half ton of stone dust and a shipment of pavers coming to the house.

What compels us to buy crap? My compulsion? Hammers. Thank god. I decided to go around the house and round up all the hammers I've bought over the years and it came in at a total of 12. None of them are broken. Some haven't even made contact with a nail. Now I'm not talking about the Ball Pein, Cross and Straight Pein, Cross Pein Pin, Rubber, Sledge, Joiner's, Club, Power or framing hammers. What I'm talking about is the good ole' fashioned Claw.

"Who needs 12 of those?" you might say? Definitely not me, but you won't find me putting them on craigslist or e-bay either. It's an unhealthy compulsion as is my need to purchase Paprika.

If you asked me to name 5 recipes with Paprika in them I couldn't. Some day somewhere in due time I'm going to have a hammer and Paprika party. I'll invite at least 12 of my closest friends over (12+ as I'll probably own more hammers at that point) where we'll enjoy the finest of Paprika related cuisine and everyone will get a claw hammer as a parting gift.

Invites to come. Keep your eye on the mail!

15 Minute Lunch: Strap in, shut up and hold on. We're going back.

15 Minute Lunch: Strap in, shut up and hold on. We're going back.

Your Turn Doctor Jones

As I wake for another uneventful day at the grinding wheel it strikes me. I wore all my clothes to bed. Sadly, this isn't as uncommon as I'd like to hope. My back aches, my sinus' are running like crazy and I can't get that morning crap out of my eyes. I know I'm not the only person to have these feelings, but it seems like most of the people that have these complaints are much older.

Am I old for my age? I date older, but that's usually just because there's a lot less drama.....or....there's the same amount of drama, but it's the kind of drama I don't mind dealing with. (The evil you know?)

Evil....er......I know there's a nicer term for it, but this is just a stream of conciousness, so I'm going with it.


---- > So the reason for the title is because I woke up feeling like I was already behind in the game. I don't know what this game is or what the rules are, but I sure as hell am not happy being second. So.....I guess it's a

Pick yourself up by the bootstraps

kind of day. Today aint such a great day. Tomorrow will be better.....unless today was the good day, in which case tomorrow I won't be a happy camper!

My list of Things I'm not doing today...

1. Have Fun
2. Finish my blog entry with anything entertaining
3. Pick up medication I was suppsoed to get over the weekend.
4. Waiting to see what Andy has to say at http://www.fantastrophy.blogspot.com/
5. Riding in Go-karts
6. Crying naked in the closet with a bottle of Jim Beam.
7. Being productive with my time
8. Sbell cheking my entree
9. Going to fuck myself (as instructed by a coworker)
10. Fishing
11. Batting cages
12. Watching good TV
13. Making it to 20 on this list
14. Not lie to myself about making it past 14.