Today will be 3 years and 11 months that Jo and I have been dating. Wow!! Only 1 more month and it will be 4 years. I really need to start getting my stuff together on "some things" ;) ...lol. No really, I just can not thank God enough for blessing me with such a wonderful girl. I have to admit I take her for granted to often and am not the warrior that I should be for her. Anyways, HAPPY "MONTHAVERSARY" JO!! I Love You!!
So, if you have not noticed I have inserted a new play list loaded with some great songs from the 80's. I love the 80's. I hope listening to it brings you as much pleasure as it brought me. ALL SMILES!! This music brings even the biggest enemies together for much happiness. It was a revolutionary time in our worlds history...I know, I know, I am weird. BUT... Long live the 80's!
Big props to the Thrashers and Falcons in being in the bottom % of there respective leagues. I have given up on the Falcons for this season...BUT BELIEVE IN BLUE LAND!! I love hockey for this purpose...any team can win... any game... and it is a long season. Support the boys in blue...Long live hockey in the south...or I will move north!!
So, another random blog has occurred again..oh well that is fine. My life is busy and that reaps busy blogs!
If you have made it this far in the blog then you are a true friend. Drop me a comment and let me know...I need the support. :)
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Another day off
Well today was yet another off day. What fun!! I got up early and headed to Savii and got fitted for a tux for Jason and Jenni's wedding. After that I wasted time... I walked around the mall for an hour and a half waiting to for Jo Lynn to get done with her class. I was going to meet her for lunch. :). So walking around the mall was fun as always...I love people watching and checking the new stuff in all the fancy stores. :(
Okay sooo...she finally got out of class and I met her and her friend Taylor for some Japanese food before I had to go and get my physical and drug test. I did not get a word in the whole time due to the oober exciting gossip that filled the conversations across the table. HA...;)
So after that wonderful international food consumption...I headed to what I thought was going to be a quick pee and cough and be on my way. UHH NO....It was ridiculous. I so responsibly arrived at this place at 1:19...thinking I was smart... and did not leave until a little after 4:00. It put me right in the middle of freakin rush hour @ Town Center. Enough Said.
So now I am chillin at Jo's Casa watching all of Jo's tivo'd programs...not...and waiting for the Thrashers to come on...hopefully she will let me watch the game. LOL
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I also recommend this website. I bought one of there Cd's and it is amazing.
BabyRockRecords.com
whats for dinner? I am hungry!!
Okay sooo...she finally got out of class and I met her and her friend Taylor for some Japanese food before I had to go and get my physical and drug test. I did not get a word in the whole time due to the oober exciting gossip that filled the conversations across the table. HA...;)
So after that wonderful international food consumption...I headed to what I thought was going to be a quick pee and cough and be on my way. UHH NO....It was ridiculous. I so responsibly arrived at this place at 1:19...thinking I was smart... and did not leave until a little after 4:00. It put me right in the middle of freakin rush hour @ Town Center. Enough Said.
So now I am chillin at Jo's Casa watching all of Jo's tivo'd programs...not...and waiting for the Thrashers to come on...hopefully she will let me watch the game. LOL
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I also recommend this website. I bought one of there Cd's and it is amazing.
BabyRockRecords.com
whats for dinner? I am hungry!!
Saturday, October 6, 2007
My trip to the Rockies in 4 days !!
Well, I have done it. I have accomplished one of the many things I have wanted to do for a while now. I drove to Colorado and experienced the Rocky Mountains and everything in between. It has taken a couple of days to sink in but I am starting to think about everything now and it is amazing.
My dad and I headed out Monday morning @ 2:00 am. We were in Northern Kentucky by sunrise. It was beautiful! The scenery of rollings hills of the eastern Appalachians into farmland at sunrise is truly beautiful!
Southern Illinois was mainly farmland. It kinda reminded me of middle Alabama. It literally was farm land and woods all the way into Saint Louis, Missouri. It was cool seeing the farm land give way to the cityscape.
St. Louis was very cool. We stopped and experienced the Gateway to the West (St. Louis Arch). This was my journey westward. As I stood on the banks of the Mississippi with the arch behind me, I had no idea what was ahead of me. My dad and I were a modern day Louis and Clark.
Middle Missouri was surprisingly "hilly" all of the way into Kansas City. Kansas itself was in fact "hilly" in the Eastern part only with less trees than Missouri. That part of Kansas is called rolling hills Kansas. It was beautiful. Topeka,Kansas marked the end of our day. A long grueling day.
We started our journey Tuesday with a typical Kansas storm. It was so cool and an awesome way to experience the eastern plains.
As we headed west we increased elevation to about 4,000 ft, but everything slowly became flat, VERY FLAT. I will not get into geographic stuff but it is awesome to think about how earth works. So Kansas is big very big. We finally reach eastern Colorado about 2:00 that day and it was incredible. It looked a lot like western Kansas but with no farm land just ranch land.
Heading into Denver we noticed a slight profile of mountains about 80 miles out. At that point the car started traveling faster. As we got closer it was crazy to see how the rolling ranch land just shoots up from the land some 10,000 ft. forming the Rockies. It is nothing like the Appalachians.
From Denver we headed north to Ft. Collins where we stayed that night. Wednesday morning my car battery was dead...more on that later
Wednesday we traveled into the Rockies as far as we could because the roads were closed due to SNOW!! But what we saw was crazy beautiful. I want to live there so bad! Then we headed toward Colorado Springs and saw the Air Force Academy which was really cool and then Garden of the Gods which was breath taking. From there we decided we were going to try to make it home by Thursday Night...lol...so we kept driving south toward Pueblo, Co and into New Mexico. Northeastern New Mexico is some of the most beautiful landscaping next to the Rockies. Flat land rising to steep plateaus and mountains. Most of the land in that part used to be Volcanic and actually has some dead volcanoes that scatter the land.
The panhandle of Texas was kinda like everything else in Middle America...big boring but amazingly awesome. The sunset was one the most beautiful ones I have seen and the stars at night were overwhelming. All that aside, we stopped in Amarillo, TX and dad had a 21 oz steak and I had an awesome burger at the place known for the 70 oz. steak. From here it was nothing but driving till Georgia.... from here everything was kind of a blur.
By Thursday we were in Oklahoma. I have never seen a big city so dead at night as Oklahoma City was...it was weird and Arkansas was kinda lame...but what would you expect from a state that produces a guy like Bill Clinton. :)
Not to mention we had the privilege of sitting in one of the worst traffic jams in Little Rocks history according to the traffic man on the radio. It was just another Atlanta rush hour to me...just another day at work. Memphis was cool...what I saw of it...I definitely want to go to the city and soak up its history.
UHHH....Northern Eastern Mississippi and North Western Alabama welcomed me home with some of the prettiest scenery of rolling Appalachian foothills. Birmingham is pretty disgusting as is I-20 into Georgia.
So now I am home and my car battery is officially fried...did you know that smoldering battery acid smells like rotten eggs? Yeah well it does. It is a miracle that we made it home. It is also a miracle that my front tire did not blow out. I woke up Friday morning and it was completely flat. I patch had worked itself loose on the trip and fortunately decided to wait till home to leak out.It is well worth the price though. The adrenaline still has not worn off. Thank you God for watching over us on this trip. We left early Monday and were home by Late Thursday...wow
I will never forget this.
My dad and I headed out Monday morning @ 2:00 am. We were in Northern Kentucky by sunrise. It was beautiful! The scenery of rollings hills of the eastern Appalachians into farmland at sunrise is truly beautiful!
Southern Illinois was mainly farmland. It kinda reminded me of middle Alabama. It literally was farm land and woods all the way into Saint Louis, Missouri. It was cool seeing the farm land give way to the cityscape.
St. Louis was very cool. We stopped and experienced the Gateway to the West (St. Louis Arch). This was my journey westward. As I stood on the banks of the Mississippi with the arch behind me, I had no idea what was ahead of me. My dad and I were a modern day Louis and Clark.
Middle Missouri was surprisingly "hilly" all of the way into Kansas City. Kansas itself was in fact "hilly" in the Eastern part only with less trees than Missouri. That part of Kansas is called rolling hills Kansas. It was beautiful. Topeka,Kansas marked the end of our day. A long grueling day.
We started our journey Tuesday with a typical Kansas storm. It was so cool and an awesome way to experience the eastern plains.
As we headed west we increased elevation to about 4,000 ft, but everything slowly became flat, VERY FLAT. I will not get into geographic stuff but it is awesome to think about how earth works. So Kansas is big very big. We finally reach eastern Colorado about 2:00 that day and it was incredible. It looked a lot like western Kansas but with no farm land just ranch land.
Heading into Denver we noticed a slight profile of mountains about 80 miles out. At that point the car started traveling faster. As we got closer it was crazy to see how the rolling ranch land just shoots up from the land some 10,000 ft. forming the Rockies. It is nothing like the Appalachians.
From Denver we headed north to Ft. Collins where we stayed that night. Wednesday morning my car battery was dead...more on that later
Wednesday we traveled into the Rockies as far as we could because the roads were closed due to SNOW!! But what we saw was crazy beautiful. I want to live there so bad! Then we headed toward Colorado Springs and saw the Air Force Academy which was really cool and then Garden of the Gods which was breath taking. From there we decided we were going to try to make it home by Thursday Night...lol...so we kept driving south toward Pueblo, Co and into New Mexico. Northeastern New Mexico is some of the most beautiful landscaping next to the Rockies. Flat land rising to steep plateaus and mountains. Most of the land in that part used to be Volcanic and actually has some dead volcanoes that scatter the land.
The panhandle of Texas was kinda like everything else in Middle America...big boring but amazingly awesome. The sunset was one the most beautiful ones I have seen and the stars at night were overwhelming. All that aside, we stopped in Amarillo, TX and dad had a 21 oz steak and I had an awesome burger at the place known for the 70 oz. steak. From here it was nothing but driving till Georgia.... from here everything was kind of a blur.
By Thursday we were in Oklahoma. I have never seen a big city so dead at night as Oklahoma City was...it was weird and Arkansas was kinda lame...but what would you expect from a state that produces a guy like Bill Clinton. :)
Not to mention we had the privilege of sitting in one of the worst traffic jams in Little Rocks history according to the traffic man on the radio. It was just another Atlanta rush hour to me...just another day at work. Memphis was cool...what I saw of it...I definitely want to go to the city and soak up its history.
UHHH....Northern Eastern Mississippi and North Western Alabama welcomed me home with some of the prettiest scenery of rolling Appalachian foothills. Birmingham is pretty disgusting as is I-20 into Georgia.
So now I am home and my car battery is officially fried...did you know that smoldering battery acid smells like rotten eggs? Yeah well it does. It is a miracle that we made it home. It is also a miracle that my front tire did not blow out. I woke up Friday morning and it was completely flat. I patch had worked itself loose on the trip and fortunately decided to wait till home to leak out.It is well worth the price though. The adrenaline still has not worn off. Thank you God for watching over us on this trip. We left early Monday and were home by Late Thursday...wow
I will never forget this.
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