Icy day at home

Today I am surrounded by all the kids and even the Nosaj spawn. Well the wife at least took the baby with her on her little escape. So since I have so many kids to watch, I have hidden myself and am playing on the computer. What a good babysitter I am. Actually I had to upload some pics to Craigslist to try to unload some furniture. So I figured I would upload some pics here too.

I am too lazy to put the captions under each one right now. So the first is the kids playing outside yesterday. That is when the dog escaped and was gone for four hours. I love animals. Then there is proof that we still have the dog, then a shot of the baby and then one of me and the boy sporting Ovie jerseys. The last one is not implying anything. I am by no means saying that I force my wife to carry around a baby AND vacuum the damn floor. I am not saying that at all. And to all of you sexist people that think that is what that picture is all about, shame on you.

Heart Wall Pain

This could very well be my last post ever. I have what we in the medical field like to call Chest Wall Pain.

So I wake up Tuesday and my chests hurts. I go through work on Tuesday, it hurts all day. Wednesday I am home with the kids and it hurts all day. So Wednesday night I go to the hospital. Did you know that when you tell them at the hospital that you have chest pains, you don't wait in the waiting room. Awesome. So a couple of EKGs and chest Xrays later, not to mention the two stab wounds from taking blood and they send me home. Oh and six hours of hospital time for good measure. And the verdict? No heart attack, nothing. Go home faker. So here it is Friday and it still hurts. If it is not better by Monday, I will make an appointment at my doctors office. I love getting old. I was really just hoping it was gas.



On the Wednesday that I was home, before my hospital stay, I spent quality time with the kids. The first hour of quality time was at Sears Portrait Studio. It could have been twenty minutes less had one of my beautiful daughters decided to smile through the first twenty attempts at family pictures. After a quick, quiet conversation in the hall with just me and my lovely little child, the pictures went much smoother.

The next two hour joyfest was at the dentist. Two hours in a waiting room with my herd and half of the local community. I can now say that I have seen Ratatouille. Great movie. Great, great movie. So those criminals now have most of my cash. They want to put braces on one of my darling spawn. If only it could have been the non-smiler and I could have taken care of both issues and removed all her teeth, but no.

My upstairs shower leaked through the ceiling downstairs. Turned out to be a pipe got a tiny hole in it and soaked the ceiling. Couple hundred dollars later and I have a sky light of sorts. Now me and a friend are going to try to fix it. Oh the fun never stops.

On the bright side, the dog is still alive.

Boards

So my new cornhole boards are done. I still have not received them. Of course I still haven't paid for them either so I guess that is ok. Here is a picture of the beauties. Don't be jealous. I also got my cornhole 'Drain O' shirt in the mail today. Now when I beat you, I will be doing it in style.



Seriously, those are some awesome ass boards aren't they? Click on them to see a larger picture, you know you want to.

Tomorrow is filling day at the dentist. I told the oldest that the Novocaine only feels like a little bee sting. A bee that is as big as a whale and is as hot as lava. But a bee sting none the less. I am a great father.

Resolutions

One of my resolutions this year is to post to the blog more often. I was kind of slack last year, but I plan on doing better this year. Another resolution is to lose weight. That one probably won't go as well. At least I am not foolish enough to get a gym membership just because the Wii Fit said I was a lard ass (dad). I don't need a high tech toy to let me know I am a little on the bigger side.

New year, new disease. Remember the family I wrote about from New Year's Eve. I forgot to tell you they brought a present. Puking. So far one of my monsters has yakked and a couple others have the runs. And now one of the Hawkman children are also ill. Usually the Hawkmen bring the disease, not take it away. So to all the Hawkmen, I sincerely apologize for your illnesses. But really it wasn't my fault. Usually new cases break out in the evening in our house, so I can't wait to go home from work.

My finances just got a little better. Yesterday I got a call that one of the kids has a cavity to be filled, one has to get a cap on his cavity because he got the filling knocked out (when I slammed him into the soccer goalpost a couple of months ago) and the third has a cavity and needs some type of other work. Well this colossal bill just got lighter. I learned that the dentist gives the kids gas before he gives them the shot. This gas costs $75. Hell No. My son will be introduced to the world of no-gas shots this week. I told him just to imagine it is a beesting in his mouth and to learn to brush his damn teeth better. This ain't the Bank of America.

2008 Wrap Up

I just have a few stories remaining from 2008. So I will get them out of the way and we can focus on 2009 because it is a 'new day'.

On Christmas day we had the wife's family over for dinner. We went to church earlier in the day and the wife had invited the priest over for dinner. Only we didn't tell the inlaws. I wish I could have captured the shock on their faces when he rolled in the door. Imagine Nosaj on his best behavior for a couple of hours. The funniest part was when he asked them if they were from out of town because he never sees them at church. Classic.

You already saw my pictures from the National tree. I am sure you loved the one taken by granny with half our heads chopped off. Nosaj got some random person to snap his family picture. He made out a little better than me. When asked how he picked the person to take the picture, he replied that he chose someone he thought he could outrun so they wouldn't be able to make off with his camera. Nice.

On New Years Eve we had the Nosaj family, the inlaws, the Hawkmen and another family over for festivities. Let me break down the evening for the unnamed family. Roll in and attack the food like a swarm of locusts, pillage the beer like hearty sailors and have one of their kids blindside one of my Christmas trees, knocking it over and scattering broken ornaments all around. Then roll out. Not a bad appearance. However, they missed late nite Cornhole matches. To say it was cold would be a vast understatement. It was beyond fridgid. But there was too much smack talking to not play the games. So we bundled up and played for around three hours, right up until midnight. We had to take a small break for Nosaj to run home and get his boards, his kerosene heater and firepit. The heater was not a real help but you sure stayedd warm on the firepit side. After three hours we still ended up tied and that was probably best. I think Nosaj and the Hawkman were close to coming to blows with all their smack talk.
.But probably the best story of the holiday season is from the father in law. He drives for a brown delivery service. During the last month of the year he gets all kinds of goodies from people on his route. This year he got a more than generous gift from a local school, a $20 Starbucks gift card. However, when he went to use it there was only a $1.32 balance left on it. Can you imagine the inner glee of the chick personally handing him a mostly used up card, knowing she had enjoyed the rich, aroma-filled flavor of her favorite brew earlier that day - at his expense. Awesome.