The holidays are in full blast

For starters, Jewel did score the coveted special gift when she went out on Friday morning.
Friday I had to work, so didn't go with her. I bowled for shit and played Mr. Mom all week-end while she worked. It was a completely new experience for me. I'm the one that usually worked weekends, so I din;t have to put up with the little shits.

I went to a party Friday night after bowling at my oldest brother's house to kick off the holiday season. It was a mellow little event....until my side of the family showed up. We all met at the bowling alley and drove there in a caravan. Once we arrived, all hell broke loose. We were loud and rowdy and the conversation soon turned to midgets. Turns out my step-niece was trying in vain to find little people to serve at her wedding, this sent my youngest brother over the edge. He couldn't stop talking about midgets all night. Of course neither could the other 9 of us in the family. I guess I now see why we were quickly pushed into the 4 season room while the "guests" were in the dining room.
I am now actively seeking a midget to come to my sister's house the day before Christmas Eve so they can hand out presents for us. I'm not sure if I'll have any success, but it will be hilarious, regardless the cost!

On the final note, work is progressing well, I'm enjoying time off and the ability to "leave it at the office".

This must be a week of firsts!

WTF?!?!?!?!
I spent Wednesday night (Thursday morning) outside of a fucking K-Mart looking for the hardest fucking toy there is to find this year.
Jewel and I decided, what the hell, let's give the kids a great Chrsitmas since we may not have funds to do so again for awhile.
****I must be vague here, as the oldest one may very well know this URL and could be one of those lurkers you always hear about. No, I don't mean the type of lurker who turns out to be a faegala, just a lurker trying to figure out what he's getting for Christmas.*****
Ok, now that I've satisfied the legal department with the disclaimer, on with the story. So we decide last night to get one or maybe both of the kids the Mother of all gifts. Only problem is that it is nowhere man.... nowhere man please listen you don't know what you're missing.....(fucking dyslexia) so we decide to pursue it last night to no avail. The dude at Kmart does tell us that it is available on Thanksgiving and they will be open. SWEET! Or so I thought, I figgered we'd walz back in around 7:00 when they opened plunk down our cash in a scarcely populated store and we'd be done. Nope, doesn't work that way my friends. So, Jewel convinces me we need to be at K-Mart at 3:00am to wait outside for the fucking thing, but I convince her we'll awake at 3:00 and get there at 4:00. Ok, cool we arrive there at 4:00 sit outside until 6:00 and the store manager comes up and asks the rather large crowd what we're wating for and then announces they only had 8 of our gifts and everyone else is fucked. Ok, so I'm paraphrasing. Turns out we were #10 and Jewel was right....Motherfucker! I hate when she wins.
So the darling wife is out right now hoping to score for tomorrow, but at least this is a 24 hour Meijer with indoor waiting. I would go with but I have to work tomorrow.
God speed Jewel!

I done went to a Country and Western concert

Well.....sort of.
Garth Brooks did this 9 night engagement in Kansas City, MO. and I was there. Well.....wort of. He also set up this deal with fathomevents where the last concert played live in theatres across the country. It was $10 to get in and it really rocked. Well, not rocked, I guess the term would be shit-kicked. Onviously being on a 50ft screen (or however big they are) with cameras all over, the view kicked ass, better than front row. They showed audience shots and all them there country chicks were hotter than hell! We're talking hotties of all varieties, many of them sitting stage side with these blank stares just looking at Garth like they could eat him. The dude ain't that good looking, hell he looks kind of like me, except he has a cowboy hat, wrangler jeans and millions of dollars. Bastard. I imagined it was me they were gazing upon, and I made mental notations for later use. Jewel doesn't know how much she should be thanking those girls!

Anyway, the show was good. I was afraid that I wouldn't know any songs but he did all old shit and I ended up only not knowing 3 of them. Sure some of them I knew better than others, but it was a great show.

I would definitely do that again!! As a matter of fact it may be the only way I would go to a concert again!