Man the US military is getting sneaky...*slaps head*

Iraqi fisherman nets shark 160 miles from sea - Yahoo! News



Evidently the US military is having so much trouble with Iraqi Insurgents that we are resorting to subtle, secret, and frankly idiot measures. As can be read in that article link, sharks have been found in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers 160 miles from the sea. And the Iraqi public have, in their sheeplike adherence to insurgency propaganda, blamed the US, sayiing we must have put them there, stating "Our children always swim
in the river and I believe that there are more sharks. I
believe that America is behind this matter..."

Oh yeah! Wait til we sick the Jellyfish Commando's on 'em! That'll show them there insurgents! Good grief.

How do we expect to ever win or make headway in the Middle East with this opinion of the US that we have to overcome...

*throws hands up in frustration*

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The definition of ANTICIPATION

Oh my gosh.

Kelly and I are getting ready for our weekend out of town, and are going absolutely crazy with anticipation. It will only be the second time we have gotten to get away overnight without the children. The first time was only last year, and was only for one night. This year we're taking the whole weekend, leaving Friday morning and not coming home until we HAVE to Sunday night.

An entire weekend of just us. No TV, no computers, no cell phones, no KIDS.

Needless to say, we are looking forward to a VERY QUIET and ROMANTIC weekend...

Kelly has been developing her "battle plan" as I call it for months now. I have been kept completely in the dark about it, and she apparently has several surprises in store for me... I am all giddy with, yet again...anticipation. The girl has been sewing something or some things for weeks now in the evenings and has been keeping that a secret as well. So all in all, I am expecting a weekend filled with surprises and fun!

To heighten our, yeah, anticipation, we have been, um, "restraining" ourselves for the last few weeks... increasingly teasing each other but never letting it go past a certain point, to drive each other crazy. And let me tell ya. IT'S WORKING. For both of us. We are both doing such a good job of it that, well, let's just say we are as giddy as high schoolers again. Though it's driving us both crazy, we did the same thing last year when we went out of town, and it turned out to have had definite positive benefits in our time together, if ya know what I am saying! *nudge* *nudge* *wink* *wink*

Let me tell you, if any of you out there - any of my married-with-kids friends out there - ever plan on a romantic weekend out of town away from the kids... trust me, display a little restraint for a while before your trip, and you'll enjoy your weekend more than you think. It'll be like your honeymoon all over again!

I know some of you out there are probably saying, "Geez, Sean, you're a Christian. I didn't know Christians talked so openly about this stuff!" LOL... Well, God created everything, and blessed us with countless things in our lives. Marriage, and the intimacy between a husband and wife, and everything that goes with that, are sacred institutions... and ones that are to be ENJOYED, not ENDURED.

So deal with it. I love my wife. And EVERYTHING that goes with her.

Is that what they're calling it these days...

So, Sean and I are preparing for our trip next weekend... our long-awaited, quiet, romantic trip in the mountains at a spa cabin. We have been away from the boys overnight only once. It was last year and it was for only one night. This year the boys are a year older and I'm a year bolder. I've been giving the boys little reminders, plans, tips, etc. Luke, age 8 and Mitch, age 6 were in the bath tub tonight. As I'm bathing Mitch I thought it would be a good opportunity to give Luke some instructions for while we're gone.

"Luke, while Daddy and I are gone next weekend, I want you to take your bath with Mitch so you can help him. You need to wash his hair and make sure he bathes. OK?"

"OK, Mom."

"It's just two nights, Friday and Saturday."

"Can you bring us back something like you did last time?"

"You know Luke, probably not. Last time we did a little bit of shopping on the way home. This year we're just gonna be chilling out at our cabin. You know, relaxing in the peace and quiet."

"Yeah, I know what you mean by chilling out.... Kissing."

I heard Sean bust out laughing out in the hallway after having obviously overhead our conversation. He stuck his head around the corner and said, "Naw. Mommy doesn't like it when I kiss her. We'll probably just do some hiking in the woods or something."

Luke, who has caught us in some "compromising positions in the middle of the night" just laughed.

Fall Break 2007 - Hard Labor Creek State Park & Stone Mountain

Well, a good time was had by all. This is the kind of "camping" I can handle...Camping in a cabin... with a bed... guess I am getting too old for the tent/sleeping bag thing except on rare occasions...LOL.. Hard Labor Creek State Park is a pretty place... a couple of lakes to fish or boat on, and a nice creek winding through, with some rocky/waterfall like areas and then just wooded spots. In fact if you look at the pics there was one section of the forest that seemed to have a carpet of clover or something... it was like it muted all sound and it was very quiet... I felt like we were the Fellowship of the Ring running through Lothlorien...LOL

Anyway, we got some pretty good pics of the boys and the surroundings, including a few from Stone Mountain Park when we made a day excursion over there on Sunday....

Sorry for the time between posts, but dang it gets so hard to keep up with this thing when you got so much else going on...LOL

Geez... haven't blogged in almost a month...

...and that's including the How to Speak Southern posts... if you don't count them (and I don't know if I would really count them as real posts myself), then it has been over a month I believe.

BUSY.

Kinda hard to get motivated to blog when you are working till 11pm... 12am... even 1 am almost every stinking night writing reports, catching up on old notes and paperwork, writing recommendations for court cases, etc. I am pretty exhausted to tell you the truth. Being busy is not a bad problem to have, so I am not complaining about the work... just the lack of time to get it done in...


I'm trying to think of some of the stuff that has been going on lately...

Luke's football season is going about as well as I expected... An 8-year-old league with a team made up almost completely by boys that have never played organized football before? Record: 0-3-1... LOL... Luke is doing fairly well. They have him playing Offensive Right Guard. He knows how to block pretty well (which is why they put him there even though I think he is better suited for a defensive position), but ONLY when he has a defensive guy right in front of him to block. If the defensive line is playing the gaps, or a 4-3 type scheme where Luke doesn't have a guy immediately in front of him, he has yet to learn exactly what to do. He typically just charges off the line looking for anyone to block... a defensive lineman his teammates missed, a linebacker, a safety, a referee... I have got to get him to learn to maintain his position and scheme block depending on the play. They are playing him both sides of the ball most of the time and he's fast enough to ALMOST catch some of these little fast running backs... but I just can't get him to be aggressive enough... Instead of charging off the line he kind of stands up and allows himself to be pushed backwards by the offensive lineman... or allows himself to stay tangled up with the blocker instead of fighting him off... shoulder slash, swim move, windmill, anything... I have showed them to him but haven't gotten him to use them in game yet. Still, I think he is doing well considering. He wants to go to football camp next year, so I expect we'll see improvement next year...

Kelly and I are gradually getting geared up for our romantic getaway weekend! It is now only 4 weeks away, and we are starting to get a bit giddy. My parents are already on the slate to watch the boys for the weekend. I am a bit concerned because Mitch has grown into a "scared of the dark/ be lone in room at night" thing, so he is up a lot and in our bed lately. My plan is to set up a camping out thing for the three boys in one of their rooms for the weekend with the 20 inch TV and DVD player with a bunch of new DVDs they have not seen... Hopefully that will minimize the inconvenience for my parents at night. But anyway, Kelly is all busy making all kinds of plans, including food, um... "clothing", and the atmosphere... I am supposed to help with the ambiance and atmosphere as well as activities we can do during the day and evenings when we are... um... how should I say this?.... too tired to do anything else... The problem I have is I just have a hard time with thinking about stuff like that... Gotta get started... gotta make sure my plans have nothing to do with TV or football...reminder... no TV or football. That would be bad. Like Ghostbuster's Crossing the Streams Bad....LOL

We're going camping again next weekend again with the boys for Fall Break. They are all excited, as are we... To be honest, though, I have been so busy I have not been involved in any of the planning other than picking the days I am taking off for it... we're going somewhere northeast of Atlanta... will have pictures eventually...

What little time I have carved out for myself to recharge lately (which usually only amounts to the middle of the night on the weekends) has revolved around Halo 3. I am still not a big fan of the adversarial multiplayer (hated it on Halo 2), but am giving it my best shot to like it, since it is where my friends are hanging out... I do love the single player and online co-op with friends... Hope to get into more of that this weekend too...It is my one vice right now...well, other than football... but that goes without saying!

OK. This update about why I haven't been blogging has been sitting for three days! Even though I am not done with it, I am posting what I have. Good enough for me.