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.