My New Year's Resolutions....sort of

Hey Lifers...

So I hope everyone enjoyed their Holiday's. We here at the Palace did. We spent Christmas visiting family, and for the most part everything was pretty normal. We spent NYE with the clowns watching Harry Potter until midnight. The DW made up some munchies and after we let the clowns watch the ball drop, we called it a night. Nothing too special, but everyone was safe and together.

So as I'm getting caught up on my blog reading today, I know I'm a slacker, I see everybody is posting their New Year's Resolutions. I even saw a few blogs out there posting top ten resolutions they won't be keeping. Such a great idea. I mean, who really keeps their resolutions anyway right?

Now I'm not a big resolution guy, because after all, resolutions are just a way of looking in the mirror and saying I suck. And since I don't like admitting my shortcomings, I don't usually make them. However if I did make a few, here's what I'd resolve to do in the new year.

1. I would resolve to be healthier. I would get back into the gym and start running again.
2. I would resolve to not be so anal about the cleanliness of my house.
3. I would resolve to care about the maintenance of my lawn.
4. I would resolve to watch t.v less and read more.
5. I would resolve to tap into my creative side more. More music, more sketching, more writing.
6. I would resolve to spend more time learning a new language.
7. I would resolve to be more organized.
8. I would resolve to be better with our finances.


But let's face it. I'm nearly forty years old. I am who I am, and I enjoy double cheeseburgers and ice cream more than working out and running. I like having a clean, or somewhat clean house, and if that means yelling at some clowns to get it, then so be it. And come on. Who under the age of 65 really cares about how manicured their lawn is? Now I will agree that I'd like to read more, and I would if only sports didn't get in the way. I've got the NFL, MLB, and NBA networks to go along with my four ESPN channels. Yeah right, like I'm really giving  up watching t.v.

Now I'd love to tap into my creative side more. More sketching, more writing, more playing guitar, but who has time with all the sports on t.v? As for learning a new language, hablo Ingles perras. And everybody knows that being organized and sticking to a budget is for those type A personalities, which I clearly am not.

So it looks like my new year will start the same way my old year ended.....yeah... I suck.


J-Tony

The Best Gift I Ever Received...

Hey Lifers...

With Christmas just a day away, I thought I'd share my with you the greatest toy I ever received from the big guy.

I was maybe six or seven, I'm not real sure, but this was the greatest give I ever received.

It's a hand held electronic football game. It was pretty basic. The only thing you could see on the screen were little red dots. No pictures of players, no players names, no graphics. I remember playing this thing every waking minute I could. I'd curl up on the couch or in a corner somewhere and pretend I was playing out the games from the previous weeks. Yeah that's right, actually using my imagination.

Now I've received some pretty good gifts along the way as well, but as a little kid who loved football as much as breathing, this was the best, and unlike most Christmas toys, it wasn't lost after March. No way, I held on to this thing for years. It was by far the best gift I ever received.

J-Tony

So tell me lifers, what was your greatest gift...

An Ike Turner kind of Christmas....

Hey Lifers...

So the other day, because everybody but me would be on Christmas vacation this week, I did my best Ike Turner and told the DW that I'd best be gettin' me some Christmas goodies this week woman. OK so it was probably more like, hey if you guys aren't doing anything this week, some cookies and stuff would be nice. But it sounds way cooler if I went all Ike on her.

Today I came home from work to a kitchen full of goodies. Her and the clowns had been baking and cleaning all day. There were peanut butter, gingerbread, and chocolate chip cookies. She made chocolate covered pretzels, baked pecans and a pan of peppermint brownies. Rooms were clean and beds made. I thought maybe I was in the wrong place. Naturally my original thought was, man that Ike Turner shit really works.  

So I did what any other man would do.....I pressed my luck....

Babe. You. Me. Let's do it....

So OK, maybe it doesn't work that well.

J-Tony