Happy Fucking New Years

Well it's 2007!!! Countless pencil erasers will be widdled down to nubs by school children around the world who take that first month of January to remember that hey, it's 2007 not 2006!

I had off of work yesterday because the President declared it a national day or mourning for the late President Ford's death and since I work for the government I had off. That makes two 4 day weekends in a row and two 3 day work weeks in a row! NICE!

I am pretty excited that 3 weeks from today is Samantha's birthday and she turns 2!!!! Holy crap two years old already! Boy how time has flown when it comes to my little stinky. We already bought her birthday presents and stuff so that's all taken care of. My parents are going to put more money into her college fund also. I am very happy to know that her college is being taken care of....she will not have to owe a dime to go to whatever college she decides she'd like to go to. That's always been a HUGE priority of mine.

Speaking of birthdays I know someone else who has one coming up only about a month away. Some skinny Italian kid named Vinny is gonna be the big 33!!!! I already got my birthday present too! Sony playstation 2! I am not a big video game nerd or anything but once in a while I just like to sit there and put in a game and start shooting motherfuckers and letting some frustration out. Better than running around really shooting people!

We had a New Years party at my parents' house and it was a lot of fun. Good food, pictionary, trivial pursuit, all kinds of stuff. It was a lot of fun. Remarkably I barely drank anything. It's the first New Years in a couple years I was stone sober for. That's okay though....at least now I remember it!

Overall the holidays were awesome. Much more so for the fact that I have a Stinky now to make happy and she loved Christmas and all the gatherings and food and things like that. Yesterday we spent the entire morning taking down all of our Christmas stuff and it was a little depressing. But every year time goes by faster and faster for me and before I know it, I'll be digging out the decorations and stuff and putting them up again. But for now it is time to focus on other things.....namely looking forward to launching my boat and the upcoming golf season.

I was in my shed yesterday putting Christmas stuff away and had to take my golf clubs out and swing them a few times.....ahhhh the feeling I miss so much during winter. I also went through a bunch of my fishing stuff and determined that I am going to do some cleaning and maintenance on it before the end of March when I put my boat back in the water. I think I am going to stick with my current boat for this year and then trade it in for a nice pontoon boat party barge. I bought my boat primarily because I can ski from the thing because it hauls ass. Well I still haven't done it yet so now I will trade it in after this year and get one of those awesome barges with a live well for fish and put a nice grill on it and just tool around the lake like the old man that I am. Plus it will be more enjoyable for Stinky because of the wide open deck space.

The in laws want us to come to Germany for Christmas 2007. My wife and daughter will most likely go but I don't think I am going to. Things get too busy at work and too hectic around the holidays and in my position I feel like I need to be here to put out the fires and make sure things get done. So unfortunately I may not be with Stinky this Christmas....but I am still hoping that they'll end up staying here.

Well that's about it for now....I have bored you long enough. I will try and get back to a normal blogging schedule now. Oh by the way....anybody need any fruit cake? I got about 10 of them I am looking to unload.