Category: Ranting

Ok females, and metro guys, I’m sick and tired of hearing warnings about becoming addicted to World of Warcraft. I don’t play World of Warcraft or any other video game that I can’t leave and help with kids in the middle of!! Do I get competitive and want to finish a game even it means staying up late, yes, but I’m the one who decided to start playing at midnight after the family is asleep in the first place. If I cared more about video games than life, then I would just stay at work late and play from there and not answer the phone when the wife calls. SERIOUSLY! Playing video games for a few hours each week after going to work, helping to clean the house, mowing the yard, and helping with the kids is NOT a bad thing. Joy are you concerned with my involvement with the family? Oh look, no she isn’t.

AND while I’m ranting, everyone who has a friend who plays video games, PLEASE just google the freaking game before you talk about it. Here try this one, World of Warcraft, and Warcraft III. Can anyone tell me the difference!?

World of Warcraft (looks like this) is an always on role playing game also known as a MMORG. To play it you join an online community and you spend hours building an alternate life. It was also mentioned in a great article about being addictive and a waste of life (I agree).

Warcraft III (looks like this) is a real time strategy game where one opposing force eliminates the other. When that happens the game is over. You can start and end the game at anytime, if you end early then you forfeit and have to hear about it from Gino for a long time afterwards. You get to control many aspects of the game’s timing, and there is a pause button. I play Warcraft III and I’m proud of it. Negating an offensive that Nathan spent minutes planning fills my testosterone loving man heart to overflowing.

So, with that said, PLEASE parents, girlfriends, wives, and everyone else do your homework on video games and play responsibly. Don’t waste time locked up in a dark room all day playing single player games. And don’t skip any family activities to gather ore in the hills of stupid place with your guild… don’t even be in a guild. Just play fun video games for fun and make sure you support the ones with pause buttons. And quit ruining my life!

If only the watermelon I just sliced looked like the one in this photo! I was so excited to have some fresh seedless watermelon today (I even had the good intention of sharing some with my neighbor)…. But alas, I cut it open and it was mushy and just overripe to the point of tasting like yucky pumpkin-y taste. I’d “tested” it in the store with my eyes and ears to make sure it was a good one, and as far as I could tell, it was….

I’ve been having really bad luck with produce lately, from a variety of stores, even. I have thrown out several peaches, nectarines, and plums because by the time they are a little bit soft and seem ready to eat, they don’t taste sweet but more bitter/sour and they’re a little brown inside, and just gross.

At least we have amazing tomatoes (and soon, squash) in the garden to turn to for consolation! I’ve been making some dinners with our fresh garden tomatoes, which are divinely tangy!

And good thing my mom helped us plant raspberry bushes, an apple tree, and a pear tree in our backyard just a couple months ago. Now all we have to do is wait like 3 -5 years or something for them to bear fruit….

Okay. I KNOW that people don’t enjoy the presence of nerdy folks like me, who regularly notice grammatical/spelling errors. Blame it on my roots, or on my language background from my BYU days.

But anyway, this one major issue irks me on a daily basis. Your vs. You’re. If you believe that the two are interchangeable, please rethink your belief! I am often surprised to see very intelligent people making that grammatical error on their Facebook status and elsewhere.

There’s a lot to say about “you’re vs. your.” However, since this post is just an annoying one, I will keep this short ‘n’ sweet.

Your is simply the possessive form of you, i.e. something that belongs to you. “Your smoothie, your issue, your mama.”

An example of the wrong use of the word is, “Your so sweet!!!” (Blech! Run in the opposite direction!)

You’re, on the other hand, is a contraction (= a combination of two words: you + are). Just make sure the words “you are” would fit in the spot where you’re writing “you’re.” Correct: “You’re so hot!” Incorrect: “You’re dog has fleas.”

Thank you! Have a nice day!

Shame on you Michael Bay for taking my favorite childhood toy/tv show and ruining it! I just got back from Transformers 2 and WOW, no one told me it was the worst movie ever made, with the best special effects. So if it’s not too late, let me be the one to warn you. Don’t go see it! If you must see it, watch the HD clips on the internet and piece together the story in your head, b/c that will be better than how director Bay told it. Sheesh, what a joke.

That’s why I only shop one time every 10 years, because clothing is expensive! I went shopping today. Yep me, just me. That’s how us men do it. Grab stuff, maybe put it on, buy it, leave. Kohls was having a huge sale (surprise surprise) and I found some awesome clothes on sale. I got 2 shirts, 2 pairs of shorts, and 1 pair of pants that can zip away the legs to be shorts. (man I love those) And how much did you spend oh great man shopper? you might be asking. Well reader I’ll tell you. Reg retail price according to Kohls well over 200.00. My special price for me today: 78.00. $78.00 bones! Are you serious, well no, it was 103.00 but Joy had 22 something store credit.

So I was excited, until I was leaving the store and I realized, what if I get hammered by Joy, like I could’ve gotten shorts for 10 bucks each instead of 16.00!? Ahh my mind was racing as to how I could out shop my wife so I could win the argument we were having in my imagination. Then I devised a plan to blog about my shopping saying I got everything for only 25.00.. naw she’d never believe that, then I thought hey, all I got was a couple of shirts and some shorts, why the heck did I pay $103.00!? That’s an average of $20.00 an item. And I realized what a racket clothing companies have, because hey no one wants to be naked all day.

What do you think dear reader, was that a good deal? Should I hang my head in shame when I walk in the door later, or hold it high and proud waving the receipt around like it’s a winning lottery ticket?

HAHA sorry, that was just funny. Any comments?

Tonight I was thinking about how my “well” of church skirts  is getting a little dry… AKA I need Rachel and/or Jessica to go through their skirts and decide which ones they feel like donating to me… And I was thinking about 2 skirts in particular that I haven’t been able to zip up all the way for several years. Then I realized that those 2 skirts are really OLD. Then I realized that I bought them back in 10th grade (nearly 10 years ago), and they actually used to fit me. Then I realized that it’s probably time for the 2 old fogies to retire, eh. Or maybe I should just keep them until I become elderly, just for the fun of it. So what’s the oldest item sitting in YOUR closet?

SO the one time this year that I’ll feel like doing Tae bo, I can’t. Will the person who borrowed our Tae bo DVD please bring it back before my next workout craving?

I not an Obama hater, and I’m not a fanboy. What I do know is that Obama destroyed the two exciting things in my depression. Mandatory digital transition and free nationwide internet. WHAT a sell out. In office a week and the first thing he does is delay something that’s been going on for 3 years!! PAALEASE. If you’re not ready by now, you’re working for terrorists, and since Obama wanted to help the terrorists who aren’t ready for the digital transition, he is obviously a terrorist. And since he floats, he obviously is also a witch.

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