This should be a weekly series...

Was I the only one to catch the Victoria's Secret show on a few weeks ago?? If you made this into a weekly half hour series I bet it would do better than half the shows out there. I know I would be watching!




The first six models are my favorite!

Belated Birthday...

My never ending birthday celebration finally came to end when Jenny took me out for my belated birthday dinner to Upstairs2.

Sorry, I am not like Jenny taking pictures of my food but we had a great wine tasting dinner, with blue marlin, shrimp, lamb, cheese & fig and then an apple tart for dessert.

More Birthday...

We completed our OC trifeca by going to Costa Mesa Sunday night to celebrate my brother inlaws belated birthday at Pinot Provence.

Kevin's 30th...

Saturday, we headed back to the OC to celebrate my cousin's Kevin's 30th birthday:



Melissa, Scott and Kevin are all cousins on my mom's side that I grew up with...or I should say my sister as they are closer in age than I am.

Man, 30...where did all the years go?? Happy Birthday!

Disneyland...

This was our weekend in the O.C. Friday, Aya took off from work and we finally relented to the Disneyland propaganda and took Jack to Disneyland for the first time.

We weren't sure how he would like it or how long we would stay. The park opened at 8:00 am and we got there around 8:30. Jack had such a good time. He loved all the fast rides, like the Rocket ride, Buzz Lightyear, Teacups, Pirates of the Carribean, Roller Coaster in Toon Town and Autotopia. We also went on Small World, Pooh's Adventure, Big Train, Little Train and saw a ton of Disney Characters.

Needless to say we were there until 8:30 pm. We stayed to watch the Main Street parade and Jack loved it and was dancing around. We were also right by a 'snow' machine and it started to 'snow' and Jack was just in 7th heaven!

It just started to get too cold so we didn't stay for the fireworks or Fantasmic but maybe another time. Enjoy the video from our day:

Toenail...

So in late July I banged my toe and I am pretty sure I broke my toe. My foot was black and blue for over a week and I had no feel in the toe and that side of my foot. My toe nail turned black and stayed that way for a while.

My sister said it would take time for the nail to grow out. Fast forward to December...3 months later and my nail is still black.

Well this time I accidently kicked Jack's stool and banged the same pinky toe. ARGH. I was thinking that is my bad toe and I looked down and my toe is white. I was thinking how and when did it heal?

I looked a little closer and then realize it is white because it is my skin. Naturally I had to hunt down my black toe nail...and yup....the toe nail was pryed off. I am going to give Jenny my toe nail for Christmas!

Cupcakes...

Saturday Aya and Jack made some cupcakes. Aya wants Jack to participate in the kitchen and help out a little bit around the house:



Jack loves his cake, cookies, pie and M&M's.



Jenny stopped by Saturday night and naturally the two goofballs are looking their best.

Happy Hour...

It has been a while since we have had a group Happy Hour but to celebrate the end of my contract and belated birthday we got together at the Parlor for Happy Hour. After happy hour we headed out to our usual Taco Truck for some after drinking goodness!

This was Jeff's first time out with my usual HH group. I would guess Jeff had a good time. The best part was Jeff only 'rented' his taco's as he boozed it up and got sick that night!

It's okay, I have to admit I was hung over for about 7 hours the next day...good thing I didn't have to work.

I was not going to post this picture but since stick-your-nose where it does not belong Jenny posted something for Ron, I am going to post this picture of spooky Jenny...nice smile.

Ron's Baby Shower...

The family went to Ron's baby shower this weekend were we had to endure various "co-ed" baby shower games. I was strictly informed that there would be food and no games. In addition, I was also called out by the host for saying that "baby showers were for girls only".

Oh yeah, and I was caught cheating in one the games. So not cool. The final game was to anticipate what Ron and Laura's baby will look like. Here is our verdict:

Congratulations to Ron and Laura.....congratulations that is for making me miss an entire day of football when it is fantasy football playoffs. I also like the fact how I got SMOKED in the Ron's league when I am his baby shower where I had zero access to a computer to check the outcome or make pickups. Grrr. =)

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Rebuttal to Jenny's post on her website:

1. Notice teammate Jeff is not doing anything.

2. Ron's best buddy Lance who is partially cut off is also doing nothing.

3. Jenny is not in the picture...because she was over 1 hour late.

4. Jack is cutting.

5. I am setting the good example by cutting and participating even though I did not want to play any games but for Ron's baby shower I am doing my duty!

Shoot, how GREAT of a friend am I?? The greatest!

Disappointing...

Okay, it has been a busy few weeks as I have been trying to wrap up everything at my contract assignment. I am now off the rest of 2008 and January 2009. I am slightly behind on this but here are a few disappointments the past month:

Aya and I went to see James Bond Quantum of Solace. So disappointing. The action was okay, the story was confusing...well not that there was a lot to the story but I couldn't remember characters from the past movie so that made it confusing. I really thought this would be a good movie but it was not.

However, it wasn't as bad as Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Aya and I watched the movie on DVD and it was so bad. SOOOOO BBBB----AAAA-----DDDDDD. I can't even tell you. I am all for frontal and rear nudity....but not when it is a guy! I can't believe they did that 2-3 times. Horrible.

For my birthday I got two video games from Aya that I wanted, Fable 2 and Call of Duty 5 War of the Worlds.

So this isn't that I didn't like the gifts, I did like the gifts and I requested both games. I was just disappointed that the games were not better.

Fable2 was pretty darn easy and short. I think I could have finished the game in 8 hours for the main missions. I did the entire game in just over 22 hours.

Call of Duty 5 was not good at all. Decent for a WWII game but I think I was done with the solo player campaign in 6 hours. Multi play is okay but I guess I am just tired of the genre of WWII games. Call of Duty 4 with modern weapons was just out-standing!

So everyone out there...save some money...and do not watch the movies I mentioned and the games are a good buy used but not full price.

Tell Me Something New...

I created another website dedicated to my book:

http://todaysqod.blogspot.com/


If you want your picture on the website, take a picture with you and/or others with the book and I will post it. If you want to post your own questions, send it my way as well.

I will be updating the site with new questions and my answers to the questions as well. Please pass it along and they make great stocking stuffers!

Belated Happy Birthday to Ron...

Happy Belated Birthday to Ron. I would have posted it earlier but I was behind on updates from Jacks birthday. This one is for you:

This is the problem with potty training...accidents happen. For the most part Jack is potty trained when he has to pee but he just will not or can not poop on the toilet. He tries but he prefers to poop in his pants/diaper.

Only problem with the diaper is that it is hard to control the poop from falling out or making a really bad mess. After taking this picture, Jack was stomping around getting the other 'nuggets' stuck to his butt to fall off onto the floor! Grrr.

Santa Claus..

My mom has been teaching Jack some Christmas songs and watching Christmas video's. This year Jack knows and understands Santa Claus and is always trying to be on his best behavior because Jack says "Santa knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you are awake, he knows when you are bad or good so be good for goodness sake."

We went to visit Santa at the mall so Jack could ask Santa for a new Trash truck:

The top was the "pro" picture and the bottom one is my picture:

Mine came out much better...and it was free!

Another birthday...

We celebrated Thanksgiving at Aunty Pauls house this year...which also met more presents and cake for Jack. I was a little nervous that Jack would not share with Aiden (who is 5 month older) but they got along well.


Jack and I went to Angel Maid to get his cake. Jack picked out his own cake. It came down to Curious George, Thomas and the Wiggles. Once Jack saw "The Big Red Car" that pretty sold the cake.

Can you believe that crappy Big Red Car cost 15 bucks?! Yup, that is what sold the cake and that was the first thing Jack wanted after he blew out his candles!

More Birthday Pics...

On Jack's birthday we came home and ate MORE pizza. We asked Jack if he wanted to go to a restaurant and eat or have pizza delivered and he wanted pizza again!

We got Jack a shopping cart for food. He pretends to ring up food on his cash register. We used to use lego's and dumptruck but now Jack can use fake food and his own shopping cart. Jack also likes Scooby Doo so we got him some Scooby Doo action figures:


Jack doing 'shaka-brah'.



Jack and Aya: