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i am ninja

if you haven't already go to the www.askaninja.com .

i have not been in a while.

hilarious.

i watched 4 or 5 podcasts - really good

later
.mike

posted by mike @ 7:47 AM 0 Comments

last 10 songs i listened to

10. sweating bullets - megadeth
9. barry williams show - peter gabriel
8. master of puppets - metallica
7. surrender - cheap trick
6. brother of mine - anderson, bruford wakeman & howe
5. salin' shoes - hey julia - sneakin' sally through the alley - robert palmer
4. true confessions - blue oyster cult
3. you shook me all night long - ac/dc
2. money that matters - randy newman
1. industrial disease - dire straits

kinda odd mix

that's what happens when you hit random on the mp3 player.

later
.mike

posted by mike @ 7:56 AM 0 Comments

stop complaning

ok i've been thinking and i'm still sad about the previous post. but it also made me think, i really have to stop complaning about what I don't have and thank God for what I do have. Life could be so so much worse. i have to stop complaning about the bills, the lack of money, kids not listening, late nights, early mornings.

i love my kids i really do. and i never want anything to happen to them like what i read today. i mean really no parent does. but it just made me stop and think. i really have to change my tune. i have to appreciate everything God has graced me with. I have a loving wife, 3 beautiful kids, a home, a job, a great network of family and close friends. most of whom I could call family. i just need to look around and see that.

my job still stinks, but i have so much more. yeah money is tight right now, but it has not always been that way and it won't always be that way. we made some ill advised financial moves and we will recover and learn from our mistakes. the point here is i have to get over myself and my feelings of blah and enjoy life.

i have had some sad times like when ma died of cancer. i have spent a few days in the hospital with my sons. neither one of those times were fun. but if i had to i'd be there all day every day. i'm not gonna leave my kids alone. period. (michelle would not stand for that either). i want to appreciate my family more!!

my thoughts and prayers are with them right now. and thanks for inspiring me to enjoy what i have now more than ever!

God bless.
.mike

posted by mike @ 2:59 PM 0 Comments

i just can't do it

I was just at a website http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2007/feature-photography/works/index.html. I just can't do it. After having 3 beautiful kids all under the age of 5. I just can't imagine going through this. I know it happens and I have no idea why, but I do not think I could handle it. I am such a softie now that I have kids. I can't handle anything that hurts kids. I just think about my kids going through this and it just kills me.

Sorry just had to share.

later
.mike

posted by mike @ 1:04 PM 0 Comments

finally some sun

well we made it!

it's sunny and wow it feels good.

i took the boys out for a ride in the jeep yesterday. just nice to be out in the sun.

we got back from mass around 10:30 and Michelle had to do bills. so about 15 minutes into it the boys were just nuts so i decided that we should go out for a ride. michelle also had a confirmation to go to at 2:00. so we took off.

i showed ethan the house that I grew up in as well as granma and grampa ruffings old house in amherst as well. then as we drove i went to an old 4 wheeling spot - a small place with sand. anyway 1 drive through there and the jeep started making a new noise, so i decided to not push it and leave. on the way back home i realized that it was the shocks and i now need to add that to the list of things the tj needs.

but when we got back home they boys were out cold so i played around with the jeep, looking around to make sure that nothing else was about to fall off. after a bit joshua woke up and we played in the back yard. he walked out of his new sandals (new to him, they came out of a bin of shoes) so he was barefoot - and loved every minute of it! after a while i decided that ethan needed to be playing as well. so i woke him up and he had a blast as well. pushing his trucks around. if nothing else it showed me that I should build him a sand box.

anyway it's monday now and i don't want to work. even nicer today than yesterday!

ok back to work.....i guess

later
.mike

posted by mike @ 10:37 AM 0 Comments