The last day of April

Well here we are the last day of April. Sitting here enjoying a day off with Diana. So turns out Diana likes the old Spiderman cartoon. Kath came across it last night and stopped on it as the theme was playing. As soon as the familliar "spiderman spiderman does what ever a spider can" song was heard Diana was hyptnotized and just stopped what she was doing. Another super hero show she wants to watch. All i can say to that is--Proud!

So in work related news,turns out the energy drink fueled idiot hasnt quit yet. The good news is he is pretty close to getting fired. Also i learned yesterday that my former team manager is indeed coming back to our team next week. That totally rocks. She is really nice and somehow has the abillity to get me days off that other team managers can't. Last year i was told by two people i couldnt have the Saturday off to go to the comic book convention. I started asking for it off last May. In August i admit i was going to call in sick that day and go. However I got put on my cool managers team last August and within hours i had the day off. Man i would have been pissed if i missed seeing the Fonz. Man i can start looking forward to team meetings again as well. When she was our fearless leader we didnt even discuss work at our meetings. Usually the conversation was about what wacky shit she had done that week. It was great and always entertaining. Lately i have dreaded the meetings with the new guy. All work related with a lot of complaining and yelling. Good times.


Today I'm helping Diana organize her toys and she's really having a good time doing it. The living room was starting to look like a toys r us. Was upstairs for three hours and lost track of the time. Took her toy kitchen upstairs and immediately Hesh took over the empty spot on the floor. Was going to do a wagon ride but it started raining. Damn you rain! Damn you straight to hell! Made some english muffin pizzas. That one year of home ec has paid off! Diana helped put pepperoni on the. I swear the kid is going to grow up to be a chef. Also today i went down to the basement to add an action figure to a shelf and what did i find? A huge ass spider web complete with a dozen or so dead bees around it. Well happy to say that spiders reign of terror is over. Buh Bye spider!

Kath will be home soon. Going to the cool dollar store and Wallmart. We are getting a birthday present for my nephew, I can't believe he's 14 years old. Time flies. Well back to cleaning. I have tomorrow off as well and then one more day of work this week. Hope everyone is doing well. Talk to you soon

Jay

Jays in first-Hell must have frozen over

So last week I was channel surfing and i came across a Blue Jays game. I thought i would stop for a bit and see how they were doing.Now just to be clear i was a huge Jays fan from the 80's until a couple of seasons ago. I used to go to games. Kath and i went to at least 2 or 3 games a year and followed them on tv as well. Now i know you're suppossed to stick with your team through the good times and the bad and that every year can't be a world series win. I guess a couple of years ago i just got tired of watching them lose and just didnt follow it as much anymore. I think i tuned in for maybe 2 games last year. As a matter of fact i didnt even really know who was on the team anymore. Its not like i decided to follow another team or anything like that. I just stopped being interested in baseball. I also didnt watch the world series which is something i did every year no matter who made it. Anyhow i put the game on last week. First of all i realize its at least 15 games into the season. I was so out of touch. Then i notice how well they are playing. I started to get interested again. And that was before i heard of their winning record and the fact they were in first place. I actually watched the next four games. They actualy won all of them. So i think i will give the team another chance. They were my team for all those years. They are ahead of the Yankees so i would have that to rub in my father in laws face. And that makes me happy. Go Jays!

When Lord?-whens it gonna be May?

I wish April was over. There I said it. April was ok-much better than March. I can't wait for May though. So many cool things to look forward to. Diana turns 4 in May. We're going to see both sides of the famly to celebbrate her birthday. Kath also has a birthday in May. We're going to see our first summer blockbuster on May 3rd-Xmen Origins:Wolverine. I hope its good. I'll settle for it being better than x men 3 which to me ranks up there with that cinematic masterpiece Batman and Robin. Also hoping to see Star Trek with my mom on April 24th. I believe this will be the first star trek since that horrible one where william shatner went looking for God that i will see with my mom. Also in May- Free Comic book day and May 1st they start announcing celebrities for the comic book convention in August. May should be cool. SO hurry up April-you've worn out your welcome.


I managed to get through my long ass day of work and maintenance meeting. Found out we're going to be required to stain our ricketty fence. Oh joy. I did get one piece of good news today. That nerdy,hopped up on energy drink douche quit today. He is close to getting fired anyhow. So yay me i will only be annoyed by customers at work now. Anyhow watched the season-possible series finale of Chuck tonight. Good tv man. Well getting kinda sleepy, Rachel is messaging me now. Just telling her about the stupid meeting. Hopefully we will have more information about the cat tomorrow. Diana is really excited about it. No new insane customer stories to tell. Well see what tomorrow brings. Until then this is Mork calling Orson. Nanoo Nanoo.

Weekend Update

So had a pretty cool weekend. Worked yesterday and for a change there wasnt any crazy Saturday customers to report on. Don't get me wrong the customers still whined but nothing over the top like I'm used to. Still had to deal with the lights being turned off. This week instead of Mickey Mouse playing golf we were treated to the three Stooges. Again would have preferred to see my keyboard. What can ya do? After work we met up with Nicole and went across the river to get some groceries. We also hit a 7-11 over there. Guess what? Yet another Slurpee cup movie tie in started this week. Now we are getting Terminator four cups. We are so fancy.

Sunday is just a laid back day. Diana let me sleep in and that rocked. I really needed to catch up on sleep.Watched some cartoons. Yet two more super hero related cartoons appearred on the schedule this week. An old Superman/Superboy series from the late 60's that i remember watching as a kid and a Batman cartoon from the 70's that turns out is really horrible. I kind of remember the Batman cartoon. Adam West had come back to voice Batman. Wasnt as cool as i remember. THey had this little cute character named batmite who was from another dimension. Man who green lit that idea? Kath wanted to kill me for taping it but Diana loved it.

When Kath gets home we're setting up the barbeque. I love grilling. Can't wait. The weather is awesome and warm today. A great day to not be cooped up at work. On the cat front-yes we are going to take merlin. Not sure when this will occur. Diana says she will let him sleep on her bed. She won't even let Hesh sleep on her bed.

Looking forward--hope Monday goes fast. Have to work 10 hours followed by a maintenance meeting at our Co - op. At our residence you are required to be on a comittee. We werent really given a choice. One day we got a flyer stating i was on maintenance. To anyone that knows us this is funny. I suck at fixing things where Kath is awesome at it. I've been lucky up until now-between work and babysitter issues i've been able to get out of most of the meetings. I have no excuse tomorrow. I'll probably just sit there and nod my head a lot. Just want to get out of there and watch 24 with Kath. Anyhow thats about it. Hope everybody has a great weekend and I'll talk to you all soon.

Random Friday Thoughts

Hey there. I'm just enjoying a lovely day off. Later when Kath gets home we're going to get our propane tank refilled. Thats right its grilling season again! A whoo hoo. Yeah get in my belly grilled hamburgers!

What else is going on with the Stewarts? Well we are seriously thinking about getting another cat. A friend of ours has to get rid of her 5 year old cat Merlin. From what i understand he's really friendly and he's fixed. So we are pretty sure he would get along with Diana. My one concern about getting him is I'm wondering if it will be fair to my cat of 15 years Hesh. We used to have 2 cats. Barney was our other cat and he passed away 2 summers ago. Its not like Hesh hasnt been an only cat. I seiously thinking of leaning towards getting him. At some point I'd like a little dog as well. Diana keeps saying she doesnt like dogs. Maybe one day when she's older.


I will now address some comments recently made on the blog. Comments are always appreciated so keep 'em coming.


Nicole: I would love to come camping with you guys this summer. However I'm not sure if Kath would agree to sleeping outside in a tent and oh yeah I currently don't own a tent. Our last residence had a cruddy moldy basement which destroyed the tent i did own.

Kelsey: I may have jumped the gun a bit. While Dollhouse hasnt been offically cancelled it looks like its headed that way. It hasnt been renewed yet and fox has decided not to run the final episode that was filmed. Fox has a bad track record with canceling shows really quick. I for one would like to continue to watch eliza Dushku run around in little tank tops fighting crime.

Rach: Sorry i should have made it clear that you don't actually know the lesbians that pooped on each other.Rach told me about a video her nephew told her about in which two wacky lovebirds pooped and puked on each other in the name of love.

More drunken Jay flashbacks

A friend of mine jokingly posted on Facebook that we should go camping at Sherkston. Sherkston was a magical beach where in the early to mid 90's i would go with my friends. We would camp at least twice a summer there and it was great. Would I go back now? To quote Danny Glover from the Lethal Weapon series- I'm too old for this shit. If Andrea is reading this one I know she'll back me up there. It was a lot of drinking morning noon and night. We would get up and just start drinking beer. We wouldnt bring much in the way of food either. Hot dogs. The end. We wouldnt get much sleep either. Usually there was another camper blasting Guns and Roses or Metallica. This would go on into all hours of the night. Then you would wake up with a wicked bad hangover and start the day again. Some highlights i can remember off the top of my head

1) My friend Dennis in the middle of the night going for a swim in the middle of the lake-fully dressed including a leather jacket. Then coming back to shore and getting in his bathing suit.

2) some metal head guy who kept calling us "brother." At one point he was sitting in a tree chopping up firewood. Another time he was chopping up a picnic table.

3) My friend Colin standing in the campfire with no shoes on. He had 4 cases of beer that weekend maybe all in one day.

4) Almost driving a golf cart into a tree. Good times

5)John so hung over he stayed in his tent all day only to emerge at night while playing the guitar.

6) the cool Bon Jovi cover band that played on the beach. Really is there anything cool about a Bon Jovi cover band? We watched on a sand hill overlooking the beach. I passed out and woke up a few hours later with a burn and a round beer cup mark on my stomach.


Yeah drawing a blank on the rest. Like i said there was a lot of drinking involved. Don't get me wrong those were fun times but i don't think i could handle partying like that again at my age.Now i would probably drink one beer and go sleep in the tent all day. I would however like to finally go camping with my family somewhere quiet. I've been wanting to camp with Kath since we met but for some reason havent gone yet. I think Diana would have a lot of fun. Oh yes some day we will camp. Oh yes.

No more tv for the Jaymeister

So i watch way too much tv. I admit I do love the tv. I think someone up there wants me to cut down on my tv watching. Usually at the end of the tv season a show or two that i watch will get cancelled. It's normal. This season is a different story. I would say about three quarters of my shows arent coming back next year. These shows are Stargate Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica, Trailer Park Boys, Life On Mars, Terminator the Sarah Connor Chronicles, Reaper, Dollhouse, Scrubs, King Of The Hill, My Own Worst Enemy, Pushing Dasies and Better off Ted. Now there's rumours that Chuck and My Name is Earl may be cancelled as well. This will pretty much leave me with 24, Lost and heroes. It was announced awhile back that next season is Losts last,i hear this week that 24 will probably be done next year as well. Heroes was lucky to get renewed for one more year. So maybe next year i will be reading a lot of books. Or i could get into Reality television. Nah I'd rather put a gun in my mouth or read the Twilight books.