Patrick asked me if I had every heard of a Gay singer named Matt Alber, well I hadn't, he told me I would when I read the current Instinct Magazine. After I read the article I looked up his video on You Tube, and listened to it about 6 times in a row,it is awesome.So for those of you who have not heard of him either, may I introduce to you...Matt Alber.
4/12/09
Patrick and His Basket.....
Now I have to tell you, for being a Gay Man, I am not the most creative guy in the world, Patrick dances circles around me when it comes to creativity and surprising me with things he has put together for me. But this year, I thought I would surprise him for a change and make him an Easter Basket. I started the first week in March so I would have plenty of time to pull it together. I went out searching for diffrent little things to incorporate into his Basket, I didn't want alot of candy things but different odds and ends that were cute. I even got my friend Goya to help me the day we had our little adventure in PS. It was fun, and alot of work!! It is not an easy thing to surprise my husband, but in the end I was able to pull it off. To say he was surpise is an understatment, when he rolled over this morning, the first thing he said was "Where's my Easter Basket?", and I really wish you could have seen his face when I left the room and came back with the Basket!! At first he would not believe I did it by myself, but in the end, he really liked it, and I was pretty proud of myself!!
Spending Time With Miss Aileen...pics from Easter Sunday
Miss Aileen is bored
Miss Aileen
Miss Aileen and Uncle Jaymes
Miss Aileen and her Uncles
Things I Learned From Living in Texas
A friend sent me this a while back and I love it and just had to share it with my blog buddies, not just because it is funny, but they are all TRUE!!!!!!
*Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feei in the air
*There are 5,000 types of snakes on earth, 4,998 live in Texas
*There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Texas, plus a couple
no one's seen before.
*If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites
*Onced and Twiced are words.
*It is not a shopping cart..it's a buggy.
*People actually grow and eat okra.
*"Fixinto" is one word.
*There is no such thing as "lunch". There is only dinner and then supper.
*Iced tea is appropiate fo all meals and you start drinking it when you are two.
We do like a little tea with our sugar!
*Backwards and forwards means "I know everything about you"
*You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time it is. You
work until you'r done or it's too dark to see.
*You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH them.
*You measure distance in minutes.
*You'll probably have to switch fro 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day.
*'Fix" is a verb. Example: 'I'm fixing to go to the store'
*All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit,vegetable, grain,
insect or animal.
*You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
*You carry jumper cables in your car....for you OWN car.
*There are only four spices: salt, pepper, tabasco and ketchup.
*The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but it requires
6 pages for local gossip and sports.
*The first day of deer season is a national holiday.
*100 degrees Fahrenheit is 'a little warm'
*We have four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, still Summer and Christmas
*Going to Walmart is a favorite past time know as 'goin' Wal-martin' or off to
Wally World.
*A cold snap (below 70 degrees) is good pinto bean weather
*A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola or pop..it a Coke, regardless
of brand or flavero. Example: "What kinda coke you want?'
*Fried catfish is the other white meat.
*We don't need no stinking driver's ed..if our Mama says we can drive, we can drive.
*EVERYONE can't be from Texas, it takes talent. You might say it's an art form
or a gift from God.
*Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feei in the air
*There are 5,000 types of snakes on earth, 4,998 live in Texas
*There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Texas, plus a couple
no one's seen before.
*If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites
*Onced and Twiced are words.
*It is not a shopping cart..it's a buggy.
*People actually grow and eat okra.
*"Fixinto" is one word.
*There is no such thing as "lunch". There is only dinner and then supper.
*Iced tea is appropiate fo all meals and you start drinking it when you are two.
We do like a little tea with our sugar!
*Backwards and forwards means "I know everything about you"
*You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time it is. You
work until you'r done or it's too dark to see.
*You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH them.
*You measure distance in minutes.
*You'll probably have to switch fro 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day.
*'Fix" is a verb. Example: 'I'm fixing to go to the store'
*All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit,vegetable, grain,
insect or animal.
*You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
*You carry jumper cables in your car....for you OWN car.
*There are only four spices: salt, pepper, tabasco and ketchup.
*The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but it requires
6 pages for local gossip and sports.
*The first day of deer season is a national holiday.
*100 degrees Fahrenheit is 'a little warm'
*We have four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, still Summer and Christmas
*Going to Walmart is a favorite past time know as 'goin' Wal-martin' or off to
Wally World.
*A cold snap (below 70 degrees) is good pinto bean weather
*A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola or pop..it a Coke, regardless
of brand or flavero. Example: "What kinda coke you want?'
*Fried catfish is the other white meat.
*We don't need no stinking driver's ed..if our Mama says we can drive, we can drive.
*EVERYONE can't be from Texas, it takes talent. You might say it's an art form
or a gift from God.
She Arrived Safe and Sound...
I know I am really behind on posting this but just could not miss the chance to let you guys know.
A few weeks ago I told ya that we were waiting for the arrival of our newest niece, Aileen, well I am very excited to let you know, Miss Aileen made her debut on March 25 at 9:35 am !! She weighted 7 lbs, 11oz and was 19 inches long. She and Mom did great.
Up till now we have only seen pictures but today PL and I are heading up to have Easter lunch with Miss Aileen and her family!! So of course that means more pics are coming!
later
4/11/09
It All Started With An Email.......
"I wish I were an Oscar Mayer weiner, that is what I'd truly like to be, For if I were an Oscar Mayer weiner, everyone would be in love with me!"
You just never know what is going to kick off a set of adventures in your life. Take my the adventures I had last weekend for instance. On Thursday night I received an email from an old friend of mine in Palm Springs, Dave. Now Dave and I have know each other for several years, and during that time, we have sure had us some fun times together. Dave actually only lives in Palm Springs for about 6 months of the year and the other 6 months he lives at his home in Oregan. Dave retired several years ago and enjoys the climates in both places. Well it is getting about that time of year when Dave heads back up north to get away from the heat of the Desert.
He told me last year he was not sure how many more years he was going to be able to come down to winter in the Desert since he is in early 80's and is not sure how safe it is for him to be driving down by himself. So thinking this actually may be the last time he comes down, he wanted to see if I was going to be able to some see him before he leaves. So after checking with PL to make sure we did not have anything planned for the weekend (and we didn't), Dave and I made plans to get together on Saturday afternoon at his place.
After those plans were made, I got to thinking,since I was going to be in PS, maybe
my friend Goya and I could have breakfast and catch up on all the gossip. So I called Goy and sure enough he was free so we made plans for me to be at his house at 8am on Saturday so we could have breakfast and we could drop off his Jeep at the dealership for servicing. I was now officially excited about the weekend!!
The next afternoon as I was driving home from work, I got to thinking again (I do some of my best thinking while I am driving!), it has been many moons since I actually got to see my friend PW in Joshua Tree. Since I was already going to be down in the Desert for the day, maybe I could shoot up to Joshua Tree (about 30 miles or so from PS in the High Desert)after I leave Dave's and have dinner and catch up with him and then drive back to LA later that night. That way I could catch up with 3 of my close friends! So I called PW and he said great, come on up and then "Why don't ya just spend the night?", Wow! that thought had not even crossed my mind!! so I checked with PL and he said "Sure, that would be ok". So just because of one little email, I now a weekend of fun adventures planned!
As most of you know, I truly love the Desert. It is truly a fun and magical place for me. The weather was really beautiful, although I just missed a horrific wind storm the night before I went down. I got to visit with all three of my friends
in nice easy way and had a blast with all of them. Goya and I got to check out the hot guy in the booth next to us (I can not describe just how HOTTTT this guys was,he was there with his girlfriend and every Gay man in the place hated her!! LOL) and we got in some shopping time together. Dave and I had a great time, talked over some fun times we have had and just enjoyed each other's company. PW had cooked up some of his aweseme spaghetti and we had some cocktails after dinner and caught up with what has been going on since we saw each other last. AND, we watched the movie "Twilight". It was his first time to see it and it was my 5th time.(Yes I am totally hooked on this movie right now like a 13 year old little girl, scary huh?)
I left the next morning headed back to LA but I just was not really ready to go back to the Big City, so I headed back to PS. I ended up in Desert Hot Springs, which is on the other side of I-10 from Palm Springs and it is the first place I lived when I moved to California. I have not been there in several years so I drove though town and saw all the changes that had taken place since the last time I was there, not many really, Desert Hot Springs just doesn't change that much. I found the house I use to live in, just the same just painted a different color. I finally made my way over to PS and went to an Art Festival they were having in the park and then decided I better head to LA.
It turned out to be one of the most relaxing fun weekends I have had in a while..and it all started with an email....
later.
P.S. So you might we wondering just what the Wiener Mobile had to do with my weekend in the Desert. Well, let me tell ya. Just as I was leaving PS, I was stopped at this light and low and behold, the Osar Mayer Wiener Mobile pulled up to. Now some of you will remember the Oscar Mayer jingle at the top of this posting, many of you probably will not, because it came out in 1963!! But ALL the way home I kep singing that stupid jingle, one I had not thought of in years, but I still knew all the words to!! I am just thankful I was not stuck singing "Small World"!!
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