Come Getcha Some!

The Toast and Tessie Girl hiking in Shenandoah National Park. It's not much but damn are we cute. Figuratively speaking of course.

Pizza Play!!

Due to the financial strains of planning a classy wedding, rather than going nuts on each other for Christmas this year Kool-Aid and I agreed upon pooling together and getting ourselves something that we both could enjoy. What that ended up being was a Nintendo Wii and let me tell you sumpin' internet audience, a better decision could not have been made.

Playing video games on the colorful level of the Nintendo does something to me. Even though I had never played the Wii before there is a certain level of nostalgia that it brings as opposed to the high tech, action packed games of the Playstation/Xbox realm which pretty much just blow me away with graphics, gameplay, and movie-esque story lines. Not so with the Wii. The games seem almost an almost simple kind of fun. Now, mind you I don't have much experience with this as we only have a few games for it so if I offend those by calling the Wii simple please expect my apology in advance. But in all seriousness, playing MarioKart or fooling around in the living room with Wii Tennis seems just a childlike pleasure to me and as inferred this is clearly not a bad thing. The cartoon graphics, the vivid colors, and the silly overall nature of these games have brought me back to my basement 20 or so years ago when times were less complicated and the Toast was back pain free.

One game in particular has the Toast reminiscing of days of yore. Soon after the Wii purchase I went out with a handful of the Target giftcards we collected and picked up Super Mario Bros. Wii and to keep this blog some what brief I will paraphrase the initital description of my excitement: DANG DANG DANG and WICKED AWESOME!! No, in all seriousness, I haven't had this much fun playing video games since I finally got that first nintendo so many years ago. I don't really know how to put this feeling of innocence into words so you'll have to forgive me if this is as far as I go.

Now, that being said, the Wii is not without it's faults. For example, I have had to go out and by like 4 different controllers for this thing, thus throwing the supposed saving money by toning down Christmas spending right out the fucking window. Nevertheless, on nights when Kool-Aid and I might have gone out and seen some shitty movie or gone to the bar for platefuls of mozz sticks and multiple pints of Guinness, the Wii has given us the option of goofing off together in the living room while allowing me to spend a little QT with my best girl. More importantly, I'm kinda already in my jammies by 8 o'clock on a Friday night as opposed to the far less fortunate leaving my Debit Card at the bar with an still to be paid tab. Whose the big winner??? This guy!! /points to self.

So, in closing: Wii = good, Jammies on a Friday night = even better, and Tessie Girl gets confused/terribly excited when we play Wii Boxing. You should hear the noises she makes, awful cute I tells ya!!

Oh, and There's This.

My Morning Jacket is so fucking awesome. I couldn't find a good live video of this song in what would be ten minutes of searching so I settled on this. The song is called "Wordless Chorus" and it's sheer greatness should be apparent pretty much from the get go. If not, just wait a little bit longer. To me, James' voice is absolutely fantastic.

I'M BACK BAY-BEE!!!!

Time to make a concentrated effort to this blog of mine again. To be honest with you, I want to make it a go as this train wreck aids in my airing of grievances, shout outs, high fives, general debauchery, what-have-you's, and so on. Here's to hoping that it sticks.

So, here come the grievances. I have recently undergone what the layman refers to as "a computer issue". While attempting to upgrade the laptop to Windows 7 almost three weeks ago the HP that was purchased in September crashed 95% through the install the four times it was attempted. Nothing left to do but bring it to Best Buy and have them take a look at it. Back and forth I went to retrieve my computer, return my computer, get unacceptable customer service and tech support, replacement of hard drives, arguing for programs to be reinstalled, only to still be left without the laptop weeks later. All for what, something that should be simple, at least according to all those Windows 7 commercials I see on TV. Next time.....I'm getting a Mac.

This present situation o'mine has gotten me thinking about what life is like being somewhat isolated. Thus, the return to the blog. Not gonna lie to you, kinda awful feeling disconnected to the world around you. Anytime you have an issue, with any sort of service (i.e phone, cable, etc.) you get directed to websites. Phone books no longer exist as info is found online. Hell, what's a map without mapquest?? Calling this feeling weird does not do this sense of being lost justice. I challenge you all to try it. Try going weeks without checking your email. Watch the news or read the paper for your information and current events. As I type this now on the special lady's work computer I can't begin to describe the feeling that has come over me. I have a world of information at my fingertips. To have that taken away from you, even if only for a total of 18 days, is just off putting.

In other news, the wedding is still on (nine months away is what I'ms told), Tessie Dog is still be the tops albeit she is rapidly approaching one year of age, and to top it all off the General here is on a vigorous workout regiment that gets me looking super fine. Why don't you female readers take a minute to gander at thoughts of all that. Nice right?? Oh...and did I tell you?? I'm applying for Grad School in the fall. It appears that Kool-Aid and I may be heading north to New England as my program really isn't found down here in the District. For those of you scoring at home, I'm going for Recreation Management, you know, Parks and Rec. administration type stuff and a school known as Springfield College is pretty much the bees knees when it comes to Recreation Management. Long story short, following my displacement from the working world over the summer I took stock of my situation, my ambitions, basically my looked at my life and decided that it was time to do what I wanted. To go after something that will make my professional life rewarding, fulfilling, and most importantly, enjoyable.

So, there you have it, a return to blogging for the Toastmaster. I just hope some of y'all are around to enjoy it. Alright, gotta run. Syracuse is playing West Virginia and I'm not devoted the proper amount of attention that a no. 5 vs. no. 9 match up deserves. Later bitches!!!