Thursday wasn't too bad at work. I misloaded a C&S bill. Got home and took the license plate off the Dynasty and switched out batteries. Friday night was damn cold. After talking about it all week, Joe got out early on Friday night. He left around 5:15. It was an easy night. Got out of there at 10:30. Finished the week out at nearly 40 hours. Came home, ate a bit, washed up and then we headed down to Dallas. We had to stop and get a cake on the way down. Holly's uncle wasn't very friendly. He left as soon as we got there. His house was a disaster. I'm glad his fat girlfriend wasn't there. Ashleigh was still getting over being sick and wasn't in that great of a mood. We went to McDonalds first. Jeremy got a Pirates watch. He didn't really eat much. We went to the Dollar Store after that. Got a bag of Jelly Beans and some stickers for Jeremy. We were debating on whether or not to have cake in the house but I didn't want to go back in there and I was getting tired. Fell asleep in the car on the way home. Left Holly's quickly after getting there. Got home and went to bed for an hour. Got up and ate (meatloaf, broc and cheese, baked potato). Hooked up Jeremy's game for him and played with him for a bit before falling asleep on the couch for two hours. Got up and been wasting time since. Messed around online and played Guitar Hero. Beat Slipknot and Cult of Personality. Now I'm up to the last round of songs and it's going to take forever to beat them. One is easy besides the first part of the solo. It comes so fast that you basically automatically fail. Rangers have the early 12:30 game so I'll get home, watch it, take a shower in between periods and take a quick nap after the game. Have to put Jeremy's Big Wheel together for him so I can take him outside if it's nice tomorrow.

Bad Luck Days Go Away-

We had a lot of running around to do on Wednesday. I got out of work at least 20 minutes early and made my way home. Came home and played online for a few minutes. I checked the stocks and wasted time online. Took a bath and got to bed around 9:30. Got up at 12 and we made our way to the dealership. Noticed the highway was all backed up going west. They didn't sell any cars at the dealership; it's just a service and rental facility. A 45 minute wait to get the key made. Ridiculous. We get the key made and they tell us it still doesn't open the trunk. I threw my credit card at the cunt when she told me that, and got out of that scum place as quickly as possible. On the phone I specifically mentioned that I had a valet key and needed to get into my trunk but the cunt didn't listen. 115 dollars for a key. On the bill it specifically says "Does not open trunk; further inspection needed" so now we have to scan the document and I have to alter it in Photoshop. Disgusting. Holly wanted Panchero so we made our way there. We got Jeremy a BK Kid's Meal (SpongeBob Toys but he got Sandy the Squirrel) and went to Panchero. I got the burrito and was impressed by it this time. I wasn't impressed with it the first time. I wanted to go to the mall to price up games so we headed there. Morrowind GOTY-18.00, Kotor 2-20.00, Fable-10.00, no Ninja Gaiden:Black or Fable: The Lost Chapters which I wanted. I bought Riddick for 5.00. Jeremy was looking through the games and he found every cartoon/movie game that was there. I grudgingly bought him Scooby Doo for 10.00. We made our way towards Walmart on 611. We hit traffic from the mall to Tannersville. They had road work signs set up but they weren't doing any roadwork. I guess it was because of the time of day we were out. Noticed the Neon making a squeaking noise while stuck in traffic. It makes a squeal when you start it up. Holly said she thinks it's the timing belt. Jeremy started to get really annoying in the car about wanting to go home. We get to Walmart and do a quick shopping and don't even have to wait at checkout. We forget to Dale tobacco near K-Mart and have to drive all the way up to Choice. We get stuck behind a Neon doing 35-40 in the 55. He was swerving the whole time. Drunk at 6 at night. Get the tobacco and finally make our way home.

Try to put Jeremy in for a nap with me when we get home but he won't stay. He fell asleep in the car as we made our way home from Walmart. Jeremy wakes me at 9:45 and wants to try his game. Holly puts it in the system and it's unreadable. Thought I had to take it back in 7 days which really upsets me. We weren't planning on going down that way for a while. Holly made egg salad out of the Easter Eggs while I was sleeping. Go on my way to work and the car overheats and the gauge doesn't go down this time. I pull over by Pocono Lake and my car is making all kinds of loud noises. I open the hood and it's smoking. I call Holly and tell her and put water and antifreeze in it. Let the car sit for a little while. A cop stops on the other side of the road for me and I tell him I'm good and he leaves. Make my way home and stop on Locust Ridge in that dirt lot. Open the hood again and finally get the radiator cap off (couldn't before). Stop for a few minutes and make my way home. Get home and Dale comes out and looks at the car. Tells me he thinks it's the thermostat. Decide to take Holly's car to work. Only work about 5:30. I call Joe before I leave to ask him if he can get me a lift. Get there and find a green one near the entrance and take it and I don't have to use the white one Joe got me. Easy night at work. Get home and stay with Holly until she leaves. Get ready to waste time on the computer when Jeremy wakes and asks me to sleep with him. I go and fall asleep until 11:30. Dale fixes the car while I'm sleeping and took it out to get blood work, medicine and other things today. Waiting for him to get home so I can see how it's running.

Make phone calls when I wake up. Try to see if we can get the load deferred and they tell me no because it automatically goes by number of credits taken and not hours. I didn't want to start paying it in August and wanted to start saving first but we have to do what we have to do. We should just be getting into a groove in August with paying bills. Called the heart doctor and made an appointment for August. Nice of them to call us when they were supposed to. I guess it's really no big deal. Called a locksmith to see how much it costs to get the lock done and he told me to play with the lock with WD 40 and just try to work it. I hope it works and we can save some cash. Wait until Hot gets home and try it out. Called EB and they told me I have 30 days to return that Scooby Doo game.

I've been intrigued by World of Warcraft and really want to try it. I have no idea where I put my ten day demo disk (it's at my parent's house somewhere) and I'd just like to give the game a go around. I don't know if people spend hours at a time playing it because the missions are so long or what but I want to see why it's so addictive.

Last week I read the first 25 issues of Captain America. I'm going to finish the current run. I haven't gotten any comics in the last two weeks. There was a problem with Peer Guardian and I didn't want to mess with it without that running.

Wednesday Morning

The last few nights at work have been easy and we haven't been busy at all. The hub has been getting out at least an hour early and we got half an hour of overtime on Monday night and out 20 minutes early tonight. I gave Raul 20 dollars tonight so I'm covered for the next 21 powerball drawings. Joe told me he wouldn't take big amounts and i'm glad he did so I don't have to keep remembering to give him the money. I ordered a new set of uniforms from work. Three pants, three shorts, 6 t-shirts and two new jackets. I got them in large this time. I like the vest and don't know where my other vest is. I'll see if the large fits decently and I'll keep those to wear to work and maybe sell the others on ebay.

My finger is infected and I'm trying to heal it. Yesterday after work I noticed it was hot and I had to open the wound a bit and I put more peroxide on it. I've kept it covered at all times (except to air it when sleeping) but it probably got infected from the fucking bath water. Fucking house.

I bought SIRI yesterday at 2.99. I was watching it when I got home and I had the oppurtunity to buy a bit lower but I waited too long. I didn't have the update for the active trading or I might've gotten a better deal. I downloaded it last night. I think it'll be a good entry price point. I didn't put the whole amount in either so I can make another entry at a lower price point to average down if I have to. I was watching COIN and RAS and they both jumped hard recently. Moterolla just split it's cellphoen and other businesses and is making two stocks. I'm going to watch that. I'm also curious about the finacials

Holly's mom just shut my bath water off. I hate when she does that. Boils me bad.

I'm looking to get a few games for the original Xbox. Fable: The Lost Chapters, Morrowind:GOTY, Ninja Gaiden: Black and Chronicles of Riddick. I'd also like to get Rogue Squadron 2 for Gamecube. I may make Holly stop at the mall for me today so I can check out the prices of the games.

Monday Morning-JP raises bid for Bear to 10

Hung out all day yesterday. Spent a lot of time playing Guitar Hero and COD online. Chris and I got to the last set of Co op songs but they're probably too hard to play on the controller, unless some of them are for bass. We only tried to play "One" and lost towards the end. I beat six songs over the weekend-Smashing Pumpkins, Tenacious D, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Disturbed, Queens of the Stone Age, and Muse. I'm stuck on Slipknot and it's going to take some practice to get it. The pattern I'm worried about is alternating chords of pointer and ring together and then middle and pinkie. Leveled up in COD to a level 19. I leveled up just as I was getting ready to leave the house. I unlocked a new gun but didn't get a chance to try it. Got a scope on my AK-47 and got the red eye sight for the M4.

Aunt Mare came over in the afternoon. Chris went out to get Mom and Aunt Mare plants and all they had were dying tulips with no flowers on them. Hilarious. Aunt Mare gave us 60 for Easter. We had lasagna, ham, stuffed mushrooms, and squash pie for dinner. The ham was excellent, better than normal. Came back to Holly's and hung out and watched the newly wed show. The good couple got kicked off. Probably because that other couple (non black, non annoying) figures they can't get kicked off because they're buddy buddy with the annoying couple and it guarantees them a spot in the final two. Holly got dressed up for me and looked beautiful but I fell asleep early. Thought she was going to wake me up but she didn't.

Woke up at 7:30. Didn't get the Bear Stern news until it was too late to play. Of course, when I woke up I didn't feel like going online at all and it possible screwed me out of money. I don't know if I really could've gotten in for less then 10. Oh well. Played a few games of Hi Ho Cherry O, one game of Candyland, and gave Jeremy a bath. Put Holly on my insurance and made an appointment to get a key made on Wednesday. Going to go play KOTOR for a little while and then catch a nap before Hot gets home.

Sunday Morning

Work was very very slow on Friday. We were done by 7:00. I didn't want to home early if there was easy money to be made so I stayed around and swept and cleaned up and basically wasted time. Joe G was riding that sweeper Zamboni for hours. Then Jack called us in city dispatch to go over the Hazmat procedures and he talked about how we've been doing lately. It was a good way to get some extra time without doing anything. On Jeff's way out he gave us all Fedex hats. I gave mine to dad. Got out of work at 8:10 and went to sleep as soon as I got home.

Woke up at 11:45 and took Jeremy to the movies. I liked the movie and thought it was clever. It didn't seem like he was into it much after the first half an hour. He was sitting on my lap and then he moved over to Hollys. He started to fall asleep on her and we tried to give him soda and candy to keep him awake. We went to Panera for dinner and then made our way home. Dale needed tobacco and the paper and Holly needed a roast so we stopped at Shop Rite in Daleville. It was convenient that Holly remembered about it because we would've went all the way to IGA and the tobacco store in Blakeslee. Shop Rite was nice and we put Jeremy in a shopping cart with a car attachment on the front of it. He was having fun and he kept telling me to push him faster. Went back to Holly's and then to my parents. Got home and ate a bit and then hung out. Chris and I played Co-op guitar hero for a while. We unlocked 3 good locked songs and one shitty one. Played guitar hero a lot and messed around on the computer. Fell asleep at 11. Woke up at 3:30 and didn't have much to do so I played Smash for a little while and now I'm on the computer. Looking to watch the new South Park episodes. I wanted to play Guitar Hero or COD but Chris kicked me out of there. I don't know he can't just go to sleep in mom's room so I can play the game. He's such a fucking bitch when he's sleeping.

Holly e mailed me to tell me that her face was swollen last night. I hope she's feeling better today. My finger has healed but it's red all around it. I hope it's not infected. I had it covered all the time and changed the bandaids a few times a day. holly put Neosporin on it for me too. The finger feels sore but I hope it's just from banging it against the forklift bad. We'll see in the next few days.

Friday Morning

Dyed eggs with Jeremy before work. He had a good time doing it. I had just mentioned yesterday about Siri going up to the 2.9's because I was watching it. The stock went up to 3.12 after hours on a Wall Street Journal Article. Of course, of course. I'm going to look into buying pre market on Monday morning since I'll be home and have the time to do make the trade. Once there is momentum behind the merger talk, the stock shoots up quickly. Visa is also a good trade and will go up at least 8 percent but I don't know what's going to happen after it sells off for profit taking.

A cold nasty night at work. With the wind chill it was only 9. It was a slow night because most businesses were closed for Good Friday. We should be closed too! One of the drivers brought in Munkins for us. I wanted to bring some home to Jeremy but didn't have anything to put it in. That big John has brought in Krispy Kreme a few times in the last two weeks as well.

We have to bid for new time slots in the next few weeks. I'm going to tell Jeff about needing a 7:30 slot at the end of March. That gives him 8 solid weeks to get me in that slot once we move.

Been looking into buying Fable: The Lost Chapters and Ninja Gaiden: Black. I definitely want to get the special edition games because I regret not doing it with Morrowind, which I may have to pick up in the near future. We're taking Jeremy to see Horton tomorrow and probably out to eat and wherever else while we're out. I'm finally getting off the planet I was on in KOTOR. Just finishing up the last few quests. I like the game a lot. My Xbox has a hard time handling the disk and I don't know if it's abuse from the Xbox or the game itself. I hope the Xbox lasts a few more months until we get out of here.

Thursday Morning

Why does Sirius always have to go up before I get a chance to buy it as low as I'd like??? This always seems to be the case. It was looking very very attractive in the 2.7s and now in two days it's up to the low 2.9s. I can never get a break with it. It's only 60 bucks potential profit but it's 60 I'd like to be up. Visa is up a few points and there is that very small tinge of regret in not buying it. I don't know if it'll end the day up 10 percent or bounce around and get sold later in the day. We'll see. There's still plenty of time to buy it. My SMSI holding got stopped out earlier in the week and I don't know where to put those assets. It looks as if the financials may have hit bottom with the rate cut but we'll have to see in the next few weeks. I'm still too nervous to touch that sector.

Holly woke me up around 6 yesterday and we headed out to get Jeremy some candy. We had to pick up some groceries for her dad from Aharts and we went to the dollar store for the candy. Holly stopped and got a sandwich on the way home and I got home and played on the computer for a little while, tried to play KOTOR and fell asleep for an hour before going to work.

Got to work and picked up a forklift near the entrance. Drove it up to the break room and noticed it was the green one with the super hard brakes. I pushed down hard on the pedal to try to get it to soften and the brakes went right to the floor!! I don't' know if anyone used it and if it had any brakes because I immediately got off and went on a different lift. What started off as a pleasantly warm night turned nasty quick. I should've been pissed because it was a mess in the city but the warm weather put me in a good mood. It got cold and windy out of nowhere and ruined the rest of the night for me. I got aggravated towards the end but it wasn't a difficult night at all, just aggravating. Ended up with 45 mins overtime, 2:45 for the week so far.

We're going to colour Easter eggs when Holly gets home tonight. Holly boiled the eggs last night.
My finger has been sore since I cut it but it seems to be getting less sore. We still have to go get the key made for the Neon but we'll probably do that on a Wednesday instead of cramming everything in on a Saturday. I e-filed the taxes on Sunday night but electronically signed it for 1040 instead of 1040a. The federal government seems to have accepted it but we'll see if I get the refund in the six to nine business days or if I have to deal with the usual bullshit. My van has been running funny the last two nights. I'll be riding along fine and my check gauges light will come on and the temperature gauge goes all the way to hot and then down again immediately.

Mom offered me something for Easter since she bought Chris Smash Bros and I think I'm going to go with a phone card for the cell phone. I'll see if she can give me the money and I'll put in the other half and buy a full year card. It was either that or an xbox live year card but I'm not really concerned about that right now.

Wednesday Morning-Visa IPO

Monday, I played Kotor for a few hours and then hung out with Jeremy. He took at nap with me.

Boring night at work on Monday. Was helping a driver put a flat piece of freight on the wall and bashed my finger in between the pallet and his forklift blades. Dented my finger in pretty good. I hope it heals. It's definitely going to leave a nasty scar. Jack has been asking about me starting the supervisor training so I finally went and spoke to Bill about it and he told me the wage was only in the mid forties. I took the application but am not going to put it in. Boring night at work on Tuesday night. Joe is starting to get sick again. He gave me two pairs of gloves, a Fed Ex Winter Hat and Fedex Cap.

Holly got sick during her first day at the hospital and stayed home on Tuesday. She had temperature and was achey on Monday and was nauseous on Tuesday. Today we're going to go take Jeremy to get Easter candy and probably get some food out.

I put in a limit order at 55 for Visa while at work but it didn't none of the pre market orders went through. The stock seemed to have opened at 60 when I got home and dropped to 55 and is now slowly going back to 60. I didn't watch it close enough because I took a bath or I would've bought at 55. Whether I get in today or not is no big deal. It seems to be moving with smaller volume so I think it'll drop before the day ends.

Jeremy and Monday Morning

Jeremy had a few accidents last week while sleeping and now he has to sleep with a pull up again. He was doing really well with it for a long time. I think we need to get a night light and maybe even put the potty in the room for him. He's just too tired to get out of bed and go to the bathroom and just goes in his underwear when he's sleeping. Last week Holly brought him home a water color painting set and he absolutely loved it. He was sitting at the table painting for two hours straight that night. He never does that. I brought the water colors with me to my Moms' this weekend but he only used them for ten minutes before going on to puzzles. He was good all weekend and didn't really even get cranky at night like he usually does. It's supposed to get to the mid forties today and I'm looking to bring him outside, if only for a walk, just to get him out of the house for a little while.

Aunt Mare came over the house for a few hours last night. She brought Jeremy a Big Wheel for Easter. I went to put it together and it was missing all the screws inside. Fucking K-Mart for you. I'll never trust them to buy furniture or anything I have to put together. I beat Call of Duty 4 last night!! The last mission was really short and suprisingly easy. I don't know why they made it a mission on its own. It's basically a continuation of the mission before it. I played the mini mission after the credits rolled but didn't beat it. I'm a bit stuck on Guitar Hero 3. Both the Smashing Pumpkins and Tenacious D songs are difficult. The Tenacious D is the easier of the two and I just have to practice working on a pattern in the song. I downloaded the Dropkick Murphy's track pack (free) but it doesn't have their two hits on it. I haven't tried to play their stuff yet. Came back to Holly's and watched the Newlywed game and briefly fell asleep on the couch. Holly and I made love after that and hung out in the room.

Holly woke up sick and nervous this morning. She was throwing up and had the diaherea. She braved through it again and I'm very very confident she's going to do well today.

Sunday Morning

Easy days at work on Thursday night and Friday night. I was supposed to go home and sleep and then take Holly's car to pick up Chris but instead I went to my parent's right after work on Friday. Brought my Guitar Hero and played for a bit before going to sleep. Chris woke me up at 4 and then I went to get him. He drove us home. Mom went food shopping and she picked up Smash Brothers for Chris for Easter. Mom made pizza for dinner and we hung out and watched some of the Ranger game. The dish went out at the end of the first period and didn't come on until the end of the third. They lost the game. Went home in the morning and slept for two hours and then went out to lunch with Holly and Jeremy. We went to Amadeo's. I got a white pizza with broccoli and tomato but they overcooked it. Afterward, Holly had to go shopping for her dad. I went home and took a shower and went to sleep. Woke up for dinner (dad made quesadillas) and hung out the rest of the night. The Ranger game was on Yahoo but they played like complete shit so I didn't watch it past the first period. I was playing Guitar Hero and hanging out. I played Smash Brothers for a little while (wasn't really in the mood for it) and then played Guitar Hero again. I'm a little stuck on Guns N Roses and the Slash Boss battle. I think I'm at the end of COD and am going to try to beat it today.

Went to bed at 5:15 and woke up at 8:30. Hockey was decent. Tim, Nick, and I were on a power line. There are some new guys on our team from Big Wheel North that were a bunch of dicks. Some of them were alright but there was one in a blue jersey (Bob)that was especially annoying. We put him on defense and he wanted to play offense so bad that he kept rushing up and left his position open. He started yelling one shift that "he doesn't fucking skate at all". He was talking about Tim and he and Tim started yelling at each other a few minutes later. At the end of the game Jay from the other team got hit by Jay (a new guy) and he retaliated by cross checking him in the neck. I thought a fight was going to break out. We played until 11:45 without getting kicked off but it was time to come off after that. Tim scored like crazy and it was usually a pass from me to Nick to Tim. I scored once, a shot that hit the cross bar and went down. I had a backhand in front of Tie that bounced off his pad that I picked up a rebound for and had an open shot in front and shot right into him. When I shot it he said "Get the Fuck out of Here!" which was Un-Tie like and funny. Came home and ate, took a shower and played Smash for a little while. Holly always asks me to take a nap before I come there and I usually don't because of the afternoon hockey games and being busy but I actually took a nap.

Thursday Morning

Dale hurt his leg doing a bathroom at Diane's yesterday so we're not going to get the car today. Maybe we'll be able to do it on a Friday and I can drive the Neon down there. I'd much rather and not risk getting stuck with my car, especially with all those hills. Chris called me and told me that I have to pick him up on Friday. I don't really want to and was hoping Aunt Mare would do it but I'd rather do it and save Dad the trip after getting home from work. Holly mentioned something about hanging out with Kerry and I hope she doesn't so I can take her car. The Rangers are playing Friday night and it works a bit to my advantage.

Stopped at Walmart after work on Tuesday to get an Xbox controller. Picked up some pretzels, soup, and a few other odds and ends while I was there. My old Xbox controller didn't work when I tried it for the first time in two months (probably from being stepped on) and I don't quite know where the other controller is. I originally brought it here when I brought the Xbox but I didn't have a connector for it and I remember it being in my van for a while. I have to see if it works and if I can find it. If so, I'm going to bring the new one back. While going to work on Wednesday Night I hit and killed a deer on Locust Ridge. I couldn't avoid it because I was going down and around one of the hills. I hit it dead perfect on and it didn't really do damage to the van, besides breaking the grill. I made sure it was dead by running over its neck. At least it happened before we went to Harry's.

At work on Monday night just before leaving, Gramhn dropped some boxes of Strawberry Glaze. They were all for the Walmart Bakery and in thin plastic bags. He was lucky the bags didn't break or we would've had a big mess. I went to make a turn earlier in the night and the whole bottom came out of a skid of vitamin supplements. On Tuesday, Renee was walking past me and there was a piece of plywood under my tires and I started up my forklift and spun the tires and sent him flying. Later in the day, Joe and I had to recoup half a trailers of 42" Samsung Tvs. They were in a non decker trailer and weren't secured at all. They were stacked 3 high. The one row didn't fall too bad but the other row was almost completely tipped over. We restacked the small row and miraciously Joe somehow got the other row up with a decking board. I didn't think it could be done. We secured them with two beams and table. Got to work on Wednesday and the Tvs were all knocked over. The beams didn't help at all. Joe and his brother wound up restacking them.

I started playing KOTOR again. Just have to work out some of the kinks. I repaired a Druid and didn't know how to control it. Put on God of War for a minute but was too tired to get into it. I hope to buy some shares of SIRI on the cheap in the next few days.

Monday

Jeremy woke up and I fed him a yogurt while looking at trains on the computer. We hung around and played blocks and he watched me play Devil May Cry for a little while. I finally beat Devil May Cry 3 and was considering trying some of the game on Hard mode. They start you with your life total and powerup total from when you beat the game which gives you an advantage in the beginning of the game. I'm going to start up KOTOR again, which I really liked. Dale just asked me to take him to Dallas on Thursday. YAY. Fucking annoyance. Now I can't play hockey. If I have to go pick up Chris on Friday it's going to be another annoyance.

Hooked up God of War for PSP. Haven't played it yet. I got Guitar Hero 3 in the mail. It came in this super huge box. I'm tired of Puzzle Quest. The challenges aren't hard enough and it seems like too much repetition. Chris's friend's roomate scratched up his NHL 08 disk so the roomate had to buy him a new game and gave Chris the scratched one. Hopefully we can get it to work and we'll have the game for free.

Holly came home with Subway and we ate and then watched Spiderman 3.

Work was horrible and stressed me out something awful last night. I couldn't find any of the freight I was looking for, I dropped a few skids, had to load into impossible situations, and the old man seemed to have always been in the way. He puts stuff into trailers and doesn't scan it in and I go crazy looking for it. Got an hour and a half of overtime and had to go to the bank and post office after. Sent out my car payment and an ebay auction. Joined the powerball pool at work.

The stock market had a crazy day but it seems to have started in the pre market and I won't be able to play the day to day changes with this shift at work.

HOLLY GOT OFFERED A JOB AT POCONO SPEECH!! Defininetly shows she's doing an excellent job and her hard work is paying off. We don't know how they pay but it would be convenient and it would be good to fall back on if she can't find something better. We'll see how much she likes the Hospital environment compared to the therapy environment.

More Updates and Sunday

Today is our 6 year anniversary!!!! Here's to 200 more years together!!! We should've gotten married on March 10th because we celebrate this anniversary more than our wedding anniversary.

When I came home from work on Monday, Lou's son Rob was here. His mom beat the shit out of him and he had nowhere else to go. I don't know if he walked here in the rain or something but I kept hearing him cough.

Dale decided to get a loan to buy a new car. I don't quite see the sense in this. He just bought that van and it's a fucking waste. The loan is for 3000 and he's most likely just going to buy another piece of shit. He says he' going to fix up the van and have two cars but why pay the car insurance?? Either fix up the van and sell it or don't buy a new car at all.

Holly and I stopped at the library before going to the mall on Saturday and rented Spiderman 3 and Team America. I got Team America for myself and don't know if I'll end up watching it but I want I really want to see Spiderman 3, even though Chris said it was shitty.

I played Call of Duty 4 before going to bed at 5 on Sunday. Woke up and thankfully there wasn't any snow!!! All my doors were frozen solid and the only one I could get open was the passenger side door. I had to push open the driver's side from inside the car and we couldn't even get the sliding door open until we got down to hockey.

Hockey turned out Ok. I played on a line with two guys from Big Wheel North and it didn't seem like the forward was passing it to me at all. My first two shifts were strong but as soon as I went to 5 on 5 it seemed to have thrown me off. I made some shitty moves and bad passes. I didn't even score. Wore Holly's socks and have a cut on my ankle now. Have to remember never to wear ankle socks while wearing skates. The guys from Big Wheel North told us it just opened again and that they just started pick up hockey for Thursday nights. He said there were enough people for 8 teams and six goalies showed up. I'm definately trying to go down there at least every other week. We'll see what Holly says about it and see how far of a drive it turns out to be. There are Roller Hockey leagues in Scranton but you have to be definitely commited to playing every week and I can't make that commitment, especially in the winter.

Came home, ate lunch, and took a shower. My official weight is 172/173. I'm where I want to be (even though Mom and Aunt Mare say I'm too skinny). Holly actually told me she likes it better when I weight less. I'm going to eat healthy for the most part but not watch it as much. No more soda but I'll eat certain foods if we go out now. The Penguins were on but I only watched the first period. Didn't want to watch too much hockey.

Rangers were on at 3 and it was a good game. They couldn't put it past the Bruins goalie but they had plenty of chances. Too many passes in the first period. There were open shots a few times and they decided to pass. They did hit the post twice, Avery on a beautiful move. Jagr broke in at least twice to get partial breakaways but never really pulled off a strong shot after the dekes. Ludquist came up huge, especially in the 3rd period with at least one Hasek like highlight reel play of the universe getting over to stop a spectacular move to a pass (2 on 1) and stopped the rebound while on the floor by kicking up his leg.

Hung around the rest of the day. Played COD 4. Made Holly's anniversary present. Mom made two small whole chickens for dinner and they came out excellent. Dad finally got the coal stove from next door and now Holly and I have a coal stove when we finally buy a house. I like coal the best and now we can have a nice toasty house all winter long!

Getting towards the end of CoD 4. The single player campagin has been both fantastic and amazing and extremely difficult and frustrating. I played online for about an hour on Sunday and it's the most amazing online game EVER!! I hadn't really given it much a chance or much thought but the leveling system keeps you busy and entertained for much much longer than Halo does. The features are beautiful and extends the play life of the game for many many many hours. I'm at level 19 (of 20) on Devil May Cry 3. Haven't tried level 19 at all but I assume it's going to be hard. I've been addicted to Puzzle Quest and I really like all the options. Build dungeons, capture enemies, learn their spells, ride mounts, capture cities for gold production, leveling system, weapons system. It's very very deep for such a simple concept.

I hadn't read the Wall Street Journal for a few weeks but am going to start reading it every day. Not cover to cover like I was, but at least reading the Money and Investing and Marketplace, and some of the main section stories. SMSI, my only holding has been a roller coaster the last few weeks. It had dropped from 8.4 to the high 6's, only to very slowly climb right to 8. Then it was downgraded by JP Morgan and went all the way down to 4.42. I kept moving my stop down lower because I really didn't want to sell the stock before earnings. My stop was actually 4.4 when it hit 4.42. Got lucky. They beat earnings and got updgraded from Northeast and are in the mid sixes now. If JP Morgandidn't play that shit the stock would be in the 10's at least. I'm going to continue holding because I feel with the upgrade and buying pressure the stock with start an upward trend to at least 9 dollars a share. At least I hope it does. I'm looking into buying another stock but don't know which. RAS alwasy seemed to always follow the same pattern but it's hitting yearly lows right now. SIRI is hitting lows again and just from seeing how it could shoot up, I'm considering it once again. We'll see.

Week in review

Just another week at work. Seems like it was raining every night but I think it's only been the last two or three days. Finished the week out with around 5h15m of overtime. AJ is going away next week so we'll see how that leaves the city operation. If it's busy on the hub, Dennis may not even send anyone down to help us. I got my benefits card in the mail this week but I didn't get one for Holly or Jeremy. Hopefully because I had to submit the birth certificate and marriage license. I don't feel like calling and asking them about it. Was automatically enrolled in company's 401k plan. They put 3 percent of paycheck into the account and match it. I'm not thrilled about the prospect of saving up money that you can only touch when you're retirement age.

Holly and I ordered anniversary presents on Monday. I ordered Guitar Hero 3. Estimated Date of Arrival: Monday...would've liked to have it for the weekend but it didn't work out that way. Holly bought a pair of shoes, the Tori Spelling book and a pre order for 90210: Season 4. We bought Jeremy a Harvey the Breakdown Train toy for Easter on the same order. I wound up going food shopping Friday morning and when I pulled in Walmart seemed to have been jammed but I got in and out of there surprisingly fast. I got home and Dave was there to do his taxes and Cindy was there. Just the person I want to see after working OT and food shopping. She was bitching about "Donny" and I really couldn't take it. She just goes on and on and on and on. She said she's down to 116 pounds but I don't really see it.

Our anniversary is on Monday and I don't know if we're doing anything. I floated the idea of dinner with Holly on Monday but her mom has been a cunt to her lately so I don't know if we'll be able to do it.

We were supposed to go get keys made today but couldn't get in for an appointment. I thought it was a stop in type deal and didn't even really have to make an appointment but I guess they're pretty busy on Saturday because people are off from work. I had to call up Singh Auto and bitch about the key again. He tried to make me go down there while he took my car to get the key made but I eventually got him to say to send him the bill and he'd reimburse me. Thieves are selling the key for 100 fucking dollars; 50 for key, 45 for service. Such bullshit. I don't know what the chip does (actually going to look that up right now). She toyed with the idea of seeing the Easter Bunny and when Jeremy heard that he immediately wanted to do it. We went to the mall but he didn't want to take a picture with the bunny. I don't blame him. The bunny didn't look too friendly to me either. It was a chick in the costume. She went to the dollar store to pick up some odds and ends for the 'Thank You' present for work. Went to KayBee toys and bought 'Don't Break the Ice' for the present. Stopped at BK for fries for Jeremy and then went to Panera. The service sucked but I assume it's because it's a new restaurant and they're ironing out the kinks. We were waiting an unusually long time for our food and it turns out our sensor was broken.

Came home and going down the Country Place hill two kids were walking in the middle of the road. They basically stopped my car and told me there was a fire past bumble bee and to be careful. The one looked like he had a bloody nose and it was strange. Got home and started hearing the sirens. Mom and I went to look for it in the jeep but couldn't find it. Took a three and a half hour nap. Really windy here when I woke up. Finished up the taxes when I woke up. I thought Holly's tuition would give us a few hundred more dollars but it only added about 60 or 70 dollars onto our rebate. I'll take it but was looking forward to something more. Started downloading comics and God of War and LocoRoco for Psp. Tried to download Marvel card game but it stopped at 20 percent and no one is seeding it. Downloaded Beautiful Katamari and a few other things on XBOX live. I did some of them last week and it seems they downloaded but they're unplayable.

I'm really in the mood to watch a hockey game but there it seems as of late yahoo nhl hasn't been showing them. The Penguins play at 1230 tomorrow and the Rangers play at 3. I hope the dish upstairs works so I don't have to watch the game in the garage. Rangers have been playing FANTASTIC lately and are two points out of the 5th playoff spot.

My turn to drive to hockey tomorrow and it's supposed to snow. Hopefully it misses us or we get a slow snowfall that doesn't fuck up the roads.

Another Week

Not much happened this week. Holly was off on Monday because of ice and snow in the morning. By the time I went to work everything was clear. Holly went food shopping for us on Wednesday night. I paid our car insurance in full on Wednesday. It was a little over 800. Another bill we won't have to worry about for six months. Got a snow storm on Friday. Holly got out of work early to avoid it. She then went to get her hair cut and to get condoms. Her hair came out nice. Shirley finally cooked that turkey that was in the freezer. It turned into a nice little dinner. Going to work was a real mess. It took me a while to get started up Locust Ridge right outside the community. All the roads were snow covered and slick. Tyler was only at work one day this week so I made out good with the overtime. Ended up with almost 7 hours of overtime. I didn't get out of work until 11:30 on Saturday morning. Got home and called my house to see if I could go there immediately. I got there about 2PM. Took a shower and went immediately to sleep. Woke up and ate dinner and hung out the rest of the night. I accidentally took Holly's car keys with me home so it was a big mess. I really didn't feel like driving all the way to her house and back again so I told her I wouldn't. She wanted me to and it was a fight both ways. Dad took Chris home and I didn't really get a chance to hang out with him. Jeremy started his "I want to go home" requests but it wasn't as bad as the time before. He layed down in Chris's bed and asked me to lay with him but eventually went into Mom's bed and fell asleep watching cartoons. I downloaded TurboTax and did most of our taxes. The only part I have left to do is Holly's tuition. We came out to around 4700 but it should be more after the tuition reimbursement. How much more we'er not really sure. I'm hopping at least the 550 that Dale and I figured out today but it may only be 100 dollars or so. With the Stimulus package and the state rebate it should be a good year for free money. We have about 1800 left on the Dental and the full 5000 on the car loan and should be able to wipe them both out completely in six months. I played COD and played on the computer the rest of the night.

Thankfully Ryan drove to hockey on Sunday. It was a decent game even though I didn't score until the end. We had 24 guys total. They tried to make 3 teams in the beginning but I rallied that I didn't want to and about five mins in we had two big teams. We played 5 on 5 and it worked out well. It starts to get rough in there five on five. I played defense the first period. Bobby and I were behind the net trying to get the puck off the wall and we were leg wrestling and he knocked me down and i leg locked him as i fell and took him down with me. I played offense the rest of the game; had a few shots and some passes and fucked up on a breakaway at the end of the game. I drew at least two penalties. Have a sore hip and tender arm today. We were pulling out of the parking lot and Ryan was driving Tim's car. We were behind Jeff and Mike and the traffic was bad. They started to pull out and went too far and Ryan puled behind them and they backed up into Ryan. It was hilarious, even though I immediately thought there was damage to the car.Went home and watched the Rangers game. They didn't play particularly well but pulled out the game in overtime. Lundquist let in soft goals in the first period but the team got them right back. He was pulled after the first and Valquet played a good game. Hung out the rest of the day. Aunt Mare came over for a few hours and brought me the Superbowl hat. It's nicer than it looked on TV but not as nice as the conference champions hat. Downloaded Lumines 2 and some comics. Played COD4 (main quest and online) and am stuck a bit on the mission. I like online play but it seems a bit tough to kill the enemies. I finally got a red dot on my AK 47 and I'm starting to level up in the game. I like the level up and customizable system. Makes for a nice change. Much better than the Halo 3 system.

Came home tired and uploaded Lumines to the PSP and took off Syphon Filter. Watched some Newlyweds game with Holly and fell asleep on the couch. She got dressed up for me (looked very hot) and we made beautiful love and then I played Lumines and went to sleep.

I picked up Puzzle Quest and stated playing again. I don't know what to do as far as missions go but I'm sieging towns which makes for some harder opponents. Progressing in Devil May Cry and am towards the end of the game. I have to fight some older bosses and I hate that Cerberus dog. Going to have to get some orbs before doing so.