December 2005 Archives

Wow, this has been a big year for me. When I look back in twenty years I think this will be the year I went from a “Kid” to an “Adult”.

I got married! It has been one of the most amazing things to ever happen to me. It has really changed my outlook on life and I am really looking forward to spending the rest of my life with my beautiful wife.

I also accepted a job at the Missouri House of Representatives doing network security. That was one of the hardest things I have ever done at the time but it has turned out to be a great move. I am really learning a lot and I believe I have a lot of room for growth there.

I hope everyone else has had as good of a year as I have had!

Today was Missy and mines first Christmas together as a married couple. It started this morning at 6:00AM when we woke up to exchange gifts. I got Missy a gift certificate, some perfume and a nice necklace. She got me a nice Citizen Eco Drive watch that I have been wanting and some other really nice things.

From there we have been running and just got home about an hour ago. Missy is taking a quick nap on the couch and I am watching Green Bay fall apart versus the Chicago.

As always we have some pictures here.

I hope everyone had an as enjoyable Christmas as we did!

Here are a few Christmas Eve pictures I had time to upload before running to mass.

Hot:
Christmas is 5 days away
I only have to work 4 days out of the next 13
I have 95% of my Christmas shopping done.

Not:
I have a cold and a runny nose.

Hot or Not:
Do you think Nick is Hot or Not?

Last night Eric and Nick came over to my house and we exchanged gifts.

Here is the break down of the gifts everyone got:

Eric:
Golf Ball Retriever
45 Golf Balls
Teed Up Auto Ball Tee’r

Nick:
Margarita Mix
Tequila
Golf Putters Pool

Jerry:
Civilization’s IV
Microsoft Wireless Laser Desktop 6000

I have some pictures here.

After we opened gifts we went to the local Mexican restaurant and then went and watched the Linn Wildcats man handle the New Bloomfield MildCats. I normally don’t go to high school basketball games but watching the school Nick works at get beat the team Nick played on was well worth the trip.

Missy and I went to see her brother and sisters Christmas program tonight. It was pretty funny if you like rapping angels and cheerleaders in heaven. I have some pictures of the event here.

We also bought $15 of raffle tickets and won two rows of reserved pews at the Christmas Eve service at Holy Family Catholic Church. Missy says we should go and that having reserved seats is a good thing because the church is always packed. I think we should put the reserved seats on eBay and see if we get any bidders.

I normally don’t post stuff I get in email on this site but I figured it was worth it. If you have ever been to a Cardinals’ Game in Busch Stadium this will be a sad video.

Busch Stadium Destruction Time Lapse

Remember to right-click and select “Save As …” to download to your hard drive it doesn’t seem to like to be embedded into a webpage.

Missy, Nick, Eric and I went to the Linn Christmas Parade today. I took some pictures from the Parade.

Since I had my camera at work today I took a few pictures of my office.

Here are the snow picturesI promised you, as an add bonus they are taken at my job.

Yippee! I might get a snow...oh crap I dint work at a college anymore so I'll have to get up and go to work even if it does snow tonight.

Anyway here is a Radar Map, Pictures tomorrow of the snow.

Not knowing a lot about cars can really lead to some cool findings. Today after Missy and I got done Christmas shopping my car wouldn’t start and come to find out my Battery Post “fell off”. It looked more like it corroded off. I had to buy a new battery and a guy in the Wal-Mart parking lot helped me install it.

Anyone else ever have a battery post fall off?

Q: How do you win at a casino?
A: Pick 4 Roulette numbers in a roll correctly.

Q: Do you get anything for picking 4 Roulette number correctly in a roll?
A: NO, but you can make a nice little pyramid of chips in front of you and make your friends jealous.

Nick, Eric and I went to the Casino last night and I was losing my hat at the craps table so we switched over to the Roulette table and my luck changed around quickly with me picking 6 Roulette numbers correctly and an Amazing 4 in a row. The bad news is that I was only betting a dollar per number.

Nick and Eric on the other hand didn’t have any luck so we went and ate at Hot-Shots in St.Louis. The food was a little over-peppered but the darts were pretty fun.

Shopping Days Till Christmas: 23
Number of Christmas Presents Bought: 0
Number of Christmas Presents Needed: 35
Christmas Presents Per Day I Need To Purchase: 1.5217

So I have done the math and I got the list now I just need to go shopping. I don’t know when I’ll go shopping but chances are on the 20th I’ll be making this post:

Shopping Days Till Christmas: 4
Number of Christmas Presents Bought: 0
Number of Christmas Presents Needed: 35
Christmas Presents Per Day I Need To Purchase: 8.75

Just for some educational content here is a link to everything you need to know about December.