Monday, February 25, 2008

Conversations of Madmen

Lori complains loudly , "I am sick , I feel like Shit !" Kevin replies , "Like shit on a steeeek?"
"No , more like shit on toast", says Lori.  
"hmmm...spread or a dollop?"
"Definitely mashed down and spread"
  Kevin , wanting to be empathetic and to not be accused of trying to fix this shitty situation ; replies "I`m sorry to hear that , honey"
"I`m sorry to feel it!" , snaps Lori
Ignoring the image of spread shit on toast , he leans over to kiss her on the forehead and says , "Try and be positive , at least you don`t smell like shit"


   Well now , Kevin is in Deep Shit!

Friday, February 22, 2008

More Freakin Snow

  I guess I can`t complain coz it hasn`t been too bad with snow but it doesn`t take much to put me in a sour mood this time of the year.  I hate freakin snow unless I`m intentionally visting it.
KB

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Vermont Weekend

Went skiing this weekend at mount snow.  Took Lori to a bed and breakfast inn.  We usually enjoy our stays at b&b`s - but this one wasn`t so great.  We initially liked our hostess , a kinda spunky older lady with a smoke-gravely voice; After a while , her spunky was just funky and annoying.
  We woke up at 6:45 in the AM to the cooks radio , apparently we resided right above the kitchen.  It was rock music , but once it makes it thru the ceiling and floor to our ears , it just sounds like muffled discordant noise: At 6:45 AM , regardless of sound quality , this wasn`t appreciated. 
  The cook was an "out there", loud and obnoxious Neo-hippy who obtrusively offered his dinner services , prior to even allowing us to taste his breakfast.  His breakfast sucked.  No cheese to goalong with the dry eggs was my complaint. Lori loved her pancakes.
  We had a cheesy little jacuzzi tub but took advantage of it two nights in a row  ; on the 2nd night Lori`s bathing was interrupted by the Hostess who said that the tub was apparently leaking
downstairs.  We promptly ceased using the jacuzzi and drained the tub , they promptly shut the
water off with no warning.  Ugghhh!
  We left on Sunday without their crappy breakfast , attempting to sleep in despite the cacophony
of the kitchen radio.  Unsuccessful , we got up and left.  I planned on taking us snow shoeing but it was 18 degrees , 40 mile per hour gusts , and snowing .  We wimped out...The drive sucked as it was icy as hell , at one point my subaru which rocks in
 the snow , was unrelentingly sliding down a hill whilst the breaks did nothing but whine. 
In slow motion we anticipated sliding into the car ahead of us. The drive didn`t get much better from there.
  Finally made it to Northampton on Sunday in anticipation of our night out to see The Clicks , a concert at Pearl St nightclub.  This is a fun little college town despite all the hippy lesbians that attend the local college.  I obliged Lori on hitting all the funky little shops , filled with mystic tarot cards, fair trade textiles , gay literature , vegan food stores , bath and body shops etc; I was even patient for the most part.  We ate Indian food at a place we have enjoyed in the past , but this time it wasn`t quite as good. Something about Indian food , as much as I love it , restaurants rarely repeat the dish exactly as you have had it before.  Well , we check into our hotel .  It was kinda nice considering it was half the cost of the B&B.  We relaxed , showered and dressed for our night out , and make it to the nightclub to find out that The concert was Cancelled.  The lead singer apparently called out Sick ! Fuck !!! Shit .... SHIT FUCK !!!
 Sorry , but this was actually the event I booked the entire weekend around.  Lori wanted to see
this band , and I liked the CD she picked up , booked this first and wrapped the rest of the crappy weekend around it.  SHIT ... FUCK!
  Our hotel happened to have a pool and a real jacuzzi , Lori and I whiled away the evening til we were wrinkly and waterlogged.  We drove home the next day , basicly laid around the house.  What a waste of a long weekend. 

  In between all the bullshit I described , their was pockets of fun.  It wasn`t all horrible.  Skiing was fun , we enjoyed one of the dinners out in vermont , the pool and
jacuzzi in the hotel was great and Lori and I , for the most part , got along well and enjoyed each
others company.

Monday, February 11, 2008

Quote

After reading and watching the news , I coincidentally ran across this quote by Benjamin Franklin.

He that best understands the world , least likes it.  

Monday, February 04, 2008

Its February

Well my new years goals are still on target and its february.  Generally by now most people have relapsed into the bad habits that prompted the yearly resolutions.  
  Well , I`m still not smoking , and I lost over 11 lbs .  Not easy to do considering when I quit last (8years ago or so) I probably gained about 20.  
  I have a mental plan that when March 15th hits , and 6/15th and 9/15th ....That I will renew or create new resolutions.  This way if I start to flatten out by march , I can re-up.  I figured timing it by the beginning of the change of seasons will help gear me up esp spring / summer and all the fun things that can be done during that time.  
  Last weekend prior , we  went to Marilyn Manson concert.  It was good , not great , but good. We have seen him 2x prior and thought the other shows had better sound and more theatrics.  This was at the orpheum theatre.  A small place compared to what Manson can sell out.  I expected the sound to be better since the place was built for maximum auditory experience but it sounded a bit muddy.  
   I also found myself complaining as I feel like I spent the entire weekend WAITING.  Waiting for the girls to get ready , waiting for the T , waiting on the T for like a million stops , went to museum , felt crappy and bored quickly , waited hours to leave , walked around boston , for hours , waiting for show to start.  Got to show before  7 - waited for warm up band , about 8ish.  Then waited until after 10pm ...now we were here for over 3 hours in tiny ass 
little uncomfortable chairs , until Manson finally came on stage.  
I couldn`t wait to go home !
 It wasn`t as bad as I`m describing but hopefully next weekend will be better .