Over the weekend and through yesterday my girlfriend and I spent a lot of time painting 2 more rooms in my condo.  Good times, painful times (thanks Erica, for enduring the pain).  You can check out our brilliant masterpieces in my Condo Flickr Set.  New paint photos are the last ones in the set, the newest.

Don’t be too harsh when judging how well we did, otherwise my girlfriend will probably come kick your nuts in.

Greetings Jabloggyites!  Just wanted to post a message and make you aware of the new feature at the bottom of the right column.  Now you can subscribe to Jabloggy updates via email!  It’s essentially the same as subscribing via the RSS feed (orange man on the park bench (or toilet) above) but instead of having to check your favorite feed reader regularly, you’ll just get an email from Jabloggy with the new content!

Can you life get any better??!!  Well probably, but only when I decide to add another feature.  Enjoy!

Over this past weekend we made an hour and a half trip up to my hometown so I could spend the five minutes setting up my parents’ new Wii (read the manual!). While we were there my other half had to stop by the humane society (again) to look at kitties so she could get one for her and her daughter.

Guess who left with one instead?

Everyone, please say hello to Mac, Lexi’s newest roommate and eventual new best buddy (right now she’s still on her hissing period). He is 6 months old and in serious need of a declawing! But so far he is the most playful, most cuddly cat I’ve ever had. Lexi used to be that way too, but I think her adult years have forbidden to behave that way anymore (I think she’s really just jealous of him being so much younger and free-spirited… he’s got the world on a string!).

I’m sure now that I have two cats that I will provide a few more interesting stories about them from time to time. As Lexi got older I stopped writing about her because she doesn’t do as much cute and fun stuff anymore except talk to me. I could write about her more, but it would be the same story “She did stuff today: slept… ate… pooped… stared out the window… repeat”.

And if you’re wondering, yes he’s intentionally named after the computer from which I write this post. (GEEK)

Ladies and Gentlemen, take a moment of silence for the passing of the great Paul Harvey: http://www.abcrn.com/harvey/

Rest in Peace my man.  My dad tortured us with you growing up, but in the end you’ll always be a part of my childhood…

So again, my blog is targeted in a pingback scandal much like the Jabloggy parenting post from a little while back. I think I should start a segment on here dedicated to the weird pingbacks where my site gets listed. Freakin’ sweet.

This time, I am included in a list of places to buy gifts for Valentine’s Day this year. Since my headline reads “VD” instead of “Valentine’s Day”, I think that looks just bizarre (or awesome for those of you that are twisted like me).

Mmmmmm, VD. I mean Valentine’s Day you sick bastard!

Anywho, last year I posted the cutest, grossest, and most disturbing video of the Happy Tree Friends and their Valentine’s Day celebrations. This year I would like to share an article that I totally agree with. Basically the guy is saying that VD is a filler retail holiday and that everyone who’s anyone should be showing their love and affection for their significant other the other 364 days a year just as much.

Now no one’s saying you need to go out and buy gifts for him or her every day of the year, but since VD is the expected, make other days of the year the unexpected. Buy the gifts “just because” or “out of the blue”. Makes it all that more special.

So screw you retail outlets!

Valentine’s Day = Retail’s Money Maker Between Christmas and Easter: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/11/martin.valentine/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Ah yes, one of those relaxing weekends that we all get to sit around and watch 3 million dollar commercials! (what?! there’s a football game between them? huh, never noticed)

The one I am looking forward to is the Miller 1-second commercial. Sad that out of all the 30 and 60 second spots, all I want to see is 1 second. But that’s what makes it so fun! Plus from the media coverage and publicity I’ve experienced, it seems to be the most anticipated ad. I guess that kind of buzz works!

The other ad that I know everyone is looking forward to is the annual GoDaddy.com boobs (er, ad). Only they could make something as geeky as a domain name into something sexual. Nice pitch!

Video of the plane that went down in the Hudson River earlier this week:

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas all you Jabloggy nuts!  All this week I am being held prisoner at my parents’ house as we celebrate Christmas and pay homage to the Wii gods.  Yes, mii family has become Wii addicts and require that I bring my Wii with mii every year from this point on.  I don’t have much of a choice, otherwise they will kill mii!

As of right now, my aunt from Las Vegas is attempting to defend her Wii bowling title against my recently addicted girlfriend.  Both are attempting to maintain a better score than my girlfriend’s 5-year old daughter as well.  What has this world come to?!  Before family Christmases were a joyous occasion.  Now everyone wants to cut each other’s Mii heads off with a Wiimote.  All holiday hell is breaking loose!

So I’m a little late with this post, but I’ve been meaning to write about my Thanksgiving break.  Here we go.  Come along with me….

So over Thanksgiving break we did the usual family turkey meal on Thursday.  On Friday we attended the local tree lighting ceremony for all of the Christmas decorations around town.  This year they had several famous characters there for the kids, including Mickey and Minnie Mouse, the Grinch, a couple of reindeer, Frosty the Snowman and his wife, a couple of gingerbread men, and Shrek, just to name a few.  

Now this might sound not very exciting and overall pretty normal, however let me give you the run down on the Wisconsin Rapids version of these characters.  Just a heads up to my readers with weak stomaches and are easy laughers: this might be a little graphic and will probably make my dad cry with laughter.

Overall, all the character costumes were pretty pathetic.  My favorite characters were the reindeer and the gingerbread men.  The reindeer were wearing homeless-looking tennis shoes and had a pet dog.  Whoever heard of reindeer with a pet dog?  And if you thought that was strange, these reindeer were huddling together off away from the crowds next to a building.  We have reason to believe these guys were dealing some good stuff.  What evidence do I have of that?  Well, the gingerbread men appeared to be quite baked, the grinch wasn’t walking a straight line and scaring little kids, and the snowmen were way too friendly.  In summary, it was one of the most hilarious and saddest moments of my Christmas season this year.