Changes......

Lately I have been taking personal inventory, its been a hard look in the mirror.  Here are a few changes I would like to make in order to progress as a person.

1.  I am a great starter but a mediocre finisher, my goal is to become great at both starting a finishing. By great finisher I mean completing tasks promptly.

2.  I need to kick my diet coke habit.  I've tried but to no avail.  I know val is sick of hearing me talk about it.

3. I need to get back in shape, many years of injuries are adding up and extra weight only makes then worse.

currently i am 220 and would like to be around 170.  Its in the works.

4.  I need to be more patient with my 3 year old, he is awesome and sometimes I am to short with him or expect to much of him because he can talk like an 8 year old so I expect him to act like one.

5.  I need to start and maintain a personal Journal, making it a habit.   

this is it for now, let the games begin. 

its been a while....is this thing on?

Here is a quick list of pet peeves.
1. Wrong way parking, it ticks me off when people park facing the wrong way on the street. To the point where I turn into an old man and must comment every time. Every part of me wants to call crime stoppers and report this crime against America but they are to busy trying to catch drug dealers. Hello people wrong way parkers are the real criminals, its a gateway crime!
2. 4 way stops, it may be a stretch to say 25% of people know how to use a 4 way stop. For this I request all 4 ways are replaced with roundabouts and if you can figure out how to use a round about then I request you replace your car with a bus pass. The awkward is it my turn then everyone sits there and then goes at the same time so you have to wave some one, I hate it!

hello my name is dr green thumb

So this summer I decieded to plant a garden and thanks to the late snow I acutally ended up planting two gardens. The first was from seeds I started in this little greenhouse with moss pellets that looked like sushi rolls. I tended to those littel suckers but they all were killed by the snow. So the second go around we cheated and went to the local nursehy and picked up some nice juvinile plants, planted those suckers and only one is partially dead at this point so we are batting about 94% the second go around. Me and the nino are all about our garden, we check on it multiple times aday, its like we are worried some phantom gopher or the DEA is going to raid our stash. But when it all gets ripe I guess we can be the weird people at chruch trying to give tomatoes away. Check out our green thumbs at work! Oh yeah, check out Finn he gardens shirtless, yeah he's hardcore like that!

Extreme B.O. Control

I just bought some new deodorant, and that's not rare I go through that stuff like crazy. I have a strong dislike that borders into the ocd realm for Body Odor! So I picked up the usual 5 pack at Costco, but the usual it was not. This new deodorant had printed on the label, activated by adrenaline. This concerns me, I don't know if I am hardcore enough for this deodorant. In my younger/thinner/good back days no problem, but you see I have settled down in my old age. What am I going to do? Is this deodorant not going to work for me? Do i need to do something extreme like jump off the stairs from my front porch or drive fast every morning to get it working? What happened to the deodorant for normal dudes, not everyone is a card carrying member of the nitro circus. I hope I can live up to my deodorants expectations if not I guess ill have to start using the female variety.......which has been know to happen occasionally, sorry Val!

HAPPY BIRFDAY

Shout out to my little sister Claire, she turned 22 today. And sorry for all the times I locked you in dad's bathroom so you wouldn't follow me to Aero Market!

Masters of the universe need dental work too....

So there is a super cool art gallery in LA called 1988 that has random art exhibits, I was checking out their latest exhibit online based on Heman and came across this picture its pretty awesome and since I want to be a dentist its doubly awesome. This picture is titled "Skeletor Gets A Root Canal"Special shout out the the artist: Kiersten Essenpreis

Sad Sad Day

Its a sad sad day there are only 3 more weeks of football left, I have already mourned the college football season ending although USC has made things interesting and continues to do so. So chalk one up for the colts the family in Muncie are some happy Indians right about now, Peyton is a surgeon. And how about those Vol fans what class, talk about amazing artwork on the rock, nothing helps hiring a new coach like male parts and 4 letter words painted on rocks!

el Nino

Finners is turning out to be quite the character!

Dad and Finn hanging out!

a little off the top...

Finners got a haircut and looks like a little man now!

Practicing For College Football Season!!

EVERYONE HAS A LITTLE CAPTAIN IN THEM!

Captain Finners!

finners

So the wife and little dude have been out of town this past week, I thought my love of sleeping more that 5 hours at a time would be enough to keep me from missing them but it didn't, So I decided to put up some pictures of the little dude!
Finns new winter hat!

booioioioioioing!

Ridley Noah Team Edition.....YES PLEASE!

Music on blogs is STUPID!

Denver, WHAT?

How ulgy were those throwback uniforms the Broncos were wearing, Brown and Gold will forever be a horrible color combo! With all of the throwbacks being warn this season I am waitng for the late 80's early 90's throwback unis, bare midriffs, huge shoulder pads and sleeves you could fit around your waist. At least one team needs to do it, perhaps the Lions no one takes them seriously anyway and its not like they have an image to uphold.

Thanks Kanye

Dear Kanye,

Thank you for reintroducing America to the worst hairstyle of all time while simultaneously redefining what it means to be an ASS. The way you shave paisley designs or some sort of shameless self promotion in your hair is commendable, do you shave a large portion of your hair so your girlfriend will not feel too bald when you hang out? Thank you for paving the way for other bozos to shave designs in their heads, i.e. Ron Artest, 60% of collegiate football players, especially the one who chose to shave Mike Vick into his head, I heard it was done by a groomer, oh the irony. No but seriously, thank you for bringing back the studded belt, and the worst sunglasses of all time and since Kurt Warner's wife grew her hair back thank you for having the token girl with the bad haircut on your arm. Seriously, anyone who has followed in Kanye's hairstyle footsteps please stop, it is heinous and no one thinks you're cool, especially you the kid on the sideline of the UNLV game with the bad haircut and studded belt, come on cant you spend your team stipend on something better. No, but seriously Kanye thank you for being just the coolest man alive, I hope you soon follow the path of other musicians with cool haircuts specifically Vanilla Ice, so go visit Suge Knight and get slapped around!

Sincerely

Morgan

Randoms

The following are things that I think about, they may seem nerdy or dumb but for some reason

they occupy the every corner of my brain.

Did you know that ALL of the children that Val and Myself have will be blood type O, yep thats right we both are homozygous recessive for blood type O, no weither they will be negative or postive is another story.

What is Lance Armstrong's VO2 Max?

How can Finn create so much pee, man some of those diapers are heavy.

When the hell will my Trail 90 be finished.

How do I chop a car? ( this is a senario that has run through my mind since high school, I probably have built 1,000 of these things over the years in my mind)

Often times I find myself day dreaming about high end road bikse, you know the 10,000 variety. Val often refers to this as bicycle porn.

Finn is the cuttest baby ever!

Call me a dork or nerd but there you have it a glimpse into my brain.

Oh Pete

Its official I have a HUGE man crush on Pete Carroll, I want to shout it out from the house top. But Pete you cant let the Trojans scare me like that!

Ill call it American Idol Syndrome

There is a disease sweeping the nation. I only watch the first two weeks of American Idol this it when it is actually entertaining. Each year I am amazed that some of the worst singers are the most confident individuals trying out. They are also the ones that are the most blown away when the judges tell them they stink, it is as if no one has ever been honest with them in their life. Now this I attribute to parents, it is one thing to support or encourage your children and and nourish their dreams but it is a whole different thing to INSTILL FALSE HOPES, you cant sing so lets channel that musical energy into playing an instrument, find other outlets. NOT EVERYONE CAN SING! Here is an example, if your family finds you to be very funny and often tells you, then chances are your not funny this could be case of American Idol Syndrome or AIS, your mom will never tell you you smell or you are a lousy basketball player because they are trying to support you. So families don't allow your loved ones to suffer from AIS it will get them mocked and cause them embarrassment.

Ill have a 32oz Diet Gordo please

Enjoy this picture, it is of me with my girlfriend, a 32oz cup of Diet Coke. Well, I have decided to breakup with her, I need to drink water so I consumed my last 32 oz tonight, I guess I will get my caffeine from Excedrin or else where but it wont be from soda! No SODA!

make you jump, jump

Now let me preface this by saying I love me some Kris Kross but wearing your clothes backwards is wiggity wiggity wack! Now on with the story I have an 8:30 am class 3 times a week, what a way to spend a summer, I know! Every morning after snoozing until wife threatens to punch me in the face if my alarm goes off one more time, I get out of bed and the mad rush starts. It is like the Saved by the Bell theme song is looped in my head. So in the mad rush of getting ready and attempting to make it to class on time, in the last two weeks I have put my underwear on backwards, twice and have not discovered this until lets say 1pm in the afternoon. I know what you are thinking, 1 of 2 things. 1. How do you put your underwear on backwards and not realize it until 1pm. or 2. Wow he must have a pretty large bladder to not have to pee until 1pm in the afternoon. Well yes and no, many of those that know me my bladder is tiny. If the average bladder was a gallon Ziploc bag, mine would be the snack-half sandwich bag size. So moral of the story if your are in a rush put your underwear on correctly or it may cause you to be mocked by your wife and create some awkward times at the urinal. I think I am going to start laying my close out like a fireman, any suggestions?