Tiddly Winks

Hey, I'm engaged! Wow. Never thought that would happen, but it feels great. We are already in full pre-planning mode, trying to make decisions about what we want and where it will be and stuff. We have some color ideas, some cake ideas, some vow ideas and are researching ways in which to keep some traditions, but break others. Any one with any ideas, please leave a comment and let us know.

Been fighting a hellacious sinus infection this week. Everyone around here seems to have it. It sucks. I have a bad cough for the first time in at least ten years. The first three days with it were the worst though. I started taking a lot of vitamins and seem to be fighting it off, but it is not leaving my body very willingly.

We got a new mattress set and damn it is a different world of sleep. I bought a bed frame that still hasn't been delivered yet, so we have the mattresses that Elizabeth bought setting on the floor currently, but they are so tall, it is about the same height as the previous bed I had. The frame is being delivered Thursday. I bought it last Wednesday. It sucks you have to wait that long to get something you already purchased, but what you gonna do?

I hope this thing I have doesn't turn into pneumonia. I have a lot of congestion moved into my lungs and can hear it when I breathe.

Crow Hollow Blonde is still working on our new songs. We have quite a few and have tentatively named our next album "Pathogens". Also, we have some actual shows booked for the future which is something to look forward to.

I might be getting an interview for a promotion again. I find out next week. The job is in Nashville, which would be perfect because that is where Elizabeth and I tentatively are planning to live. We want to start looking around May. I have had two interviews for similar jobs, so I think this time I can do pretty well on that part. Plus, I know the store manager, so that is a check in my favor. Also, since it is a Metro area store, I will start out at a higher pay rate, which is a plus, especially since at first I will be driving a lot. Wish me luck (again).

So, when I was a kid, my mom told me I was a dumbass all the time. Kinda gave me a complex. I got the idea that maybe if I ate pages of the dictionary I would get smarter. I got all the way to the letter "D" before my mom walked in and saw what I was doing. "What the hell are you doing?" she shouted. "Trying to improve my vocabulary?" I said. "Why would you do something so stupid?!" she said. "Well, you're always calling me a dumbass." She looked around and shook her head. She grabbed the dictionary from me. "Well, now you're a smart ass."

Along the same vein, a reclusive writer moved into the woods and would never leave his house. His reclusive nature got so bad that he would not even leave the house for food. Eventually, he ran out of money and had to start eating the paper pages of his library. He got a serious case of constipation and died of dysentery. Gives a whole new meaning to the term "writer's block".