Grumpy Ass Bitch-Face Kind of Day

Those of you who regularly read my blog know I am a bubbly, somewhat crazy person who is happy and finds joy in the little things in life.  I’m that girl that just laughs out loud, out of nowhere, while sitting at my desk, because I’m remembering something funny that occurred back in 1998.  My head is a fun world, you should visit sometime.  Unfortunately every 6 months or so the grumpy demon sneaks into my room at night, sharp fangs protruding from its long thin mouth, bites me right in the ass, and man LOOK OUT!  I hate being in this kind of mood.

Today at work everything set me off.  I found out early that someone didn’t do their job, which I kindly reminded them in an email to do on Friday, which affects my job, and that really got me going.  That was just at 8:30.  That was after one of the little bunnies, that live outside our office building, dared to run in front of me on the sidewalk, causing me to grab it and rips its head off with my teeth, Ozzy Osbourne style.  Oh quit your gasping, it’s not like there were any live bats flying around at the time.

There are two people in the world who know how to manage me when I am in this mood.  My sister, (who’s name we do not speak), and my husband.  Luckily for my Sissy she hasn’t seen or talked to me today.  Sadly for my husband this is Monday and we decided, in our efforts to get in better shape (remember my recent Kinect post) that we would start only drinking wine on weekends and cut back the calories on weekdays. 

Some might think that our wine drinking nightly is more a health issue than a weight issue, and that backing off to just weekends is the right thing to do, for our livers.  To you folks I say Shut The Hell Up!!   I’m grumpy remember???  If one glass a wine a day is good for your heart 2+ has to be better right?  I digress, but I just wanted to point out the night my poor Kyle might have in store. 

I have nothing else to say today.  I will surely snap out of this ‘eat shit’ mood tomorrow and tell you all about the fun we had over the weekend.  Until then, I just thought I’d post proof that I’m not always about pink balloons and lolly pops.  I, like everyone else, has my Shut the fuck up, did you really just say that out loud, stop talking or I’ll stab you in the eye with my letter opener, what is that horrible smell, oh god there goes another stupid Smart Car, no I don’t have a minute to help you with your issue, it’s not your fault that your IQ is equal to that of a piece of chalk, kind of days.

The Lazy Blogger

I know many of you are wondering where I've been.  The truth is that I've just gotten a little lazy with updating my blog.  I am going to turn that around.  I have many dedicated readers and I will work hard to not disappoint.

This week is a wonderful week because it has my birthday in it.  My husband and I always spoil each other the entire week of our birthdays, we have coined the term 'Birthday Hanakuah'.  Whether it's a major birthday, and we are throwing a party, or just one that doesn't mean much to us we treat each other like royalty that week.  My week so far has rocked!

For Christmas Kyle bought me this wonderful charm bracelet that has become my favorite piece of jewelry, second only to my wedding ring.  For my birthday I've received 6 new charms for it and I'm just delighted.  Monday I came home from work to a dozen long stem red roses, and yesterday a really fun card with a little credit card sized plastic card inside it describing how much he loves me and that we are soul mates.  It now resides in my wallet and every time I go to pull out money or my debit card I'll see it and it will make me smile.

I'm home relaxing on the couch just waiting for my wonderful man to come home and spend another night of wine drinking fun.  My life is full and wonderful.  My sister (who's name we do not speak) bought me a bottle of my favorite red wine, Benzinger, and I plan to drink that tomorrow night, my actual birthday with a nice big steak dinner. 

On a side note, we haven't gotten into a routine with our Kinect yet, but we sure have enjoyed playing with all the new, and fantastic, features the Xbox has.  Watching Netflix through the Xbox is quite entertaining to us, and we are only at the very beginning of understanding all it's bells and whistles.  The thing that makes us more crazy and frustrated than anything is the stupid  remote.  It never fails but we'll forget how sensitive it is and it will be on the couch next to one of us, inevitably it gets tapped and voila, the movie we are watching goes into hyperdrive fast forward, or stops, or something else funky.  We actually couldn't figure out how to pause a movie one night, and literally had to tell a friend who called, we'd have to call them back because we couldn't get it to pause.  That moment made us feel really good about ourselves.  You people with children are lucky.  The kids these days are born with a chip inside their brains that enable them to know how to use and play every gaming system and remote control out there.

We have a very good friend, Jeremy, who came over a couple Saturday's ago and got us started on figuring it out, (and hooking our new TV to our surround sound, man I suck at that stuff).  We are hosting he, and our good friends Kathy and Steve, this Saturday to play Kinect so we will be A) getting off the couch and B) learning more about how it all works and what all it can do.  

Oh and I ordered a Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix Xbox game to nourish my nerdy side.  I loves me some Harry Potter. 

Finally Jumping on the Gaming World Bandwagon - Griffin Party of Two

With the new year and the thoughts of getting a little healthier I woke up this last Sunday, deciding that if we went and bought a new large flat screen TV and an Xbox with Kinect, we would get off our lazy asses for sure and play the new fun Kinect games.  Sounds like a sound decision right?  I mean, we could start eating  better and utilizing the club house work out facility in our neighborhood but no, that doesn't make as much sense as spending a ton of money on electronics and just hoping that we actually use them. 

Turns out this is the perfect time of year to purchase such things, the Super Bowl is upon us and they are practically giving the large flat screens away.  I have to admit, it is very cool.  We were going to go with a 60 inch but decided it was too big and went with 55 instead.  tee hee So, one quick trip to the Best Buy and we came home with the Xbox / Kinect and a new TV to setup.  Hours, many cords, tons of instructions and many a swear word later we were set and ready to go. 

I don't know how many of you either have, or have seen the Kinect up close and personal but it is truly amazing!!!  It moves with your every move.  You raise your hands, it raises it's hands.  You scratch your head, it follows suit.  So we get all set up and get ready to play the first game.  There is an instant power struggle to see which one of you the game will take the initial direction from.  You wave your hand, 'Minority Report' style and Voila, it reacts.  Kyle and I kept stepping in front of each other, demanding it's attention like two bratty only children. 

Finally we were playing and the games are so much fun.  The graphics are brilliant and the game really reacts to your every move.  And boy, do you move!  We played a river game where you are on a raft trying to navigate down river, all the while jumping up to grab things in the air for points, jumping ramps and moving from side to side.  What a great idea to get some exercise and have a great time as well.  When I initially sold Kyle on the idea, of getting the whole new TV and gaming system, I sold it as a quick and fun 30 minutes a day to play games and get our lazy asses off the couch.

Wow, I sure do spend a lot of my time with my head in the land of  "La La".  A  mere five minutes into playing we were both gasping for breath, clutching our chests and thinking, damn we're out of shape.  That was three days ago and we have yet to play again, Kyle claims his legs still hurt.  And you all know me, being the sweet and supportive wife, I wouldn't want to play without him so I've sat the last several nights out as well.  I mean, there is still the giant new TV to watch, along with all the instantly available Netflix and such. 

All in all, I'm quite pleased with our purchase and the mere fact that the Xbox comes with a handheld gaming doohickey so you can play games while lounging on the couch, feet up, wine glass full and nearby.  (Yes, I did type doohickey and am quite confident that is the correct technical term)