Taco blowout & Jewel, what a weekend!

I wrote this a week ago now just about so there's your time frame:

Had a wonderful weekend this past weekend!  Huge taco party at Kate’s parents with the whole family there!  Mama Mueller and the girls put together about 80 taco’s for us, I ate 8 and they were delicious!  Canaan thought his smelled like a fart, he really missed out!  We also celebrated three birthdays with awesome cake for AJ, Kate, & Emma! 

After the party I went with Kate’s dad to play poker with a bunch of other guys and Justin.  I lost $7 but had a great time! 

Sunday Kate and I went to the Merrill Auditorium for a concert.  It was Kate’s first time there, beautiful venue!  We saw Jewel, who we both love and have never seen in person, and her opening act was the fantastic Holly Williams, daughter of the legendary Hank Williams Jr.   Both performed solo acoustic sets and they were both fantastic!  In total the show was 2.5 hours, and that included the intermission.  We bought the live show recording, we can download it in a few days.

Recently Canaan to raised money for the American Heart Association through a school fundraiser called Jump for the Heart where you raise money and participate in jump roping.  Canaan raised with the help of us, $100.  Apparently it was the most money ever raised by a single student in the 10 years the school has been doing the event and at an Assembly a couple weeks after the even he was given a Special Recognition Award by the Principal!  

Found some new Skittles at J&S Oil in Farmingdale.  I love Skittles but I don’t eat them very often any more but I had to try them!  Dark Side of the Rainbow and the rainbow is upside down on the packaging….clever!  The flavors are Dark Berry, Pomegranate, Forbidden Fruit, Midnight Lime, & Blood Orange.   I like the Forbidden Fruit the best but they are all flavorful.  The Midnight Lime has a zingy after taste to it!

I love Skittles, my all time favorite was the very limited edition Carnival flavors of Bubble Gum, Candy Apple, Liquorice, Cotton Candy, & Green Slushy.   I wish they would bring those back!

The wedding plans are coming along nicely and we will be mailing out the save the dates later this week!

 

Later Readers!
Michael

My Jubilation

What is happiness?

Everyday people say they are happy.  They wake up, they go to work or school or whatever it is they do on a daily basis and they are happy.   Are they really?  I thought that I was happy for a long time, but I know now I wasn’t.  I’m not sure if I was complacent or in denial, but I know that I wasn’t happy.  I wasn’t for a long time.

Shawn Michaels said he lost his smile and that he had to go find it and I can now understand what he meant by that.

My lack of happiness affected just about everything around me in my life.  It affected my work, added multitudes of stress, didn’t allow me to truly enjoy the things that I love, and even effected my interactions with my children.  I can see that now.

So much has changed this past year and through it all I can sit here today and say that I am happy.  Truly happy with my life, where I am, and where I’m going, and who with.

So what is it that makes me happy?  Well in no certain order….

Later Readers!!!

Michael Labbe

Manipulation of Joints & Bones

Yesterday was great day as I relax and got some odds and ends done that I'd been meaning to do and haven't taken to time to do so.  Also got some episodes of Bones in.  Netflix is fantastic!!

Today was a good day.  I had a much needed appointment at Manchester Osteopathic Healthcare.  My lower back has been destroyed because of this crappy twin bed I crash on every night.  And last week for a few days I was having shooting pains on the right side of my neck down to my shoulder blade area.

I donated blood today, apparently there is a critical need and I am a universal donor.  I've only been donating for a couple years and I look forward to it each time when I can.  If you donate whole blood you have to wait 56 days before you can again.  A double red cell donation is 112 day wait before you can donate either whole blood or double red cell again.

I took Canaan to Karate tonight.  He was very well behaved and did a gret job tonight.  I am so proud of him.  While we were there Addison had a question, "Dadda, what color are my eyes?"

Well, can't you tell?

I brought them to their mothers and was greeted with some wonderful birthday gifts from them.  Addison made me a bracelet.

Canaan gave me my WrestleMania XXIV frame that I apparently forgot in the move.  They also drew me a couple pictures and made me a lemon cake with lemon frosting.  The cake was fantastic!

Yup that's the 16 time World Heavyweight Champion "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair in what was, at that time, his retirement match.

That's all for tonight, I have to go continue a conversation that I'm having about horror movies.

Later Readers

Mike