Sorry that it has been so long since I posted.  It has been a very hectic couple of months.  Also my laptop died on me and I had to get a new one.    I just wanted to let everyone know that I am still here. All has been going well.  I noticed that there has been some activity on this blog, and I want to thank all of you that have stayed with me.  The kids are both doing well in school. The wife is doing fine.   As for me I am still a bi-married man, that has not had sex in months. I am not complaining  just stating the facts. We live in a very small town, and Between working and taking care of my family there is not much time just for me.  Which is one of the reasons that it has been so long since i posted.   Anyway I think that I will leave you with some pics that I like, hope you like them as well.

Well there you go. Hey if you stop by leave  a comment if only to say hi. LOVE AND HUGS

Not much to post about today, so I think that I will just post some pics.   Lets play “GUESS THE THEME”   Guess as often as you like.

LOVE AND HUGS

Here it is Sunday night. Another weekend gone, I hope all of you had a good weekend.  As i said yesterday we did not have anything planned for this weekend, so I will give you a quick rundown of  my day. I arose to a cool but sunny morning around eight am.  I love getting up before everyone else in the house. It is always so quiet and peaceful. Those of you with children know what I am talking about.  Any way I jumped in the shower and did all the things that are done in a shower when you are taking one alone.   After that I toasted some home made banana nut bread, and ate it with a big glass of ice cold milk.  It was about this time that others in the house started stirring around.  Everyone was getting ready to go Church.  I always feel calmer after attending Sunday morning services.  Maybe it is my Southern upbringing, or maybe Life is going so fast the rest of the time when I slow down even for the hour that we are at Church I am just refreshed.  Every year our church has a PUMPKIN PATCH PARTY, as a alternative to Halloween trick or treating.  The adults and older teenagers set up easy to win games/booths in the Church’s fellowship hall. Then most of the children from town show up and eat hot dogs and play games and go home with a lot of candy and prizes. All the parents feel good because they know that there children had a good safe time. I explained all this to tell you that the wife and I are signed up to run a booth this year. I will let you know how it turns out.  When we got home I made bacon, sausage, hashbrowns, eggs, and toast for lunch.  And it was good.

Now I have to tell you about a possible addiction that I might have. I have always been a fan of board games. One of my favorites has always been Scrabble.  I have recently found a online version of the game and have been playing almost every time I am on the computer.  My wife thinks that I am addicted but I am not sure. Anyway  that’s what I did after lunch until about three thirty, played online scrabble and fed my other addiction, TMZ.  My wife HATES  TMZ, but I love it. So I record all the episodes through the week and watch them all at once.

On to something else.   If you have been reading my blog for a while you know about my wife and her battle with cancer. After all the help we received  from the community we have made it a priority to do what we can to help others who are in the same situation that we were in.  One of the nicest ladies that I know has been battling cancer for over a year and sad to say she is losing. She is now in Hospice care in the next town over.   My wife has organized a group of her friends to take meals to the family a couple of time a week, each lady prepares a meal one day and then one of the others prepares the meal next time on a rotating basis.  Tomorrow is my wife’s turn, so  she asked if I would make some dinner rolls for her to take. I made them when I cooked our dinner tonight, I also made another loaf of banana bread for her to take.  It makes  me feel good to help someone  even if it is in this small way.

I made Southern fried chicken, mash potatoes, creamed corn, salad, and buttermilk biscuts for dinner tonight.  The kids said that it was very good. The wife and I watched THE X-FACTOR, and THE AMAZING RACE   two of our favorite shows. Now the kids and I are watching a show called STORM CHASERS on the DISCOVERY CHANNEL.   Just another exciting night at the old homestead.

Have a good night and LOVE AND HUGS

Hey there. It is the weekend. No big plans here, just staying in. Not much else is going on here.  I found this  while I was looking  around on the net. Not sure who wrote it, but it is great.   Hope you like it. LOVE AND HUGS

THE MAYONNAISE JAR
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle,
When 24 hours in a day is not enough;
Remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee.

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him.  When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and started to fill it with golf balls.  He then asked the students if the jar was full and they agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and pour them into the jar.  He shook the jar lightly.  The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls.  He then asked the students again if the jar was full.  They agreed that it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sad and poured it into the jar.  Of course, the sand filled up everything else.  He asked once more if the jar was full.  The students responded with an unanimous ‘yes.’

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling all the empty space between the sand.

The students laughed.

‘Now,’ said the professor, as the laughter subsided, ‘I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life.  The golf balls are the important things - God, family, children, health, friends, and favorite passions.  Things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.  The pebbles are the things that matter like your job, house, and car…   The sand is everything else - the small stuff.’

‘If you put the sand into the jar first,’ he continued, ‘there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls.  The same goes for life.  If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are import to you.  So…  Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children.  Take time to get medical checkups.  Take your spouse out to dinner.  There will always be time to clean the house and fix the dripping tap.’

‘Take care of the golf balls first - the things that really matter.  Set your priorities.  The rest is just sand.’

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented.

The professor smiled.  ’I'm glad you asked.  It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seen, there’s always room for  a couple cups of coffee with a friend”.

Okay I have been a bad   blogger. It has been over a month since  I last posted.   My last post was about how I had gotten a new job.  I am glad to let you know that every thing is going fine. There have been a few challenges, what with learning something entirely new and all. But I work for a great boss, and there are only like five of us employees in the whole company.  I started work at the new job on a Wednesday, we get paid every Monday. So on my first check from this new job I had only worked twenty four hours. When the boss hand delivered my check that first Monday morning, not only had he paid me for forty hours, he had also increased my pay by fifty cents an hour over what we had agreed my starting pay would be.  I was very surprised. Who would have thought that I would have such good luck in this great job finding me.

Now on the name of this post. If you are reading this you can see that I have changed the theme,  if you like it let me know I am going to leave it up for a while and  see if I like it.

Things have settled down into a new routine around here. It is nice being home every night and on the  weekends. My wife and I have made it a priority to have a date night once a week. We have been having lots of fun just getting out of the house together, and not thinking about the kids or bills or anything.  It has been really nice.

There is just something about a naked dude wearing a hat that just gets my motor running.  See you next time. LOVE AND HUGS

Okay so I gave away the surprise in the title of this post.  It was a busy week.  As I said in my last post I have been offered a new job.  Last Monday after I got done working at the Cafe, I went for the job interview. Which was more of a job orientation than a interview. My new boss had already decided that I could have the job if I wanted it, all I had to do was say yes.   Once  he explained the compensation, and how I would receive  raises on a regular basis, it really was like orientation than an interview.  At the new job I am starting off making more money than I made at the Cafe after being there four years.  And with the prospect of the Cafe either changing ownership or closing outright in the near future, there was no way that I could turn down this job.   He asked when I wanted to start and I said when do you need me to start.  I decided that I would start Wednesday.  After I left I went straight to the boss from the Cafe and told her that Tuesday (the next day) would be my last day.  And then on last Wednesday I started my new job.  It really is a NEW job, because I have had no experience at all of any kind in doing what I am doing now.  My new boss told me that I would be training for a couple of months, but after three or four weeks if I was doing all right I would receive a dollar raise.  After just three days on the new job I am sure that this is not only something that I can do, I think that it is something that I will enjoy doing.  Another one of the perks of the job is regular hours.  Seven thirty to four thirty, Monday thru Friday. That means nights and  weekends off, and with my son playing football this fall I will be able to go to all of  his games.   I will also be getting a Christmas bonus, this will take the form of the shop being closed from around  December twentieth  to around the third or fourth of January.   I will be getting paid for any normal work day that falls during this time period.   Okay now it just sounds like I am bragging, but the fact is I am very lucky that the New boss (who I have know for nearly twenty years) thought enough of me to offer me this job.  It would have  gotten really bad financially  here if I  had stayed at the Cafe until it closed. Because with the way the economy is and the job market here I might have been out of a job for a while.  So this came along at just the right time.    I did not realize how much stress that the Cafe was putting on me until I was out of there.  I have not lost my temper or  got stressed since I told the Cafe boss that I was quitting.     For any of you wondering my sons football team lost 35 to 0 in their first game. But it was against a very good team. So no one was to upset.

I am in such a good mood I think that I will leave you with some pictures of hot guys that I have found while looking around the web. hope you like them.

Well here I am again.  It has been a long , busy, crazy, HOTTT,  summer here.   I think that back in the spring I posted about  the  work that we were having done on our house due to a leak in the roof, that caused a lot of water damage.   Well, first we got the roof fixed, then we had a construction company in to remodel the interior.  They fixed the ceilings in the laundry room, kitchen, and master bedroom.  While they were here working  we also had them fix and paint the walls in the kitchen and the laundry room.  As well as re-panel the bedroom.   We decided that while we were having the other work done that we would put new flooring in those three rooms as well as the bathroom and have a new  entry way made around the front door.   In the mean time while we were waiting for the different workmen to come we decided to paint and do some remodeling in the bathroom.  As well as repainting all of the kitchen cabinets and adding all new hardware.  Oh and when I say we decided I really mean she decided that I would do all of this work. I really don’t mind it has been  a little bit of fun and a lot of work.   And speaking of work, The Cafe has been like a three ring circus the past few months. We have had  people quit, hired new ones that worked one shift and then did not show up for the next one leaving us with a hole in the schedule. So I have worked alot  of overtime, not that I mind the extra money.

Our schools here are going to start Monday. Which is about two weeks later than usual, so the kids are getting on every one’s nerves.  This summer my son has attended two different church camps, and the went back to one as a counselor .  And now he  is playing football, they started practicing two weeks ago and there first game is coming up soon.  My daughter turned sixteen last week, and as with most teenage girls everything is about the drama.    She will be in tenth grade this year and decided  not to play any sports this year to concentrate on her school work. I had to make my self not laugh in her face as she was telling me this, she has a history of these kinds of dramatic statements and then  doing nothing about them, but we will see.

Oh and did I mention that my current job may or may not be closing.  There have been rumors all summer that the business was going bankrupt. Now the rumors are that the business will be sold at some kind of auction or something.   This all leads up to this past Thursday night. I was waiting tables instead of cooking, so I was in the dining room. A local business man came into eat, and as I was talking to him he asked  me what I was going to do when the Cafe shut down. I told him that I was unaware that it was closing. Later before he left I asked him why he asked me the question the way  did. He said that he was going to offer me a job. You could have knocked me over with a feather. I mean that it is not every day that someone walks up and offers me a job.  Now I should add that I have known this man for more than eighteen years, and used to party with his son.    Also I do not know the first thing about  how to do the job that he  is offering. He told me that he was looking for someone with a good work ethic.  This really makes me feel good that I have that kind of reputation.  We left it by setting up a meeting for Monday afternoon.   Friday when I went to work I had a talk with my boss about all of the rumors going around and he confirmed part of them. And at some point in the next few  months the Cafe will either be closed, or under some kind of new management. I am not sure what this would mean for my position with the company. But really how often does a job offer come out of the blue at the same time that you may or may not be losing the job that you have.  I don’t really know what to make of all of this, but if this new job is something that I am positive that I can do, I am going to take it. I can not afford to be without  income coming in to the house.  If any of you have any advise for me I would be glad to hear it.  I will keep you informed of what happens.

Well I guess that is it for now. I would like to take this time to apologize for not posting sooner.  I am going to try to get back on some sort of schedule. Thanks for reading.  LOVE AND HUGS

As you can see by the title of this post I am having trouble thinking of creative names for these posts.   Just a couple of updates to end the week.   My daughter is feeling much better. She laid around and rested for most of the week. And she is now back to her normal (teenage) self.  The workmen have finished the work on the house. I now have a few little things left to do before we are able to move back in to those rooms and enjoy them.

I started this post this afternoon, and am finishing it after I got off work tonight.  Not much  happened at work tonight. The only excitement was when this really hot guy came into the cafe today, It caused quite a  little bit of excitement when he came in because he had no shirt on.  He was very tan and hot.   Nothing like a hot farm hand to get the blood moving.  I guess that is it for now. I will leave you with some hot pictures that I found while surfing the net.

Hey welcome to a new week. I want to thank  Micheal, Daniel, and, Buddy Bear for there comments on yesterdays post.  When I started this blog it was with the intention of putting into words the things that were running around in my head. With the hopes of finding some piece of mind about my attraction to men. I have only succeeded partially.  But what has happened is that I have through this blog become friends with some great guys, some of whom are in the same situation that I am. So thank you to for all the emails checking up on me.

It looks like the remodel on the master bedroom will be finished sometime this week. I can not wait. The ceilings were painted today, and the kitchen wall got the first coat of primer.  So I think that the end is in sight. I hope.

Also today we had to take the daughter to the doctor. She had no felt good over the weekend, so the wife made the appointment. Turns out she has both a kidney and a bladder infection. A shot in the ass and a round of antibiotics and she will be fine.

I will leave you today with a few pictures that I found.

I guess that is enough for today. LOVE AND HUGS

Hey guys.  I know that it has been a while since my last post, things have gotten  hectic around here. The kids have been out of school for a couple of weeks now, so we have  already been dealing with the summer boredom.  I know that it is just the first week of June, but if I hear “i’m bored” once more I might go crazy.   We have bought season passes to the local pool so that they can go swimming any time that they want, and they both have plenty of things that can keep them busy. I think that they just want to complain “normal teenagers”.    I think that I have mentioned before that we had a roof leak, that did a lot of damage to the inside of the house. We have finally gotten the work men in to do the renovations. But as anyone who has done this sort of thing know it is a slow painful process.  My wife, like many others out there has to have every thing in the house in a certain  order. We had to take everything out of the master bedroom (where most of the damage is) and move it into our sons bedroom. He is sleeping on the couch in the living room until we get our room back. Other than that there is stuff piled every where.  So she is kinda freaking out. I am hoping that in the process of  redecorating  it might take her mind off of the mess. We will see how this turns out.  And then on top of all that  I have been working longer hours at the Cafe. This is because of the time of year it is, with travellers  and tourists. So all the way around I have been busier than usual.

Okay, now for a update on my man on man situation,                                                                , that about sums it up.  My situation has not changed. I am still a bi married man, my wife knows that I am into guys. But no one else knows. I see a lot of hot  farm boys and truckers but no have no opportunity  to do anything about it.   Such is life.

I hope to get back to posting regularly.  If there is still anyone out there leave a comment and let me know.  LOVE AND HUGS