What really happens?

For those of you who really want to know what Stacy does now that she's not the RS pres any more: Check out this picture. You guys must have worn her out. It can't be the 7 kids, right?

Benson

I generally don't like Steve Benson the quack biased pigheaded cartoonist from the AZ republic... but he does get it right about once a year.

more biden

It's getting too easy. Did you see Joe B on the TV with KC? (that was funny) I'm refering to the once cute & perky lib katie couric, who is in way over her head. She interviewed Sarah and was mean and repetative and trying to hide her hate but couldn't. But with biden she was soft cuddely and at some point I thought they were going to make out. Anyway... here's the part that got me. I in fact heard this from Ann Coulter, and couldn't believe it so I went to CBSNEWS.com to verify and it's true... JOEY B said: "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'" well... as I'm sure you know FDR wasn't elected until 1934 and the TV wasn't invented until 1939 and Americans didn't really all have one until the 1950's. OH MY GOSH! Why didn't katie say anything? What a nimrod! she's so "in the tank" like every other media person, talking head obamite! She should be fired now for being too stupid. If this dope get's elected it will be because we as Americans are too fat, dumb and happy with what we have now to know any different than what we are told. What biden's point was, that GWB should have gone on the TV and taken the blame, instead of saying the truth, that the Wall Street CEO selfish "golden parachutte" pigs were at fault. The truth isn't to high on JOEY's priority list. Did you know that JOEY has been in washington since the 1970s? How can we sit here and put up with him... Barack is crazy for picking him, and we'd be crazy to pick Barack.

I hope Sarah demolishes him in the debate tonight. The problem is that it will be Sarah with facts and Joey with "zingers". Zingers are little one liners that are funny and everyone laughs and doesn't have a clue what his point was. Kinda like real Zingers, when you eat them you like them but later you feel bad and ask "Why did i eat that?" Just like in this debate tonight later everyone thinks that he won the debate because they "laughed" when he spoke, but can't remember anything that he said that was real. I laugh when he speaks too, but I'm laughing at him, not with him.

JBiden - Rants on a dummy

Yikes. So do you know who Joe Biden reminds me of? Dick Martin. It's funny, they don't really look alike but if you ever hear JBid talk its just the same. "uhhh duh, that's funny". If you are too young, than sorry. They do have the same bald head with a comb over.
Couple of things that kill me about this guy
1) He says that if you make $250K that you will get NEW higher (40%+) taxes and if you complain than you aren't being patriotic. He then said that if others would give to charities this wouldn't be needed. HOWEVER He made $2.5 MILLION in the last 3 years but gave only about $4,000! Can you belive it? Thats < 1%.
2) Saying how much he admires Hillary Clinton and how she probably would have been a better choice than HIM for the VP. Duh Joe, you are crazy, she would have been better.

There are about 300 more but those two just made me crazy. He's not too smart. He's like the dumbest guy ever. I have no idea how he's gotten to where he is.

Gov Palin - I told you

In case you missed my previous blog about Gov Palin (whom I love), she does indeed look like Tina Fey. In fact her eye glasses have caused a rush by women here in the phoenix area to buy them in so much that the Arizona Republic even did a story on it. I think that the eye glasses are what reminded me so much of Tina Fey. I found it funny yesterday morning that I saw on Yahoo! that Saturday night live had thought of it too. Check out this video of their opening this past saturday. (click here)

What a Weekend!

Well it was a fantastic weekend. We enjoyed everything about it. At least I did. I finished up my job on Friday at Honeywell ERP and spent friday afternoon moving into my new desk area. I met Stacy and Anny for Dinner at a new place called "Cafe Lagoona" I think. It's a fry bred place. You can get a nice dinner and desert there with fry bred as the main ingreadiant. It was good. We split a vegitarian and a apple (desert). It was nice. Also we found out that the owner is a guy we didn't know very well from our ward. (Nick Lara?). After that we went home and g0t ready for Saturday's activities (football football football). Saturday Drew and Skylar's teams both won. Drew's Hornets beat the Sioux 20-18, Drew did great. You can read the summary of this game at http://www.gotsting.com/. Sky's Longhorns beat the Generals 20 - 0. Sky's a star on his team. He played both offense and defense. Katy and Tawny and even Anny dressed up in their blue and gold for the games. They looked so cute and it was fun to sit and watch Skylar's game with them.

Sunday just topped it off. My parents, newphew, brother and sister-in-law all showed up at our house late Saturday night. They were there for Anny's baby blessing and Drew's priesthood confirmation. We woke up Sunday morning and enjoyed time with them. Sky lost his Mohawk and Drew got a fresh cut as well, thanks Vance! We made it to church early along with the Gilespie and Snow families who also had baby blessings. It seemed that between those three families the whole chapel was full by 2o minutes before church started. The blessing was nice. We then left and went home with 60+ family and friends and visited ate some mexican food and generally layed around. About 3:30 Bishop Topol came over and we were able to confirm Drew the Newest Aaronic Priesthood holder. Later that night Marly and Vance escorted Drew to his first youth fireside.

It was a wonderful weekend. Thanks to Stacy and others the meals were great! We were so glad to see everyone. I love the visiting the jokes. I especially liked to meat John, Boofer's new boyfriend (new to me anyway). I am happy to get to see the Tucson and Utah family that we don't see as often as we'd like.

Here is phone pic of my new office. Nicer compared to my old one huh?

last day

Today is my last day with Honeywell Aerospace ERP Team. I'm so happy to get a new start. It's been a nice 2.5 + years here but I'm ready to move on. I enjoyed some of it but it's been the most stressful job I've ever had. I've learned a lot. One thing I learned is I don't ever want to be on the Honewell Aerospace ERP Team ever again. I had a crummy desk, crummy area in a smelling building with no windows. It smells like a mixture of BO and oil. I'm 48 miles (one way) from home and usually very tired. I rode the Vanpool here so while it did save me gasoline $$ it killed my days. I'd leave at 6:00 am from my house and not get to work untill 7:30 Then I'd leave at 4:00 pm and not be home until 5:30. 11 1/2 hour days are tough when you are used to only be gone about 9. Here is a picture of my work area. IT'S TERRIBLE. I'ts like an old 1950 wood desk with sharp corners in the middle of a room with a fakey cube wall. Me and 4 other people in a "bullpen" type area. Very loud and uncomfortable.

So i start my new Job on Monday at Honeywell Corporate Finance IT. It is a project manager's job. I'll be closer to home and have better work hours. I'll be leaving really early in the morning but will be home earlier in the afternoon. So it will be like 6-3 or so. Also there is a gym much closer and more places to go. It's in Tempe instead of Phoenix so while it is only about 12 miles closer to home it is about 30 minutes closer (maybe more since I'll go in earlier). I'll post a picture of my new work area if I can. Overall today is great day! Also Hornets Football starts tomorrow Game Time 8:00 am! Next week check out www.gotsting.com for a full update of the game.

Drew's Birthday!

Yesterday was Drew's birthday! I enjoyed myself because for his birthday I got a 1/2 day off of work. After I was done working I took Skylar to the barber for a hair cut and this is how he turned out! Save this picture because his mom Says he's not going to church this way.

He looks great. He's still a good lookin' kid.

Later Drew and I and his buddies Armando, Brian and Zane went to Amazing Jakes. it was fun for them but I was pretty bored and let's just say... Don't go to Amazing Jakes if you are on a diet. I ate a lot! Anyway here are some pictures

Armando, Drew, Brian and Zane finishing up the go carts. they were later kicked off of them because Zane can't drive (JK).

Drew and Armando trying to get up the rock wall

Brian made it to the top. Armando on the right is still trying!

Zane and Armando still trying to climb the wall (maybe next time boys!)

UA Football Game

We went down to Tucson on Saturday to see the UofA play the Idaho Vandels. Maybe the Vandels are the worst team ever, but it was fun to watch the cats kill someone for once. It was any easy drive down to our favorite Mexican food place ever too. We went to El Guerro Canelo before the game. We all had some Carne Asada except for Zane Whiting who had a hot dog. Once we left there we went to the stadium. Once we got there the pagentry and warmups were nice. They had fireworks as the team ran on to the field which scared us all. We were all set for kick off. The UA players were set up for kickoff return. We were very excited. Then it started to storm. They didn't even kick off before the Referees took the players off of the field and the anouncer started saying "For your safety and the safety of the stadium staff please exit the stadium immediatly!" We were disappointed to say the least. We decided to walk over to the McHale center (basketball arean for the wildcats) to look for an ATM. We found a door on the backside of the arena where some kids were milling around. The door was open so we just walked in. We went down a ramp and around a corner then we saw it. Meca for any UA hoops fan. We found ourselves on Lute and Bobbi Olsen Court. It was awesome. We took this picture:

After we milled around the gym for a while, including a guided tour of the weight training area by some really drunk fowl mouthed UA students, we decided to go wait outside for the rain/lighting to stop. We were waiting around for about an hour with some underage drinking baseball players, some other misc. students when we started to notice some rather tall kids coming and going. The first player I recognized was Chase Budinger so I stopped him and shook his hand. This made Drew very upset saying I should have stopped him longer and let Drew meet him. The boys were watching every kid that walked by and saying "Is he on the team? Is he?". Nic Wise came by a little while later and we didn't recognize him at first but then we did. Drew ran into the building and yelled "Nic!" Nic stopped and talked for a few minutes so we took this picture with him.

Soon another starter on the team Jordan Hill came by and Drew stopped him again and took his picture too. Zane and even Alex (ASU Fan) were happy to take this picture because of how tall this guy is.

Overall, despite the rain, lightning and cold wind we all had a good time. UA killed poor Idaho, but it was worth the time. And yes we got to go to El Guerro Canelo (sorry Stacy).

what up

Well I'm really lame. But that's ok. I'm not really blogging anymore. My wife blogs all the time at her blog. I'm not that good. But I've been up to some stuff lately. I'm happy to report I got a new job here within honeywell. I'm moving back to Tempe which is awesome! I'm really happy about that at least. Other things that make me happy is that I'm going to get a real cube and not just a desk in the middle of a room. I'm also happy to be back in a less stressfull (I hope) position. 2.5 years on SAP will kill you. If you don't know, don't ask. I've been interested in the politics of the US too. I'm very happy with McCain's pick of Great white north's Gov! She seems real. For the first time It seems that a candidate for a national office might have actually had to check her checking account before heading out to dinner with the Fam. I'm not sure that she has but perhaps she has, or at least I could believe it if she said she had. I think she looks a little like Tina Fey, whom I find incredibally funny and a little attactive. I don't know, maybe it's just me. I was glad he didn't pick my man Mitt. I have many reasons but here are two. 1) Mitt can run in 2012 if McCain happens to loose or happens to not run at 77 years old. And 2) I'm sick of hearing how Mormons aren't really people and we run around trying to convert others because we are so miserable. I'm just tired. I can use the 4 year recharge period. Otherwise I'm pretty happy about who McCain picked. Since I can't really vote for him, Yeah McCain isn't in my top 10 of choices, I'll vote for the hottest Gov in the 50 states. You know she isn't really hot I guess but she's pretty and very appealing (Smack you Rodam). I'm happy over all about it now, before I was like a chick at the DNC the other night under a glass ceiling, very disenchanted. Barack is so white already, Bill Clinton was the only black guy there talking. I saw an interview with Barack with Stuart Scott of ESPN. It was comical. SS is a total wanna be ebonics speaker (webonics), and Barack's voice sounds like Eddie Murphy making fun of white people. It was very humorus. Rush Limbaugh had a good observation that there were no "persons of african decent" in the lower bowl area of the stadium last night. Too funny.

Well the Hornet's are kicking butt again this year. I feel bad for anyone that get's in our way...Just kidding. Though we are looking good. Drew and Zane and little Bulldog are really looking good. We have Ray, Mondo and Alex that are returning from last year and doing well. Even little AJ, lonely w/o Sky is doing well. The race is on now that Sky went to the longhorns between him and Drew who will get the most TD's this year. However my bet is on Sky due to opportunities. Sky is the RB and LB for his team. He got two TDs in the scrimmage the other night. Nice. Drew got one in his first scrimmage. We are all enjoying it. Games are right around the corner. Here's a quick vid. Sky's #11

why worry

Well I'm a worrier. Everyone doesn't know this about me but I am. In fact I'm such a worrier that it bugs me when others don't worry. Vance doesn't ever worry. Or if he does he hides it. Lately I've realized that my worrying makes me irritable (nah!) Anyway in most cases I worry about small things really. Like last night I worried my self into insomnia because I think haven't been brushing my teeth enough. True. I layed there thinking about the UA basketball game and started goal setting about my teeth brushing. So today as soon as I was done eating my wonderful frozen burritos and finishing my yucky diet pepsi (out of dmd at all of honeywell how is this possible, but I've visited the cafe, and 5 vending machines, nothing! ARG!!!!) I went to the bathroom with my boyscout tooth brush and my big ole tube of aquafresh. I proudly starting brushing. Trying to fill two minutes I started to look at the tube of tooth paste and realized that toothpaste has an expiration date. I didn't know that. Why? Does it turn toxic? What is in toothpaste that could expire. Well mine says 09/2002. I suddenly didn't feel well anymore so I guess I have one more thing to worry about. ug.

Awesome Video (I hope this works)

welcome back - beno

well, yeah i'm lazy. That's the problem. a no duh moment. I've enjoyed some of the time in the past weeks sin Mitt. But I liked it better before. Now I'm so indifferent I can't believe it. Have you heard the song "Animal I've become" by three days grace. Pretty cool but that's not why I bring it up. It says "somebody get me through this nightmare, I can't control myself" that's how I feel about this election. I know why Mitt lost. Everyone knows why. but no one will say it out loud. ssshhhh. crazy. I am prone to mock people that play the race card too much. "You are only saying that because I'm ". So I guess that's why I don't want to tell you all of my thoughts. I've enjoyed the last AM (after mitt) though really because I was watching so much CNN and FOXNEWS and now I don't watch and so I've been reading. I read the entire BOM since January and am almost 400 pages into GBH book by sister Dew. pretty cool huh, yeah I know I'm a freak! You are impressed you know it. well actually for people like el wifey it isn't much, but for a intelectually challenged person like me it's a major accomplishment. I see you smirking, like "you all dat".

Here's your philisophical input from your pal (me): if you want to get over a loss big or small, read the BOM in 60 days. It'll knock your socks off. You'll either 1. feel so guilty that you will forget what you were worried about or 2. feel so good that you will forget what you are worried about. for me it was both depending on the day or part I was at. You know people are always talking about "power" in the world, they have no idea. Really none.

Ok, so yesterday el wifey tore out a wall at our house then blogged about it. She is psycho. but what was funny was that she emailed me and said "I updated my blog, go read it and see if you still love me" pretty funny huh. Girl, you so crazy. But me lika the crazy girls...

Mitt today

My Best List from the Mitt Campaign

Best T-shirt: "Romney/Mendenhall '08" if you don't know don't ask; it's not funny to you...
Best joke: Youtube of Mitt's son prank calling his dad with Governor of California's old movie lines: "who's your Daddy and what does he do?" It's about half way down on the page
Best Article: To difficult to say... today's favorite is at Captains Quarters a political blog by a talk show host Edward Morissey. Why he's going for Mitt
Best TV Spot: The momentum one that is a few posts down from Nevada election that was cool, but the original "This is the story." spot will make you cry the first few times you see it. That's enough for now.

On a more important front, my condolences to all who, like me, are saddened by the Great Leader President Hinkley's death, I feel your pain. I was saddened but also my testimony of the truth of the gospel grew. Two reasons one is because of the succession of leadership is well established and we all love and admire President Monson. The second is from my boy Vance. Vance had great insight last night. We were all at a youth fireside. We were singing the song "Come come ye saints" when everyone started finding out (via text message) that President Hinkley had died. Just when Vance found out we started the 4th verse "And if we die, before our journey's through, happy day, all is well". Amen brother, Amen.

Wednesday - "Oh Where to Begin"

There is so much good Mitt stuff today. I am in heaven. There isn't much negative (much) today. A couple you should look at are this one from the editor of National Review Online. Good line about the "Mormon memo". I enjoyed the Fred Thompson dropping out news since now it helps others, hopefully helping Mitt. Many people are saying that it will help Mitt. Then of course I enjoy seeing anything bad about poor Mike Huck(ster)abee. I guess he, McCain and Rudy are out of cash. Here's an article about Huck specifically. Also there is a great story about Why all the other GOP candidates don't like Mitt. Good read, it will make you realize why I do like him so much.

I guess that's enough. I was able to enjoy these as I ate my lunch so I hope you can find the time too. Also don't forget tomorrow night is the last debate before Florida and Super Tuesday (I think) on MSNBC. I'm not sure what time... It's going to be about the Economy so guess what... Mitt will rule it.

Monday - A way of life at this point

I've been thinking today that there was going to be some good "Mitt" news. Last night I read a little and found some good news on EFM and a good "good is evil and evil is good" comparison. Those posts were great! but nothing beats this pole. Usually you don't see this for Mitt this early. Also you can say what you want about the poles, however the Rasmussen poles have been dead on for the GOP. They like everyone else missed on the Democrat NH primary but they've been right every other time. I was wrong about the SC Romney result but I was more guessing with my heart then my head. I also was wrong about Nevada. Romney got 50%+ of the votes. It was wild, not even close. It's just too bad that Nevada is ignored but it's all good for Mitt.

Yeah Baby!

Well, you gotta see it, Mitt's team put together a cool commercial called "Momentum Friday!" It got me pumped up. It's awesome. Turn it up... or use headphones because it rocks. Click Here to see it and many other MITT TV things. Later Mitt Heads!

By the Way... if you want to see Mitt in a "different" setting watch Leno tonight! He's on... Friday night. I guess that's a quick jaunt from LV where he's been campaigning.

About Time

If you want to know who and why I'm supporting Mitt there are many reasons. Yes is Mormonism made me look at first. But I've also looked at others. I actually like Fred. If there was no Mitt I would go for him, except the whole not a viable candidate thing. A good synopsis is in Ann Coulter's article today. If you don't know who she is then Read about her. A quick synopsis is that she's a very brave leader of the conservative movement. She is tough on liberals, almost mean sometimes, and is very well respected and very well liked by conservatives. She has written several books about her beliefs and political persuasions. It is a good "Mitt" article.

Mitt's Michigan

Well Mitt won. Very good. I was happy to see that but even though he won, many folks are mocking him today. Saying that he pandered and "changed" his views to win. Crazy. He's a politician so he did pander, that's what they do. Every one of them. Good job Mitt, way to sell yourself. It must have been right, because you won and people believed you. duh! I can't get over the stupid main stream media that wants Mitt out of there so bad, they are trying to get rid of Fred Thompson too. "Do you have to win (state name here) to remain viable?" What candidate would say "yes, I must win or I'm quiting". None, what a stupid question. You have to look at these news reporters and see what their motivation is: Viewers and that's it. That's their paycheck. So they will say ANYTHING they need to in order to get more viewers (or listeners you radio people). enough ranting I guess.

Today on the Rush Limbaugh show 3 ladies called and raved about how much they "loved" Romney. Rush was equating it to a point to 1992 and Billy boy. I guess women would call Rush back then and say how much they liked Bill and thought he was so handsome (gross). Anyway he said that he had heard so many women liked Mitt this time is a bit different because they don't "love" him to want to sleep with him, but because they admire him and he's handsome, good family man and has the love of a good woman; his wife. Where the bill chicks liked him back then because they thought he was good looking and thought that there was actually a chance to "hook up". I guess we should have seen the whole Monica thing coming.

ON to Nevada and ON to South Carolina. Predictions? Another gold and another silver!

Views from Larry King

While Larry King was really soft on him, I liked his answers. I liked the answer on the "Mormon" thing. He basically said that if you don't vote for him "ONLY" because he is a Mormon then you are a bigot. Also his criticism of John McNasty saying that Jobs are gone and won't come back was dead on to what I think. McStain is saying that jobs are gone and basically Auto workers should just "get over it" and "move on". I was plenty glad that he was on because a lot of independent voters watch that and not the fox news shows that he's usually on. Independents (the growing number of voters) are gonna decide this election today in Michigan and the general (if he get's that far) in November. No one has the majority anymore. In Iowa and New Hampshire the day or two before the voting Romney never was leading, so that left me hoping polls were wrong. Finally it looks like he leads the polls generally although very small. Remember with all the "polls aren't right" uproar they were right in republican in both Iowa and NH. Check out this poll on Poitico.com. It is close but at least we have a "good" feeling going into today. Something we never had before.