Contentment

I'm sitting on my couch during halftime of this with a glass of this and this far from my mind. Life is good.

The Hammer Holds

*Last night I made chicken, scalloped potatoes and corn muffins. I thought my food was delicious and that's why I didn't share with Jessie. Actually, it was because she wasn't home, but still....

*I go to Kansas City in 1 week for a Guitar Center grand opening. Is that going to be fun?

*Work is getting scary. My future is getting scary. It's not in a bad way, but in a 'Where the heck is my life going to go' scary. I mean, I finally have a vision and plan with GC, but damn, is it bigger than I thought?

*Did I tell you my dogs ate my glasses? I can still wear them, they're just a tad more textured. Among other things they have destroyed: Jessie's scarecrow doll, pretty much all my shoes, our wicker basket, candles, various telephone wire, my xbox controllers, a flower plant outside the house, the basement cement (from pooping and peeing all over it), the legs of our coffee table....But they're so damn cute.

*Speak of the devil, Wally just started freaking out. I think he hurt his leg. Its funny when either of the them gets hurt because they start yelping and then run straight to mommy or daddy and beg to be picked up. He's OK now.

I Saw These Guys Once on Animal Planet

So once again, a quiz that is right on. I am really on my feet all day at work, thus making me very irritable and then...well, consider this a preemptive apology.... When the question arose in the quiz "Do you think you're cute?" I, of course, chose yes, and thus a meerkat further defines my identity. Seriously these guys are about the coolest animals in the world. They do things like kill snakes who try to eat their friends and then spend the rest of the day pretty much doing nothing but rough housing like my dogs, Hank and Wally.

You're a Meerkat!

Highly social and very protective of your friends, you only really
feel safe when you're underground. You are able to stand up for longer periods of
time than anyone you know and make an extremely good guard or watchperson. You do
have a nasty tendency to hold in your anger until it simply explodes without
warning. You owe everything you have to a magazine cover.


Take the Animal Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

All That I Want Is You In the End

*Work has been exhausting. It used to be that I could go home from GC and forget, but these days I come home from work and think 'Gosh, work was stressful today.' Sometimes I want a stiff drink to make me forget, or some Amos Lee or Holly Williams to relax me, and sometimes I think I want to just keep driving up 65 to a place far, far away. What I realize more and more though is that I only need one thing when all is said and done.

I deeply miss you and I'm coming to hold you in your dreams right now.

The Musician's Lament

*So yesterday was Labor Day. How was yours? Did you go to the beach? Or up to the cabin? Or have a BBQ with some pals? I bet it was fun...I worked. Granted I had one of the best days I've ever had at Guitar Center ($10,000+ in gross sales) but I still miss having holidays. I guess that's retail.

*I need more music. Let me rephrase that- I need more music that I've created or had a part in creating. I work around music all day, I play at chuch, I have a frickin' sweet keyboard but sometimes after being around music for so long all day I just want to relax. This has left a void. Zac from Johnnrook stops up to work a lot. I miss that band. I miss being a part of the creative process. I like hearing about the band and wish them the best no matter which way they go. I just need to once again be connected.

*If I were still on livejournal my mood would be somber. Its funny, because I'm not upset about anything. Just reflective. Well, maybe I'm upset about having to work six days this week.

School's In From Summer....

*You know how I know my wife loves me? She makes me grape Kool-Aid. She hates grape Kool-Aid.

*Jessie started school today. After having her around all summer when I was home, its kinda quiet around here. Well, not so quiet seeing as there still are two puppies who love tearing scarecrows and newspaper to shreds. Bastards. There is good news to this story though! I get another year of hearing ridiculous stories of high schoolers and reading papers from 9th graders about why sk8ers rule, which ATV I should be riding and with any luck how Mike Jones and Paul Wall brought the city of Houston out of virtual obscurity in the hip hop world and took the "screwed" lifestyle to the forefront of the industry in just one summer.

*On a similar note did I tell you that Lil' John was at Guitar Center one day? He bought a Mackie SRM450 from Mark Gust. We have a guitar in the warehouse that we have celebrities sign and he signed it: "What?" 'Lil John'

*I think the reason why I always write about pop culture and MTV when I blog is because its all that's on that holds my interest in the mid day. That's the only time I blog....P.S. I'm not apologizing.