Ok, the F.E.A.R. thing is not quite as bad as I may make it out to sound......then again denial is the first sign (or so they tell me). Whatever happened to the old simple games like Super Mario Bros. and Duckhunt? Well I will say that the only video game Tricia likes is Super Mario Bros; and guess what I found last weekend.......you guessed it..Super Mario Bros. Dave and I both bought these controllers last weekend that plug right in to the tv. 73,000 games on this crazy thing, and all are the old school video games like Super Mario Bros, Duckhunt, DonkeyKong, DigDug, BurgerTime, Excite Bike.......the list goes on. that thing is awsome, It sure brings back memories of my sisters and I playing the old Nintendo up in my bedroom on the old 13" tv. Those games are freakin awsome.
And now for the rest of the story....I am feeling much better, Ella is doing good, and everyone else appears to be somewhat normal (whatever that is). I am trying to step this up a notch and comment on some of yeralls blogsites. Did I really just say yerall...WOW. TGIF - that's all I have to say. It has been a long week, tonight will be my MicroEconomics final; oh the fun. Thank goodness that class is over, Economics...and on Friday nights...oh the joy. It is now 6:30 in the morning, I have already drank an entire pot of coffee and can see my whole day flashing before my eyes. I plan on trying to work on our bedroom some more this week since finals will be over Monday, and clean out the garage, work in the yard, and other fun stuff like that since I normally don't get to anymore....but that may just be the coffee talkin.

F.E.A.R. ......and that picture is of KaraBear

Not much to add today, Ella had an eye exam yesterday; so she was a bit cranky all day. Tricia thought Katie needed a rewarded for bringing all of her grades up so she bought Katie a guinea pig (don't know if that's spelled right). So we have a new addition to the family; Mr. Wiggles, he pretty cute I suppose for a pig. Finals for Linux class last night went well I think, didn't really seem too hard. I have finals again tomorrow and then on Monday, then I will get a whole week off of school........Yeah! Kara is well, I am still sick though, but still getting better day by day. And I am realizing that I am really addicted to this stupid XBox game FEAR; and that's probably an understatement. I went home for lunch yesterday to have lunch with the wife; only to find no one at home...so guess what I did? That's right, FEAR. Wife comes home after I get home yesterday afternoon after work and am I studying...no... that's right-FEAR. Yesterday morning 6 am; take a guess at what I was doing...ok I think I've said enough; but yes it was more FEAR. I appear to have lost control of how much I play, when I play, or for how long I play; but don't worry I've got it all under control. I often womder where this game has been all my life? How have I done without it? What will happen when I beat the game? OK...all that's just a little extreme but I do really enjoy playing that game. My little bro called yesterday to see if I wanted a "tampolene"? I said yes but all I think about is another doctor/hospital visit and bill. Not really; what I was really thinking is that if I only had that trampolene in my game FEAR there would no stopping me...I could jump higher and further and never ever get shot and die. Not really, but you can see the effect this stupid game has had over me. Got to go.

Since my last update, Ella was in the hospital from Friday the 20th until yesterday afternoon. I have been sick since last Tuesay, and Kara has been sick the last 2 days. Tricia spent the weekend up at the hospital, and the kids were at their mom's for the weekend; or supposed to be anyway. Eric and Bethany spent the weekend at their grandmothere's house, and I was here with the dog and cat all weekend. I am finding that I obviously don't have the free time that you all do to be updating this on a regular basis. This week is finals for Linux administration and (my favorite) MicroEconomics; NOT! Next week will be Database finals (another of my favorite classes); NOT! I will seriously be glad when this all over, it is not getting any easier. There is only about 1/4th of the people that I started with left, I didn't realize so many people would drop out. I bought this Xbox for the kids a few weeks ago, and I have now become totally addicted to this game FEAR - awsome game. I started playing it over the weekend while everyone was gone and now can't hardly put it down. Friday morning, between Rickie and Jesus, my entire house got refurniturized (I don't think that's a real word but what the heck). So, new matching furniture and entertainment center in the video game room, matching chairs to replace the table in the office, new matching sofa and chairs, coffee table and end table in the living room, and a new bunk bed for Eric's bedroom. The house looks quite different, needless to say. I was amazed, I set out all that old furniture in the front yard while all the new was coming in, and the old stuff dissapeared before I could even get the new furniture arranged. Anyway---that's all for now folks!

So,it's been a week or so since I've had the opportunity to update this thing. I will try to do better at keeping you all up to date. I myself have been sick the last couple of days, and Bethany has been sick for a few days now. Whatever she has just keeps hangin on, coughing etc. I am preparing for finals next week, only 22 more weeks of school after this round of finals. While most companies are downsizing Nu Look is acrually growing, we took over abot 20 more carwashes and they are talking of hiring 2 more service techs. It's about 6 am this morning and I must say I enjoy the peace and quite, it's actually one of my favorite times of day, before anyone else is up and around. Carissa watched Ella Grace last Friday so Tricia and I could do our Valentine's Day thing. I had flowers sent to the house during the day and bought her a ring. Then Friday night we went to Red Lobster and got a couple of movies from blockbuster. Swing Vote I believe is what we watched, very good movie. Then Saturday the Dains kids came oveer and stayed the night, baby Wiz went home early, and we went and got movies and video games and partied it up. We are preparing for Bethany's B-Day party, I believe it's going to be at Pizza Street. Anyway, that's all you get for now.

"Monster Jam"

So, Monster Jam was a big hit with Eric and Kara. It was fun, Eric got a "GraveDigger" flag to wave around and screamed his little lungs out. I really didn't think he would have a voice left after it was over, but of course I was wrong. And we had the family birthday party for princess Leandra, that went well too. So, over all it was a good weekend.

Long week

So, it's been a week since I had a chance to update this. The kids survived our night away at the hotel, man that was awful relaxing other than the fact we bed went to bed by nine; that really made me feel old. Get rid of the kids, get a hotel room and go to sleep. Monday was LeAndra's 17th birthday, that made me feel quite old as well. We had a big dinner with the family and her friends, then on Wednesday we went to the mall. LeAndra got a couple pieces of jewelry (she couldn't find anything else she wanted), Kara ended up getting a new G1 phone, I got a new wedding ring (one that actually fits), Katie got a pair of black suspenders with bleeding hearts, and Tricia got a late Christmas present, a gold, silver, diamond, and amythest heart necklace. Considering the fact that we have seven kids between the two of us we had decided not to get each other anything at Christmas and just buy for the kids. Ella is continuing to keep us up at night repeatedly; I really hope she ends that soon, it gets quite weary. Tomorrow we shall be going to "Monster Jam", should be exciting. By the way, this picture is about how I feel right now.......a little crazy.