My brain is melting into mush!

Well, I am one step closer to being done with this semester. Today, I completed an hour long group presentation about child prostitution. It was done in three sections, and I got the most bleak of all the sections. I know that you may say how can any one section be more bleak than the next? My part was sexual abuse, runaways, throwaways, and the like. I got to do all the statistics and studies. Good lord! Not a happy subject at all to have been working on for a month. I still have a huge paper to do about it, but the big part is over (sad when the 20 page paper isn't the big part). Is it pathetic that doing it just put me in a bad mood. It also made me mad at adults. But, hurray! It's almost completely over. And now that I am done with the research, I won't get so down in the dumps. Ugh! But, if you want to watch an interesting video about the subject just click this word. And that is just the tip of the iceberg.

The good thing about it was that we actually made someone in the audience tear up. So, I figure we got the point across since the audience was crying. I best better get me an A!

What else is new in my life? Gosh, nothing. Isn't that sad? How boring am I?

The mister broke his toe. It is a little purple mess! Poor thing. All this after breaking a bone in his hand from the wreck (yep, he broke it-but just a small bone that he is just going to have to live with). Never good things for a drummer. But, he is living with it, and he's not being too much of a baby. Strange for a man. That's not insulting men. I have just never dealt with any who aren't kinda babyish when they are hurt or sick.

Today we went and had Pho. For those of you who don't know what pho is, it is the best soup in the world! It's a Vietnamese soup that is so silky and good and filled with noodles and chives and basil and jalapenos and sprouts (but I don't like those, so I don't put them in) and tofu (or meat). Oh, it totally hit the spot today. It was cold and we were tired and hungry. It was just yummy! And it put me in a pretty decent mood.



See, doesn't that look yummy! Oh, it is so good! Well, I love me some Vietnamese food anyway, but this especially. Now, if they would throw in some lemongrass! I just threw on some chili sauce, and it was good to go!

You know (wow, is this blog about nothing -a bit like Seinfeld but worse)I love hot stuff. Not like Fireballs or anything, but food food. I want everything extra spicy. Then I put jalapenos and chili sauce to it. I put chili sauce on everything! I really do. Hell, I would put it on a PB and J!



That stuff right there. I go through it like underwear. I highly recommend it. It is super good on breakfast tacos and baked potatoes! I warn you, if you eat it, it's pretty damn hot. I can even over do it. Which I love! But, be ginger if you aren't used to death fire. If you love death fire, go to town!

Next weekend I am going to my most favorite spot on earth- Matagorda, TX! And even better, I will be visiting my most favorite store of all times!! It deserves it's own sentence....


Stanley's!


Stanley's is so awesome, I want to live there. It is just the greatest, redneck, white trash, fried burrito having, beer and bait buying, grocery/clothing store on Earth! I will be sure to take pictures to show everyone when I get back.

Now, we go to Matagorda every year (sometimes twice). Our group gets together to go stay at Jacob's wonderful and generous grandparent's house there. It is right on the Colorado where it dumps into the gulf of Mexico. It is so relaxing and peaceful, yet fun. Do you know what it is like to lay on the couch watching TV while also staring out at the Colorado River that is 20 feet away? Oh, it's terrific. We get to fish (which I love! Yes, I know, that's strange coming out of me. I am one of those fake Americans from the city). We get to go to the beach (and I will even if it is cold), and we all just get to hang out and have a good time while drinking far too much alcohol (as my people will do or do on a daily basis).

This is Jody's first year! I can't wait. I think we are going to have such a good time. Him, myself, and the wiener are setting sail that direction on Thursday. And it shall be about four days of vacation bliss! And boy do I need it! I think he does, too. No, I know he does (if you want to know why, please feel free to ask. But, just in case his insane ex-wife reads this, I don't want her to know it is because of her! Ooooh, that's my little jab there. But, again, I am not one to say anything). But, I am gloriously happy! We shall play Catan and Mall Madness (damn you, Trav-Champion of Mall Madness) and Monopoly (Hey, Mandy, I have another money and board thrower to play with. It makes me miss you!). We will watch The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, as it is tradition (wait, Mandy, the same Monopoly thrower watches and sings this with me, too. Okay, you are officially a gay man named Jacob!) We will climb on the rocks off of the jetty. We will speed down the beach in jeeps. We will drink tequila until we vomit like teenage girls on 6th Street. Then we shall come home!

Here is Schneider on the beach in Matagorda last year...

Now, how cute is that? Gosh that dog loves the beach! Okay, one more!



Alright. This has gone on long enough! It has been about nothing and is probably pretty boring. Yeah, it is. I was going to back and reread it. But, I didn't feel like it. So, from child prostitutes to Wiener dogs on beach vacations. Wow, is that injustice or what?

Have a happy weekend!