Helloooo OT

Well its now a week after our vacation and I am back to the ol grind stone. 1st week back and already have 2 OT shifts. Today was hell and involved lots of blood, and I can't wait for tomorrow night. I get to work intake on a Saturday night and it should be fun.

It has been hard to adjust to the schedule again and I have been drained the whole week.

The big appointment is next Wednesday and I am ready to get this thing taken care of.

And now the next random thought.........I think I blew out a calf the other day. I was running along and felt good, then the next thing I know I am a block from our house and it feels like someone has stabbed me in the calf with a machete. There was this shooting pain all up and down my calf and I could barely walk home. I have not run since and I hope it heals soon so I can keep up with the training.

Well I think that is about it for now. Not much exciting going on right now.

Greg

BLAH

I have decided to post again today because I just don't have the motivation to do much while E is taking a nap. It is really strange because this has been happening a lot over the last year or so and it is so not like me to have zero motivation. I have also found that while I may laugh a bunch I don't know if it is ever because I am truly happy or if I laugh because I have to. I also have been feeling very blah and often get a bit snippy pretty quickly. Now I don't know what depression feels like or if I have it, but the thought scares the hell out of me. I don't feel that I really have anything to be depressed about, nor do I think that any of the normal everyday problems that we (K and I) have on the day to day are enough to make me depressed. I love K and little E with all my heart, I love my family (both K's and My own) very much, I truly do love my job, and overall I don't think my life is bad. On the other hand something has to be making me feel like this and act the way I do and I am just tired of going through life the way I am right now. So next week I will be going to talk to my doc about these concerns and see what he has to say.



I am not sure why I am posting about this or why I think that anyone who reads this would care, but I am posting it anyways. If I actually think about what has been going on I guess the only reason I am telling all of you this is that, for those who know me, I want you to know what I have been feeling and this is the reason for why I have been the way I have been recently.



For those who read this and don't know me I guess this is your first look at a different side of me. I am mostly an up beat type of person and I have been feeling out of sorts lately.



So that is that. I think it is weird that I can post this type of thing on the blog with no problems but it was hard as hell to talk to my wife about it. I guess I just didn't want her to think less of me.



Well time to lighten up this post with a couple pics.

In case you are wondering, yes that is E dancing yesterday morning with 2 tampons.............because they are fun. Boy will she be surprised how much "fun" they are when she gets older!! To young for those right now E.

Greg

Tuesday muggy Tuesday

Alas we are finally home and unpacked. We have all the laundry done, things put away, and are trying to get settled back in. E had no problem with that on Sunday night though, the minute we came in the door she was chasing the cats and ran to her toys in the living room. I think she was glad to be home to.

We had fun and it is always nice to get away, but I think it is funny how when you go on vacation you are always glad to be home again. The nice thing is that in just a couple of weeks we will get a break from everyday life again because we get to go to a wedding! K's cousin is getting married in St. Cloud and we are staying Friday and Saturday nights and then coming home on Sunday. E has now started dancing a lot whenever she hears music so it should be fun to watch her at the wedding.

I promised in the last post to get some more pics of our vacation up and so here they are:

So there you are. The North woods is a great place and at times I wish that we could move back there. I grew up in that area and now looking back on it, I had a wonderful childhood and took a lot for granted while living in the North. And now we are back to smelling cow crap and other farm smells.

Well it is time for E to lay down for her nap and me to get some stuff done around the house. Another post coming soon!

Greg

"DAS BOOT"!!!! Friend or Foe?

I have to say that we found out the hard way that drinking at the resort is really, really fun. On Thursday it rained again so KT, S, K, E, and Myself decided to go back to Hayward and do some more shopping. We got to town and the girls went their own way to shop while S and I went to have a couple drinks around town. We started at Karbs, which is a local restaurant, and S had some 7&7's while I decided to have a Knob Creek and some a couple of beers. We then ventured to Angler's and had a couple more drinks.



The girls found us and we headed back to the cabin and made some dinner, which was tasty. After dinner, K and I went to the bar to meet friends of mine from Hayward, who we had not seen in along time. They stayed until about 10pm and we all had a good time. T had to be in court the next morning (he is a lawyer) and so they had to go, but by this time KT and S had joined us and we decided to stay longer.



While we had fun with them, they left at a good time to get out! Shortly after we they left we were kidnapped by crazy 60th birthday celebraters who were wild and crazy. The birthday girl got me to polka with her and eventually I had enough Miller Lites in me and I decided to sing some karaoke (see first post about being a cabaret singer). Well I decided to sing Toby Keith's "Not as good as I once was" and I suckered S into singing with me. Once we were done embarrassing ourselves we returned to drinking.



The fatal moment of the night came when we were talking and getting to sing our second song of the night, Brad Paisley's "Alcohol", that the owner of the resort came up with "DAS BOOT". If any of you have seen the movie "Beerfest" then you know what "DAS BOOT" is. For those of you who do not know "DAS BOOT", it is a large glass boot that gets filled with beer and you pass it around to all who want to participate. And participate we did. In the end we drank from "DAS BOOT" about a hundred times and it had to be refilled about 7-8 times before we left at 1am. Damn you "DAS BOOT" you are my friend and my worst enemy.



We then decide to go to Copper Falls the next morning and hike the park. Another brilliant idea from our clan. It was hell getting ready, it was hell riding in the car, and it was hell hiking until the booze was sweated out. The park is great and it really did help the hangover. I will post pics later for you all to see.



K's parents left today and we went to Hayward early for yet more shopping. We got back around noon and have just chilled the rest of the day. We took E to the beach for a little bit today and she loved it as you can see from the next pics.

Look at those smiles!!! It is about time for us to cook some dinner and pack up a bit. Get ready for a HUGE picture post the next time!

Greg

DAMN YOU RAIN!!!!!

Can anyone guess what has returned today???? YUP the rain. We went into Hayward again today so that K and her sister K could shop a bit more, and S and I went to a couple of different bars and had some drinks. Then we got back to the cabin and it started pouring. I hear on the local news that it is suppose to sunny and 70 tomorrow so I guess Copper Falls is pushed to tomorrow.

Here are some picks of what the north woods looks like when the sun is out.

As for what we are going to do the rest of the rainy night in the north?? Well we are going to meet some of my Friends from Hayward and have some food and drinks at the bar. We will have a good time and catch up on what is new, it should be a good time.

I believe it is now time to go help feed the child and get ready to head up to the bar. Here's to you and me now lets go pee!!

Greg

FORE!!!!!!!

Well just as the sun comes out and the weather is nice today, we find out at the golf course that it is suppose to rain AGAIN tomorrow and Friday. Shit, damn, piss, ass, shit and damn is what I have to say about the rain. So here is the rundown of what we are and have done on the ONE nice day of vacation.


This AM S, R, and I went to a local golf course and had our tee time at 9:10 and when we were on the first tee you could only see about 100yrds down the fairway because the fog was so thick. This lasted for about 2 1/2 holes and then it turned wonderfully sunny. We had a good time and we were tired when all was said and done.




Here are some pics from our outing.

Above is S on the 11th and 14th tee. I got the second shot and I thought it was a good one. S went on to shoot an 84. Way to go S (readers should add HUGE amounts of sarcasm to the last statement.)

And here is me on the 14th tee and I think that S also got a great pic of the before and after shot. Good second pic S! I shot much better than S and ended with a 112. YES!!

> And here is the best of the best. R showed us all up today with his style, class, and grace. I should also mention that R broke the course record!........................for the most strokes in a round, HA HA HA , just kidding R. He shot a 113.

So this is takes up to 1:30 pm and now we are trying to decide on whether or not we should go to Copper Falls today before the weather turns shitey again tomorrow.

Will post later tonight with a few more pics of the golf course and maybe some pics from the falls.

Greg

SWEET JESUS the rain is no more!!

HOLY HELL the rain has stopped and the sun was out!! This is a way cool for those of us who want to go golfing tomorrow!! I love to golf and am slowly getting better. I have found that the older I get the more conservative I play. It usually works out the best for my and I end up scoring better than I ever have. Thank goodness for small releifs!!

Did anyone mention how frickin great the smell of the northren pines are??? I absolutley love being in the north woods and would trade almost every ounce of life I have in RW to be up here. I of course would never be able to take little E away from Grandpa because I know he loves her to death!! But if we were just "we" then I think "we" would be somewhere else where I could get on the road as an officer.

We are going to see mom tomorrow at the hospital so she can walk us around and SHOW OFF the E to all of her co-workers.

Night,

Greg