BACK OF MY NEST

The other day my Blue Heron friend showed up to the pond in the back yard hunting for fish.  Unfortunately for him he was hunting around my other bird friends nest.  I’m not sure what kind of bird the black one is, but if you know what it is let me know. 

 

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On another note I came across these pictures I took of my beautiful new niece soon after she was born.  I believe she’s around 2.5 months old now.  She’s a pretty precious little thing.

 

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JOKE…

What did the fish say when it ran into the concrete wall?

DAM…

Speaking of Dams…  Damn I love this woman!

Where would life be without this one here?  I’m sure it’d be some where great, but it’d never be as great as this.  I’m simply one lucky man.  I got a great side kick; that has plenty of badass moves and sweet tricks too.  She makes me smile from the inside out.

Even when she tells me I’m being irresponsible because I’m not in the bed at 6 P.M.  Some of us don’t like to sleep…  And I think I’ve earned my right to decide when and how long I want to sleep.  I could see if I was still wearing pull-ups or onesies, but I’m not.  Some of us just don’t want to sleep.

Well I suppose I should be responsible and get some sleep now.

In closing statements

• I wish my wife’s hair was still long (it’s growing slowly)
• Nancy Botwin is a whore, but I still love everything about her
• And I can’t wait for our up coming trip… (I think that’s why I don’t sleep)

Anyway, till next time…  Live it like it’s over!

FACETIOUS...

I haven’t blogged in quite sometime…

Things are great here in the state of North Carolina.  How could anyone complain about living on the coast of NC, It’s a beautiful place.  I wouldn’t mind living in San Francisco, however.  We’ve been busy running around lately so I’m glad to have sometime home for the next little while.

I also think my wife is particularly funny.  She’s got a good sense of humor.  I suppose one would need that to keep some kind of sanity around a character like me. 

I’ve got quite the catch and she’s a total babe!  She’s pretty much the shiznittle on all counts.  We pretty much live a fairy tale love life that most could only dream of on a bad day.  She’s my superhero, and I’m pretty sure she’s my biggest fan.  I think if anyone deserves any kind of acknowledgement it’s this beautiful girl.  She puts up with the most asinine bullshit all day.  I should start blogging more about the crap that she deals with,but you can read here blog for that.  Blessings be upon her for dealing with that. 

I’ve been working on our little garden lately and I’m glad to say I’ve got my first one on the way.  She’s bigger now but I’m pretty excited to pick this first one in a week or so.

I was also excited about this find to put in the pond behind my house.  I haven’t seen him lately but the little turtle is still hanging around the pond.

This one this past weekend thinks she pretty much had me tricked.  She told me when we were looking through the art stuff at ROSS we found these cool little turtles that were all crazy and cool looking.  Jess didn’t want one, but Lilly says “Adam, if you buy me this turtle, I’ll love you more than I love you right now, and that’s a whole lot.”  So of course I replied with “then lets definitely buy this turtle because I definitely want more love.”  She later reminded me later about me buying more love.

This was a pretty good time a couple a weeks ago…

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LETS GET LOST TONIGHT

WHAT?

You haven't been getting my posts? But I don't understand? I mean I've been posting... I've blogged almost ever night... You mean to tell me that you haven't been getting my posts for the last five months? This just doesn't make sense... Quick somebody call a doctor! Actually on second thought, don't call a doctor. I see them like everyday... They are so overrated!

Back to the post issue. I just can't believe you haven't been getting my posts. I'll have to check with google and blogspot and find out what's been going on... I mean I'm pretty sure I wrote them. I had to of at least posted something in the last five months.

Well I can't recap the last five months in one blog... No one would read it, or would they? I'm sorry I have to sleep tonight and it's already past my bed time so I can't stick my finger down my throat and leave the last five months in your lap or at your feet to catch up on.

I will tell you this, the last five months have been one of the greatest adventures ever. Like whitewater rafting without the water. I've gotten engaged to the most beautiful women in the world, and I'm going to be marrying this "Mare" or should I say "Filly" (since she's so young and feisty) on August 1st.



So where have I been? I've been engulfed in the fragrance of love. I've been headsprung over something you couldn't imagine. I've reflected over the last several years of my life the last little while to resonate what's brought me to where I'm at now.

First off I've had the worlds best friend over the last few years who means the world to me. It's not often you find friends like this. Someone who will put you above them and always be there for you through the thick and the thin. You know friends who have characteristics that make you feel like a million bucks. Someone who always wants the best for you, who wants you to succeed, to be your best, to help them be their best, smiles and laughs off your stupid mistakes. You always wonder can this friend ever be replaced, and the answer is no. Friends like this can never be replaced. They'll always have a special place in your heart and mean the world to you. To this I say to that friend who may or may not even read this... You're my bestest friend ever and will always be my bestest friend. PS the three year picture is so darn cute!

Well as the road bumps and bucks you find yourself in a better place than you've ever been. I've got my shoes dried and cleaned and I'm ready for the stretch. I've got a brand new bag of tricks that can only make me stronger. I know what I got to be right now. I'm gonna be the best like I've always been. I got this dime piece that's more like a dub. She's like the iceberg that sunk the Titanic, watch out boats. I'm lucky she associates with me and gives me the time of day. I knew from the minute I shook this hand what was expected of me. Things never seemed so clear. It was like looking at 3D picture with the glasses and not having to bother crossing your eyes and doing all the crazy tricks to get the picture to pop of the page.

I got so many things to say I'll save it to my next blog. Let's just say I hope it doesn't take blogspot this long to let me post a blog. I still can't believe you haven't been getting my posts.

As I always do I leave with you the utmost feelings of my heart!

Adam

I'D LOVE TO SLAY ME SOME DUFFY, AND DRINK ME SOME WINEHOUSE!!!

So let's be honest here... I'm really into music. Music of all kinds and all genres. Well all excluding that god awful sound that comes from the streets of Nashville, TN. Someone should have built a great big wall around that city to keep that "nails on a chalkboard" sound in. How can anyone really like country? Please someone answer it, anyone.

Well enough pissing about country that's not the reason behind this posting. The last month or more I've fallen in love with a genre of music to a degree that I never thought I could fall to. My one true love definitely falls with hip hop, and I'm not talking about the crap rap you here on your Power 98's, 106.5 The Beat's, 95 JamZ's, and your "Repeater 101.5" which I'm sure can be found in every FM signals reach. This radio stations absolutely bore me. It's almost like they pick 5 or 10 songs if that for the month and play them over and over and over and over and over and over and over... You get the point. My true hip hop love falls deep beneath the ground, seems why they call it underground... Some of it spills over on to Main Street but not to the level where you can hear it five times in an hour on the radio or on the radio at all. This isn't about hip hop so I need to move on. Just know that I'm trying to express this new love is a big thing for me to compare it to my love of hip hop.

The last month I've been engulfed with this genre. So much I created a new genre on my iPod for them all. I still haven't hammered down one name; I'm stuck between "awesome, fantastic, super, elegant, moving, etc...” you get the point. I'm not really making a new genre but I'm hooked.

I'm so hooked I've been buying all their CDs. That doesn't happen much anymore these days. I feel this strong will within to support their music because the ways these “Good Vibrations” reverberate off my ossicles. I couldn't bare the thought that one of them might quit doing what they're doing and go back to their day job.

This new love is for the female voice! Don't get me wrong nothing is ever better than a sexy female voice, but I've never been into like this before. I'm not talking about Brittany Spears and Christina Aguilera either!

Just to list a few of my new loves are:

Duffy
Amy Winehouse
Missy Higgins
Emily King
Sara Bareilles
Colbie Caillat
Tristan Prettyman
Adele
Clare Fader
Erin McKeown
Emiliana Torrini

There is a couple of handful of others too but these are just a few off the top of my head while I'm typing this. To these beautiful voices I bow my head in awe! I'm hooked! I'm serious, this doesn't happen. I haven't listened to hip hop in weeks because of these ladies. To some of you these ladies maybe nothing new but to those of you who haven't heard of them you're missing out. Duffy is my favorite of them all. I’m totally in love with her voice and her whole style. Her song “Stepping Stones” is amazing as well as “Warwick Avenue” and a list of other I’ll let you find yourself.

So my thoughts on all this are never leave a stone unturned because you never know what new love may be lying beneath. I'm so glad I didn't skip over Duffy... I owe my whole new passion to her song “Stepping Stones”

As always

P-Helps

TRAPPED IN A MAZE, THEREFORE I AM AMAZING

The tittle says it the best... Oh how nice it is to be amazing! I promised y'all something amazing so here I am... I'm here to show up.

I'd first off like to thank the things that make me amazing... What is it that makes me amazing? Well besides the never ending supply of smiles, jokes, laughs and happiness. Let's just say it's the prodigious characteristics that best describe me.

Ok in all seriousness... My head's not really that big, it's bigger than you could even imagine. Now that I got this nonsense out of the way what truly makes me amazing would have to be best said as the amazing people that are in my life. If it isn't my beautiful mother, my amazing twin sister, my most adorable nieces, the crazy ex girlfriends that always find their way back into my life, or one of the many people or things I've forgotten to list here, let me be first to apologize for my inconsiderateness.

So what's the real big idea behind all of this? Life. Life is the big deal behind this. The last three months have been the most sobering months, literally... Quick somebody get me a drink so I can finish this. On second though better make it an apple juice. That's it! I think next time I'm at the bar I'm going to give my swaggering grin that you all know to well at the bar tender; male or female, and say "Hey, let me get an apple juice..." Better yet maybe I should slyly slip the bartender a five and whisper "I like my juice on the rocks." I'm sure I'd be pussyfooting around the bar all night after that.

So back to this so called "LIFE" we're talking about. Being the beginning of a new year, which I've coined the phrase "Divine in 09" lame yes I know but nothing is as "Great as 08" so it'll just have to do for now until something more crafty comes along.

As a new year reins in, one is brought to acknowledge the past 365 days and ask what the F%*^ did I accomplish. I'm not going to sit hear in throw up into your laps the things I accomplished this last year I'm just brought to the sobering thoughts of what I didn't accomplish. Does that ever happen to you when you set a lot of goals and then you do nothing to achieve them. I'm reading a book (bite me yes I'm reading a book) that talks about not only setting goals but yet how to achieve your goals one day at a time. So one day after reading I let my fingers and google go on a date and looked into goals and achieving goals and all sorts of things and found a quote that I liked;

*Nothing happens unless first we dream.*

Ok I'll have to admit I dreamed about you last night just don't tell your husbands if you're married. It'll keep this fictional relationship a little more alive inside this make believe world. Ah yes, to my mysterious Abby, I also dreamed of you last night. No tail goes untold for we all shall meet one day, for the warm sunny air you breath in PHX, I too as well breath that air in New Bern. Except mine kind of smells like the ocean. Maybe we should be friends on the "book of faces", maybe it's too soon for that.

So how do we live our lives to the fullest degree each day. How about we wake up for starters. Not just wake up, but when I wake up each morning breathing I think "hell yeah, I at least got one more day." So as I referred to setting goals and achieving them I ask, have you made any goals for this year. When you make your goals for this year actually make them. Don't just say this is what I'm going to do... Then sit with one thumb in your mouth and the other in your... Ask yourself how the hell am I going to do this? I did that this year and it sparked this life opening epiphany where it's almost like I could see into the future and see what I should do with my life and how I should do it. Now I need to just execute all these things and I should be alright.

So to those of you who read this I wish I could see your smiling faces once more... It's been to long, and the memory of your beautiful faces are beginning to smear as the watercolors on a canvas... Maybe I'll hop on a jet and see you tomorrow. Look out for me, I'll be standing on the corner holding a sign that reads "SUCCESSFUL MAN LOOKING FOR THE LACKING COMPANIONSHIP OF OTHERS" or maybe that would be to much, how about something like "SOMEBODY GIVE THIS DOG A BONE" Who knows maybe I'll live it all to surprise.

As always... This heart to your heart!

Adam

I SWEAR I SWEAR THERE'S SOMETHING GOOD INSIGHT FOR TOMORROW

WHY TO THIS I WRITE TO MY DEAREST FRIENDS... HOW BLESSED THE DAY! THIS HERE IS MERELY A PRECURSOR TO SOMETHING GREAT. I HAVE SOME MIGHT EXCITING THINGS TO TALK ABOUT BUT I'M GOING TO WAIT TILL TOMORROW TO POST THEM. I JUST WANTED A FEW OTHER PEOPLE TO BE AS EXCITED AS I AM FOR THIS POST...

SO TO THIS I SAY ME DEAR FRIENDS, "HOLD ON, PULL UP YOUR PANTS, AND TIE YOUR SHOES BECAUSE TOMORROW I'M GOING TO BLOW YOUR SOCKS OFF..." WELL AT LEAST I HOPE. NOW I FEEL THIS EMINENCE AMOUNT OF PRESSURE TO SHOW UP AND TO PREFORM! TO THIS I TAKE A KNEE, PLACE MY HAT OVER MY HEART, AND LOOK UP TO THE SKY AS IF I WAS A PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE AND SAY THANK YOU AND KISS MY INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGER IN SOME KIND OF GESTURE AS IF IT'S A THANKS TO GOD...

ADAM

PS... I FOUND THIS PICTURE UNDER EXCITED!!! YOU SHOULD BE LIKE THESE GUYS!!