Livin it One Day at A Time

I just don’t. Here I am, one in the morning, posting to the blog. The last time I did this will be forever after known as “The great misunderstanding of 2005″.

Gordon, the second oldest in the family, updated his blog. From what I’ve read in the scriptures, this is the third horseman of the Apocolypse. I plan on gathering my 2 hour supply of food (frozen burritos just don’t fare that well on long trips) and heading to the hills.

I’m also looking at buying on of these watches. What does everyone think? Opinions, ideas, cheaper knockoffs?

Oh and for you two who keep on quoting the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, you will be written out of the Pinball Machine Will if you keep this up…

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Those few of you who know me well, know that I harbor plans to rule the world.

Part of those plans involve a floating platform on which to view my minions and a scepter which I could use to shoot lightning at people.

Looks like the Lightning Scepter is already in development.

Now I just need my floating platform….

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Remember the billboard with Lance on it?

Or the following one with what’s her name Osmond on it?

How about the Photoshopped one of me? (back when I had the killer chops).

Well, I was going through my links, as I am want to do, when I found an article at Single Thought where they take this premise and manage to take it even further (with a little tounge and cheek). Towards the end they say the following

“We now open our humble inbox to all the good ones out there. We invite all the well-meaning friends, brothers, sisters, fathers, roommates, cousins, and co-workers to say what’s so great about your friend/roomie/child/sibling. There are a few rules we must abide though, and here they are:”

The rest of the rules are here

I’m adding the line “Reader of my blog” to the list as well. Go ahead, mail those two, let them know of my love for arcade games, and my dislike of P&P.

Apparently they are offering up one of the authors as a reward (tounge and cheek). I had been doing some reading of fellow LDS Single bloggers when I found her blog. Pretty interesting reading. Go ahead, sign me up, I dare you to.

In other news, my back is hurting me so bad I can’t even really do anything. In typical man style, I don’t think I’ll go see a doctor until I really have to. Doctors, evil, hiss.

It looks like I will be driving to Utah this weekend. @Wheeee!

I have also been mulling the fact that I may be afraid to stop my playboy ways. I was on a date this weekend. The girl was fun, pretty, and enjoyable to be around. This was date #2. Towards the end, I ended up deciding that I was going to go for the hug instead of, well, aim for the kiss.

I’ve been thinking about that this weekend.

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So today, I realized what I had been thinking about in the P&P post(where I was going with it). I had been listening to some of the My Fair Lady soundtrack (I like musicals, big whoop, whanna fight about it?) when I started listening to “Ordinary Man”. For those of you who don’t know about this musical, Professor Enry Iggins is talking about how women bring out the bad side in him. From the song:

I’m an ordinary man
Who desires nothing more
Than just an ordinary chance
To live exactly as he likes
And do precisely what he wants.

An average man am I,
Of no eccentric whim,
Who likes to live his life, free of strife,
Doing whatever he thinks is best for him.
Oh, Just an ordinary man.

All of these musicals take confirmed old bachelors and make a spectacle of them getting caught by women.

My Fair Lady: Henry Higgins: Falls for Ms. Dolittle.
Bye Bye Birdie: Albert: Falls for Rosie
Cat Ballou: Jed: Falls for Cat
The Great Race: Leslie Falls for Maggie
The Music Man: Harold Falls for Marian the Librarian (Mmmm.. Librarians….)
Wicked: I just want the soundtrack.
Moulin Rouge: Christian Falls for Satine
The Sound of Music: Capitan falls for Maria
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: All Seven brothers fall for all seven sisters.
Xanadu: Sonny Falls for Kira

Any one notice the a pattern here? I could go on, alas I wont. In each musical there is a perfectly fine bachelor doing his thing. Whether it be studying English, selling boys bands, or racing cars in big silly races. Each one of these guys are a fine specimen of the bachelor species. In the end of each one of these stories, they have been ensnared. No longer the fine examples of what a Bachelor should be.

I’m waiting for my life to turn into a musical.

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I wonder how many minutes this book will contain (the last spanned, what, an hour?)

HE BETTER WRAP THIS UP SOON! I’m TIRED OF HAIR YANKING, AND ALL THE SNIFFLING!

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Anyone want to get me an early Christmas/Birthday/Easter Bunny present?

Or I wouldn’t mind this

Either!

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You know, I promised I’d never talk about Pride and Prejudice again, but, I have to.

Not because I want to, but because I have to.

I was over at a old roommate’s house. He had called to let me know there would be games and desert at his casa so I proceeded to go over.

He had mentioned his sister would be there, and she had friends. I proceed to go over. I then found out that I was the only single male.

Final breakdown
Single Men: Me
Single Women: His Sister, her two friends, and two girls from the stake.

Guy to girl ratio: 1:5

So of course, I enjoy the odds. I mean, how often can I use my mad skills with the ladies?

We ended up playing a weird dictionary card game. After a bit of time playing that game (I think it was, well, FOREVER) we started to play some Cranium.

Now for those of you who don’t know me, I love me some Cranium. To be more specific, I love me some Star Performer Cranium.

So, at the end of the game, a card comes out that has a garden on it, the question asks “Is it French or is it English”. From there the fact that it looks like the gardens from Pride and Prejudice comes up.

Then the girls start talking about the different versions of Pride and Prejudice, the Kira Knightly Version, the A&E version, the BBC version, and the Horror Version.

At this point, the eyes are glazing over, the brain is shutting down. Every one of the girls was talking about the film, and quoting the very beginning of the film.

Do you girls watch this film during the times they’d separate the girls and boys in PE in school? I’m just trying to decide where you all get a chance to watch *every* version of this book/film/TV series/cartoon/source of endless dancing.

You know, I don’t even remember where I was going from here. All I have to say is that it seems like this series is after me. I run, and I run, and I ignore. Eventually I was able to derail all the girls into a discussion about Harry Potter.

But that is another story…..

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I am a fan of Wil Wheaton. Wil was a child star (Stand By Me) and TV Star (Star Trek The Next Generation).

Wil could have let his past define his future, but if you read any of what he writes, you’d find he’s let it do anything but. He’s taken his lumps, but he’s learned from them.

What amazes me is that he continues to hone his craft. He is an actor (CSI: was his latest show), he is a writer (I hope to be some day), he is a comedian, and he is a dad.

He takes being a Dad very seriously. It’s refreshing and amazing at the same time. I think that’s why I like reading his blog oh, and the fact that he’s a self proclaimed nerd helps as well.

In one of his recent Posts he says the following

“To bring this back full circle(-ish): In all honesty, the kids are mostly good and still enjoyable, and I know better than to take the normal teenage behavior personally. Learning how to deal with them as teens has been very helpful for me and Anne . . . but my family (and raising kids who will become productive and respectable members of society) is more important to me than anything else in the world, so contributions to my blog will probably slow down for the very near future while I master this new set of skills I’m picking up . . . though Shane recently threw down a gauntlet at me, e-mail-style, that may result in a giant pile of writing over the next few weeks.”

I hope to have that mindset some day.

If you haven’t bought his book. Do. It’s worth it.

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