out with the old, n with the knew

if you r 1 of the elite 5 readers of this blog, then u can c things have changed recently. yes after at least a year (i think a year and halfish to be more exact) the anchor is ready to blog has changed its look. a new background made courtesy of the latest up and coming blog designer "the adventures of jamc" (aka my wife). there is an icon on the blog that says my wife's pov & if u give it a click u can read her blog (be ready to go to sleep though while reading cause it's about the most boriniest family on earth). i gave her one command for updating this blog & that was to continue to make my blog look cooler than hers, and i think she's definitely succeed at that. i even updated the music play list to reflect the modern hits ive been listening to alot lately. i would have these songs on my ipod if i had one, but since i only have them on cd's i play them on my disc man. for those of you who don't know what a disc man is, i put a picture at the top as a reference for a visual. so with that, please continue to read and follow the ramblings of this mad anchor, and if that's too much too ask you can at least enjoy the tunes (please ignore the 30 sec ad for fantasy football that comes up every so often on the playlist).

"You-Know-Who", "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" or "the Dark Lord" Continued

after hearing of a broken truce i rushed to see if it was true, and too my amazement it was. i thought the truce i had with my wife was unlike any of those ones truces the american government makes with foreign countries while they have there fingers crossed behind their back. today that truce was broken (which was probably inevitable since my wife had her hands behind her back when we made the truce). she wrote a lame post. not her usual one, but dear i say even lamer, and about me of all things. the lamest anchor anywhere.... or am i. since she is just going to blow smoke up your caboose when talking about "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named", then i will give you my side which is the real side of me. below is a list of my actions over a 7 year period. you can decide which side is telling the truth about this anchor..... the anchor himself who most be named.... or his prejudicial wife. you be the judge!

1. after a person with the first name of harry(i obviously can't give out his full name due to self incrimination)was born, i made his parents disappear permanently. james and lily had it coming.

2. i tried to kill harry by putting a curse on him. the curse failed, and the only thing this kid got from it is lightning bolt on his face. due to the course rebounding back on me i had to go into hiding.

3. i don't like half blooded wizards (even though i am myself, its the self loather in me)

4. after a gardner named frank (you know why i can't give out the full name) found out about my plan to restore my body using harry's blood, i had to help him push up daisies.

5. i engineered a plot to free bellatrix lestrange and some other death eaters from azkaban so we could retrieve the full record of a prophecy stored in the department of mysteries regarding harry and myself. i sent the group of death eaters to retrieve the prophecy.

6. i also had to let amelia bones with the department of magical law enforcement retire early with no pension.

7. after that i targeted members of the order of the phoenix, including emmeline vance. they definitely deserved it.

8. i split my soul to achieve immortality.

9. i was able to dispose of the minister for magic and replaces him with pius thicknesse, who at the time was under the imperius curse and used him to establish a totalitarian police state.

10. i was able to relieve the old wand maker at gregorovitch's wand shop & gellert grindelwald who was at nurmengard at the time, of their duties... permanently!

11. i stole the elder wand from dumbledore's tomb.

12. i used my good friend draco to help try to carry out an assault on the people and things at this lame school school called hogwarts. hogwarts is so lame you may mistake it for bryan adams high school in texas (maybe).

13. my body currently is laid in a different chamber with all the others who died from battling me. i currently exist in a stunted infant-like form that my nemesis harry sees in the King's Cross-like Limbo in the Forbidden Forest.

so i hope these little details that my wife left out in her post will allow you to make a much more educated guess on who the real "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" is. one last thing to help sway your thinking about me, someone once said when describing me "the most evil wizard for hundreds and hundreds of years" that was really said about me. don't believe me go to wiki where you can read all about me.

summer's over (or is it?)

to my loyal 5 readers (who where recently identified and are now in the process of changing their identities) i want to say thanks for keeping this little mom & pop shop blog open for business so this crazy anchors ramblings will continue on (at least for the short term future), but unfortunately for the five i have a wife who is like the wal mart of blogs & as soon as something happens with myself or the fam she is hot on the case typing away to let her 400 + (or maybe even more) followers now the happenings & exploits of our life. since i have a job and life i can't keep up with her daily posts (and she even writes them in advance sometimes, crazy i know) to give u guys a scoop when it happens like she does. you are more than welcome to read her blog , just make sure you twist that knife as hard as you possibly can in my back if you do. since school is starting next week for my kiddos i thought trip down memory lane would be nice to recap my summer (or at least as its been seen through the RING of this anchor - pic included for those novices to an anchor). started the summer (actually here it starts in may, but for the sake of an argument i will fast forward to june. between celebrating multiple anchor family (and extended family) birthdays, this anchor went camping. due to a lack of short term storage space in the CROWN of this anchor i don't remember the name of where it was, but we had a blast. the kiddos/me/my pops/my umbro & his kiddos all went camping. got to ride for around 45 mins on the worst (known) road in az. we got to enjoy in others misery as we watched a drunk guy lose his balance, and fall off the side of the hill into the river. he was able to swim across to the other side right where we were, and he was also able to verify that his jack daniels was safe as he took even more chugs to verify with everyone. funny thing is that 45 mins down the road we got a chance to actually meet our entertainer when we stopped at the same local farmers market. he gave my kiddos both knuckles for not wearing a shirt like him in the store. as i waited for everyone to get back in the car from the pottie break to get back on the road he emerged from the farmers market victorious with a 36 pack (or some big box) of coors beer & 3 bags of ice. i am thinking may be i need to tak STOCK in my life and see if an entertaining is really that important to me. the next day after getting back was fathers day, and the mrs's got me a ticket to go see my second fave baseball team the diamondbacks. ticket was for a july game (and hap pend to be the 2nd game for them right after hosting this years all star game (for which my wife didn't get me a ticket, and for which i am grateful after turning the game off around the 5th inning due to lack of interest). fast forward to july & the nite of the game. me & the same umbro from camping with went to the game together. best part of the game is watching the db's beat the dodgers after a 3 run homer. worst part(s) of the game where due to an elderly lady sitting next to me (these where great seats over by 3rd base by the way) talking with her friend the entire game about everyone they knew & their business. i enjoy ease dropping on those conversations from time to time, but i just wanted to watch the game. then there was a guy sitting behind me with a female friend (not sure to which capacity she was), but he decides this game he's the official college professor for baseball for her. so everything from getting a person out by catching a ball to what the pitch type was he talked about. got really really really old really fast, but i didn't SHANK him even though the feelings where there. even got to re watch a classic film "fortress" after the game with my umbro. so then a week or so later comes my big trip. the play by play can be read at my wife's blog, so i will give u the heart and soul of our trip. this trip was me/my wife/& another umbro (not the one from baseball & camping). we traveled to my old stomp in grounds texas. found out that the stars at nite are really big & bright deep in the heart of that state, but that's for another day. had the privilege of riding in a car for around 3 out of the 5 days of traveling (to some that may sound like a FLUKE, but not to me). got a chance to see my outlaws (although mama outlaw not as much as papa). got to witness a dear old friend (our friendship dates back to 7th grade when we met) get married & then drive 3 hours to walk in a parade in their honor (if anyone is interested in knowing about the wedding and reception let me know & i will post about it). got to see my little umbro & his fam, and most importantly got to eat texas bbq, which takes top precedent in my life over the rest. now that brings me up to current (most other details of happenings are either too boring or already blogged about elsewhere i'm sure u know where to look for those). since we ha vent hit aug yet then that means summer isn't over, so you may just see a future post about more happenings in the summer (or will you?).

what's my identity?

thanks to censorship, what's left of my readers (i am going with the assumption that there is at least one person that reads this blogs besides me, although i have been wrong in the past), is left to read this post rather than my last one. apparently that one did not pass the blog test (didn't even know there was one either) so you are unfortunate to have to read this post instead. recently after watching a sponge bob episode i came to a realization. this realization got me thinking.... what is my identity? seems a simple questions at first, but after thinking and pondering about it for some years now, i've come to the conclusion that at this point in my life i have no real identity. growing up i really liked, actually loved skateboarding. it started when i was in elementary school, after being out of it for a little bit just picked it back up again in middle school, and stuck with it all the way through the first couple years of college. it consumed me all the time. everywhere i went skateboarding (even got so bad that church was included in this list) was at the front and center for me. for most of my life that was all i ate, drank, slept, & lived (with music being at the forefront as well). there was nothing else (as proven by my only girlfriend ever is my wife, and i still don't have a bachelors degree) that could take it's place. then i got my first girlfriend and she became my life (and still is today), and that became my identity. now that i've been married for 10 years with a couple kids my identity has become father & husband (which is nothing to sneeze @), but i feel like there is more to me than just those labels. when i asked the question to my wife the other day in hopes of something more enlightening than just those labels i got...... just those same labels. it seems this is my identity and there seems to be nothing else to create the passion that music and skateboarding did for me. i feel like if i had a better understanding of my true identity then i could finally figure out the most burning questions i have..... "what the heck am i supposed to do with myself as a career?" everyone i know seems to have this question answered and are either working in the field that suits them or working towards it (usually). i have a brother who is very artistic, and who in high school picked up a camera & started snapping photos for class. now he's running his small business as a photographer. there is a close friend who is probably one of the best i have ever seen with working kids. he loves playing and with them & teaching them. today he is of course a teacher and one i wish my kids could have had (when they where in public school). i wish so desperately to find that true passion again that i once had for skateboarding (there is still much love, but the passion isn't what it once was). i would hope that one day (hopefully sooner rather than later) i could find passion & turn that into my identity. if anyone has ideas about my current identity please leave me a comment so that i can use it to try & help me figure it out.

sick days r here (again)!

this anchor has been out in the scorching heat way too much and has developed a bad sinus infection. i won't bore what's left of my faithful readers with those details, but since i'm down for count right now i wanted to do what all great bloggers (and the not so great bloggers - myself included in that category) post about when they have nothing to write about, or just do not feeling like thinking about something to write...... the top 10 list. without further ado (because my head is pounding right now) here is my current 10 top (in no particular order):

1. my mix cd's - i have made several recently, and that's almost all i've been able to listen to for the most part.

2. HTVOD - i will let you figure that one out

3. Bottle Rocket / Rushmore - two of my ALL TIME fave films. after just listening to their soundtracks recently i've right back on the wagon watching them over and over again.
Note to wes - PLEASE make something good for us soon i've been dying for something good since the royal tennenbaums

4. dallas maves beating the heat for the nba title. ive never been much of a mavs fan after what cuban said about steve nash, but once they demolished the fakers, they've become my team (at least after the suns.

5. swimming pool - amy purchase a small above ground pool for the kiddos, but with it being so hot, im finding this anchor sinking into it at nite (after the sun goes down - cause this anchor has 2 shades of skin, see though & red lobster)

6. a weekend without kids - for the first time since i believe we had kids, me the mrs's had a weekend alone after my folks took the kiddos for the weekend. this was to help us celebrate our 10 wonderful & most blissful years together in holy matrimony. i feel bad cause when we got married i had no money to take her on a honeymoon, and now 10 years later i have even less money and had to have her enjoy another stay cation. we enjoyed going out for 2 dates, had a pig look down my wife's shirt while we ate bbq, and watched some ufc while eating buffalo wings. i could do a whole post about those 3 days of bliss, but my wife beat me to the punch & wrote about it right after it happened. maybe next time i will beat her to the draw (actually i won't)

7. michael scott's leaving of the office - i say this only because of how the show did it. i felt the transition of him leaving was done almost perfect, and the couple remaining episodes where good as well.

8. eckhart tolle - recently some friends at work let me in on his writings, and ive found myself absorbed in them (of course i don't comprehend most of it, but i just blame that on the ego).

9. super marios games for the wii - for our 10 year anniversary my wife got me the first 3 mario bro's games from the original nintendo. yes they have a 25 year disc game where those 3 games and 1 additional mario bro's game from super nintendo are all on 1 disc. i'm not the only one who's hooked on the brothers.

10. my wife - i don't like talking about her cause i usually get in trouble, but she's been working SO HARD lately that she deserves a shout out. she's been homeschooling our kiddos, keeping up with the house chores, driving me crazy with redecorating, cooking (occasionally), and to top it off taking care of me. not an ez chore by any measure, but im sure happy that she puts up with me (and when i say put up with i mean SHE REALLY PUTS UP WITH ME!!!).

so in a nutshell, those are just the top 10 things i could think of right away without really thinking. please feel free to drop me a message (if there is still anyone left reading this blog), and let me know what's on your top 10 list.

questions?

lately i've been asked some major questions pertaining to getting to know this anchor a bit better. not question's that have any real meaning like why are we here on earth? what happens when we die? where do babies come from (thank goodness the kiddo's haven't asked that one yet, cause i'm not really sure where this anchor is from (nor do i wish to find out)? no! the questions i've been asked as of late are: what superpower would u have if u could have any superpower? & where would i go if i could go on any vacation & money didn't matter? so i am going to use this forum to educate the few, the proud, the 5 reader's who are still the last men (and hopefully a woman or two) still left wasting their precious little time here on this earth seeking further knowledge & insight from this anchor. the questions are in no particular order:
q. what superpower would u have if u could have any superpower?
a. i would have the superpower of being able to read people's thoughts. the main reason is cause i would like to finally know what my wife is really thinking about when she tells me "u really r a special person" or "does this dress make my backside look fat". i will use this power to finally be able to correctly identify both what she is saying but also when a question is presented where there is a consequence attached if i answer incorrectly hopefully will help me have the right response for her(cause heaven knows i don't have the right ones lately). i would also like to use this super power for the betterment of the male population. since as far as i know, NO MAN KNOWS WHAT A WOMEN WANTS, not even mel gibson. i would use this power to help interpret their thoughts to men (for a small fee of course).

q. where would i go if i could go on any vacation & money didn't matter?

a. its a simple, hawaii. since a young anchor from back n da day i've always wanted to go to that paradise, and cause as far as i know i don't need a passport to travel there.

q. if u could have one wish (and wishing for more wishes isn't an option), what would u wish for?

a. since i will already have the power to read women's thoughts i would wish for 1 day of being an attractive person. the reason is very simple, i'm ugly. i don't say this out for sympathy, but that is my reality (and has been so since i was born). i've always had the fine code's working against me. money is nice and so would be being really smart, but being beautiful trumps that. just look at all the no talented people who are on reality tv & and in pageants. i would like to see how much different people would treat me (and maybe get that raise).

q. what talent would u have if u could have any talents?

a. going with the idea that i can read people's thoughts i would like the talent of being able to write and perform music. since a young anchor i always thought of being on stage performing for the masses. i have always wanted to write music that matters (like the ghost gambler's/newton gang/& the ampersandersons) and to be able to perform like they do as well.

q. what would u like ur last meal to be?

a. i'm going with texas bbq brisket (still haven't tasted anything that tops that).

q. how did u make it 10 years being married (seriously i had someone ask me that when i told them about our current anniversary)?

a. simple my wife puts up with me much more than any women could. i'm very confident had it been anyone else i married we wouldn't have even gotten married, cause they would have dropped me back to the bottom of whatever lake i came from.

i think that's enuff of those important question's for the this time. hopefully u gained some insight into this anchor (and i don't blame u if u happen to be the reason when i post next there are only 2 readers of this blog left). if there is any question u would like to ask this anchor please do. no gurantees i will answer,but then i might u just never know. adios cinco amigos!

victory

today was a special day, and not just for what you the fab five readers of this blog may have thought it was for... june 1 or the first day summer. although here in az it feels like summer 8 months out of the year. no! today was the day i celebrated diez anos with my wife. yes today for those who are not bilingual (as myself), was my (and my wife's) 10 year wedding anniversary. what a crazy 10 years its been. during this time we have moved between 2 diff states, had 2 kids with special needs (they get it from the mother's side of the family - jk rich dad), had my face removed, our oldest removed from public school and home schooled, some college & university degrees, divorce scare (sorry again chetman for that post), and a car engine almost blow up. crazy, yeah most would say that, but this anchor says its just another day in the life of an anchor. as the saying goes if it weren't for bad luck i would have no luck at all. although i would alter that quote a tad and say as long as i got my sweetheart with me then bring on the bad luck (and if you believe in the universe then you would know that the universe has brought me my fair share (and then some more) of bad luck). i know i wouldn't be where i am today without her in my life. not to get all emotional and chick flick style (cause u know this anchor don't play that way), but i am truly grateful to have her by my side helping me along the way of life. my biggest regret is that as an anchor i don't provide the lifestyle that the primadonna deserves. i can see this post is heading into julia roberts movie style, so before he water works begins i want to end this post by letting my wife know how much i love her (although she never reads my blog unless a call comes from the bosses that she needs to get on her to clean things up - refer for my april fool's day post for more on that) and am appreciative of her putting up my shenanigans. love ya sweetheart. happy anniversary, and i will make my next post on our 15 year anniversary.