14 | September | 2008 | godfatherofgreenbay's Xanga Site

Despite the weather, today was a fun day. I woke up after only getting two hours of sleep. This medicine is really messing with my system. I have toyed with the idea of going cold turkey and seeing how I react but I worry that it would cause some major damage. It was raining and dark pretty much the whole day. It seems like everywhere is being affected by the hurricanes. Watching football this morning and forenoon it seemed like every game had rainfall. I went and got some supplies at the grocery store and the rain was coming down so slow and heavy that it reminded me of snow. I sighed and realized summer is gone and in just a few weeks we could have snow flying. I remember October 3rd of 1999. I was in college and we had a blizzard and received 5 inches of snow. I think that day is memorable for two reasons. The first being that then governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura, was interviewed by Playboy magazine and he talked about how religion is an opiate of the masses and plain stupid. The news anchors in Minnesota jumped all over it and said how Jesse said God didn't exist and the snow storm was God's answer. The other reason I remember that day was that was when I got my eyebrow pierced.
My mom told me that I should go with her and my dad to a birthday party in a neighboring town. The party was for a lady who turned 80 and was my mom's neighbor when she was younger and living on her parents' farm. So I went. There were a lot of people I recognized but couldn't remember due to all my head trauma over the years. We ate and talked with all sorts of people. A 85 year old pastor came up to me and asked me if I knew where I would be heading when I died. That made for an interesting conversation. Then they had a polka band play. So there I was out on the dance floor doing the polka, waltz, schottish, and the Susquehanna Shuffle. Actually that last one I made up but the way I was dancing you wouldn't really know which I was doing. As I was getting ready to leave, a lady came up to me and asked, "How are you doing, Teddy?" Teddy? My name isn't Teddy in fact it's the furthest thing from Teddy. I said my name and she said, "Oh you look just like your grandfather." I have no clue who this lady was and she must have really forgot what my grandfather looked like because I'm half a foot taller than he was, I weigh a few more pounds, and I don't a have a crew cut that you could set your watch to. There is a more telling difference as well but I won't go into that now.
I cam home and decided to watch some football. Hey, I am a fan of the sport and I have sacrificed my knees and ankles for the sport. I did say I was boycotting the NFL but not college. I did fall asleep lying on my floor. I woke up with severe pain in the small of my back and I couldn't move. I am thinking all sorts of things are wrong here but then I reached down and felt a cat. She decided to curl up on my back and take a nap while I took a nap.
My night has been lackluster but now the Badgers are on ESPN2. I don't know what to make of this game. All week everyone has been talking about how Fresno State would beat the Badgers and now Bucky has held the lead the entire game. Still plenty of time in the game so I'll have to see how things manage in the final quarter.
My mom informed me that I have a family reunion tomorrow. Hopefully it will give me a chance to do the Susquehanna Shuffle.

I have found it interesting tonight there are so many blogs about breasts and breast size and how people hate big ones and hate small ones and hate them in general. I also found one blog where a woman talked about how showing a bra strap is slutty. No, that is a matter of taste and nothing to do with sluttiness. I think sluttiness has something to do with sexual activity and sexual attitude but that is just my opinion.
I was going to through in my two cents and say what bugs me. I have mentioned this before on my blog. I am a professional groomsman and wedding usher. I have been involved in both activities in numerous weddings. I have seen numerous styles of dresses. The ones that bother me are the ones without straps that cosntantly slide down the ladies' chest and that makes them have to pull the dress up every 5 seconds. I don't know why this bothers me. I think it was from the years of seeing my dad going around without wearing a belt and having to pull up his pants every few seconds and then put his hands in his pockets to hold them in place. It is just an eyesore. Anyway I hope I don't get much hatemail because of that. I feel sorry for the ladies who have to go through that.

I thought I would show you these cats I talk about so often. I know some of you have seen the cats but here they are for you.

This is Kiki she is the mischievous cat. She also likes to fall asleep with her mouth hanging open. She also likes to run around the house doing this strange grunting noise.

This is Lua. She is pretty docile except when she wants to watch certain tv shows. This is the cat that likes to sleep on the small of my back.

They are from the same litter so I guess that makes them sisters, and like sister that I know, they fight. Sometimes they calm down and will sleep on top of my piano or in a chair next to me while I work on the computer.