Frivolous Life Goals

I think a lot about goals. I have a lot of them and tend to function best when focused on them. I have many, many goals. I've accomplished many of them, big and small. College, marriage, someday children, etc.

But these goals are not my topic. I want to talk about frivolous life goals. I think we should all have them...and I want to hear about them.

A few of my frivolous life goals:

-Score a hat trick in a game
-Never tie my shoes again after the age of 40 (exceptions for athletic shoes/skates/cleats)
-Step foot in all 50 states (I have only 5 left: Alaska, North Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa)
-Earn the right to wear an Affliction T-shirt
-Get a tattoo across my entire back
-Read all 48 books on my History of Political Science and Economics list
-Create then read another list of books on Ancient Greek and Roman History
-Learn a foreign language fluently (other than Spanish)...maybe using Rosetta Stone
-Coach little league
-Own a Doberman Pinscher and Rhodesian Ridgeback at the same time
-Make a homemade rink in my backyard (probably have to live somewhere cold for this one)
-Score on a slapshot from the point
-Score in a shoot out
-Hit a home run
-Take drum lessons and get to an adequate level
-Play the violin...then play my very own Happy Sad song
-Perform live with the Money Beets

Anyone else care to share their frivolous goals?

Gordie Howe Hat Trick

I achieved a Gordie Howe Hat Trick last night. I had an assist to Jon Rosenfeld in the 2nd Period. I had a goal with one second left in the 2nd period from a brilliant pass from Jon Ellis. And finally I got five minutes for fighting Kyle Pringle in the 3rd Period.

Also exciting wasthe fact that we beat our old teammates, now known as District Five by a score of 7 to 3.

Bottom line: Awesome game.

Hobbes update

Hobbes weighs 35 pounds. He has thus more than tripled in weight in the last month.

Happy Sad

I enjoy many different types of music. But of particular concern to me at this moment is a genre Adrianna refers to as "Happy Sad".

You see, I enjoy quite a bit of mellow music. Whether it be folk, jazz, etc. Many different amalgamations. As of late I have been listening to Fleet Foxes. I had heard of them, but had not really listened much. Brian introduced me to them with White Winter Hymnal. This song is really good, but hadn't connected to me quite yet. While watching SNL this last Sunday afternoon I forwarded through their first performance, but stopped and thoroughly enjoyed their rendition of Blue Ridge Mountains.

Since then, I have listened obsessively. My comment to Adri was that certain songs make me feel like crying...I think. You see, I haven't cried in years, not a good cry. A few tears have eeked out here and there, but no real crying. I describe my tears as something akin to juicing a lime. You know the kind...where you bury your fingers into it with all that you've got, but stupid dry thing gives you only a few drops. That is what crying is to my brain. It squeezes and squeezes and finally a drop comes out. On a related note, I connect crying to headaches...anyone else on that? Feel me.

Anyways, back to my point. Listening to Fleet Foxes...feel like crying. What is that? Adri then coined the phrase 'Happy Sad' music. That is what I like. I love and enjoy (and thus become Happy) by listening to Sad music. Sometimes the lyrics are depressing (see Second Best by Pedro the Lion) or maybe it just sounds mournful in tone. Perhaps it is a single riff that does it. Loro by Pinback makes me feel like falling in love and crying. June makes me feel sad and like crying. But again, I don't cry.

Adri believes that my inability to feel or cry is what makes me enjoy this music so much. I must agree. I think that this music brings on 'emotion' which I don't have therefore I don't understand...so I decide in my head that the proper response is to cry...but I don't know how, so I just enjoy feeling anything at all. Like those kids who can't feel pain, but wish they could because it helps them know that they are alive.

Questions to the few readers out there:
1) Do you experience this same sensation?
2) Is this a proper title for it? (For the stupid title Emo is totally over/misused...and has now come to encompass a style that I would rather not be associated with...I am all corporate here)
3) What is that all about? What the hell is wrong with me/us?
4) What other songs in particular connect to this point?

Question to bet on:

Considering that both Hobbes and Leslie are firmly committed to gaining ridiculous amounts of weight during 2009, I pose the following question: on Brian's 30th birthday, May 1, 2009, who will weigh more, Leslie or Hobbes. I think it is a toss-up and I'm willing to take either side of the bet. So regardless of what we're doing for Brian's 30th birthday, we need to have a scale there.

Conspiracy theory

So Senator Burris will be seated in the Senate, eh? Despite the fact that every democrat has screamed that anyone appointed by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich will be rejected in any and every way possible? The way this whole Blagojevich thing is shaking out makes me believe that Obama or someone close to Obama had some inappropriate conversation with Blagojevich about the sale of Obama's now-vacant Senate seat that is causing all democrats involved to sweep this whole thing under the rug. Blagojevich is going to get off easy and everything will be kept quiet because if they dig too deep into Blagojevich they'll find the link to Obama that nobody wants to exist that would end up tarnishing Obama's Presidency or at least his first 100 days.

Wait for it.

Also . . . Married

On January 1, 2009, we said our vows at the beach where I proposed, officiated by Earle Craig and witnessed by Simon and Carrie Dunn.