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Crosby, Texas, United States
Born in Houston, Texas and raised all over living the life of an Army Brat. I Went to 8 different schools (3 elementary, 1 middle school, 4 high schools) and have 1 little brother who’s not so little anymore. I’ve been married for over ten years now to a woman who rocks my world and I have the greatest ten year old boy anyone could ask for. The rest of my family is adopted. Sally is a big black lab and Bree a red mix of Chow and lab I’m told. Our latest adopted family member is a french bulldog aptly named Stitch for his appearance and personal hygiene habits. The cat that lurks in the office isn’t mine and I make no claims to his ass.

7.18.2003

Mr. Fixit

Wow, what a trip.  It's been a hectic past few weeks.  It all seems like a blur.  I've feel like I haven't really stopped moving every since the car trouble.  I keep telling myself, "In the morning I'm going to start my morning gym routine back up" but something always comes up.  Staying up late to all hours of the morning visiting, roleplaying, or just watching movies with lana doesn't help me drag my ass out of bed.  As soon as find a quiet time with nothing to do, I do all the things I shouldn't be doing rather than doing those I should (like laundry or dishes).  Hey, the bathroom has a new light though!  Yup, I decided I was going to be Mister Fixit when the toilet wobble got really bad.
After getting all my tools out, cleaning the toilet, draining it, and lifting it off the hole, I found that the concrete mounting brackets weren't ancored right and had rusted badly and the concrete crumbled around them.  So I redrilled, reseated it, and bolted it back down.  Man, I was feelin good.  I fixed the toilet, I rock.  Guys can be silly at times, I know.  SO I'm thinking, I could go ahead and put that extra light fixture up since I already have my tools out...  To make a long story short, two days later of crawling around in the attic running new wire, punching holes in the bathroom wall, and almost cooking myself a few times I finally finished.  Both lights turn on now when you hit the light, there's now a spot for a future fan, but the damn outlet flips everytime I plug something in it.  Fuck it.  Another problem for another day.  I guess I should patch those massive holes in the wall too.
A note to myself, "I will get up early tomorrow and take Matt out somewhere.  I feel bad but I've been so damn busy with everyday stuff that finding time for just him and me has been next to impossible nevermind finding one on one time with my own son.  But he calls, and often.  Man, where do kids learn how to inflict such guilt trips?  Anyway, I'm taking him to the movies tomorrow morning.  Gotta get up early, gotta get up early, gotta get up early...

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