This is the week

This is the week. Yep by the power of positive thinking this is going to be the week. You can't send out 45 resumes in the last month to not have something positive come out of it. I will get a call and set up an interview where of course I make a wonderful first impression, hell I always do. They will offer more than what I want to make and life and all this distress will go away.

I am going to go for a walk this morning, it is 62 degrees outside and with little wind. My Mp3 player is set to go with good music and even some talk radio for the warm up and cool down. The world and I are going to become one this morning, can that happen?

Evils of the World

My bank does most, if not all of these. I don't like banks, they are not very helpful and are missing a huge market opportunity. Have you seen the stats on foreclosures, overdraft charges, credit card debt and debt in general. So why not change the image of the banker bastards and rather be the helpful bankers.....weird thought huh.

oh by the way, Brewers lost again last night. Dominic said we should go to another game.

Young mans dream

My dad writes about some pretty cool stuff, so to add a little visualization to his newest entry go here.

Yound mans dream

My dad writes about some pretty cool stuff, so to add a little visualization to his newest entry go here.

Sit and Watch for Hours

If you haven't seen this new feature by flick'r it is so very addicting. It allows you to view all new photos being uploaded in real time. You could almost sit and watch it (or not do work) for hours.

Dominic had his first baseball practice this week, he loves baseball. Today we are headed to the Brewer game, I would be surprised if he slept at all last night.

Yard work was done yesterday, hosta's were planted and now have to be watched so they don't overtake the yard. My favorite job to do is mulching the yard, I love the time consuming, back breaking, blister on the hands that it gives. Actually it wasn't that bad.

It was warm enough for the kids to wash the car which actually turned into everything getting wet except the car, go figure. 70 degrees yesterday, 39 right now.....I hate living by Lake Michigan.

This is all fiddle faddle

Weight loss update: no weight gained, none lost.......yeah, not so cool.

I am at my wits end over here. If you are unaware I have been unemployed since the end of February. Resumes have gone out, lots as a matter a fact. I had one prospect but didn't close the deal. I am in complete frustration.

So to top it off I have had some water leaking in our back hallway ever since we first bought the house. So since I am off time to do some of the stuff around the house. Today was the day to clean gutters, I got rained on. Then I took down the ceiling where there was the leak, found some black mold up there but all in all it didn't look to bad, now I am just waiting for water to find it's way through so I can seal it up. Tom, my brother -in-law helped me with the gutters and hallway ceiling. After he leaves I am cleaning up all the mess and hear in the front closet a .........dripping sound. Yeah so now I have water flowing through the front closet ceiling......fucking story of my life.

New Design

Well after weeks of frustration and whirl wind experimentation I came up with a new design for my blog. I so loved the old one that my sister had made for me but I had it for 3 years and frankly it was just getting old. this new design is inspired off of Frank Miller's Sin City artwork which I love. Now that I got the basic idea for this I think that I will try and create few more just for the fun of it.

I'm Late Already

Yeah I know I said I was going to post on Mondays. You can always tell when I don't want to by my procrastination.

Ok Weight loss update, last week I gained back the 4lbs I lost the previous week. It was dumbfounding and frankly depressing. But once I looked back at my week I ate a lot of sunflower seeds which equals lots of salt. I did almost everything right last week and should have had a weight loss but I am thinking the salt held me back.

So my total weight loss so far has been 0lbs.....yeah good times.

Lessons of Life

I wonder at times when I need to push Dominic and when I need to lay off. Most of the time I lay off and let Dominic be Dominic but that can be really hard at times.


Dominic has swimming lessons on Tuesday night. Why do we have them in swimming lessons, well at its core to learn how to be a strong swimmer, nothing more, nothing less. I watch one dad always standing and wanting his son to swim harder, faster. He is the dad I don't want to be. I watch his son and his son tries so hard to please his dad. Dad knows he should sit down but his inner want to have his son succeed is overtaking his emotions.

Me, well I usually just do a sudoku and let Dominic be Dominic.....that is until last night. It was the last class so 90% of the kids didn't show up. They combined all the classes and did relay races. Group of 4 kids swim and do silly games to see who goes the fastest. All right here we go, I stood up, waiting for Dominic to put some energy into his swimming......that never came, he putzed. His team was in the lead and he was putzing, no sense of urgency what so ever. I must have stood up and sat down 10 times. I picked up the paper next to me and read a sentence then stood up again. It was killing me, I was thinking "come on Dominic, show some urgency", but it didn't come.

I didn't say anything but as of this morning I am still frustrated with the whole thing. Now my dilemma, as a dad do I sit him down and talk about having others depend on him and at the very least try as hard as you can, win or lose. Regardless of the outcome he can at least walk away proud that he gave it his all. My worry is that when the fear of losing overtakes him I don't want him to give up but rather fail while giving it his all. I have a feeling that he will succeed more than fail. Or am I battling his nature where he doesn't want to compete with others but rather himself.

I have done nothing so far while debating the pro's and con's.....I'll let you know my decision and what happens.