HAPPY NEW YEAR! It's 2009

This will be a year of changes. I want to be more fit, in all areas of my life. I am going to start making my goals by the month of things that I want to complete. I feel that this will be a good way for me to stay on a good roll.

It is going to be exciting to see what 2009 will bring. I hope that this will be the year for us being parents and for all of our families to be healthy.

Well I better jet.

Later!

Wondering

I have not been feeling so well for the past 2 weeks. I know that I am not coming down with a cold, but I have been feeling extremely hot and like I have a fever. I have been feeling sore and just plain ole tired. I need to be feeling better.

I am trying to give it atleast 2 weeks before I go to the Dr, because I am thinking that it is just my cycle about to start, but it should have come on a couple of days ago. So.....I guess I will give it some time.

We was almost robbed!!!

This is a couple of days late,but I knew that I had to blog about this. I love McDonald's here in Okinawa. We always get the best of service. Well on Monday we went and we placed our order and they always make you pull forward to an outside spot, so they can give you fresh french fries. Well as we are waiting this Okinawan guy walks by the front of the car and waves. I wave back, then he walks over to the drivers side window and Brian lets his window down and the guy looks in and says "Potato" and looks around in the car, seeing that we do not have a bag of food yet. He walks on into the McDonald's building.

Time goes by and the lady brings our food out and Brian lets the window down and she hands us the food, the window goes back up. But as we are pulling off the guy walks out and knocks on the window again and this time he says "Potato" and then reaches all the way over Brian and grabs our sack of food. The lady that works there runs out and starts speaking to this guy in Japanese and then the guy says Gomenasai, Gomenasai, sorry. And we drove off thinking, WOW this just happened to us. Such an awesome Okinawan memory.

Bring yer Goat........wow Goat

December 1st, 2008
Bring yer goat, Earl, we’re gettin’ up a game!
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Posted by: Robert Basler
Tags: Oddly Enough, goats, humor, puns, silly, sports

Blog Guy, you used to write about silly sports around the world, but not lately.

Fair enough. Here are some photos of a rough-and-tumble Buzkashi match in Tajikistan yesterday.

Buzkashi?

Yes. Goat-grabbing. Players try to make goals with a goat carcass. It’s where we get the phrase “getting your goat.”

I’m not sure I believe that. Do they actually pick up the goat from the bare ground?

No, it sits on a special tee, called a….

No!

A goatee.

Groan. And this is a really popular sport in Tajikistan?

Well, not among the goats, that’s for sure.

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Horsemen compete in Buzkashi, or goat grabbing, in Tajikistan, November 30, 2008. Players pick up a goat carcass from the ground at full gallop and try to place it into their opponent’s goal. REUTERS/ Nozim Kalandarov

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December 2nd, 2008
12:59 am GMT


I first heard of this when it was shown on Rambo III.
He played a game of it so the afghan rebels would trust him. Rambo was there to save the Afghan Rebels from the evil soviet empire, now of course we are allied with the warm and fuzzy Russians against the evil Afghan empire (which we trained) :( hmmm how ironic… maybe we should just send Rambo back to sort it all out for us :)