I'm Crooked

You ever look in the mirror, and think something just doesn't look right? I do. In fact I find myself doing it more and more. Notice a gray hair, or a slew of them, a wrinkle you didn't know was there, thinning hair, a pooch gut, you name it, I got it. But I'm not really talking about those things. Or maybe I am. I really don't know.

When I look in the mirror in the morning, I see a part of my lip a little bigger or swollen than the rest of my face. I think it is because of the stroke, but maybe it is just age, or maybe it was always there, I just didn't notice it until now. My wife, a long time owner of a "crooked smile" says, "Now you look like the rest of us... crooked." Maybe so, I know I can't really do anything about it... besides whine about it on my blog.

Or maybe there is some exercises I could do. But we all know, I'm not one for exercise. I mean it is good for you, I know this, but anything like that just sounds like work, and work for a very small, you probably wouldn't notice one way or the other, type thing... well I start doing a cost to reward analysis, and it just isn't worth it.

I do this at just about every turn in my life. More education vs. more cost for that education (without making any more money) why put myself through the pain and suffering? That is what I keep telling myself anyway. Sometimes it is easy, a new car and new car payments vs. old car and no payments. Well, since my car is still very serviceable, has low miles, I'll just keep the old one... But I really do want a two-seater convertible.

Back to my face, well the only time I have to look at it is when I look in the mirror, or a picture. My wife doesn't seem to notice, that or she is being very nice. Either way I'm blessed. And saying that, I guess that leaves me with very little room to whine, complain, or anything else. I'm loved for who and what I am. Crooked face and all. And I love my wife all the more, in fact I love that crooked smile, both our daughters have that same crooked smile. We are just crooked people, and that is fine with us.

Aw Jeez Meathead!

So my meatheadedness gets me into trouble again. Basically, the door to my camera's memory was broken. I find a replacement on eBay for $15. It is in a different color (it is sliver, my camera is black), but I don't care, it is a thing of function not form... for me anyway. So I get out the smallest of jeweler's screwdrivers and replace that door. And that goes ok I guess. Except now the camera does not work. WTF? I'm sure it is something I did, but what?

My wife offered to take it to a repair shop. They want about as much as a new camera to work on it... which is not in the family budget right now. So what to do? I really don't know. I feel like I'm on the receiving end no matter what way I go. I should have just left the broken door on, exposed my memory to the elements and enjoyed my camera. But I didn't so now I guess someone is going to get a fat wallet from me. Though I will take it apart, one more time just to see if there is something somewhere that I may have missed.

Is That A Snake???

Yeah so this is what I see when I walk out the back door on the way to my car every morning:

Not so bad right, I mean yeah, that is the pond with the alligator (that has since moved on) that killed my dog. What's that you say? In the grass? Is that a snake? I know I asked myself that very same question everyday this week...

And we have? The teenagers flip flops. Yep I have been duped into thinking I had a large reptile in my yard but really I just have a really, really, lazy kid instead. It has been a week, how long do you think it will take? I think I'll give her another day and then they'll go in the trash.

Food Fight!

Here we see my youngest, who looks to be in a food fight. But I was there, and the only person throwing food was the one in this picture...

She also looks drunk... she wasn't, just a bad camera angle, but this picture makes me laugh each time I see it.

The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights

As you may or may not know, I like Jack White. I like what he stands for, the simplest of music the making of dynamic music out of something very ordinary. I feel like he is an artist and it would be hard to copy what he has done. Anyway I just finished watching this movie and I had to write about it. See what you think...

Bob Marley: Jammin'

What other song could I end the "month" on than Jammin'? Hope you like Jammin' too.

The Epiphany Happens