the mouse guy

"Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile."

Walt Disney

donkey

the other night on my way home i met a donkey. he didn't have a name so i named him, Donkey. he had gotten out of his fence... and was chewing on a patch of thick grass near the roadside. i pulled the car over. we talked. he is now my friend. Donkey the donkey. this weekend went well. halloween party was dry enough for a fire... and good friends are always pleasant to pass the time with. my kitchen experienced a rave. i shared a cup of awful coffee with some wonderful company. i got lost. i got found. i got cold. i got warm. i drove the jeep today. no top. no doors. it's ridiculously cold. but the sun is out... and there won't be too many more days like it ahead. cooper has pretty much mastered the art of frisbee catching. even on a windy day, he's able to snatch it out of the air. i find myself impressed with his skill and ability to learn quickly. sit cooper, good dog. i still miss fred. doug and i leave for vegas on thursday. i'm looking forward to getting away for a while. it's always a good time. i wonder if Donkey is cold today. perhaps i will buy him some gloves. 

motivation

Saturday afternoon i spent with my nephews. Carter is lets say... 12. J.T. is umm... 9? and Logan... let's go with 6. does that make me a bad uncle that I don't even know how old they are? It seems they grow quicker than big people. They're always having birthdays and quite frankly I find it difficult to keep up with what they like and dislike. One week it's dinosaurs, the next it's hannah montana. I thought taking them for the day would give my sister in law time to sleep (she's a nurse and had worked the night before) and my brother time to catch up on some outside house work. He hasn't mowed his lawn since school started. I had it all figured out. I've been needing to clear my woods of some brush and limbs... and what better way to do that than to recruit a miniature 'grounds crew'. Carter, the oldest seems to understand the idea of 'work'. at times. the other two boys have no idea what it means. After about 15 minutes of carter and I collecting loose limbs, i strolled across the yard to check in on his two younger siblings. Both i found reclining in the hammock. I tried to play the strong 'parent' role... and i threatened to take them home immediately if they didn't get in the woods and pick up sticks now! after all, what did i expect? i wasn't paying them. but they must've gotten the message, because for the next 24 minutes we collected, competed, and compared the size of our tree limb treasures. "breaktime" came quickly... and I knew they were pretty much done for the day. We played football for a bit... and i took them home. I learned a few things from that day. I need to be more patient. I need to realize sticks can be more than just sticks. They can be swords, guns, rocket launchers, and alien antennas. and i learned that i need to spend more time with my nephews. they are pretty cool guys. 

umm.

what the freak? seriously. today has been ridiculous. i'm having difficulty focusing on any one thing... and i'm tired of hearing the people at work talk about politics. i've never been diagnosed with social anxiety disorder, but i think i may have that. i dunno. ok, there you go. I just diagnosed myself. I do have it. or maybe not. It's not that i wig out when i'm around a group of people... I just prefer to go to lunch with one, maybe two folks. dinner for that matter. or the movies. or a concert. it just makes things easier. it's less of a production. I hate productions. people = productions. It's a fact... I'm absolutely fine when all i have to worry about is me, myself and i. throw someone else into the mix and the world turns upside down. okay, maybe that's a bit of a stretch... but i can only concentrate on one thing at a time... and if i'm with ten other people you can bet that it won't be you... or anything you might say. i also hate meetings. i think i have a deficit in my attention disorder. i'll leave it at that... and we'll call it a day. please friday, get here. go palin.