{"id":1015,"date":"2004-12-05T05:37:58","date_gmt":"2004-12-05T10:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2004\/12\/05\/1015\/"},"modified":"2004-12-05T05:37:58","modified_gmt":"2004-12-05T10:37:58","slug":"1015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2004\/12\/05\/1015\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I lived through another birthday.&nbsp; You remember that hymn,<br \/>\n&#8220;Ancient of Days, Who Sitteth Throned In Glory&#8221;?&nbsp; That was written<br \/>\nabout me, LOL.&nbsp; Yup, I&#8217;m getting older&#8230; I still know SOME dirt<br \/>\nthat is older than me, but not much.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I feel pretty good.&nbsp; Had a great year, starting last<br \/>\nDecember 3rd when my 3rd ex-wife contacted me and started a wonderful<br \/>\nfriendship, got back together with my SerpentStone Family, met my sweet<br \/>\nKayla and handfasted her&#8230; everything has been wonderful<br \/>\noverall.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve also been off the psych drugs that were helping to<br \/>\nmess me up instead of helping me, for more than a year.&nbsp; The<br \/>\nthings I&#8217;m doing instead are working wonderfully, and I&#8217;m more involved<br \/>\nin the community than ever.&nbsp; Not to mention a WHOLE LOT HAPPIER.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Kayla and I went out shopping to Tuesday Morning.&nbsp; If<br \/>\nyou have a Tuesday Morning in your town, do yourself a favor and check<br \/>\nit out.&nbsp; It has lots of really neat stuff that thee and me could<br \/>\nnever afford &#8212; but the people who COULD afford them didn&#8217;t buy them,<br \/>\nso they are now at Tuesday Morning on closeout.&nbsp; This is NOT Big<br \/>\nLots, the stuff is so much cooler.&nbsp; All we bought were some Betty<br \/>\nBoop plates and bowls for Kayla and a new wallet for me, but it was so<br \/>\nmuch fun looking around.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>After we got home, I got cleaned up a little and we went to see a<br \/>\nprofessional basketball game.&nbsp; The NBA has a small 6-team minor<br \/>\nleague called the NBDL, and Asheville has a team.&nbsp; We were playing<br \/>\nFayetteville tonight.&nbsp; No contest, and almost nobody showed up for<br \/>\nthe game.&nbsp; Might have been a hundred or so fans.&nbsp; The<br \/>\ncheerleaders were not very good, the halftime show was a local high<br \/>\nschool gymnastics club, and the game was never close (OK, Fayetteville<br \/>\ngot as close as 6 points behind, but 26 was more typical).&nbsp; We<br \/>\nhave tickets for the Ashevills Aces minor league hockey game on the 1st<br \/>\nof January.&nbsp; Hope it&#8217;s more entertaining.&nbsp; At least we can<br \/>\nsay we HAVE hockey &#8212; the NHL is still locked out and not a single game<br \/>\nhas been played this year.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to church again in the morning, the local church is very<br \/>\neclectic but very spiritual.&nbsp; I wonder what Howard has for us<br \/>\ntoday.&nbsp; Gotta come home and watch the Panthers again, win or<br \/>\nlose.&nbsp; Probably will have to sleep sometime.&nbsp; And Monday is<br \/>\nLaundry Day, while Kayla has some calls to make about a job.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, Kayla GOT A JOB, yayyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!&nbsp; She has to call<br \/>\nMonday to see if her uniform is in, and then they are talking about<br \/>\nscheduling her for lots of hours.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll miss her, but the money<br \/>\nwill be nice.&nbsp; LOL forgot to mention she&#8217;s going to be working at<br \/>\nMcDogfoods.&nbsp; Maybe they&#8217;ll put her in a Hamburglar suit,<br \/>\nhehehehehehe.<\/p>\n<p>Guess that&#8217;s it for now.&nbsp; Oh yeah, I have a student again.&nbsp;<br \/>\nShe will be Dedicating on the 3rd of January.&nbsp; I think we have<br \/>\nclass on Monday.&nbsp; Probably going to do a viewing of &#8220;The Wicker<br \/>\nMan&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Love you all.&nbsp; Irish, hope you get your family problems ironed out&#8230; or a new family&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hugs,<br \/>\nMe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I lived through another birthday.&nbsp; You remember that hymn, &#8220;Ancient of Days, Who Sitteth Throned In Glory&#8221;?&nbsp; That was written about me, LOL.&nbsp; Yup, I&#8217;m getting older&#8230; I still know SOME dirt that is older than me, but not much. 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