Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Excellent email of the day

Hilarious email forward. See how many you have done or agree with... (Warning: It's long!)

Getting married before you are 25 is like picking a movie to rent from the A-F aisle in a video store without checking anywhere else. Yeah you skipped "You Got Served", but you also skipped "Indiana Jones", "The Godfather", and sex with other people.

Last night, I gave a homeless guy a ride from McDonald's to where he'd stashed his bags about a mile down the road. He rocked out to my Stones CD the whole way, air-guitaring and singing his homeless ass off. **** yeah, homeless guy. **** yeah.

The thing I admire about the rat tail is that it takes commitment. It's not like one day you just decide you want one, you have to grow out that bad boy and you have to repeatedly convince the hairdresser to trust you because it's a great idea.

More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.

Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".

My 4 year old son asked me in the car the other day "Dad what would happen if you ran over a ninja?" How the hell do I respond to that?

I was on the phone with my friend the other day when he yelled, "****! I can't find my phone! Hold on." At a loss, I chose to remain silent and let him work that one out himself...

Literally means exactly as you describe, dumbass. "I can't believe they fired me, I literally put my heart and soul into this job.." No, no you didn't. Unless you worked at an Aztec temple and they demanded sacrifice, you did not literally do ****.

Eating dessert, skipping class, and having sex all have one thing in common. Once the idea crosses your mind it's almost impossible not to do it, and if someone else says it out loud, it's 100% going to happen.

Whenever I'm Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don't mind if I do!

My brother's Municipal League baseball team is named the Stepdads. Seeing as none of the guys on the team are actual stepdads, I inquired about the name. He explained, "Cuz we beat you, and you hate us". Classy, bro.

Quit calling yourself fat if you are clearly not fat. I am not going to say you're not anymore. I'm just going to nod and make that ehhhh kinda sound.

If I say "You're killing me, Smalls" and the person I'm talking to looks at me with confusion and doesn't know why I've called them Smalls, I question why I'm friends with them.

I think the worst STD you could ever get is babies.

Sandwiches always taste better when someone else makes them.

"Seemed like a good idea at the time" is always the right answer.

Sometimes I wonder if philosophers were actually that much smarter than everyone else, or if they were just the only ones who remembered to write down all the cool **** they thought of in the shower.

I have a hard time understanding commercials for TVs that try to show how vivid the picture is on their brand of TVs. I'm still watching your commercial on my ****ty one.

When I have to work late, the last thing I do is send a somewhat meaningless email to my boss, just so she knows I was in the office until at least 7:53.

In Home Depot today I saw a product called "Liquid Tape.” That sounds an awful lot like glue....

If I'm supposed to meet you somewhere and you call to see where I am and I respond "I'm on my way" or "I'm almost there," I probably haven't left my house yet. And when I have finally arrived, I will be blaming my tardiness on traffic.

It might look like I'm enjoying the cool music on my iPod with my headphones on, but I'm secretly listening to your conversation.

I think I'm going to start a bar called the gym. Then all of these people who really just want to say they went to the gym without actually working out would have somewhere to go.

The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

Wine glass? Tumbler? Snifter? Dude, we're getting drunk, not aristocrating on the Titanic. Just pour the booze into those plastic cups over there and the rest will work itself out.

I laugh every time I see a "Slow Children at Play" sign. They should really put a comma in there... I'm going to hell.

Anyone who says working out in the morning "gives them energy throughout the day" is full of ****.

I always wonder how some parts get cast in movies. I can just imagine bulletins that say "Read for the parts of the Hideously Ugly & Overweight Girl and for the Toothless, Senile Old Man who Poops Himself today at 4pm." Someone out there is seeing this & says "Now that sounds like a part for me!"

Whenever my car makes a strange noise the solution is always turning up the radio.

I will definitely not enroll my future daughter in gymnastics seeing as I know she will only use her skills later in life for sexual positions.

If I show up to work an hour before my boss, I am doing whatever I want for that hour.

Hey eyelid twitch - thanks for fulfilling my life long dream of looking like a serial killer about to go on a rampage.

"Don't Stop Believing" is the like "Eye of the Tiger" for drunk people.

Whenever it's below freezing, and you see a girl walking to the bar without a coat on, you should definitely make a move on her. You already know she's into bad decisions.

I think "I don't like [insert rum/vodka/gin/whiskey]" is actually code for "I once puked up a ton of [insert rum/vodka/gin/whiskey] and thought I was going to die."

When asked "Why does no one know how to please a woman?" Anonymous gave this answer: "Because nobody has a penis made out of chocolate that ejaculates money."

I have discovered that my hatred for abbreviations and anal retentiveness for spelling has made me the best drunk texter ever. Sure, I may be squinting out of one eye with my tongue sticking out in complete concentration at my phone, which is one inch from my eyeball, but you're going to understand what I'm saying, goddammit.

If I don't shower within 30 minutes of working out, I'm not showering.

I wish my office directory would also list people's relationship status.

Dear Pringles, Now that I am no longer a child, I can no longer fit my hand inside your tube of deliciousness. Work on that.

You know it's time to do dishes when you're drinking water from a martini glass.

Condoms are for strangers, not girlfriends.

You should get a prize just for showing up at work on crappy weather days.

Beware your drunken inner-entrepreneur. While nursing a hangover, I found my handwriting on a wadded up bar napkin that simply read, New Restaurant Idea: Date Crepe! I can't decide if I should be more worried about the concept, or the fact that I added an exclamation point.

Cops should be able to pull over people who don't turn right on red.

There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today than on Alzheimer's research. This means that by 2040, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.

At the bar last night a guy called his wife to tell her he was on the way home and to warm up the cock garage.

Nothing throws you into a state of panic like getting a phantom vibrate from an empty pocket.

The most glorious ten seconds after you and your date have parted ways is when you finally succumb to your flatulence.

I like to give my friends checks when I owe them money rather than cash, just so I can write stuff like "last night" in the 'For' section.

I need new drinking friends, the type that will be single when I am and in a relationship when I am, not consistently the opposite no matter what.

I’m pretty sure I get 'self beer goggles'. The more beers I drink the hotter I appear in the mirror. Sad downfall to reality when I see those Facebook photos of the previous night and realize how awful I actually look when wasted.

The scariest 10 seconds ever is when you are double checking who you just sent a text message to... just in case.

I have the deepest desire for my turn signal to be perfectly in sync with the person in front of me.

Me? Oh no. I didn't stay here and let my dreams slowly die in the same backwater town I grew up in, like you did. I'm just home for the holidays. Well, it's nice seeing you. Bye.

As a former bouncer at a bar, I don't think that there is anything funnier than turning on the ugly lights at 2am and watching the looks on peoples faces, as they realize what they are about to sleep with.

Yeah I ****ed you. When we make eye contact in a bar the least you could do is nod and lift your beer.


I think I edited most of the bad language. Hope you got a laugh!

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Zack Morris is back!!

So, apparently Mark Paul Gosselaar went on the Jimmy Fallon show as "Zack Morris". Fallon is trying to get a Saved by the Bell reunion together. Pretty funny stuff.

Where have all the greenbacks gone?

It's that time of year again. Time for the mid-year family budget review. As Molly and I continue to plan for future events like large purchases and our big planned China vacation next year, it becomes more and more imperative that we track and review our family budget.

The most recent review of the budget, which we updated this week, found that we are spending WAY too much money on eating out. We used to be in the rut where we would rarely go out to eat. To the point that I would often hear complaints about how we "never go anywhere". It seems, though, that in the past 6 months, we have really stepped up the restaraunt trips, to the point where we are spending somewhere between $250-300 per month on eating out. When you add that to typical grocery expenses, it really adds up to a big number in the "Food" line-item.

Also, we found that we really should have more extra money at the end of the month than we currently do. It seems as though every single month, there is always a big, unexpected expenditure. Car repair, a ticket, a trip, an impulse purchase, new furniture... If we would simply stick to the budget we set-forth, we would have plenty of money to boost our savings and save enough to make our China trip amazing.

It's not all bad though. A few months ago we paid off the last of our credit card debt, and have been able to re-allocate the money that we were spending on that to things like savings and IRA. That was a big accomplishment and the result is that we are now much more careful with purchases than we had been before. Instead of just buying something with the credit card, and paying it over a few months, we are saving-up for purchases and buying with cash. It makes the finance side of me a very happy camper.

If any of you haven't done a family budget, or haven't updated yours in a while, I highly advise you to do so today. Here is a great, free little excel workbook which will give you an easy template to follow to put together your yearly budget.

(Click on the picture to go to the page with the free download)

You can also check out Mint.com. It is an excellent online budget/financial planning and tracking website.

I'm blue da ba dee da ba die...

In the funny/weird news of the day category:

The world record for the largest number of people dressed as Smurfs has been smashed in Swansea. The Welsh city was turned blue as a group of 2,510 people, the majority of whom were students from the local university, crammed into the Oceana nightclub to almost double the previous record.

Wow. I thought I had some major time on my hands. How do you find and convince over 2,500 people to color themselves blue and dress up as smurfs? I have to assume that facebook was somehow involved.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Needing a Vacation FROM Vacation

As most of you probably know, Molly and I took a one week vacation to the mother-Island of Puerto Rico with my sister and her boyfriend Steve. The trip was, for my sister and I, to see family and introduce them to our significant others. For Molly and Steve, however, the trip was meant to simply be a relaxing vacation.

Therein lied the problem.

My sister and I were so hell-bent on going from San Juan to Arecibo to Sabana Grande to the Phosphorescent Bay back to Arecibo back to San Juan, etc etc that we never really had any time to truly relax. Nearly every morning we were up by 6AM (1st morning was thanks to Steve for leaving the curtains open in the hotel room) and we immediately were on our way out to the door for one activity or another.

While that lead to us seeing the MOST of Puerto Rico and family as we could in 7 days, it also lead to us being dead tired, and returning to Houston feeling like we hadn't been on vacation at all.
I think in the future, I will leave much more room in the trip-plans for "Nothing". There is much to be gained on vacation from simply laying in the sun, reading a book or listening to music, and just relaxing. THAT is what vacations are for.

Welcome to Vega's Blog

Seeing as how Molly has her own website, and I have grown increasingly tired of facebook status updates and "tweets", I have decided to create my own blog. Now, you may be asking yourself, what the heck is Daniel going to be blogging about exactly? Well, I figure this will be a blog about a few of things.

1) I will tell you about what is going on with Molly and I. Travel, family, work, school, etc.

2) I will give brief opinions about some of today's current events. Some of you know my political views well, and for those who don't, you soon will.

3) I'll let you know some of the funny and interesting news, stories, articles and life-events which are currently going on around the world, and in Houston.

Hopefully, a few people care about what is going on in our lives and can enjoy some of the things that randomly pop into my head.

Cheers to All,

Daniel