Fine...Seven

It's the middle of the slowest day of my life, so I'm going to make it slower by doing this Seven thing that I'm being chased down with. Mind you i was up for an hour in the middle of the night so please bear with me on the following:

Seven Things To Do Before I Die

1. Go to Disney World with my Family


2. See Ireland Again


3. Serve a Mission with my Wife


4. I like the write a book thing...as long as it's good


5. Own my house, no more payments would be nice


6. See my kids grow up happy and well-adjusted, I want to be a grandpa that will spoil my grandkids and then send them home


7. Travel. I know this is vague, but I'd like to travel a lot

Seven Things I Cannot Do

1. Spin a web like Spider-Man


2. Fly, thanks for the help on that one


3. Be as strong as Hercules, Tiaree thinks I am though, it's funny


4. Drink a 2 liter of DP during 3-man without loosing it


5. Stop drinking DP, period, tried it, can't do it


6. Exercise, I'm too lazy, it's not physically possible


7. Finally, I can't do things right the first time, you laugh, come look at my wall where I hung my blinds for my sliding glass door, you'll see where it's putty'd over

Seven Things That Attract Me To A My Mate

1. Beauty, woo woo hunneeee


2. Intelligence, even though I can't spell the word, I'll spell check it though


3. Drive, if she starts something she has a desire to finish it, or have me finish it for her, haha ;)


4. Love of the Gospel, I love having religious talks with her


5. Spontanuity, spelling again, thank heavens for spell checker


6. Fun, we can just have fun


7. Her willingness to be a good Mom

Seven Things I Say

1. "Holy Hannah", don't know why, just say it


2. "See how that works when you listen"


3. "Be QUIET!, sheesh"


4. "I should exercise", I refer you to the things I cannont do


5. "Where's my super suit", ok, I don't really say this, but I can't think of seven, maybe Chels could help


6. "I love you"


7. "Get off my furniture like that", to my kids, they don't know how to sit on furniture

Sevent Books I Love (hahaha, me read, that's the funniest thing I've ever heard)

1. Honor Among Theives


2. Sons of Fortune


3. The Book of Mormon, had to be in there, if you haven't read it, I'd recommend it


4. Eddie Fantastic, Chris Heimerdinger book


5. Harry Potter Series


6. The Prydain Chronicles


7. The Chronicles of Narnia

Seven Movies I Love

1. I, Robot


2. Independence Day


3. The Wedding Planner, yes, I like chic flicks


4. Oliver, my favorite Musical


5. Mary Poppins


6. Hitch, if you can't tell I'm a Will Smith fan


7. So I Married an Axe Murder, Men In Black, and many, many more

Tag Seven

1. Chels


2. Chay


3. Harold, no joke, get a blog


4. Nicole, even though she doesn't have a computer


5. Alythea, B, you can let her post through yours or we can add her to the list of people that can blog in Whadda Blog


6. My Mom, and since she doesn't read this oh well, I'm running out of people to add


7. Whom ever feels like it...

There I took more time than I wanted too, but I'm done...get off my back

Seven

Seven Things to Do Before I Die

– Publish, I want to write a book worth reading and have it published
– Produce and direct a movie
– Sky diving
– Powered Paragliding
– Watch all my kids grow up to be fine, upstanding citizens
– Ride in a helicopter
– Run in a marathon

Seven Things I Cannot Do

– Fly like Superman
– See without corrective lenses
– Win the lottery
– Sing
– Cheat on my wife
– Eat slugs
– Dance

Seven Things That Attract Me To a Mate

– Attitude
– Converation
– Beauty (inner as well as outer)
– Intelligence
– Common interests
– Patience
– Big heart

Seven Things I Say

– "NOW!"
– "Ya, Right!"
– "I didn't do it."
– "Are we having fun yet?"
– "I don't think so."
– "That's amazing how that works, huh?"
– "We'll see."

Seven Books I Love

– The Chronicles of Narnia
– The Harry Potter series
– Uncle Tom's Cabin
– Where the Sidewalk Ends
– The Stand
– Walden Two
– Green Eggs and Ham

Seven Movies I Love

– Oliver
– The Ring
– Pride and Prejudice
– It's a Wonderful Life
– Superman
– Star Wars
– The Time Machine

Tag Seven

Chay, Melissa V., Krista, Melissa B., Tracy, Chelsea, and Harold (I'm with Neal.. Get a blog!)

Middle of the Night Pages/Calls

So where I work, I get a seldom call in the middle of the night to help fix things. Usually it's during my On-call rotation, but sometimes it's not. Well tonight I got a phone call to help with and issue. I had to laugh as I was getting ready to lay back down because when the phone rang, I thought it was the alarm and I was hitting the alarm pretty hard to try and turn it off. It wasn't until Chels said that it was the phone that it clicked why the alarm wouldn't turn off. Now I'm up waiting to see if I get a page from someone regarding what needed to be fixed. I'm giving it about five more minutes and them I'm off to bed again. Hopefully to enjoy a good nights sleep, at least what's left of it.

As I sit here writing this, I'm listening to the wind do a number outside. It's a pretty strong wind and once in a while it will gust and it sounds like the roof is going to fly off the house, it's that strong. Anyway, I'm going to get a drink of water and head back to my pillow to salvage what sleep I can for the rest of the night. Goodnight.

Free Food

So I got to work this morning and had a email in my inbox from my boss, that breakfast and lunch for today and tomorrow were taken care of. The Hospital is opening a new cafeteria and they want to make sure that it runs smoothly so they invited a bunch of people to come and partake of the freeness of them learning the new system. So this morning I had some biscuts and gravy. Yummy! I love free food, and working somewhere that gives out free food or whatnot is pretty cool. I actually got an MRI on one of my knees when they were testing the new MRI machine in the Cancer Hospital. It was pretty cool. Well time to get back to work.

A Fresh New Look

I've decided to change the look and feel of the blog... If you haven't noticed.

I did it because the pictues on the blog Trip to St. George weren't showing side to side like they are now because of the small middle section.

Trip to St. George

So last Friday, me, Chels, and the kids, were headed down to St. George for a weekend of slightly warmer weather and some fun with Mom and Bob.

The trip started out pretty good, after spending like 40 bucks on junk food we hit the road. Let me preface this next part with the fact that Bree has had this cold that is causing her to have a lot of snot and what not going on. So we are in about Springville, we hadn't really gotten into the junk food, too much when Bree decided that she was going to get sick. Now sick means throwing up, all over her, her chair and my hoodie as I took it off to try and catch a lot of the throw up since I couldn't get the little garbage can under her face. Luckily enough, because Tiaree used the garbage can shortly there after because of the smell in the car. After a new outfit and about an hour stop in Springville trying to clean it up, we were on the road again. Bree was doing much better.

The next stop came in Fillmore where we had lunch at one of the most expensive restaurants we could find...Arby's. Talk about taking advantage of location. After eating the food, we jumped in the car and headed down to St. George, making a short pit stop for Tiaree to potty in Cedar City.

We got there and got all unpacked and put the throw up'd on clothing and other things in the washer, we got some pizza for dinner and went to bed.

Saturday I got up and saw a cool sunrise so I wanted to play with my camera and took a few pictures with different settings.

 

It was a nice sunrise. Since I'm not the best with my camera yet, the pictures aren't the best.

After breakfast on Saturday we went to Zions National Park and had a picnic in the car since the wind was blowing and it was cold. We then went and walked the narrows, well until you get to the part where the hike continues in the river itself. It was fun. The kids threw rocks in the river and I played with my camera. A couple of my favorite picts...

  

While we were on the Narrows hike, it snowed on us. We went and did the short weeping rock hike and then headed home. We had this great dinner, pork roast and then just hung out.

Sunday we went and saw Curious George and went to Golden Corral for dinner. It was a pretty lazy day.

Monday we just hung out and let the kids play at the park. Chels caught a little tornado on video, it was cool. We decided to stay Monday and leave on Tuesday. Drove home in a little over 4 hours and life continued in the cold north.

Decisions...

Ok, so I've decided that I'm going to stop saying things that I'm doing or going to do, because they always backfire and they don't really work. Blogging was once a mornig ritual, then it moved to a lunch time thing, shortly after that it started to be a hit and miss activity. The more I would think about it, the more I realized I didn't have much to blog about. When I do, I sit down to write till my hearts content, and nothing comes, a sort of bloggers block I guess. So while I can tell you that I'm going to blog more, I'm afraid it's an empty promise. I will do what I can to make it better, but no promises. I'm not going to make excuses, which would be really easy, but I've decided that I'm just going to stand up and take the heat. Anyway, I'm going to post another blog a little later about a recent trip to St. George and post some pictures. Laters...

Justice is Served!

Alythea and I went out Friday night and, as we were driving around about 9:30, went to the Valley Fair Mall. We pulled into the main drive behind a truck full of teenage boys. Since it had snowed previously, the snow plow had pushed the snow off to the side of the road. The drive of this truck decided that he would have a little fun and drive through the snow.

Because of this, a good portion of the snow falls back onto the road making it more slick for the rest of this. We followed the truck around the north side of the mall on our way over to the movie/food court side of the mall. As they continued to drive around, they decided that a large pile of snow built up around one of the light posts. As they drove into it, they hit a little higher than they should getting stuck.

Aly and I continued to drive around to the food court to find that it had closed so we decided it was time to go home. The smart-alek kids were still stuck. Aly and I were actually happy that their justice was immediate. People like that make a mess for the rest of us. They think they are so cool and do things without thinking about the consequences.

We all know people like that and it upsets us to know that quite a few get away with their stupidity. I was happy to see that their was justice served and they got "punished" for their destructive behavior. Too many people do things and don't think of the consequences for others or themselves. They just do stuff that ends up being destructive.

We laughed most of the way home and I though I would share this with you.

Story Synopsis

I've created a story synopsis for a series of short stories. Eventually, with a lot of hard work and a lot of help from friends, maybe it can be made into a film. Read the synopsis at:

Storyboard

I Want Spring to Come

Today I went out to lunch. When I drive to work, I have the luxury of going out to get something. I went to Wendy's and was glad to see the Jr. Bacon Cheesburgers are back down to .99 cents. They went up to $1.29 for a while. Anyway, as I was driving to get lunch, I realized that spring is coming. I love spring and summer, not so much a winter fan. Fall isn't bad, it's just this stupid winter thing. Anyway, I got excited for spring so I can continue getting some stuff done in my yard. I have a lot to do and I'll be happy when I can say I'm done with it. But I'm excited for the spring to get out of the house and do some stuff. We'll see how it goes. Anyway, just wanted to share that with everyone... Have a good day...

Stories...

I posted on another blog how much I liked a good story. I've always loved to read stories and have, on occasion, found that I have an imagination.

As one of the "personal improvement" projects that I am trying to do, I have started to read about what it takes to write a good fiction story. I am interested in writing and feel that I have a fairly good grasp of the language. I have a few ideas for some stories. While I won't be releasing all the ideas, I do have an idea that has formed and have decided to make a series of short stories using a common plot but with different scenarios (much the same as a drama series on television.) This would be similar to a mini-series type thing in that where one episode ends, another begins.

So, here is the reason I'm sharing this with you. Of the people that I know read this, I trust their opinions enough to share the "draft" idea and allow others to add their thoughts, ideas, etc. Once you hear the storyline, you may formulate ideas about direction, scenarios, or conflicts for the primary character. I am going to start developing the character and story line but wanted to give everyone a heads up so that you can prepare to put on your thinking caps and explore the possibilities with me.

I hope one day to be a successful writer, more as a hobby than a career. Being included in something like this doesn't take a lot of effort for ideas and could be a lot of fun (not to mention that if it ever gets published, your name will probably find its way to the credits and acknowledgements. Not sure about monatary but if I become a millionaire off the idea, you will DEFINATELY get a free lunch.)

So, when I've got something a little more "formal", I will present and give directions to find, add, comment, and, if so inclined, to point and laugh.

Ref Timeout

It's nice to have a forced break once in a while. I've been working on something and we lost some access to our systems and so now I'm waiting patiently for them to come back up. I'm trying to stay in the loop for when things come back up so that I can get back to what I was doing. We'll see what happens in the next few minutes....

Someone Call 9-1-1!!!!

Very interesting night in the McGee household last night. I'm probably spoiling the ending by saying this but Jayna is alright and everything is ok. This will make sense in a minute.

After dinner last night, we were starting to get cleaned up and get things put away when we heard a series of thumps and then Jayna started crying. She had fallen down the flight of stairs in our split-entry. Aurora got to her first and picked her up to console her and then handed her to Alythea who arrived next.

The concern is that she started going to sleep and her skin went really pale. I took her from Alythea and laid her on the ground on the top of the stairs and got her attention and kept her awake. Alythea went to the phone and called 9-1-1 and began giving information. Everyone was in a bit of a concern because of the situation and I had Aly take the other kids into the other room and I stayed with Jayna until the ambulance arrived.

They were prompt, came in and began to assess Jayna. Everything checked out and they did not see a need to take her to the hospital. They felt that if we wanted them to, they would transport her to the hospital where the hospital staff would watch her for 24-hours and make sure everything was ok. We figured we could watch her and, if need be, take her to the hospital if it was determined that she needed to go.

The color came back into her skin and she went to sleep where she slept peacefully through the night with the exception of the times that we woke her to make sure she was still "wakable".

She is doing wonderfully today. We can't figure out how she fell as she was the only one near the area. She was playing with her play stroller and there was enough of a walk way. Anyway, everything is ok and everyone learned a little bit of a lesson.

1st Geocache

After reading from Neal's posts regarding geocaching, I've grown interested and have decided it was definately something to look into for personal and family activity. Having spent more time with Harold, I've learned more about it and have actually gone on my first geocaching experience. It was one of those "hey, there's one around here somewhere" as we traveled to lunch yesterday. We found it and logged our presence.

It was a lot of fun to try to track down and follow the clues to find the location. I'm excited to do more and have been looking around for some in areas where we currently have trips planned. One of which is East Canyon. There are a lot around that area. I was suprised at the number but am looking forward to finding some of them and logging my presence as well.

Monday, Monday...

So have I ever said how I love Monday's. They are one of the better days of the week for me. They are usually the busiest so they go by a little faster. Once they are over the rest of the week seems to fly by. Which has it's ups and downs. Tuesdays are usually pretty slow, but I'm working on that to stay busier on Tuesdays so they go by pretty fast. Well Monday is about done. I'm waiting for my ride to go play in the band. That's about it for today.

Happy Late Birthday Whadda Blog

So yesterday was the 1 year mark of the Whadda Blog being around. Things have been up and down on the old blog, but for the most part we have been blogging away and now we start on year 2 of blogging. This year should be a good one.

Today marks a anniversary of sorts. It was 11 years ago today that I met my beautiful wife. It's cool to think that we are working on our 9th year of marriage, our 4th kid is on the way, and we have a beautiful house with loads of junk inside it to keep us happy. Our 3 kids are there to keep us insane and teach us love, patience, and how to be happy when they are spilling stuff on the kitchen floor after it's been mopped. Overall life at the McGee house is getting better. And I can say that 11 years ago tonight, I didn't expect to be where I'm at today with Chels, but I am sure glad that she chose me and let's me pretend that I'm in charge once in a while. So Chels...Happy Anniversary!!!