Marys new Tats!

Mary's appointment with Matt finally went down! I drew the hummingbirds for her feet and Matt did the cherry blossom. Unfortunately my phone's camera is still acting wacky so I couldn't get good shots.

Thanksgiving!

Had a great one! Met my folks and the Henkels at Crackel Barrel for breakfast. Went back to the Henkels to draw names and hang with James for a while. He wasn't able to make breakfast with his bum knee. He seemed to be in good spirits and I got him in the draw!

We headed home and hung out for a bit before Mary had to go to lame ol work. She left, I walked the dogs and headed over to my folks.

We had a very nice/awesome evening. Uncle Paul was there, so just the 4 of us enjoyed the football games and dinner. I was FINALLY able to get them to skip the same ole same ole. We had delicious steaks for dinner along with salads and baked potatoes. It was a great night and the only thing missing was my beautiful wife. It wasn't to awful because the Tgivings work day meant Xmas day she would be OOOFFFFFF! We are so so excited about that! Her and I are have only had one xmas when she was off. We were dating at the time so we spent separated time with our families. So this year we get a real xmas as a married couple.

Evo hits 1k miles, printing shirts and tattoo work

iPhone won't focus

Hit the 1000 miles mark in the Evo on the way to Travis's house to print some shirts. I have a video of the moment as well. Sorta sucks though cause OF COURSE I get to 999.9 miles and have to stop at a red light...haha. So up Bruhin over Dutch Valley and bam 1k miles!

Had a tattoo appointment that was pushed to 12 by Matt then I pushed it to 1. That gave me time to get to T's house to print shirts for my mom.

One of our first 3 color prints

We got everything setup and it was 12:45 and I still hadn't had lunch. Matt planned on working for about 5 hours so I had to eat first. I ran by Freezo for a burger and fries. I hustled over to Saint, ate and was in the chair by 1:15

Finished up the whole outside! Finally!

James also had his crazy knee surgery today. Replaced the top part of his lower outside bone in his right leg. Little under 30 staples. Everything went well and hoping he is back to normal asap!

Work showcase

Atlruda's website launched.

After our awesome dinner Friday there we launched their site Monday. It turned out really nice and I don't think they could be happier.

Check it out here: www.altrudas.com

Vince Young is done.

I still don't get it. Why in the world do fans boo their team and players? I have been to a lot of professional games in my life and have seen the home team fans boo their team and I just don't understand. VY was boo'd on Sunday after a failure on a 3rd down conversion. Are these fans booing the play call, the player, the coaches? Could they do better if put in that situation? It's just so idiotic and drives me crazy. Sure I get upset that the offense couldn't stay on the field but I have NEVER and will NEVER boo my team or players. It's a sport, a game of chance. A lot goes into a play, a lot has to happen for it to be successful. Do these "fans" not understand that? It's just so much more constructive to boo them then to clap for the try and move on to cheer for the defense. Come on fans knock it off.

Anyways... Vince hurt his thumb on his throwing hand after launching a great pass to Washington (Hey boo birds! Was that good enough for you?!). He comes off the field and goes into the locked room but is back on the field in no time, throwing the ball. With Collins hurt we have to go with our 3rd stringer in a tied game. Rusty Smith. He looked ok, threw one INT on a long ball and out come the negative nancys. This was after a great long pass as well. Well VY never came back in.

After the game Vince threw his passes and jersey into the crowd in frustration...I guess (cool souvenir for a fan). Next it was said that Vince was talking during Fisher's post game address to the team. Fisher told Vince to knock it off and Vince got up changed and started walking out. "You can't just walk out on your teammates, " Fisher said. "I'm not, I'm walking out on you," Young responded and he left. All kinds of rumors and talk has broken out since. Fire Fisher, Fire Young... blah blah.

As of now Young is done for the season with the thumb injury and Rusty will be starting until Collins is healthy. We start the make or break part of our season this weekend with 5 of the 6 games being divisional. I don't expect much after watching the team fall apart this season. I just hope we don't get embarrassed to bad.

GO TITANS!

Taco night!

Mom, dad, Ben and Allison join Mary and I at our place for a football taco night. Eagles were playing the Giants on Sunday night football. It was a great time, Ben and my folks got to catch up.

Awesome dinner at Altrudas

Lauren, Travis, Mary and I took a trip to Altruda's for dinner at 6:30. We wanted to snap a few pics for the site of it being busy. In a meeting the one before, Paul (the owner) said, "Just come in Friday and we'll take care of you guys. You just have to pay for alcohol." Take care of us they did! It was great. We got to check out the kitchen and see them in action. It's a great place to eat with some great people in charge.

Mary meets Smokey IX

Mary went to give blood for the Orange and Blue Blood Drive and Smokey just happen to be there. She got to hang out with him for a while. I'm half surprised she didn't bring him home!

Almost there!

Mary is officially enrolled!

Mary has booked her 2 classes at Pellissippi State for the winter semester. She is one strong lady. Working full time at Walgreens, part time with her dad and going to school. Going to be a crazy next few years but she'll be happy once it's all over which is all that matters.

Music addiction

I have been reintroduced to Girl Talk. It is one dude that makes "mashups." Uses samples of popular music, new and old to create these unique tracks. A must for those of us with short attention spans. I am addicted to this new album as well as he's older stuff. Rock on!

Download his lasted album All Day for free here: Girl Talk - All Day

Roy Halladay wins his second Cy Young!

After an awesome season and a disappointing post season (minus the no hitter) Halladay received 32 unanimous 1st place votes. Guess that makes him 2nd and 3rd too...haHA! I'm very excited to see what else he has in the tank and I really really hoping the Phils can keep up their high level of play the next few years and get Halladay that trophy!

Monday Night Football in DC

From their seats!

One of the Henkel sisters won Eagles Redskins Monday Night Football tickets in a raffle in Philly. She wasn't able to go so Jim and Michael were given the opportunity. They also managed pregame on field passes. Meaning they got to get on the field and watch the teams practice and hour before kickoff.

They saw a record setting night. Most points scored in the first half (28) by either team in the 1st quarter in any of their previous meeting. That's 150+ games. Most points ever in a MNF game. First QB (Vick) to have 300+ throwing, 80 rushing, 6 TDs, 4 air 2 on the ground in a single game. Eagles won 59-28.

It stated pouring rain before half. They ended up leaving in the 3rd.

Lucky SOBs! HA!

Relaxed weekend in pictures

Watch The Last AirBender
It was on the lower end of ok.

Watched the vols smack down Ole Miss
Dad, Jim and James were there

Played a lot of iPhone BlackJack

Cooked a nice steak dinner (Sat & Sun!).
Opened the Jaqk Cellars wine too. Delicious!

Watched the Titans and Moss's debut
Sucked!

Hung out with the pups.
Play with the new Hipstamtic lens too.

My EG!!

Left Travis's house after a Taco Bell visit, after a Saffire visit, after Due Date, after DTG and look what I pulled up behind at Central and Merchants!! My old eg6! Same exhaust (5 Zigen), carbon duck bill, same passenger side rear bumper dent and DOHC VTEC sticker on the side. I was just talking about how much I missed this car today!! And bam! Right there...

Her in the glory days!

Movie night

Movie night once again! Travis and I headed to DTBG for the usually dirty blonde and liquid cocaine. Had a nice talk with a lady that worked for Groupon, from Chicago and she gave us coupons! Tab out and headed to the theater.

We were seeing Due Date. Scored a free popcorn with regal rewards! The movie was pretty good, about what I thought it would be. I didn't think it was as funny as it could of been and not anywhere close to the laugh level of The Hangover. I did enjoy.

After we stopped in Sapphire to chill with Ms. Jackson. After a Car Bomb she introduced us to Kracken Rum. Taste like a better Sailor Jerry's which is Captain Morgan like. It was good, she left us the bottle, which she has done before. Easily the best/coolest bartender I've had. We also found out her last name really isn't Jackson. I was a tad shocked, we had been there several times before. I guess we finally climbed that trust hill, haha. She also made us REAL Fireballs. With all this craze about Fireball whiskey she was frustrated hers was falling off. It was really good and we will be getting them again!

We headed home and made a run by Taco Bell. Lauren was home sick and was hungry. We got to T's house and pounded my volcano tacos and headed home.

Finally able to ship wine to TN!

Got some awesome wine from Jaqk Cellars. Travis stumbled across it on one of the art image sites. Their design is just awesome and their logo just plain rocks! It shows on their site they will ship to Tennessee which we thought wasn't legal. So we went through the ordering process and says unable to ship. I emailed and was told by them it was possible, they said certain zip codes are dry so I sent her a few. The only one that didn't make the cut was ours, haha. So I had mine shipping to Travis's. It is the most expensive wine I have purchased so I might let it sit for a while before popping the top. Hope it tastes as good as it looks!

Check their stuff out here: jaqkcellars.com

Travis got some additions to his sleeve

Sunday football day out!

Ben and I made plans for an all-day-boys-day-sports-day-out (helps me pass the time on a Titans bye week). Started off at Soccer Taco at 11 for Chelsea v. Liverpool EPL game. Arron was in town and planned to meet up with him at Buffalo Wild Wings at 1 for NFL kickoff.

Brews @ Buffalo

Yes I have 2 beers in front of me! Blue Moon was handing out free samples of their new favor so we couldn't turn that down! Ben and Arron hit it off since they both love the same music. They are into the electronic scene. The games had started and we were enjoying our fluids. For some reason they didn't have the Texans game on and I wanted to know the score since them losing helps the Titans. I go for my phone, leaning back on a freaking stool thinking it had a back. The legs of the stool were in the prefect position... guess what happens? Yup, flat on my back, bam, right in the floor, legs flailing. Best thing about it, about 5 mins left in the 1 oclock games and we were about to relocate to Cool Beans. Man I felt like an idiot. Haha, what can you do other than laugh. Too bad this was fore site on things to come.

Cools Beans allows dogs! This cool dude was one of 2 there!

Little toasty, we switched hats.

Mary joined us and had a few drinks and her and Ben had a nice talk.

Sunday soccer night?

Well, after a day of drinking I decided to get some fresh air (I do this often, just my way of gathering myself, walking it off). Off I go walking around campus. I found a cool little place with mini soccer fields and folks were playing, on every field. I sat a watched a little, walked around the fields some. Well long story short. As I was leaving there are 2 big 3 walled areas and some kids were playing soccer in there as well. Around the wall of one of these areas is was I came in and there are some small bleachers there. Well, I was watching this kids not paying attention and walk around the corner and I didn't realize there was a step up. Down I go again... I reach out to stop the fall but I'm to close the wall and the outside of my hand runs down the brick wall. I ripped a good chunk of skin off my hand and scratched up pretty good. Below is a pic but it doesn't really show how bad it is.

I was taken pics of the Evo waiting for it to warm up.
So I snapped a pic of my beat up hand.

I went back to Cool Beans said my good byes, washed my hand off and headed to the car. My car was at market square and I was on campus. It was a nice little walk. I had a great day and can't wait to do it again.

Also the Colts and Texans lost! GO TITANS!!!!

180 Mag one year anniversary party

Party at Big Fattys, free High life, great food, music and friends. Had a great night. Riot printed shirts for the shindig, which we finished right before we headed to the party!

Randy Moss is a Titan!

Hall of fame bound wide receiver Randy Moss will be rocking his 3nd different NFL team's jersey next weekend when he takes the field against the Dolphins as a Tennessee Titan! I'm still in shock! The Titans passed on Moss in the 1998 draft for Kevin Dyson as the 14th pick overall. Ironically 14 teams passed on Moss yesterday before he fell to the Titans.

This is huge for us, just huge! With Britt being hurt, leaving the field after playing like a beast, this is music to our ears. Us fans really are expected the best from Moss! VY, CJ and Moss?! Fastest offense in the league? CJ could have quite a jump in production with Moss on the field. Seems Dinger and Fisher have finally realized VY's throwing potential so what better time to have one of the BEST WRs in the league?!

Next Sunday is going to take forever to get here now!

I'm published...again! :)

Threadless 10 year anniversary book just came out and guess who made it in! Yup check it out.

Just a tad disappointed they made no mention of contest this shirt won. It was judged by several well known designers making the voting aspect irrelevant. Oh well at least I'm in it!

Movie night

Travis, Ben, Matt and I went to see Jackass 3D. We meet up at DTBG for the usually beers and shots. Matt had just gotten back from California so it was good to see him. He is actually now planning on moving out there. Can't remember the city but it's about 2 hours north of San Fran.

Off to the movie. First off, 11.50$ for a 3D movie is nutty! You'd think it's cause you get the little glasses. Nope, you give those back at the end. Not to mention the whole movie isn't in 3D. The 3D experience was cool but I could of done without it.

The movie was as expected. Laughing at people doing stupid things, getting grossed out by people doing gross things. My favorite was the Rocky. Shown in super slow-mo. Someone sneaks up behind an unsuspecting person throw a cup of water in the there face, and coming around from the other side with a sucker punch with a boxing glove. It was quite hilarious. All-in-all it was exactly what I expected but was still entertaining.

Neat glasses eh? haha

Sad day for RED ON RED

The true colors of our 3rd partner finally shine through. Intentions are finally shown and really leave one shaking their head. Not going to say much here but whats done is done and we are down to 2. We are better off truthfully and we are looking forward to what the future will bring. It will take us a while to dig out of this pile but we are willing and ready. We have big plans and big events coming up. Bring it on!

Giants win the World Series

I love seeing the celebrations

Our little man is growing up!

29 pounds and 4 months and 3 weeks old Saturday. Maturing nicely, getting along great with the other guys and sure loves to snuggle.