Well the last week or so has been a bit odd.  Lets see where to start..... It started off last thursday with me having a cold.... congested head, lungs ect.... felt like a big baby! oh yeah lets throw in the body aches to boot.... So Iam on the phone with my mother and shes like ohhh honey! I got just the thing for ya.... yeah right I try to tell her to stay away from me.... but all I get is a cackle and she hangs up the phone.... minutes latter, shes walking in my house with a big ole grin on her face and a hint of crazyness in her eyes "here" she says "take some of this alkaseltzer" "you know it works!" Iam like yeah I know it works but... your not fixing it for me... she laughs.... see she likes to put a half or a whole glass of water when she makes the concoction... and then sits back and enjoys herself as you choke down the medicine, now myself Ill use about a half of an inch of water..... anyways.... I tell her DONT USE SOME MUCH WATER!!!! and she is like oh be quiet, and I didnt use much water.... so now Iam scowling holding a glass of about 3.5 inchs of water and shes got that shitty smile on her face.... (I have enclosed pics of this ordeal).  I choke it down and my mom has a look of sheer joy on her face.... sheesh what the hell kind of mom do I have.... SADIST!!!! Anyways moving on... Saturday we had a BBQ at my mom and dads.... watched my brother roof a house right next door..... hehehehe it was great to watch! wasnt going to offer any damn help either.... tried working with him before and it all turns out to his advantage when it comes to getting paid... so instead of being mad at him, I choose just not to put myself in that situation.... anyways I did up some of my WORLD FAMOUS ribs (beef on the bone baby!) smothered in my special bbq sauce, bbq'd corn on the cob, and bbq'd potatoes, salad ect.... oh yeah I forgot to mention that my brother brought over his daughters... the older one refused to use her hands to pick up her food!!! the whole table is like this is finger food girl! but no matter the prodding she just dug herself in.... it was quite comical watching her trying to cut the meat from the bone and trying to cut the corn off the cob, and the end result was a big scowl on her face....wish I would have taken a pic of that.... I would have showed her it when she was about 35 years old... heheheh (14 with a attitude!) anyways Angus the dog had a blast that day! got to run around with my moms dog and play run up and down the fence with the neighbors dogs....he discovered moms bird bath was an excellent source of water and decided to entertain us with his antics! it was funny he would get both paws up in there and start splashing and drinking... very funny.... (see enclosed pic).

Moving on to Sunday I awake at  8:00 and shortly after that get a call from my sister, shes like hey bro I dont feel like going to the SLAYER concert tonight with Nate (my bro in law)(see enclosed pic!) do you want to go! Iam like hell yeah!!!

so we spent the day washing cars and cleaning up the yard and about 2:30 my sister and my bro in law show up.  We proceed to mix up some drinks (watermelon vodkas 100 proof) and grill up some kabobs around 5:30 we go down to the arena and head to the beer gardens... now keep in mind I dont drink a whole lot anymore and by this time Iam feeling a bit squirrly, there are 5 bands playing total and we arrive for the 2nd one (mastedon) its a hard hitting speed death metal band and I got to say they kicked ass!! we had awesome seats! dead center and up on the 2nd level right on the rail excellent view, excellent seats... well Mastedon wraps it up and we head to the beer gardens again after spending another 40 bux on 5 dollar beers (and missing the 3rd band) Nate informs me that hes got to use the bathroom, Iam like hold on man, I just ordered us another beer! (you cant leave the beer gardens with alcohol) hes says "Ill be right back" I said dont get lost man! anyways an hour latter... still no Nate! and Iam saying to myself, Self what the hell seats where we in???? (Nate had the tickets) so I finish off the beers and start looking for Nate while Iam working my way to where I thought our seats where,  I get there and Iam in the wrong section!! but I do notice where we where sitting so I head that way.  I get to the seats and NO NATE! the two dudes that where sitting next to us where yellilng "where the hell ya been!" I said BEER GARDEN!! HAVE YA SEEN NATE???? there like no he hasnt been back! and Iam thinking to myself oh great...... at this time LAMB OF GOD is playing and Ive got to say they kicked ass as well.... the show gets done and Slayer is up next... and now Iam at a junction, do I watch the show or go find Nate? so I do the right thing and set upon my task of finding Nate.... I walk around that stupid arena twice... finnaly I call  Katie and let her know that Ive lost Nate, Iam worried about him and tell her to have Amy call him on his cell! thank god he answered! but he dont know where hes at except that hes outside somewhere.  So I head to the door and the doorman tells me if I go out I cant come back in! great Iam thinking, so I tell him, eh gotta find my bro! and with that I walk out the door (I MISSED THE DAMN SLAYER SHOW!!!! FLARK!!!!) So now Iam walking around the arena parking lot and I start scouring it with cell phone in hand, Iam worried at this point because Nate dosent know where hes at.  next thing ya know Amy has a securtiy guard on his phone saying hes by the old smoking area, so off clear around the damn arena I go again... I meet the security guard about half way at this point and he brings me on in! as I round the corner I see a jumble of people and wolah! theres nate on the ground with his back against the fence with a pile of puke next to him, 2 paramedics, a cop and 5 or 6 security guards around him and hes got a bile ole smile on his face! hahahah and he utters the words "Hey bro!" I just start laughing..... So I grab him and start walking twoards the front door where we are informed that we cant get back in.... BUMMER! by this time Katie and Amy are on there way and allready in the area, we start walking accorss the parking lot and they come driving up behind us... hehehe what a site we must have been! hahahahah anyways its ll turned out ok, I know now that there will definently be no drinking before the concert with Nate! hahahahah