Friday was NYE, I had originally planned to drive to Austin and spend NYE with some good friends there. By the time Friday came I wasn’t really up to making the 3 hr drive and they didn’t really have much planned either. There were a few parties going on but I didn’t want to drive to Dallas. I went to Central Market on the way home and picked up a nice NY Strip along with some Jalapenos wrapped in bacon and stuffed with Chorizo along with a couple bottles of wine. I had a low key night of cooking for one followed by finishing up Adam Carolla’s book. There aren’t that many books that cause me to fall off the sofa laughing but his does. It’s the first book since “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell” that has sent me into coughing fits from the amount of laughter. Hands down funniest book I’ve ever read. I’ve had the same theme for NYE the last 10-12 years and I wanted to start this one off a different way.
Saturday I was up early, did some laundry and cleaned my place. I haven’t had a full weekend to myself in a long time. I’ve been out of town or had things going in for the last month that it’s made it pretty hard to get my new apartment straight. I also decided that I want this year to me about me and the things I want to accomplish. All too often I feel most of us have goals that we would like to accomplish but really don’t ever get around to it. We get caught up in life and things that we told ourselves would mean a lot or that we put on our bucket list seems to be an afterthought. Some friends and I have got together and decided to do the Rock and Roll half marathon. I haven’t ran 13 miles since I was in the military, I’m not even sure if we ever ran that far then. It was usually road marches with 70-80lbs of gear but rarely just a run. Since I committed to that at the end of March I need to start getting in shape for that. Nathan also signed us up to do the Hotter than Hell 102 mile bike ride in Wichita Falls again this year. We’re also going to do the MS150 in April. We did the HTH ride last year and it really was hard, but I think the hardest part was mentally when a major accident happened about 3 miles in and every sat on the course for 45 min just waiting for car flight to leave. Since I feel I’ve already done the 102 I want to make it a little harder so I want to add the 13 mile off road ride on Friday. I guess I’m to the point where I want to start doing things for my body and mind. Besides masturbation I think working out is the only other thing you do for your body and yourself.
After having lunch with Jamie and Jimmy on Saturday afternoon I went over to watch the TCU game at Randy and Julie’s place. I’m so happy TCU won and I think it’s awesome they went to the Rose Bowl. Traditionally the Rose Bowl has always been USC Vs Ohio State or Michigan Vs USC. For TCU to just be invited to the dance was great, the fact they proved all the pundits wrong and won against a Wisconsin team that averages 40 something points and runs all over everyone made it even sweeter. I LOVED TCU’s helmets. Having the purple helmet with the horned frog having the rose it in its mouth was so cool. That was a very nice trick up to their uniforms, the fact that it was on the biggest stage they’ve ever played on while smashing Wisconsin in the mouth couldn’t have been better. I love College football!
I saw the coolest thing in the world on Sunday. Jack was taking Clay and I back to my car and in the middle of the parking lot in front of Chipotle a Hawk had just snatched a dove out of the air. The hawk had the dove on the ground and was eating it while the dove was still barely alive. The hawk had a piece of the dove in its mouth and the dove was shaking and screeching. He started mean mugging Clay and I when we went to take a picture and then flew off with the dove in its talons and blood dripping. By far the coolest thing that I’ve seen in a long, long time.
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