Oh my dear God, he's posting again!

I steadfastly refuse to go a whole year without poasting, so here goes....

what has happened since last November....

Well, we went to Mexico with the Reptile Clan for another glorious Wedding. Q and Krissy rocked out worlds with their fantastic beach wedding! Adn we even got to watch the superbowl from the beach. That was fantastic. What else happened in Mexico...OH YEAH! I knocked up my wife...So for those readers that are 1) underage, 2) have or will ahve children who are underage, or 3) are ever thinking about having sex... IT ONLY TAKES ONE TIME! :-)

In all seriousness, I wish I had the skill to put into words how excited I am to become a dad for the second time! Ana is the best thing that's ever happened to me, followed a VERY close second by my marriage to my wonderful wife, and I can not freakin' wait until my life is touched by another tiny hand! We're having another girl, so I'm officially outnumbered.

On a sad note, on September 4th of this year we lost our boy Ambrose. For those that know us and knew the puppers, you know that this was a huge blow to Natalie and I. He was only 6, and should have had a much longer life ahead of him, but the tumor around his heart disagreed, and he left us. We're handling it on our own, and while there are still bad days, I'm trying hard to remember the wonderful times we had with the big lummox, rather than rememebr that he was taken from us so darn early. I can't say enough about what he meant to us, but my lovely wife did a fantastic job - Check it out http://theimpendingpicchi.blogspot.com/2009/09/ambrose-winston-1112002-942009.html

What else...I'm still on a quest for enlightenment. I've been re-investigating my spritual side, and have determined one thing... I am NOT a religious person. I have been dabbling in Buddhism, and so far am very intrigued. I admit that there are a few piece that I just can't fathom, like the fact that if I don't achieve enlightenment I may come back as a stink beetle (Which some of you may say is an improvement). Or the fact that I'm not supposed to kill bugs. OK, I get not beign that little kid with the magnifying glass lighting ants on fire, but let's be realistic here. I hate spiders. I'm not sure you understand...I REALLY hate spiders. Think Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter series, or Aragog from Lord of the Rigns. I HATE SPIDERS. And it's very, very hard for me to get one on a piece of paper so I can let it go outside. So..how do I get around this little quandry? I ask my wife to kill it.

Well, I've got a lot more things to write about, but I have to return to working, and I want to see if I actually write in this again before next year...