what the hell....need to write something

I may as well write a blog. It has been a year or two. I am back in college, full time, with no job. I had the job I had been looking for since I decided to major in horticulture. I was an operations mgr. of a large LOCAL company. Company truck and a lots of perks. Long story short the owner died and his idiot wife decided that she would run (or ruin) the company. So I looked for a job, stayed drunk to the point of oblivion, got sober, and decided to say to hell with looking for work now and go finish my associates degree, and acquire some core class credits before I transfer to a state college. I said to fuck you to the landscape industry (I still love horticulture though). I am converting to Catholicism (just wanted to throw that in there), and have decided to go after my graduate degree and become a mental health/substance abuse counselor. I am transferring to Kennesaw State in spring to start my major classes for my baccalaureate. These are my goals for today. Who knows what the next couple of weeks, months, or years will hold, hell who knows what tomorrow will bring. I need to go to a meeting... I write this blog mainly for a history of my misadventures; I like to track the state of mind I am in every couple of months. So for my advice to myself in two to three years from now: If you are reading this down the road, you made an idiot decision if you are working a blue collar job, you are probably dead if you start drinking again, and congratulations if you followed you plan for 8-23-11.

Bring on the hurricanes!

When the hurricanes reach Georgia, they are already tropical depressions. And when they hit just right, as Faye did, they usually dump rain for days on our area. We received about five inches from Faye, and it was a great thing. It filled the areas lakes up a bit, which is great as they are an important part of ending this "drought". It has been a little over two years since Katrina, and another hurricane is pounding on New Orleans, although it looks as though this storm will leave a lesser impact on the city. There is yet another storm that is headed our way, a weaker one, and I hope it makes it to north Georgia.......I hurt my back on Saturday. It wasn't a good thing. I make a living with my back, so I am hoping it is nothing major. I went to the E.R. on Saturday night (what a blast). I have never had back problems and it scares me to think this might be chronic. I am hoping for the best, as all signs point to a sprained muscle. It is scary to have such a hard time moving around. It takes about fifteen minutes just to get out of bed an firmly on my feet....Summer is coming to a close, and I am glad. The temperatures have not been that bad as of late, but hot nonetheless. I am ready for the leaves to start changing, and to get our first taste of fall.......I turned thirty last Wednesday, and I couldn't care less. It is; however, a weird thing as It seems to have sneaked up on me, as I am sure forty and fifty will. Oh well it is just a number..........

yeah..... for green grass

The grass is greening up. Everything else is drying up and dying because it never friggin' rains here. Oh yeah its over 100 degrees every day. I'm sick of it. It hasn't rained since we put the sod down. Uhhh, is it fall?........Here's a couple 'before and after' pictures