top ten things im happy about...

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WTF...miniskirt ban dropped off the earth??

1.Jessica Simpson 2.Denise Richards 3.Top Gun 2  4.WWE  5.Checking Accounts

6.PlayStation Phone  7.Eva Longori  8.Three Gorges Dam 9.Cable TV

10.Pension Plans...again with the pension plans...

~~top ten happy thoughts~~

in no particular order, that sounds like prioritizing and a lot of work...

1. Tucker AKA the TuckMonster...He has helped heal my heart from the loss of 'Cino and 'Spresso..
2. It has not snowed here yet! and the sun is out today!!!
3. My family both immediate and expanded...right now there are no issues...but like the weather is can and does change...oops spoke to soon...condolenses to my wife, her sister and her family...sorry for the loss of Steve's father...
4. My Friend VoHo, looks like he is gonna live and time will tell how much or lack there of paralysis there will be...he may even be able to go back to his home on the river...
5. I have been blessed with a bunch of bloggering ideas lately and some of them are actually good..well, mebbe, but only you can tell...and prevent forest fires...
6. The WINGS...Hockey On!!! lots of hockey left!!! and they seem to be doing pretty good...
7. I have some beer and whiskey...So I have that going for me...and the LIONS were on the bye week so they did not lose!!!
8. I have been blessed with some great friends...even those that refuse to read my blog...and I picked up a couple great new followers that even have something to say when I post...for a while I thought I was just writng this for no one but my friend Jim, who I see nearly every week and is prolly sick of my shtick...
9. I am very close to hitting the goal of $100.00 and getting paid for the first time from GoogleAdSense, and that means I can send off the first of many checks to the Safe Haven Humane Society in Ionia, MI and this will be my best month yet as far as page hits not by me....gonna go over 400 hits for a month for the first time!!!!
10.  I am alive!!!!

great job clicking thru readers of this blog!!!mebbe we will hit our goal before the end of the month...

signed,

the TuckMonster!!!

fortune cookies and beer...

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1.Miniskirt Ban (second day on the top of the trend...mebbe I should check this out???)

2.Nicki Minaj  3.Selita Ebanks 4.Jenna Von Oy 5.Bonds 6.Mariah Carey

7.Drew Lachey 8.Scariest Movies

9.Severe Weather (today they closed schools because of storms and wind...Uberpussies!)

10.Credit Check

way back during the mildly famous days

i wrote a song about a fortune cookie and NOT surprisingly called it fortune cookie...

(the pic below is not the original fortune but a copy that my son received (in a separate cookie years after the original...kinda cool huh?)and gave to me as a christmas present...i love it!!!...i think the original is around somewhere, but who really knows...)

the fortune from that song was this...

i have tried to make this my creedo and the thusly the JADIP ideal was formed...

now more recently....

this is an actual fortune i received from  a lunch with my mother at First Wok....

i take this fortune is a mandate for me to keep on writing my blog....

Jus' Sayin'....

(BTW i lied about the beer....)

hey Albany New York! you guys are leading the PACK on the click thrus!!!

thanks for your support!!!

signed,

TuckMonster

when the SockPuppets come out...

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1.Miniskirt Ban  c'mom? seriously?

2.7.5 Quake 3.Randy Quaid Asylum  4.Jenna Von Oy 5.Mortgage Lenders  6.Chelsea Handler 7.Superman: Earth

8.Cameron Diaz     sweet!!

9.Gwyneth Paltrow doubly sweet!!

10.Drug Testing

  My wife is not a heavy drinker. She has been drunk-and-stupid-wasted only three times since I have known her...And just so you know it was not the night that I proposed to her...she was sober that night...i think...
     I, on the other hand, am no stranger to the porcelain bus...as frequent readers know, I have been OverServed on a few or so occasions... My wife is a very responsible drinker. And as much as I give her crap about it , I truly respect that among many other traits my wife exhibits. I really do not tell her enough what a good person she is. (note to self: tell her in person )
     Before she gets drunk, but not drunk-and-stupid-wasted she has the SockPuppet phase. When the SockPuppets come out we know she is HappyBuzzed. I am not sure if she takes her socks off her feet to use as sock puppets, but the socks come from somewhere. I know my wife keeps an odd hodge-podge in her purse, which is a bag that is usually toooo large to be a carry-on for flying, and she could keep them in there. Sometimes, although I have not documented this well at all, the SockPuppets drop some pearls...
    They may just appear, ghost-like as well. There are some strange goings on in the world, and the SockPuppets could make the jump from the SockPuppet Dimension, or what I believe to be the 8th dimmension, for those of you that are ScienceMinded, which BTW is the dimension that is somewhere between this world and the alternate reality where I am King Of the World...
     It is usually a good warning sign, for me to stop drinking and SoberUpPeople when I see the SockPuppets, if we are out at a party or some such social occasion away from the WereBloggerCastle. I should heed the sign...I usually do not...Jus' Sayin'...
    The SockPuppets usually converse between themselves. Sometimes they talk to the group. Most times they just prattle on about nonsense. The trouble with nonsense, not unlike this blog, is there are often times pearls of wisdom in what is said. And funny stuff as well. But mostly a bunch of sillly things that their alter-ego, Roxy would not say if she were stone -cold -sober. She is reserved and polite in most social gatherings. Almost too polite, but consider the source of this opinion.
    I am usually not reserved and say the wrong thing at the wrong time. I found out recently that a friend is REALLY pissed at me, but I do not have ANY clue as to why...NONE...but I must have said something...at this point if you cannot tell me, then who-the-f-cares...       I am usually not the one to drive us home, as I am not as composed and responsible about sober driving.
     However, since the VoHo accident (http://www.bruceejohnsonjadip.blogspot.voho-can-you-hear-me.html/) I have been much more cognizant of the need to drive sober...However, cognizant does not translate to actionable as easy as one would think...
    My wife has plenty of reasons to be angry with me. I have made some REALLY stupid decisions in my life. Some of them could have resulted in a knife in my chest while I was sleeping...Factually, that would prolly also cure that snoring issue. I think snoring has something to do with breathing, but since I burned all my physiology notes about three lifetimes ago, I have no way to check this for sure...
     We can all find the bad in people. People are irritating... It is much easier to spot than the good.  I struggle to find the good in some people. We all do. HOWEVER, irritation is what creates a pearl, a thing of beauty, in an oyster, so it can't be all that bad.
     Recently my wife said, "Sometimes you are just a vague memory in the background of my life" I guess I could be offended, but one of the things I love about her is her brutal honesty...We sometimes forget that the others in our life have their own agendas. Our society is very egocentric. I blame the MeGeneration...
    She has said some pretty funny things thru her SockPuppets, but I am remiss as to what they are. I now keep a notepad handy to write down funny stuff, odd stuff and fractured reality stuff to use as fodder for Bloggering...Well, I try to...
    Last night the SockPuppets came out, but they were naked sock puppets. Somewhere between the dimensions they left the socks behind...In my Mind, I scrambled for a note pad, mebbe. No, not so much. The WINGS had Just won on a Datsyukian Goal with 11.4 seconds left in regulation. I was as bit OverServed, and even if I could have written the pithy things that the SockPuppets said, it would prolly not be legible...I do love my wife. I know she can be irritating. As can we all...I never find the SockPuppets irritating...I look forward to their arrival even if they are a rarity. We should all relish the pearls, and look past the irritants...
  

THANKS FOR THE CLICKS!!!SO CLOSE TO GETTING THE MAGIC NUMBER!!!!STILL NEED YOUR HELP!!!

SO MY DAUGHTER IS DATING…

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6.UFC 121   7.Céline Dion   8.Aung San Suu Kyi  9.Earthquake Supplies   10.Refinancing

     My daughter is dating. I found out officially thru FB…Is it a sad social comment that I find out a milestone like this thru an interweb thingy? IDK…Suffice it to say it is a tad bit unsettling. I see her nearly every day. And yet, I did not find out until I saw it on FB…Am I that out of touch?

yes Bruce you are…

      As a parent I know that I embarrass her…I make it a daily goal… I usually succeed. Well, I really do not make it a daily goal, but I shit happens. I know there is a generation gap. I know we are far apart on many things. Being far apart on many things is not from a lack of love, more so due to the years and experience of a different world.

Riiight…so YOU think

     We eat as a family at least a couple times a week and do the family small talk. I would like the conversations during these meals to have impact and be more insightful, but I accept it for what it is. The world is busy. Our world is busy. We have a whole bunch of things going on. Actually, my daughter has a bunch of social stuff and sporting stuff, me I work and come home. I usually try to figure out what to make for dinner, and do my own little unimportant agendas.

mebbe your priorities are out of whack? Jus’ Sayin’...

     Libby is always texting. It seems like the normal thing. Back when I was young and I got home from high school I did not text, mostly because the technology simply did not exist, but I also rarely called anyone from the old rotary dial phone. Come to think of it the phone, back then, rarely rang. If it did it was a work thing for my father or a social call for my mother…and sometimes it was simply just bad news of some sort. We lived much more isolated back then.

And we only had 4 channels on the B&W…

     We are connected almost ridiculously in this present day TechnoWorld. We can communicate thru the interweb and little hand held communication devices that do everything but make you a cappuccino or butter your toast. It is a bittersweet feeling that we can be so connected, and yet still so far a part.

WTF dude, you want a towel to weep on?

      As the song goes, “I may be lonely, but I am never alone” I, however, am not lonely. I value my solitude. I know the world is full of lonely people. How is it that in a world where you can video conference and twitter that there are still lonely people?

Cuz some people are not fun to be around?

      Her boyfriend stopped by today. They were sitting at the kitchen table. He is a solid guy; a linebacker for the EGR football team. He seems like a nice guy. But then so did I when I showed up at a girlfriends house. Parents loved me. Usually more than the girl I was dating. Whatever…I know the world is full of heartbreak. I know that youth is wasted on youth. I know love is a crazy ride especially at 16. I wish her the best.

but you also know what is on every teenager’s mind don’t you Brucie, my boy…

     She prolly does not know that I will be there for her if this new love goes south. I will be there to be a shoulder and give her a hug and wipe away the tears. I will be there to let her know it will be all right and that the hurt will fade. It always does. She will find love again. At least I am planning on it but you never know.

my shoulders may be gone but they can still cradle her head…my wrists may be CarpleTunneledTunneledCarpled, but they can still wipe away a tear... 

     This could be her love of her life. They could go on to get married and have a family. The odds are stacked against it. I know when I was young and dating I thought every girl I dated was “the ONE!” but I was young and foolish..

Come to think of it you dodged quite a few bullets, by not finding the ONE! so young, and I am sure they would feel the same…

     I know I was involved in my share of heartbreak on both sides of the ball, but mostly the breakee, not the breaker. Back then I was far more sensitive to people’s feelings…Back then I was young and did not know the way the world worked. Foolishly, I thought I knew.

The rose colored glasses I wore were unscratched and unscathed.

     The puzzle of the world is usually missing a piece or two, and we struggle daily to fit it together. We can be sad or we can be happy. We can accept the pieces are missing and or inserted wrong... We can smash them into place in an effort to make it fit. We can also step back and try again with a fresh mind….Or we can give up and walk away.

or drive away…who walks when they can drive?

     I always thought I would handle this differently. I was polite. I did not want to embarrass her.

and I think she is thankful…IDK…

     She did not say anything and I did not ask… There will be plenty more opportunities for me to embarrass her. Mostlikely there will be many more first dates and first times to the house…I am sure of it… I was sensitive…I always thought I would be a sit com dad, and say something really pithy and hilarious. I did not…

mebbe i am maturing...Seriously? yeah, RIIIGHT! 

TuckMonster says thanks again for all the click thrus!!! we are so close to our goal!!!your clicks can only help!!!

Priorities

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1.Rachael Leigh Cook 2.Nikki Sixx 3.Anna Kournikova 4.Hand Sanitizer 5.Scarlett Johansson

6.O.J. Simpson 7.Leonard Nimoy 8.$1 Million Birth… 9.Credit Score 10.Killer Bees

Seriously? killer bees? is that a band?

i will say not much has changed in the trending overnight....

1. Bloggering…I have lots to say and sometimes it is even interesting/funny

2. REDWINGS HOCKEY…the season is just not long enough…mebbe this is #1, but there are days between games so...

3. Family…should be #2...but whatever…

4. God…Mebbe this should be first, but I do not want him to get a big head…although lately he has been huge in my life...

5. Work…no one ever said on their death bed, “I wish I woulda worked more…” i think i got this one right...



I may juggle these around a bit and get back to you…or not…Jus’ Sayin’

great week on the click thru ads!!!please keep it up!!!

if i could click i would....