Snoop Don Goes Sailing! (and happy 40th blog entry to me)

I had a great holiday weekend. I went up to the lake, where my grandparents live and my aunt has a weekend get away next door. When my aunt bought her house, a cute toy boat came with it. It is a real sailboat, just very small. I have never been sailing before now and I hope to go again someday.

My cousin, who took sailing (in a sunfish) lessons years ago took me out for a spin. As we were going, I reflected on how our ancestors had to depend on sails to get them moving across the ocean and as we drifted away from the dock, I thought how that must have really sucked... or blowed.... I think I will stick with sucked because for them blowing would have been a good thing. It was a good time sailing on the lake yesterday morning. I am the one on the right.

The process begins....

Read about the physical transformation that I will begin tomorrow.... Click on the side bar for my new blog. or click here. Transforming My Trap

Question of the Day! (or week, or month, or year)

Why do they call the Tank Top a Tank Top?
In all my years of watching war movies, I never saw a bunch of guys in a tank wearing Tank Tops.... I was just wondering.

Milestones

I know it has been a while since I have blogged. But, it is for good reasons. We have been going to PRIDE classes the last month. It has seriously occupied our evenings and while I have popped in for a comment or two on the blogs, I have failed to write.

Now that we have taken PRIDE classes, we are on our way to getting a homestudy to see if we can have a little one in our home through fostering and then hopefully adopting. If we foster a kid who goes up for adoption, we are the first choice for placement. We will see.

This has been a challenge for me. I have to come to the realization that my child will not look like me. I don't really have a racial preference, but whatever it will be will not be a part of my biological makeup. I am really having to wrestle with this, it really is just pride in me. If the kid is ours to love, who cares if it is the fruit of my loins or not. While avoiding the fact that I want a kid, and being hard headed at points to the frustration of Teach99, tears have popped up at the oddest of places.

We decided to register, because we want to share in this event with our family and friends as we get our room together for the little one. This has been another adventure.

On another note, I paid off my college loans today! I guess that I did this approximately 4 years early.

Finally... Coming soon to a blog near you, the documentation for Snoopdon's tranformation. No, I will not become a Donita, Maury.

Peace Out my homies.