Hello?

I am not intentionally a dick. You are probably wondering what I could be talking about. For some odd reason I have a problem with saying hello and goodbye, I would say more so on goodbye than hello. I am a polite person otherwise; I say please and thank you. I am a gentleman. I hold the door open for people. I respect my elders. I write thank you cards. I comment on bloggers that comment on my blog. But for some reason one of my biggest flaws is being rude by not saying hi.

I might have to rephrase that. I do say hi but only if the other person initiates it first, I rarely am the person that says hi first. I also hate the cliche question of "how are you?" Who really tells the truth when asked this question? The norm response is: good, how are you? I know a lot of people like to use "how are you?" to replace hello and I find that a little annoying because I know that a lot of people that ask this question really don't care how I am doing, they are just being polite. I would rather them stick to hello unless they are really interested in my life or well being such as my grandma, I know she actually cares.

I would say that one of the few times I initiate the hello is at family gatherings such as holidays. If I go to my Aunt's for Easter lets say, I will kiss the women in the family on the cheek and say hi. The guys get a handshake. But on the flip side I feel sort of awkward saying goodbye. I try to do a group goodbye so I don't have to 'do the 'rounds' so-to-speak. I will just say goodbye real loud and do one big wave, it works for me.

Recently someone told me that I was being disrespectful by not saying hi when entering their home. I know I was kind of already being disrespectful but it became more real when somebody actually said it to me. Well, my sister and mother have told me about my 'hi' problem before but when somebody outside of your family tells you the same info, it hits you harder.

So now I am trying to change my ways. Over the past few days I have been initiating the hellos and goodbyes. I have always struggled with this and it's going to take time before it just comes natural to me but I know I can change. There will be a new and improved Powdered Toast Man for the future.

Anyone busy 10/20/2012?

I have been making a mistake that nobody has picked up on. I guess no English majors read my blog. I have been using 'fiance' instead of 'fiancee' when talking about Nicole. 'Fiance' refers to the man while 'fiancee' refers to the woman. I had it backwards this whole time, boy is my face red. Okay, enough sarcasm, on to the exciting news.

After 5 months of being engaged, Nicole and I finally set a date for the wedding! We decided on October 20, 2012. That's a Saturday if anyone was wondering. So don't make plans for that date, who knows who will be invited. Has anybody ever invited fellow bloggers to attend their wedding? There is always a first for everything. Nicole, if you are reading this, I am not serious. I am not inviting strangers to our wedding no matter how cool their blogs or comments are. Sorry for the let down folks.

One of the reasons we set it 2 1/2 years in the future is we wanted to wait until one of us was out of school or somewhat close. The way school is going for both of us, it's a mystery to when we will finish.

Over 900 days and counting to the big day. I'm so excited! Hurrah!!

Amazing how strong motherhood can be...

In a zoo in California , a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy,
the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size,
they died shortly after birth.

The mother tiger , after recovering from the delivery , suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother's cubs, perhaps she would improve.

After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species. The only ' orphans ' that could be found quickly, were a litter of weaning pigs... The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger. Would they become cubs or pork chops ?

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Now, please tell me one more time ...

Why can't the rest of the world get along ?

And the crystal ball says....

Damn, I am slow. I was tagged like 2 weeks ago by either Ally at Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing or Lisa Marie at The Domestication of a Party Girl (I think, if not, please correct me) and I forgot to write something. I had it saved in a draft but never got to it. Well, better late than never (especially for a 16 year old girl and her period....ba dum dum pshhh).

In 10 years I will be 35, wow that is scary to look at. I don't want to grow up, I want to be a Toys 'R' Us kid forever. Hopefully I will still be a child at heart in a decade. I will be married to Nicole and we will have a litter of kids. I will own a fantastic home somewhere outside of New York, it is way too expensive to live here. I do love it here but it will be tight on the money clip. I want to be on House Hunters when looking for our home but the show will probably not be on anymore. I want a big back yard. I don't want to live in the city, I like privacy. I live in a log cabin now sort of in the boondocks.

I will have some sort of Marketing Degree from a prestigious college (let's hope), which I will use to start a great career in sales or marketing. Actually I wouldn't be starting in 10 years, I would have already started the career a few years prior. Nicole will be working as a RN in the local hospital. I love animals so our home would contain a few dogs and cats. I currently live with 2 dogs and 8 cats so I can handle a small zoo.

One of my great ideas/inventions will be made which will bankroll our retirement fund. I have sooo many great ideas and you can say that you sort of knew me before I was famous. I don't think I will still be blogging in ten years. This is probably just a fad/phase for me like everything else that I like.

I made it short and sweet for you so you wouldn't be bored to death. I hope I didn't leave anything out. Since I did this late there probably aren't a lot of you that haven't done this but I still want to tag some folks.

I will tag Nippy at Crazy Penguin Ramblings, Brian at Knees in the Wind and for fun, Nicole (she doesn't have a blog but she can post it here and I want to see where she thinks we will be).