Throwback Thursday pics on a Friday Morning

We finally received all of the pictures and videos and such from our wedding so a little bit over time I am going through them and reliving the moments.  This is one of the last pictures from the reception that was taken and I thought with the party favor we were giving out this would be perfect for me and my guys.
My vision was kind of like an old western whore house where you had a line up of girls to pick from but with the cartoon slant of you didn't quite know what you were getting because most of the face was already covered.   Is it going to be a handsome bachelor or is there a horrible scar lurking underneath.

Last night we went to Walmart to get some Graham Crackers because that happened to be the current craving and I was about to ask if she wanted to go anywhere else or if we were just heading back home but I was interrupted by a phone call.  So, because I'm lazy and a great husband I waited until she got off the phone before I left the parking lot - mostly because if I made it back home she would b shit out of luck and I wasn't about to go anywhere else.
While waiting for her to get off the car the most amazing "woman" happened to come to her car which was park basically in front of ours.  
I do realize that Karma suggests that some day in the future I will also be subject to this same justice but I honestly cannot help myself.

 If there was one person whom I was disappointed didn't end up making it out to my wedding it would be my old high school chum Spank.  You see, through modern social media we just became re-acquainted after having lost contact for the last decade or whatever but to this day he remains one of my favorite people.  So, the other day his wife adds me to the book of face and throws this old happy picture onto my wall.  Prom Picture of which there appears to be very few pieces of remaining evidence that I ended up in a dress.  Of every picture I have ever had taken of me this still ranks as one of my favorite lifetime moments.  We were the reason Swag is now a word.

Mojo Rising

As I sit here waiting to get motivated to get dressed and ready for work I have been suffering through a headache that has now lasted over 24 hours.
This is the longest one that I have had in a couple of years now I do believe.

I've been wanting to type something up on my poker session for the past few days now but haven't had the time to get around to it and when I do it probably won't be nearly as epic as I'd like it to be because I didn't take any notes, oh well.

However, something more important has happened in our little blogging community and that is fellow blogger and all around good guy, Memphis Mojo, decided to finally run deep in a WSOP event - finishing 3rd place and taking home some large amount of money that I'm sure makes his toes tingle - $279,000 give or take.

So, here is the LINK GO GO GO GO to his words and feel free to check out my blogroll for other people and their write ups as well.


Congrats my man!  You make us all proud.

Could I borrow a few until next payday? :)

Cauliflower Alley Club 2014

Last week was the annual CAC gathering and fun time.  Monday included a wrestling show, Tuesday was a Bologna Dinner with some awards and then Wednesday was the big fancy dinner and the big awards.

Cauliflower Alley Club this year was celebrating their 49th anniversary, next year they are trying to go big for 50.  I'm really curious to see what they can pull off as I've been enjoying it for the last 5 or so.

This years big awards were given to Michael PS Hayes of The Fabulous Freebirds fame, and Terry Taylor who is sadly best known as The Red Rooster.

Some of the usual people were in attendance which is one of the things that make events like this fun for me.  J.J. Dillon and Terry Funk were the MC's for the evening.  Jim Ross was there again as well.  Normally I harass these people for a picture but this year I didn't feel the need to do it -I'm pretty sure that I will once again next year.

Before I put my crappy pictures up (my phone's camera sucks especially through ZOOM which apparently means Zoom in and Unfocus) ....

There is a membership for CAC, you can choose to buy a Lifetime membership or you can pay yearly but the fact is that up to this point the membership really hasn't meant much in terms of the actual club.  The money is partially donated so you are helping out a charity (and claiming a tax deduction if you itemize).  This year I had decided I wanted to get the lifetime membership and 5 or so years down the line if my son is still huge into wrestling then I'd get him one as well.
Lifetime membership is $300 this year and because of a hot craps run I was armed with the money.  I went up to the President and asked him what I needed to do and he said I had to wait for some lady to come back as she takes care of that stuff. When she got back she told me that they were either out of or they just couldn't find their membership papers and they told me that I needed to fill out the forms and submit my payment online.
Here I am with $300 in hand trying to give my money to them and they are basically telling me that they didn't print out enough forms on cheap paper before the event started and I was unable to give them my money.

So, here I sit a week later still not having become a lifetime member.  I was in the "hear and now" and I wanted to do it but telling me to go home and do it online took away the desire.  Now I do realize that there is speculation that the membership prices are going up next year and you will, in fact, have to have the membership to be privy to buying the dinner packages to the awards banquet and whatnot.  But I lost my motivation.  Maybe if I still have the money after this years ComicCon I'll pony it up.  If not I'll just stick with the yearly membership and deal with the price increase.

Terry Taylor.  This is one of the big reasons I keep coming to these shows.  Over the years I have gotten to meet some of my favorite wrestlers that I grew up idolizing.  Terry Taylor, Brett Heart, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Mic Foley, Jim Ross, Terry Funk, etc.  Every year I at last run into someone new that I haven't gotten to briefly meet and sometimes I get to snap a picture to remember it.

 This is Sinn Bodhi who briefly wrestled in the WWE as KarNizy.  I honestly really enjoy watching him and talking to him.  This year he had a booth set up and I got a shirt and a poster off of him with an autograph on the poster.  He also had a lot of custom wrestling figures up for sale that will be hitting Ebay soon.  The only one I really wanted sold before I even made it to the event and that was a Bray Wyatt.

Sinn also happens to work at a Tattoo Shop here in Las Vegas and I'm pretty certain that my next work is going to be done by him now. I probably won't be getting the elaborate piece that I wanted on my calf but instead I'll have him do something small on my "reserved for cartoons, comics and video games, section of my arm"

 That's Buddy Love, or something like that.  Pretty much looks like a mini Gangrel from a distance but he wears some swwweeeetttt Guns n Roses tights.  Also, when introduced they said  "And standing tall at 9...um... and a half inches...."

He received an award on the 2nd night because he actually forked out a few thousand dollars of his own money to pay for the insurance to have the wrestling show put on.  That I thought was a great gesture especially coming from an independent wrestler.

This here be Matt Hardy, the only "big" name to appear for the wrestling matches.  I guess he does a lot of indy work now and appears in FSW from time to time (FSW is a local Vegas Wrestling Federation).

Matt Hardy and Americo

Myself with Greg The Hammer Valentine

Terry Funk and Jim Ross

The Hammer

Terry Funk and Jim Ross

Terry Funk

Some Guy with his 4 dogs at work

Michael PS Hayes

Steak Dinner, Undercooked and TOUGH

Multicolored Cheesecake

J.J. Dillon

Dillon and Funk

Jerry Brisco

Cheerleader Melissa

Sinn Bodhi

Michael Hayes

Jim Ross

Terry Taylor

Random Chicks Butt

Getting Back to Normal

Whatever normal is, that is.
It's about that time to start fixing up the house we are living in and also to keep improving my house, where my parents live.
My house has the biggest bill currently as we just had to have the HVAC replaced - OH YEAH!  Other than that we got someone to do the back yard for us.  Put in stone and planted a bunch of plants around the wall to give it some color and life.  Everything looks good.

The fun part will be fixing up the place we are living currently, which is her Aunt's house.  Granted, all of the home improvements get deducted from the rent but I really just don't want to do the work.

We have a couple of interior doors that need replaced because they have fist holes punched through them.  They are all basic hollow-core flat doors, but when we start replacing them she wants to go with the 6 panel doors.  This means that every interior door is going to have to be replaced because the ones that aren't will look out of place.  So this puts the total at 6 interior doors.
The door from the garage to the house also needs replaced, or at least just the self closing hinges since the door does not self close as per code.
The exterior doors (2 doors and a sliding patio door) are also on the hit list, but not as important.
And, I'm told, she also wants to add at least 2 closet doors since none of the closets have doors.

On top of that, she would really really really like for me to put laminate throughout most of the house, before the end of the year.

So, It looks like I have a lot of fun lined up for me.

Other than that the next 6 weeks or so at work are going to be less than fun.
My longest tenured employee is off for 6 weeks for surgery and my number 2 in command is going to be off for 2 weeks during that same stretch.  This leaves me with just myself and another guy.
However, have no fear, the retail police have come to my rescue by allowing me to borrow a guy during that two week period.  A guy with very little experience with the company (hired as a seasonal person currently) and no experience in my department.  And, if that wasn't enough he also cannot work anything but open shifts leaving the rest of us (all two of us) to take all the closing shifts for those two weeks.

It is retail and these are the shitty situations you will find yourself in when you work there long enough.  It is only 6 weeks though and then things will be back to normal on that front.

It's getting to be about time to start planning our trip to Disney for the kids birthdays this year.  We only plan on doing one day at Disney to save on costs and probably two days at the beach for rest and relaxation, but it will be 3-5 days of getting away from the desert and life as we know it.

Married life is awesome.  Every day I wake up feeling blessed to have my wife next to me and our boy sleeping on the couch because he hates the idea of sleeping in his room (this we will be trying to fix soon).  Life is amazing and I have a hard time not having a smile on my face.

Time to go read some new comic books and sort some others!

Throwback Thursday - Two weddings

The first picture is I believe from the end of 2008 at my buddy's wedding.  The 2nd photo was from my wedding just recently.

What a difference a few years makes right?

Hopefully I'll be adding to this in another two years with yet another dramatic difference.

The Honeymoon is Over

Man oh Man.

From the week leading up to the wedding to the over week long honeymoon including a trip to Hawaii in there I have really been on cloud 9 the past few weeks.

My wedding was AMAZING and everyone who attended with attest to that.  The amazing pictures that were posted on my Facebook and all the kind comments that flooded in were truly touching.  The dinners and hanging out with friends before and after are moments that I will treasure until the day I perish from this mortal realm (or get reborn back into it depending on which religion has it right).  The week in Hawaii exploring Kauai via Tours and rental cars with my beautiful wife was so amazing that it hurt to actually fly back to Las Vegas (which is a place I never want to move away from).

It always felt like a cliche but I have never been happier.  My wedding day was so amazing and everything went so perfect.  It also appeared to fly by in the blink of an eye because it started and ended and I didn't get a chance to fully take it all in.

We have pictures back from the ceremony and we are awaiting pictures from the reception.  I posted a million pictures on FB from the honeymoon (most of them with cocks depending on who you ask).  I can't wait to watch the video of the ceremony when it finally comes in just to see if the moment lives up to my memory of it.

Now that reality is back and haunting me I'll once again be coming back to this space a few times a month to update you on the life and times of the grrouch and his missus.  You all are probably pretty disappointed by that sentence :)

A few random picks from my last few weeks.