Archive for December, 2008
Back in the Big D
I’m home and roommate free. My house is all mine and I don’t plan on having another roommate until I get married. It’s not really my roommate’s fault – any of them – it’s just that I have unrealistic expectations out of people or maybe it’s just that you really don’t know who someone is [...]
Kentucky Fried Eddeaux
I’m in Kentucky right now visiting the Bruner’s and we have been having a great time. Some things to note about Kentucky:
There aren’t any super highways – none that I’ve seen anyway. Every road, even “Major” roads feel like “The back way” or “the scenic route”. It’s very pretty here with lots of horses and [...]
The Manly Manual VII
Hobbies
Manly Men only need 3 things, food, the love of a good woman, and hobbies. There isn’t a hierarchy here either, they are all intimately intertwined with one another and when one area is lacking then the whole system starts to fall apart.
Hobbies are essential for men. When God was making man in his own [...]
Christmas Dinner at Eddeaux’s
If my house were a restaurant, I’d have to give it 5 stars…
I set the mood by lighting all the lights, burning all the candles, and setting the table for 9. I took a little extra time making dinner last night and even started preparing it the day before. I brined my chicken in garlic, [...]
New Year’s Party!
For those of you who read Posted Note and are in the DFW area, you may want to jump on the New Year’s Ball while tickets are still avaiable. Proceeds benefit http://waterisbasic.org as well as mission trips for local churches Stonebriar and DBC and Navigators to name a few.
Please pass along the information to friends [...]
Secrets and Dreams
“Why didn’t he tell anyone?”
”I didn’t know she was hurting.”
“I wish they would have told me!”
People who are hurting often shoulder that pain alone. They are afraid to share or too independent or prideful to ask for help.
I’ve been on the hurting end and sometimes the people in your life are the ones that you want to shield [...]
The Manly Manual – VI
Relatives
Whenever relatives come over you need to treat them the way the Americans treated the Japanese after the attack on Pearl Harbor or the way a dog acts at a vet when it’s about to be neutered. Relatives are the enemy and they will try to infiltrate your life every chance they get. They will [...]
The Manly Manual – V
Gift Wrapping
Men were not born with the innate abiity to gift wrap. If you have it, then you need to try to purge that effiminate quality from yourself and join the rest of us who only recently started to use our opposable thumbs.
Gift wrapping is complex. It requires coordinating colors and (gasp) bows and then [...]
The Manly Manual – Part IV
When it comes to cooking there is only one thing you need to know: Put it on the grill. Everything can be cooked on the grill 365 days a year and it tastes better that way. Save the baking and casseroles for the ladies and their Mary Kay and Pampered Chef parties. Manly men stick [...]
Manly Manual – Installment 3
Gold Bond Medicated Powder
Manly men sweat. We sweat especially when we play sports or when we are camping or hunting or doing manly things. Because of this it is necessary to protect yourself from itchiness and rashes with Gold Bond medicated powder – in the crotch and groin area.
You can’t use baby powder or some [...]
The Incredible Hulk
When I buy gifts for my nieces and nephews I try to always buy things that I think I would have been crazy about when I was their age. My nephew is a tough little kid that likes to punch, he’s going to love these, and if he doesn’t, then I will keep them for [...]
The Manly Manual – Continued
Manly men enjoy competition in every area of life. Who can eat the most enchiladas, who can jump highest, who is the strongest, who has the biggest… everything. You will not win at all of these competitions and if you are in need of this manual then you will most likely lose many of them, [...]