Just to be clear

i wrote that little poem from yesterday, i stole it from no one. I also surprised a few folks and made them cry with it (the good kind)

I obviously dedicate it to my beautiful wife and daughter. No writing, no matter how beautiful, does them justice.

I am a New Dad

Last night my wonderful wife gave birth at 9:01 pm to Abigail Grace Olsen. She weighed in at a healthy 8lbs 1oz and was 19 1/2 inches long. (thats right in the slot limit).

15 hours of labor and 9 months of waiting for the ultimate gift.

Welcome to the world Abigail.

Brett Favre Retires!

Good Bye, Betty. Take your vicodin addicted rear end and leave. The NFL’s biggest drama queen is gone. Only Brett would try to upstage Free Agency and even the Superbowl to get all the attention on his own prima-donna self. The entire state of Wisconsin is now on suicide watch. The NFL’s INT King is gone. Congratulations Vikings! We won the division next year! Brett has apparently chosen to retire because the Packers didn’t sign Randy Moss. Thats right, He pouted and quit. Beautiful. Good Riddance.

The NFL lost a drunk and a drug addict today.

AAH! My Stats are in the Crapper

Read ME! I have nothing to say. please comment on ideas you would like me to ramble on about. I’m very good at rambling, in fact “Lord, I was born a rambling maaaaan”. Good at rambling (and ping pong).  Bad at finding a real job. It’s basically all my fault that we aren’t approved for a good amount of money in which to buy a new house.  Why did I pick Park and Rec? Because they told me everyone would be retiring when I finished school. Bullcrap. I work overnights and get off work only to find out my car doesn’t start and that I have to get a ride home and then to make matters worse I have to have my pregnant wife drive me to work tonite after she just spent 14 hours at school. I’m sure shes happy with me (she should be) its the car she should be pissed at, or the fact that I thought it would be ok to take the Ion to work last night when she offered to switch cars. Hindsight is 20/20. PS Obama won another state or something. The country is one step closer to the Apocolypse. Hurray. Pardon my fake enthusiasm, but if you can’t tell I’ve been awake for far too many hours and need to go to bed or wait for bread (really) but i’m not sure which to do first. Oh, look a refreshing beverage.

Tata for now,

Neslo Divad

The Velvet Sachs

So 27 came and went. Well not really. I’m still 27. Where did I think I would be at this ripe old age? Did I think I was ever going to be married and just a few short weeks from becoming a father? Certainly not. I guess someone had plans for me that looking back since high school, I never would have imagined. I also would not have had the last 9 years a bit different than they played out to be. I have been blessed with a soon-to-be-arriving daughter, an amazing wife, and a group of friends that I can’t even explain. If you met them or have met them, you would see/understand what I’m talking about. They are awesome.

So over this weekend, my wonderful wife was at a baby shower with her relatives, friends, and my mom and sister. This meant that Dave would be having an unsupervised weekend….So he did what any good responsible adult would do. He invited several of his friends over and bought skin-on hotdogs and Bush’s Baked Beans. The snowy and windy day started with some chat and ended about 15 hours later. The creativity flowed as did the Blue 100. Tim, Jake, and Adam showed up. Although there were some missing ingredients for ultimate awesomeness, that’s a pretty good recipe for good times.

The evening brought good stories, good times, and some relatively below avg music and voices. But who would have it any other way. The best portion of the evening was the creation of The Velvet Sachs. Haven’t heard of them? Don’t worry, you likely never will. This side project of Super-Group Barry and The Rockets is a country/bluegrass/blues-infused recipe for disaster. It consists of two guitars (accoustic/slide), a mandolin, and a washboard.  It also includes any song from any genre which is then changed to fit the tune. Quite possibly the best medley we have ever done.

Anyway it was a good evening and I exposed a few more people to the two greatest shows ever: Flight of the Conchords and Wonder Showzen (which is basically hilarious Sesame Street for adults).

Anyway, thats enough for now. Check out Bethany’s Blog for what she was up to. We’ll call it the behaved portion of our last weekend.

Peace, Love, and Tic-tacs,

DaveO

Update

I am just figuring this website out. I realized I had a completely blank “About” page. It is no longer that way. I will add more later, but wanted a little something there. I also decided to leave a “picture of the day” when I feel like it. So check back often

The Beginning….

Well here goes nothing. Last night while I was watching the biggest choke in pro-sports history, my lovely wife was setting up a blog for her and our future daughter.  So I figured that I would give it a shot as well. Using a little humor now and then, of course.

I’m not going to go write some long blog about anything right now, just an introduction. Who knows what I will choose to write about.  Most likely about fatherhood, what not to say to a pregnant lady, fishing, hunting, politics, etc.

Thats it for now, but I have the day off. Perhaps something will spark my creativity.