MAKE BEN FAIR

LUCK

Luck is one of those unexplainable things, some people have it.. others don't. I would say that I have luck on my side which is a really good thing because in case you don't know this, I am a complete ninny. The majority of the time it seems that I have things together but occasionally I will let something go past me and that is where LUCK comes in. You see this beautiful girl in the picture here, this is my wife Jamie. I am the luckiest guy in the world because I married this girl. Remember me saying how I am a ninny, well Jamie is intune to my ninniness and so everytime that I do something stupid, she let's me know. Some may say this is mean or rude, I call it lucky, because like I have said, "I am a ninny" so I need all the help I can get.

Let me give you a great example of how lucky I am.... a few blogs ago I asked people to Name this Band. Several of you decided to partake in this project and I appreciate you very much. My good friend Pete suggested naming the band, " everyone drinks but Ben". Now being the born-again, raised in the bible belt, didn't touch alcohol until I was 21 guy that I am, I naturally got defensive about this comment. I was thinking, wait... I do drink, I am not an alcoholic, and I don't drink very much or very often. In fact, my views on this subject are still very conservative and if I ever see any of my friends getting "wasted" I will smack the poo out of them. So back to the story, I leave a comment following Pete's explaining that I have found a drink that I like and so on...

here comes the part where I am lucky! Last night my wife was telling me that she was looking at this fine blog and said, "you know that comment that Pete left about everyone drinks but Ben?" and I was like, "yeah" She said, "he was talking about the Picture!" Feel free to scroll down and look at the picture... everyone is drinking except for me! She had a good laugh and it is 100% confirmed, I am a LUCKY NINNY!

Houston Trip Part 2

Saturday we got up and went to the Gallaria, one of the biggest malls I have ever been to.. and we shopped and shopped and shopped... I had one goal and that was to find a new pair of jeans. I have never in my life felt more like a girl than I did that day in the mall. I must have tried on 40 pair of jeans. Some were too big, some too short, some too thin, some had button fly and I wanted zipper, some were awesome but cost 1 million dollars. So I had basically lost all hope and then we went this totally gay store called Express for Men. They had tons of jeans and I liked them. I tried on another ten pair to finally find one pair I liked! (unfortunately, I have tried to wear these once and have already taken them back, they were low-rise and hurt my stomach).

Off to Papasito's after the mall, great food, great frozen Strawberry margarita! We must be getting old because when we got back home we all basically fell asleep and went to bed at like 11:30pm.

So Saturday Aric, Tom and I went to practice music for Sunday morning. We played until noon and then headed to get the girls. Tom comes down with food poisoning somewhere between eating yesterday and playing guitars. He spends the rest of Saturday at the apartment. We headed to Galveston. When we got to Galveston we saw a surf contest going on and decided we better go watch. It was really fun to watch. The waves were ridiculously small but some of the riders were able to still rip pretty hard. It made me miss Florida pretty badly. I miss the beach. I love Waco, but it is so ugly!!! Why can't all the stuff I like about Waco be somewhere like Florida or California?

Sunday we went to church, lead worship with Aric and went to lunch with his mom. We got on the road to head back and it started raining really hard. Traffic was backed up for miles. The moral of the story is Houston sucks!! Don't ever live there, seriously, its bad. You don't believe me, the next day I found out that they had 19 tornadoes touch down in Houston and major flooding. Surf's Up!

Houston Trip

Well we spent this past weekend in Houston with Aric and Glenna. We had a freakin blast. It started off with typical Aric Harding stuff. When started to get close to Houston we call Aric and he is like... we will not be home for another couple of hours and we forgot to leave you a key. So Jamie and Tom and I decided to go see a movie. It is already 10:15pm and we are tired but thought, we can see a short movie. After not agreeing on a movie, we finally decided to go see "Intolerable Cruetly" Problem here is the lady said it was an Hour and 50 minutes long. Tom and I are like no way. We get in the car and Jamie is like, that movie was only an hour and 15 minutes, why didn't we go. We both said, "no the lady said an hour 50 mins." Jamie was like, "No I swear!" So we bet and turned the car around to go and figure it out. Tom and I ran back up to the ticket window and asked the lady. She said, " One hour and fiffDE" And I looked at Tom to see if he caught that,,, and I repeated it and said, "One hour and 50" to which she repeated, " One hour and fiffde" Finally I said, " so almost 2 hours?" and she said, "YES!" So on the way to the car I did a little victory dance and we told Jamie that it wasn't her fault because the lady couldn't talk.

We ended up at TGIFridays drowning our sorrows in appetizer and drinks. We started to talk about how Craig went camping with Tim and they fell into the lake when they were canoeing and lost like a camera, two cell phones, new glasses and who knows what else. But it was an expensive canoe ride. My wife couldn't get pass the fact that two guys would go camping together and do "activities" like canoeing. She thought that was so gay. Tom and I were both like, this isn't gay! Camping is awesome and there is nothing gay about it. Jamie couldn't seem to agree. So two appetizers and several drinks later we started talking about going to see Phantom Planet in Austin on Friday. We asked Tom if he wanted to go and he said, " I can't, I am going camping!" ????? It was the funniest thing ever.

This blog entry is going to be too long... so I am going to stop it here and continue the story soon. cheers