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"Little darlin', it feels like years since it's been here...." Yep, here comes the sun, and a side order of warmth to go with it, at last! Hi folks....as those of you who've visted my blog here probably have noticed, I haven't written in a long time, not since last summer. Not that I intended it to be that way, just worked out that between personal life and issues, time constraints, and the fact that there just wasn't anything in particular going on in my life that I felt like sharing (or was willing to share in this particular venue). So what's been up with me since last July? Well, "not a whole hell of a lot" would be the short answer. To go into a bit more detail, last summer I did manage to go to a few ethnic festivals in both Madison and Milwaukee (always fun), did hook up a couple of times with a couple of the "FWBs" I've made on the site (always fun too of course, though nothing happened all that earthshatteringly different from past get togethers that I felt compelled to write about it), and otherwise just lived live as usual....work, working on my writing, dealing with the inevitible change in the weather from nice to crappy....  Speaking of crappy weather, man, what a winter we had this year! Jeez louise! The fall last year wasn't bad up until about the beginning of November, but then it got colder than normal for the first half of the month, then warmed up rather nicely around Thanksgiving (nice for me and others who aren't fans of cold weather, not so nice for the gun-season deer hunters! lol). Then a colder than average early December came, followed by a way above normal Christmas and New Years (second year in a row I went out on New Year's Eve and was able to leave my coat in the car and walk from it to the places I was going with just my suit on). Early January continued the trend (sure made it easier to haul the Festivus pole in and out of my car for our office's Festivus celebration!), and I thought that just like last year, we would get away with a relatively mild winter. But MLKjr. Day weekend came, and the day after my 46th birthday, the weather made a dramatic tumble downwards temperature wise, and with very few exceptions, the weather resembled the so-called "norm" for that time of year all the way into late March (I think we went something like six weeks without ever topping 32 even once!) Of course, this wasn't so bad when the trivia contests I play in were going on, but otherwise it made it more than a little difficult on more than one occasion (both me and my car are getting more and more cold sensitive as we get older, though I've got an excuse; I was frost bit on my feet when I was younger). Things got nice again the second to the last weekend of March, and stayed nice until Ma Nature decided to play a nice little April Fools joke, and give us about 10 days of "February in April".   Now some weather forecasters are predicting one of the coldest Aprils on record, though to be honest, I think April of 1982 was way colder than this one-we've had no temps hovering around zero like we did then, and we are starting to get some decent sun and warmth now. Not as much as I'd like on either front, I'll grant you, but better than it could be, to be certain. All in all, this has been a very weird winter and early spring, to say the least! One thing I will say though is: GLOBAL WARMING, MY ASS! As to other things going on, well, as I alluded to above, I've been busy playing in some of the other Trivia contests I and some of my friends play in every winter as a lead up to "the big one" in Stevens Point (no, I'm not going to say what team I play on-if you want to know, you'll have to ask me personally!). Plus I bought a midi keyboard for my iMac G4 about a month ago or so....first time I've tried to master a music-making instrument since my 20's, and first time I've been even half-way serious about it since grade school. Mostly though, I got it for fun, and as sort of a "stress buster". Amazing though just how much starts to come back to you though....like riding a bike for the first time in years, or starting speaking a foreign language you spoke as a , but haven't since you grew up. The battle of the bulge: Well, this hasn't been going so well. I did manage to take off a couple of pounds last summer, getting down to 228, but then, as is usually the case (esp. if we get a lot of really cold weather, which stresses me out big time, and causes me to snack in order to relieve the stress), I gained over the winter, going up to 245-the heaviest I've ever been! I have been working on getting the weight back down again though-have quit the snacking, and am down to 240. Once the weather gets really decent again, I'm going to start up with my walking regimen in the evenings after dinner again, big time! Of course, as one gets older, the metabolism slows down more and more, so I'll have to work harder at it than before. But I'm hoping with some discipline and effort, I'll be able to get down to at least 220 (and stay there!) over the summer.Sex: What's that? lol Seriously, I have to admit, bitter cold weather and lots of snow tends to put a bit of a damper on my libido. Not to the point where it doesn't exist, mind you, but it can definitely to the point where it isn't as big a deal as it normally would be. I expect that to change too as we get back to nicer weather (summer turns me into a major horn dog, always has!). Well, I suppose I've written enough to make up for the 9 months plus absence from blogging on here. I hope to be making entries a bit more often now, and hopefully will have some interesting stuff to report as we swing into summer (esp. in the sex department!  )
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Mmmmm...I think we both got our "kicks", dear. Most definitely (Though I still have to say that driving to your place *definitely* reminded me of why I'm not all that crazy about night driving anymore!  Still, the "end result" was more than worth it!  )
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