Posh Daddy

Garage/Yard Sale

We plan on having a garage/yard sale soon, so I posted an ad on Pennysaver. I have never done this before, so when I finished, it said something like... You have completed your posting. If there is a charge to have your ad posted in written format, a representative will contact you and let you know.

While we were out and about today, I missed a call. I listened to my voicemail and was absolutely shocked to hear that they want $61 to run my ad for a week. Maybe that sounds normal to you, but I think that is incredibly expensive. I'm supposed to call them back and talk with them, if I want to run the ad. I just want to laugh in their face. Craigslist is free. I guess that is the cost of getting your information into other people's hands.

So towards the end of the month, we'll be having a sale to raise money to help us survive while I look for work. If you are in the neighborhood and you are interested in coming by, we'd love to see you.

Here is the ad that I posted:

Yard/Garage sale @8am on Sat. Oct. 24th and 9am on Sun. Oct. 25th. We have furniture (Entertainment Center, dressers, desk & lamps), clothing, baby items & toys, small appliances, electronics, memorabilia and much more. End @ 3pm both days. So bring your wallets or purses and enjoy the fun of hunting for that special bargain!

Family Update

I went jogging again today. I tried to beat my first time and was able to do so by a minute and a half. So I am making progress but it sure does feel different from running in high school.

The job hunt is still on. I just passed five months of unemployment. It is such a horrible feeling to not be able to bring in a decent wage to support my family, when I want to work. I think things would be different if I were younger and I didn't have a family to support. I really need a helping hand and I'm looking into everything that is brought to my attention. I'm not tied to a single field either. I just need to support my wife and boys.

Tyler said "Say goodbye Momma," this evening before I left with him to go grab something for dinner. It is really cute to hear him start to use sentences more regularly.

Trever is still very fussy. It is hard to take sometimes because there doesn't seem like much we can do to help him. I believe that it is colic. He is just fussy and unbelievably high pitched and loud when he gets upset. Sometimes it is just for a bottle... He sure is cute when he coos and laughs. He likes being held by people too.

Momma is doing well. We are making the best of our time together. Thank you family and friends for your support.

P.D.

Jogging Is Good, But Walking Is Better

I've missed the last 2 days but I have been taking Ty or Trevy with me on my walk. We all went a couple days ago. It was cooler that night, so we had to try and keep Trevy warm. It is a good walk with a couple of steep hills. I hope to get in better shape and then to start jogging again...

*As I started writing this, I noticed movement outside and peeked throw the blinds. I saw the ringed tail of a little scavenger as he ran over to our fence, jumped up and disappeared. Good ole rural Fallbrook and our wildlife. Has wifey mentioned the rooster across the street that crows at random times. What a joy he is. Kind of wish the raccoon could meet him.*

It is great to have the family involved in exercising more. I think as the boys grow, we want to try and do different activities with them regularly so that we are all healthier. Jogging isn't so good on the knees and it gets boring. We have a pool, so we'll do some swimming. So far, Trevy hasn't warmed up to the idea of water as much as Ty did. He loved bath's. Trevy just screams... except once.

So, here's to a healthier lifestyle for everyone. Get up off that couch, run to the fridge, grab some water or diet soda and run back to the couch... It's a start.

P.D.

Let's Jog

It's early in the morning on Saturday, as I write this. Thursday evening, just before dark, I went for a jog. It has been years since I left the house knowing that I was going to try and run/jog. After my wife and I got married we exercised together at the gym, in our apartment complex. We no longer have the gym and trying to do anything together with 2 little monster howling and running around, make it difficult to do. So I went for a jog.

I only jogged about a mile but boy did it kill me. I had missed the feeling of exercising and then feeling like I was going to die. It worked me over pretty good and it took a while to recover. After that I didn't think that I could make that trip again.

Yesterday, to tone it down a little and not run two days in a row, I took Ty along with me. I thought he might want to walk a bit too. I slapped on some shoes and put on his backpack leash gizmo.

The idea of him walking lasted long enough for us to pass our mailbox. So... I parked Ty in the stroller and off we went.

Ty enjoyed the sights as we walked along. Following the same course, it took about 8 minutes longer than when I ran it the day before. I swam a few laps when we got home.

Now the hard part is hitting the pavement again tomorrow. The aches and pains let me know that I am doing something good for myself but then again, sitting on my butt would be so much easier...

P.D.

Is it wrong?

This afternoon, after several things happened... I took Ty's Lightning McQueen car away and hid it outside, when he wasn't looking. He kept pushing the buttons and waking his brother up. The car has lots of sound effects, phrases and songs that it plays. I think Ty knows that it is probably the most irritating toy that he owns and it bugs the crap out of us sometimes. I now would like to quote Dennis Leary, "Don't buy the toys that make the noise!" He has his little tantrums and makes enough of a ruckus that I just decided to hide the thing. You can't take it while he's looking because then he'll scream and that doesn't help his brother sleep. Is what I did wrong?

Wheel of Fortune at Valley View Casino

Tomorrow we embark to the Valley View Casino to try out for the Wheel of Fortune auditions. We saw what it was like at Viejas a while back, when they were holding auditions for Deal or No Deal. I can only imagine how busy it is going to be there. I hope it goes well though.

Our 2nd Annual day at the beach in Oceanside

We got up this morning and started getting ready. We dressed the boys, made some sandwiches, packed some snacks and loaded everything into the car. We headed to Oceanside.

This year, our annual trip was dedicated to Bob Christensen with a toast to his memory. On July 13th of this year he passed away. His wife, two of his daughters and two grandchildren were present today with their families. The Sherman family as well as some of the Thomas clan made it as well. The Rusnell-McQueen's were there too.

Our boys enjoyed the day. Trevor spent most of this beach trip resting. He did get to visit with new faces and felt the heartbeats of those he wasn't used to. He wore a hat and some sunglasses. Neither of these will his older brother tolerate. Ty enjoyed the sand, the various family and friends and the water. I think he enjoyed all the things to play with and explore. He met a boy of a nearby family who was interested in his car. This boy was not well mannered. He decided to throw sand in Ty's face. Luckily the boys mother finally noticed because I was afraid of what Momma Bear was going to do to that boy if he hadn't stopped. He he.

Ty and I went into the water. Grandma got a little wet too, but it was Ty and I in our suits. He would walk around in the water then go up on shore. It would look like he was heading back to our camp but then turn around and come back to the water. One such time, he came back and the water caught him by surprise. He tripped. He fell with his arms outstretched and caught himself. Before he could get up, a small wave washed over him. This soaked his head and wet his face. I think he sucked in some water too. I was to him in a flash and picked him up. I told him that he was ok. It took a couple seconds of convincing. He did not cry but was surprised. He was wary of the water but did go back in...  after a little bit.

We played by camp and enjoyed each others company. Ty played with Grandma while Mom and Dad spent some time together. There were snacks, some catch and conversation.

Today was a nice day. The weather cooperated.

Thank you.

P.D.

Update on the Boys

Trevy - He is still fussy quite a bit. On the plus side, he is sleeping more regularly and can make it through most of the night. We went to the doctor this morning, worried that he might have an ear infection but everything looked good and he seemed to be doing really well.

This little guy coo's like you wouldn't believe. If he is awake and looking around, I can usually get him to smile and respond to me vocally. I do a voice, that I think that sounds like Elmo saying Aah... Trevor gives me the raised eyebrow and then responds with a coo. As soon as you leave his sight he gets upset and wants you back. This happens sometimes.

Trevy is a different baby than his older brother. On the flip side, they are very similar in most things.
Trevy like to swat at things, Ty didn't really do that much. Trevy also likes to look around more. I can't wait for them to be able to play with each other.

Ty - There is much more going on with him. Since Trevor's arrival, Tyler has been fussier and whinier too. That aside, he seems to understand a lot of what we say. He chooses whether he wants to listen or not. He goes through moods, I've noticed. There are times where we'll ask him to make the sounds of animals that he is familiar with and instead of doing them, he'll give a coy smile and tilt his head down and to the right. A cute item worth mentioning is that he now will "give kisses." This means he'll walk up to you and stick his face up to yours. He doesn't yet make the motion with his lips and make the kiss sound. He like to hand me animals and kiss them. He laughs like crazy, I'm not sure why.

Something else to mention about Ty is that he is climbing more and getting around and exploring quite a bit. By the time people read this, he'll be 16 months old. I can play with blocks with him. He takes things apart more than he builds, but he gets right in there and participates. He recognizes the nurse that gave him his shots most recently... he cries when he sees her. She tries to be nice but the little smarty isn't interested.

I am proud to say that I am raising a little American. Thankfully, little Ty gets excited about Pizza. Dominoes has been offering their Dominator pizza for quite a while now. What a deal. A large pizza for $5.99 + tax. This is a good sized meal for us. Ty can easily eat a piece if not more... but we limit him to a piece.

Take care and I'll share more later.

P.D.

FarmVille Update

My previous FarmVille data is getting lots of visitors, so I figure that I better update the information like I said I would. I'll try and do a screen shot so that those of you who don't have excel can still see and use the information.

I developed this table, with my wife's help, to know best which crop gives me the most money. I originally did the calculation based on time. In other words, how quickly I could harvest the field, plant new crops and harvest again. I'll provide as much as I can but I want to break it down by their harvest time, so you can see how much more the raspberries get you, than say, the strawberries.

I hope this helps, I would appreciate any feedback. I normally don't hear much. Good luck with your farming.

Those of you with Excel, click here to open file. Download Farmville_Updated

Copy this link to see the previous post about FarmVille:
http://www.ohpishposh.com/poshdaddy/2009/08/farm-ville-on-facebook.html

My wife mentions Farm Ville and has a document that those of you with newer versions of Word can open: http://www.ohpishposh.com/

For those of you reading, lets get into it shall we.

The crops are separated into categories by hours to harvest. You can figure out what you should plant and how much you'll get based on that.

Lets look at the following example:

 

In line 4 we have Raspberries. What this table says is that when you plant it, you won't get any additional harvesting experience, hence the 0 in column C. It will take 2 hours to harvest. It seems for $46, so when you subtract how much it cost to buy it, your profit is $26 per raspberry, as you can see in column H. You have to plow in order to plant. Each time you plow it costs $15 per square. After we subtract that from our $26 profit, we now have $11. This means, every square you click and plant raspberries, you will each $11/square. This is actually pretty good. You can see from this table that when they briefly offered Superberries, it was the crop of choice. The bad thing is, if you don't return and harvest your crop in time...

Here is the rest of the data that I have so far:
 

Okay, now lets broaden this information a bit and give you an idea of how much you would get if you planted it in every square of your farm that is: 12 X 12, 14 X 14, and so on:




I hope this information is clear and helpful. Got any tips or requests, comments, then please reply or email me at mrmcqueen328@aol.com. Thanks and enjoy your farming.

Newport Beach trip

Today I had an interview in Newport Beach. That isn't were the job is but it is where the interviewer happened to be today.

After the interview, we went and visited a beach for the kiddies. They had a whale buoy in the water and another one onshore to play with. There was also some playground equipment and some swings. The playground was in the shape of a ship. Ty met a couple of strange kids playing around the ship. I say strange because Isaac, the little boy, dug a hole in the sand on the lower level of the ship.He hung up a couple towels so that his neighbor, a little girl about the same age, could go to the bathroom. Ty wanted to play under there and Isaac kept saying don't go in there. Luckily the little girl had run off to tell her mother that she needed to go to the bathroom and wasn't under there unbeknownst to Isaac. When Isaac saw her leaving he shouted to her that he had already dug the hole. So strange...

I took Ty down to the water. He fell down a couple times in shallow water but it didn't seem to bother him too much. Momma bought the boys some sand toys, so later Ty and I were sifting sand and building in the sand. While heading to the car, we had to walk about 1/8 of a mile. Both boys were so tired that they were asleep by the time we reached the car. Ty has never been this sleepy. See below.

When we left the beach we went and grabbed some lunch on Balboa Island. Then we got to do something I have never done before. We took a ferry ride while sitting in our car. Ty was looking all around, he really liked it. It was a weird feeling but a rather short trip.

We started heading towards home. I decided to take us down the Pacific Coast Highway or PCH. We think we found Lauren's parents house in Laguna Beach, the main character from The Hills. We were going to drive by but it was in a gated area.

We continued heading south and decided to visit the San Juan Capistrano Mission. I may have gone there for a school outing but I didn't recognize it. It was closed for tours or the day so we continued home.

We drove near the coast when we could then took the 5 down to Oceanside Harbor. We were able to see the sunset at 710 PM and see some boats come in. After that we headed back to Fallbrook. It was nice to get out for the day.

I loved our family road trip.

P.D.