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OK today is the big day. The 2006 World Series of Poker started today. I now most of you could not give a shit, but for degenerate Texas holdem wannabes like my self it is a big day. So good luck to the players and I am rutting for the underdog, and Phil Ivey.

Ok I found the backyard pics, AND yes I know the grass is not mowed but these were taken the day we got back from the cruise. Since these have were taken I did mow the grass. Now you all tell me, if you had put the time, money(a lot of it), and sweat to make your backyard look like this wouldn't you want to have parties all the time??? Please let me know what you think.

Ok, I did the guest list yesterday and there is a total of 64 people. See I was right on the mark with my previous guess of 50 to 60 people. I brought it home and left the spreadsheet right by the door and to my amazement she did not say one word about it. I am going to make up the invitations today Chelle you have to let me know were you want me to sent it.

Ok, Chelle here is my rebuttal. YOU make a VERY GOOD point, and I agree in everything you said about prepping for the party. In response, point of fact I am the one who cleans the house, the only thing I don't do is dust. I am the one vacuuming the floors (wash if needed, mostly hardwood), cleaning the kitchen, resealing the granite counters, doing the dishes, cleaning both bathrooms (because according to my wife I have more arm strength to scrub the toilet), and you have to remember I did own an Italian restaurant do I do most of the prep work. She like to make the salad and the cold pasta (usual w/pesto). Plus the outside stuff even thought I just hired a landscaper to do the lawn and beds. I always do about 75% of all the work before the party, and I don't mind doing it at all in fact I do enjoy it, but she still bitches. You are 100% right when you said she "probably enjoys the party once it starts" can you believe that??? So what I want to know is how the fuck do I avoid all the bullshit that she does before the party???

I have pics of the backyard id you want to see them???

OK, I am totally beside myself. I finally did it, I finally quit smoking. I quit cold turkey on June 1st 2006. After 13 years of my girlfriend now wife nagging me all the fucking time, "when are you going to quit", "when are you going to quit", "I am really worried about you". I finally quit smoking for the good of my health first and for most. The other reasons were so I would not have to hear the nagging, and not just from her. From my family, co-workers, friends, people I deal with as part of my job. So as not to jinx myself I did not want to announce to the world that I quit the moment I decided to just in case I started up again. I figured I would give myself a week or two before I started telling everyone. My thought was my wife was going to notice within the first 2 or 3 days, and then the cat would be out of the bag. To my surprise my wife did not notice with in 2 or 3 days. In FACT she finally figured it out 2 Saturdays ago when we were on the cruise. She went a whole month and a day before it dawned on her. And even then she asked me in question format, "honey, did you quit smoking?". Not, "honey, I can't believe it took me this long to realize you quit smoking I am so proud of you, we have to celebrate tonight with no holds bared". That would have at least been worth not telling her. In fact none of my family have notice yet either, and there as been over 4 family get togathers, and we have spent a bunch of time over the houses Individually. The only person that noticed pretty much right away was Sue from my job, but she said she did not want to say anything as to not bring up or talk about it because it is a hard thing to do. To other friends/co-workers have notice, frank, and Tom and that's it. it has been over 6 weeks and still none of my family as figured it out. All the fucking bitching, moaning, and nagging and it took over 4 weeks for my wife to even figure it out. It just goes to show you that no matter how much you significant other says something is bothering them. Most likely they are just nagging about it because they can and not because it is really bothering them. When I would smoke in the car with the window opened and the tip of the cigarette sticking out of the window, my wife would start coughing like crazy and tell me its the cigarette. Or how about went we were on the couch watching a movie setting side by side and she would bitch about the smoke, or how she would say that all her cloths smell like smoke. Since I quit she has not even noticed that the quote, unquote smell is not in her cloths anymore or when we kiss she did not say you don't taste like cigarettes. Its all bullshit, it was just an act to piss me off and nag me about the smoking.

P.S. I still do not smoke nor do I plan to start again I just thought it was an eye opener to my wife's bitching and nagging.

As I stated in my post about my wife claiming to be a very social person (see "ok I am back)as struck again. I am calling her the "Social capped Crusader" because every time I want to plan something she is right there to crusader for its demise. Yesterday as I was in the process of setting up the volleyball net in the rain for this weekend I mentioned to her that I was thinking if having a party on the 5th of August. Now this is something I had told her about WAY BACK in Feb., or Mar., but now that the time is near and the details have to be thought out. I thought I would mention it to her and get her feedback on what she wanted to do. STUPID ME, not realizing she had changed into her "Social capped Crusader" mode, attacked with multiple shells of doubt and despair about the party. Oh one thing I forgot to mention is: we are having a party this weekend for my mother's birthday, let me repeat WE ARE HAVING A PARTY FOR MY MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY. Which, when I mentioned the party on the 5th of Aug. She said and I quote "but you are have a party this weekend", for what ever reason the Social capped Crusader thinks having a party for my mother's birthday let me repeat MY MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY is the same thing as having a summer party with your friends and close co-workers. That was the first thing out of her mouth. The second was "WHY????", the third was "well, how many people are you inviting?" and my responses were because I want to have one, and I did not get that far yet, but what does it matter.

(What everyone who is reading this has to understand is, I don't know that many people in the first fucking place. Even if I invited everyone I considered a friend and would want to be at the party, there would only be 50 to 60 people, and that number includes about 22 kids with ages from 6 months to 10 years old. Take into consideration that normally you have between 20 to 30 percent that RSVP that they cant make it for whatever reasons, that leaves 42 people total with kids. I also know that unfortunately my cousin maybe away the week, and there are 5 people in his family, my other friend will be on his honeymoon that's another 3, my other friend just had knee surgery and most likely won't make it that's another 3, my brother-in-law will be out on his boat that's another 2, my niece and her future husband will be working on their house that's another 2, and I can think of 2 families that even if I invite them probably would not come because of the amount of kids they have that's another 10. So how many does that make total 27 people out of 60 and I have not even set anything in stone yea, and I am down half of the total number of people)

so I told the Social capped Crusader that I did not want to talk about it any more and I just wanted to finish putting up the net for volleyball court. We were in the garage at the time I brought the whole Aug. 12 party thing in the first place. So she went in the house and I finished putting up the net. I came inside and started cooking diner for myself it was about 7PM at this point. Since I got home at 5PM I ran to Sears to get hardware for the net and I got 4 bags of weed and feed for the grass, can back from Sears and put down the weed & feed, mounted the hardware onto the poles for the net, set up the net with the rest of the hardware, and installed the net to its proper height. Ok, so back to cooking myself diner in the kitchen, she comes in and starts the nagging once more, and she is saying things like: "we spent a lot of money over the last few months and I don't know if we could afford to have it", and "why are you yelling at me", oh, and my personal favorite (David Lettermann's top 10 list is going off in my head, "here are the top 10 reasons Steve should not have a party on Aug. 12", and the NUMBER ONE REASON IS: "what happens if it rains" DA DAT DAE DA DA DA DA DADADADA, tonight on the program we have Bruce Willis, and Katie Holmes.
why am I yelling will I don't know "BOB" lets see maybe because I told you I did not want to talk about it anymore and you came back in the kitchen to crusade some more about why I want to have it, or maybe its because you say something like we may not be able to afford it because of the money we spent over the last few months, but YET we just got back Saturday the 8th from a 3K cruise. If money was tight why the hell did we go on vacation? Maybe because you wanted to, I would have been fine spending the week in our backyard in our NEW pool, but no someone want to go away. Since it was you and not me that wanted to go away we COULD afford it, but now we can't afford hamburgers, hot dogs, soda, and beer for a party at our house. Even when you know that everyone is going to ask what can they bring. But maybe, just maybe, it's because I am so amazed at the stupid shit you would say to me just to try and convince me not to have a party like: "what happens if it rains" like you except me to be able to forecast the weather over 4 weeks in advance. I have news for you honey the fucking weather people can't even forecast the fucking weather 2 days in advance, and you want four weeks out of me!
so I could not take it anymore and had to walk away before I grabbed a pack of smokes and started chain smoking the rest of the night. Did I mention I quit smoking on June 1st 2006, but that is a whole other story (see above).So I look forward to your comments and your feedback on this one. Is my wife a social person or is she the killer of fun and happiness? The destroyer of backyard fun, IS SHE: THE SUMMER PARTY KILLER!!!!!!!!

Please cast your vote now?????

Hello everyone I am back from the cruise! It was pretty good I got to play a lot of limit Texas Holdem, and I did not do to bad. The weather was good except for the last day it rained, but it was not a bad thing as far as I was concerned. After sitting in the sun for a 5 days down in the tropics is can get to you. Although if you ask my wife she would disagree. The food was not as good as I had hoped and on lobster night they fucking served ROCK lobster. Can you believe the fucking nerve, rock fucking lobster. As far as I am concerned ROCK LOBSTER is the ghetto lobster of all lobster, and they had the nerve to serve it. So that was a big let down.
In case anyone is wondering we were on NCL Dawn out of Manhattan. It was awesome to be able to drive to the ship, park, and then drive home and not have to get on a plane. I really hate flying after all the 9/11 false sense of security bullshit. My wife was not to bad she definlly had her moments but all in all I give her a 7 on my fun meter this trip. She did say something that had me cracking up inside, she said: "she was a very social person", which if you know my wife need I say more. OK I will, LOL, my wife is the type of person who tells me IF you meet a couple on vacation and you spend a lot of time with them on the trip that's ok, but when the vacation ends you don't exchange info even if they live 10 minutes from your house. She is also the type to put limits on the number of people I want to have over for a SUMMER party. I would lets say want to ask a total of 15 to 20 people and she would start telling me right from the start "WHY DO I HAVE TO INVITE SO MANY PEOPLE", she thinks 2-4 people is more then enough. We all know that just because you invite that many does not mean all will come. They may have plans already or they may be on vacation the weekend or they may just not want to come, but my wife does not see it that way. Keeping in mind we have a fairly large house (3200 SQFT) and live on a half acre of land with a 24X40 built-in pool and a Beach Volleyball court. My wife looks at the whole thing as a lot of work and to much running around, she complains to me about how much cleaning has to be done, and how much money its going to cost and all the kids that are going to be running through the house and the mess that comes with them. I say you only live once and you can't worry about bullshit like that. Why did we spend all that money in getting our house and yard looking that way, and the fact that my wife really does not play volleyball who did she expect me to play with????? I mean I am not inviting over strangers, its not like I am putting a sign on the ultility poles for the hole world to come to an open house kegger. I am inviting friends and family, go figure. Also just about everytime I want to call friends to get together she makes a face and does not look that interested, but she claims to be a social person, go figure.