she just gets keeps getting uglierscarierbetter with age.

I came across this picture today, and I’m getting hot. I’ve never wanted something so bad before. My loins are on fire! Everytime I see a new picture of her, I feel the need to disappear into the bathroom for some alone time. Who can blame me? Look at that face! There is just something that turns me on about that, that face caught in a bear trap look. If that’s not enough for you, check out those arms. Imagine those arms wrapped around you, just hugging you…touching you!

ahh, please don’t touch me.

How can people do this to themselves? Does Madonna look in the mirror and like this new look? Does it not frighten her kid(s). I’m a grown man and I’ll probably have nightmares for a week.

Just to help you erase this from your mind. Here’s a little Gary Busey.

Here is something I’ve learned in the past 2 weeks: Living in an apartment, after living in a house, sucks a big one. I think both, Alev and I , are feeling the same way. But I don’t think we’re feeling it as bad as Sugar. She went from have a 1900 sq ft house to lay around, to a 800-something sq ft place. We can tell she is already feeling couped up. It doesn’t help that there isn’t any where to really walk here. Before we had a big neighborhood, now we can walk the entire complex in about 10 minutes. Outside of the apartments, in every direction, are highways and frontage roads. Not really a great place to exercise her.

On Saturday, I decided to take Sugar to two of her favorites places, the doggie park and Petsmart. The doggie park is right next to our old house. When she recognized the area she started getting really excited, not sure if she thought we were going to the house or what. As soon as I let her out of the car, her mood changed for the better. She enjoyed all the sniffing of butts and wide open space.

She lets me know when it’s time to go, she will either lay down or walk towards to exit gate.

Our next stop was our local Pet Smart. I have no personal preference in pet stores, but Sugar loves Pet Smart. It’s the only place we have found that have chinchillas and hamsters at her eye level. When we get to the entrance she will start pulling toward to cages. It’s funny because she never pulls on her leash. Once she spots her rodent friends, it’s near impossible to move her away from them. If you start walking away, she will lay down and not get up. When we do get her away from them, she will try to get back. She is just fascinated with these things, no idea why.

After our trip, she crashed for the rest of the day, occasionally waking herself up when she snored too loud. Tonight, we’re going to head out to the Walnut Creek park for some hiking.

With our move to Raleigh right around the corner, it’s time to start working on the to-do list. The list is going to help keep track of things we love to do or haven’t done since living here. I would hate to leave Austin and say “Damn! I got forgot to…” or “Man, I wish we would have…”.

Most of the things I’m going to miss about Austin are food related. I looovvve me some food. From the places I’ve visited, it’s the most diverse in food selection. Being here, I’ve been able to experience a variety of food from different ethnicities. Some of it I will never try again (menudo) and some I could eat everyday of the week (everything other than menudo).

Talking with other people, it sounds like Austin is not as diverse as other places. Well, Duh! There is always going to be somewhere more diverse in food selection. For me, that’s the fun in traveling. One person I spoke with swore Houston has the most selection they’ve seen. Maybe this is true, but Houston is like the sweaty ball sack of Texas. Who wants to travel to a sweaty sack for food? Not I!

Raleigh, seems like it’s going to be rough with the selection. On a visit a few years ago, we ask a local where we can get some good Carolina BBQ. They responded with Red, Hot, and Blue! I’ve enjoyed some of the finest BBQ Texas has to offer, and this guy tries to send us to a corporate BBQ chain. It’s like asking who makes the best burgers in town, then they direct you over to McDonalds! Crikey. Fortunately, Raleigh is growing fairly quickly. With more outsiders moving in, hopefully some unique restaurants stop popping up. If not, I may have to open a Dim Sum/Indian/TexMex/BBQ/Thai all-in-one place.

Here is the list. Like I said, most of it is food.

-Alamo Drafthouse

-Chuys

-Rudy’s BBQ

-Salt Lick BBQ

-Amy’s Ice Cream

-Phil’s Ice House

-Juan in a Million

-Clay Pit

-East Side Cafe

-Kerby Lane

-Cooper’s BBQ

-Wahoo’s Fish Tacos

-Vietnamese Place - No particular one

-Visit the Stevie Ray Vaughn statue

-Might Fine Burgers

-Tubing down the Guadalupe

-Barton Springs Natural Spring

-Shanghai Chinese and Dim Sum

I’m sure I am missing something. But I will add it as I remember it. I will also mark them off as I knock ‘em out.

I’m hungry now.

The house has been SOLD! Well, not quite. Officially, we close on the house tomorrow at 11am. But we got a sign on the house saying it’s sold. That’s good enough for me. After signing away that house, a huge weight will be lifted off of our shoulders.

We moved in our temporary apartment at Limestone Ranch this past week. We found the sub lease on Craigslist and it was perfect for us. The lease ends on September 30, comes with a garage, and a storage unit. The storage alone will allow us to get rid of the storage unit at Bulldog Storage. So some money will be saved.

The bad part about the apartments, it’s nicknamed Crimestone Ranch. Lovely. It’s only for 2 months…2 looooong months. ugh.

In celebration of the closing, we will be going to Chuy’s for some mexican martinis. I can’t wait for the deliciousness to touch my lips…and the buzz that will follow.

This time tomorrow, we will no longer be home owners!!!

I bet you don’t hear someone gettin excited about that a lot.

One step closer to Raleigh, North Carolina.

I finally got around to finsihing the new layout. What do you think? Do you likey? Do you likey enough to commit to a long term relationship? Yeah you do!

I lied, I’m not completely done with it, but mostly. Consider this a test run of sorts. If you see anything out of whack, broken, or don’t like something, please let me know. Enjoy!

Things that I know need to be fixed:

-Need a link back to home page

-Need to fix that ugly digg icon

-Archive widget is jacked

Peace out.