What happens when I get bored....

So... the hair question has come up a number of times with people telling me... "just take it all off." Well, it wasn't untill I actually listened to a guy at work... plus, it was my attempt to try and be a bit more spontainious at the same time. I looked at it and last wednesday, eating wings with my crew from work, I said... "what the hell... it's only hair, if I don't like it, I can grow it back." Thusly, here I am.

My friend Andrew (see his 04.14.2007 and 04.16.2007 posts) and has a post about his hair and what he should do with it. Through out the last 5 years, I have gotten shorter and shorter, tried manipulating it somewhat to a point where I thought it looked good, but then I still needed to maintaining it every week to two weeks. Well, this morning I pulled out the clippers, oiled them up and put blade to skin... unguarded. Now, I wish I had someone taking pictures of me as I was doing this because really... it's quite intresting the process I went through getting it buzzed off. Let me know what you think....

~Chris

My name is Chris, and I have a problem...

OK, so if you've been reading through my posts, you'll notice that I said that I had gone on a Tim Horton's diet. Well, as an update of what's been going on.... yyeeaa... they need AA for Tim's coffee. The crappy part was that, and what justified the means, was it was Roll up the Rim time. Well, for a guy who wasn't supposed to be playing, I've had my best year to date... not keeping an accurate count, but at least 6 or 7 coffee's and 4 doughnuts.

There will be people out there going to argue with me, but I really find Tim Horton's coffee not all that great, unless I add the cream and sugar, and Tim's coffee is the only coffee I'll add cream/milk and sugar to. That should speak volumes to me and I've tried to stop, or slow down but DAMN, I swear they've put crack in their coffee. It's gotten quite bad to the point where I know the fastest Tim's places are (it's a cash only Tim's by the way) and what times to avoid them and have gotten to the point where some of the staff know what I want even before I show up.

This is going to be my best summer yet, with a really great girl who is quite active, and we have planned a hike up a mountain this summer and I'm looking forward to it. It's something that I wouldn't have done with anyone else, until Valerie came along. I'm hoping that my Tim's addiction will subside and me trying to get in better shape than I am now (although I figure that because it was the winter, I was putting on some "winter weight" for hibernation).

As for my addiction, I'm weaning myself off of it. I've gone from the extra large coffee milkshake creating "double double" to the large "single single" hoping that cuts back on the crap I take in and hopefully, a turn for the good to lose some weight. What ever happens, I'm hoping for the good and not the worst.

~Chris

When Girls don't put out!!

This was written by a guy... it's pretty damn smart.
I never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men and women differ so much. And I never have figured out the whole Venus and Mars thing. I have never figured out why men think with their head and women with their heart.
FOR EXAMPLE:
One evening last week, my girlfriend and I were getting into bed. Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says,'I don't feel like it, I just want you to hold me.'
I said, 'WHAT??!! What was that?!'
So she says the words that every boyfriend on the planet dreads to hear...
'You're just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me to satisfy your physical needs as a man.'
She responded to my puzzled look by saying, 'Can't you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in the bedroom?'
Realizing that nothing was going to happen that night, I went to sleep.
The very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with her. We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big unnamed department store. I walked around with her while she tried on several different very expensive outfits. She couldn't decide which one to take, so I told her we'd just buy them all. She wanted new shoes to compliment her new clothes, so I said, 'Lets get a pair for each outfit.'
We went on to the jewellery department where she picked out a pair of diamond earrings. Let me tell you... she was so excited. She must have thought I was one wave short of a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn't even know how to play tennis.
I think I threw her for a loop when I said, 'That's fine, honey.' She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement.
Smiling with excited anticipation, she finally said, 'I think this is all dear, let's go to the cashier.'
I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, 'No honey, I don't feel like it.'
Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled, 'WHAT?'
I then said, 'Honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while. You're just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy your shopping needs as a woman.'
And just when she had this look like she was going to kill me, I added,'Why can't you just love me for who I am and not for the things I buy you?'
Apparently I'm not having sex tonight either....but at least she knows I'm smarter than her.

I TOTALLY AGREE!!! Way to go BROTHER!!! STAY STRONG!!!

~Chris

Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles

Ok, so you all know the subject of this. I'm here to tell you, if you remember what it was like before, DO NOT SEE THIS!!! I was HUGE fan of the orignal show and the original movie, the LIVE version of it, and to see this abomination of the old show really hurt. In my opinion, you can not make an animated version of a movie that was once with live actors in costumes. I took my girlfriend with me and 3/4 through the movie, I appologized to her for bringing her to this movie. She giggled and whispered back "payback is a b***ch." I owe this girl BIG TIME!! I have a feeling that the next biggest mushy chick flick that comes out, she and I will be in line to see it.

I hope you see the nasty difference to what it is on here. I was VERY dissapointed, as were the people I went to see it with, girlfriend not withstanding. So, if you at all remember what the old one was like, my review... um, can there be a minus? Also... April O'Neil... has a very uncanny likeness to Laura Croft, if you get what I mean.

Yes, it did fill an evening, but... we'll never get that time back *sigh*

~Chris

Internet dating and Me

Ok, so I'll start this subject off by saying that I've done my fair share of dating through the internet. Mostly because I have a hard time approaching women that I'm quite intrested/attracted to. I've tried meeting girls through friends, through work (did it and couldn't pull it off... um... twice) and when I did try to ask girls out, I would stumble out something that sounded audibly like a sentance and an offer but........ just no joy.

I told my mom that I have been doing the internet dating thing and she retorted "why not try meeting people normally?" I have been putting that thought through its paces through the past couple of years since I've started into the internet dating thing and have asked various people what "normal" dating is today. I've come to a conclusion that there really isn't a normal way anymore. The "normal" that was there back in the 60's, 70's and 80's before the internet revolution was going out to dances, meeting girls through friends and all that other b/s. Today our world is connected by a way that was hardly immagined WAY back in the mid to late 60's.

Todays "normal" IS the internet no matter what kind of spin you put on it. I've seen the "desperate house wife", the "i need a daddy for my baby", the "cookie cutter", the "depressed and in need," the "I'm too busy right now, but I pencil you in because still need to get laid" and to be a touch crude... the "ugly" and other variations that I haven't discovered yet. Frustration hitting it's all time high just reciently, and a half decent sale... yes... and maybe a little desperation and in need of a long term relationship (read: longer than 6 weeks here) I *sigh* went to eHarmony.

I did their 29 dimension personality profile, for which was a touch generic but pretty much bang on in my attitude and mentality (for those of you who want to try it, sign up for their free account and accept their emails... you don't get many, and wait for a 3 month sale, it's 3 months for the price of one). I waited for the sale because I figured that finding love wasn't worth $60USD. Just like other internet sites, you have to seperate the wheat from the chaff, some are into you and some aren't. I liked the fact that you didn't need to hire a PR firm and ask as many friends as your comfortable with to know that you're internet dating and to ask them to rate your "profile." It can be a touch embarassing sometimes, just so you know...lol

So, after going through that 29 dimention mind meld and having Dr. Warren try to hook you up, yes, he even doesn't find that special someone right away. Is it worth the cash for it? I guess it's all what your willing to pay in the long run, right??

So... Good luck to those still in the hunt!!

~Chris~

P.S.-> A word from the wise, no matter HOW many pictures you get, they still look different in person, so meet within 2 weeks, but that's just a personal opinion there.