UPDATE

Life Changing Updates and a New Year’s Resolution

I sit here Saturday morning looking out my back window, watching the wind toss the trees around, listening to the birds that are singing, and sipping my coffee when it hits me: I can take a morning off from homework to update the blog. No entry since October and there is a very valid reason for that. I am a college student again and that has come at the expense of many extracurricular activities. Why go back to school at the age of 37? Simply put, I wanted to and as a family, we were in a place financially and time wise that I could (should) go and get that degree. I want this degree to have a sense of accomplishment. I have stopped and started three times now. How can I force home the idea of a college degree and its importance to my boys, when I don’t have one or I wasn’t willing to finish to get one? So as a break from school, I have committed myself to escape and write once a week to clear my head and give some updates to those of you who care (all like three of you).

First some quick updates. We’ve had three birthdays, three holidays, three strep throats, one diagnosis of said throat (Connor) needing tonsils out, one partial torn rotator cuff (me),dozens of new Legos, one son is playing basketball, the other has started piano lessons, I grew a beard, and now I own my first bathrobe (one person will get that joke and as always I write for my own amusement not yours).

No small animals were harmed in the growing of that mess of a beard.

 I have come to the realization that I might need to change the name of the blog. The boys don’t leave stuff in their pockets anymore. Well ok, Connor still leaves candy wrappers and the occasional Lego head in the pockets, but nothing like rocks or sticky hands. The well has gone dry. I do however have list of Connorisms and dozens (and dozens) of Lego pictures (and their corresponding cusswords) to write about. So fear not we will prevail (wow three months off and I’ve become melodramatic, Sigh).

Now on to the meat of my post today. I, for the first time in years have finally come up with a New Year’s Resolution that I believe will improve mankind and grammar for everyone. For years now, I have become that person that most people hate. I have become a grammar cop. Yes, I know it’s horrible. No one likes that person. I hate that I have become that person but society has forced me into it. If I hear, “I seen” one more time I am likely to crack and someone will say, “I seen Andrew the other day, openin’ up a can ole whupass on someone the utter day (yes utter is supposed to be there. Think about it).” I am here declare war on bad grammar. I am not perfect when it comes to grammar, I am from Utah after all. I say mountin, creek (rhymes with stick), and I am not ok with it. Although pecan is pee-can, not pa-can. Anyway I digress.

The first war in the grammar battle is the word “for”. For a while now I have noticed that “for” has devolved into “fer” and I am a not immune from this. I am saying it more and more and I hate myself for it. Even as I just typed that last for, I am thinking fer. So, my resolution this year is to use for in it’s proper enunciation. Stand up my brothers and sisters, take back our grammar back one word, one phrase at a time. We will not sink to cesspool that is fer, I seen, supposedbly, and the ever dreaded ain’t. Don’t use fer, don’t even think fer, stand up for those of us who want to use for in it’s proper glory. If you hear me use fer, please bring it my attention. Fer I will strive to do better in this endeavor and eradicate fer in 2015. If have a grammar phrase that you want eradicated, let me know and all we can all work on them together. WHO’S WITH ME!