Buyers

Finally, it appears that we will be embarking on another potential acquisition for the company I work for. Stupid PE guys have been dragging their heels, but finally we should have an LOI next week, which will allow us to move into heavy diligence.

On another acquisition related note, there is another possible deal out there, but I'm not sure how happy I am about it. Much bigger organization, not sure how we tie in and not sure who would be running things at the end of the day....and I'm not ready to be looking for a job. Of course, if I could sell that stupid house in FL I'd feel better, but since that hasn't happened, I am still a little skittish.

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Family drama part deux

so for those of you who have been anxiously awaiting my update regarding divorce (thanks to both of you by the way!) here it is.

My in-laws are actually discussing getting divorced. Now, to me at least, this was a hell of a surprise. It was especially fun because the whole situation blew up the night before they were supposed to come over and pick up the golden children and take them to stay at their place for 10 days. Very exciting to send your kids to a situation where their grandparents are brawling. After threatening to stop the whole trip, we got them to commit to a truce, plus granny is now planning on going to therapy and is working to get granddaddy to go along with her.

As a final update, since all of the above happy horseshit has happened, the golden children have had their visit and suffered no undue effects other than the pain of having to come home and snap back into the real world....We were supposed to take a few days and go visit, but the thought was making my honey physically ill, so I drove over and retrieved the children.

I guess we'll see what happens. Seems like they are making some feeble efforts, so hopefully it'll turn out good.

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Family Drama

People who are in, or about to be in their 70's should not be seriously considering divorce.....


That is all. (for now).

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Hormones

I know they are necessary. But do they HAVE to make women so bitchy?

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Happy (Impending) Fathers Day

So, yeah, it's already almost Fathers Day. It is going to be a hot mother down here, and frankly, I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to it or not. It's just such a made-up holiday, and quite often it seems kind of forced. We're thinking about going to the camp for a couple of hours, but it's going to be so hot this weekend, I'm not sure whether or not we should.

On the bright side, work has been nice and busy. It had been kind of slow here in the oilpatch offshore, and it's nice to start getting cranked up again. We were hoping to set some new records, but it seems like this year is going to be more of a consolidation year. Our PE guys are pissing me off currently, as they can't decide what (if any) acquisition(s) we should make, or if we should recap or refinance or when they may want to cash out. I think they had visions (if we had started 2013 strong) of recapping and then bailing out early in 2014. I could be wrong about all of this, but I have suspiscions. I do wish they would make up their minds so we would know how to move forward from a strategy perspective. I had thought that a lot of the bad things I heard about dealing with PE firms was not true for the one we deal with, but I am beginning to believe it's more a function of size and funds committed.

Also on the bright side, I'm getting laid on a more frequent basis. Since this forms a majority of what I post (and bitch) about, that may be why I haven't been posting much in the last couple of months.

I should have more in the not too distant future.

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Friggin' already?

So, is it really mid-May already? Crap!

Hope everyone out there had a good Mothers day. My only gripe is that I'm getting a little stretched, I mean I'm only one man and I have to deal with my honey, my actual mother, and my mother in law. At some point in the distant and nebulous future, I imagine I'll have to deal with one or more of the golden children having babies as well. At that point I guess I"ll shut it down, send out a few presents to try and keep all the ladies happy, and go hide somewhere. Hopefully somewhere with whisky and cigars and maybe a John Wayne movie on the TV.

On the bright side, I did do something while out celebraging Mothers day that I don't think has ever happened before to me. We were staying in a cabin, and there was really crappy weather. I mean major thunderstorms around 4:00am Friday night/Saturday morning. After that woke both my honey and I up, she was laying there kind of restless and I looked over and offered to help wear her out. Well, for probably the first time ever, she took me up on that offer and we ended up having a little love at 4:00am during the thunderstorm. Pretty fun too!

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This is a pretty good month

April that is. Spring Football game, (reasonably) good weather, got laid 3 or 4 times, Festival International, good times all around.

I was reminded the other day why I don't talk politics with most of my friends. I don't know how someone who is borderline republican/libertarian ended up with so many idiot liberal friends, but somehow I was that lucky. Seriously, I usually try to keep my mouth shut so I don't end up ranting. They really piss me off sometimes and generally I don't understand why they take the positions they do. I don't really care about most of the social ills that have befallen this country, but I do believe if you are gay or a single mom or whatever that it's your problem and your ability to aggravate me with it ends at your nose. Leave me the fuck alone.

Peace

Draft Day...well crap

Really Saints? an (allegedly) slow safety who sometimes takes bad angles to make the tackle and ends up missing? Don't we already have a couple of iterations of this kid on the roster?  Seriously, I had it all planned out in my head already with the sack dances for Barkevious or Jones. I sure the hell hope this kid can really play, cuz I'm getting really tired of finding all these 7th round and UDFA gems, but not being able to use any of our actual high round picks.

On a more positive note, this is the week of Festival International here in Lafayette. Trombone Shorty from N.O. played last night and KILLED it. First time I've ever seen him live and it's a great show. Can't recommend it any higher.

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LSU Spring Game, and other useless crap

Attended the LSU spring game Saturday and I have a few thoughts...

• Our second team/3 team/walkons can't cover the first team. I have no idea how that translates to playing Alabama, but there it is.
• All of those damn sophomore linebackers hit like tons of bricks.
• Mett looked pretty good I thought. You could see him make his reads, and while he overthrew a couple of long balls early, I'm pretty sure OBJ pulled up a little on the second one (it was hard to tell for sure). Then he hit several long balls on pretty throws, including the 80-ish yard touchdown throw. Against Bama, that may not have been a touchdown, but that ball was beautifully thrown exactly where it needed to be.
• Rivers is better than people are giving him credit for in my opinion.
• Jennings is going to be pretty damn good.
• Rettig is nowhere near ready yet.
• Starting D-line looks fairly solid. Ends are a major question mark though.
• Starting O-line looked good, and that's with the snap problems. Pocic may have been having trouble snapping the ball, but once that was done, he blocked the shit out of some people.

Now, onto the "other crap" portion...

Spent all day yesterday putting up a basketball goal.We bought this for GC #1 last year, and of course the mount wasn't exactly the same as in the instructions and blah blah, etc.  Fortunately, once I put it up, the girls completely ignored it.

After scoring twice last weekend, a fat zero this weekend. I think from now on, every time my honey tries to bribe me with a  BJ to do something she wants me to do, I'm going to demand a coupon of some sort. At least that way I'll be able to track all the blowjobs I'm not getting after I do what she wants. Honey, bribery only works if you pay off occasionally......


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Epic

and by epic, I mean "what the fuck were you thinking?"

Last night was girls night out at my house. Which wasn't really a problem, I hid in the bedroom and watched Castle on TNT, followed the various terror/explosion/shooting situations on Twitter, and chuckled at the volume of all those women talking over each other. At 10, the situation changed, as they came to get me to come out and have a drink with the idiots lovely ladies who were remaining. When my honey came to get me, I realized she was drunk. I didn't realize how drunk until she started falling off of the furniture 30 or so minutes later, finally taking herself off to bed. When I got in there, she had thrown up in her sleep. Exciting!!

That led me to having to strip her down and throw her in the shower, then roll her back into bed on my side (out of the puke) and go sleep in the extra bed. Finally got to bed around midnight. Oh and by the way, yet again sex was teased earlier in the day and not delivered on. Now I know that extreme drunkenness is a reasonably good excuse for not delivering, but I am simply going back to my original point of Don't Fucking Tell Me. Seriously, until you are actually ready to deliver, don't tell me.

I'm looking forward to asking her if she wants a beer later when I get home.

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Confession time

I guess I should come clean now. For all my bitching and moaning about sex and the lack thereof, I find myself in an unaccustomed position. You see, I got lucky TWICE this past weekend, and frankly, it freaks me the fuck out. I mean the normal response to having sex on Friday, and then asking again on Saturday is "We just did that", which in my mind at least is a pretty crappy response. My usual answer is So What? What rule says we can only do it once a week/month?   Seriously, though, is that part of PPACA or something? I knew I hated that health care bullshit for a reason, and not just for it's epically shitty economics and general lack of awareness of how people act in the real world.

Sorry, I digress into an unrelated rant.  So, back to my unaccustomed feeling...I mean today is Thursday and that means we're almost to the weekend. Normally that would mean it's time to chase my honey around the house, but after 2 times last week, I may get shut down. It's truly and interesting situation, and one I intend to explore this weekend.  I mean this may break the drought-ish situation that I have been bitching about is I were to do this like 4-6 times in one month. Only time will tell, and when I know, you will know dear Blog.

Unrelated to the above other than the fact that it happens this weekend also is the LSU spring football game. Yes, I'm finally going after years of discussing and not doing it. I'm a little excited to be honest. Going to take the family and make an afternoon of it, see Mike's new habitat and then watch the festivities starting at 2:00. See ya there!

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Don't do this at home

Ladies, please don't try this at home....

So at home last night at a reasonable hour and my honey is clearly off. Not ragingly grouchy, but not quite right either. So I bite the bullet and ask what, if anything, is wrong/bothering her. She says her hormones are bothering, but on the bright side, she is a touch horny. I immediately got my hopes up, but then tempered them with the hard earned knowledge that unless she acts on that tinge of horniness right away, it probably will not happen. And of course, it didn't.

Ladies, please know that if you tell your man you feel a little horny, we will expect you to maintain that feeling and fucking act on it. Otherwise, please don't tell us, and if it makes it through until the kids and dogs have gone to bed, you can give us a pleasant surprise.

Seriously, I'd much rather never know. In my experience, it usually doesn't happen unless she tells me this after the kids and dogs time.

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"Girls Night/Trip"

I don't fucking get it. I really, really don't. They spend half the damn day talking, texting, facebooking, pinterist(ing), and whatever other bullshit means of communicating they use, then on a monthly basis, they need to get away from the house? My honey does not work, so (in my opinion) she gets away for approximately 7 hours/day while I'm at work and the golden children are in school....

My honey just came back from girls week at the beach. I'm not in any way ashamed to say that it pissed me off. I"m still pretty sure she lied to me about certain portions of it. Then when I asked her about it, she got mad as hell and tore me one for "making her trip miserable". I guess she's going to have to fucking tough it out, since I stayed home while she was at the beach. I'm secretly glad she was miserable, and assuming she is going to want to do this same stupid shit again next year, I hope she's miserable then too. I also hope she gets her period and the weather sucks......

Needless to say, there has not been any "loving" in my home in the last couple of weeks. I guess I'm going to restart the counter in my head, and I'll see how long it lasts. I have a half-assed suspiscion it may last for several weeks. We'll see what happens I guess, I'm going to try really hard not to push the issue, although I've been getting frustrated at the sparseness of my love life and as such, I may boil over into a discussion. I wonder some times if she thinks that we have sex a lot more than we do? Maybe she has a boyfriend, battery operated or otherwise. Hell, maybe she has a girlfriend...and wouldn't that be interesting. I wonder if she would just leave to play for the other team, or if she would just switch-hit.

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PE sucks

That's right I said it. I'm not sorry either, private equity can be a real pain in the ass. I'm not saying that the people I'm dealing with are totally in the wrong, because they aren't. But when they make a lot of extra work for me, well then screw them. These silly fuckers really need a couple more investments to worry about....

On my other perma-rant about my sex life, or lack thereof, things have not been great. I know the drought was broken a while back, but since then it has been back. To be fair though, my honey has been sick as a dog for about a week now, so I can't really blame it on her. Here's hoping that she starts to feel better soon!!

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Woo!

As the title of this post indicates, my chief gripe over the last couple of weeks has been alleviated. In fact, I'm very nearly giddy...Gotta like the Mardi Gras season. Now if we can get a little momentum off of this, I'll be really happy.

Also on the bright side, college baseball season starts in 4 days, which will reduce the tedium imposed by college basketball season. (at least until March Madness)

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still waiting

so yeah, the sex drought continues. Now to be fair, she is on her period, but I happen to know there are other options available than the single one that has been taken away from me....

Unfortunately, those are apparently not an option. Sucks to be me. So the drought continues, and the funny thing is that I really don't remember the last time we had sex. I know it was pretty fun and involved one of her outfits and the couch.....but for the life of me I can't remember what weekend it was. Let's just say that the drought is either almost 3 weeks, or almost 5. Not sure which, and honestly, either way it's too fucking long.

What scares me is that this is how it's going to be in the future. Getting laid once or maybe twice a month (if I'm really a good boy) and she really doesn't seem to notice.

So I guess that's enough crying for one short post, and I really need to get back to work....so Later!

New year

So i'm going to use this blog a little more in 2013, or at least try to.  I've decided to chronicle (to some extent) my wifes trials and tribulations, when she takes to bed "sick" and or tired or what fucking ever. Also, I want to keep a running commentary on mood, period, homones or whatever else is irritating me at the moment.

So on to the fun. For the last 4 days (minimum) she's been in a really foul mood. Now I'm not the most romantic person in the world, just not how I'm wired. I was also out of town for my anniversary, which traditionally we have not made a big deal out of. She also said she understood, and normally she would have objected if it were a problem.

4.fucking.days

I also have  another problem, which I would normally be all in favor of, but something doesn't feel right. And, for the most part, when things don't feel right, they usually aren't. So my honey looks at me last night and informs me she's thinking about getting a brazilian. Now, I've been in favor of this idea for year, but the timing now and completely out of the fucking blue is suspiscious. In April, she's heading off witha  bunch of other women (friends of ours) to go to the beach and celebrate one's 40th birthday. I hate this idea with the fire of a thousand suns. HATE IT!!!  So now all of a suddne a couple of months before this party, she wants a brazilian??? After I've been shot down in flames for about 5 years??? weird.

got to go...more later