Grrr Anxiety!!!

I'm a twisting and a turning w/ anxiety right now. It's 12:50 a.m. on a Tuesday morning, and I'm wide awake, and so uncomfortable in my own skin right now. It's not that I'm depressed, because I'm not; I'm actually quite happy. I've just been really tense lately. Everything at home, and at work is going fine. Yet, I feel soooo uncomfortably awake and "UP" right now. It stinks. I don't now what I'm gonna do to get sleepy. This is why people self medicate. Something that I'm not going to do. That I do know.

I blogged about UFC being this past weekend. How incorrect I was! It's THIS weekend!! So, Mary Mary from Philly is coming up Saturday for fun and frolic and anaconda chokes. I soooooo hope Randy Couture decks James Toney!! Fingers crossed. It's truly amazing how MMA has surpassed boxing as a brand nowadays. I can only think of one or two boxers who can now make me watch HBO.

I remember back in the day, when HBO's "Boxing after Dark" started, there were some classic fights! Marco Antonio Barrera vs. Kennedy McKinney MADE me a boxing fan. What a friggin' classic that one was. If I still have my druthers, if we have another baby boy, we're naming him either Marco, or "The Baby Faced Assassin"!!!! I don't know if Vicki will be too happy with that, however.

Nowadays, HBO has a barren boxing scene. They had some boxer from Connecticut on last weekend, and he practically put me to sleep!! He was 'orrible as the British would mispronounce! At least the fighter he was fighting was Haitian, and now lived in Montreal. Now that's a great combo!! The Haitian Canuck actually won the fight, in his home territory too up in Montreal. So good for him, right?

UFC has managed to make their ppvs and specials an "event". I know that watching it live was so very special when we went back in 2007. I would love to go again as well. Maybe that will happen one day. Seeing Chuck Lidell vs. Wanderlei Silva just rocked my world. Still does!!!

Had a great, busy weekend w/ Vicki and Tobin. We are busily preparing for our forced Exodus (hey, we're Son's and Daughter's of Israel, right?) to Rockaway Township. I'm looking forward to the move being over on September first. I'm optimistic that it won't be that painful!!!! We went to a great garage sale that our friends' Amanda and Ray threw up in Passaic County. Even bought some Cd's and a Cat in the Hat doll for Mr. T!!!

So, we've made it to Tuesday, which is halfway to Wednesday, and then the week of work is pretty much done by that point, right??? That's what I keep telling myself!!! Congrats to Lisa and Caleb for their surprise nuptials. They're good kids and I wish 'em well!!!!

It's the weekend, Y'alls!!

I sit here writing this on Thursday night, but for me, 'tis the end of the week!! I have taken Friday off for various moving and shaking strategy type dealings. We're talking 007 type intrigue. Games of baccarat, martinis are gonna be shaken and most definitely not stirred, we are talking literal rock n'roll excitement for my long weekend. Actually, I hope to rest a little, and to go with Vick and Tobe to the playground to watch him run around a little bit. He is growing into SUCH a little young man right now, it's awesome, and scary :) where does all the time go???

We have had the mysterious Auditor dude "A" in from the corporate office. He is very Germanic and very demanding. His reputation preceded him, with his demand for outrageous documentation, and his blood curdling critiques of internal processes'. I had my first run in with him today (it is a good thing he did not see I was checking my gmail account when he walked up) I think I held my own with him in the grand discussion. I am not saying that I am gonna come out of the argument unscathed, but I think he left my desk with a respect that there is a Procurement process and presence at F Parsippany.

Occasionally, it feels good to know what you are talking about! Prior to my arrival 3 years ago (good grief), F had just failed an audit led by Mr. A. It was that failure that created my position, and then led to me getting hired at F. So, in a way I should have taken him out for a beer or something. However, I will merely accept the fact that my answers were good enough for him. It was onlly 15 minutes of discomfort, which in the grand scheme o'things is really nothing!! So Yay Team Ethan!!!!

I'm psyched for UFC 118 that is coming up this weekend for a few reason which I will decribe: First off, you have the rematch between NJ's own Frankie Edgar taking on BJ Penn for the Lightweight Title. While I did not watch Edgar - Penn 1 in Abu Dhabi, I heard it was a tight, close fight that Edgar used his wrestling skill to literally grind out a decision. Sounds like I'm a gonna root for the Jersey Boy against The Prodigy!!!

Also, we got Randy "The Natural" Couture vs. James "Lights Out" Toney. James is making his MMA debut after what sseems like 100,000 years as a boxer. I've had an issue w/ Mr. Lights Out since he beat one of my main men Vassili Jirov on HBO a few years ago. I hope Randy uses his GnP and literally rips James apart. I hope to report that just this happens!! You add Marcus Davis vs. Nate Diaz (who literally can NOT speak English, I swear he has marbles in his mouth! Nick, his brother, is the WORST, btw. Finally Ken Florian vs. Gray Maynard make the UFC entrance into Boston a card that you can not miss!!

Life has been going pretty good. I wish Tobe would get to bed a little earlier, but all in all, I'm very happy. Everyone is healthy, and everyone is working towards the future!! I should have some more news about the future stuff soon!!!!!