Jen sent some new pictures and they are always quick to make it onto my blog. Of particular interest here is the picture of Jennifer with her sisters. Dina is Jennifer's roommate with the faux mohawk with purple tips (it is Vegas, you know) and the two other girls are her biological sisters. Jennifer is actually taller than her sister in the middle of the picture. The girl on the far right has the same hair color and type as Jennifer does when it isn't colored. I don't know who the black dude is, the tag line on the picture was "frosty balls". I don't know if the guy was cold or that is just his nickname. It is always good to get pictures of Samantha. Look at how long her hair is getting in the bottom picture. I remember Jennifer at that age and how I started trimming her bangs as they were growing into her eyes.
The title hints of changes in our house and I think our last visit to Canada was a motivating factor for me to do something about my snoring. I've shared rooms with people over the years and always heard about how loud I was snoring. Darla routinely sleeps with ear plugs and Boyd told me that I snored so loud that his earplugs were vibrating in his ears, he had bought earplugs the second night after I kept him up half the night the first night. He said he could hear me from in the bathroom with the ceiling fan on. My brothers gave me grief about hearing me from upstairs in Sherry and Al's house and Darla and I slept in the downstairs bedroom. Jennifer had also remarked that I was horribly loud when she stayed with us the last night in Austin before we all flew home from Jesse's wedding. I did some research and found PureSleep.com. They manufacture a mouthpiece designed by a dentist and I ordered one for $79. It is an upper and lower mouthpiece molded from plastic and it has a large hole below the top teeth and above the lowers. The device is designed to pull your lower mandibular forward to increase the air passage in the back of your neck. You plunge the mouthpiece into boiling water for one minute, let it cool on a spatula for ten seconds and then jam the scalding hot plastic into your mouth and bite down on the device to set your bite into the mouthpiece. The note on the packaging reads that it is normal for your teeth and gums to feel very warm during this process. "No sh*t, Sherlock!" It has taken me a week to get used to sleeping with the device, but so far, no more snoring. Darla was concerned because I was starting to snore a little the second night and she thought I was learning to defeat the device, but it turns out I had a stuffy nose that night and had to breath through my mouth. I did have my jaw cracking and popping the first few mornings after wearing it, but re-read the instructions and it suggests a morning exercise of lightly pressing your lower jaw backwards and holding your muscles for about 45 seconds to reset your jaw. It is a bit of a hassle, but I think I owe it to Darla after twelve years of marriage.
Darla's sister, Alicia, had a scary encounter last week. She lives alone with a cat and had left the side door to her garage unlocked by accident. The house door to the garage was broken and couldn't be locked. She woke up to a noise at about two in the morning and their was a man dressed in all black in her hallway outside her bedroom. She screamed at him and grabbed the phone telling him she was calling 9-1-1, which she did. The guy turned and ran out of the house. The Roseville Police arrived within two minutes and told her she was very lucky that she woke up because there was no telling what the guy was in the house to do. Her car was parked in the garage and it was obvious that someone was home. It would appear that someone knew she was home alone. She has since had the door fixed and is looking into house alarms. Darla and I are much more careful about locking our house door to the garage now as we sleep on the complete opposite side of the house and we could get cleaned out and sleep right through it. As the economy turns and there are more and more empty houses in our neighborhood and people out of work, the crime rate is rising.
I talked to Dad and Darla talked to Cheryl last week and we are all on for our trip to Nuevo Vallarta in November. Dad and Shirley are going to a resort in N.V. the week of November 7th -14th. I will be in Detroit through the 8th at our annual Manager's meeting and it appeared that we would get there late, but Darla and I talked and decided to see if Dad and Shirley would be interested in staying in Mexico an extra week and moving over to our resort. We would get two rooms and have Dad and Shirley, Darryl and Cheryl and Randy and Cake (hopefully) join us. Our suites are 1249 square feet, two bedroom units with private baths within each room and a small splash pool on the balcony. I called the resort to make a reservation and they told me to call back on May 1st to book for November. They only book six months in advance and then only for owners. The Jack Nicklaus redesigned golf course reopens on September 12th and we will be among the first to play it. The resort is building a new main shopping district with restaurants and a central check-in with light rail service to each individual resorts (there are three on the property) that will also be finished September 12th and they had to completely rebuild the back nine to accommodate the new construction. The back nine winds around the Cuale River and hosts crocodiles on it's shores.
Darla and I overslept today and missed church. The weather is iffy today with rain likely tonight and into tomorrow. I have a golf tournament in Stockton tomorrow afternoon and hope the rain comes in hard tonight and trains itself out by tomorrow. I am playing an a Cha-Cha-Cha event with some friends from the club and it is an outing put on by the NCGA. I played in our Super Bowl tournament on Saturday at 7:30 AM and it was wet and cold. The scores were all a bit higher and I struggled to a 42+42=84. The driver continues to work well for me, but I struggled with my putting. The greens are still damaged from the late season aerification that the course superintendent did in November about a week before our first frost. I set up a road trip next Saturday to the Trilogy Golf course in Rio Vista with Bob, Boyd and Darren. It is on the Delta about 75 minutes from Roseville and they are running a $100 weekend special for four players including carts. I look forward to it.
Darla and I celebrated Valentine's Day early last night with a night out to Ruth Chris' steak house. We ate well and came home to watch The Express, the Ernie Davis story. It's a great football and human rights story about the first black athlete to win the Heisman trophy. He was one of the greatest college athletes of all time, but he contracted leukemia at age 22 and died at 23 before ever joining the Cleveland Brown's backfield with Jim Brown. That may have been the greatest tandem of runners in the history of the NFL. If you get a chance rent it, it is so much more than a football movie and well worth your time.
Well, Darla is calling to have me go take a walk with her, so I'd better finish this up. I hope you are all well, happy and strong in your personal faith. Ciao.
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