A Lighter Post and Cool News
Paula and I were hanging out, doing our thing, cooking leftovers from the AFC/NFC championship game party that we had on Sunday and continuing the task of cleaning up the place after having it tromped through by dozens of people all day Sunday. Well worth the time and effort as the party was an unqualified success on many fronts but I'll write about that later on when I've got pics from the housewarming party, Saturday at the crab feed in Pleasonton (with 1300 of my closest friends I've never met) and the Sunday's fun and game!

Quick side note, the Raider celebrations after the win in towns as far south as Salinas went without any hitches whatsoever. Just fans out honking their horns, shouting "Go Raiders" and stuff like that. Not a single arrest made in the entire greater Bay Area that was reported. And that's pretty amazing given the Raider fans general penchant for violent expression of team love.

Anyway, we ended up watching the second go-around of a new style of reality TV show that was really kind of cool. Meet My Folks is a pretty funny concept wherein, one person and their parents invite 8 people of the opposite sex into their home and start whittling people out in a speed round version of Love Survivor. I didn't like the 8 guys and 1 girl version but this new one where its 8 very good looking women looking to get together with one good looking (though impossibly decent) guy. And the catch is that his mommy is involved. One of the other nice twists in this one is that one of the eight girls was actually a mole planted to catch the first things the prospects might have to say about him when they were supposedly alone.

It was funny as hell to watch these girls try to backtrack from what they said, on camera, no more than five minutes before. And then they went to a movie theatre where the girls supposed friends would dish serious mud on them. Talking about being a g-string cleaning service maid (and possibly a hooker on the side), about shoplifting, about being a scam artist who just uses men for as long as she could, about being a nymphomaniac, about all kinds of things. AND THEN, the parents and the guy got to pull two girls out, give them lie detector tests and then dismiss one.

Oh yeah, the first "challenge" was a mixed doubles two girls in the hot tub with Mr. Man to help him determine who should go and play with him by the campfire. He chose the hoochie (a plus sized woman who was beautiful if a little quick on the draw) who we'd later learn ran a g-string maid service with the implication that she might also be pimping her girls out for extra services as well as herself. And why did her chose her? Because she was macking on him like mad in the hot tub and made the sensitive girl feel awkward, boo hoo. The best part of the whole campfire scene was when the parents got a fax to turn on their TV and watch their son getting naughty with this chick he met that day. Momma was not pleased at all when the girl started pulling of his belt and was going for the joy stick. HAHAHAHA!

So the two girls take lie detectors and one is tossed because she's effectively a tramp in momma's eyes. If you were going on a trip to Europe with a good looking guy and you're in your 20's then yeah, you'd probably expect to get naked and bump uglies, wouldnt' you? Well, she answered yes, had it confirmed by the lie detector master, Nick, and was dismissed. The other girl nearly fainted and also lied about saying the mom had good taste in clothes (which was a bad lie, the mom has bad taste in clothes and ain't nothing wrong with admitting it).

The final scene of the show is everyone BUT the dismissed girl leaving, in raw reality TV juxtaposition (normally its the loser who leaves and in this case everyone else left her behind), and going back to the house in the 'burbs where six girls were going to share one bathroom for the rest of the week but it was all good.

Of the girls that were left, the most physically attractive and most likely most warped insides was Chelsea, a Hawaiian goddess with perfect skin, beautiful long black hair and some emotional baggage. Other girls were pretty interesting but this one stood out from the rest, shame its looking like she's also damaged goods since all the other girls' friends had nothing but horrendous things to say about their "pals".

Which brings me my one announcement for the day, and its a biggie. Paula's moving to Santa Cruz, we talked about it alot last night and it just makes the most sense at this juncture. We'll be working on the timing and how to best work it all out but yeah, she's moving north for now and we'll be looking for a place to move into for March. And I couldn't be any happier for the new deal we're working on and for. Its to be with each other and that's the truly important aspect. I'm so very much looking forward to living with her and having my free time with her in our house together. I'm not looking forward to giving up my room in the house on First Ave because it will be the end of an era really, with Paul gone and me on the way out it'll be Haytham holding things together until he too, eventually, slips away as well.

Of course, maybe's its just in time before the termites cause the whole place to collapse in upon itself. But I know I'll miss the old place terribly, luckily I'll have the love of my life to distract me!