Neck Cut

I got a haircut at Big League Haircuts on Hillsborough in Tampa, and this is what I come back with. The chick cutting my hair was trying to give me a close shave on the back of my neck with her clippers. Normally I appreciate this, but this woman just wouldn't take my apron off to get down further, so not only was she choking me, but she managed to burn/cut my skin as you see here.

Yes I still tipped her, but I shouldn't have. :(

Happy Christmas

Man, I just love to see these red Starbucks cups, they remind me of Christmas which is always great.

When I used to work in downtown Chicago, it was very rare to walk around and not catch a glimpse of one of these red cups, but I swear some people viewed it as a status symbol. I'll take my Dunkin' Donuts any day, thank you very much.

Happy Friday!

September 11th Prayer

I was just wondering if there were any prayers out there to remember the September 11, 2001 tragedy and I found this one at http://www.appleseeds.org/9-11_prayer.htm by a Navy Chaplain:

 

Almighty God, the past year will be indelibly inscribed in our memories.

We looked with horror on the terrorist attacks of last September 11th.
But we looked with honor on acts of courage by ordinary people
who sacrificed themselves to prevent further death and destruction.

We shed our tears in a common bond of grief for those we loved and lost.
We journeyed through a dark valley, but your light has led us to a place of hope.
You have turned our grief into determination.
We are resolved to do what is good, and right, and just.

Help us to remember what it means to be Americans—
a people endowed with abundant blessings.
Help us to cherish the freedoms we enjoy and inspire us to stand
with courage, united as one Nation in the midst of any adversity.

Lord, hear this prayer for our Nation. Amen.

NEW Mobile Blog!!!

I just started a new blog in preparation for the San Diego trip.  So feel free to check it September 7th through September 10th to see what we are up to in San Diego.  Here's the link:

 

http://perneckymobile.blogspot.com

 

Go Bears!

San Diego Here We Come!

So a group of friends and I will be flying out to San Diego on 9/7 and attending the Chicago Bears vs. San Diego Chargers game on 9/9. Should be a great time, here's a map of the place we'll be staying, and where we will be. If you're a Bears fan, and in the area, come on by!


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Madden!

I haven't written anything in quite some time, so I thought I would take a second to let everyone know that I have my new copy of Madden NFL 08 and will be playing it on my Xbox 360 until Halo 3 comes out. How's that for a run on sentence?

Who's The Wino?

Allison (my lovely wife) and I are cooking dinner, so I asked her to take a normal sip of her wine and hold it in her mouth. Then I took a normal sip of my wine and held it in my mouth. I then rushed to get these glasses so we could compare sips. You guessed it, my "sip" is on the right, and hers on the left. There's the Pernecky genes working at their finest!

My Weekend

How was my weekend? Pretty good, thank you for asking! Oh, besides the fact that I was attacked by a rabid middle-aged woman that had clearly forgotten to take her meds on Saturday night.

Here's how it went down: My dear coworker Joanie was having a birthday party at her house to celebrate 3 birthdays including her's, her daughter's, and her best buddy's. There were about 30 people there, a bunch of food, and plenty of drinks...great times were being had all around.

Darkness settles in...it was about 9 or 10pm, and my wife and I were having a conversation with "Dawn" about good looking celebrities I believe. So I say something about Katharine McPhee being smoking hot, and how my wife would be OK with it if Kat offered to snuggle with me for a night. I also mentioned how my "get out of jail free" card used to be Britney Spears circa her "One More Time" years. Every couple has these tongue-in-cheek agreements.

So upon hearing this, Dawn starts to say things like "listen you piece of s***, your wife is fantastic and she is gorgeous" to which I replied "I totally agree with you, she is awesome, but we just have this deal..." and she says "no, you f****** jerk, you listen to me, you have no idea what you have." It went on like this for about 3 minutes, we were even standing up and yelling at each other in the middle of this party of about 15-20 people.

I'm not sure what order this happened, but you'll understand why when I tell you she shoved the palm of her hand into my forehead not once, or twice, but THREE times, hitting me pretty well, enough to make me a tad dizzy. So then I say "I'm going to guess you're from New York" and she was! This got her in a full-blown tizzy, so she proceeded to jump over my wife who was sitting to my left, and then jumped up on top of me in my chair, straddling me with her legs on either side of me in what I can only imagine was an attempt to choke me or something. I immediately grabbed her wrists and kept saying "I am a man, you are a woman, and that means I am stronger than you!!! This is useless, you won't be able to do anything!!!" Just as she was letting up, I started to let her go, and she lunged at my neck, trying to bite me! No joke!!! So I pulled her wrists again and successfully stopped her from sinking her teeth into my flesh. Just then her very embarassed husband came up and pulled her into the house, saving my life.

Luckily, I was right and I held her off pretty well, except for a couple scratches, one of which I've included the picture of:

Just a little scratch, I know, but I didn't expect to get attacked while enjoying a few beers at my coworker's party.

I'm told "Dawn" was inside still really mad at me for the next few hours, doing what she could to get back outside and teach me a lesson.

Either way, this chick is fit for a straight-jacket, and I lived to tell the story.

Besides that, we had a great time! So what did I do wrong? Anyone?

Mikayla Says "Hello World!"

EDIT: Click here to see all 5 pictures we have so far of Mikayla. I posted 2 of my favorites below...

Here's one of the first pictures of my new Niece, Mikayla Ann waving "hello" to this crazy new world! She was born this morning and is right around 8 lbs, sorry I don't have more specifics.

A big "hello" right back at ya, little tyke!



And the cutest one so far:

Erika Pernecky Makes Deans List

I just heard that my sister made the Dean's List at Governor's State University again, so I thought I would take this time to give her a shout out, and say "way to go, sis!"

 

So, uhhh, WAY TO GO, SIS!!!!

 

Besides that, I've got nothing.  Oh...90 DAYS UNTIL GAME 1 OF 2007 CHICAGO BEARS FOOTBALL!!!  Hello to Rex Grossman, as he is a regular reader of this blog.  Surprised you guys didn't know that.  I heart Rexy!