“The Official Blog of Daniel J Garcia”

Life is swell. Life is actually better than swell. Life is positively good right now. That’s not quite true either. Life is more on the side of being absolutely grand right now.

Yea…

That’s more like it.

Good old Holden would call me a phony for sure for describing life as “grand” just now, but that’s just the chance I am going to have to take. Besides, he had issues too…

Overall December has been a very good month. Kudos goes out to life for taking what started out as a not so good year and turning it into a very good one after all. Life is funny like that. As the t-shirt says, sometimes life’s a b*tch. Although that is the case, sometimes life is really freaking awesome too. Maybe I should make a shirt that says that. I wonder if anyone would buy them…

In other news, things are going extremely well with Corinne (my girlfriend and the cutie in my photo section). We have so much in common and she is an absolute joy to spend time with. She really is so many things, so many great, wonderful, amazing things that I cannot list them all here due to space limitations. If you have talked to me at any time in the last two weeks, especially the last couple of days, you will be able to quickly tell just how happy I am.

Yea…

It’s not all lollipops and moonbeams though. She is also the reason I am very bubbly/giddy and use words like “grand” and “delightful”. You take the good with the bad I guess.

Before I forget, here is tonight’s quiz. What is your seduction style?

Your Seduction Style: The Charmer

You’re a master at intimate conversation and verbal enticement. You seduce with words, by getting people to open up to you. By establishing this deep connection quickly, people feel under your power. And then you’ve got them exactly where you want them!

I am not quite sure how to respond to that. On the one hand it could be considered incredibly poignant and spot on. On the other hand, it could be complete hogwash. I actually know the real answer and I am not sharing. You can ask the love of my life but I bet she won’t tell you either. Well, she might tell you but she is decidedly a little biased in my favor…

BTW, have you ever gotten a song stuck in your head that you can’t get rid of? That’s happening to me right now. For some reason, Sinatra’s “Come Fly With Me” has been going through my head, over and over and over since this weekend. It’s a great song and has very real sentimental meaning for me, but it keeps repeating over and over and over. I suppose there are much worse things to complain about, but right now with as happy as I am, this is pretty much it.

Gimme a break. I am really happy right now. I am so gosh darn happy that I can’t stop clapping my hands.

Yea…

Be seeing you…

Daniel General

Just a quick post before bedtime…

I am doing fantastically well after a most wonderful weekend!

In case you don’t know or hadn’t noticed, there is a new picture in my photo section. It is of me with my girlfriend Corinne. Corinne is this really great girl I met and we’ve been dating for about a month. She is absolutely wonderful and I can say that I am very happy right now. It’s been kind of a rough 2 years and this is the first time that I actually both go to bed and wake up smiling. You’ll start seeing her name crop up more and more, but for now just a quick introduction is all I am giving. Oh yea, she is also a Sweet Adeline! If you know nothing else about her, that should be enough for you to know how wonderful she is.

Anyway, its late and I have to go to work in the morning. I need to climb down from my cloud and go to bed…

Be seeing you…

Daniel General

Winter is upon us. Well, maybe not the full blown freeze your patootie off type of winter, but there is snow and snow = winter which = brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I was born and raised in IL and lived in IA for a few years, but I still dislike the cold. I don’t hate it enough to want to pack my bags and go anywhere. I just dislike it enough to want to complain about it.

However, in the spirit of the cold, I have added a new feature to the site (I’m trying to be more fun, remember…). If you direct your attention to the left side bar you will notice the Yeti Sports section directly under the archives (unless I move it later). They have a lot more games at their website, but these three are strangely addictive. Yes, I do believe abusing penguins is wrong, but if you listen carefully, I think they are all having fun playing together (turn up the volume). So far, my best tonight is:

Penguin Batting: 283.7 (worst is 0, swing and a miss!)
Orca Slap: 60.9 (worst is 0, I missed…a lot)
Seal Bounce: Best: 278.25 (worst is 0, I tossed him down in the water)

If you have any issues, make sure you read the directions. I was doing it wrong on the Orca Slap for a while.

I also saw this quiz on this really cool person’s blog and thought I’d post it here.

Purple is my color. If I had a lightsaber, it would be purple. Oprah was on Letterman tonight and do you know which color they were promoting all night? Purple. Favorite Kool-Aid flavor? Purple (I know, purple is a color, not a flavor…ok, in that case give me orange!) In fact here is a Purple Profile I just found online from the Passion for Purple Page.

My favorite shade of Purple is Violet which means I am:

“Self-assured and dependable, you have a strong sense of character, and you possess a playful streak that makes you an amusing companion.”

I do think that they both describe me somewhat.

Anyway, I just finished some very light cleaning and think I should mosey into bed. I’ve had kind of a rough week but am feeling quite a bit better now. Tomorrow (well, today actually) is Friday which means this week is ALMOST OVER! Wheeeee!

Sorry for the silliness tonight. It happens.

Be seeing you…

Daniel General