While Ashley was up here, I was able to catch the cutest picture. It seems as though Ashley was napping and Buckley decided to use her as a pillow.

Adorable, right?

Unfortunately Spring Break has came and is now gone. I had a great time, but I just wish it was longer. Ashley came up and we went to the park with Buckley and let him chase ducks, went to the Louisville Zoo, and also browsed for apartments for when we move in together later this year. All in all it was a pretty fun time. Not only that, but I have just been extremely upbeat the entire week. I don’t know if it was the company, the nice weather, or a combination of both, but I just had a lot of fun. Anyway, it’s back to the grindstone so to speak. Only four more full weeks of class for this semester. Kind of a “yay!” moment until you realize how much work you have before it ends. Yikes!

Update: As of yesterday (March 4) our cable is officially disconnected. Sad times. Only over the air channels and the bevy of entertainment offered by Hulu… I think we’ll survive.

Yesterday I did the unthinkable: cancelled our cable.

Shocking, right? I love television and everything, but I felt we were paying a great deal of money for High Definition cable service and not getting what we were paying for. The signal wasn’t bad, but at times the audio didn’t line up with the video (ABC especially) which became painful to watch. Not only that, but the supplied DVR was just awful. It sometimes dropped sound for a second, would mess up recordings, and would also get so bogged down that you would press a button two or three times and nothing would happen, only to find the commands finally go through 30 seconds later and the DVR to start going crazy.

With all of these reasons in mind, I called the cable provider and requested for our cable television service to be disconnected. After trying to retain our services with offers, they obliged. They requested that I take the DVR box back to the office though (which is fine). So I disconnected the box, collected the power cable and remote controller and delivered the system to their office. All in all, it was a pretty straight forward and (mostly) painless procedure.

In the title, I say, “Sort of” because we still have basic cable showing up in our apartment as of this writing. I can only hope that we still don’t get charged for it, or else I’ll be spending another twenty minutes of my life on hold to try and cancel our cable… again.

So since Ashley and I started planning our wedding, I keep teasing her about my best man. I keep telling her I’m going to choose Buckley and dress him up in a top hat, bow-tie, and a cute little monocle. This weekend, I had a little time (in-between trying to kick this wicked head cold that I currently have, so I decided to play with Pixelmator (Photoshop alternative). Here is what I have:

Adorable right? Couldn’t you just imagine him walking down the aisle?

It’s that time of the semester again. I have my first two exams of this semester today with the first one starting in about two hours. Pretty nervous and I’m extremely tired of studying. I’ve been looking over stuff until my eyes started burning. Now I’m just ready for this reaming to get underway. Other then that, this semester is starting to steamroll it’s way on. I have been extremely busy over the past week and this next week doesn’t seem to be too much lighter on the workload. It stinks too because I’m actually striving to start my work early, but it still is catching up to me. Anyway, wish me luck and hopefully I do well. I could use a good start this semester.

I’ve never been much on fashion or trying to look “nice”. I pretty much go with the “If it’s comfortable, wear it” mantra. You’ll typically find me in blue jeans, tennis shoes, and a t-shirt. That’s just what I find comfortable to wear. However, even with my lack of style or knowing what looks good, there is one thing that I know for a fact looks freaking terrible: Ugg Boots.

Not sure what I’m talking about? I’m sure you know, you just don’t know the name of them. You probably just call them “The Ugliest Boots on the Face of the Earth”. However, they are Ugg Boots:

Pick whatever color you like, they are still ugly as sin.

I’ve seen so many girls wearing these damn things. At first I thought, “I hope those poor bastards aren’t paying for those.” But the sad thing is, they are. These stupid things are well over $100.00. And I’m not kidding about that. I can’t believe people would pay over $25.00 for those things. Personally, if I were a girl, I’d rather wear potato sacks that were tied around my ankles, rather than wearing these dumb looking things. I mean, seriously. For as much as they cost, you could get much better looking shoes (and probably more comfortable too).

I’ve heard many girls comment that they are comfortable. Even to a guy who values comfort over style, I wouldn’t be caught dead in those things. Seriously. I’ve already told Ashley that if she bought them and tried to wear them, I wouldn’t be seen in public with her (thankfully she doesn’t like them either). I would just be embarrassed to even be associated with them. That’s how much I dislike these damn boots. I remember seeing them my freshman year in college and I was like, “That fad will die out soon.” Unfortunately, it’s been five years and we are still running strong.

And by the way, does anyone want to guess what ‘Ugg’ is short for in ‘Ugg Boots’? In my opinion, it’s short for Ugly Ass Boots. Seriously, it’s like the designer said, “I’m going to make the ugliest fucking boots alive… and people will buy them and wear them and eat this shit up!” That guy is making so much bank right now too. Man, I wish I had came up with it. Then maybe I wouldn’t need to finish school. haha