My Man Room

Let me just get this post started off by saying that I have the BEST WIFE EVER!

When we were looking for a house, I knew that I had so much crap that she wouldn't want visible to any visitors, so I aimed to get a house with enough bedrooms that I could convert one into a Man Room. After much negotiation, I convinced her that it would be okay. I'm pretty sure she was primarily worried that I'd spend all of my time in there and not with her. As you can see from this picture, I haven't spent much time in there AT ALL since moving in...




I fully intend to get it into a more organized state. It's just taking longer than I had originally planned due to life being pretty much nonstop since our engagement.

Two of my favorite features of the room are:
1.) My dad's La-Z-Boy recliner that is older than I am







2.) Smiley...




I'm primarily posting this for Andy's enjoyment, but I'm sure any others that view this will either A) Cringe in terror (*ahem* Sally), or B) Be fascinated by the fact that a woman would love me enough to let me do this in our home.

Anyways, I am really hoping for a weekend (or five) someday soon in which I can buckle down and get it presentable.

Have a good one!

WHAT?!?!

So I'm a husband now. How weird is that?

Massive Playlist

Wow. One post in 2008. Sad. Anyways... to make up for it, I'm going to gift any readers with this massive playlist that I put together thanks to an old college buddy's facebook post. I don't claim to have an expert opinion on music and this list contains a ton of guilty pleasures, but it also contains some nifty treasures. (like the wordplay?). I'm not really into playing it in any particular order or anything. I would probably just put it on random/shuffle and hit play. Enjoy.

The National - Mistaken For Strangers
Duncan Sheik - Fake Plastic Trees (blasphemy, i know)
William Fitzsimmons - Funeral Dress
Snow Patrol - Crack the Shutters
Franz Ferdinand - Lucid Dreams (especially the last couple of minutes)
The Killers - Human
Sigur Ros - Vid spilum endalaust
Okkervil River - On Tour With Zykos
Frightened Rabbit - Backwards Walk
She & Him - Sentimental Heart
Ben Folds - You Don't Know Me
Jakob Dylan - Something Good This Way Comes
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Fortune Teller
Iron & Wine - Resurrection Fern
Sea Wolf - Leaves in the River
Band of Horses - Is There a Ghost
Ashton Allen - Silent Way
Cake - Is This Love?
Nada Surf - The Fox
Sonic Youth - Superstar
The Swell Season - Falling Slowly
Decemberists - The Crane Wife 3
MGMT - Time to Pretend
Ra Ra Riot - Can You Tell
TV on the Radio - Golden Age
Bon Iver - Flume
Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma
Radiohead - House of Cards
Modest Mouse - Fire It Up
The Shins - Sea Legs
Foo Fighters - Home
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye
Beck - Gamma Ray
MIA - Paper Planes
Belle & Sebastian - If She Wants Me
Blink 182 - I Miss You
Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Follow You into the Dark
Postal Service - Nothing Better
Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Eels - Hey Man
Frou Frou - Let Go
Guster - Happier
The Slip - Even Rats
Johnny Cash - In My Life
Joseph Arthur - In the Sun
Lou Reed - Perfect Day
Magnetic Fields - Absolutely Cuckoo
Travis - Flowers in the Wind
Rogue Waves - Eyes
Aqualung - Strange and Beautiful
Audioslave - Cochise
U2 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Beach Boys - God Only Knows
Ben Folds - The Luckiest
Better Than Ezra - This Time of Year
Blue October - Clumsy Card House
Colin Hay - Waiting For My Real Life to Begin
David Gray - This Year's Love
Fountains of Wayne - Hackensack
Joshua Radin - Star Mile
Keane - Somewhere Only We Know
Kings of Convenience - Winning a Battle, Losing the War
Matchbox 20 - 3AM
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Ingrid Michaelson - The Way I Am
Maps - So Low, So High
Oasis - Wonderwall
Presidents of the United States of America - Dune Buggy
REM - Nightswimming
Shout Out Louds - The Comeback
Simon & Garfunkel - Cecilia
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Stranglers - Golden Brown
Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World
Sufjan Stevens - To Be Alone With You
The Cure - Lovesong
The Doors - Hello, I Love You
The Weepies - Gotta Have You
Tom Petty - Mary Jane's Last Dance
The Weakerthans - Left & Leaving
Stone Temple Pilots - Art School Girl
Jason Wade - You Belong to Me
The Panda Band - Ghosts Have the Best Time
Benji Hughes - Waiting for an Invitation
Wilco - Jesus, Etc.
Neutral Milk Hotel - King of Carrot Flowers Part 1
David Ford - Cheer Up
Weezer - Always
Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
Badly Drawn Boy - Easy Love
Ben Kweller - Wasted & Ready
Billy Joel - You May Be Right
Rilo Kiley - Does He Love You?
Elliott Smith - Angeles
Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life
Damien Rice - Blower's Daughter
Dashboard Confessional (feat. Michael Stipe) - Hands Down
Eve 6 - Here's to the Night
Finn Brothers - Won't Give In
Green Day - Basket Case
Something Corporate - Konstantine
Linkin Park - Points of Authority
Rhett Miller - Question
Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
Gary Jules - Mad World
John Vanderslice - Karma Police
Over the Rhine - I Want You to Be My Love
Panic! at the Disco - Lying is the Most Fun...
Pete Yorn - Crystal Village
Red Hot Chili Peppers - If
Relient K - Deathbed
Spoon - Sister Jack
Third Eye Blind - Motorcycle Drive-By
Tom Waits - Better Off Without a Wife
Tonic - Lemon Parade
Built to Spill - Liar
Gomez - How We Operate
Jack Johnson - Taylor
Cat Stevens - Moonshadow
Sister Hazel - Concede
Pearl Jam - Elderly Woman...
Live - Lightning Crashes