OH yeah, poll...

I want to get Heelys. Angelle says i'm silly. Everyone else says i'm silly and that they're for kids. I say F that. THey look fun.

Comment with a "Yes get em", "No, you're lame", or "I dont care, do what you want"

Snellbus Pish Fime Score?!

COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS BACK!!!! WOOHOO!! tomorrow at 12:30 pm the mighty gators begin to defend their national championship with Western Kentucky. It should be fun to see how Tebow does. And the other QB's as well. i'm gonna find a sportsbar to watch it, cuz i dont have espn game plan. lame. Also Dave just left (again) and he was the only other gator fan nearby, so i'll probably watch it alone since it starts right when leah's nap does. Angelle might come for the second half or when leah wakes up, but not sure i want Erin in a smoky sportsbar.

Speaking of Dave, i helped him pack up his house last night, and we had to take a break and strap on our volunteer fire fighting gear to come to the aid of some of our neighbors. we had a decent rain/lightning storm last night and, about 10:30, we hear firetrucks come blaring onto our street. 3 in total lights flashing, sirens blazing...of course we rushed to help out. We jumped in the Uhaul, headed up the street, and arrived just in time to watch the firefighters pull a cat out of a tree. Not really. It was more like a bush. HA, no, there wasnt really a cat. i think it was a lemur. Probably golden crowned, but it was dark and rainy so i couldnt be sure.

Long story, longer, there wasnt a fire (that we could see) and the rain would have put it out anyway, so not sure why 3 firetrucks came, but it made for a fun evening. I also had just drank a grape smirnoff twister. Tasted like welches. mmm.

So yeah, dave is now back in FLA, and new family is moving into his house tomorrow to rent. Hope they're cool.

In other news, Leah went to totsercise this morning, we went to watch Wizard of Oz in downtown monroe on a big screen (it was fun), and oh yeah, did i mention College football is back?!?!?

GO GATORS! also, if anyone wants to contribute to my new jeep/boat/land on the lake fund, send all donations to:

JeepBoatLakefrontLand Fund
c/o Mike Gallers
PO BOX 555
DontReallySendToThisAddress, NC 10101

Leah's first grind

Presenting the next X-games female champion:

Research Triangles

Thats where we are now. Drove over to Durham to see Stacy and Landon for the day. Also to drop my parents off. THey are going to visit the Wrigleys for a bit before headindg back to FLA. Landon is a tad shy, but its cute to see him and Leah.

My dad had some fun with Wii bowling yesterday. I taught my mom, and she wasnt half bad. THen i played tennis with my dad, and he was okay at that, but then in bowling, he got a little too into it, and he brought his arm up and knocked into the coffee table. SO now there is a chip out of the coffee table, and wood pieces lodged into the front sensor of the controller, and it makes a weird rattling noise. Great. Moral of the story, dont let anyone over 50 play Wii. Maybe Erica's dad is better than mine. All her controllers still work, so I'd assume so.

We're about to head to the pool, funtimes!

Interesting Dream

So last night, i get woken up (not sure of thetime. felt like it was 2 or 3). What was the source of the awakening you ask? No, not Erin. No, not Leah. No, not a cat. No, not a burglar (thank god). It was Angelle, telling me about her dream she just had. She seemed very upset so I dozily listened. Apparently the dream had something to do with Angelle looking at Erin and realizing she was an animal, something like a lemur. This of course had her very upset. Wouldn't you be upset if you found out your child was really a lemur? I mean, sure they are fuzzy and cute, and they have cool names like Ring Tailed Shifaka and Golden Crowned Lemur, but i'm sure they are much harder to potty train. Leah is hard enough as it is. i cant imagine potty training a lemur.

So Angelle was very upset by this dream and was sobbing. I tried my best to comfort her without laughing, although i felt some giggles sneaking out. What I apparently failed to realize was the deeper meaning of the dream, which was that Angelle definitely feels that deep attachment to Erin, and was saddened by the notion that she wasnt Angelle's child. Very admirable since Erin is not yet 2 weeks old.

But i still find it amusing that she was crying cuz Erin was a lemur.

Welcome to Corgan!

Congrats to the Donalds on baby Corgan! He was born last night! Check Keri's blog for details: keriland.blogspot.com

Backroll video

Here it is folks. Thanks to Will for shooting and editing.

Erin's first outing

so we went to Dave & Busters yesterday for Bryan's 30th birthday. i know, hes old right?! it was fun to get the family out. Erin did fine. she slept most of the way, and Angelle was able to feed her with her shawl thingy. I dont know. check her blog for more details if you're interested. :)

Also i'm redesigning our main website. Its gonna rock, and you wont have to visit 3 different sites anymore. just 1. :) you'll see. Also, because of this, i removed the links from my blog. I didnt want to hurt anyones feeling (all you silly girls) by forgetting someone's, so they're all gone. Are you happy? you couldnt play nicely and its taken away.

Also, go cowboys. they beat the broncos last night. i know its only preseason, but any loss the cowboys or bucs can hand the broncos, its cool with me.

THings at home are pretty good. leah still likes to help and hold erin. erin is sleeping/feeding good. so, knock on wood, as leah would say 'its not so bad'.

Anyone want to come up and go to the UF/SC game in columbia this year? its november 10 if you're interested.

Also, anyone want to find some VC's to help finance a Good skatepark in charlotte? there are two small ones at public parks, but nothing outstanding. I want vans to come build one like they have in orlando.

Backroll Attempts

Heres a few pics of the backroll attempt from last week. Havent received the video yet. No shot of the landing, but no, i didnt land on my head. :)

New website name?

Anyone have any good suggestions for the new website name? We obviously thought of AnMnLnE.com, but.....eh.

I also thought of OhGs.com (play on Oh Geez!)

Any other ones? post em here or email them to us!

How many hours will i sleep tonight?

I hope its at least 6. I think i'm gonna head back to work tomorrow since Stacy is now here too, and leah will be in preschool half a day. not much for me to do. Also i'd rather save days for when all the grandparents are gone. Then i'm sure Angelle will need some help at home. Well, not that she cant do it, but ya know.

Angelle and Stacy are currently watching So you think you can Dance. grammy is holding Erin. and i'm debating on whether or not to eat some cookies. OH! i forgot to also thank Tiffany for the cookies she made for us. They were SUPER good also. DIdnt mean to leave you out Tiff!

If you havent checked out Nikki's new blog design, go there! Halle is super cute.

Congrats to Keri for being an Aunt! Kelson and Erin are 19 hours apart. Babies babies everywhere...

Hey now, you're a blogger, get your blog on, go blog... (that one was kinda weak. its hard to be creative when you're not all loopy from lack of sleep. i guess i should post more at 2 am)

first day home

well its been over a day now that Erin has been home. Leah and I made a little sign for angelle and erin when they drove up, and angelle was all teary. Also our neighbors had taped hearts with their names on the door saying welcome home. Angelle napped while leah napped, and erin napped in her swing. I played some wii to relax. I was rocking the baseball game, (winning 7-1) but then the stupid Wii froze. i think the programmers programmed it to freeze if the computer was losing too bad. annoying. Laurie made us dinner last night and it was super good. chicken with cheezy stuffing and awesome green beans. Peach cobbler for dessert. and a HUGE bowl of cookies. like seriously 100 cookies. thanks laurie!

THe night was decent. She didnt sleep super great. She was feeding from 10-1 sort of, then angelle was tired so i took her downstairs and laid on the couch with her till about 4, then went upstairs and she slept with me in the bed. Not much contiguous sleep though. I was super tired today.

We took erin to her first dr appt this morning and she checked out mostly good. she had lost a few more ounces, and the dr said she looked a little yellow so we had to take her to the hospital for a bilirubin test. Erin did great for that! angelle was more worked up than Erin was. Test came back within normal range but the dr said she needs to eat so she can pee/poo to get out whatever it is that makes her look jaundiced. so we decided to give her a little formula till ang's milk comes in.

I proceeded to nap while Leah napped. American pie 2 was on in the background. i roused every now and then to jason biggs being called petey and playing a trombone.

Angelle went to target with her mom. Yay! Erin's first trip to target!!! (did you catch the feigned enthusiasm/sarcasm? :) )

then we played in the afternoon. Leah held erin some more and pushed her in her swing, and did some cutting and gluing (not with baby erin, with construction paper only).

Oh, and by the way, I've read Dora goes to Start Mountain about 50 times in the past week. Leah has made it her current favorite book (get ready for sarcasm) YAY!!!

ALright, time for dinner (tonight, thanks to grammy).

snoggin bloggin

heading home!

well, it looks like we will be heading home today, and not waiting till tomorrow. Hopefully it will be in a few hours, and not even late afternoon. Angelle and Erin are doing so good, they didnt see a reason to keep us. Yay!!

Erin definitely likes to feed. or at least pretend to feed so that she can fall asleep.

To anyone that has had a baby, doesnt the hospital basinet look like a big tupperware? Is there some surplus of giant tupperware somewhere that some hospital worker saw and thought "hmm, we could save some money if we buy these and just say 'oh these are the new and improved baby basinets!'" i dunno, but thats probably the most likely scenario

In other news, oh wait, there is no other news. Maybe when we get home!

pre-sleep update

Well,its now about 10:33. Angelle is feeding Erin. Leah is at home with Grammy. Amazing how i could start 2 separate posts the exact same way.

Thanks for the dinner votes (Outback got 2) but we ended up with Carrabbas. it was SOOOOO good. we just had steak last week,so we decided against hops/outback. and bonefish didnt seem like itd be great to go. ANgelle got some kinda spinach ravioli (blech in my book) but i got the awesome Spiedino di Mare. its shrimp and scallops in a light italian bread crumb grilled and topped with lemon butter. SOOOOO good. and with fettuccini on the side...D-LISH.

they were awesome too, cuz they comped our dessert! When i called i told them that my wife just had a baby and that she picked Carrabbas as her first celebratory meal. WHen i picked it up, the lady said "the dessert is on us! congrats!". very nice of them. so i figured I should give them a plug. go eat at carrabbas! the place that gives you free dessert after you have a baby!

ok. time for sleep. erin is gonna head to the nursery so we can get some shut-eye.

till tomorrow...

Baby monkeys and monkey joes

Well,its now about 5:15. Angelle is feeding Erin. Leah is at home with Grammy. I got some rest. We slept about 3-4 hours last night after she was born. Then Grammy brought Leah up to meet her little sister. She was SOOOO cute. we thought she would run to Angelle but she totally climbed up and wanted to see Erin. She was saying things like "Shes out!" and "shes gonna come home with us?". She was patting her head and just looking at her. it was really adorable. Then we gave leah a present from Erin and from us. We gave her a little stuffed Pablo (backyardigan) and erin gave her a block puzzle. Leah liked going on the patio for our room. I know right? a patio on a hospital room? this place is swanky! I really like this hospital. the nurses have been so attentive for angelle.

Around 10am, i took Leah to this place called Monkey Joes. its an indoor play place for kids. Angelle wanted to take a shower and her mom was here so we got some daddy daughter time. We take off, first stop by the ATM, then the gas station for milk, gatorade, and cheezy crackers (milk-leah, gatorade-daddy, cheezy crackers-both). We pull up to monkey joes, get out, get to the front door, and theres a big sign saying socks must be worn at all time. Of course Leah has her crocs on. SO i go hunt around the car and diaper bag for some socks, but nope. SO we get back in the car, and leah is crying cuz she saw the super awesomeness that was monkey joes and now we're leaving it. I tell her we'll be right back. Luckily there is a burlington in the same shopping plaza, so we run over, finally find some socks for her and get back in the car, and she has a big poo, so i changed that, and then FINALLY we head back to Monkey Joes. Leah was super excited (again). its a neat place. its basically just a bunch of big bouncy houses and slides, but its perfect for kids cuz they can run around, jump and be silly. Leah had a blast. I went down the biggest slide with her a few times, but then she did it by herself! shes such a good climber and brave (i think). So i would definitely recommend Monkey Joes to anyone with toddlers.

After MJ's we hit up firehouse to take some subs back to the hospital. leah got a firehat. she liked it for about 30 seconds and then made me wear it.

After eating, leah headed back to our house with grammy and it was just angelle, me, and erin again. i pretty much dozed for a few hours (only to be roused by my phone buzzing every now and then. thanks for calling guys! sorry i didnt pick up. voicemail is more than acceptable :) )

so here we are. Angelle is feeding the baby monkey. Her other potential cutesy baby names are 'munchkin', 'muffin', or 'blog'.

I apologize to anyone who read my posts from last night. No, i didnt sneak a hit from Angelle's IV drip. just tired i guess.

I'm fairly amazed, actually flabbergasted (good word eh?) at the frequency to which everyone reads blogs now. maybe its just cuz we're in the hospital having a baby, but I'd like to assume that its not.

We are trying to decide between Hops, Outback, and Bonefish for our celebratory dinner. Any suggestions/recommendations? post them in the next 30 minutes.

Blogger out.

SHE'S HERE!!!

Erin Audrey Gallers. Born August 13, 2007 12:27 am. 7lbs 4oz. 20 inches.

WOOT!!!

H2O: broken

i was just dozing off and the nurse says "i think your water just broke". of course i snapped right up: "What?!" now i'm wide awake. Seems like it'll be only a few more hours. I cant wait to go pick up leah tomorrow and bring her to meet her baby sister!!! so cool!

oh, just thought of some more good ones:

"i'm just a teenage blogger baby"

"blogger? I barely know her"

"Daniel Larusso is going to blog? Daniel Larusso is going to BLOG!"

"When blogs attack: A Jack Hanna wild adventure"

"Doo doo doo doo doo Blogger! Doo Doo doo doo doo blogger blogger, blogger blogger blogger the explogger! blogs and super cool explorablogger...grab your keyboard, lets blog! blog in, vaminos! you can blog the way....BLOG! BLOG! doo blogger..doo doo blogger, swiper no blogging! swiper no blogging! Awwww man! Blogger the explogger!"

Here are my recent ultra-lame blog quotes that you may find amusing or moronic:

"Might as well face it i'm addicted to blog"

"Thats blogtastic"

"Is that a blog in your pocket? or are you just happy to blog me?"

"I'm sorry, all questions must be submitted by blog and will be answered by blog in 4 to 6 weeks"

"my blog smells of rich mahogany"

"my blog ate a whole wheel of cheese"

"my blog can beat up your blog"

"your blog is so fat, that when you type an 'X' in it, helicopters try to land on it"

"your blog is so dumb, that it thinks wikipedia is the shorter version of monthlypedia"

"snoop bloggy blog"

"harry blogger"

"blogwarts school of blogcraft and bloggery"

"blogidural"

on that one...i'm takin a nap

tales of a husband of a wife with an epidural

well, i'm sure you've read angelle's blog if you're reading this one, so you know shes on the epidural. But enough about her. I had boston market for dinner. MMMM. half a chicken carver club, and red skin potatoes and greenbeans and cornbread...did i mention MMMM.

so yeah, angelle is now trying to get a little shut eye, so i'm sitting here left pondering what life is going to be like with 2 kids. crazy i'm sure. we now have to play man to man. and 2 girls at that...yikes!

so hmmm, what else. anyone seen Superbad or Hot Rod? two movies i've been wanting to see, but obviously been a little busy with other stuff...like wakeboarding for example. Man, we sooooo want to find some land on the lake and get a boat. Life is pretty darn awesome right now, but how sweet would that be? is it wrong of me to be dreaming of a boat while my wife has a needle in her back? Eh, shes sleeping. its all good.

This hospital is really nice. we have our own nurse!! she is sitting in the room looking at some computer with charts and numbers. She isnt jumping around so i assume the charts and numbers are within normal range.

Alright, well if no baby in an hour, check back for another blogtastic blog entry. OOH, that gives me a good idea for my next post.

blogger out.

hospital

well, we're here. Checked in, hooked up to the IV, and waiting. S'all we can do I guess. I'm hungry. Maybe i should head to bonefish for some seafood and martinis. WOuld that be wrong to leave my pregnant wife who's contracting, and go wine and dine? Cast your votes now:

YES | NO | MAYBE (depends on what you eat/drink)

headlamps and drunk dials

So its 1:41 am. Still waiting. Contractions have been going strong since about 8, so 5 hours 40 minutes. I just got back from picking up Cathy (Ang's mom) from the airport. On the way to the airport, i realized i forgot that one of my headlights is out on the corolla. I was too far from home to go back, and i didnt want to get pulled over. I figured i'd just put on my brights and drive with those. I was thinking of the story i would tell the cop if he did pull me over. 'But officer, my wife is at home in labor and i need to get my mother in law before the baby comes, and the baby is coming, and my other daughter is sleeping and my wife cant leave her alone, and shes kinda sick so we dont want to wake her, so you see the predicament and you're wasting my time right now so i'm gonna go now. bye'. not sure how well thatd go over, but luckily i didnt need it, cuz no cops, thank gosh. Then i get to the cell phone waiting area, and get a fun drink dial from Erica. Gotta love erica! APparently her and nikki were drinking sangria while Jason and Sean were in their backyard conservation preservation hunting ground shooting wild boar, pheasants, and quail with either a 12 gauge or a beebee gun. Also Erica likes drunk weeweeing. or maybe wii-wii-ing. i wasnt sure. Then i think she also said she was looking at middle school yearbooks. OH, and nik and erica apparently were mad that I didnt notify them of my blog. WHich brings me to another interesting topic continued in paragraph 2.

So, what is the protocol for notifying your friends of your blog? Am i supposed to call them all? send out personal emails? a mass email? should i get wedding-type invitations and mail them with RSVP cards so people can fill them out and tell me they are definitely going to visit my blog? I just dont know. I'm new to this blogging thing. I really only started it so i could figure out how to modify Angelle's, but then she told me to start posting, and its kinda fun since weve been sitting around a lot the past few days. But i just started it like 2 days ago, so no one should be upset. Also, what has this world come to, when we're so lazy we only write about ourselves on our own site? when my parents were little, they handwrote letters to people. when we were little, we used to call our friends on the phone. Then pagers came out. Then AOL and instant messenger. Then it kinda reverted to normal email (hotmail, yahoo, gmail). THen cell phones came out and phone calls came back into fashion. Then my space, which is sort of email like, but also sorta AOL like. now apparently texting is all the rage (or was that last week?) ANd finally we have reached the ultimate in NOT wanting to interact with our friends. we write about ourselves, and say "if you want to know what i'm doing, YOU visit me. i'm not going to contact you" :) Although the blogger does have comments, so i guess we're still SORTA communicating, and i do give erica and nikki and Zach Stewart props for calling me and angelle tonight.

Also, i think this should be called rantspot.com because most blogs are just ranting about stuff. Is that taken? I should go look that up. Maybe rantspot will make me a billionaire. Google, if you're out there, buy it from me for 5 billion. please.

stupid knees

yeah, so i'm not that old. why is my knee killing me after jogging a mile on a treadmill?? WTF?! ultra lame. my coworkers keep telling me something about glucosamine chondroitin (no idea how to spell it and too lazy to look it up before hitting post) but i shouldnt have to take weird supplements. thats for old people.

I wonder if the photo to the right has something to do with my knee pain? Naaaa, probably not.

Angelle is having some contractions, i wonder if Erin is coming tonight? Another kid is really going to cramp the wakeboarding. I hope i get that video of my backroll soon so i can post it on ewetoob and be cool like the rest of the world who posts their videos. if you're bord check out Flight of the Conchords on youtube. some funny stuff, although kind of Tenacious D ish (aka, rip off). but still funny.

Pimp my ride is a sweet show. i dont often frequent the tv during the day, and especially not MTV, but this is MTV Ocho so i figure its cool. the stuff they do to these trucks is SWEET. they just put a fireplace in the back of this chicks blazer. they also put sweet monitors and crap. I wonder if they have ever pimped a corolla? Someone submit me for this show. please.

Tales from a free parker

So i had to post this real quick before work for the day starts. Got to work about 9:30 after going with Angelle to drop leah off at pre-school (which she loves by the way) and i got a pretty good spot. If you dont know, me, john and clay (teammates) all park in an area of uptown charlotte that is free on the streets. but you cant park there during arena events (like basketball games, graduations, or apparently church things). So i'm walking to my office and see some big buses in this lot near where i park and think "hmm thats odd. i hope theres not an arena event today". i see on the buses something about pentacostal religious shenanigans and am thinking its some church thing that is at some local church. So i'm moseying to work in the crazy 90degree heat at 9:30 and get up to my office, and check the Bobcats arena site, and sure enough today and tomorrow is the North American Youth Congress at the arena. UGGGH!! so i run downstairs, grab a 20 out of the ATM, go to the little shop and grab a gatorade so i can get change for parking, and then sprint the 5 blocks to my car, and see the little meter maid parking ticketer 2 cars back from my car. He sees me running and goes "you better hurry, we're almost to your car". I curse at him under my breath and luckily get to my car before he does, then go park in a lot and pay $5. then walk back to my office, sweating like crazy. Luckily i had the gatorade, but i still went to the bathroom and splashed water on my face and tried to mop up the sweat with paper towels. I'm still kinda nasty so it didnt help alot. but oi vey. Its hard work not paying for parking. but seriously, 80-100 bucks a month for parking? thats insane.

sisters and backrolls

YAY! so apparently Stacy is reading my blog. Thanks sis!

So I attempted my first heelside backroll on the boat last night. it was AWESOME. first attempt sucked, and i pretty much landed on my head. good thing it was in water. Second attempt was SWEET!! i didnt land it, but i did get the rotation all the way around. My friend Will got it on video so as soon as he sends it to me, i'll get it up for everyone's viewing pleasure. For you wakeboarding novices out there (and me about a week ago) a backroll is basically like a cartwheel, gainer style. You approach the wake heelside (i'm moving right to left [or left to right from boat view]) then basically cartwheel so you invert and spin around the rope and land heelside. its a cool trick, and apparently one of the easier inverts to learn, but still not easy to learn.

SO yeah, that was fun.

Okay, angelle is telling me to get leah dressed. Stace, i'll post more later. :)

Thoughts at work

Well i'm sitting here at work eating my sandwich and taking like a 2 minute break, so i figured for Angelle's sake, since shes probably the only one reading this, i'd post!

MMM, what you say....mmm what you say....

seriously, that video is funny! watch it. Dear sister on youtube. watch the OC version first, then the SNL version.

this whole blog concept is kinda weird. I dont need to write about myself for my own sake, i guess its for people out there who care?

So we might start looking for some land north of charlotte on/near a lake. not for right now, but maybe 3-7 years down the line. Maddexes are interested (at least Bryan says so) in going in or looking with us. Thatd be fun.

We really would like to be on the lake and have a boat. I'm really like wakeboarding, and itd be fun to teach the kids, and let them tube around. Good times!

we watched the new TMNT animated movie last night. it was pretty good for a cartoon. animation was definitely awesome.

alright, back to work. hopefully i can write about my heelside backroll tomorrow, if i get the balls to try it tonight on the boat (and assuming angelle doesnt go into labor hence allowing me to go on the boat)

Post numero uno

Well, everyone talks about how cool blogging is, and i figure i need to be "with it" or "hip" or whatever it is the kids are using the days. How old am i?! i'm sure if you're older than 29 you're telling me to shut up.

Anyway, i'm mostly doing this so i can figure out how to do stuff for Angelle's blog. You can decide if I have interesting stuff to say. If so, great! If not, shove off!

Angelle and I are currently watching the finale of Hells Kitchen season 3. down to Rock and Bonnie. ooh, do you feel the tension mounting like a rabbit in heat? I sure do!

Am i supposed to talk about myself? I dunno. I guess this is like a journal or diary? If you're here you probably know me. If you're here and you dont know me, stop stalking me!

Okay, this is probably pretty long. The End.