Series 13 Issue #101
August 22nd, 2013
"A NEW JOURNEY"
There's something I like about a blank page. A new beginning. The limitless possibilities. Infinity, just a white horizon with no point of reference. Taking you to someplace you've never been. I was trying to get all fancy with this new weekly email. The weekly thing is just a title by the way, I'm not so sure I'll be able to sit down each week and crank out an email or not. Things have changed a lot since we last spoke my friends.
This isn't the first time I've sat down and tried to start up the Jay Foshee Gazette again. Won't be the last either. I'm not sure where we left off on the JFG. I know there was a blog which was just posting a blog format of the weekly emails. That's probably going to be as close to what you'll get this time as well. I know there were some big issues, like Jay's getting married and Jay's starting nursing school. Nursing school was pretty much the nail in the coffin of the old weekly emails. I found myself saying it then and I continue to say it regularly now, "when you're in nursing school you only have time for nursing school."
Well some other big issues should have been Jay Foshee has a baby, graduates, and has a another baby. So now I have two daughters which is partially one of the biggest reasons I have for wanting to sit down and write again. They give me my poetry back most days. I lose my poetry sometimes.
For those of you who've been with The Jay Foshee Gazette from the beginning, it started as a monthly newsletter for my friends who went away to college 20 years ago, you know there have been days, weeks, months, and years between incarnations of The JFG but I think most of you felt as I do it would return. This last blackout, the last 3-4 years though I think I will look back at and wish I had done it as much as possible. This was the period where I got married. Had kids and started a "career" I think it would have been nice to be able to sit down and write out my thoughts and share those with people and then look back years from now and see what was going on. The JFG was, is and will be a catalogue of the moments of my life. Which was a big problem and one reason why I boycotted agains the digital medium for so long. I know that keeping those digital files of the issues of the JFG will be harder and harder as time goes by. They are a big part of my life. AS I hope this one will be as well.
So I'm a dad twice now. You're like, DUH! I have Facebook! But some of my peeps don't use Facebook. I liked Facebook for about 20 seconds, 4 years ago when they had that cork board with the flair on it. After that I feel it's a necessary evil. Two little girls. Cordie and Callie. I work at Baptist East Hospital in Cardiovascular step-down.
"Cordie turns 3, USES POTTY!!"
Unfortunately or fortunately stories about my daughters will probably become very commonplace in this email. Cordie turned 3 years old this week and has begun to use the potty on her own. She's having accidents daily but usually when distracted. It's been a week and there has been a big turn around since last week. It's like the switch finally went on.
We had a big birthday party for her with family. It was still more adults this year, we figured with preschool starting and daycare that next year we are going to have to start inviting all the kids and their parents so we went with people that she knows really well.
We had a Thomas the Train theme and my wife really outdid herself with the decorations and food.
MOVIES
Theaters
The Worlds End- The people that brought you Hott Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead. 5 friends try to recapture their youth by reenacting a pub crawl from 20 years ago. But they end up in a struggle for humanity. I like Shaun and Fuzz but not as much as other people did, I prefer Simon Pegg as Scotty!(NETFLIX it! I can't really say RENT it anymore can I?(I know REDBOX)
You're Next!- A family reunion turns into a nightmare as a trio of masked killers show up and pick the family off one by one. Word is it's great, scary and is a genre twisting movie. (SEE IT if you like scary movies.)
DVD
EPIC-(animated) I will have to know about all of these movies soon enough, but not yet.
Scary Movie 5 - I won't even type a synopsis so you can save 10 seconds of your life you won't get back. If you see this you'll lose more than 10 seconds you won't get back.
SONG OF THE WEEK
The Background- Third Eye Blind.
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