Rasure Commandments

I have been meaning to put these back on the website for quite some time. I am just to lazy to create a page on my real website and one click publishing is so much easier.

Raising 3 boys was probably not the easiest thing to do (especially if you knew me and my brothers). In the course of raising us, our parents would yell/slash sternly advise us to do. Sometimes those phrases were so ridiculous, that they had to be written down some where. Here is that place. I give you the Rasure Commandments (King James edition).

1. Thou shall not be mad dogs when the bread comes*
2. Thou shall wipe thy greasy hands before throwing thine ski ball
3. Thou shall not thown thy new glow in the dark football at thine fireflies.
4. Thou shall move thine carrots so thine father can get up from his chair.

Since a parents work is never done, so new commandments will be added. I know that I have forgotten some so I will try and keep this updated the best that I can.

* The parents cannot totally take credit for this one as it was later learned it was a line from the Cosby Show (but it was still said to us in full earnest)

Long List of Fried Foods

A while back I thought to myself "I should really try to sample fried foods in this world that are not traditionally fried." I think now I am calling off that dream. I went with the inlaws to the Festival of the Little Hills today in St. Charles, where they were serving fried pop tarts. Being a fan of pop tarts I thought that this would be a home run, however like the twinkies and oreos this also was a miss (threw about half of it away). It got me thinking that fried does not necessarily equal good....

Ultimate Ski-Ball Champion

Karen and I went to Dave & Busters tonight because we felt like doing something different. We played an assortment of games and had a good time. Karen said that before we left she wanted to play some ski-ball. We both played 15 - 20 games. On my last game I won the Dave and Busters ski ball grand bonus prize for scoring over 450 (how's that for delivering in a crunch). I scored 490 and won over 1000 tickets. It took 5 mins before the machine could dispense all of the tickets. I was ecstatic raising my arms in victory, I still have a big smile on my face :) Luckily I was not paying too close attention to my score or how many throws I had left until I sank my 3rd 100 point ball which brought me to 440. That is when I turned to Karen and in a cool calm and collected manner said "You want to see something cool"? I threw my last ball, it is pretty tough not to get 10 points on throws, but I dropped it in the 50. It really was my night, and I did it !!!

Hey Big Spender

This week capped the biggest spending week that Karen and I have ever had comdined in our lives. Last weekend we purchased a 2005 Ford Escape Hybrid (seen below) and a 50'' Sony LCD HDTV. Needless to day we will not be going out to eat or spending money needlessly for a while.

Assult on 100

As part of my set of New Year's resolutions I joined Webster's gym, specifically to swim in the morning before work. They have a white board chart for distance of swimming for members that goes all the way up to 100 miles. Yesterday I got my first mark swimming 1 mile. It took me about 6 days of swimming over 2 weeks. Now that the laps are coming a little easier, I expect the marks to come a little quicker (mile 2 is coming along a lot smoother). 1 mile = 70 laps

AndyPoluzza

The first annual AndyPoluzza happened on Sat Nov. 12. There was drinking, music, drinking, Bar-B-Q, drinking, washers, drinking, physical destruction to cars, and drinking. It was over all a fun time, although I realize now that I am a lightweight compared to Andy and some of his friends. I would post pictures, but I forgot my camera, not that any needed to be taken that night anyway. ;) We would like to thanks Tony for hosting and hope he does not hate us all too much...

Fried Twinkies Downtown Las Vegas

Me eating a Fried Twinkie & Oreo. Interesting taste, even for $.99 not sure I would do again.

Hulk in a bottle

Need I say more?

New Busch Stadium

Went to the Cardinal game today, they lost :( But inside the old Busch Stadium you had a great look at the new Busch Stadium. Here are a couple of the shots.

Our New House

Here is a picture of the new house that we just moved into. (My phone is a pretty good camera)

Hercules

Lifting the Jeep with poor technique. Notice, lifting with my back and not enough with my legs. :) Thanks to Louis for the picture.

Banana Pictures Finally Found

We have been doing a lot of cleaning this weekend. One good result of this was that I was finally able to find the giant banana pictures that we had taken several years ago. So before I forgot, I scanned them in, now we finally have them digitally. Go to Rasure.net > Pictures > Infamous Banana Pictures and check it out.

Good Friday Fish Fry Extravaganza 2005

Today we decided to try and eat at as many Good Friday Fish Frys that we possibly could. We had four fish dinners tonight. We went to St. Simon, Assumption, St. Margret Mary Alco, and St. Francis of Asisi (in that order). There were four of us and we spent a total of around $100 all together. It was a lot of fun and yet so very painful at the same time.

Mrz Golf

MRZ Golf is now back online. Go and check it out.

Karaoke Revolution

So we had a couple of family members over and we were all rocking out to Karaoke Revolution last Saturday. After about 3 hours later we realized how very tired we all were. We had way too much fun.

Christmas

Karen and I had a very busy Christmas this year. In three days we managed 7 family Christmas celebrations, church, and a little detour to Peru IL so that Jeff could propose to Kathy (btw she said yes ;). We have some pictures on Rasure.net from all of the activities including a visit from Santa Claus during the McEnaney celebration. We had a wonderful Christmas and we are looking forward to a great 2005.

Carbon Monoxide

We found out this weekend that this weekend our furnace has been leaking Carbon Monoxide. We have moved into our parents house until it can be fixed. We think it has been leaking for a while, we have been having headaches that have been lasting all day that would never subside no matter how much aspirin we took. Luckily Karen suggested that we should probably get some carbon monoxide detectors, later that night we realized that the whole house was filled with it.

New member in the family

My wife and I recently brought home a new addition to our family, a dog named Ellie. She is a 4 year old Boston Terrier We adopted her from the local Adopt A Stray program. She was going to be euthanized if she did not find a loving home, luckily we found her in time. All of us are so very happy. I should have pictures sometime soon.

Website Created/Updated Finally !!!

I just recently launched the newest version of my website. Hopefully with more to come. Please check back in frequently, because I am never sure when I am adding things.