I Belize I Can Blog (it was right there-sorry).

Read it, don’t read it, I don’t care…just needed to get some things off my chest.

In no particular order of chronology or importance…

On the clock only because there is SO much to say.  Not an airplane cast.  Sunday afternoon cast.  SUPER-speed version per hook.  Let’s turn and burn.

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1. Greetings and salutations, people.  Good to be back.  Thanks for coming aboard (the boat).  We need rules for this one.  Let’s move.
2. Short one sentence hooks. Come back another time if you want more in depth thoughts.  LOTS to cover.  I had my blog list on me the entire time aside from two times (more on that in a bit).  Yes, the blog list was in my pocket during the actual wedding.  They are in order of happening, so it will be a mixed bag of sports and my trip.  Go to my FB page if you need picks of the wedding, and our professional ones will be released in a week or so (on a CD next to me and not making it in this thing).  Daunting two pages, front and back, to cover.  Good luck to us.
3. JJ.  Mild pops.
4. First, let’s talk sports that I didn’t watch but just read about because I was in paradise.  Quick sentences since you and I both know I didn’t watch any games.
5. I can’t believe the Blackhawks didn’t advance and I am glad I don’t bet on hockey.
6. Byron Scott out, Luke Walton in, and I just might become a Lakers fan…nah…
7. Manziel indicted…did that happen once or twice while I was out of the network?
8. I think the Warriors are weirdly better without Curry in a way because there is no main man to feed and they play beautiful basketball with or without him.
9. BUT, I DO recognize he is the best.
10. Still not sure if McGregor is back in or out.
11. I might throw some cash on the Celtics to win it all next year at probably 100-1 odds minimally.
12. Anyone doubting my Nationals pick yet besides Cubs fans?
13. The Brady re-suspension is just stupid.
14. Someone just TRADE for Sam Bradford already.
15. I have too much to say on the NFL draft to comment fully today.
16. Maybe Conor McGregor can caddy for Tiger in the US Open so we all be confused.  Think about it.
17. Brooks-Wizards-not enough time to comment tonight, but he should coach someone somewhere.
18. I would have taken the chance on Jaylon Smith.
19. I would have taken the chance on Myles Jack about a round earlier.
20. I am so excited for GOT tonight.  That is why I am motoring through this.
21. How dare they put the Eastern Conference Raptors Game 7 on at the same time as GOT night #2.
22. I have decided I am better at being unplugged than Lindsey-amazing at how many places in Belize have WIFI if you or your wife asks.
23. Marie Sharp hot sauce in Belize is the best hot sauce EVER.
24. No blue hole trip this time as they didn’t go, but kind of glad as it was very obvious to the dive master that it was my first open water dive.
25. I sweated so many times in the jungle that I did laundry in the bathtub when we got to the beach.
26. The Clippers caught the Thunder disease of the last three years with injuries…all in one year.
27. I was impressed how the Hornets held up, but am convinced that they are not built for a championship.
28. Maybe JaMarcus Russell can PAY someone for him to play since he would play for free.
29. Tyler Collins is classy.
30. Russell Westbrook is in same conversation as Oscar, Kidd, and Magic, so he IS a superstar, Mark Cuban.
31. I would think the Raiders should be in Vegas ANY time an Al Davis family member is in control.
32. I might bartend again, mom…in Belize at the bar I own.
33. Waterslides are like my favorite thing of all time, and yes, Lindsey and I went down one in between scuba dives.
34. Nashville could be a sleeper to win the toughest team sports trophy out there, but my money is still on Pens or Caps.
35. I don’t have enough info on Nick Young’s bad tattoo or the Richard Sherman Lyft story to talk about it.
36. Read the SI article on Ovechkin-powerful.
37. I hear that Doc Rivers cried in some way.
38. I am glad I have a season living in Denver listening to “bring back Tebow” or “start Paxton Lynch” for an entire year.
39. Thank GOD they finally invited NC State ’83 to the White House.
40. The guy who made the NBA-ABA merger possible died, and it is sad.
41. Sadder that Prince died and he changed everything in music.
42. I will start writing my song 2023 right NOW.
43. Curt Schilling should stay away from mics except for announcing a game.
44. I can’t keep on the Tunsil gas mask copycat videos, and he is trying NOT to think about how he cost himself literally $7 million.
45. If I am a Raiders fan, I am excited to go to Vegas but confused how I have two young QB’s on the same roster.
46. I think they should bring in Russell to Dallas to compete with Prescott as Romo’s next in line.
47. I think 3 years from now we say that Christian Hackenberg to the Jets was the best pick outside of Myles Jack.
48. I don’t care what D-Will is opting out of.
49. I admit to reading about 50 draft previews.
50. I think the Steelers could have gotten a better CB in the first round, but glad they went again at it in the 2nd and they need fast, long armed guys…and they got  it.
51. I just figured out how to zoom in on my phone.
52. I can’t believe how many people listened to my wedding ring tap story, but I meant it, and thanks.
53. I think my parents might have become scared of me after witnessing me doing a full version of Sweet Child O Mine.
54.  Brian Hoyer backing up up Jay Cutler sounds like a guy who FINALLY admits he is a backup QB.
55. Big Papi hitting a HR for a kid makes me really want to talk about Paul O’Neil a LOT more in his role in Seinfeld, but I don’t have time.
56. I referenced Dokken successfully in my vows.
57. Scott successfully worked in our Hoop It Up team name, Deez Nuts, in his toast.
58. I met Rafiel Septien, kicker for the Cowboys, with a Lambert shirt on.
59. I might be a public showing guy, but I stayed sober all day for my wedding day, and I was a nervous wreck reading my vows and putting the ring on.
60. Avery had the best wedding speech though-“Lindsey, when making fun of Mark’s choices, remember you are one of them.”
61. My Droid phone sucks at time changes.
62. My Droid phone takes killer photos.
63. The Leicester City story is right up there with Nova ’85 and the Miracle on Ice.
64. Don’t come back, Floyd.  Nothing to prove.
65. Plush is still one of the greatest songs of all time.
66. How it costs $5 to use a luggage cart at DIA is beyond me.
67. Get the “extraordinary ham and cheese” in the C terminal at DIA and you won’t go wrong.
68. The Suns will keep Earl Watson.  I like Earl.  He went 9-24 in his last 33 games, so I don’t get it.
69. Yes, I will go see opening night of Magnificent 7 with Denzel.
70. Thibs SHOULD be a coach somewhere.
71. Congrats, Mom, on surviving an outdoor wedding with birds.  Love you.
72. I need a new UVA pullover because I wore it so much in the last year.
73. I loved my wedding-I did NOT like moving to three different rooms in three days because of the whole can’t see the wife thing.
74. Josh Norman to the Skins is grass is green move, but why move from one of the better defenses in the NFL?
75. The Cubs are projected to win 103 games right now.  Wow.
76. It may or may not be true that I jumped off a moving boat in shark water.
77. It may or may not be true that a married girl from our wedding…never mind.
78. I will never go south of the border again without revisiting out Spanish skills.
79. Always go south of the border with more small bills than you think you might need.
80. Yes, I jet skied and I am VERY wreckless and unsafe at driving those things.
81. Now, let’s do some pics, since I might be a blossoming hobby photographer.
82. I missed breakfast on my wedding day (usually when I do karaoke hard core of Sweet Child O Mine with a broomstick, I MIGHT sleep in), but here is my mom and dad and it was SOOO good to see them in my best day of my life.  
83. Golf, as usual, was one of my favorite times, and we had a stellar foursome to hack up the course.  Phil.  Combines fatherly skills with gangster like most people wish they could.
84. Drew.  My brother-in-law and one of my favorite people in the world.  Definitely my favorite guy who has caught me with a right hook.  We kept accurate score, and I believe on the FINAL stroke he won 132-131.
85. Scott.  My best man, a big hit at the wedding, and I think he thought these things were Gila Monsters.  
86. This of course started it all.  
87. Seriously, I might take up photography as a full time hobby…or have Android phones put me in their commercials.  
88. Or this one.  
89. Or this.  
90. My best man and his wife.  
91. Or the attempt to be cute in a picture.  
92. Nick and Elizabeth.  Texas Tech guy and chick who lived in China for like 4 years.  Both cool as shit.  
93. Not many shots of the dance party, as I was in the dance circle and unable to photo them most of the time.  
94. Of all of these photos, probably one of my favorite.  
95. Except for this one of course.  
96. Best sunglass tan.  Chad.  I love that guy.  
97. Wedding crew pic.  
98. At least I got pizza at my wedding.  All inclusive rocks when there is pizza.  
99. The last wedding breakfast.  
100. Just another pro shot.  
101. I know one guy with similar personality with no fear like me.  This is Aaron.  
102. If you live in a vacuum and don’t know the reference.  
103. Just me and Lindsey on an island.  
104. Islands suck.  
105. Truly.  
106. Pretty sure I will blog and change my FB photo to this.  
107. Just another cool pic.  
108. Have no idea how Drew took driving the whole time.  
109. When the father is as tall as the NBA player you think they are, you can do the math that you are in good company.  
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111. I have had worse plane rides.  
112. I have new respect for Puma.  
113. The one thing about Belize is seeing houses, thinking they are deserted, and then being told by locals that so and so lives there.  I need air conditioning personally.  
114. Know that if Lindsey and I disappear, we are hanging out with the exiled guy from McAfee software in Belize.  I am moving there.
115. If you go there, do it like we did.  Jungle, Ambergris Caye, and then home.
116. Jungle.  
117. Just funny in whatever country you are in.  
118. I did not take photos of our 8 hour cave day because we were in a cave full of water.
119. I did not take photos of our ziplining/ rappelling/ or scuba because I was concerned about my welfare and didn’t have a camera.
120. They had pizza in Belize.  They just weren’t open.  
121. This is the hill that was fun to go down to the bars and restaurants but NOT fun to come back up.  
122. We are going to WHAT?  I was not the toughest dude during this experience.  She was a tough lady laughing at me.  
123. Blurry, yes, but the Amish people apparently love Belize too.  See you down there.  
124. Lindsey.  Iguanas.  
125. San Ignacio.  
126. San Ignacio.  
127. I love tiny airplanes.  
128. I love plane views.  
129. I didn’t even try to go to a casino.  
130. Just pro pics.  
131. Rush hour in San Pedro.  
132. Pro pic.  
133. Pro pic.  
134. Pro pic.  
135. Pro pic.  
136. Pro pic.  
137. This happens every Thursday.  Win $100 on where a chicken poops in this square.  
138. Rudy, I have no money to give you prizes, but just letting you know Yolo is down there too.  
139. Wrong spelling bothers me.  
140. Broncos country is down in Belize too, Mom.  Dive Bar, and not the dive bar I typically look for inland.  
141. I watched sports for ten minutes in Belize.  Well, they had ONE TV on sports at a bar at one time.  
142. Linds.  
143. Linds.  
144. View from our place.  
145. Road Kill fun night.  
146. These guys literally clean seaweed out of the water hoping THIS is the day that someone swims right HERE.  
147. I have been searching my entire life for the perfect adjective/ adverb animal bar.  I found it when I was told you haven’t lived unless you went to The Lazy Lizard.  Check, and check.  I knocked out the perfect bar like that AND swimming with sharks this week.  
148. Maybe you have been to better, but my #1 is Soggy Dollar in BVI and #2 is Lazy Lizard in Belize.  
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150. Oh shit.  Ballers is coming back for another season?  Yes.
151. Wow.  Silicon Valley is back?  Boom.  I have no room for any new shows, Anthony.
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154. Marty, there was no lazy river.  Only downfall.  Only one.
155. Pro pic.  
156. Swing bars are cool.  
157. My survival bag for the trip.  Didn’t lose anything but a snorkel that was not in this bag.  
158. I love this pic.  
159. I don’t look at all like my dad-lol.
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163. These people bought a lot for $35,000 three years ago and now make bank on “Secret Beach.”  They run on solar panels.  They used machetes to clear the lot.  I am doing this at some point, dammit.  
164. Here are my vows if you care.
165. Me compressing my love for Lindsey into 2 minutes will be a chore…

     I knew Lindsey was special when she first came onto my blog about how I was overrating Landry Jones in my comparison with Andrew Luck.  I put a sign on my cubicle wall that said “I would marry this woman” BEFORE I knew it was you.

     Kind of worked out that her Sooners play on Saturday and my Steelers play on Sunday.  I once drove through Oklahoma by myself for work and drove down Lindsey Street just because.

     My best man came to Denver and went to a party at exact address of this chick I just started seeing.

     She has a way of forgetting that I don’t even know what I am doing any weekend or day…

     She’s got a way of getting past the fact I spent 7 hours of my life planning a date for this wedding so I don’t miss anything important in sports…

     She’s got a way of thinking that my surprise flight from DIA was good even though it involved 12 hours of driving to the Grand Canyon after getting off a two hour flight…

     She’s got a way of overlooking that my walkout song from bars is usually the Top Gun Theme…

     She has a way of getting past the fact that her Sirius station in the car after I drive it is ALWAYS on “Hair Nation” and that I love Dokken…

     She has a way of being the only person who could give me a live baby demon cat in the middle of the Michigan State Final Four game and not make me mad…

     She’s got a way of knowing the ocean waves in the background are better than life itself…

     She’s got way of ignoring my standard answer to anyone on any subject “did you read my blog?”

     I have been asked if I was nervous for this week.  I was the farthest thing from being nervous and there were no fleeting thoughts.

     Not because I am apathetic about any part of our relationship.  But, from my perspective, I can’t imagine life without her for a moment.  That doesn’t mean I won’t turn on all TV’s on sports and lay around happily in boxers when you are gone.  It means that when I wake each day, knowing you are a part of my life, that the only day that will be better than that day is the next day with you.  I know there will be speedbumps-I am not naïve.  But, I also know getting through each one of those problems will make us stronger, and THAT makes that next day better.

     We might not have the coolest, creative meeting story ever, but I realized that you don’t really need a cool meeting story when the end result is what we have day after day.  What we have that led us to this beach, with these people.  Something that is ours and ours alone.  Can’t wait to wake up tomorrow for another better next day.

      

     Not sure if there was a discussion regarding getting married on the beach or whether it was just understood, but that led us here.

     We all regret things in life.  I have many.  But over the last couple of years, all of those regrets have faded away.  Why?  Because time passed?  Because memories faded?  No.  Because every single regret and path I have taken made it possible to meet you, fall in love, and end up on this beach, right now, right here, with the sand all around us.  I can’t imagine a single second of life without knowing you are mine and I look forward to spending the rest of my life with you.

     If you have ever seen the show RULES OF ENGAGEMENT-Jeff, Audrey, we are a little like them.

     If you have never seen the show, then…you are welcome for that tidbit of knowledge.

     She is my Sweet Child O Mine, and yes I know where we go now.  I am the luckiest man alive.  Love you, babe.

     Here is a closing poem.  As always for me, Haiku.

     Ocean waves crash here

     My waking thought in front now

     You are my world, babe.

166. That’s it.  Will I blog tomorrow?  That is a CLOWN question, bro.  Peace.