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"To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield"
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1833

"live deep and suck out all the marrow of life"
- Henry David Thoreau, 1845

"Some guys, they just give up living
And start dying little by little, piece by piece
Some guys come home from work and wash up,
And go racin' in the streets"
- Bruce Springsteen, 1977

"...to the heart, there's no time for you to waste.
You won't find your precious answers now
by staying in one place"
- Frank Turner, 2009

"The best things in life aren't things
They're living and breathing"
- Michael Franti , 2011

"Well, this world is ours while we are in it
Grab a hold of my hand
And we can take it
Together, our lives are just one passing minute
It could be gold, if we make it"
- Jay Buchanan, 2012

"We've got these times of our lives
Let's take this time to let it show
'cause these are ours.
These are ours!"
-Justin Furstenfeld, of Blue October 2013

"I owned every second that this world could give,
I saw so many places, the things that I did"
- Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic, 2014

"No cash in the bank, no paid holidays
All we have, all we have is
Gas in the tank, maps for the getaway
All we have, all we have is time"
- Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, 2014



All written content and photos by Rob Fulfer unless otherwise indicated.

Sunday, January 31, 2021

FDT and GTFO

"Black students, ejected from your rally, what?
I'm ready to go right now, your racist ass did too much"

From "FDT" - YG (featuring Nipsey Hustle) 

Just shut up.  Get out.  And let's MOVE ON.
A historic and much-needed change is happening this month.  And we couldn't be happier. 

Saturday, January 2 - We really enjoyed the quirky Pixar film, Soul, tonight streaming on Disney+ especially the theme of making the best of your life and the last line of the movie..."enjoy every moment of it."  Plus it had a hilarious cat in it.  Sounds kind of familiar to this blog, doesn't it? 


Monday, January 4 - I had a $10-off-deal for Uber Eats and wondered if it would work here at home and BOOM! Chik-Fil-A breakfast is on the way!! 


Wednesday, January 6 - A Day of Shame in our nation's capital.  This nightmare can't end soon enough, evidently.  Just GTFO, already.


Saturday, January 9 - We took a trip down to Chattanooga today to check out Ashlee and Paige's house to get it ready to possibly be an AirBnB.  On the way and back we were treated to quite the snowy, lovely site atop Monteagle Mountain while the roads were fine.


Sunday, January 10 - Yummm!  I had a second $10-off coupon for Uber Eats, so we ordered dinner tonight from Demos' here in town.  It arrived quick and warm.  We had so much food, we had enough left for lunch tomorrow as well.  


We got our gas fireplace fixed and someone couldn't be happier about it.


Monday, January 11 - We enjoyed a weekly online streaming conversation with travel guru, Rick Steves, tonight about festivals throughout Europe.  Can't wait to travel internationally again!! 


Tuesday, January 12
 - Since live music is still scarce in the pandemic, we ponied up some dough to catch one of our favorites, Marc Roberge of O/A/R in a livestream performance on our nice new 50" TV.   It sounded great too thanks to a new Sony sound-bar Ashlee got us for Christmas!  We also enjoyed some more delivered food for dinner via Logan's Road House before the show.

Wednesday, January 20 - We both took  from work today in celebration of this much-needed and historic Inauguration Day.  We watched online and on TV with our friends, Wendy and Charly, over at their place in Donelson.  So glad this four-year nightmare is over.  What a shameful and embarrassing time for our country.

uh, yeah...bye! 


We brought a bottle of Maker's Mark for the occasion.  We had a few shots of 46 to honor 46.


Oh, how sweet it is!  Thanks to Wendy and Charly for the funny and delicious giant cookie, and other great snacks throughout the day.


 Happy New Year, indeed! We finally got a good reason to open and share our bottle of ONEHOPE California Sparkling Wine that I got Ashlee for Christmas.  Some proceeds of these bottle sales go to feed hungry children.  Joe and Kamala would like that I think!  Cheers!! 


Even Dudley was tree-climbing excited about our new president! 


Hey, it's the meme of 2021.  We might as well get in on the hilarity...thanks to Ashlee for the creation.


Saturday January 23 - We headed down to Chattanooga today and pretty much filled a small dumpster from Junk King with stuff from the in and around the old house there.  Even more valuable for the two guys from Junk King who helped carry most of what was in the basement up some steep stairs saving our knees and backs.  The decision continues whether to rent the house long-term or make it an AirBnb.


We did reward ourselves for our hard work with some great food from Taconooga just down the street.

Friday, January 29 - We "went to the movies" tonight on our couch (thanks crappy weather and Covid-19) and saw the new sweet and soulful film, Palmer, on our Apple+ streaming service.  


Saturday, January 30 - Ashlee and I met up at Various Artists Brewing in Nashville today after she had done some shopping and I was doing a little brewery-hopping.    She came for a beer, but I think she was more interested in the young man I met there who was passing through on his way back out to San Diego.  Even I noticed that he looked eerily like the lead "hunk" RegĂ©-Jean Page, in the racy Netflix drama, "Bridgerton" and I only saw one episode.  His name is Jaison Miller and he was very nice, but assured us he wasn't the actor although he gets that a lot.  I bet he does.  Look how handsome he is just in the sneak shot I took of him.  Sorry, Jasion, but very nice to meet you.  Safe travels west.
We headed over to the new Irish pub nearby, The Lost Paddy, afterwards for a late lunch.    



Sunday, January 31 - The couch-potato lifestyle continued this weekend as we binged both seasons of the enjoyable Netflix series, "Blown Away", that pits extremely talented glass-blowing artists against each other.  

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