Thursday, November 29, 2007
A Christmas Story
I love this Holiday classic, circa 1983! "You'll shoot your eye out!" Need more be said? I remember my brother getting the official Red Ryder BB Gun. I think my mother said those words to him. If she didn't I know I did.We had loads of fun with that thing. No, we never shot at birds or any other animals, we were good children. We shot at each other. Just Kidding. My dad made a target for us to shoot at. We also lined up cans on the old well to shoot down. Who was the better shot? I was of course, I don't actually remember who was better. Grant was probably the better shot. I do remember him getting angry if he didn't win though. Don't all little brothers?
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Spam
I started receiving spam on my blog, so from now on all comments will go through moderation before being published. Sorry! I hope this doesn't detour anyone from leaving a comment. I just takes a little extra time to get your comment on the blog. Stupid Spam!
Answer
The answer to the poll is: Veterinarian
I have always loved animals.I get that from my dad. If I had all the money in the world I would have a huge plot of land and have lots of animals. Farm,domestics,exotics it doesn't matter to me.As long as I can take care of them.
I have always loved animals.I get that from my dad. If I had all the money in the world I would have a huge plot of land and have lots of animals. Farm,domestics,exotics it doesn't matter to me.As long as I can take care of them.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Family Resemblance
A few of my friends have a look-a-like meter on their blog. Who do the children look like? More like mom or dad? So, I tried it out. And found it to be unreliable. Depending which photos you use,depends which parent the child looks like. One time Mason looked like Pete by 48%.Using a different photo,he looked like me more by4%.And it said Jacob looks like us both equally. Which we all know isn't true. He's Pete's carbon copy. So I've put up some photos and you tell me your opinion. Who does Mason look like?
Monday, November 19, 2007
A Big Scare
It happened! Mason fell down the stairs last night. I've never been so scared or felt so bad in my life. Thankfully he was not hurt. He barely cried. I think he was just as scared as we were. Luckily we have very good padded stairs and the carpet is pretty new and fluffy. I could only imagine if they had been our Okinawa stairs. Yikes! Pete was right behind him trying to catch him but could not. He said it was like when you know something bad is going to happen and you can't stop it from happening,slow motion. As a precaution we gave him Tylenol and kept him up to make sure he was alright. Checking all his limbs. He is fine! And in true Mason fashion went right back for the stairs this morning.
Yesterday was just not his day. He slipped on the tile in the hall earlier in the day.And smacked his head and it chipped his front tooth a little. He cried a lot on that one. My poor baby!
Yesterday was just not his day. He slipped on the tile in the hall earlier in the day.And smacked his head and it chipped his front tooth a little. He cried a lot on that one. My poor baby!
Saturday, November 17, 2007
More things about me
The last post got me thinking.....There are more things about me you might not know,like
I have a nac for songs. I know the words, if I don't then I know who sings it and vice versa.Especially true for oldies and classic rock.
I love to play trivia games and I'm good at them. Just ask anyone who has ever played me. And thanks to years of TV watching, I know a lot of useless trivia. That's not all true, I have learned some useful things.
I have a bad habit of popping my toes and trying to pop the kid's toes.
I have a crush on Huge Jackman as Wolverine.
I can eat all the junk food and sweets I want and not blow up like a balloon.Thanks for the good genes Mom and Dad!
I'm not a good liar. Which I think is a good thing.
So ,there are some other thing you might not have known about me.
I have a nac for songs. I know the words, if I don't then I know who sings it and vice versa.Especially true for oldies and classic rock.
I love to play trivia games and I'm good at them. Just ask anyone who has ever played me. And thanks to years of TV watching, I know a lot of useless trivia. That's not all true, I have learned some useful things.
I have a bad habit of popping my toes and trying to pop the kid's toes.
I have a crush on Huge Jackman as Wolverine.
I can eat all the junk food and sweets I want and not blow up like a balloon.Thanks for the good genes Mom and Dad!
I'm not a good liar. Which I think is a good thing.
So ,there are some other thing you might not have known about me.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
A Game
I've been tagged. So here goes,
7 Things You Probably Don't Want To Know About Me
1. I Love to watch gorey surgeries on TV.
2.I like to eat cold spaghetti.
3.I think bugs are fascinating. Even the gross scary ones.
4.I like biology , that probably explains the surgery and bugs thing.
5.I can multitask but I'm not good at it. I always try to do too many things at once and they never seem to get finished.
6.I don't think changing poopy diapers is that terrible. It has to be done.
7.I used to hate meeting new people.
There you go,my 7 things.
I tag Michelle and Jodi(I'm giving you a reason to get that blog running)
7 Things You Probably Don't Want To Know About Me
1. I Love to watch gorey surgeries on TV.
2.I like to eat cold spaghetti.
3.I think bugs are fascinating. Even the gross scary ones.
4.I like biology , that probably explains the surgery and bugs thing.
5.I can multitask but I'm not good at it. I always try to do too many things at once and they never seem to get finished.
6.I don't think changing poopy diapers is that terrible. It has to be done.
7.I used to hate meeting new people.
There you go,my 7 things.
I tag Michelle and Jodi(I'm giving you a reason to get that blog running)
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Monday, November 12, 2007
The over 30 crowd!
A friend of mine had this on her blog. After you read it,you'll see why I had to have it on my blog too,since I've recently joined this crowd.
If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!! When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what, with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning .... uphill BOTH ways yadda, yadda, yadda!
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter...with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!
There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself!Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it! And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'asteroids' and the graphics sucked! Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!
Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like15 channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your a$$ and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little bastards!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire .... imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled!!!!!!!!!
You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!Oh yea, and a seat belt was Mom throwing her arm across your chest every time she hit the brakes.
Regards,The over 30 Crowd
If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!! When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what, with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning .... uphill BOTH ways yadda, yadda, yadda!
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter...with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!
There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself!Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it! And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'asteroids' and the graphics sucked! Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!
Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like15 channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your a$$ and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little bastards!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire .... imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled!!!!!!!!!
You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!Oh yea, and a seat belt was Mom throwing her arm across your chest every time she hit the brakes.
Regards,The over 30 Crowd
Glasses
My two intellectual children. Jacob and Emily both now wear glasses. They almost have the same prescription. Both are slightly nearsighted,or myopia for you doctor types. Hopefully their eyes won't get any worse, since Pete nor I wear glasses. We will just have to get them checked yearly.Don't they look cute!!
Sunday, November 11, 2007
The Marine Corp Birthday
In case anyone doesn't know the Marine Corp had its 232rd birthday on November 10th.
OOH-RA!
We didn't go to the ball this year,we don't have a sitter yet. I'm hoping to find one soon. Pete and I could use some time to ourselves. Maybe next year we can make it to the ball. We always have a good time at them. Dinner,drinking and dancing how much more fun do you need? Well anyway HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARINE CORP! and I'm sure many more.
OOH-RA!
We didn't go to the ball this year,we don't have a sitter yet. I'm hoping to find one soon. Pete and I could use some time to ourselves. Maybe next year we can make it to the ball. We always have a good time at them. Dinner,drinking and dancing how much more fun do you need? Well anyway HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARINE CORP! and I'm sure many more.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Halloween
I wanted to do a scary pumpkin this year. I think I did it. It's eyes and mouth are sewn up. And its crying. Pretty creepy huh? Jacob made his a vampire,Emily's has two faces and Pete's says BOO. I painted a cute clown for Mason's pumpkin. His was too little to carve. Pete made us a giant cookie and we decorated it like a cake. It was really good. I say" was" because it's all gone.
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