so to start the evening i had the trepidation… actually… not so much the trepidation but i was all… “uhhhh… whatever”…. because this halloween it was decided that my job was to man the door and hand out the loot…
initially… i was sad… last year i had lotsa fun roaming around with the kiddos getting goodies…
but i, my friends, am a team player… and if the team decided that i was the candy-handing-out mo-fo this year then so be it… i would make the best of it…
and i actually had a fine time… i hung out with our new fishies… i spun pink floyd’s dark side of the moon louder than ususal… my new drinkin’ buddy tapvat / cerveza de barril / le fut pression was there… as were my pals the skulls… you’ll notice the best in-the-dark-shot i could accomplish was a bit on the blurry side… i blame my new drinkin’ buddy tapvat / cerveza de barril / le fut pression…
and i began my campaign to establish our house as the place to go on halloween night… “dig in kiddos”… go on, have another”… “you must be kidding… you call your self a trick-or-treater???”… my goal was to dump all the goodies before the kiddos got home… i came up short but within a half hour or so we were out… hopefully we have thrown down the gauntlet and are in the running for best-place-to-go hono(u)rs…
so how odd is this???… i get an email yesterday from someone saying that a really effective night-time cough remedy is vicks vaporub… well “duh?!?!?” you might say “that’d be what it’s for after all”… but here’s the thing… the suggestion is that this stuff is wicked-cool effective, especially for kids, if you rub a bunch of it on the soles of the cough-afflicted’s feet before bed… hmmnnn…
well i’m of the opinion that medicine sure is cool and all… but i reckon there’s a lot more we don’t know about the human body compared to the amount of stuff we’ve figured out… and when all’s said and done the cure to stuff like cancer is probably going to be something like marinara enemas or something truly odd…
this … uh… open-mindedness on my part… and the fact that both of our darling offspring were in possession of truly bad-ass hacking coughs that had kept them up the night before was just too good an opportunity to pass up… so we slathered them up in the interest of science and the chance to get some sleep (them and us)…
and damn if it didn’t work… not for the whole night but for 3-4 hours at a time… pretty much no hacking at all and some restful sleep…
so there’s your tip for the day, gentle reader…. vaporub on the feet… works wonders… (not-so-much the marinara enemas)…
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fred meyer… big time…
specifically this one…
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a) today was pretty darn fine… a beautiful day in toronto today… lotsa playing in the park…
b) the boo had her second skating lesson and did great… it’s hard to believe how fast she’s picking stuff up and i think that’s pretty awesome…
c) eat it haters… the buckeyes are number one and i’d put forth that they deserve to be as much as anyone… know why???… because they haven’t lost when they should’ve won… unlike, oh, i dunno, virtually everyone else who’s been at the top so far this year… was yesterday’s game a rolling over an unranked opponent???… err… i guess not… but apart from two utterly boner defensive turnovers-for-scores the final score woulda looked different… the stats certainly point to the fact that it was somewhat one-sided… trust me – as an alumnus and longtime fan i pretty much expect ‘em to hose things at some point before we start even thinking about a national championship… but jeez folks… at least they’ve shown up and won when they were supposed to…
d) continuing the sports theme for a second… go tribe… uh… and don’t choke…
e) and this was cool today…
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i love to vote…
and i got to yesterday for the first time ever in canada… which was very cool and very convenient too… i registered at the polling station right before i voted… and my polling place is inside the school where kenzie goes… which is so close that i could probably hit it with a golf ball from my driveway… or maybe from the other side of the street… on a really good day… with a tailwind… and a really good roll… if i’d been practicing a lot… and i had one of them super cool whale sized 9.5 degree drivers… and seven or eight mulligans… it’s pretty close is the point…
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i’ve had a cold over the last few days… and i’ve been fighting the good fight and whatnot and head up ol’ boy and so on and soforth… but i feel like crap… this coupled with a) a sneeze/cough/snort-induced virtual lack of sleep last night, b) the need to be on my game in a mere two days time for some job-related goodness and c) love-of-my-life karen suggesting that i not be an idiot and stay home has convinced me to not be an idiot and stay home…
so after dropping the kiddos off at school and bidding farewell to my father-in-law who was in town for the thanksgiving festivities i dropped a couple of green-death nyquil liqui-gels and headed up to bed… where i was almost immediately out… and remained quite happily so until i was repeatedly accosted by an utterly evil spawn-of-satan fly that evidently didn’t get the memo that i was convalescing and not to be disturbed…
so i thought i’d mention that… and change the laundry… and take a couple more green-death nyquil liqui-gels… and go eradicate that evil bastard fly with extreme prejudice and at an utterly out-of-proportion level of violence… that bastard…
after which i may try and sleep some more…
good night…
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so today is turkey day in canada, eh?… which always feels a bit odd to me having been in the u.s. for so long and becoming used to the timing of the u.s. version… was a little strange to be in thanksgiving mode when it was 80 degrees and humid and monday night football was the football of the day…
ps – wikipedia is cool… i learned more about thanksgiving (assuming those particularly thanksgiving day-article(s)-responsible wikipedians were a) in the know and b) not out to maliciously dupe the world’s population regarding a north american holiday) in the last ten minutes than i had prior to that in my entire life…
…and i also learned that zog 1 was born today in 1895…
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so today is turkey day in canada, eh?… which always feels a bit odd to me having been in the u.s. for so long and becoming used to the timing of the u.s. version… was a little strange to be in thanksgiving mode when it was 80 degrees and humid and monday night football was the football of the day…
ps – wikipedia is cool… i learned more about thanksgiving (assuming those particularly thanksgiving day-article(s)-responsible wikipedians were a) in the know and b) not out to maliciously dupe the world’s population regarding a north american holiday) in the last ten minutes than i had prior to that in my entire life…
…and i also learned that zog 1 was born today in 1895…
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