I'll Take the Uphill Path

A few days ago, my sewer backed up through my basement bathroom and, of course, the sewer alarm was not working. You might say I was having a shitty day. You know how they say shit runs downhill. Well, turns out my week started uphill. After that, things did not get much better...horrible migraine, spider bite....you get the idea.

Lesson Learned - Downhill is not always the best bath!

Periods are not like the Common Cold.

I was going out to lunch with my two daughters, and I happen to have my period. My eldest daughter said that she was going to stay away from me and not sit next to me at lunch. What? Why not? Well, she thought she could 'catch', or get, my period. We laughed, as I told to her that that was not possible. She thought she heard you could. I explained about girls living together getting on the same cycle, but not just catching it randomly while out to lunch!

What if a Ghost Actually Said 'Boo'?

Isn't it funny, when you are watching shows about paranormal investigations, how the investigators get so scared or shocked when a spirit responds to the their requests?  When paranormal teams are trying to communicate with spirits, they are like…"if you are here let us know", and then they hear a bang and they get all freaked out and say, "did you hear that?" or "Wow, what was that?" Duh, it was the confirmation you asked for. What must the spirits be thinking, but how dumb these people are.  For instance, the team asks, "if that was you who made that sound, do it again." They hear another sound and the team is shocked yet again, thinking woah, and saying "what was that? Do you think that was the spirits?" Dumba$$, isn’t that why you are here? It will continue like this:

"Is someone here?"     Bang…..(shocked) "Did you hear that?; What is your name?" ‘Bill’ ……."Woah, I heard Bill, did you hear Bill? I think it is Bill. We thought you said the name Bill. Is your name Bill?" ….At this point the spirit is rolling his eyes wondering how, that just by being invisible, it made these people start talking to him as if he were a deaf baby. Who is scaring who here? I think the investigators are scaring themselves.

Pre- TikTok - Daughter on Phone

Here is my daughter at age 8 on the pre-TikTok app called Music.ly. I just came across this video again and had to share it. I got such a kick out of it back then and again just now. She did such a good job acting and with her wardrobe!

E-I-E-I-Oh My Goodness we Missed Something!

I was recently at a restaurant with my 19 year-old son, and he was looking at the menu and asked me what veal was. I was surprised that by this age he did not know, but we had not really eaten it at home, so it made sense.  I told him that it was baby cow.  His response was quite shocking to me and made me rethink all of the schooling we had paid for him and all of my parenting to this point.  He replied, "So chicken?" What the heck?!? Does he have ears...well, ears that can hear, and if so, are they working right now? Geeze kid. 

Well after talking to him for a few minutes, I realized he was reading a part of the menu that was headed "Veal and Chicken", so that kind of made a little sense, but.... I will say that he did realize his mistake as soon as he said it, so at least there is that.