I need to blog more often

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I’ve only been blogging like once a week so once I get around to it I just have so many things to put in here!

Okay, first off, you know how on myspace you can send people little “picture comments”?  I mean, they’re pretty dumb in general, but tell me this isn’t funny:

I mean, they have a picture for anything!  (Thanks to Danielle for that)

So we were walking in Target the other day and Sara holds up a box of panty liners and says, “Why is this one so much cheaper than this one?” and I said, “I’m SURE I don’t know.” and this older lady that was walking by gave an involuntary snort of laughter.  I guess you kind of had to be there, but you’ll just have to take my word for it that it was funny.  She could obviously sympathize with a poor husband who would be subjected to that.

Okay, there are a lot of pictures here, but they are the coolest pictures of clouds you’ve ever seen.  The thing that really strikes you looking at them is that a lot of them look like the traditional spaceship, so you can see how people could take pictures of these could formations and pass them off as pictures of spaceships!

Because I’m such a nice guy, I’m going to provide you with this guide on how to win at rock/paper/scissors!  No, contrary to what you might think, it is very interesting.  Obviously I’ve never taken it that seriously, but it is interesting hearing about the psychology behind it.  Obviously the person who wrote this really knows his stuff.

Finally, I’ll leave you with this nice recipie for “Dishwasher Salmon with a Piquant Dill Sauce.”  That’s right, you make it in your dishwasher.

Time to update!

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Okay, kind of a lot happened so I need to throw down a quick update here.

First off, Tuesday was
 
I didn’t miss it, but I forgot to blog about it.  So, let’s see.  Really the big thing was that we went to Janesville over the weekend.  My uncle was visiting from Colorado so there was a big thing at my Grandma’s house and she called us to invite us to come!  I just think that was really nice of her.  I definitely got the feeling that she was excited that we lived so close so we could come to something like that.  So anyway we went on Saturday and ate like maniacs!  Grandma made a turkey and her famous homemade buns and a pan of apple crisp (I had 3 slices)…to say nothing of the full jar of her homemade pickles!!  Oh man…heaven.  I’ve decided that if I was trapped on a desert island and I could only pick 1 food to have, I would pick Grandma D’s homemade pickles.

Anyway, we played 1 game of acquire and several games of Apples to Apples and much fun was had by all.  2 people immediately put the game on their Christmas lists!  Then Sunday we went over to my Aunt Lois’ house and watched the Packer’s game with some good ole Packer’s fans.  And they even won!!  My Grandma came with so that her and Sara could play Scrabble instead of watching the game.  Oh also, everybody has gardens and stuff, so we got some fresh pears from Uncle Lenny and fresh raspberries from my Uncle Roger.  Uncle Lenny has a pseudo-farm that my dad would *love*.  He grows pears, apples, cherries, all manner of vegetables and has chickens and turkeys.  Finally, Grandma gave me 3 jars of pickels to take home!!  But she made me promise not to tell anybody, so it’s a good thing this isn’t public or anything.

Quote of the weekend:
Len: “The cat had a hernia so I just pushed it back in there.”
Pat: “How did you keep it in?  Did you stitch it up?”
Len: “No…I just wrapped some duct tape around it.  By the time the cat got it off, it was healed.”

Uncle Len, Veteranarian.  What is it with my family and cats?

quick update

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It sure is nice having football start so early here in the Central Timezone.  Here it is only 10:00 and the game is already almost over!

Went home for the weekend and said goodbye to Rachael before she goes to Japan.  We played some games with my mom and then on Sunday we went to see Reid’s baby Lillian.  She’s a really good baby!  I think she has more hair than me!

Best quote of the weekend:
(I was beating up on my mom in a game of Acquire)
Mom: “Shane, you are an S.O.B.”
Sara: “What does that make you then?”

I also want to say that Fort Wayne has some sucky grocery stores!  We had a recipe we wanted to make for my mom and we went to THREE DIFFERENT grocery stores trying to find fresh shrimp (not frozen) and a box of green and white fettuccini and couldn’t find them.  Finally at the 3rd store we were like, “okay fine, I guess they don’t have it, I guess we can just get some gnocci and vodka sauce” and they didn’t have THAT either!!  Those things are not that exotic, I didn’t think we were asking for much.  It didn’t even occur to me that there was a possibility that they might not be there.

Handy link to have around

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Here is a link you probably want to keep handy, just in case.
The Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency: http://www.fvza.org/