How's Your Day? Archives

it's been very, very quiet around here. Micah got DSL. Jim still doesn't have any pants. And there's snow in central Louisiana.

 

really astonishing when you think about it, eh?
it's probably what, a once in 8-10 year cycle?
I was reading somewhere that they're trying to get enough evidence right now to show that there's snow in every one of the 50 states - that'd be downright cool! (get it...snow...cool...:rofl)

 

We have had two 2' snowfalls within two weeks. Yeah, lotta frickin' snow!!!

Just for the record, the whole DSL thing must mean something else around there, cause a dude having DSL is NOT good 'round here!!

 

umm, now you've got me curious....

'round here, DSL is Digital Subscriber Line...high-speed internet over phone lines

 

so much for global warming.

um. let's stick with Jim's definition.

 

Dude, you ain't joking. Snow day rocks! And you haven't shaved since Christmas? Man, if I went that long without shaving, I wouldn't be able to find my mouth to insert food.

Oh, and just to make you all insanely jealous, here's a few awesome pics of my newest longbow. My wife took the shots. It was a perfect day for it.

 

very nice, Doug

 

Here's one from the "boy am I surprised" department...

Picked up a tin of moustache wax at Hot Topic today. Didn't even know they sold the stuff, but when we went in to check out their big clearance sale (got a rockin' reversible transformers hoodie for $12!) I noticed the moustache wax by pure chance. 5.99 for a tin, so I figured I'd try it out. For some reason it rang up at 2 something (figured out later that it had a stray price tag from some nail polish stuck to it and the dude rang it up wrong... I figure it'll work out in the wash somewhere). Anyway, I picked up a tin of brown.

First impression: A little greasy, a little soft--smells like pencils (not bad, actually) "This stuff isn't going to have any holding power what-so-ever."

30 minutes later: "Wow, my moustache is still in shape!"

1 hour later: "Still holding?!? But we ate dinner and I wiped my mouth several times!?!"

Colour me impressed. Of course, I'll need to test it further, but so far, I'm very surprised by the sneakiness of this quiet little wax.

Any of my moustachioed brethren ever heard of/tried this stuff?

 

yeah, but how does it lather?

 

How does it lather? Hey, that's my question!!! :mad:

So, Micah. You gonna try that stuff out for Tuesday?

 

I'm actually wearing it right now. Mild holding power, but it's pretty good.

 

wow, just saw on the news about a fatal accident with Trace Adkins' band's bus and a pickup truck.
This about 20 miles from here.

 

"I got one. I need two. It's useless without two. With two, I can take over the freakin' world."

 

A Valentine's Story

My wife and I get along like peas and carrots... she's the realist, I'm the dreamer. She's gifted with common sense, logistical thought... I'm, well, just gifted.

Anyway, so as Valentine's Day approached, we both agreed, as we have now for many V-Day's, not to get each other anything. We've been married ten years. You come to realize that buying roses truly is a waste of money (especially when your wife completely believes that).

But this year, I wanted to do something special, you know, thoughtful, without really spending money. So I decide to do a Valentine's scavenger hunt, you know, where one clue leads to the next and so on...

Jim, Micah, don't say anything. I know you can guess where this is going.

You've probably seen this done before on TV or movies (especially Hallmark or romantic comedies). The girl finds a note, it tells her to go here, then there, and eventually leads to an engagement ring or a long lost love or whatever. My wife loves those movies, so I figured she'd get the point.

She gets up and goes to the shower, then once the door closes, I go to work. I make sure the clues are in place, then get the starter note ready. When she comes out, I hand her the first little note and say happy Valentine's day and then rush away.

Ten minutes passed. I figured she's halfway through by now. Alas, that was not the case.

She walks into the living room. She looks at me and she can tell I'm puzzled. "Oh, you wanted me to do that now?" she asks. The first clue basically says go where you start your day. This was supposed to be the easy one. She thinks she starts her day in the living room where she watches the Early Show. I shake my head 'no.' Then she asks, "the shower?" I again give a negative response. *oh my gravy,* I'm thinking by this point. And this is only the first clue.

I pretty much have to take her to the first clue which is of course at her side of the bed, next to where her feet hit the floor when she gets up. Even then, she appears confused. I tell her it's under the bed. You have to bend over and pick it up. Geez.

Ok, second clue she gets and goes straight there. Until the final clue, however, this is the only one she gets by herself. I pretty much have to guide her through. In fact, the clue that tells her to go "where she bakes", she walks in to the kitchen and says, "Ok, I know it's in here, just tell me where the clue is."

While I can tell she appreciates the gesture, she does not have the personality for this sort of thing. She's the kind of girl who, while we were dating, told me I wasted money when I bought her some earrings as a gift. I haven't bought her jewelry (besides our wedding gear) since then.

But I'm not bashing her. After all, this is the same woman who will come storming in to the living room while I'm watching the same tired movie for the umpteenth time and exclaim, "What are you doing? There's a football game on. Change the channel!"

So my point to you all? When it comes to Valentine's Day...

YMMV

 

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That's great! I can totally picture the whole thing in my mind! :rofl

oh, and you forgot something....

 

oh, and Happy "Hallmark 'Black Friday'" to everyone

 

I absolutely have a vision of the proceedings in my mind's eye after reading this. :happy102 It sounds like it went exactly as how I would imagine it going. I know Jim already "fixed" it for you, but I thought I'd try my hand at modifying the account, too.

 

Yup... I can see it now.... and I don't even know either of you. :happy102
Here is how things went here....
Wife is suffering with bronchitis, and just woke up about 30 minutes ago (1/2 dose of 12 hour cold medicine knocks her out for 24+ hours), she stumbled into the kitchen, ate some of the now very cold breakfast and then went back to bed. I am not even sure that she knows what day it is.

Daughter on the other hand panicked last night about 9 PM that she didn't have anything for me for Valentines. She wouldn't hear anything about not getting something... so I had to take her to a store and hand her cash and just kill time while she was shopping for me. Ooooh... CVS had injector blades on sale 50% clearance... uh oh... are they not going to carry those any more..? Oh well.. our CVS was out of injector blades by 9:05.

 

Jim, wasn't it you that said something about making sure to proof read the headlines awhile back?

 

yeup, and it was that almost exact same headline! but a different story, a different person beat off an attacking shark :happy102