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Christmas and ADD

May 27, 2014 / / 0 Comments

First of all I don’t have add.  Officially that is.  It does seem like this time of year many people do have it though.  There are days when I start to go crazy at all of the blinky lights and songs that are the same.  If I hear 12 days of christmas again somebody dies.  Slowly.  I know I have been keeping a list in my pocket of what I have bought for people, what I have yet to buy, what is being shipped in, and what I have figured out that I am getting from my family.  It is all very all over the place random and overwhelming at times.  I can’t wait until the 26th when most of the chaos is finished and I can get to putting away Christmas for another year.  I do love christmas but it gets long and by the time New Years gets here, I am so done with it.  Not as bad as Halloween.  I do love Halloween and all of the decorations but I’ll tell you, the past 2 years decorations are coming down after the trick or treaters leave.  Here! Take some spider web you little &%*@.  But I digress….

Happy Holidays

Justin

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Kettlebells and Winter Driving

May 27, 2014 / / 0 Comments

 

I have been thinking for 2 days now about this post. I didn’t get to it yesterday and today I decided to do something else and now, I am going to combine them. If that made sense to anyone else, you may need professional help. So here goes.

I finally got my 55# kettlebell for Christmas. It was a gift from my parents and they thought I was strange for even asking for it. It was kind of funny how ticked off I was when, after they asked what I wanted and I told them a 24 kilo bell, my mother said the clerks in the sporting goods store didn’t think anyone should need a bell that heavy and only football players and weightlifters needed that size. My response was childish I suppose. I was mad that anyone would presume to know me and what I needed or not. It went on but I digress. The short of it is, I got a nice shiny black kettlebell for Christmas. It has taken me a few days to get used to the size of the thing, it is much bigger than my 35# bell. And the handle seems huge but it works. So, here and now, is my only resolution (so far) I want to rub all of that shiny black paint off of the handle and the sides of the bell. I want to use it so much that there is not only no shine left but no paint. That will take a lot of work but I am looking forward to it.

 

Now for the sarcastic rant of the day. I live in Utah. It snows in Utah. It snows every year between November and February. Much of the time that it snows people need to drive. So, it goes logically that at some point, living in Utah will require a person to drive on a snowy day. Right!?!? Well today it snowed most of the day. There was not much that ended up on the ground and the roads being plowed and salted ended up just the other side of wet. WET ROADS ARE NOT SLICK! I just get tired of people only going 5 MPH when the limit is 45. I didn’t slide at all or use the anti-lock brakes. It continuously surprises me that people here can’t drive in the snow.

Just my 2 cents

Justin

A Cold for Christmas

November 11, 2013 / / 1 Comment
Common cold

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You know it doesn’t seem to matter the year, I always end up getting a cold around Christmas time.  I don’t know if it is because of the cold air and being outside, or if it because my kids are bringing germs home from school or because my wife is bringing home stuff from work.  The ER is a dirty, dirty place.

Whatever the reason, I seem to get the cold.  Sometimes I get a cold a bit earlier and hope that Christmas will be spared, but no, yesterday I woke up with a great head cold.  Maybe it will go away by Saturday night, but then again, maybe not.

The worst part of this, I have several gifts to finish making, and that will require more time out in the garage which is only a few degrees warmer than the outside.  I know you are thinking “Get a heater you dolt.”  and I would, except I can’t seem to find it since we moved.

So what to do…..shut your piehole Justin, take some vitamin C and get your presents finished.

How do you folks deal with colds during the holiday’s??

We will discuss it in the comments and then during tomorrows post.

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See you tomorrow, I have gifts to finish.

-Justin

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Everybody’s Favorite Game….Bingo!

November 11, 2013 / / 5 Comments

It was interesting this week.  We went to visit my Great Aunt in the retirement home.

After a bit, the kids were restless so we went walking around this new place and they were just starting the daily bingo tournament.  Of course my kids sat right down (after they were invited) and started not only playing but helping the elderly ladies mark their cards.

It was fun for them and fun for the other residents.  I got talking with my other Aunt (who was there visiting as well) about Bingo and how much everyone seems to like this, well, mindless game.

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Bingo Card Sample

It is just too much fun to put a marker on a board and yell out “OGNIB!” when you win.  Wait, that is just me.  Most people yell “BINGO!”

I don’t know what it is about this game that brings people together so easily.  Maybe it is the simplicity, maybe it is the prizes, but I do know that EVERYONE seems to like it.

We play when we go to Kidney Kamp for my daughter. (I won some good stuff last year).  We play at family parties.

Our family went and bought the deluxe set a few years ago to play on Christmas and or New Years eve.  That is fun, we go to the dollar store and pick up whatever wacky things we can get for the kids and then play a combination of Bingo and white elephant for them.  I got some floor cleaner a couple of years ago and we still have the Scooby Doo soap dispenser in the bathroom.  But I digress.

Scooby-Doo

Years ago, we would go to the Christmas Bingo party that my wife’s grandmother hosted.  There we would endure her Uncles bad jokes and win ceramics painted by Grandma.  Amazingly, most of those jokes have remained with us as we play now along with the “B14” accent that appears in Exit to Eden.  But that is another post.

And now we come into the 21st century and have more Bingo than we can stand.  Retirement centers, bingo halls, and even online.  I Googled Bingo and got over 153 million results.  Go Figure.  From Bingo.com to Cheekybingo to bingozone.com you can play online and win real money.  I am sure that is illegal here in Utah.  But still fun to play.

I think I am going to have to get a Bingo App now and play in my free time.  Maybe I had better not.  If I start playing online or on my Android I will get even less done than I do now.  I will just have to be content to play at family parties and Kidney Kamp for now, and later when I have to have someone else’s kids help me in the retirement home.

English: Software used for calling the bingo b...

What do you all think?  I love the Bingo, how about you?  should we get some sort of Online Catharsis of the Bogue Bingo tournament going?  Hmmmm….

Share your Bingo memories or stories in the comments below!

Until next time,

-Justin

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