Taking the Plunge(r)

When new parents come home from the hospital after the babies birth, they are usually loaded down with free samples of stuff. Things like diapers, formula, bottles, baby wash and other assorted things. However I've come to realize that they don't give you one of the essentials. Namely a toilet plunger. Before I had kids, I don't think I ever had to use one let alone having one in the house. Now I have three of them. With a four year old in the house who loves toilet paper, I have even started to have my favorite one. How sad is that?? The standard upside down bowl shaped ones just don't do the trick. You have to use a special shaped one so the water doesn't splash back at you as you are frantically plunging away. You have to be especially fast on the upstairs clogs. Don't want them all over the floor where it can leak to the downstairs.

And don't even get me started on toilet snakes........

The Top 15 Rejected Album Titles

Got this from the web..... enjoy



15> Courtney Love -- "My Sunday School Favorites"

14> Green Day -- "Hey! We Learned a Fourth Chord!"

13> Paul Simon -- "Still Breathing After All These Years"

12> Jimmy Buffett -- "Tired of Selling Driftwood Art to Tourists"

11> The Doobie Brothers -- "What Once Were Vices Now Land Us at
Betty Ford for a Month"

10> The Beatles -- "1... More Royalty Check"

9> The Who -- "Forget That 'Hope I Die' Thing, We Were Young
and Stupid"

8> Tupac Shakur -- "Blood from a Turnip: Yet Even More Crap I
Didn't Think Was Worth Releasing When I Was Alive, Volume 27"

7> Cranberries -- "Excessive Consumption May Cause Painful
Urination"

6> Jennifer Lopez -- "Bet You're Not Looking at My Butt Any More"

5> Lynyrd Skynyrd -- "Actually, Most of Us Have Been Dead
for Years"

4> Britney Spears -- "They Can't Call You a Pedophile Now That
I'm 18!"

3> Metallica -- "Don't Even Think About It, You Pimple-Faced,
Napstering Punk! Hey! Come Back Here With Our Songs!"

2> Michael Jackson -- "The White Album"


and Topfive.com's Number 1 Rejected Album Title...


1> Yes -- "Oh, God... Yes! Yes!! YES!!!"

Let it Snow (for now)

Just got back in from playing out in the snow. Had a good snowball fight with Pickle. He is getting pretty good at throwing them. He got one down my coat and then laughed as I tried to get the snow out. He did pitch a fit when I told him it was time to come in. If it is still there tomorrow, we will probably had back out and build a small snowman.

Tink, I miss you.....

Happy Thanksgiving

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Things were good here. We had our big dinner on Tuesday since Tink's parents were in town. Had all the usual stuff, turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, butterscotch yams, and of course pumpkin pie. We were going to head on down to Detroit for the big parade on Thursday, but the weather was not that great. Not cold, but rainy. So we skipped it and Tink headed up north for the weekend. Since the girls are all at their mom's for the weekend, that left just Pickle and I around the house. Since he is only 4, his idea of a great Thanksgiving meal is either bologna and cheese sandwiches or mac and cheese. My mom found out and insisted that the 2 of us come down for dinner. We had a really good time down there. Food was good. Nothing overly interesting on the menu this year. The gravy was its normal brown color instead of the green that we had a few years ago :) Correction, there was one odd item on the table, some kind of spread that went on pita bread made of eggplant, limes and garlic. Strange looking, but tasted pretty good. Had key lime pie for dessert along with homemade cantaloup ice cream. Only Pickle really like the ice cream :)

Pickle is so funny. He just came running into the office shouting that we had to go outside right now. He grabbed my face and made me look out the window. It's snowing out. When I asked him why we had to go outside, he said he had to throw a snowball at me. I don't think we will get enough for that, but I think we are going to have to go out and play in it. I love being a big kid :)