QotW

MB: "Does heat defeat cold?"

Deda: "Um, yep."

MB: "And water defeats fire. But hot lava and fire are not the same. If you got in fire you would just get really burned. If you got in hot lava, you would, um, die."

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MG: "I was laughing so hard my shoulders hurt."

MB: "I was laughing so hard that my brain covered my ears."

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Set-up: The other day, Deda bought MB a giant monster truck. (He's really into monster trucks right now.) She put it in the middle of his room before he got home from school. When he saw it, he almost peed his pants with excitement. The next day, when he came home from school, he suddenly exclaimed, "Oh, man! I forgot I had this!" and ran around with it. Then, he proceeded to tell Geemaw this little story...

MB: "So, maybe one day when I come home from... what's that place called that we go that mommy works?"

Geemaw: "Church?"

MB: "Ya, church. So maybe one day I come home from church, or maybe school or a restaurant or something. And then I come upstairs and go in my room and maybe SOMEBODY put a surprise, like another giant monster truck, in my room and I don't know. And then I come home from church or school or wherever and I run upstairs and I open my door and I see it. Somebody could do that for me."

Crossing to the dArk Side

Yes, I did it. I crossed over. After years of resisting the forces that tried so hard to convert me, I gave in. Why? Circumstances made it wise to do so for various reasons. Now I'm slightly addicted, but not too bad. No more than I was before.

I bought

an



iPhone.

QotW

(Listening to 'All The Right Moves' by OneRepublic in the car and talking to MG)

"This song makes me happier. This song makes me tougher. When I listen to it, when you beat me up I can beat you up. When you beat me up I won't cry."

More Awesomness...

If you will recall, I lost my job at the end of last May. I went through all of the steps to file for unemployment, and filed a few claims in June-July. Every notification I got after a claim filing showed how much I could get and then that I actually got - nothing. After a few filings I started getting my GI Bill, and so stopped filing claims. Didn't need it and didn't want to have to pretend to look for a job. :)

This week I got a stack of mail and most of it was junk, so I tossed it in a corner and finally got to it this morning. There was an envelope from the Texas unemployment people, and I glanced at it and then tore it up and tossed it. Then I stopped and had to dig it back out of the garbage to look at it again. (Luckily my garbage is all paper!) It was the form that told how much my compensation was and that they reported it to the IRS, etc..

What? This is weird because I never got any money! So, I went onto the website and finally found where I can go into my account. It showed that I got paid back in July. Um, no I didn't.

Then I found a number for the Chase Bank division that handles the accounts. I called and the lovely lady (she really was nice) looked up my info and, lo and behold, I really did get paid in July 2009! There has been several hundred bucks sitting in an account with my name on it for seven months that I knew nothing about! The bank lady is sending me a new card so I can get to it.

How awesome is that? Thank you, Jesus!

QotW 2

As MB was looking at a big dinosaur book and pointing at the pictures:

"This is the dinosaur earth and this is our earth. Because Jesus killed all the dinosaurs. But maybe some are still alive. Like the T-Rex, but the T-Rex can never die."

Quote of the Week

As MB sits on the bathroom floor putting on his jammies and chattering away about random things...

"Mommy, is poop clean?"

Um...

"Poop is shiny when it comes out of your butt, but it's not shiny when it's in the toilet."

Thank you, son, for that wonderful revelation on pooping.

Misery to Come

I WAS going to post a funny story about MB, but instead...

Got another call from the Asst Principal at the school. Once again, my children were misbehaving on the bus. The list is:

Running in the aisles
Climbing over the seats
Shoving other children
Taking water bottles from other children as they are drinking from them
Taking backpacks and other things from other children
Obviously not listening to the bus driver

WELL, THIS morning, after listing all of these things, Mr. AP got to the fun part. It seems MB and MG decided to have an all-out brawl with each other. Fists flying and so on. Now, they are suspended from riding the bus for TWO WEEKS.

Tonight they are obviously going to get in trouble - yet another talk, spankings and early bed. They are also going to have their first groundings - no TV (they don't watch too much), no video games (or even watching others play - this will be the hard one for them), no playing with friends, no treats. They will be reminded EVERY time they ask and don't get something why.

Oh, yes. Bring the misery.