Eclectic Check Book

Last month’s entries include a down payment for a wedding reception, a lawn mower, a driver’s training road test, three different car repairs, and a payment to a psychologist for an ADHD Dx.

I’ve got connections

I’m fairly well known at the local gas pump and the tire store, and my checking account has what appears to be a direct connection to Target.

Dry (wall) rain

“The ceiling is dripping.”  Not exactly the best words to hear at 2:00 a.m.  They’re right up there with “I wet the bed.” or “I think I’m going to throw up.”

The ceiling in the basement directly above my 14 year old’s bed was dripping.  I reached up and stuck my finger through the sagging and weakened drywall and released the torrent.

His bedroom is under the kitchen, and as we discovered, our new kitchen faucet had been leaking for 5 days already.

 

MASH again

My teen agers have discovered M*A*S*H.

It’s nice to finally know more about something in culture than they do.

Tie Week

After so much complaining by some of my kids that since I don’t wear a tie very often anymore, they didn’t know what to get me for Christmas this year, I decided to wear a tie every day this week.

Lost my marbles?

Banana, Night-Hawk, Coffee, Bengal, Traverse City, Sparty, Baldy, Blue Angel, Ginger-Ale, Root-Beer, Midnight, Earth, Sky, Mohogany, Marmalade, and Tea-a-hoop-oo.

The 16 “crockie” sized marbles in my collection.  @@

The cat with nine names

With nine people in our family and no consensus on the name, it looks like it will continue to be something like:

linus-obewan-matt-cat-get out of here-franky-bogie-humphrey-kitty pot pie.

October

First professional job – 17th – 1980
First child born - 15th – 1985
First solo flight – 12th – 1997 
First Pastorate – 1st – 2004

Climbing over the passenger seat

There are three reasons I get in my van through the passenger door and climb over the seat and in to the driver seat.  They are:

1. The key doesn’t work in the driver’s side door.
2. The snow pile is on the driver’s side.
3. It reminds of when I was a pilot!

Top 10 reasons I blog

10 – It pays so well
9 – It teaches me html
8 – It helps me practice counting down from 10
7 - It’s better than watching TV
6 - It makes people think I’m cool
5 - It keeps me from working on more important things
4 - People have been askin
3 - It reinforces the illusion that the whole world cares
2 - It makes me look for something funny in my life
1 – It makes it easier for the editor of the church newsletter to find material