Wishes do come true

People usually have consistent wishes over the years. You know, the same wish you make every year when you blow out your birthday candles? I mean, sure... there are big wishes like world peace, flood relief and feeding hungry children. Those are long shots. But you also have smaller very personal wishes that you will never share for fear of it not coming true. As of today i can finally tell you all what my consistent birthday wish has been for (insert ridiculously large number of years). Because today...yes, today...it came true. My wish is that i would live in, over or across the street from an ice cream parlor. Now, I'm not living IN an ice cream parlor. I'm not living OVER an ice cream parlor and I'm not even living across the street from an ice cream parlor. BUT! Exactly one block from my house? YES! Its true! An ice cream parlor is going in baby! They are building it as we speak! They even have a giant plastic ice cream spoon hanging on the wall. A true indication that its coming soon. Its exactly 137 steps from my front door. I will be making those 137 steps everyday for the rest of my life. Of course, as i grow fatter from my ice cream consumption those 137 steps will get harder to make.. but I'll invest in one of those motorized wheelie cart things to drive me there.

YES! Today is a good day!!!!

Glasses

Today i put on my glasses... and yet the words were fuzzy and kinda dark... weird.... I took them off and the words were equally as fuzzy. Put them back on. Fuzzy. Darker. What the hell? Why don't my glasses work anymore!? I kinda freaked out a little. Until i realized my glasses were still in their case and i was putting my sunglasses on.

Rejects

The Mighty, Mighty Woodcocks softball team is now 2-1 for the season. We clobbered our last opponents called "The Rejects" 29-9. Ouch. After the game they gave us a cheer. Nobody ever gives a cheer after a game in our Berkeley Co-ed softball league. We thought it was super sweet. We all looked at each other and thought, eh.. why not. Lets give them a cheer back. Its only fair. So we all gathered around in a circle and reached back to our 10 year old little league brains and pulled a familiar cheer out. We yelled in unison, "2-4-6-8 who do we appreciate?! REJECTS! REJECTS! REJECTS!"     Yay! We threw our gloves in the air and smiled and waved at the other team. The team in the other dugout just stared at us... a very stoney stare. Hummm... thats weird. Just then the umpire came over and said... hey, uh... woodcocks... their name isnt the rejects... its "The Standard."     oooooooooooh..... ouch.... not only did we beat them all to hell 29-9 but we called them Rejects.       Thats gotta hurt.....

Sprinkler Burgers

I decided to surprise Michelle while she was out running errands and have a BBQ dinner ready for her when she got home. (Enter madcap sequence here) The on and off thingy for the backyard sprinkler is in the front of the house. She parked the car, got her groceries outa the back seat and proceeded to turn on the sprinkler as she walked to the front door. The sprinkler head was of course placed incredibly close to the BBQ. So much for her surprise gourmet burgers....

flax

Michelle made a blended fruit drink for me this morning for breakfast. She said she put Flax seeds in it to keep Prostate Cancer at bay...  ?

seeds

Four college kids live next door to us. Four boys who dont give their backyard a second thought. Its really just a place to keep their empty beer bottles. When we go out on our back deck and look in thier direction all we see is a dirt lot. Michelle has decided to do a little stealth gardening for them. Every time their frisbee accidentally flies over the fence she waits until dark and throws it back full of wildflower seeds. hee hee.. cant wait for the next rain! Soon they'll have their very own beer bottle/wildflower garden.

spider

There's a spider in the bathroom. Michelle refuses to kill it. Or relocate it. I am completely FREAKED out by the little suckers so I cant kill it or relocate it. So....... I will be using the corner gas station's restroom until said spider moves out.