Blog Number 158

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

Saturday, finally!  This week was rough.  I won't give you the boring details of my day to day job but suffice to say, this week was very intense .  But all of that is behind me now (though Monday is lurking around the corner) and I can enjoy my Saturday.  Based on the average distance between my children and me today (note: the average distance between me and a child at any given time was about 3 inches), it is also safe to say that they missed their dad this week.  So this week was rough on all of us in different ways.

The wife took the daughter shopping this morning so the son and I got to play some basketball, chess and then (of course) Sonic the Hedgehog on our Nintendo GameCube.  The second controller that I bought is a piece of junk.  It either constantly vibrates or it constantly moves you in some random direction no matter what button you push.  So, we are still waiting to play a game together.  We are longing for the day that we can click on "Players: 2" as our choice.  I am sure that will make the blog list.

After we had some lunch (leftovers), we headed out to a local park and took in some sun.  It was about 80° today and just a gorgeous day overall.  We spent about 30 minutes there and toward the end the son and I had a "who can jump the farthest off the swing" contest.  I am proud to say I won, but not by much.  It helps to have legs that are about 1 foot longer which (by the way) was about the distance I won the contest by (give or take).

Then we went to Target as the son needed some new summer clothes (especially pajamas).  Since I was not really needed to help pick out his clothes, the daughter and I were told to go find some popcorn.  Our Target is not a Super Target but it is a rather large sized one.  We found the popcorn aisle but try as I might I could not find any plain popping corn.  There were 21 different varieties of microwave pop corn (trust me, I counted them), but no good ol' kernel popping corn.  I really could not believe that a store with this much variety of microwave popcorn would not have at least one bag of standard popcorn.  Once I was convinced I was not overlooking it, I headed back to the wife empty handed.  She (of course) did not believe me.

Somewhere along the line in our family we started a saying, "If I am lying, you can slap me in the face."  I don't know where this started, but it sounds like something I would say and of course the kids have picked up on it (my son in particular).  So I say to my wife, 'If you can find any plain popcorn, you can slap me in the face."  So I held my breath as she went back to the popcorn row to look.  I was very happy when I saw her walking toward me about 3 minutes later with empty hands.

Right now we are cleaning up the house a little in anticipation of my mother arriving tomorrow night.  Well, I say "we" but "I" am really blogging and the wife is vacuuming.  Until next time...

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon