It’s hard to believe another year has come and gone!! 2011 was another whirlwind of family fun and activity for us! We hope it was for you too!
Those who know me know I love to experiment with potentially dangerous chemicals. Well this year was no different! In my attempt to manufacture a compound that worked like glue, but would stay pliable, like clay, I made a small hole that burned through my workbench, the basement floor and about 12 feet down into the earth below the house. It smelled like static electricity in our house for weeks afterward and I am still experiencing a little light-headedness, but otherwise there doesn’t appear to be any permanent damage. The dog seems a lot smarter – and I guess that is a good thing. But you know what they say – back to the old drawing board!
If I could only find the drawing board!
Sarah has continued her fervent tag sale shopping and we are quickly running out of room. We built an addition on the back of the garage, but we either need to have a garage sale ourselves, or renovate the attic into a storage space.
I guess I could always drop more experimental compound in the basement and build a sub-basement!
For our vacation this year we went to Branson, Missouri. Sarah and I were doing some recon – as we plan to launch our Country and Western Comedy Circus sometime in the next few years. We had a lot of meetings and saw a lot of shows -our fave was Yackoff Smirnoff – the Russian comic. He is just hilarious. We met with him afterward and tried to buy him some shots of Vodka, but he just drinks organic juice now-a-days! Talk about your disappointments. We bought tickets to his show the next day with the intent of heckling him, but we ended up being too hungover to get out of bed.
But we did have fun. To this day whenever one of us has a bad day, one of us will turn to the other and say – “Well – we’ll always have Branson!” and it never fails to perk us up.
The dog and the cat have been getting along better then ever (perhaps due to the dogs increased intelligence?) – they have quite a little routine worked out where the cat pretends to run away from the dog, and the dog pretends to chase him. But when the cat gets cornered and flops on the ground, the dog spins the cat around on his back with its nose, so the cat becomes a little furry break dancer. He has even developed some moves to come out of the spin – up on his one back leg (he only has three legs) or I have also seen him do a little handstand, or rest his paws behind his head, rapper style. I will have to try and video tape that for the youtube one day. I am sure – as with all cat dancing videos – it will go viral.
Speaking of viral, I developed a strange sensation in my right arm and went to see the doctor. It was a classic “It hurts when I do this.” type situation, so I almost didn’t go, because I know I couldn’t resist saying that joke, and I know doctors must be tired of hearing it!
But I am glad I went – after multiple exhaustive tests and a retinue of probing exams they found a strange virus developing in my bicep. They haven’t seen anything like it before, so they want to keep the virus alive to better study it. So now I have that going on. Sometimes I swear I can hear the virus in my arm talking – and I guess the doctors heard things from it too, which is why they seem so curious about it. Maybe it’s a “Horton Hears A Who” type thing and I have an entire planet living in my bicep!
Mostly I hear it recite Joyce – not the author – just the name “Joyce”. Or I guess it could be saying “Joyeux” – you know… for the holidays.
Well, I better being going. I have a Country and Western Comedy Circus practice this evening and it’s my turn on the highwire!
Hope all your holidays are happy!
