"It was like chloroform but she did it wrong."

On the 11th my dad turned 70 so today myself and all my siblings went out to the cabin to help him celebrate.

Many pictures were taken.

Most against our will.

I'm sure it will be all over Facebook eventually. Mom races everyone to put her pictures up first.

It was a lot of fun. I worked all day - started off at the home branch with Joe Studley then got off early so I could go to the farm. Picked up the boyfriend on the way. We had steak and hamburgers, corn, potatoes, smores, cake and all that. It was awesome.

And since it was my particularly snarky and sarcastic family many memories were made.

I don't know why but every time Bubby and I are at the cabin we have a tendency to quote Finding Nemo.

Not the whole movie, just two lines. "You touched the butt." and "You guys made me ink."

Pretty sure I covered that here: I Speak Whale

So that was constant.

And then of course, the boyfriend likes to tease me.

And there's this freaking electronic horse that Dad has at the cabin that moves and like looks at you and stuff.

Here.



Anyway, I'm convinced that it's eyes just follow me around. Like literally, I'll walk in front of it and its head will follow me.

So I shared my creeped-out-ness with the boyfriend and then when I'm not looking he picks up the freakin' horse from hell, stands behind me and waits for me to turn around. I, not realizing this, turn around and come face to face with it and scream bloody murder.

It was not very ladylike.

But it was censored.

Which is rare in terms of my screaming.

So there was that.

Also, the boyfriend has decided that since I make more money than he does that he's going to quit his job and become a stay-at-home dad.

I'm fine with that. He can stay home and clean the house and change all the diapers.

Though when he starts using the phrase, "hey kid, bring me another beer and i'll give you a candy bar" that may change.

Oldest Sister says there aren't enough candy bars in the world because he would also be eating them.

One day I'll come home and he'll have gained 100 pounds.

Maybe I should reconsider that offer.

Also, Mom has decided we need to take new family pictures cause the last ones we had professionally done were when Bubby was 2.

He is now 13.

We are supposed to pick different colors for our sub families.

So like the boyfriend and I are supposed to wear a color and then Oldest Sister's family will wear a different color and then Second Sister's family will wear a different color, etc. etc.

So the debate is who gets what color.

The boyfriend wants pink.

Remember how much I hate pink?

And how he likes to tease me?

At least I hope he's teasing, otherwise I'd be worried.

Brother has black.

Mom has red.

Bubby says he wants his family to wear rainbow wigs.

I'm thinking blue.

Or green maybe.

I don't know, suggestions?

Anyway, it was a lot of fun. Dad got some cool stuff. I gave him a Duck Dynasty book and some snacky food. He loves snacky foods.

And yesterday was Oldest Sister's birthday so I brought her present as well. Couple of books - "Why Mommy Drinks" is my favorite of the two cause it includes drink recipes along with parenting horror stories - and then Ripper Street on DVD.

Quotes of the Day:

Bubby: "It was like chloroform but she did it wrong."

Brother: "It's not made for this. Neither are my shoes."

Boyfriend: "Showing a lot of leg there."


and one overheard at work:

"See, doesn't that remind you of bondage?"

not even gonna try to explain that one.


Song of the Day: Song You Know But Forgot You Knew It

Hand in My Pocket - Alanis Morissette


heard this one on the way back and jammed out.

and then one played at the cabin

Four Wheel Drive - CW McCall



don't hit that fella with the banjo.

I speak whale.

Okay, fastest post in history of posts.

You'll have to speed read it to get the full effect.

Ready go.

Today was good.

Met up with my practicum rep and it was awesome. For my 90 hour practicum I basically get to build a remote library from scratch. And we're gonna use the BISAC method - which is bookstore, not Dewey for those of you who just went, what? - so I'm gonna look into subject headings we should have and then we're gonna hit up the library's booksale and stock up to start it.

I'm stoked.

Was nervous cause I wasn't sure what to expect but now I feel so much better.

Though I still have to write up the plan and draft schedule to send to the Library Goddess to approve.

Got an impromptu text from Oldest Sister saying she was going out to the farmhouse to light off fireworks so I went too - taking with my three boxes, though I didn't even get through one of them.

Mostly cause I'm saving all the stuff that the boyfriend and I bought together so that we can light it on the 4th, though I wasn't aware of how much I had left over from last year.

We actually had a grill out at dad's cabin by the pond.

Oh yes, remember the cabin that we all had to help build?

I did a whole like 2 nails with the nail gun and freaked out the whole time?

Anyway, so it's finished and has been moved next to the pond on a cement block and soon there will be electricity and air conditioning.

And I'm hoping some outdoor lighting.

Cause I couldn't see anything without lanterns.

Bubby, Squirt and I threw a lot of firecrackers off the dock and into the pond in order to make a splash.

Bubby was successful in spraying us with pond water.

Which was gross.

I was throwing them farther away than that.

And Dad of course brought out his favorite fireworks that he bought in high school and lit one of those on the dock.

And that's all I'm gonna say about that.

Mom is mad cause I got him more.

Sort of, they don't make those anymore, but I got him the runner-up to them.

Woops.

Anyway, it was fun. We ate hamburgers and smores and jammed in the cabin.

Had our tank war.

I won, take that!

Squirt had a mega tank and Bubby laid his out strategically with firecrackers but I think it was my massive frogs in the back row that did it.

Victory.

Are you still speed reading cause I'm speed typing, this is 3 minutes so far.

Didn't really light any big ones off cause like I said, I'm saving them but my brother did light off a few.

Bubby and I continually quoted Finding Nemo.

"You touched the butt!"

"I speak whale."

"You guys made me ink."

Those are literally the only lines I remember so they were the ones we kept repeating.

To the point where Mom was totally confused.

Quote of the day:

Bubby: "I'm not gonna twerk in front of grandma!"

It's a dance, nevermind.

Still speed typing, this is 5 minutes.

Okay, what am I missing?

Ummm.....meeting, dinner, fireworks, crazy family....think that's all I got.

Oh, except where Squirt drove up to the house.

"How do you turn on the lights?"

Thought I was gonna die.


Song of the day:

okay, now I have to think.

aw man, I was doing so well.

Let's go with clips instead.






swim away!

oh, favorite youtube comment ever:

Two whales walk into a bar.
"AAAAOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOAAAAAA, AOUUUUUUAAAA OOOOO," says the first whale.
The second whale replies, "Shut up, Steve, you're drunk."

yay, 10 minutes and I'm done!