Best Definition of a Brain Freeze

The other day, I got Cinco a Frosty at Wendy’s.  A few minutes later, he is groaning and smacking his head.  Then he asks me what I think a brain freeze feels like.  I couldn’t come up with a quick definition.  Cinco quickly interrupts my thought process by saying, “I HATE brain freezes!  It feels like there are little guys in my head trying to punch my eyeball out.”

And there you have it!!  The best definition for a brain freeze that I’ve heard yet!

Magic Trickishtionist

MP was trying to show Doodle Bug a magic trick after watching “The Illusionist.”  He told her he was a “Magic Trickishtionist.”  Doodle Bug said, “Dad– it’s called a MAGICIAN!”

Oh yeah!  But “trickishtionist” is a really good word!

How many of you will be using it now? 2-19-07

Bar O Q and Burr Oak

I ordered French doors for the office when we started building.  Long story short, the guy got mad at us and sold them, so Mr. Perfect and I are having to order new doors.  I was looking at one with a seedy Baroque glass.  It’s kind of an old fashioned looking glass, a French word pronounced  “Burr Oak”.  Well, Mr. Perfect called to order the door.  When he came home he told me, “I told the guy that my wife wanted the seedy BAR O Q glass.”  That’s right—BAR O Q, three syllables and as red neck as you can make it sound.   I explained to Mr. Perfect the correct pronunciation.  We figure the guy is still laughing about that.  Of course, now we have to call them the BAR O Q glass doors, too!  Even Doodle Bug knew the right pronunciation.  BJ Dude probably does, too ;o). 1/9/06

Bee, Bet, Bay… How do YOU say it?

At Costco, Doodle Bug had her dad buy these really good sorbet’s (pronounced Sore Bay).  They are actual halves of fruit– coconut, pineapple, lemon, orange, that are filled with the sorbet, or sherbet-type stuff, and frozen.  Yesterday, MP said that he was going to have a Sorbee.  When we started laughing, he said, “Okay a Sore Bet.”  Finally Doodle Bug told him that they were “Sore Bay’s”.  But from now on you can have all the Sorbee’s or SoreBET’s you want!  11/7/05

PS. They are SUPER YUMMY!!!

What’s in YOUR pond?

We were at the pond by our cabin with my uncle and his wife. MP said, “when I was down here this morning, I saw the MARLIN’s on the pond.”  There was another awkward pause in the conversation, and I said, “I didn’t know we had such LARGE fish in this pond.  Perhaps you meant the MALLARD ducks on the pond.”  “Yeah that was it!”   My uncle’s wife was laughing and said that she thought marlins were a big fish.  I told her that we liked more exotic things in our pond.  That pond is so big it may hold one marlin at best =)! 5/30/05

Here’s a picture of our pond:

Here’s a picture of a marlin:

Yeah…it would take up the whole pond… Might not even be able to turn around. 

Sapphires & Rootbeer

At the ball game the other night, MP, my Mom, and I were talking about the fruit stand opening up.  Mom said that Grandma was cussing Grandpa for having all that pop in the cooler and they should have watermelon, etc, etc.  MP said, “yeah.  They do pretty good selling the sapphire root beer.”  Mom kind of paused.  I said “SAPPHIRE?”  Mom looked at me with a quizzing look.  Since I am now fluent in Maloprop-eze, I said to mom, “let me translate for you–SASPARILLA!”  Mom was cracking up!!! 5/30/05

Salons and Saloons– The Cowboy Way!

At MP’s Webelo camp, they did knots at one of the rotations.  Since then he has been showing us all kind of knots with a renewed interest and excitement (to him not necessarily to us!)  He was showing the clove hitch to Blondie and Scout and while flinging the rope over the tennis racket handle said, “This is how the cowboys hitched their horse up while they went into the SALON!…….uh……I mean SALOON.”

You know those cowboys– always had a concern for their hair!  5/2/05

Cheese & Spice

We were outside the other night talking with our neighbor.  She and I were talking about cheese and she said that she didn’t like Monterey Jack cheese very well.  MP pipes up and says, “Yeah, I like seasoned salt better, too!”  We all look at him kind of funny and Doodle Bug says, “Dad, what are you talking about?  We’re talking about CHEESE here!”

“Oh,” he says, “I thought you were talking about the Monterey seasoning or what is it??….”

Doodle Bug corrected, “That’s MONTREAL steak seasoning!”      Monterey, Montreal– they’re all just cities anyway! 11/7/04

Stress & Strep

Shotgun stayed home from school with a sore throat.  He asked me if he had “STRESS throat.”  There’s an accurate description for you!  Stress throat is much easier to cure than STREP, right??? 11/7/04

Lodging Included

Blondie was talking to me about the Page Basketball tournament.  I asked about the price and she said, “That includes food and lounging.”  Truth is– that is probably more correct than “lodging” !!!! 6/6/04