Snow!

 November 15, 2014

A Snake and a Spurious Debate

July 25, 2014 –

Our friend's new calf, "Elijah"

Unfortunately most of my photos are from the “tail end” [pardon the pun] of the visit… 

Benjamin brought a little conversation piece with him in the form of a little black snake

Spotify Mood Music Option #1

(YouTube Link)

This snake’s been getting some photo-posing lessons from a very popular pop-singer who will remain nameless.

Spotify Mood Music Option #2

(YouTube Link)

Truss-ssss-st in Me…

The comment refers to the snake -

I’m not implying that Melanie has a lisp and/or a dubious reputation

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Later in the evening, (remember this is post-midnight) Micaiah and I became embroiled in a spurious debate.

“…there are multiple reasons for that being the case.  Please let me expound…”

“But, wait, there’s more!”

“…and that’s why Belle is the best Disney princess.  Here’s why that matters…”

*Pulls glasses off for an emotional connection and dramatic effect*

I’m thinking: Hmm…it looks like I’m really striking a chord and from their faces, I’m really sensing an empathetic vibe…

…well that didn’t last long!

Notice: There’s no smile on MY face!

Melanie gets in my face

Micaiah tells me to walk out the door and leave…

..but neither of us could keep a straight face for long!

Eventually Micaiah calmed me down and very logically found a solution to our disagreement.

For those of you who don’t know know what spurious means (or didn’t take the time to look up the meaning when I used it earlier in this post) it basically means “fake” or “counterfeit” which are the best two terms to describe our little spat. 

Unfortunately, I’m afraid that we had a couple of people in the room convinced that we were in a truly heated and emotional debate instead of a repartee.

“Mea Culpa, Me Paenitet”

The ladies having a discussion free from raised voices, enthusiastic gesturing and other conversational dramatics.

Peace out!

Oh, and “Mea Culpa, Me Paenitet” is basically, “My bad” in Latin.

New Years Eve

Mom felt well enough today to get up and leave the house, so for New Year’s Eve we ate at a restaurant and then went to Kate’s office.  We brought a few games with us including Monopoly so we started playing it using the “fast game” rules. It ended up being a 4 1/2 hour long game! Here was the final score:

Andrew: $7,761 Lisa: $4,883 Noah: $3,957

Ben & Kate went bankrupt

Even though it was a pretty long game, it was still the easiest $7000 I’ve earned in such a short period of time.

We had hoped to have a family meeting for our vision for the next year, but the Monopoly game took up most of our evening.

I tried printing the timeline I’d created for 2010, but the printer kept on acting up. We finally got home at about 3am.