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Saturday, October 18, 2008

Glad it wasn't me...

The other day, a couple of teenagers that live across the playground from me were snowboarding down a little hill in their back yard. (You can see the slope between the houses in this photo. Also note the picket fences around our backyards. They are made of PVC.)

They had some sort of bar or table or something that they were sliding across at the bottom.

I glanced out the kitchen window and saw one of the kids slide down the hill, across the little bar or table or whatever, and then fall over backwards and knock one of the pickets out with his head.

Some days you just have to take your giggles where you can find them...

2 comments:

Anonymous5:52 AM
Whilst I am glad it wasn't you.. it would have been very funny if it was.. I have taken some sky shots for you
cheers kim
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Unknown8:52 PM
I'm so glad we've 'hooked up' again. I've missed you.

Oh, and thanks for sharing your giggle. Could only have been better if I'd seen it myself.
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Or maybe you just find me horribly annoying and are about to let me know. Go ahead, I can deal.

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Okay -- updating my profile because I never removed the guinea pigs from it, even though they have been elsewhere for months.

Um...new obsession (HA) the elliptical trainer in the garage. I hate the thing, but today I burned 395 calories. I know. I so wanted to burn 5 more to make it an even 400, but then I would be at 50 minutes and 19 seconds, so I would have to make that round out to an even 51 minutes, and then the mileage could be rounded up to a more even number, and then the calories would be just a few away from 450, but then I could do just a few more seconds, then another few hundredths of a mile, and so on until finally I would fall off, hit my head, end up in the hospital with another nasty concussion, and gain weight because I am bedridden. It was so much easier to just burn the 395 calories.

We moved from the Sonoran desert of southern Arizona to the almost Arctic of Anchorage. I like the winters of Anchorage better than the summers of Tucson, so far.

Still have three kids, the oldest one is a freshman at the U of Arizona (dang it, now I will have to edit this again in a few months), the other two live on Fort Richardson with me and the dogs and the husband.

Other obsessions...my camera, my IPod Touch, my sewing machine. Fabric. Definitely fabric. Dishes. It's a thing females in my family have, an obsession with dishes. Pottery, and earthenware. Silver, definitely. Not crystal and china though. I am not a big fan of the fussy and overly ornate, and both crystal and china tend to fall into those categories, to me. Plus if I have delicate dishware, then I can't have the kids wash the dishes or put it in the dishwasher.

Other than that, I weigh too much, sleep too little, am very liberal, rabidly pro-choice, find it insane this country does not have universal health care, and think the world may be a better place with Obama at the helm. Oh, yeah, and chocolate. Much much chocolate.