Rudeness

Lately every where I go it just seems like people are more and more rude. This last week end at the Great Wolf Lodge Chandra & I experienced it a few times mainly on the elevators. Over the years we have tried to teach our kids elevator etiquette if there is such a thing. Like to stand back when the doors open and let the people come off, wait your turn if someone was there before you let them get on first and try to make room for everyone. This last weekend twice we seen grown adults one woman and one man just push there way through the crowd to get their butts in the elevator. The man basically pushed a little girl to the side so he could get in there first. He was just lucky it wasn't my little girl. Like my dad would say I didn't know whether to pray for him or just smack him in the face. :) It was not the kids it was the adults. Even little Winnie would say thank you as we got off the elevator to the people standing there.

Then on the way home we stopped at a gas station to get some milk. I got the gallon of milk walked up to the counter to pay for it as the 2 employees were having a discussion that was a little pg13 to R in content. I placed the milk on the counter, the guy grabbed it never looking at me and rang it up. He never said a word to me just kept talking to his little lady employee that was standing next to him as he thrusted his hand out towards me as to say hurry up give me some money. I finally looked at the screen to see what I owed gave him a 5 dollar bill. He gave me my change and never did look at me or say a word to me. I don't want his life story I would just like for him to say Your Total is #### and when he gives me my change maybe a thank you or thanks for stopping. I definitely don't want to hear the trash that was coming out of his mouth.

This seems to happen more and more. Even at the drive thru at most of the fast food places. It is like they can't even talk to you. They are so busy talking to there buddies or the next person behind you placing an order that they just want you to sit there as they snatch the money from your hand and then shove the food at you as fast as they can. Heaven forbid if you want some ketchup or a couple of napkins. One time I sat at a McDonalds drive thru after they gave me my food because they did not give me any napkins and I just wanted a napkin. They basically threw the food at me slammed the window shut before I could even ask for anything. I sat there for just a minute when the window flew back open and I fully thought the gal would say did we forget something or do you need something. NO they just shoved 2 more bags of food at me not even realizing that they had already served me once. Then she looked at like she didn't even know what a napkin was nobody has ever wanted one of those before. :0

OK now I got myself worked up here. The other thing that bothers me is when they won't let you order. You start your order "I would like ###" and before you even finish your sentence they are already talking. Would you like that in a combo? No Do you want to Biggie Size it? NO Would you like to try our ###? NO OK your total is ### Wait I am not done ordering yet. They never let you finish an order without interrupting you. DRIVES ME NUTS!!!! I guess you just can't make me happy one talks too much and the other doesn't talk enough.

And another thing!!!:) When you are standing at the counter you have already ordered and they are now traying up your order. They say there you go I THINK it is all there. No I need 2 more cokes and 3 more fries and we had a baked potato. They get 2 more cokes and say there you go. I still need 3 more fries and the baked potato. They go over and fuss around with the fries for 3 minutes and finally come back with 2 fries and say there you go. NOOO I still need 1 more fry and a baked potato. Then they look at you like you are and idiot and then proceed to check to receipt to see if that is what you ordered when they just took the order 3 minutes ago. The one thing that doesn't really bother me is if you overcharge me a little bit as long as all the food is there and is right I don't really even pay attention to the amount you charge me. However this is where Chandra comes into play, as Stacy can testify from a trip with Chandra to a McDonalds that tried to over charge her.

It is funny because things that really bother me doesn't bother Chandra at all and the opposite is true. One of the things that just DRIVES HER NUTS is people and places over charging her. I am always surprised though just about every grocery store, clothes store, lumber store, or restaurant over charges you for 1 or more items and Chandra does a good job of keeping track of the prices and asking them when something is not right. Very seldom do you get someone to say Oh I'm sorry about that I will take care of that right away. Usually it is met more with a defensive demeanour as they insist that you are an idiot and they could not possibly be wrong.

If you really want to get me started ask me about insurance companies.:)

Last Weekend

We got up early Saturday morning and headed down towards Cincinnati to see a Castle. Not before going to our usual breakfast place the Waffle House. :)

The Loveland Castle is down in Loveland Ohio which is right next to Mason Ohio. It was a pretty neat place. I was amazed that Sir Harry Andrews built this castle by hand. Jaguar just had to have a dagger that was for sale there. It is just like a perfect sword for his size, although it may be a accident waiting to happen. While we were there we ran into Aunt Krissy and Clayton. They were there sizing the place up to see if they would like to get married there.

After the Castle we went to the Great Wolf Lodge and met up with Stacy & Shane and ALLLL their kids.:) It was a really nice weekend just needed to last a little longer, although we are all exhausted today. Neither one of the kids wanted to get up and go to school after having last week off and then wearing themselves out at the water park. After spending the weekend in a swimming suit I have decided there still is a lot of work to be done on this P90X body. 90 is an A so I guess I should say my P50X body.

The Last Few Days

This is spring break for the kids. :) Yeah !!! Everyone loves spring break. Makes you remember why you don't home school your kids. :)

We have been a little busy around here. I decided to take off some time to try to finish some of the remodeling in our bedroom. We got a little behind in our working out with Easter and everything so first thing Monday morning I said let's work out before we start hanging drywall because I know I won't want to afterwards. Not the greatest idea. I was whooped before we ever got started. By the next morning be were both moving pretty slowly. I had visions of getting all this drywall hung in one day and even mudding some of it. Didn't Happen!!

I think there should be some sort of reality show where they show parents trying to remodel or even work out with 3 kids around. You just haven't experienced Yoga until you done it with a 2 year old grasping a hold of both your legs yelling Ma Ma Ma Ma or some older kids behind you laughing because they can see certain cracks of your body. Heaven forbid if you get a little too loose and a little gas comes out then everyone is rolling on the floor laughing. I worked all day so no drywalling got done today. I have tomorrow off so I will try to get some more done. I am probably not going to work out though:)

Few More Memories

Here are a few more memories over the years.

My sister and her boyfriend eating waffles the entire trip for breakfast. Then the car broke down on the way home and we stayed in a hotel with only a waffle house next door. All of a sudden her boyfriend says he doesn't want to eat at waffle house because he really doesn't care for waffles. I thought my mom or dad one was going to shove a waffle down his throat.

Same trip after spending $1000's of dollars to take all of us my sisters boyfriend informs my parents they still owe him $10. :0

My dad hiding behind the door thinking it was me and Chandra coming into the room and jumping out and yelling BOO at some poor guy who was just bringing up some chocolate covered strawberries for a night snack.

Paul going up to get his breakfast coming back to the table just to find us all sitting there with shirts on that had him doing the claw with a Santa hat on his head. Then Paul thinking Kris added more hair to his arms in the picture when really that is just how hairy his arms are.

My mom trying to give the toll booth gal her dollar and it blows away. My mom starts looking around for another dollar as the toll booth gal is yelling at us just to GO GO GO. So we went but my mom had her head sticking out of the window yelling back at her for the next 1/4 mile "I was going to give you another dollar". :)

My dad always wearing jeans then going on the water rides just to find out the next day he has chaffed himself beyond belief. By the end of the trip he is always walking a little slower.

Granny having a miraculous heeling at WDW. The first day we were pushing her in a wheel chair by the end of the trip we could not keep up with her.

Oinkle Jonny completely blowing up at Prime Time Cafe. I don't think a table has ever been served so fast at WDW as it was that day. Then they gave us free desert and Lexi started crying because she didn't get one of the make your own sundaes everyone else had gotten. The server just came back and said what is it now?

WDW While Pregnant

We went to WDW in December the year before Winnie was born. Chandra was only 7 months pregnant at the time, so you can imagine she was a little uncomfortable to say the least.

It wasn't too bad until we went to the Animal Kingdom and I finally talked Chandra into letting me push her around in a wheel chair because she just could not walk anymore. After a long day at the park Lexi decides she can not walk anymore either so she crawls up on Chandra's already shrinking lap. Now I was pushing 2 (3 if you count baby Winnie) people in the wheel chair. I was just starting to get a little winded when Jag starts to whine that his legs are tired. Chandra quickly pointed out she was already out of room. So now we are only 4-5 miles away from the car and I have Jag on my shoulders while pushing Lexi and Chandra. I have never been so happy to see the car as I was that day.

Rice Krispie Treats

The next memory involves 2 batches of rice krispie treats. This time my mom and dad and me and Chandra were heading down to WDW. We were driving and Chandra decided to make 2 batches of rice krispie treats for the drive. It had gotten late and it was my turn to drive and I decided to get into the rice krispies. Well after a few hundred miles I realized that there were no more rice krispies. CAN YOU SAY PIG!!! No big deal just a few grumbles from the others for being such a pig.

We got to WDW and went to our first meal at the Coral Isle Cafe. We had a nice lunch but for some reason I was not real hungry. During the meal my mom and dad decided to ask me when I was planning on going back to college. I snapped back at them saying this was my vacation too and I wasn't going to discuss it during this trip. Fine everyone dropped it.

Later that evening we had my favorite meal at the castle. I always got the Kings Cut Prime Rib. We got there and I ordered the Kings Cut I could not wait to sink my teeth into the prime rib. As I sat there waiting all of a sudden I realize that I am not feeling real well. My stomach is cramping my mom and dad think I am still mad about the college comment and that is why I am not talking. It had more to do with the fact that I have not went to the restroom since I at the 2 batches of rice krispies. :0

They say that you don't remember pain that once it is over you forget about the pain. Who ever said that has never passed a 5 pound chocolate covered rice krispie treat.

Vacationing

We have been talking a lot around here about some of our vacations over the years. I thought I might share just how screwed up our vacations can get just to try and scare Shane and Stacy since they decided they would join us on our next WDW vacation.

Start the National Lampoons Vacation music here :)

Back when I was pretty young my mom decided to pack me and my sister up and drive down to Texas during the summer to visit my Aunt Mary. Believe it or not we owned the famous station wagon. My aunt Mae and her two kids(Cheri and Billy) came along, and so did my grandma who was on some kind of water pill or something that made stopping at every other exit mandatory.

It wasn't too far along into the trip before little Billy was stinking up the car pretty bad. So the next mandatory restroom break for my grandma his mom insisted he try to go to the bathroom. After about 5 minutes here came my aunt with little Billy in tow and down the road we went as my aunt described how incredibly much the poor little boy had pooped down to the length and diameter of the 2 turds. The worst part is we were all fascinated by the story.

Next we stopped at a hotel for the evening. It had a pool so all of us kids were in our swimming suits in about 2 seconds flat. My mom had gotten her bathing suit on but said she was just going to sit on the side of the pool and dangle her feet in the water. Imagine our surprise when we see her plunge into the water and start digging at her hind end like a dog with mange. :0 She had sat on a crack in the cement which obviously was the home to some very upset fire ants. They were now in her suit biting her like there was no tomorrow. If you think that was the worst part of the story you would be wrong. I spent the rest of the vacation having to examine her hind end every night as she asked me if they looked like they were getting infected. I still have trouble sleeping some nights because of this. :)

The rest of the vacation was pretty good. My aunt Mary thought I was just a little guy so she would only give me 1/2 of a baked potato and a sliver of anything we were eating at the time. She also liked to count the spoonfuls of sugar that I put on my cereal. We did go to a rodeo, a six flags, a horse breeding farm, and the Fort Worth ranch that was the ranch at the beginning of Dallas. I bought a 1/10 of an acre of the ranch, I guess that is my retirement home.

The ride home was uneventful except now my other cousin had to go to the bathroom, why she could not have gone at any of the other hundreds of stops we will never know but she had to go now.

Start the Banjo music now.

We got off of an exit that you could not get back on the highway from. We went to the only gas station around and asked to use the bathroom. They said it was around back. There was no door, which was alright because there were no walls either just a toilet on a concrete slab out behind the gas station. My cousin did her business but the rest of us, even grandma who up till now had used every toilet between here and Texas decided we could wait until the next pit stop.

The best part that I forgot to mention is that grandma was on the water pill because her leg was in a cast. We had a walker tied to the top of the car that we had to take off at every stop. Just about the time we got grandma back in the car and the walker tied back on she had to go to the restroom again.

FUN WAS HAD BY ALL!!!!

Global Warming is Cool

I am not sure how much snow we have gotten but it seems to be enough. We all went outside and played for a while. It was above Wilson's head so he didn't stay out very long. Winnie was having a hard time navigating so Chandra took her inside pretty quickly. Lexi, Jag and I played for a little longer. It was hard just walking in the snow. This is the kind of snow fall that I remember getting when I was a kid. It is still not frozen under the snow so when poor Eli walks out of the barn he sinks in to the mud which puts the snow past the bottom of his belly. I am dreading the middle of this week when this starts to melt we will have a mucky mess, which is where all the horses I will be shoeing will be standing.

The Pool is Open

Jag has been wanting me to open the pool, so as of today the pool is open. All of you are welcome to come and swim. The water is just a little cloudy. Lexi and Jag were sliding off the slide into the pool earlier when they had their snow suits on. It was all fun and games until Jag was running back inside and fell into a snow drift. :0

I just couldn't wait to show off my new P90X body. As you can see there is still a lot of work to be done. Be glad I wasn't wearing my pink speedo. :)

70 Degrees

It was 70 degrees this time last year.

However it was still a crappy day.

It has been a year as of today that Yo Yo had to be put down.

It seems just like a few months ago. This was also the weekend we spent traveling out to Indiana for a wedding. Chandra and Winnie was throwing up most of the way out there and Lexi threw up all the way home. I just kept driving with my head out the window dry heaving every time some one threw up. :) Our van stunk for about a week after we got home.

Change Change Change

All the Presidential nominees are promising change.

Do we really want Obama in the White House begging for Change?

Do we really want Hillary in the White House going through the Change?

Do we want McCain in the White House who just might need to be Changed?

All joking aside who would ever want to be President anyways. On your best day 1/2 of the country thinks you are a moron. There is no respect for the office at all anymore. The media can just out and out lie about you. You have to watch every word you say because anything can be taken out of context at any moment. Why would you ever spend millions of dollars to only make $400,000.00 a year?

Rush Limbaugh was wanting all the Republicans to vote for Hillary today. :0 I was almost going to do it because I do think she would be better than Obama(he really scares me). I quickly come to my senses and asked God to forgive me of my sins. I did not and will not ever vote for a candidate that supports pro-choice. I have faith that God is in control, although I am not sure why he would have any of the 3 of them as President.