Monday, December 12, 2011
When my Jayden; now age twelve was in diapers, I said
in front of my mother and someone else; maybe Brent, “My grandson wears Huggies and mother wears hugies,” to which my mother got angry.
Fortunately I learned years ago not to take myself serious and to laugh at myself.
Lately; the last couple of years, I have been having more and more trouble with leakage and the last year or so I have been acting out my dreams, kicking and trashing. One time I threw myself out of bed and landed on the floor hurting myself slightly. A couple of times I dreamed I was going to the bathroom. One of those times I woke up in time and one time I didn’t.
The night before last I told Judy that I was having problems and that the day before I went to the bathroom to discover via evidence that I had wet my pants semi-severely and didn’t even know it until I saw the evidence, who knows how long after the fact.
Judy went out and bought me a bag of L-XL adult, male diapers. I expected some huge things that showed unless I was wearing a mumu and which made me bowlegged. Thankfully they are very comfortable and I feel much more at ease wearing them.
The only drawback is that I have to drop everything to go number one.
No photos forthcoming.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Thursday, December 08, 2011
RAPPING or WRAPPING
Thursday, December 08, 2011
Last night Judy and I were at Niki and Greg’s. Judy helped Niki wrap Christmas gifts while I distracted Alexa and Gavin.
By the way, Niki is huge with child. Gracie or whatever her name is couldn’t come too soon to suit the mother.
Niki had made Lion House recipe chicken noodle soup. Good stuff!
Alexa ended up helping with the wrapping of the things that aren’t from Santa. Mostly taking them from the home office into the living room and putting them under the Christmas tree.
At one point Niki was complaining about being tired. Judy said that she was tired too.
Alexa said, “Mom, you go to bed. Grandma, go home. I can wrap the rest of the presents.”
I guess someone asked her if she knew how to wrap presents. She said, “Yes, you cut paper, wrap it around the present, put some tape on it and put a bow on it.”
It would interesting to see a five year old do it on her own and have it turn out looking nice.
At least she’s thinking.
Greg had gotten into his grubbies ready to paint the toy room upstairs in preparation for it being Alexa’s room so the new baby can have Alexa’s old one. He had no sooner gotten ready when Scott, a neighbor called saying he had an extra ticket to the University of Utah basketball game and invited him to go with him.
I don’t know how much of good time he had; the Utes got killed; again; this time by Cal State Fullerton. They have the worst record in school history.
(BYU again blew out their opponent [Weber State]. BYU and Utah play each other Saturday if I remember correctly.)
Gavin and I played and had a good time. He has a red plastic toy camera and he was pretending to take pictures of me. He kept telling me to say cheese, pushing the button then handing me the cheese. When you push the shutter button a little piece of plastic cheese pops up. After a while he announced, “I’m going to take (the camera) into my workshop and fix it.” He left the room for a minute then came back and told me that it was fixed.
Later we were in the toy room upstairs playing “library.” He told me we had to be quiet in the library. He got a couple of books and turned the pages. Then he said, “Those (imaginary) kids are being bad. I’m going to take their book away from them.”
He walked across the room, picked a book up off the floor and put it up on a shelf.
I wonder if they have a library in his preschool.
In all fairness to the Utes I am adding what Wikipedia has to say about the Utes.
1. Utah Utes men's basketball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Utes_men's_basketball
The University of Utah Utes have consistently been one of the most successful basketball programs in the NCAA.
Last night Judy and I were at Niki and Greg’s. Judy helped Niki wrap Christmas gifts while I distracted Alexa and Gavin.
By the way, Niki is huge with child. Gracie or whatever her name is couldn’t come too soon to suit the mother.
Niki had made Lion House recipe chicken noodle soup. Good stuff!
Alexa ended up helping with the wrapping of the things that aren’t from Santa. Mostly taking them from the home office into the living room and putting them under the Christmas tree.
At one point Niki was complaining about being tired. Judy said that she was tired too.
Alexa said, “Mom, you go to bed. Grandma, go home. I can wrap the rest of the presents.”
I guess someone asked her if she knew how to wrap presents. She said, “Yes, you cut paper, wrap it around the present, put some tape on it and put a bow on it.”
It would interesting to see a five year old do it on her own and have it turn out looking nice.
At least she’s thinking.
Greg had gotten into his grubbies ready to paint the toy room upstairs in preparation for it being Alexa’s room so the new baby can have Alexa’s old one. He had no sooner gotten ready when Scott, a neighbor called saying he had an extra ticket to the University of Utah basketball game and invited him to go with him.
I don’t know how much of good time he had; the Utes got killed; again; this time by Cal State Fullerton. They have the worst record in school history.
(BYU again blew out their opponent [Weber State]. BYU and Utah play each other Saturday if I remember correctly.)
Gavin and I played and had a good time. He has a red plastic toy camera and he was pretending to take pictures of me. He kept telling me to say cheese, pushing the button then handing me the cheese. When you push the shutter button a little piece of plastic cheese pops up. After a while he announced, “I’m going to take (the camera) into my workshop and fix it.” He left the room for a minute then came back and told me that it was fixed.
Later we were in the toy room upstairs playing “library.” He told me we had to be quiet in the library. He got a couple of books and turned the pages. Then he said, “Those (imaginary) kids are being bad. I’m going to take their book away from them.”
He walked across the room, picked a book up off the floor and put it up on a shelf.
I wonder if they have a library in his preschool.
In all fairness to the Utes I am adding what Wikipedia has to say about the Utes.
1. Utah Utes men's basketball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Utes_men's_basketball
The University of Utah Utes have consistently been one of the most successful basketball programs in the NCAA.
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Oh, The Weather Outside is Frightful!
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Last night at dinner we got talking about the weather; how cold it is. After a moment Jayden said that he wants to go back to Hawai’i, come home ever so often, turn in his homework, get new homework and go back to the islands.
Last night at dinner we got talking about the weather; how cold it is. After a moment Jayden said that he wants to go back to Hawai’i, come home ever so often, turn in his homework, get new homework and go back to the islands.
Monday, December 05, 2011
BLANK at The BANK
Monday, December 05, 2011
Obviously there has not been a lot to talk about. I have spent a lot of time not feeling on top of the world. Often I have not felt well or else the medications I take make me groggy. What a life. I wish I could live in a warm humid place at sea level. I seem to always feel well in those places.
I keep asking the Lord to grant me this wish but I feel like I am being ignored. I ask for a number of things…same results.
Depressing!
On a lighter note I was talking to Corey on the phone today. He pulled into his bank’s drive thru, placed a check in the tube and pushed SEND. He was so distracted by the phone conversation, he drove away.
A few moments later he realized what he had done and went back to the bank.
Oh yea, Stacey is "dying" for sushi. She told me that if Corey decides to go to Simply Sushi (or just Simply a we often say) (all you can eat) on Thursday that she wants to go with us. We do Thursdays because that is the manager's day off and Apple will make us special rolls that are not on the lunch menu. Lunch is $5.00 less than dinner.
Obviously there has not been a lot to talk about. I have spent a lot of time not feeling on top of the world. Often I have not felt well or else the medications I take make me groggy. What a life. I wish I could live in a warm humid place at sea level. I seem to always feel well in those places.
I keep asking the Lord to grant me this wish but I feel like I am being ignored. I ask for a number of things…same results.
Depressing!
On a lighter note I was talking to Corey on the phone today. He pulled into his bank’s drive thru, placed a check in the tube and pushed SEND. He was so distracted by the phone conversation, he drove away.
A few moments later he realized what he had done and went back to the bank.
Oh yea, Stacey is "dying" for sushi. She told me that if Corey decides to go to Simply Sushi (or just Simply a we often say) (all you can eat) on Thursday that she wants to go with us. We do Thursdays because that is the manager's day off and Apple will make us special rolls that are not on the lunch menu. Lunch is $5.00 less than dinner.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
TURKEY DAY EVE
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Yesterday:
We all met at Chucky Cheese’s for a pizza birthday party for Wyatt and Cades birthday party. They and Lynn are in town for Thanksgiving.
Today:
Jim is in town for Thanksgiving. He and his kids met Judy, Niki, Alexa, Gavin and me at Winger’s at 13400 S. and Bangerter for dinner. Austin and Molly were there first. (Austin finally has a car; a 1994 (I think) Saturn and loving it. Jim and I were there next.
We weren’t there long when Niki called. She was in the parking lot with both kids asleep in their car seats. She asked if I would get Alexa which of course I did. Alexa soon woke up and sat next to Molly and was soon jabbering and giggling. I ended up holding Gavin the whole time. Near the end Gavin was pretending to be asleep, wasn’t totally awake.
When we were done, I put Gavin back in the car and they left.
A little later Niki texted me and said, “Gavin said ‘I like it when Grandpa puts me in the car. He is my buddy’”.
While we were eating, Niki mentioned that Gavin mumbled while he was falling asleep, “When is Grandpa going to take me to see the dinosaurs?”
After dinner, Judy and Molly and Alexa stopped at Wal-Mart and picked up Bailey and Jayden. Obviously we are going to have a noisy house tonight.
Yesterday:
We all met at Chucky Cheese’s for a pizza birthday party for Wyatt and Cades birthday party. They and Lynn are in town for Thanksgiving.
Today:
Jim is in town for Thanksgiving. He and his kids met Judy, Niki, Alexa, Gavin and me at Winger’s at 13400 S. and Bangerter for dinner. Austin and Molly were there first. (Austin finally has a car; a 1994 (I think) Saturn and loving it. Jim and I were there next.
We weren’t there long when Niki called. She was in the parking lot with both kids asleep in their car seats. She asked if I would get Alexa which of course I did. Alexa soon woke up and sat next to Molly and was soon jabbering and giggling. I ended up holding Gavin the whole time. Near the end Gavin was pretending to be asleep, wasn’t totally awake.
When we were done, I put Gavin back in the car and they left.
A little later Niki texted me and said, “Gavin said ‘I like it when Grandpa puts me in the car. He is my buddy’”.
While we were eating, Niki mentioned that Gavin mumbled while he was falling asleep, “When is Grandpa going to take me to see the dinosaurs?”
After dinner, Judy and Molly and Alexa stopped at Wal-Mart and picked up Bailey and Jayden. Obviously we are going to have a noisy house tonight.
Friday, November 11, 2011
CHRISTINA...
I haven’t felt good for days. I keep thinking that I have the flu and a bit of a cold but, neither one, especially the sniffles is really bad…but my intestinal system and related areas feels quite squeamish albeit right after I eat I feel quite a bit better tummy-wise for a half hour or an hour or so.
I felt fine the whole time we were on Kaua’i. I think the altitude and humidity and warm weather is a factor. It seems I always feel better on a cruise and in Barcelona.
I keep praying for the ability to pop back and forth between places and be a gadzillionaire but so far nothing has happened. I don’t know if they are laughing at me “up stairs” or just ignoring me. I feel bad that they don’t give me some form of communication.
Anyway, the main/real reason of writing tonight is the following:
Corey called and said that they “are going” to the Hibachi Restaurant by the Texas Roadhouse in Lehi and asked if I wanted to join them seeing that Judy and Julie were doing a girls night out tonight.
Jayden has been wishing that he could take “Christina” away from another boy. I forgot his name. While we were eating and no one was watching, Jayden put one hand up to his mouth to make sure no one could hear him then whispered to me that he and Christina are now dating/going out or whatever the term is today.
I no sooner made my vow to secrecy than he started throwing out hints to his mom and dad.
Funny boy.
In the forth grade it was Izzy, no one in the fifty now in the sixth it is Christina…at least for now.
I felt fine the whole time we were on Kaua’i. I think the altitude and humidity and warm weather is a factor. It seems I always feel better on a cruise and in Barcelona.
I keep praying for the ability to pop back and forth between places and be a gadzillionaire but so far nothing has happened. I don’t know if they are laughing at me “up stairs” or just ignoring me. I feel bad that they don’t give me some form of communication.
Anyway, the main/real reason of writing tonight is the following:
Corey called and said that they “are going” to the Hibachi Restaurant by the Texas Roadhouse in Lehi and asked if I wanted to join them seeing that Judy and Julie were doing a girls night out tonight.
Jayden has been wishing that he could take “Christina” away from another boy. I forgot his name. While we were eating and no one was watching, Jayden put one hand up to his mouth to make sure no one could hear him then whispered to me that he and Christina are now dating/going out or whatever the term is today.
I no sooner made my vow to secrecy than he started throwing out hints to his mom and dad.
Funny boy.
In the forth grade it was Izzy, no one in the fifty now in the sixth it is Christina…at least for now.
Monday, November 07, 2011
Chris’ birthday #43
Today is Chris’ birthday so yesterday he, Sierra and Mark, Corey and his family and Niki and Alexa were over for a birthday dinner.
As usual lately, Corey and his group showed up first and he and Stacey went right to the kitchen and started working chopping and skewering etc. Corey, I think, has become the “official” barbequer.
We ate chicken kabobs and roasted potatoes and squash and a myriad of other goodies.
Later in the evening Chris put a DVD of various family doings including of Walt Disney World on the TV and we all had a good laugh. Bailey really enjoyed the parts about her at Disney World.
At one point Niki who is eight months along and has dropped was laughing so hard that “Baby” was bouncing up and down like a basketball. I, of course, pointed it out to which Chris ran and got his camera and things escalated from there.
Early into the video there were several dance recitals of Alexa when she was really little and was spending more time tying her shoes and watching the other girls than she was dancing. She got a kick out of watching it and started dancing “live” in front of the giant TV. As I mentioned in an earlier report, for a five year-old she really has some moves.
For about ten minutes of the video there was a “horror movie” made by Sierra and Molly a few years ago. What a couple of goofs. At the end Molly was hanging from my “ducky” tie in the shower with Ketchup splattered all over the walls of the shower to represent blood.
Later Stacey posted the following on facebook:
"I am thankful for my family we had a dinner tonight and we laughed so hard."
As usual lately, Corey and his group showed up first and he and Stacey went right to the kitchen and started working chopping and skewering etc. Corey, I think, has become the “official” barbequer.
We ate chicken kabobs and roasted potatoes and squash and a myriad of other goodies.
Later in the evening Chris put a DVD of various family doings including of Walt Disney World on the TV and we all had a good laugh. Bailey really enjoyed the parts about her at Disney World.
At one point Niki who is eight months along and has dropped was laughing so hard that “Baby” was bouncing up and down like a basketball. I, of course, pointed it out to which Chris ran and got his camera and things escalated from there.
Early into the video there were several dance recitals of Alexa when she was really little and was spending more time tying her shoes and watching the other girls than she was dancing. She got a kick out of watching it and started dancing “live” in front of the giant TV. As I mentioned in an earlier report, for a five year-old she really has some moves.
For about ten minutes of the video there was a “horror movie” made by Sierra and Molly a few years ago. What a couple of goofs. At the end Molly was hanging from my “ducky” tie in the shower with Ketchup splattered all over the walls of the shower to represent blood.
Later Stacey posted the following on facebook:
"I am thankful for my family we had a dinner tonight and we laughed so hard."
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