Weekend Fun

After work Friday I met the girls at a birthday party where for the first time in their life and mine, we flew a kite. Kinda cool but kinda boring at the same time…weird.

Saturday cancelled outdoor plans with rain so we went to the Florida mall. Almost bought a Mets jersey and t-shirt for the girls but showed some restraint and put them back on the rack. We hit the spots we had to hit, a tour of the Disney store, nothing purchased, the Apple store so they could sit on the kiddie bean bags and play the kiddie games on the iMacs setup for kids usage. Bought a cool Dr. Seuss ABC game. Went to the bookstore which is a favorite place for both kids. Sent the wife to the M&M’s store with the girls while I had my glasses fixed. Bought various candy from Dylan’s Candy Bar. Fun fun and not too expensive.

Saturday night I played hockey and we lost and played a shitty ugly game. The ending was marred by a teammate acting like an asshole and started fighting and other dirtyness to earn a 3 game suspension. Since we have 1 regular season game left before our 3 game playoffs my vote was for him not to come back at all. He acted like a jerk and hurt the rest of us by shortening our roster at a critical time. I hope it was worth it…

Sunday brought more rain, and our only venture out was to get some lunch. Dishes, laundry, finger-painting, baseball and Nascar on TV ensued. There was a funny popcorn incident where my girls and I split a bag of popcorn 80/20 and I sat them at the table. After about 15 minutes later they admitted to making a face in the popcorn with the table salt and pepper by emptying the entire shaker contents into their bowl. Obviously after a few more pieces they were suddenly done with their popcorn. Just some basic average middle america home time fir us suburbanites. Not to mention we are on round 57 of putting the kids back in bed.

The best commercial just came on. It was for a new pill for heartburn called ACIPHEX. That may not seem bad but if you say it aloud as it was pronounced on TV, you’ll hear yourself saying “ass effects.” Whose the braniac that thought of this? You get acid reflux, gerd or some heartburn and they prescribe ass effects with a straight face? HA! So I guess they take your stomach acid and heartburn and redirect it through your ass. Wonderful! The most common side effect possibly related to ACIPHEX is headache. Symptom relief does not rule out other serious stomach conditions. I’m guessing the headache is from squeezing all that heartburn out your ass and the other serious stomach conditions incude musical farting that could be studied in music theory classes at Carnegie.

Hilarious Muppet Bloopers — for your viewing pleasure