Friday 5

I found this fun website this week. Friday5 posts 5 questions each Friday for anyone to answer. This week's happens to be based on Taboo - a game on my list of top 5 board games!

Your task is simply to answer these five questions without using any of the Taboo words or phrases. Challenge yourself not just to avoid using the words, but to think of fresh, new answers to these sort of cliched meme questions!

Who’s making a positive difference in your life?
Taboo words: friends, family, husband/wife/spouse, boyfriend/girlfriend.
~ Other than the obvious "the Lord"? Ok, this one is kind of out there. Someone I knew in college has a blog about politics and it's making me more interested and aware of the nation's government. I think that's a positive thing...

Where would you like to be right now?
Taboo words: home, bed, anywhere but here.
~Outside. In a kayak.

What’s the first thing you’d do with a $5,000 (or your local equivalent) gift?
Taboo words: save, debt, vacation, payments, invest.
~Oh my goodness - I don't know. Umm... buy a plane ticket to LA to visit a friend (because that's the mood I'm in right now.)

What super-power would you really like to have?
Taboo words: invisibility, x-ray vision, flying, strength, transform.
~To beam myself places. I'm not a fan of the journey, I'd much rather just be there already.

What’s your favorite sound?
Taboo words: laughter, music, ocean, wind, ____’s voice.
~Thunderstorms!! Love 'em!

Nap time.

Yes... this post is about little plastic bags.

Remember that bungie cord clothesline your mom got you before you left for Europe for two weeks, so you could wash and dry some clothes while traveling? Then you put it in a drawer. And in that drawer, the bungie-cord clothesline made it to college and back four times, to an apartment and finally to your new home. Knowing it would come in handy someday, but wondering when the next time you would actually need to dry clothes in a hotel room, you realize it's not only good for clothes but also...

Baggies!

(Guess I let the dirty baggies pile up a bit to long.)

Entertainment

Hey, let's jump and take a picture of it.

Umm... watch out for the volleyball, that could hurt.

Girl on the left says: Hey, this is fun.
Here's another idea. Let's go get ugly clothes and jump in those.

Frame #1: Ready, set...


Ahhhh!! Weee!!!

Frame #2: Jump!









Ugh.
Frame #3: The landing.












Never said jumping pictures were attractive, just fun.
In conclusion, jumping pictures, fun to take and fun to look at.

And I'm off...

... for another weekend of fun!

I have a very exciting announcement.

And here it is...
That's right, we can run water down the drain in the kitchen!!!
Hope I didn't get you too worked up. Tried to pull a "James"* with that one.
But this is very exciting, and let me tell you why. No more blue bowl in the sink, no more taking it outside every 5 minutes when cooking, no more dishes in the bath tub, no more 2-week-old dirty dishes in the dishwasher!!

This pipe quit doing it's job two weeks ago. After lots of digging, some major sawing, sewer water in our basement (again), we figured out why.

Welcome, brand new, fully functioning, modern PVC pipe. I'm very glad you're here!

*FYI: James is a friend here in Topeka who often says "My wife and I have an announcement..." at which point friends start to get wide-eyed, excited smiles. Then he finishes "We're getting a new dryer." or "We're having a cook-out" rather than the anticipated "we're going to have a baby."

'Tis the season.

"I still don't think fireworks are worth paying money for, but if I had to buy some, those would be the kind."

I said this to Ryan yesterday as we wandered though a fireworks tent. I was speaking of those little buzzy things that spin and fly into the air.

We had some friends over yesterday to eat, hang out and light some fireworks. I'm finally beginning to see how people actually find them fun.