Sardines

My husband got home from work early today and decided to treat us to supper at our favorite little Chinese Restaurant. We had to go in his little pickup.  We all did manage to fit in his truck, poor Anna was squished in between us.  The Chinese Restaurant we like to go to is probably not the best or even the second best in our are, but it is a buffet and it is cheap, and the family that runs it is very sweet.  It being a buffet is very important because my husband is a very hungry man when he gets home from work, and he has to work hard to maintain his burliness.  When we were heading home after our outing, it seemed like there was less room in the truck.  We felt more like sardines than people.  I happened to mention that we were all a bit bigger than we were before we ate.  The response I got was “Not that much bigger, now scoot over I only have one cheek on the seat.”  At that point, while he had only one cheek on the seat and we were all squeezed together, and he was driving down the road, my husband decides that it would be a good time to start singing and doing is boy band moves.  I am not sure how it happened but by the time we got home, I had a door handle poking me in the rear end and Anna kept talking about how awful it would be if one of us passed gas while we were all in that tiny truck.

Golden Ticket

I felt like I was in the movie “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (the original one) tonight.  My daughter is a huge Justin Bieber fan.  She has been waiting, impatiently, for when she could get his new cd.  Tonight while we were out she was able to purchase it.  What I did not realize is that there are Golden Tickets hidden in some of the Justin Bieber cds.  If you happen to find a Golden Ticket, you might just have one that you can instantly win a prize with.  If you do not win an instant prize with your Golden Ticket  your ticket number is placed in the mix for a future drawing.  Just like Charlie, in “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”, Anna dearly wanted one of those Golden Tickets.  Just the other night she had told her father that she really wished she could have one.  So when she opened the CD packaging and saw the Golden Ticket she was stunned into silence.  As soon as we got home, she entered her Golden Ticket number to see if she was one of the instant winning lucky few.  Unfortunately she was not.  The cute thing was, this did not diminish her joy at finding one of the Golden Tickets.  I happened to mention she ought to frame it and she thought that was a totally terrific idea.

Time To Spread The Stinky

It is spring, the weather is warming up, and I live in the country.  I know what you are thinking, you are jealous that I live where I live this time of year, when the flowers are starting bloom or bud, and the birds are chirping and it is just so pretty outside.  There is one little detail that I left out.  It is also the time of year when the farmers, spread chicken manure all over their fields.  Fortunately our neighbors have not done that yet.  When we were out and about this evening, we had decided that the weather was so nice that we would roll down the truck windows as were were driving.  This proved to be a very poor decision.  Several of the farms we passed had already spread the stinky manure on their fields.  Which meant that when we passed the farms, the smell of stinky chicken poo would invade our truck.  Rolling up the window did not help, by that time the smell was already trapped inside the truck, so we just left the windows open, holding our noses until we out ran the stink.

I hope you enjoyed my ramblings, Neighbors.