Listy Listy for those who think it's time for me to update, and have told me so, but have not offered a monetary gift to make it happen.  You get what you pay for.

1.   I went to the Bay Bears game Friday night and it lasted  11 innings. I was there for four hours and I froze nearly to death. You would think that this would upset Beej, but I actually had a great time and even watched some of the game in my in between eating times. I had boiled peanuts, a hamburger, a coke (it's the real thing), sunflower seeds and a funnel cake in that order.  I'm pretty sure they lost the game, but then...fireworks my friends.  Fireworks.  Food and Fireworks...great combo.  Oh yeah, and baseball. Whatever.

2.   Litkia's birthday is tomorrow.  She will be 10.  That is two numbers stuck together and I don't like it at all.  We've been on spring break all week so the decision was made that she should get her big present early so she could play with it while she was out of school.  She wanted her own guitar for guitar hero on the Wii so she wouldn't have to share with Pateriko anymore.  We obliged. I struck a bargain with her and told her that if I gave it to her early that she'd have to remain 9 years old and go back to the 4th grade next year.  She was against it.  I softened and said she could go to 5th grade but the staying 9 part was not negotiable and I wouldn't budge on that.  She agreed to stay 9.  I think she's gonna try to be 10 when I'm not looking. Sneaky little thing.

3.   I just want you all to know that I am in constant pain.  Coco has always felt that I'm a hypochondriac. If I am, I get it honestly from my father (back me up CB). Anyhoo, I was told many moons ago by someone of the medical persuasion, that I had bursitis, which sounds to me like something a very old person might have.  We all know that Beej is very young (shut up) and that if it actually is bursitis, it was probably also inherited from some ancestor who had no respect for the future generations of his family. I find that two Aleve in the morning will make me forget it for most of the day, but I was reading the bottle and words like "stomach bleeding" and "wheezing" and "shock" kept jumping out at me. Dirty Larry bought me a new bottle yesterday.  It was a big one - 100 tablets.  Reckon he's trying to do away with me?  He gets less and less shiny every time I talk about him.

4.   Back when I was in high school, I was forced by the various clubs of which I was a member, to sell chocolate for fund raising. Today, I am remembering those chocolate covered almonds and I'm longing for them. I've never again tasted a better chocolate covered almond than those made by World's Finest Chocolate.  Do you think I'll have to start a club and do fund raising to ever taste them again?

That is all.

Beej