Halloween 3

Well tonight is the big night!  Happy Halloween everyone.  First, old business (read my previous halloween 2 blog)  My wife and her sister searched the house and found a blue rosary and an envolpe with her gold filling.  Now, I'm not sure if that's what the psychics were talking about, but we would have overlooked those two things had it not been for them bringing this to our attention.  I don't know if I'm a true believer yet.  This did lead to allot of discussion on being dead.  Like do you get a period of time to wrap things up, view or appear to your loved ones that are still alive and what are the rules for haunting?  I never bought much into the psychic thing but I'm becoming more open to it after this and some other things that I've seen and heard.

Now for a second story from my youth.  If you are able to secure a mannequin you can do lots of great pranks with it.  The first one is to put in a closet and prop it so that it falls as the doors open.  Remove legs and arms and place under couches, beds etc...  If you live in an apartment or dorm, tie a rope around it and lower in front of someone's window.  If they don't see it right away swing it into the window, but be careful not to break the window.  Finally place it inside facing a street side window during a lighting storm.  When the lighting flashes people will see it just for a second and scream.(this does work I know from personal experience)

Whatever you do to scare people just have fun and enjoy.  If someone scares you don't get angry just enjoy the rush.  Halloween is that one time of year when we can enjoy tricks or treats, speaking of treats, I need to inspect the candy to make sure its edible.  Happy Halloween!(Insert Peanuts Great Pumpkin Music here)

Halloween 2

This is a true Halloween story that just happened.  A relation of mine went to the Stanley Hotel this weekend.  The Stanley is in Estes,Co and is know to be very haunted.  I've been there several times and actually spent part of my honeymoon there(insert your own joke here) 

At the hotel, they give ghost tours to the public.  My relative went on one of these and while on it, became very weak.  She had to sit down, while she was recovering two people on the tour told her that it was urgent they spoke with her after the tour.  These two turned out to be psychics unknown to my relative.  Recently, she lost her mother unexpectantly and they claimed that her mother was contacting them. 

They relayed that she was very happy and wanted to thank her for taking care of the funeral arrangements and etc...Next week they will be having a estate sell of her mothers belongings.  Her mother wanted her to retrieve two objects that she didn't want sold.  A blue bracelet given to her by her long departed husband and a envelope along with a vague idea where they may be.

She then called my wife from Colorado (we live in another state) and told her about what the psychics had said.  My wife and her sister are looking this very moment.  Will they find anything?  This is my cliff hanger!  I will fill you in on the rest on the actual day of Halloween.  If this turns out to be Al Capone's vault I'll tell you another true psychic tale that will raise the hairs on your neck.  Stay tune (insert evil laugh)

Halloween

Happy Halloween!

When I was a young we went to great lengths to scare people.  One of my favorites (which I helped in several times) Was to find a remote park or cemetery. 

We would have at least 3 guys involved.  Guy 1 would drive his date to said park or cemetery to lets just say watch the submarine races. (a Happy Days reference for necking)  Guy 2 would be laying dead near a tree at said meeting point not to far from where Guy1 would park.  He would be laying down covered in blood.(fake blood)  Guy 1 would say to his date 'Look at that, stay here and lock the doors!"  Guy 1 would get out of the car and head towards Guy 2.  Guy 3 (feel free to wear a mask or use a prop ax) would then come out from behind the tree and pretend to kill Guy 1.  While killing him Guy 1 would slip Guy 3 his car keys.  Guy 3 then would walk to the front of the car, where date is screaming, crying etc... but thinking she is safe because the car is locked.  Then Guy 3 would dangle the car keys in front of him.  If you aren't mean you can then end the process here.  If not continue to the car. 

BEWARE - Date may be smart and honk the car horn (shout out to Vicki), mace you or call the cops on her cell phone.(we didn't have cell phones back then)  Also she may not want to date you after you try this.

Soda Kills?

Let me go on record as saying I love pop, soda, coke, cold drink and whatever else you people call it.  I tend to drink two to three cups a day anywhere from 16oz to 32 oz.  I try to always drink diet, but sometimes I'll stray to try a new flavor.

Pop has been blamed for making us fat, keeping us up, giving us gas and now the so called experts are saying it causes violent tendencies in children.

Now this study was done on 1,900 Boston teenagers.  Really!  Now I might be doing a little profiling but aren't Boston teens already know for busting a few heads.  Why didn't they pick on 1,900 kids from Canada (I chose them because they are suppose to be so polite.)  Nearly 43 percent of teens who drank 14 or more cans of soda a week said they carried a weapon at some point, compared with 23 percent of teens who drank less than one can of soda a week.  Nearly 30 percent of the ninth to 12th graders said they drank more than five cans of soda a week.

I'm old school, pop was a treat when I was in High School.  We would get some at grandpa and grandma's due to the fact that they always had 7-Up around to mix with adult beveridges.  My mother would buy it once in awhile usually a 2-liter on sale for 69 cents.  That would have to last the three of us for at least a week, sometimes more.  So were we violent?  Heck Yes!  Back then it was due to all the violent cartoons like Bugs Bunny and Road Runner.  That and the two bowls of sugar we had every Saturday morning.

Video games, sport stars (who aren't role models) and T.V. are other things the so called experts have blamed.  They will always find something to blame it on but the real reason...Teenagers are just nuts - now thats some research I can get behind!

Ice Ice Baby!

You probably have heard this joke "Why can't they make ice at the University of Iowa?...  They lost the recipe!  (Sorry IA, I used to use Oklahoma, but we are in the Big Ten now and you are a rival.) 

I'm sitting here chewing on ice from Sonic Drive-In.  I don't know if you have a Sonic near you or if you have ever tried their ice, but if you haven't and you like ice - GO NOW!

I have to have ice.  I think because my body is always hot, if I don't put ice in it, I will burst into flames... really!  So, I have tried all kinds of ice from California to South Africa.  Sonic ice is like crack or maybe meth.  I haven't tried crack or meth but it is very addictive.

I have very sensitive teeth, just ask my dentist.  I have to use gas just to have the hygienist clean my teeth.  Yet I will chew a whole glass of Sonic ice.

Know I'm am not being paid by Sonic as a spokesman.  I'm kinda mad at them I used to have one very close to me and they shut down.  Its a Godfathers now. (Might of been a mob thing, not sure?)  I have to go way out of my normal route to score a bag now.

So my friends at the University of Iowa stop off and by some ice at Sonic until you find that recipe.  Who would have ever thought we would be buying bottled water and ice... Another topic another day.
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Happy Days

My wife and I like to play a game, where we get each other stuck on a song that we sing for the rest of the day.  I call it "Song Inception."  (please suggest other titles if you play)  Todays song was Happy Days. You know: 
Sunday, Monday, Happy Days.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Happy Days.
Thursday, Friday, Happy Days.
The weekend comes,
My cycle hums,
Ready to race to you.

(For the younger kids this was a theme song to a popular T.V. show about the fifties.)

We don't limit it to just T.V. theme songs, it can be anything from popular music to commercial jingles like "I'm a Pepper, your a Pepper wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too?"

Well feel free to play with anyone you want and hopefully I've just planted a song in your head you will be singing today.  (Insert evil laugh)

Garage Sales

One man's junk is another man's treasure.  This really applies when you are selling all the junk you don't want to some poor sucker who will sell it in his garage a year from now.

Today was our garage sale.  I swore I would never get roped into this again, but here I am on a nice fall football day letting complete strangers into my garage.

This garage sale thing is a real love -hate thing.  I love selling my junk, but hate getting it ready to sell.  I love to go to other peoples garage's and look at their junk, but hate sitting all morning in my garage when I could be in your garage.

I was lucky this time, my wife thought I was being to friendly (Husker Football talk) so I was banished to my Man Cave which is just an upgraded garage and no none of my man cave junk is for sale!

Inspired!

This is my very first blog so lets get the legal stuff out of the way.  I'm not a trained writer, wordsmith, or journalist.  So when and I do mean when I butcher the English language, spelling, structure and grammar I don't want to hear about it because I just warned you I would do it.

So how was that inspiring?  It wasn't!  What inspired me to do this was my daughter-in-law's blog.  Which is http://justcallmege.blogspot.com/  please read it because its much better than mine. 

So why should anyone read this blog?  Well I will try to be entertaining and I hope it will be something for me to look back on and go "What the heck were you thinking?" you know when I'm old.

So thanks for the inspiration Ge!  I just hope the rest of the world is ready?