Category: fun and games

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Going skiing with buddies

Heck yeah we’re headed to the slopes.  They aren’t but an hour or so from here and they have been making snow for a long time.  It got cold enough to make snow early this year.  Then there’s been several times that it snowed up to 6 inches at a time so there’s man made and real snow on the slopes.

Mom got me some new skis for Christmas and my grandmother got me some new ski clothes too so I would be warm enough.  She worries too much about me.  Well I was her first grandchild and she helped raise me while Mom worked but then when I was almost 8 years old, my sister was born and Mom stayed home and took care of her.  Anyway, I can’t wait to try out my new duds and skis.

The last time we went skiing, Shane fell and ended up rolling head over feet down the hill and then rolled right into a tree.  It was the funniest thing I have ever seen until we realized he had broken his leg.  Then it wasn’t too funny.  He was out of wrestling for the rest of the year too.  That sucked because he’s a great wrestler.  It really hurt the team last year but hopefully nothing like that will happen to any of us this year.

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Back at school

Well I’m back at school and have to work tonight too.  I work as a waiter at TGI Fridays.  I make decent tips there and it’s a good thing too because they sure don’t pay waitstaff much at all.  Besides, I have things I have to pay for like car insurance.  I went online and found a great deal on car insurance and no they don’t have a lizard for their mascot either. 😉

It’s almost amazing what you can find on the Internet if you just keep looking.  I got my new laptop from Dell.com.  It’s a refurbished one but it’s great.  I didn’t have to pay but about 2/3rds of what I would have paid if I had bought a brand new one.  Hey, if I can save a dollar here and there, then I’ve got some to spend on fun.  You know what I’m saying?  I can’t expect my parents to pay for everything like some of the kids up here do.

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Something silly for a change!

In case you haven’t noticed, I tend to be a bit too serious most of the time.  I want to take on the world and make a difference but Rome wasn’t built in a day.  They had to take some time out for pleasure once in awhile.  Maybe not the slaves but the Romans did I’m sure.  I don’t want to be a slave to my ’causes’.  I need to have fun too every once in awhile because like someone told me a few days ago, “All work and no play makes Cody a dull boy.”  We can’t have that now can we?

I’m sure you have seen a cartoon that has a little angel on one shoulder and a little devil on the other.  Usually in the cartoon, the little angel gets knocked off.  Well I had one of those moments yesterday.  I should be ashamed but I still laugh when I think of it.

See I was driving to my local McDonald’s where I love to get the double cheeseburgers.  It had snowed about 8 inches last night so I was being really careful.  Then I saw him up ahead.  This guy had obviously been shoveling snow for quite a while because he had the whole front of his shop shoveled out.  The front of his shop would hold about 6 cars pulled in straight and was just deep enough that the cars didn’t block the sidewalk.  Get the picture?

I don’t know where that little angel went that usually sits on my shoulder but that darn little devil was working overtime.  As the guy was shoveling the last few scoops of snow out into the side of the street, I just couldn’t resist sort of running a little through the snow he had shoveled out of his parking lot.  I had no idea just how much snow would go back into his parking lot but when I looked in my side view mirror, all I saw was a wave of snow covering the man and then the whole parking lot.

I started to go back home a different way because I was afraid he had seen who had done this to him but figured if he came out cursing me, I would help him shovel his parking lot again but all I saw as I went back by was his snow shovel thrown down and he was nowhere to be found.  Did I laugh, heck yeah I laughed my ass off.  It was too funny.