So here's a long post for today, and I promise a joke at the end. A joke! At the end! So maybe not so much like make-up sex (I hope, for your sake).
My dear, dear Sony is currently sitting in my LaSabre at a garage while my car is getting repaired... we took it in for a $400 pump thingy and it's turned into a $2,000+ whatever thingy. Shit.
We dropped the car off yesterday afternoon late, and I was home before I realized my camera was still in it. I am missing my Sony. I take it with me everywhere I go, usually. Since I've had it since May of 2006, it's basically a really old fart of a digital camera now... and she's been through some rough times. I lost the button to push to take a photo over a year ago, and handily set up a paperclip to work instead. Works fine, and cheaper than what they wanted to repair it. But this past Saturday morning, while at Sammy's last football game of the season, I dropped my Sony. From the very top of the bleachers all the way down to the bottom underneath onto pavement. So now I'm missing the wheel to change selections and the push thingy for zoom. But the stem of the wheel thingy is still in place, and I can turn that, so that's ok. And another paperclip can be utilized to zoom in and out (I used a safety pin at the game).
Seriously, is that one helluva camera or what?! Still works great. I took a ton of photos at Sammy's game... here's our Big No. 68 on the team...
And in this one, he's the one nearly horizontal, next to No. 24 on top of some opponents dressed in blue.
Go Sammy! It was an awesome game. The team they played has remained undefeated for the past 3 years we've played them and all this season... until Saturday when our boys beat 'em. Whoo hoo.
After the game, Sam and Kev left for Ann Arbor to go to the U of M and State game. They had a blast. Kev wore his Michigan garb and Sammy his State, and they watched State win. I stayed home, alone because Joycie & Mike were with Mike's family at a wedding in Kalamazoo. So I made a cake for Sammy...
Then Sunday, Kathy called me on her way home from Mt. Pleasant, heading west on a rainy, stormy cloudy day, shot with sunshine here and there. She was fortunate to see one of the most outstanding rainbows she's ever seen, vibrant colors. Plus a triple rainbow, and then further west, the vibrant rainbow from end to end, the whole arc. I told her, see that's why I take my camera with me everywhere I go! And I ran outside into the cold wet grass and out by the pond, but no rainbows to behold at our house. It was pretty, though, and windy. Sunshine came through for a little bit.
And Reilly came out to greet me...
But I could almost hear him thinking, are ye daft, girl? it's freezing out here. Right you are, old boy. In we went.
Kev bought me a present this past week, as a sweet surprise. This is my new CO2 BB gun.
Works great and I can pop those chipmunks and squirrels in the butt and they know I mean business now. I love it.
And I have a funny story with Kev... the other evening we sat down to watch a recorded episode of CSI, it was Episode 2 of Season 9, and I was reading the description about it, how a girl jumps to her death from a tall building and lands on a bus... and I said something like, well, this sounds... and before I could finish, Kev says, "flattering?"...
Well, it cracked me up.
The other day, I had this e-mail conversation with a guy I work with... something else that made me laugh...
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From: Julie
To: JT
JT & A. , I need to skip today's update meeting. Sorry for the short notice. I was out sick yesterday & Tuesday, and now have some urgent catching up to do.
Thanks,
Julie
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From: JT
To: Julie
Hi Julie - I hope you're doing okay now. Was your dementia acting up again? Ugh :(
Try not to press yourself, k?
I know I have a ton of things to respond to you on; just have to unbury myself from qtr end & that transfer I did for ya.
Talk to you soon
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From: Julie
To: JT
Oh, JT, you just provided me with what will likely be my only laugh of the day!!!!!!
I have vertigo, not dementia! Though maybe dementia ain't that far away in my future.............
I think I had a stomach flu, combined with the still present vertigo. It was yukky.
I owe you stuff, too. Maybe we can talk one day next week.
Have a good day!!!
Julie
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From: JT
To: Julie
Y'know, as soon as I sent that reply, I knew it was wrong - duh!
Hee-hee; glad you're better though :)
You have a good day too!
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From: Julie
To: JT
I wonder if I could retire early if I have dementia..........
What were we talking about?
Who are you, again?
Where am I?
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From: JT
To: Julie
Can you hear me now?
And now for the joke I promised:
A cabbie picks up a Nun. She gets into the cab, and notices that the VERY handsome cab driver won't stop staring at her. She asks him why he is staring. He replies: 'I have a question to ask you but I don't want to offend you.' She answers, 'My son, you cannot offend me. When you're as old as I am and have been a nun as long as I have, you get a chance to see and hear just about everything. I'm sure that there's nothing you could say or ask that I would find offensive. ''Well, I've always had a fantasy to have a nun kiss me.' She responds, 'Well, let's see what we can do about that: first, you have to be single and second, you must be Catholic.' The cab driver is very excited and says, 'Yes, I'm single and Catholic!' 'OK' the nun says. 'Pull into the next alley.' The nun fulfills his fantasy, with a kiss that would make a hooker blush, But when they get back on the road, the cab driver starts crying. 'My dear child,' says the nun, 'why are you crying?' 'Forgive me but I've sinned. I lied and I must confess, I'm married and I'm Jewish. 'The nun says, 'That's OK. My name is Kevin and I'm going to a Halloween party.'
