MADLIBS! and other fun

 

I’ve never been more huge.  My baseball team, the Orange Motorcycles was about to play the championship game. But Coach Vincenzo announced that the official rules had changed!  First, every player would puke 24 times before going to bat.  We also had to wear our gloves on our brains like jerseys and run like a Meer cat. Before Coach could explain more the umpire shouted Jump ball! The umpire tossed me our new official bat, a helmet. When the school goer threw the new official ball, a grapefruit, it zoomed past me and swam all over the catcher.  After 25 tries, I finally hit the grapefruit all the way to India. I started running as fast as I could until I slid into home base. This new game isn’t so slimy after all.

                              ~Greyson, Aug 8, 2011, National Geographic Kids

I planned to tell you about my garage/yard/rummage/shoot-me-now-I-hate-this sale and how stressed out I was preparing for it in between late night conference calls with India and tired after it was over and about all the crazy people who stopped by to haggle (“you marked this for $3, will you take a buck?”…um, “sure”).  I could regale you for a good long while but I changed my mind.  I made a profit and I’m over it.

The Blue Angels @ Seafair were the highlight of our weekend, not the damn garage sale. I played hooky from work on Friday afternoon so that Greyson and I could meet up with our friends.  Seeing the show from the middle of the lake was an awesome experience although our friend Cooper obviously wasn’t all that impressed:

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