Melting away and other stuff

So I barely survived the first heatwave of the summer. And we still have a couple of months to go. I am either going to become a nudist or move to Alaska. For your sake you better hope I choose Alaska. If I would loose weight while I am sweating, I’d be out there 24/7 and have a slimming figure by the beginning of fall. But seeing that won’t happen I will try to dodge the heat as much as I can.

Seeing that I spent a lot of time indoors nowadays so I don’t melt away, I’ve been watching a lot of cooking shows on PBS. One night at 11 pm I was so fascinated with the grilling show they ran, I wanted to go outside and fire up my grill so I could satisfy my over sudden desire for grilled tuna, pineapples and chicken. I have to stop watching them, these shows just leave me hungry at the end and then I am forced to eat cookies. Or I head to the grocers the next day and buy everything under the sun and make an ungodly amount of food. So cartoons it is from now on..well right after I try the new recipe for omelets I saw Jaques cook up yesterday.

On the family side of news, kids are doing fine. Son has finished his summer classes and is finally a senior starting this fall at MSU. His main concern is now on landing a internship this semester to be able to graduate next spring. My daughter is heading back to East Lansing this fall to begin her second year. She is also moving off campus this year with a few people. She will get to experience first hand what it means to pay bills without that mysterious money tree in the backyard that she seems to think I have.

Well time to get cooking, my stomach is getting mad at me. Until the next time folks.

A Bleep on PBS

Yes I was watching the Antique Roadshow the other night, and as always it is interesting to see what people find and have as heirlooms, and it makes you wonder if you ever come across anything that might be worth any money.

So this Lady had a painting that she wanted appraised. It was her Mother’s and it really did not look like it was something you would hang in a Art museum, couple of Boats on the Ocean, I could paint the same honestly, but probably won’t achieve the same amount of money then this painting did.

Anyway, the appraiser was telling her this was this Artists early work, he just had started out, because his paint strokes and stuff have not been refined, and since he turned out to be a great Artist later on, his Rookie Picture is worth about $100,000 to $115,000.

And there came the Bleep. It was so funny, it was not a long Bleep, it was a normal Bleep to cover up probably 1 word which was if I would guess Shit. She continued to sit calmy in the chair and shook her head and smiled.

Now I had to start laughing to myself, which frankly I do quit often, and pictured myself finding out I have a great piece of art there and it is worth a large sum of money.  Well there would be bleeps for about 5 minutes straight, and I would not just sit there and look at the thing. I would be giving high-fives to the audience, hugs, and celebrate. I’d be clutching the Painting or whatever it is , and not let it out my sight and would make sure that everyone in that room knows that I got the money.

What I am looking forward too is the Episode that they will have on in January, of the person that just had something appraised at $1.4 million. I just read that online, it is the largest appraisel this show has ever done. I would like to see what he did when he heard the amount. Pass out?

Four year olds…

Yesterday I was asked by a close friend if I could watch her 4 year old grand daughter, while she had her Carpet cleaned. I agreed, since I have watched this little 4 year old before and she is just a doll, and it has been awhile since I have seen her. The last time was at my Son’s open house last summer.

So I went to my friends house, and right away I was greeted by ” Here are my stamps and we are going to do these” ” Can we go to your house?” ” Where are my boots?” “Do you have a dog?” Oh boy….I knew I was in trouble…

Bundled her up, cause it was just a tat bit snowy outside, got her in the car seat and proceeded to drive home while “Can you roll down my window?” ” No hun, it is snowing.” ” My name is ______, not hun.” Woah..okay..lol..guess that won’t fly. “I am hungry”..” Okay we can have something to eat at my house.” ” I like Burger King. Can we go to Burger king?” ” Sure we can go to Burger King, what do you like at Burger King?” “
I like Chicken nuggets with fries and honey.”…”You mean Honey mustard sauce?” ..” No honey sauce.” Okay well i know they don’t carry honey at Burger king, so I said ” Well I have Honey sauce at home.” Thanks godness she believed me.

We got home with the Burger king, I figured by the time I got back I already answered 30 questions. And just for you out there, Burger King starts with a K..not with a B..I was mistaken all these years..

We ate the food, and then it was Stamp time. So we had 10 packages her grandma packed in a bag, and naturally she wanted all 10 opened. I am like “No, lets just do a couple first and see.” ” No we need to do all of them, because some of them are flowers, some of them have fishies and apples” ” Okay I guess we will do all of them.” Needless to say after a half an hour that was done and over with. On to games.

“Do you have any games on your Computer?” ” Hmm..not for someone as little as you small stuff.” ” I am not small stuff, my name is________’” Oops sorry, I forgot. Well luckily I found some pre-loaded kid game on the Laptop and we baked cakes, and played memory. And just to let you all know I lost control over the Laptop. She knew what to do.

“I don’t want to do that anymore, can we play something else?” Okay, so I googled kids shows, and it brought me to PBS kids page, and low and behold she knew some of them. So I had to play the games with her, watch the videos they showed, institute snack time because ” Under these circumstances…” Yes that is what she said, under these circumstances, a little four year old. She reminded me of my daughter when she was that little, coming up with big words, only my daughters was constipated.

So I spent an afternoon with a four year old, which was fun and that reminded me again, that at four years old the world is a fun interesting uncomplicated place to be in. And that Burger King starts with a K.