The first word that comes to mind when I think of a skunk is smelly. I also think of the fact I found: only female skunks can spray, and they do so to protect their young. No matter how you try and sugar coat it, I think skunks are disgusting. Especially when they are road kill. I really really dislike road kill. Anyway to the point of this blog.
I was riding home with my Mom, Dad, and Sister when somehow we got on the topic of being sprayed with skunks. We have had some close encounters with skunks since my Grandparents live in the country. We got sprayed so bad one time you could still smell it when we pulled into the driveway, after driving for an hour. NASTY!! My Mom and Dad have had more skunk problems than I knew of. My Dad shared one on the way home last night. Here is how he explains it. (But first you must know that 1. my family is a HUGE Hawkeye fan family, and 2. this story was not told with a straight face or without laughter.)
My Dad and Uncle Bubba (Jerry) were driving home from an Iowa Football Game. When you are driving home the sun is in the worst position to drive into. You are constantly fighting it. (Not that that makes a difference on whether or not you are going to go. You suffer through it.) My Dad was in the passenger seat when he noticed something in the road. Uncle Bubba said it was a skunk and that he would just go around it. Just then the skunk decides to stop playing dead and walk across the road the rest of the way. As my Dad put it, "When that happens, there is nothing you can do about it." Uncle Bubba hit the skunk head on. The stench over whelmed them and they pulled into the next car wash they could possibly find. When they looked at the car they discovered that there was actually a little patch of fur stuck to the bottom of the car. GROSS!! But the story gets even better!
Just after running over the skunk my Uncle and Dad look back just in time to see the skunk they just ran over, get some air and fly right into the grill of the vehicle behind them! According to my Dad, it was stuck in there good too. "It was a hot day, so they had to have been using their air conditioning. Hopefully they didn't die from the stench," stated my Dad with some laughs. I hope they got out of that car as fast as possible. The smell of the skunk's spray had to be unbearable. To whoever that was, I hope you have recovered.
So the skunk story, I guess this was just one of those stories that parents tell. They don't really have a point to them but you nod your head and go along with it anyway. Some of them just turn out blog worthy. I hope you liked the story and until I hear another one, Exit Stage Left.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
what is the definition of normal anyway???
What is the true definition of normal?? Is anyone actually normal?? Well the definition of normal is.... (according to dictionary.com) usual; regular; common; typical, conforming to the standard or the common type; not abnormal; natural. In other words everyone/anything is normal in their own way.
Is my family normal?? I would think so but others would beg to differ.
There are many unique things about my family and one easily noticable one is what we call things.
1. Mokie.
For as long as I can remember there hasn't been a remote for the TV in my house. There has been a mokie though (pronounced like mickey but change the o to and i). Yes my family calls the remote for a TV a mokie and I have learned that is not a normal name. I realized this when I would go to my friends house and ask for the mokie. Usually they would laugh and ask me what I said again. Me, not thinking, would say mockie again. Laughing some more they would respond, you mean the remote? I asked my parents when we started calling the remote a mokie and why we did. This is the answer i got: "We have called it mokie since as long as I can remember and I don't know why we do, we just started it once and it stuck." Oh well, it works for me. I actually like the name mokie more then the boring word remote.
2. McMexican
Plaza Mexico is one of the best restraunts around! I love that place! Its an awesome atmosphere, its fun to try and talk to them in Spanish, and the food is amazing. But what my dad started calling it is pretty unique. The story behing it goes like this. There once was a McDonalds where Plaza Mexico is now. So what better to call it than Mc (from McDonalds) Mexican (since its a mexican restraunt). The End. From then on it just became the normal name that my family knows it as.
Okay so i realize these are only two reasons but my friends regularly comment on these two "mis-names." I still love that my family has our own way of talking. Until next time, Exit Stage Left.
Is my family normal?? I would think so but others would beg to differ.
There are many unique things about my family and one easily noticable one is what we call things.
1. Mokie.
For as long as I can remember there hasn't been a remote for the TV in my house. There has been a mokie though (pronounced like mickey but change the o to and i). Yes my family calls the remote for a TV a mokie and I have learned that is not a normal name. I realized this when I would go to my friends house and ask for the mokie. Usually they would laugh and ask me what I said again. Me, not thinking, would say mockie again. Laughing some more they would respond, you mean the remote? I asked my parents when we started calling the remote a mokie and why we did. This is the answer i got: "We have called it mokie since as long as I can remember and I don't know why we do, we just started it once and it stuck." Oh well, it works for me. I actually like the name mokie more then the boring word remote.
2. McMexican
Plaza Mexico is one of the best restraunts around! I love that place! Its an awesome atmosphere, its fun to try and talk to them in Spanish, and the food is amazing. But what my dad started calling it is pretty unique. The story behing it goes like this. There once was a McDonalds where Plaza Mexico is now. So what better to call it than Mc (from McDonalds) Mexican (since its a mexican restraunt). The End. From then on it just became the normal name that my family knows it as.
Okay so i realize these are only two reasons but my friends regularly comment on these two "mis-names." I still love that my family has our own way of talking. Until next time, Exit Stage Left.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
All because of some nerf guns
I was sitting in Comp class and trying to think of a fun topic I could easily write about. Well me and Alysha Halaand started talking about some good old memories. We laughed about it for a while and I decided to blog about it today, so here it is.
We (Me, Haley Mallo, Amanda Bennett, Alysha Halaand, Tanner Bernhard, Sahan Jayawardena, Allison Eppens, Mallory Dempsey, Breanna Pedelty, Kate Halaand, I think thats it) were at East Park, down at one of the shelter houses. It was starting to get dark out so we went to play Sardines (Hide and seek in the dark with partners and one group hides and the rest try to find them. The last one to find them hides) in Praire Playground. While playing we found some nerf guns that were all empty. There was a little bit of disappointment when that was discovered, but we ran around with them anyway. It had gotten really dark our and we had been playing Sardines for a while when all the sudden a bright light shone in our faces. Two cops got out of their cars and started walking towards us. They asked us the normal questions and we answered simply and politely, but inside we were all freaking out! We had no clue what was going on. After some intense questioning we were let go and started walking towards the area we knew the rest of the group was. As we got closer we realized they were talking to two or three cops too! We listened to them as they finished their questioning. Then one of us asked what they were questioning us for. What had we done wrong?? We were just playing Sardines! They said they had gotten a complaint about a possible gun exchange going on.
Okay 1. they were nerf guns, and 2. it was atleast 45 minutes after we had picked up the nerf guns, so they must not of been in too much of a rush.
To make it all better, when Alysha picked up the nerf gun to show him what it was, the cop reached for his gun and told us to back away from it.
Then Sahan Jayawardena asked the cop if he had done a presentation at our school. The officer had done a presentation about domestic abuse or something like that. It was kind of a weird conversation after that.
Finally the cops left and we darted back down to the shelter house to share our experience with my parents, to eat some smores, and listen to some very interesting songs sung by Elliot Craw and Sahan Jayawardena.
It was an awesome and UNFORGETABLE night!! Thanks everyone for being there and sharing this memory. Until next time, Exit Stage Left. :))
We (Me, Haley Mallo, Amanda Bennett, Alysha Halaand, Tanner Bernhard, Sahan Jayawardena, Allison Eppens, Mallory Dempsey, Breanna Pedelty, Kate Halaand, I think thats it) were at East Park, down at one of the shelter houses. It was starting to get dark out so we went to play Sardines (Hide and seek in the dark with partners and one group hides and the rest try to find them. The last one to find them hides) in Praire Playground. While playing we found some nerf guns that were all empty. There was a little bit of disappointment when that was discovered, but we ran around with them anyway. It had gotten really dark our and we had been playing Sardines for a while when all the sudden a bright light shone in our faces. Two cops got out of their cars and started walking towards us. They asked us the normal questions and we answered simply and politely, but inside we were all freaking out! We had no clue what was going on. After some intense questioning we were let go and started walking towards the area we knew the rest of the group was. As we got closer we realized they were talking to two or three cops too! We listened to them as they finished their questioning. Then one of us asked what they were questioning us for. What had we done wrong?? We were just playing Sardines! They said they had gotten a complaint about a possible gun exchange going on.
Okay 1. they were nerf guns, and 2. it was atleast 45 minutes after we had picked up the nerf guns, so they must not of been in too much of a rush.
To make it all better, when Alysha picked up the nerf gun to show him what it was, the cop reached for his gun and told us to back away from it.
Then Sahan Jayawardena asked the cop if he had done a presentation at our school. The officer had done a presentation about domestic abuse or something like that. It was kind of a weird conversation after that.
Finally the cops left and we darted back down to the shelter house to share our experience with my parents, to eat some smores, and listen to some very interesting songs sung by Elliot Craw and Sahan Jayawardena.
It was an awesome and UNFORGETABLE night!! Thanks everyone for being there and sharing this memory. Until next time, Exit Stage Left. :))
Saturday, February 5, 2011
What a night.....
So its Saturday night. What else is there to do besides hang out with friends?? First I went to the basketball game with the Best Buddies and some other friends. Afterwards Tanner Bernhard and I decided to see if they needed some more help with the follies backdrop. They did, so we left to change and then came back. We finished the backdrop at about 8:30 (and might I say it looks awesome!!). Randomly Ruby Tuesdays was brought up during our painting. It sounded good to some of us so we decided to go, the only thing was it was now 8:45ish or a little later, I had to get some gas, Ruby Tuesday is all the way across town so it takes atleast 15 minutes to get there, and to make it even more complicated I had to be home by 10!!! Little did I know I would still have an amazing time.
First of all I had to park all the way at the end of the parking lot! It was possibly the farthest spot away from the building! Anyway, we sat down (Me, Tanner, Elaena, and Katelyn) and ordered. After we ordered Katelyn asked the waitress if they took debit cards. We had told her yes about a billion times already but she didn't listen and asked anyway. OF COURSE THEY TAKE DEBIT CARDS!! Who doesn't?!?!?!?!?! We put a rush on our order since I had to leave. Well apparently RUSH doesn't mean anything to waitresses. We had to ask another waiter to get our waitress to bring us our drinks. Our drinks should be there right away! We finally get our food and I have about 10 minutes to eat before I have to leave in order to get home in time. Luckily all I ordered dessert. Unfortunately Katelyn is riding home with me and ordered an entire meal!!!
The next major thing was that when we got a take home box for Katelyn she didnt' know how to put the food in the box. We litteraly sat there for like 5 minutes trying to show her how to put the food in the box. Her excuse was "I am usually with my mom and she does it for me". Katelyn later explained to me that when she does put stuff in a food box, its always easy stuff like chicken wings. Katelyn.
After the take out box incident we were paying our seperate bills. When Katelyn grabs her bill, she immediately asks what the pen was for. My response was, well you have to sign it. She about jumped out of her skin when she found that out! Katelyn had never payed for her bill by herself at a sit down restraunt before so we had to teach her where to put her card in the little black check holders. Then when we got it back we had to show her how to write out her tip. About half way through explaining it she gave me the little black thing and i had to write it for her. Then she sorta wrote her name before giving the bill back to our waitress. But she left the card in it! She asked the waitress if she got her card back. The waitress just kinda looked at her and said "Yea, if you take it."
To make the whole night better the whole time we were at the restraunt we had to tell Katelyn to keep her voice down. She doesnt really have an inside voice. And to make it even better, I went in cut off sweatpants and a t-shirt to this nice, kinda fancier restraunt. Awesome.
Well all in all it was an awesome night! If it weren't for Katelyn I think sometimes life might be kinda boring. Thanks Tanner, Elaena, and Katelyn for an awesome and most likely unforgetable night. Until next time, Exit Stage Left.
First of all I had to park all the way at the end of the parking lot! It was possibly the farthest spot away from the building! Anyway, we sat down (Me, Tanner, Elaena, and Katelyn) and ordered. After we ordered Katelyn asked the waitress if they took debit cards. We had told her yes about a billion times already but she didn't listen and asked anyway. OF COURSE THEY TAKE DEBIT CARDS!! Who doesn't?!?!?!?!?! We put a rush on our order since I had to leave. Well apparently RUSH doesn't mean anything to waitresses. We had to ask another waiter to get our waitress to bring us our drinks. Our drinks should be there right away! We finally get our food and I have about 10 minutes to eat before I have to leave in order to get home in time. Luckily all I ordered dessert. Unfortunately Katelyn is riding home with me and ordered an entire meal!!!
The next major thing was that when we got a take home box for Katelyn she didnt' know how to put the food in the box. We litteraly sat there for like 5 minutes trying to show her how to put the food in the box. Her excuse was "I am usually with my mom and she does it for me". Katelyn later explained to me that when she does put stuff in a food box, its always easy stuff like chicken wings. Katelyn.
After the take out box incident we were paying our seperate bills. When Katelyn grabs her bill, she immediately asks what the pen was for. My response was, well you have to sign it. She about jumped out of her skin when she found that out! Katelyn had never payed for her bill by herself at a sit down restraunt before so we had to teach her where to put her card in the little black check holders. Then when we got it back we had to show her how to write out her tip. About half way through explaining it she gave me the little black thing and i had to write it for her. Then she sorta wrote her name before giving the bill back to our waitress. But she left the card in it! She asked the waitress if she got her card back. The waitress just kinda looked at her and said "Yea, if you take it."
To make the whole night better the whole time we were at the restraunt we had to tell Katelyn to keep her voice down. She doesnt really have an inside voice. And to make it even better, I went in cut off sweatpants and a t-shirt to this nice, kinda fancier restraunt. Awesome.
Well all in all it was an awesome night! If it weren't for Katelyn I think sometimes life might be kinda boring. Thanks Tanner, Elaena, and Katelyn for an awesome and most likely unforgetable night. Until next time, Exit Stage Left.
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