Tag. . . I'm it . . .

Bare Joyfoot tagged me...so here I go...

The Rules:
• Link the person who tagged you.
• Mention the rules on your blog.
• Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours.
• Tag a fellow blogger by linking.

Quirk 1 - I sometimes unconsciously humm while I eat

Quirk 2 - I absolutely shred Kleenex boxes (not the Kleenexes, only the box) if there is one close by while I am on the phone

Quirk 3 - I don't like things microwaved. . . I'll only eat popcorn microwaved (and I and only I shall outlast the roaches. . .aah ha ha ha haaaa)

Quirk 4 - I hate sauces on my food, but I more intensely dislike Mayo or Miracle Whip of all the evil sauces

Quirk 5 - I am a food separatist, I do not believe in my dinner's right to assemble

Quirk 6 - I like my card board pizza cut into strips, not triangles

I was tagged by Bare Joyfoot and I tag Astrix

Pondering the poll

The question: A gentleman pays for the date...


The results:

• 4 voted most certainly with a snooty French aire
• 3 said at least on the first date
• 1 was flexible
• and no radicals insisting they pay their own way

Traditional values and chivalry are strong among my readers. . . anonymous carried the sentiment of my commenteers with "It depends who asks who on the date. If it's the guy's idea he better own it."

Now I have always been willing to step up to my chivalrous duties, however my philosophy has been to never spend money on another man's wife. In other words, no expensive dates with the girl unless you plan on marrying her. What is more, I have found there is an inverse relationship between the amount of money spent on a date and the amount of fun on a date. The more I spent the less fun it tended to be, the less I spent the more fun I had. I have been on lots of dates, both before and after marriage. . .twice. Here are some of the economical dates I would recommend for the young suitor and broke as well as the old married and broke.

1. Cosco Dog and Drink - $1.50 - This is a great date! Two people fed in one of America's greatest capitalist institutions (ambiance) with an all American meal (fine food) at an all American price (affordable). Plus their is a rare opportunity not found in most conventional dates. . .an opportunity to talk.


2. Down Town - Free - Any free museums, historic sites, shopping malls, or cool spots to view your town or city. Have you visited your state capitol? County Seat? City Hall? Any and every town or city has history, go find out what it is. This is great idea in any season... winter - you have the holiday lights, autumn - you have the turning leaves, and spring - the new growth.


3. Out of Town - Free to $12 - There are so many cool places to hike or go camping. I have camped all over the U.S. You can always find a National or State Park or Forest. There is nothing like getting to know someone. . .naturally.


4. Spaghetti Bash - $3 - This is really fun with a group date! You have all the guys bring a package of pasta (any kind) and all the girls bring a small jar of store bought spaghetti sauce. All the pasta goes in one giant pot and all the sauce in another giant pot. This gets cool if one Joe brought lasagna noodles, another macaroni, and the third angel hair. And who knows what the sauce will end up tasting like. If it is payday that week you can also have every one bring a favorite frozen juice for $2 (it has to be 100% fruit juice, no cocktails) and mix it together. As crazy as this sounds it always works out tasting good. Make sure have some games close by and you are set with food and fun.


5. Summer Pool Movie - Free - If you just have to do a movie. . .do it with a splash. Set up the TV by the pool and grab your floaty pool loungers. To add more fun pick a random black and white movie from the library that no one has seen before. Guys pick a noun, verb, or adjective you predict will be used a lot during the movie, gals do the same. When the gal's word comes up in the movie, the guys have to flip themselves and vise versa.

I have given you some of my favorites, what are some great cheap dates you have been on? Leave me your list in the comments!

Pookah post

It has been a long journey but certainly worth it to make sure she will walk tall and walk strong... let's take a walk down memory lane...

Pookah in her harness

Pookah before surgery

Pookah after surgery

Pookah's first cast

Pookah on the move

Pookah in the second cast

Pookah out of her cast on July 8, 2008

Boo!

New pictures on slideshow...check

Hey all, check out the updated and new pictures on the slideshows on the left side bar!

New poll!

Been a long time since I did a poll. Don't ask me why, this was the question that poped in my head.

Go ahead, cast you vote fearlessly and leave a piece of your mind in a comment!

Something different

I have been crazy busy with my new position at work and it seems all that I can do to post Friday's with Frost each week. I want thank you for patiently tuning in. . .

Here are some things I hope to post to my blog by next week:

• New pictures of the children on the slideshow, they have grown so much
• A Pookah post, she got her cast off a while ago
• A Gid post with updates and all
• Shabbat at Wheeler Farm
• And some comments on comments from FATFQ

This will inject some variety and life back into my blog. So keep your fingers crossed for me and keep checking my blog.

The best investment. . .

The Investment

by Robert Frost

Over back where they speak of life as staying

('You couldn't call it living, for it ain't'),

There was an old, old house renewed with paint,

And in it a piano loudly playing.

Out in the plowed ground in the cold a digger,

Among unearthed potatoes standing still,

Was counting winter dinners, one a hill,

With half an ear to the piano's vigor.

All that piano and new paint back there,

Was it some money suddenly come into?

Or some extravagance young love had been to?

Or old love on an impulse not to care--

Not to sink under being man and wife,

But get some color and music out of life?

Nate Notes

Franks Lloyd Wright said, "Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."

I am not encouraging fiscal recklessness. I am saying that a little luxury here and there can breathe some needed joy in life. A luxury doesn't always have to be expensive either, rather it should be well chosen.

Abundance to you and yours throughout your life. . .