Friday, April 3, 2009

Our Little Guy Turns THIRTY!


Happy Birthday Robbie Dobbie!

Today, our little Robbie - ahem, I mean Rob - turns 30 years old. It's hard to comprehend it in so many ways.

I remember the day he was born, and it doesn't seem nearly that long ago. On the other hand, it's hard to imagine a world without him in it too.

His big brother got to go to high school with Goofy that day. They both had much fun with that. LOL.

Rob was such a smiley baby and kid. Always into one thing or another, full of mischief and fun. Mr. Fingers. A really really good kid.

We missed some of the years with him, and it was pretty damn hard to endure, but we all managed to get through it and back to the point where we are happily in each others lives again. We don't really talk much about that time, but we acknowledge it and are grateful for the present.

He's grown into an amazing man. Married (MARRIED!!! OMG) to a great young woman and doing so well in life.

He's a scuba diver too, so that's all good with us. ;)

Today, we celebrate our Rob and how much he enriches all our lives. We are fortunate to know him, and even more blessed to call him "ours". His family will gather tonight for dinner and enjoy the company and craziness that only family really can drop on you...it's all good!

Happy birthday Rob! We love you more than you probably know!

Just sayin'

April in Seattle





Thought it was time to share a few pics of the lovely Seattle weather. It's springtime, for goodness sake, so here's a look at how lovely our Spring weather is here.

Bwahahahaha!

These pics do not even convey how grey and gloomy it was in real life...arrrrrgghhhh!

Maui....can you even think to wonder why? LOL ;)

Just sayin'

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Snow In Seattle on April 1st


It snowed in Seattle today.

NO JOKE

No April Fools!!!


Nope...just snow.

Weird, huh?

Oh, and, by the way...it's my BIRTHDAY MONTH!!!

Invoked!!

Bwahahahaahahaha

*shrugs*

Just sayin'

Friday, March 27, 2009

I Actually Thought About NOT Posting This...



Because it's a picture of our new favorite beach on Maui. We "discovered" it on our last trip...well, were led to it by sis, LOL. SHE discovered it! Really, first person ever. haha.

This particular beach is on the west end. Perfection is found in not only it's proximity to where we usually stay, but also in the amazing things to see here.

You can snorkel and see TONS of fish and stuff a mere 10 yards off the beach. And, if you want to, you can swim out farther and see turtles and other bigger stuff.

Cool, huh?

Maybe next time, I'll tell what the name of the place is... ;)

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Yeah, but is it a "Jellyfish Bad" Day?




Hi All.

I got this from a friend via email today...one of the funniest things I've ever read...and helps give you some perspective too!

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I LOVE MY JOB
 
If you don't laugh out loud after you read this you are in a coma! This is even funnier when you realize it's real! Next time you have a bad day at work think of this guy.
 
Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana. He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 FM in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won.
 
Hi Sue,

Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother.

Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all 

Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job.

As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wet suit. This time of year the water is quite cool.

So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature.

It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose. 

Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints.

What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet suit. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi.

Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. With in a few seconds my butt started to burn.  I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened.



The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it. However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate.

When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my butt.

I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically.

Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression.

When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet. As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber.

The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut.

So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt.

Now repeat to yourself, 'I love my job, I love my job, I love my job.'

Now whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish bad day?

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I
Cannot
Breathe :D

LOLOLOLOLOL

Next time you have a bad day, think about it... ;)

EEEEKKKK!, Oh, haha...



been there, done that...

;)

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Happy Bunny..




This little guy can be kinda cruel, or rude, or downright hilarious in an evil little way... :) But i LOVE HIM!

I mean...come onnnnnn! He's just saying what we all would like to from time to time. At the very least, we've all thought similar things...

And since, at this point, I am so tired of dingbats and idiots that have nothing better to do than to try to make other people as miserable as they are, I embrace the bare and gritty truthfulness of it all.

I just wanna board up the doors and keep 'em all "out there" wherever the hell that is - I'm not sure, but as long as they are far away from me, it's all good. And I'd have a "persuader" available to keep them wherever the hell they need to be to not be in my little cocoon of "no meanies allowed".

I'm tired today...sick of things that don't matter but have to be dealt with. I don't want to do it anymore...being a grown up sucks.

Just sayin'

It Made My Eyes Hurt..

I think that the GWB/Matrix thing is kinda funny, but frankly, it made my eyes hurt to look at it when browsing past the blog.

So....I'm posting again to move it down the page a bit.

I KNOW! BRILLIANT IDEA!

It's true.

Most people wouldn't have thought of it, but Magic did. I'm just that way...brilliant and fond of talking in the third person.

Things are fairly busy these days. Been doing a lot of pro bono work - which is fulfilling, but not particularly lucrative :)

So...have a good day...enjoy the rain. Might as well, it's not going anywhere.

;)

Just sayin'



UPDATED MARCH 26: Moved "W and the Matrix" to the "other" blog. Click here to see the post I moved. ;) It really belongs over there instead...

Monday, March 23, 2009