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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Two sides of YaYa

Gary's Mom's Burgers

~30 years ago I had a grade school assignment that involved telling the class how to do something, step by step. My classmate Gary Michalski repeated his Mom's recipe for baking hamburgers in the oven, and as a kid I thought that was so unheard of that it's stuck with me to this day. Fast fwd to yesterday, when I was pressed for time and had six mouths to feed. When that anecdote popped into my head for the zillioneth time I said WTH and tossed a dozen burgers in the oven. Half an hour later, with no fuss, no muss, and very little cleanup we sat down for dinner. The lesson? Gary's Mom knew her s**t, and all props to them both.

Monday, May 6, 2013

Poor girl

she's been so incredibly tough.....shes got a golden heart and such a strong will. She willed herself through so much crap the week after surgery...truly inspiring to watch!! Now she's just milking it though LOL - Lisa

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Congratulations on Your 1st Holy Communion Smiley!



Ahhhh, success!

Mission accomplished. Work, recitals, First Communion, dinner and festival IN THE BOOKS. We even took a walk across the old railroad bridge near my childhood home. Busy busy weekend - but a great one too. Now: booze, TV, and chillin' with my lady.

Happy First Communion Smiley!

Congratulations Smiley! Personally love this shot...but looks like he's posing for Bop magazine, not a First Communion picture!! lol. - Lisa

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Whew. This'll be a weekend for the books

http://slapinions.blogspot.com/VERY busy weekend for #Team_Slap. Two birthday parties to attend, two 8 hr work shifts, three dance recitals, Smiley's 1st communion, a dinner out to celebrate, and a church festival. Zoinks!

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

This Weekend

Play season over, dance recital x FOUR, two birthday parties, and Smiley's First Communion this weekend. whew!! 

Communion: Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish at 10:30 Sunday Mass.

Dance recital: Nathan Hale High School 11601 W. Lincoln Avenue Saturday, May 4th at 1:00pm and 7:00pm Sunday, May 5th at 2:00pm - The only performance we're attending because the only one all 4 will be performing in. Join us 🙂


- Lisa

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Death of the Messiah Volume 2

A couple of days ago I finished Raymond Brown's "The Death of the Messiah, From Gethsemane to the Grave, Volume 2: A Commentary on the Passion Narratives in the Four Gospels". It is a textual criticism that takes the PN's and dissects the language, translation, textual context, verisimilitude and historicity of each verse. An exhaustive scholarly work of over 1500 pages, I resorted to using multiple colors of highlighters to keep the information straight. It exhausted me mentally, and I am proud to say I finished it. A great work by a great scholar. Grade: A+

Friday, April 26, 2013

Ducks at the Park

A TV kinda day

After a rough Wed, Thurs was pretty good. I spent the morning running errands, then watched "Sale of the Century", "Press Your Luck and "Psych" with Lisa, slept a bit, then walked home from school with Junie (the 3rd walk this week). I watched the newest Dr. Who, then cleaned out a corner of the basement that had taken in water during last weeks flooding here in Milwaukee. Then dinner, an hour nap, and off to work.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

An Update on Lu

LuLu went back to school today for the 1st time since her tonsillectomy, but called and asked us to pick her up half an hour ago. Her body isn't handling it as well as YaYa did, but don't get the wrong idea: she's not being mollycoddled and isn't miking it. We'll evaluate the rest of the week as we go.

Fulton Sheen - Quote

“It is not hatred that is wrong, it is hating the wrong thing that is wrong. It is not anger that is wrong, it is being angry at the wrong thing that is wrong. Tell me your enemy, and I will tell you what you are. Tell me your hatred, and I will tell you your character. Do you hate religion? Then your conscience bothers you. Do you hate the wealthy? Then you are avaricious, and you want to be wealthy. Do you hate sin? Then you love God. Do you hate your hate, your selfishness, your quick temper, your wickedness? Then you are a good soul, for ‘if any man come to me… and hate not his own life, he cannot be my disciple’ Luke 14:26” 
- Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Quote of the Day

Lisa:  I'm going to go check  Facebook. 

Me: Why? Don't you want to watch the movie? 

Lisa: Go ahead and start it. I'll only be a minute. I haven't checked Facebook in a week. 

Me: Then you're gonna need more than a minute. I probably have 60 posts on there.

Lisa: Oh, I don't read your stuff.

Me [aghast]: Whattaya mean you don't read my posts? 

Lisa: It's all books and boring junk. I don't want to read that nerdy s**t. 

Monday, April 22, 2013

It sounds odd, but Reese Witherspoon looks hot in her booking photo. She looks gorgeous with dark hair.

Junie breaks the iconic popsicle house

In the week before his death my Grandpa and I began to build a house out of popsicle sticks; I wrote of this in "Little Grandpa". I've had that house for thirty years. Today I found it smashed and half-missing on the floor of Lauren's room. To say I am upset is an understatement, but OTOH, the existence of that book makes the loss less biting, as the physical mementos are less important in its wake. But still . . . . damn it.

Junie isn't a morning person LOL

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Went for a nice walk with Smiley (~2 miles) then settled in at home in my PJ's to enjoy the rest of my Sunday in peace. Naturally, this would be the time YaYa  decides to introduce us to her friend's Mother, who stops by to chat while I look like a freak. Stupid fuzzy footed pajamas %^%$@$. I kid, I kid - they weren't fuzzy.

The Laws of Yahtzee


  1. Full-sheet games are the bomb. Single game hands are for wimps and children.


    They [ones] count
  2. All full houses, accepted or not, must be greeted by calls of "Full Hooowwwwse" by your opponents
  3. Dan ‏@i15h
    They'll kill you in Vegas for that
  4. I'll take that full house - and i won't feel bad about it
  5. that's a lot of pips
  6. Take it [full house] when it's offered

    1. It is permissible, even encouraged, 2 cuss at or berate an opponent's Yahtzee, but it *must* b followed by insincere congrats
    2. Talk to the dice. It helps. They like attention.
    3. Never waste ur 3rd roll trying 2 finish off a lg straight, unless u've got the small on the table & r content 2 settle for it.

      An open ended [ 2-5] attempt at a large straight is a beautiful thing to see on a first roll.

Fantasy Baseball

 You want bad luck? Drafted Chad Billingsley, set to start today, just to make the arbitrary and fascist innings pitched minimum in my fantasy league: he promptly went on the DL.

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Obviously

Full-sheet #Yahtzee games are the bomb. Single game hands are for wimps and children.