BREAKING NEWS: The Brewers have traded Nori Aoki to the Royals for 24 year old lefty Will Smith. Aoki was the lone Brewer on my fantasy team, and a good one at that. I'll miss ya!

Christmas Card Time!

Addresses, addresses, I need your addresses! Please...my new phone has no addresses saved from the old one. If you normally get a team slap xmas card, then please private message me your address. If you don't normally, and would like to start receiving the coveted "most awesome family ever" xmas card, then PM your address as well!!! Basically, you don't send your address, you could be crying over the loss later :) Lisa 

Marquette and Immunization

F'ing round and round with Marquette regarding my immunization records. They're long gone and my pediatrician is dead, so I had the bloodwork done to prove they'd taken place. Apparently, not good enough for Marquette, or at least complete enough, so round 2 of bloodwork awaits. They also claim that the bloodwork shows I need some booster, like I'm a g-damn five year old. I should have claimed some bogus religious exemption.

A Night of Boxing

Just watched Sergey Kovalev KO Ishmayal Sillakh 52 seconds into the second round . . . wow, that was impressive. Kovalev packs a thunderous punch for a light heavyweight.

update: I just finished watching the main event, the Adonis Stevenson/Tony Bellew fight. Stevenson has freaky power, it's true; but to my eyes (and I'm just a fan, not an expert) he seems very one dimensional in the ring. If he matches up against Kovalev - and from Stevenson's comments, Adonis is ducking that fight - I'd bet on Kovalev.

My Thoughts

RE: the (mild) hue and cry that we should remember the driver of the car too, not just Paul Walker, when talking about the fatal crash:  if you want to be remembered when you die, *DO SOMETHING WORTH REMEMBERING*. If I die the same day a pop star dies, good luck finding my obit. I'm cool with that, in large part because I hope to one day be the somebody that overshadows Joe Blow's passing.

ISO

Anyone know of any discounts or coupons (other than the free audio tour) for the SkyDeck in the Willis (nee Sears) Tower in Chicago?

Say What RFK Jr?

On Ebay's front page: "Lean the Art of Falconry with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr." Yes, he's donating the proceeds to charity, but jeez louise, FALCONRY? Could you be more obnoxiously richy-rich?

Immunization Issues

F'ing round and round with Marquette regarding my immunization records. They're long gone and my pediatrician is dead, so I had the bloodwork done to prove they'd taken place. Apparently, not good enough for Marquette, or at least complete enough, so round 2 of bloodwork awaits. They also claim that the bloodwork shows I need some booster, like I'm a g-damn five year old. I should have claimed some bogus religious exemption.

Pitch Perfect

Watching Pitch Perfect with the family and some company. Anna Kendrick is simply LuLu transported to the future and assigned a different name. They look like clones for Pete's sake.

Thank You!

Thank you to JJ, DeLaura, Fred Bryan, and Jane  - you each know how you helped Team Slap in the last week, in ways large, small, or both, and it's appreciated. :)

My Opinion

With the O-Line being what it is, I say rest Rodgers even if he wants to return early. Let the collarbone heal and scrap this miserable season. Even if the Pack stumbles into the playoffs in this pathetic division, they're not going all the way. And if they do, my God, what does that say about the quality of the NFL?

A Full Day

Sunday being my designated Project Day, I did the following, most of it with Lu's help: put up the outdoor Christmas lights, weatherized the outside cellar door, cleaned the backyard, sealed off the interior cellar door for the winter, did some grocery shopping, fixed the step machine, got rid of three boxes of crap in the basement, put Lisa's NKOTB jackets and sleeping bag in vacumm seal bags, and put 40# of sand in the base of the boxing bag stand. Candy Cane lane looks doubtful, in part because I'm pooped, in part because Junie and Smiley were absolutely no help at all on any of the projects.

Paul Walker

I didn't know Paul Walker as an actor, haven't seen any Fast & the Furious movies, and don't remember him in Pleasantville. Still, a human is a human, so RIP.

We Blew It (but innocently)

YaYa is upset we put up the tree in her absence. She was there when we bought it but headed out to Grandma's before the decorating. But as I told her, Mom did 96% of it, as she always does, because she likes her tree just so; all the rugrats did was hand her some ornaments and hang a couple at the end. They were also stuck going to Mass, cleaning the yard, and putting away laundry; think she'd still want to trade places with them? :)

The Christmas Tree Kerfluffle

.....You do this every year.. without me.- YaYa

That's horrible Dan! U should wait for grace n I this is the 2nd year I can remember u guys put it up without her... Smh... - Mindy

^ THANK YOU MINDY  - YaYa

*keeping my mouth shut, bp through the roof*

Bp? - Mindy

Blood pressure.... Not his fault or doing. All me. Take it up with me. I almost always do it black Friday, like my mama before me. Also prefer to do most of it Alone as I'm picky. Judge as u will :)   - Lisa

Note: YaYa is upset we put up the tree in her absence. She was there when we bought it but headed out to Grandma's before the decorating. But as I told her, Mom did 96% of it, as she always does, because she likes her tree just so; all the rug rats did was hand her some ornaments and hang a couple at the end. They were also stuck going to Mass, cleaning the yard, and putting away laundry; think she'd still want to trade places with them? :)

Black Friday 2013

Longest line of the day? Joann Fabrics, of all places, where the line not only snaked around a roped off queue but continued down about 40% of the store's considerable length. Second place? Easily Kmart, where the line was awe-inspiring but rather quick. No line of note at Dollar Tree.

Alas, the one item I needed to buy on Black Friday I failed to procure, and off-sale I may not be able to pull it off this Christmas. Won't be the first time I've had to improvise, but . . . sigh. I did get a few deals on smaller items last night, and *fingers crossed* my co-workers hopefully scored on two items for me earlier this morning. So far today we've cleaned and rearranged the living room and we're gearing up to go buy a Christmas tree, with some talk we may cut one down ourselves. 

Happy Black Friday everyone.

Jane Kean

RIP 90 year old Jane Kean, aka "Trixie"  from the Honeymooners :(

Don't Bathe a Cat

Happy 45th Birthday Jon Knight!

Also this AM - the kids decided to bathe our cat Angelcakes. Allegedly this was for her benefit, but in reality it was just a few minutes of authorized idiocy for the kids. Now I've got a bathtub that smells like the pis* of a scared kitty, cat hair all over the tub, a rumpled but cleaner, emotionally scarred cat, and three towels coated with wet cat hair. 

Yay Team Slap!

Wow

A video for the song "The Way" by Ariana Grande just came on the TV. I swear to Gawd, for weeks I've heard this on the radio and thought it was a surprisingly good Mariah Carey tune. That girl has some pipes!

Frustration

"Tolzein would have been on his back or throwing INT's [today], we saw 3 losses with him, I don't need to see anymore" You're an idiot, sir. This is a poorly constructed, shoddily coached Packers team, currently led by a QB [Flynn] that is a favorite of the coach despite being laughed off the roster of many a better team. Where are all the Matt Flynn/Ted Thompson fanboys now?

Happy Thanksgiving 2013

Went out to dinner with the in-laws, Lisa, and the two youngest - Lu was invited to a friend's celebration and YaYa was babysitting. Good food, good time and good company. Then it was home for a nap before hitting the stores for some early Black Friday deals. You don't like shopping on Thanksgiving? Move to Russia you commie scum. :)

Wal-Mart was busy but calm, but almost every advertised item was sold out by the time I entered the store. Unexpected deals on smaller items however, so it might be worth your time tonight. Walgreens slower than usual. K-Mart seemed busy but I didn't stop in. I have two people hitting Menards on my behalf at 6am. I'd ask for people here on FB to keep an eye out for deals on item X for Christmas, but since YaYa  is on FB now that avenue is closed lol

Junie

Chicken Soup

Best Dang Chicken Soup we've found at the grocer

Wait a Sec

SPOILERS: With the War Doctor now worthy of the name "Doctor" isn't Eccleston now offically the 10th Doctor, Tennant the 11th, etc.?

The Day of the Doctor

small SPOILERS: It was my great honor to re-watch "The Day of the Doctor" today, this time with all four kids. Not only did they watch with rapt attention, they asked to watch a Doctor Who special afterwards, even when I gave them free reign of the remote. They also displayed copious amounts of Whovian knowledge - OJ spotted the re-numbering of the Doctors, and called out the apparent conflict with the canonical # of Time Lord regenerations; YaYa spotted the fourth Doctor and asked for a copy of his scarf, and Junie, God Bless her, asked: "How can it [the TARDIS] be biggah on the inside?" :)