Wild Hair Wednesday

Do not look at this post if you don't want to see one of the most beautiful little girls in the world.

I totally warned you!

You didn't listen!

Now you have to be blessed with this image the rest of your life.

:-)

Just a pic from Wild Hair Wednesday.  Her mom did her hair so it doesn't have the flavor that Wild Hair Wednesday would have been had dad done her hair.  We will have to remember that next time.

MENTAL NOTE MONDAY

Whether it's food, kids toys or general packaging...

If it says 'EASY TO OPEN'...

go ahead and bring the scissors or box cutter.

You can only fool yourself so many times before you really just need to stop trying to prove yourself and just admit defeat.  In this case, you can actually save yourself a LOT of time and (in MOST cases) pain just by telling yourself that 'EASY TO OPEN' message on the side of the item was simply a text message meant for someone else.

Lyndi and the Leprechaun

I have been dealing with something all week.  (And if the Mayas had been right this wouldn't be an issue.) I thought this concern was unique to me or this area, even.  But after reading another post I can see that this has spread WAY farther than I had ever imagined.  When did it become a thing to try to catch a leprechaun?!?!?  Sure, back in the day everyone wanted to catch a leprechaun to get his pot of gold.  But that was limited to days with a rainbows.  But NOW we have leprechaun 2.0.  He has upgraded in the last generation.

From what I can gather this new leprechaun is somewhat a mix between Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny.  With his "Santa" skills, the leprechaun is able to sneak into your room and possibly leave a present.  I'm not really sure about that because my 7yo has been pretty vague as to what the "leprechaun actually does.

With his Tooth Fairy skills, the leprechaun takes stuff.  What does he take??? Again, I'm not sure.  (See the above paragraph for the vagueness of information I'm getting from my child.)  If I had to guess it would be money because every trap we set must have money in it for it to work.  This is a very odd turn of events.  If he has his own pot of gold, what does this little thiefprechaun need with my dollars?!?

Now, he is like the Easter Bunny because sometimes he... hides things... around the house.  What does he leave?  You know the answer to that.  WHO KNOWS???  It could be money (even though he's possibly taking money.  It could be presents, teeth, colored eggs, lottery tickets, store coupons or even new golf clubs (Oooo)!  I honestly have no idea.  It sounds like a complete surprise!  (This question mark actually has me intrigued.  I can imagine the possibilities.)

Another thing to this story... And probably the MOST important question of all of this...

What does she plan to do if/when she CATCHES the leprechaun?!?  Does she plan on taking his money?  Does she plan on forcing him to tell her how to get to his pot of gold?  Does she plan on bringing him out to the living room and playing 2-player Lego Batman all night? Does she plan on swapping green drink recipes?  Does she plan on keeping him as a pet (since mean old dad won't let her have one)?  The only thing she tells me she's going to to is to trick him.  My head hurts thinking of how THIS one could play out.  (As long as she doesn't wake me up in this process I'm fine.  I say that because one of her plans was to SCREAM really loud and as long as she can if she catches him.  I don't like that plan.  It was vetoed.)

Oh, well...  I guess I'm going to have to decide the course of the leprechaun by tonight.  We have been setting up traps for the past few days that have come up empty.  We were able to push this off until today, St. Patrick's Day.  But we can't push this out anymore.  The trap can NOT come up empty again.  This day is the day!  Something is going to happen.  And it's all going down TONIGHT!!!

OR I could just show her that movie from the early 90s about the leprechaun.  She will either be scared and not want to catch him at all OR she will see how horrible the movie was and want nothing to do with anything related to the movie.  Either way... no more leprechaun trap to deal with.

End of the World - The 19th - 22nd Hour

This day has not turned out like I expected.  I'm about ready to call it quits.  I have started taking down my my signs.  No more "MAYAN Safe House Not YOURS" signs.  No more "I survived 12/21/12 and all I got was this lousy sign" signs.  No more "In case of apocalypse knock here" signs.  No more "'I'll give you one guess as to what YOUR civilization and the MAYA civilization have in common.  Please answer before midnight." signs.  This is just the worst!

Yeah, I'm glad the world is still here.  Blah , Blah, Blah! But this is just a wasted day.  And on top of all of that, my family and friends are making fun of me.  They are all posting messages to my social media sites telling me of all of the fun things they are doing and that I'm not.  I'm getting posts and tweets and pics showing and telling me about how big of a mistake I made.

They might be right.

I don't even have the kids with me.  My wife told the kids to come back into the house.  It's past their bedtime and that they can play "fantasy apocalpyse" with daddy tomorrow night.  Now isn't that just a smack in the face!  Oh, well.  Such is life.

Hope is fading.  We have a 2 more hours left.  I have closed my Facebook.  I have subtracted my Google+.  I have muzzled my Twitter.  I have delayed my Instagram.  Basically, all I have left is this blog.  If something does happen there will need to be log of events.  So, I'm still writing if you are still reading.

End of the World - The 16th - 18th Hour

I forgot to play my game of Madden.  Even though the world is going to end I still have a responsibility to the league.  The world can crash in but I don't want to be the holdup of my friends from playing their game.  It was a little tricky.  I wanted to play but I didn't want to be too far away from my safe house.  We are getting too close!  So I had to put the TV back in the house.  But I put in the window like we used to do with Jam Boxes when we would break-dance back in the day.  I had to put the Xbox near the house as well to get a signal.  Then I took my wireless controller about as far away from the XBox and I could toward the entrance of my safe house.  It worked!  And it goes to figure that the last day on earth and I finally win a game.  At least I went out on a good note.

After that was done, I took the TV and XBox back.  And since my wife is still at work I decided to take some other things.  I took some books and videos.  I only took the important ones....

1. The third book of the Hunger Games Trilogy: Mockingjay.  I HAVE to find out the conclusion of all of this mess in Panem.  I've devoted too much time reading this series to let a little thing like the end of the world stop me now.  I mean, what would Katniss do???
2. How To Balance A Budget - Brought to you by the members of the US Congress.  This book is FULL of details on how to manage your money.  It even has bonus chapters on how to manage OTHER people's money when you run out of your own.  I know money means nothing in a world of chaos but I want to be prepared.
3. I downloaded the Gangnam Style video to my phone.  I must learn this dance.  It's not too difficult.  But I can't get it.  Now I have years to get it right.
4. The Revised How to Win Friends and Influence People - Revision by Kim Jong-il and his son Kim Jong-un.  It does my heart good to see a father and son work together for a book so important as this.  I might cry.
5. Justin Bieber: Just Getting Started - This is the epitome of memoirs!  The follows the humble start and rise of one of America's greatest icons.  Just reading his gems of wisdom earned through months and months stardom.  I can't wait to read part 2 of the Trilogy when he talks about his 20s.

I think those books should keep me busy for a little while.  I might grab a few more books later.  But right now I'm just focusing on the important things in life.  Things that will pay dividends if I make on the other side of the Apocalypse of 2012.