Alanis Marmoset

I have let the blog go for a while. So much has happened that I need to catch up. It may be a rambling blog....that was your warning. I have to start with what I love about my dad. This may fall into the "had to be there" category but I will give it a try.

Zoo We went to the zoo a few Sundays ago with my parents. I love going to the zoo with my dad because he always has some funny comment to make about the animals and such. We get to the Bison....
Dad- "How can you tell the difference between Buffaloes and Bison?"
Me- "How?"
Dad- "A buffalo has wings."
Me - (Thinking---Oh, here we go with Dad and the zoo jokes YES!)

We enter the primate section
walking up to the marmoset cage....
Dad- "What ever happened to Alanis Marmoset?"
Me (thinking--How can he say that with a straight face?)

We leave the primate section and on the way out there is a full size mirror hidden to the right of the exit. Dad looks at the mirror grabbed his chest and jumps and says "AHH! I thought one got loose." ( Again with a straight face)

He did spare us the Kudu jokes even though I know it was all he could do not to say something. That's the one thing about dad, he doesn't reuse his material. He made a joke about the Kudus in 1986 that went over really well but he hasn't replayed it since.

My Dad and the beach
My Dad lives for his one week at the beach. Every year in February Dad starts planning his trip. He books the condo and starts talking about where we are going to eat the first night there. In March, dad starts talking about packing the tubs. Dad is a master packer and traveler. He loves totes, bags, luggage, anything like that. His new packing idea is to use large plastic tubs. We can spend hours on the phone talking about what we are going to pack and do at the beach. His new idea this year is to leave at 6:00am so we can be at the beach by lunch. I'm game! It seems lately I'm busy with the kids and Dad is busy with work. We don't get large amounts of time to sit and chat. I'm looking forward to the beach so I can talk with Dad and catch up.

New topic...
I just finished a great book "Confederates in the Attic" by Tony Horwitz. My mom had to read this book for a class at school. She loved it and gave us a copy a few years ago. I finally took the time to sit down and read it. Horwitz toured southern states to get different view points of the Civil War over a hundred years later. He talked to all sorts of people and characters. It was laugh out loud funny and times and thought provoking all at the same time. I loved his style so much that I ordered is other two books this week... "Blue Latitudes" and "Baghdad Without A Map" I can't wait to get them in the mail. I'm not much of a reader so this is huge for me.

Just got a new CD and its not Rockapella! Shocker! I got the Toby Mac "Portable Sounds" and it is great! It really gets me going in the morning. Willy hates it... What else is new? Our music tastes are really different.

Told you the blog would ramble!
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