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By Patrick, on December 27th, 2009 With all this free time me and Brianna have now at home, we are able to do a little web browsing here and there. A few months ago, we fell upon a wonderful website, peopleofwalmart.com. I’m sure you’ve seen it or at least heard about it, but in essence it is nothing but photographs of some of the “interesting” clientele that patronizes Walmarts across this great country of ours.
As we look at the photos of some of these more “colorful” characters, we both feel that we’ve seen a number of people on the site at our Walmart. Of course,
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By Patrick, on December 23rd, 2009 One of the more interesting surprises/realizations that I’ve realized about having a baby is that they are quite gaseous. And by “quite”, I really mean “Holy Shit that’s alot of gas!” The baby farts all the time. And these aren’t just little itty bitty poots. No! These suckers wake us up at night. We have to check his diaper about every 20 minutes to make sure it hasn’t exploded.
This is just a little observation. I’m sure I’ll be surprised at other baby things that come along as the little pooter gets older.
By Brianna, on December 20th, 2009 Patrick and I have been trapped at home waiting for the snow to melt. Of course this hasn’t been too bad. We’ve exercised some mountain values and had a few beers, took the baby out for pictures in the snow, and basically couched it. We have also done our very favorite thing: WATCHED THE NEIGHBORS!
As our more industrious neighbors were digging themselves out we watched them fill that back of their pickup truck with snow as the shoveled. Patrick turned to me and asked why the hell are they doing that. I personally thought it was ingenious because a)
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By Brianna, on December 19th, 2009 Yesterday, around 6:30 a.m. I, yet again, won the Mama of the Year Award. This time for running out of wipes the morning of a forecasted snowstorm. As I put the baby back in his bassinet I noticed the night rain was turning into snow.
Crap
So, I did the right thing and crawled into bed.
Crap
My guilt set in and I turned over and said to Patrick:
Brianna: We’re out of wipes.
Patrick: Mmm… *snore*
Brianna: It’s starting to snow, and I know that the weather people never get it right, but I would hate to get a
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By Patrick, on December 19th, 2009 Snow in the mountains of western North Carolina not only brings out the desperate and the needy to the local grocery stores (gotta have milk, eggs, and BEER!) but it also causes a hormonal change in many of the middle-aged men. And for some reason, this change really only involves men with pick-up trucks. Very strange. I have witnessed this last night and today as we are still huddled in our house after a foot of snow fell yesterday…So, as I look out the window to notice the trucks, every single one of them is a pickup truck. What the
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By Patrick, on December 18th, 2009 Well, I’m here to finish up the last five Reasons Old People Suck I often get annoyed at old people. So without further ado, here goes:
6. Old people think the world owes them something. They’ve been around so long they feel that the rest of the world should wait on them. And grant it, we give it to them. Just look at social security, senior discounts, etc. I think we should start charging really old people for breathing our air and using perfectly good resources that could be used for other younger and better people.
7. Old people think
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By Patrick, on December 16th, 2009 Well, it’s taken a while but I have finally gotten around to it…Commenting on the nefarious generational gap that exists between the those born around 30 years ago and those born much slightly sooner. Honestly, I could probably go on for about twenty five pages about this topic. But instead, I will try to sum up some of my ideas in a breakdown of 10 things that annoy me about really old people. Today, I will write about the first five things and my next post will finish up my ideas. Seriously, you don’t have that much free time to
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By Patrick, on December 12th, 2009 My mother-in-law was out and about this week and came across someone who had a wonderful suggestion as a Christmas gift for McClain-a lifetime fishing/hunting license. For $200, anyone that is under the age of 1 can get a lifetime license to hunt/fish in North Carolina. This include, (from the NC Wildlife Commission Website) “Statewide hunting and inland fishing. Includes hunting for big game, hunting on game lands, hunting for waterfowl (does not include federal duck stamp), fishing in designated Public Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game lands, and fishing in joint waters. It does not include
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By Brianna, on December 11th, 2009 This isn’t really a post… more of a short musing. I ran into Goodwill today to pick up some old t-shirts (I was using the knit fabric in a sewing project). As, I was trying to find the largest ones I could get for my $1.50, a gentleman walked in. Every employee greeted him by name. He went to the housewares picked up a few knickknacks and checked out right in front of me. Where the cashier chatted him up, clearly familiar with the guy. So my question is…
What does it take to be a regular at Goodwill? What
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By Brianna, on December 6th, 2009 After a lovely two week vacation (If by vacation you mean recovery from squeezing out something the size of a bag of flour through something the size of a tube sock) I’m back. Yep and I am even more devoted to writing about things outside of baby-land because that is all I think about. Little McClain (i.e. the Wee Willis) is quickly sucking all grownup and witty thoughts out of my brain. Both Patrick and I have come to the point where I have a story, that involves projectile poop, that I tell Patrick about at three in the morning
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