Wintery Mix

If you grew up in Cali and someone asked you what is " Wintery Mix "you might guess it was some sort of festive mix of hard candies that you get at X-Mas time,or maybe some type of hearty vegetable soup and you'd be wrong.It's nothing as pleasant as that it is,in fact, just about the nastiest weather you could imagine.The temp hovers right around freezing and in the air is a mixture of fog,rain and snow.All of this hits the ground and turns to one giant dirty snowcone which periodically freezes over with a nice slick surface. All of which means somebody with my cat-like agility and reflexes is basically fucked.Doomed to at least slip and slide around if not just fall flat on my ass!Good Times !!

Random

Back to the gym this week after being sick with a cold all last week,mostly pretty half-assed till today.Loaded up the IPod with a playlist I like to call SweatFucker really mellow stuff like TSOL,Agent Orange,Fear and Pennywise.Blasted that shit so loud I think sound was coming out my pores,45 minutes of that on the elliptical machine will clear your head.Now I need a nap.Turns out that a broken heart is a real physical thing I didn't really understand that till Mom died.It comes and goes I'll be moving along,functional;then Boom the floor disappears,and I'm not sure if my heart is beating or not sorta like I would imagine drowning feels.It comes in waves and then passes.New experience for me, I guess I'm lucky to have lived this long before I had to deal with one.On the weather front,rain on top of snow sucks!!Best jacked up sign in town "Nut Buster Sundae "It was fixed to say Peanut Butter Sundae before I could get a picture.Go Vikes!Chargers Suck!

Hot Dishes For Haiti

The call has gone out across the Sioux Empire,East river and West,to Barbs,Debs, Elaines ,Lynns,and all the Petersens,Olsens,and Gustaffsons.The people of Haiti need casseroles!All the neighbor ladies are assembling cream of mushroomy,noodly wonders for the people of Hay-Tie.You won't be able to find a foil baking dish to save your life once it begins.Soon to follow this starchy airlift will come the Jello salads,ice box cakes and bars and cookies of all kinds.After all the goods we received after Mom passed I have no doubt thatthat all the Hay-Tians will be eating good soon.Of course there will be coffee and Mountain Dew in rivers to wash it all down!

The Lutheran Cookies

When planning my Mom's memorial we needed someone to put together a reception type deal for afterward.Not one of my strengths,event planning,and my ultra-organized cousin had yet to arrive.So the neighbor ladies volunteered to arrange everything.In meeting with them they mentioned that they had never seen Mom in church and they attend both Lutheran churches in town.I informed them that my Mom was a good Southern Baptist that didn't go in for any Yankee Lutheran foolishness.They were disappointed but carried on.They baked a small mountain of brownies but the big hit was the cookies.I think they were trying to sneak in a little recruiting for the Lutherans with their baked goods.I don't know if they got any converts among the Baptists,but I know I'll never forget the Lutheran cookies.

The Backstory

Here goes,I am a Cali native who 6 months ago packed up & relocated to South Dakota to care for my Mom who had cancer.She passed away about a week ago.Now it's me and my 80 year old,hard of hearing Dad as roommates.Hopefully some hilarity will ensue,meanwhile I'll write here as often as I can.Some of it will be kinda serious,loss etc.,but some will be amusing in a fish out of water type way.