Hawaiian Poge

Has anyone seen the latest Leapfrog commercial? There’s a man dressed (unconvincingly I might add) in a frog suit and wearing a tie. That’s just silly.  I know many frogs, some successful, and not one needs to wear a tie.  But this one has a frog blog. Apparently my ridiculous love of plays on words extends to cheap rhymes. The idea of a frog blog CRACKS me up.

But even better than a frog blog is David’s blog. (Yes I know you all tried to read it once and it was all computery and scary and so you stopped trying. I’m in the same boat.) BUT, he wrote one the other day and got an awesome response.

We went to Whole Foods and on the way out saw:

Hurley! (He wasn’t that dressed up though.)

It was like meeting an old friend.  And yes, I watch too much TV.  But anyway, David wrote about it on his blog, and then he got a comment. FROM HURLEY.  Jorge Garcia wrote a comment about a blog about him.

It was awesome.  (Jorge, read my blog!  I love you too! In fact, I saw you first.)

http://blog.burdell.org/

I went to a 1st Birthday party today for Karyn’s nephew Camden. So fun.  She couldn’t come back from Sacramento though because the baby’s due soon and the Dr. foolishly advised that not flying was more important than coming home. Ah well, I suppose I understand.

Her Dad made a joke though that I was trying to replace her and just showing up at places she was supposed to be.  Yeah, I blend.  Plus I’m an imposter- no y in my name.

But it was really good to see her family. Camden (the birthday boy)’s Mom is amazingly creative and sent out these hilarious invites with Camden dressed as a monkey, so the whole party was monkey themed.

The best part? I whole bag full of banana runts with none of the gross fruits! Delicious.

(Karyn: 1, Chris: 0)

Seriously! So we got rid of that one gecko at Mom’s place, but a new one moved in the next week.  Verena and Sophie found him.  I could tell he was different because he was paler- and had a tail. But we left him. He wasn’t bothering anything. Right? WRONG!

He was hiding, biding his time, honing his skills, watching my every move and memorizing my schedule. Because he’s a ninja gecko.  And when I walked into Mom’s apartment, innocent, unsuspecting, simply looting her pantry for Tostitos- he pounced! From above. And fell on my head.

This is not acceptable gecko behavior.  And then he ran. My screams may have had something to do with this.

So now he’s back in hiding. I think he’s getting his hands on some drink swords from the bar down the street to wait for my return. 

But I’ll be ready this time.

So, I got bored the other day. This is dangerous.  I then signed up for a Book Club. And a German Club. And Chicks with Checks. And then I signed up for a tennis class. And a guitar class.  They all start next week. 

I think I’m going to be busy soon.

 (And Gen’s coming to visit!!)

Verena and Mekayla&Greg pictures still to come. They’re hidden somewhere.