This week has just completely flown by and I am sitting here wondering where the time went. It’s been a roller coaster of a week with some highs and lows and I am eagerly looking forward to one of the first full fledged relaxation weekends in many months. Other than twisting balloons this evening as the typical Friday night entertainer for Nero’s Pizza, I will not touch balloons once this weekend, which once again, is the first time in many many months.
And now I shall unveil many random thoughts in a completely unorganized manner.
1. For the first time in my life since becoming a children’s entertainer 6 years ago, I decided to actually attend a “balloon jam” as they are called by other balloon twisters. I have been in denial for many years as to accepting of the fact that I am a balloon twister, and meeting with other balloon twisters doesn’t really agree with denial. It would be like a drunk in denial about being a drunk going and hanging out with other drunks who pratice ways to be a bigger drunk together. Make sense?
So meeting other balloon twister’s was definitely interesting. A group of 12 of us got together and had dinner and exchanged info for networking. The gauntlet was thrown when an older lady in her sixties looked across the table at me and ask “Do you use your mouth?” to which I replied “that’s a personal question!” causing laughter. (for the record I hope that is the only time in my life that I hear a woman in her sixties ask me if I use my mouth!) If you were not a balloon twister and heard that question one might think it was a very sexual, but to a balloon person, she was asking if I mouth inflate or use a pump. I personally do both depending on the balloon I am using. She only mouth inflates, but then again she is a clown and only makes very simple one balloon creations vs. the 5-6 balloon creations that I make. In any given night I might use two to three hundred balloons and that’s a lot of stress on my body. So we twisted balloons for around an hour and agreed that we would get together monthly moving forward.
2. The McRib is back for a limited time. I have already ruined it for myself. Upon pulling up to a McDonalds drive thru and seeing a McRib sign I was shocked since I had not heard anything yet. I asked how long they have been available and it had been all of 48 hours so I didn’t miss too much. I ordered two (which I have never done before) since it has been more than a year since our last encounter. One severaly stained dress shirt later and stomach pains throughout the night and I may have had ruined it for myself this year. I started out too strong. I’m going to give myself another few days and hope that they aren’t gone before I make another go at it.
3. Even though I will not be twisting balloons this weekend, we will be out shopping for a new vehicle for the wifey. We already know what she wants and I am preparing to welcome a disgusting amount of debt. It’s a sad day when we buy a car that costs more than my mothers house did. I am looking forward to the fun that will accompany the car buying process since I last did this more than 9 years ago. We are dumb and are buying a midsized SUV, but it still gets decent gas mileage and gas prices have dropped back down for now. I am a fan of anything that will provide my wife safety while driving especially considering where we live now and how often I have to swerve around deer. My wife and I actually got into a pretty heated argument over whether or not to get the entertainment package built into the SUV that would include speakers in the rear along with an LCD TV and DVD player. I want it purely because I want to chill in the back of the SUV on roadtrips and watch movies. She doesn’t want it because she is a teacher and when we have children she in no way wants to have a child watching TV in the car. If this will be our vehicle for the next ten years, it would be in our best interest to get it since we will hopefully have children in that timeframe. The only way she agreed that we could get it is if I can get them to throw it in for free, which I may try for. That will be my rebuttal to their closing question after we have done everything in regards to financing. I don’t know how happy my wife will be when I force her to walk away from the dealership over something that she isn’t a fan of in the first place. This should be interesting.
4. I received an email from the big wigs at my company stating that as a company we will be in the spirit of “green” this holiday season. Therefore in an effort to conserve electricity our company will not be displaying any indoor or outdoor holiday lighting or decorations, nor will any of the employees be allowed to. This was the quote on the email that made everyone laugh:
“All those lights suck a lot of power — in fact, according to Terrapass, total power consumption from holiday lights is five times the entire energy output of the sun since the beginning of time”
As soon as everyone read that line people began busting out in laughter. Funny shit. We actually found out after the fact that they quoted someone who was joking on a blog but the person didn’t realize they were joking.
Funny shit.
Have a great weekend!
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