"Hey Guys? Oooh! Big Gulps huh?! Alright!.... well, see ya later."
By far one of my favorite lines from "Dumb and Dumber". I tried to find the clip on youtube but to no avail. You have to watch the movie and wait for that moment. I didn't even notice it the first time I saw the movie. It's when Jim Carey comes bounding out of the convenience store to head back to his vehicle. He stops to talk to two fella's who are hanging out in the parking lot. They respond only with blank disinterested or un-trusting stares. When they don't respond at all he just keeps bounding off, happy as a clam. Priceless. I laugh every time. Probably just me and I guess that wasn't worth sharing. But I'd rather keep typing that delete what I already wasted time putting down on this thing.
Anyway... yeah! what have we been up to? ...Cherity is really sick. Hacking a lot. Me, telling her to knock it off doesn't go over so well. I guess I'm supposed to be empathetic... er something. But no worries. She just took some generic night-time Nyquil so I should be free of the burden, which is my wife, shortly. I'm of course just kidding. I feel for her and I know I'm probably next in line to be popping drowsy cough suppressant pills. It's just a foreshadowing of what's to come for me. I love knowing ahead of time that I'm going to be miserable. It feeds in to my all-to-negative nature.
We went to Duluth and that was wonderful. Our bed and breakfast was nice and it's always entertaining talking to 'Jim the owner' over breakfast and other people that come to visit the Ellery House. There are pictures below if you feel like taking a look. Cherity and I did our best to forget that we had children for the two days, but we still managed to miss them before they were brought up to us. Parenthood is sort of weirdly masochistic that way. It makes you age twice as fast as you should but given the chance for escape you can't wait to get back to the kids. Maybe we need more practice. We usually only get a way from them once a year. Speaking of which, I think I had some sort of panic attack last night about the kids not being around just before I fell asleep last night. I can't remember what thought popped in to my head. Something about having to let go. Probably for the best that I can't remember.
What else....? The puppies are getting really big. Cherity brought them to the vet a couple of weeks ago and they were already 20 and 22 pounds. Little porkers. Fat and lazy if you ask me. Nothing like Molly. They're young yet and they are rather vicious with each other when they're wrestling so there's hope that they'll get a little more spunky... or that they'll maul somebody.
Nothing really in the works other than that... just little stresses here and there, but you don't get to hear about that. Oh no! I keep that bottled up and all to myself. The internal pressure makes my head swell and it can sometimes give me a huge adrenaline rush when it explodes. It's definitely worth it. Psychology, schmycology.... OK, maybe I shouldn't have started to post again.
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I think you miss quoted the movie line from Dumb and Dumber? I believe he says "Big Gulps Huh?" Not slurrpees. I could be wrong. But I doubt it. My friends in college took an obsessive longing to this quote and used it as much as the folks in Sienfeld said, "hellloooo." Sorry to rain on your parade. I just don't want you to look foolish. I care.
yeah. that's part of the reason I was trying to find the clip on youtube. For the sake of accuracy. I was thinking it was most likely slurpee because I thought slurpee was more a national brand-name and big-gulp was a more regional thing sort of like an "urge" from Kwik Trip. Someday I'll watch the movie again and know for sure. That's it though! I was able to find it on You Tube with the "Big Gulp" search. Chad, you are indeed the master of useless information!
You and your dad are such Jim Carey fans! Every day at some point I will hear "allll righty then!"
:-)
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