Random Esquire

1.  Hit the Jersey Shore yesterday.  I wish there was some way I could have snapped a picture of a couple sitting on the beach.  Both in lawn chairs, the woman was all of 90 pounds and 90 years old with a vibrant red head of wig perched atop her noggin and skin the color of an old penny.  Her skinny limbs stuck out of her body like lollipop sticks.  Not to be outdone was her husband whose prosthetic leg was removed and perched just below his knee while his shortened limb was crossed over his other leg.  Basically, he had crossed his legs but left the prosthesis in place so it looked like they weren’t crossed until you paused and realized that his thigh was in fact crossed toward his other leg.   They made an interesting picture – not in a comical way – but more in the way that you wanted to know their story.  Naturally, I instantly nicknamed them Snookie and the Situation.

2.  Today, while my nephew napped, I looked at my niece and said, “What would you like to do?”

She responded ,”MAKE CUPCAKES.”

So we made cupcakes.

3.  Second only after cupcakes in enjoyment factor was holding my niece and nephew upside down by their ankles while they laughed hysterically.  I’m not sure my sister knows about that, though.

They didn’t barf or anything.

4.  My sister was charmed by the Seattle group.  She said that they seemed like people “who love experiences.”  And I agree.

5.  While at dinner tonight, my sister said to her son, “You’re going to school next week; did you know that? You’re going to go to school.”   And he said very simply, in his high pitched, tiny boy voice:

“Nooope.”