Maxima

My contribution to the Olympics

maxima — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:24:39 +0000

Chinese Wedding Night:

A young Chinese couple gets married. She’s a virgin. Truth be told,
he is a virgin too, but she doesn’t know that.

On their wedding night, she cowers naked under the sheets as her
husband undresses in the darkness.

He climbs into bed next to her and tries to be reassuring.
’My darring,’ he whispers, ‘I know dis you firss time and you berry
flighten. I promise you,

I give you anyting you want, I do anyting - juss anyting you want. You
juss ask. Whatchu want?’ he says, trying to sound experienced and worldly, which he hopes will impress her.

A thoughtful silence follows and he waits patiently (and eagerly) for her
request.

She eventually shyly whispers back, ‘I want to try someting I have hear
about from odda girls… Numbaa 69.’

More thoughtful silence, this time from him. Eventually, in a puzzled
tone he asks her….

’You want…… Garlic Chicken wif snow peas?’

I’m back

maxima — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:29:08 +0000

ohhhhhhhhhhh I miss everybody, so I am back.

I have had very little time to give attention to the computer, so I read everybodys blog quick or look at the pictures and enjoy them and then have to be gone. Well, I miss not being able to listen to everybodys comments about our life here….so I am back and will try to give any extra minutes to our life here in Minnesota.

The other day I was at the Mississippi Market Co-op and was sorting through the peaches and something familiar caught my side vision. I turned to see who it was that “seemed” familiar and it was Garrison Keilor sorting through the lettuce. I knew he lived in the neighborhood and had been to his bookstore about 3 blocks from the co-op. Everybody was just leaving him alone to shop like a normal person. I passed him later in another isle and not wanting to stare at him I looked down. Looking down caused me to look directly in his basket which had Breyer’s ice cream on the top. Oh how I would have loved to sit outside with two spoons on the bench and had a conversation with him while we ate from the box

The other day I was talking to Asha and after a minute I noticed her hair was quite a bit shorter. She has not cut it since third grade so I was quite shocked. She told me she had given her hair to Locks of Love. This is an organization that takes real hair and makes them into wigs for kids that have bald heads, mostly from cancer treatment. She donated her hair in honor of her uncle David who just beat cancer. I don’t think she will allow me to put a picture of her here…..so here is a picture I found on the net. It is of Amanda who just donated her pony tail also. This was about how long Asha’s hair was before and after. After stealing Amanda’s picture, I clicked on the link that gave me the picture. It was a website of a young woman fighting cancer, her name is Asha. holy cow! Her web is http://ashamevlana.com

A new contest

maxima — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:38:48 +0000

A few weeks ago I was looking for something in the basement. That is quite a project involving just digging in box after box. I came across a camera that I did not even remember having. It had 35 mm film in it with 14 pictures taken. If I try hard enough, I can convince myself that I remember using the camera but the truth is I don’t even remember it.

Two days ago, I got emailed a free coupon to Walgreens photo shop to develop a 35 mm film. Heck, right up my alley! So, tonight I dropped the film with free coupon off to get developed.

NEW CONTEST: What are your guesses of what is on those 14 pictures ? ? ?

The winner gets the camera, sorry the battery is dead

Snarfing solution

maxima — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:59:22 +0000

Mona is a snarfer. That is the official scientific description by the vet of what kind of eater Mona is. The vet says some dogs eat slow and some dogs are snarfers (inhale their food). I felt bad that Mona only gets 1.5 cups of dog food and eats it in about 30 seconds and then stares at us……like where is the rest of it??? The vet said we could feed her double and she would probably eat it in almost the same amount of time and give us the same pathetic look.

BUT….aaaahaaaa! The gal at the pet food store said for a snarfer, to put the dog food on a cookie sheet. That way the dog has to chase it and it slows them down a bit. (Mona does not do this but I guess some dogs eat so fast that they…you know, “ralph”…..euwwww.)

Mona was home alone 13 hours Friday and her dinner was 4 hours late. I knew she would inhale her food even faster, so I got out the cookie sheet. It worked great. Here she is enjoying her dinner and it took her about 5 times longer to eat it. Nice solution.

Easter

maxima — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:44:16 +0000

My mom was at my brother’s in St Cloud, so we went to join the family for Easter. We had a short but nice day. Orleen had all the traditional foods and we added croisants, spinach salad, and an impulse purchase……chocolate drizzled macaroons. We did cut the macaroons in half to minimize the damage.

The favorite part of the day for the kids was the egg decorating. Here is Molly in the pink showing her art skills and effort in her expression. Molly is always dressed in something fashionable. Elijah shows his hands after painting eggs. And at the table are Kelly and Jessica. Jessica is very witty and cleaver and a hockey star. I was looking for hockey sticks tattoed on those eggs. There were some very fancy eggs at the end of the project.

Tomorrow Summer and Asha are at our house. Summer is making Yankie Pot Roast for Blips birthday. It is one of his favorite meals and we have not seen Sum since before his birthday. She works alot.

Guess for cookies

maxima — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:07:46 +0000

You know how I love clocks. And last night we had to turn our clocks ahead one hour. Daylight savings time came really early this year. After the first few, it occured to me that it was quite a job to turn all those clocks ahead.

So, to the person who can guess the correct number of clocks that I had to turn ahead last night…..ta da….drum roll please……I will send some cookies.

How many clocks did I turn ahead last night? Yes, the Harry Potter station clock counts as two.

ok with retirement

maxima — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 06:53:41 +0000

We had a nice day last Thursday. We both were off work and we started out the day with coffee from Sati Coffee. It is very European tasting. We were running late so we got a scone which is presently forbidden so I thought it would be twice as delicious. Blips got a cinnamon chip scone. It was doey and not flakey. bummer I had a chocolate chip cherry scone. That also was doey and not flakey. I did not even finish mine.

We then headed for our annual meeting with our great financial advisor. After discussing American politics we got around to rebalancing our portfolio. It is nice to trust our financial planner. As I tell him, I would trust him with my children. What a testamonial

Next we headed for downtown Minneapolis for our eye appointment. We have just enough time to eat at our favorite Indian restaurant. It has been completely remodeled and is now called Bombay Bistro. It has both Northern (hotter spice) and Southern(milder spice) food. mmmmmmmmmmm and we end it with rice pudding.

We have a wonderful eye doctor and we even pay to park. You know how I hate to pay to park. We talk alot about grandchildren since he has a new granddaughter about the same age as Jarne. As we head home for the day, I think that retirement won’t be bad at all. We have so much fun together that it will be rather nice to spend our days together. I think we will be ok with retirement when it finally gets here.

I had to beg

maxima — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:55:50 +0000

I had to beg to get permission to put this mornings birthday pictures on my blog. Yes, blips had a birthday today. We started the day with pancakes, even Mona got some. Then we went to Caribou for coffee. Blips coffee was free……mmmmmm large mocha. Next was Chinese buffet but we were so full from the coffee that we only had one plate. That’s ok, we are both losing weight. Yes, the scale is finally budging for me.

I don’t think Mona has been allowed in bed with us for years. She sometimes sneaks in bed when we are gone if I don’t hook the baby gate at the bedroom door. So, here she is waking up Blips on his birthday. She thinks she has to sit on the pillow.

Well, all I have to say about this birthday is that 58 is the new 38

The best part of the whole day was the phone calls from K and M. That made it a perfect day.

Mona Mona Mona

maxima — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:00:58 +0000

Mona has been a bit lost since I am now gone many hours of the day. She is used to me being her daily pal and long walks in the afternoon or snuggling on the couch in the sunshine while I read a book. Here she is with her blankies in the sunshine spot. That green thing is her squeekie. It sounds like a mouse and she thinks it is her friend. She takes it with her around the house.

Now when I leave I cover her with a blanket to keep her warm. When I come home, she sometimes is still in the same spot nice and toasty warm. Here she is our cutie girl just poking her head up when I got home from work. She still has her sleepy eyes

The Big Dummy

maxima — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:54:13 +0000

A couple local guys, Dave and Nick, invented a new bike. It’s called ……..ta da…… drum roll please……..The Big Dummy. They ride bikes all year round and found a couple things difficult. 1–transporting large cargo like from Home Depot 2–stability in the winter 3–multiple loads like kids and groceries at the same time. So, they made a long heavier looking frame that has extra room for saddle bags, big fat tires and storage compartments. They sold out all 90 of the first ones in four hours. There is now a backload of customers.

It looks Dutch to me. All that is missing here is the Dutch attitude…..ride down the middle of the street at a speed to your liking. Never mind that you are blocking traffic for a caravan behind you. Of course, here in Minnesota that would be called suicide attempt.

Sam, maybe you want to rename your bike….the little smartie