What does your town need?
Our town is pretty small. For the most part, shopping consists of the old downtown style shops. Many of the big players have moved in recently like Lowes, Target, PetSmart, and the like. While this certainly makes things more convenient for us as consumers, it also impacts the small town feel. The only shop I would love to see move in would be Costco. With our large family, Costco trips are a must. I would love to avoid the 45 minutes commute to it.
Our town hosts a lot of social activities and has quite a few parks for our enjoyment. However, it does not have a quality gym with a large pool and indoor basketball courts. So a nice full feature gym and a better movie theater would be appreciated.
A Melting Pot and Cold Stone wouldn’t hurt either.
Corey Haim, Dead at 34 - Of an “accidental drug overdose.” Link. Murphy’s Romance, Lucas, The Lost Boys, Watchers, and License to Drive - all vintage 80’s flicks. The Two Corey’s are now only one. Sadness.
What does your town need?
I personally agree with mom. This town needs a 25 meter lap pool. The local high school swim teams, of which I am a 2 year veteran, need to travel 30 minutes to an hour out of town to find a suitable pool. AND it’s on a school bus. That is the epitome of suckitude when it’s 8:30 at night and you are soggy, cold, hungry, and sore AND you have a bunch of AP classes the next day. For once it would be nice to arrive home before my little brothers’ bedtimes.
We need a mall. Or a place where it is easy to find a job. This place is almost devoid of teen activites that don’t involve school, learning, or farming in some way. Usually they involve all three! We have a bowling alley, an old and kind of gross movie theatre, and several car washes. No joke on that last part, teenagers actually hangout at car washes. What the heck is that?And on top of that, the job market in this town is cornered by either middle aged high school dropouts or old people. The company with the highest employee count in this town is Wal-Mart. So even if they couldn’t find a place to hangout after school, they now have super slim pickins for jobs. I can count on one hand that amount of people I know that have jobs. Then again that could just because a lot of the people I know are kind of lazy bums, skater bums, or just plain ol’ bums.
Pretend you are a developer, what do you think your town needs?
We live in a relatively small town about 60 miles south of Washington DC. We aren’t too far from three larger cities, and those three cities have everything we need, but sometimes I don’t want to drive 45 minutes to get to Costco.
So, as you can see if we had a Costco I would be good to go and would rarely have to leave my hometown. (which I love by the way!) I would also love something more for the kids to do, specifically a YMCA with a 25 meter competitive lap pool. Not only do we need a community pool, but a YMCA would provide classes for all ages.
If I am dreaming, a Whole Foods would be AWESOME! But I don’t think that is going to happen, so I am content for the most part with the natural and organic products at Martin’s, Walmart and Target.
Cast a spell…what would it be?
While CL and I don’t mind cooking and when we don’t C is up to the task, there are some days when none of us want to cook a meal or we just don’t have a taste for anything in particular. For those instances, it would be nice to have a spell at my disposal to magically whip up something nourishing and fulfilling. I suppose we are to put it into a spell form, so “Since I’m tired and my meal ideals are null, give me something to make me full.”
As a side note, I just sliced my hand twice while preparing dinner this evening, so such a spell would have come in handy tonight.
Cast a spell…what would it be?
Consdiering how creative I am I’d probably have a couple of options. Probably humiliating things for jerkwads at school.
1) “Sarcastic and snide though you are, now run as though trapped in tar”- basically they just are stuck to the spot. Perfectly open for assorted knick knacks to be attached to their immobile bodies! Gene Shallit glasses anybody?
2) “Fight and whine you do, now stuck together as though glue”- Two people who argue are stuck together until they learn to settle their differences and shut up about whatever they are complaining about.
3) ” Cruel names you call my pals, now feel the pain of a thousand root canals”- a person’s mouth basically explode in pain until they decide to be good. I am a very big stickler when it comes to people being rude to my brothers or friends. Prepare for pain suckas!
Which is cooler- Ninjas or Pirates?
I have to agree with mom. Ninjas are cool because they are more disciplined and probably smell a lot nicer than pirates. Not to mention they jump from trees and can knock people out by poking them in pressure points. Pirates would probably just hack and cough phlegm until they were able to drink and find some wenches. Argh.
No, we aren’t witches or into the occult (though I do like horror movies), we aren’t even freakish harry Potter fans. A, H and even little D like the TV show “Wizards of Waverly Place.” Truth be told, I think A just likes Selena Gomez the main character. Anyways, A suggested the question of the day be: If you could make any spell what would it be. I would probably come up with a few.
1) “if you see a piece of trash, pick it up and throw it away spell”-to be cast on all five of the boys and even R. I assume R is just so tall he does not notice the candy wrappers, and what not left on the floor, which is the only explanation I can come up with as to why he would willingly leave more work for his overworked housewife, the boys are just oblivious of course.
2) “The mom is getting annoyed, I better pitch in spell”-there are times when I am just exhausted. (to which R just tells me to go to bed, but it isn’t that kind of exhausted) yet, I still have dishes to wash, laundry to wash, fold and put away, trash to pick up, etc…and the kids just sit there! This spell would allow them to get a clue and pitch in without being told to.
3) “The perfect hair day spell”-I got a hair cut the other day, and yes, I know how to fix it…but I don’t want to have to do so everyday. I just want to wave a wand and BOOM! It looks great.
Can’t wait to see what the kids come up with…will anyone ask for every video game in the world?
Which is cooler- Ninjas or Pirates?
Definitely, ninjas. Their toys and methods are so much more intriguing than pirates cruising around looking for a ship to take over or stuff to steal.
Courtesy of “C” here. Not sure what he was watching that made him ask this, but hey this is supposed to be a family blog sooooo….
I would have to say Ninjas are cooler. Pirates have bad teeth, which means more than likely they have stanky breath too. Their hair does have that tousled, saltwater look, but that simply can not make up for the bad teeth and hygiene. Plus all that raping and pillaging…not cool.
Ninjas are stealth, controlled individuals. Who doesn’t dig that?!