The wedding

My sister's wedding was very cool. She even had a really cool celeb show up with his son (the wife is in morocco). My little girl just fell in complete love with the little celebrity son. She ran up to me and said "I'm inviting James to my birthday" then James says "I know where her birthday is". I bet his parents would be psyched to find out they get to escape Manhattan to visit a couple of strangers at their wooded New Hampshire home in the hills. -insert banjo music please-

Webkinz Secret Code: kcuSeW

The webkinz stuffed animal comes with a secret code which allows you to activate your new virtual reality pet on the webkinz website. Seemingly by design, this secret code will end up in the trash -with the rest of the virtual reality packaging- about 5 percent of the time. This unfortunate event of trashing the secret code before activating it on the website, renders the new webkin as useless as a crappy stuffed animal hanging around a cheap traveling carnival.

The webkinz website clearly states: The Webkinz tag and the Secret Code it contains is a valuable part of the Webkinz pet product. Each Webkinz pet comes with its own unique secret code, which is contained in the tag that is securely attached to every pet when it is shipped to the original retailer.

Just as we cannot replace a lost Webkinz pet, we are unable to replace a lost Webkinz tag and the Secret Code that comes with it. We have made every attempt to identify that the Secret Code is necessary to the adoption of your pet.

We understand that honest mistakes are made where tags may be disposed of or misplaced accidentally. We truly want you and your child to enjoy the full value of the Webkinz pet. However, Ganz policy states that we cannot replace any code that is lost or misplaced. This is why it is very important to keep your Secret Codes in a safe place at all times.

In response, my Blog clearly states: I hate webkinz.

Wedding cloths set

Well, I achieved what I swore was the impossible.....I bought a suit off the rack and it just might work for me. Hell, if I lose five pounds it will actually fit just about perfect. On the other hand it cost $350 for suit, $50 for shirt, and $50 for tie. My little A-girl was a great shopper. She helped me pick everything out. If I bought a second suit it would have been 50% off and as tempting as that is, I just don't know that I will be wearing a lot of suits in the near term. At first I was a little shocked by the price but now that I think of it, when I wore suits to work ten years ago it wasn't out of the question to spend $500 on something decent looking so I guess it's a pretty decent deal. At least it's over.

shopping

Shopping for clothes to a wedding sucks when your fat. There's nothin like squeezing into a weird pair of oddly fitting clothing that feels strange cause you never dress up. I now understand why the morbidly obese just where the same thing everyday and don't leave the house. Wearing sneakers with holes in them to work everyday for the past ten years has really kinda changed my feel for clothes. I used to love to throw on a suit for work or a party. Twenty pounds later and I feel like I should stay in bed, when I stop breathing they could cut apart the door frame and drag my dead body out with a winch and crane. Stick me in a piano and I'm done. There used to be a guy in the Guinness book when I was a kid whose claim to fame was fattest man and the big catch was that when he died there wasn't anything big enough to bury him in so they retro fitted a piano to bury him in......nice.....So this weekend I'm off to figure it all out. When I lived in Seattle it would have been a simple trip to a nice men's shop who would have sold me the suit, fitted it and sent me on my way. Ever try to shop in New Hampshire? I suppose if your looking for overalls or some kind of cold weather contractors outfit, well then your all set. There aren't a lot of suits in this state. Everyone is always like, "hey head up to the Kittery outlets"......ya that's what I want to do, shop at an outlet where nothing fits cause I'm like two feet tall with a five foot waist and no one is there to help you or offer tailoring........Outlets, super idea!......classy too.......

Used Crap Projects and Update

As most of you know already, I like to find used crap and make use of it. Our t.v. came from the dump, our computer table came from the dump, the chair I sit at on the computer came from the dump, one of our high chairs came from the dump, we have a coffee table that either needs paint or should go back to the dump....the list can go on. I'm using the word "dump" pretty liberally since technically we are getting it from the swap shop which is basically a shed setup at the dump where people can leave useful stuff for others to take rather than throwing it in the land fill. I like to call it the free yard sale and my four year old daughter is really hooked. Everyday I pick her up after work she asks, "is the dump open!"........hmmmm not good, right?

Today's finds yielded three small fishing rods and a cheap patio chair that matches our other cheap patio chairs. Not quite as good as finding a 32 inch stereo picture in picture capable t.v. with remote and users manual, but hey, not everyday can be as fruitful as the last at the old swap shop.

On another note, my old flame from facebook continues to message me, mostly cause I keep messaging back. She still is very nice and has had some hard times over the years. I wish her the best. Losing a three week old baby is something only few of us have to experience and the years do not erase the pain. Failed relationships and single parenthood while all too common is still amazingly challenging. Who knew that the divorce rate would hit the 50 percent levels that we sit at today? Jeeezzz.....Despite some of the troubled past, the years have gone by and it seems that my old friend has done many things right and raising a thirteen year old daughter on her own seems to be one of her many successes. In the end I was really glad to catch up and hope she is safe all the way out there on the west coast.......which reminds me, god I miss Seattle sometimes.

The lovely wife and I will have the privilege of attending my sisters marriage ceremony and reception in a couple weeks. My little girl will be the flower girl and if all goes as planned, may be walking down the isle with the son of someone who has been much fodder for the paparazzi over the years. I will not reveal the names but let me just say, "would you like to play a game?"

Well good night river folk....nice to chat again. Have a great Friday tomorrow.