Chipmunks

This picture is actually from last weekend, when Madison and Daddy took about 100 photos using different filters on the computer.  This one made us look like chipmunks!

Actually, Daddy's throat is about that swollen right now.  I went to the doctor's this morning and got medication for strep throat (again), and also got a flu shot.  Yes, the flu season is just around the corner!

Daddy was pretty sick today, but he still waited for Madison at the bus stop and helped her off the bus. We walked home together (all that distance!), and went inside to wait for Mommy. She was off doing some grocery shopping - and getting her hair done.  She's been going to Aldi's as of late, and saving us a lot of money actually.  The neat thing about this place are the similar foods - their cereal tastes just like Trix.  Their cheese crackers taste just like Cheez-its.  Their mini-wheats taste just like the name brand.  And yes, their Oreos taste just like Oreos.  The reason for bringing all this up is this:  it's all cheaper there.  In many cases, a few dollars cheaper.  This all adds up.  So we won't have to support Oreos anymore, and can still have that great taste and it's a whole lot more inexpensive.

Speaking of "inexpensive," we got a call from Mommy's parents today:  they're selling us one of their cars.  REALLY inexpensive.  It's essentially going to be a gift, apparently, as they're getting a new car and wanting to pass this one along to us.  We're going to get the car evenually, and when we do, I suppose that will be the end of the Toyota Corolla we've had in our family since 2001.  This car is a LEGEND.  I cannot say enough good things about this car.  I'm hesitant to pass it along to anyone, because the truth is the thing is still a perfectly good car.  When there seemed to be a anti-Toyota phase a few years ago, we just scratched our heads.  We've had this car for over ten years now, and so long as you get it regularly serviced, there's never been a problem.  I'm awfully fond of that car.  It was the first one that Mommy and Daddy bought together, and I remember the first trip we made out of state with it, up to Nashville.  Over the years, it has been more than faithful - absolutely incredible.

Tonight it was time for an early night again.  Daddy plugged in "Oliver & Company," which Madison had no memory of.  Still, she enjoyed the movie - along with a big tub of popcorn.  If you don't remember this one, it's the movie with Billy Joel as the Artful Dodger - in dog form.  We actually saw this in the theater when it came out - watching the movie tonight, you can't help but notice the World Trade Center there in the skyline of New York.  We're coming up on the eleventh anniversary of the attacks - hard to believe it has been that long.  But it's also hard to believe it has been twenty-five years since "Oliver & Company" has come out.  One of the running themes of this week has been "Back to the Future."  That's another looming date in the future:  2015.  That's when we're supposed to have hoverboards and flying cars.  Or at least those really cool shoes.  It's only two years away!  When we saw the movie in 1985, they went back thirty years and we were thinking how long ago that was.  And now it's nearly been another thirty years... whoa.

"Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?"
- Dr. Emmett L. Brown