0424240 - 3/28/2012

I made an eye doctor appointment today and found the date and time interesting. April 24th at 2:40pm, that is 0424240. Kind of fun! I need to keep my eyes out for anything else interesting.

Tootsie - 3/21/2012

Only a few minutes after telling our son about the old tootsie candy commercial with the owl, the commercial appeared out of nowhere.  I have not seen this commercial in probably fifteen years only to turn on the tv and see it there after just telling him about it.

amazing!

Buster - 3/18/2012

This weekend I was not able to ignore a call in my heart to look at city shelters for a dog.  I spent a four hours looking at pictures of dogs.  Eventually our family went to two local shelters.  When we arrived into one building at our west side shelter I immediately noticed a dog huddled under a pile of three other dogs being violated by another male dog who was obviously trying to dominate him.  This sad little dog seemed completely malnourished with ribs and hip bones sticking out.  We spent a little time with him and decided that he was going home with us!

After a few days we quickly realizes that without human intervention, this dog will allow any other dog to come along and eat its food.  We knew that if we had not adopted him that he would had been dead in a matter of days.  He gained four pounds in a couple of weeks which equates to about fourty perent of his body weight!

Meet Buster! ! :D

Not only has he quickly become a part of the family, but he has transformed my son.  It is as if he has filled my son's only child syndrome.  He is happier, more mindful, kind and interested in everything now.  Buster has been truly a blessing!

A winter of destruction - 3/6/2012

Not only have I has an incredibly dry winter of synchronicity, but my family and I have seemed to experience an inordinately high degree of bad luck and illness.     Starting with a scary tonsil surgery and an uncomfortable departure of a guest in our home, we seemed to be trapped in a downward spiral.  My son went back into the hospital after the surgery, broke his finger in NY, and had two back to back illnesses that put us at brink of being over the maximum absences from school.  I actually counted 56 consecutive days in the first quarter where a member of my family was sick.  Some lung attacking illness that lasted over two weeks per person! :P

My wife and I discussed the need to do something about our stretch of bad luck.  Cleanse the house, do a karma reset, good luck ritual...something!