Let's circle back to who the lazer
got us all introduced to for the first time today:
prestonplayz.
While I would rather stab my eyeballs out and puncture my own eardrums than watch him again......I kinda like him. However disturbing the entire YouTube ecosystem is, it's also easy to see how quickly you can get sucked into all of it.
Yeah, I gotta get to bed before they start kicking my ass again first thing in the morning.
After fighting with a robot about how much it costs for me to have fun, nikkigirl and I snagged us a nice breakfast at Longfellow Grill before heading over to pick the lazer up to play some soccer and start up the real fun of our day. Longfellow is just about as regular a visit as is the townhouse we stay at.
Anywho, here's lasz celebrating after he scored a goal on me. While this time I was mostly the goalie - I'll tell you what - I still barely made it out alive. Even managed to hyper-extended my knee just a bit. lulz
Next we made a pit stop back to the townhouse for some snacks.
One of my snacks came with a fun toy! Shouts to bumblebee for always having a good heart.
After snacks, a little bit of video games, and some YouTube (more on that later as well), we headed over to pick up our boi cal. Chaos & mayhem ensued.
That'd be the three biggest goobers that I know right now. Besides making faces at each other we also played some more soccer, bickered, farted, laughed, played some minecraft, and snarfed down a bunch of pepperoni pizza.
Most importantly though, I was 1-0 in Battleship and 2-0 in air hockey. These punk kids may injure me on the soccer pitch, but imma find a way to dominate and destroy them in something.
Birthday parties! If you know me you know how much I love to celebrate! lulz
First off, shouts to mr. meff who couldn't make it because he has a volleyball tournament this weekend and we said no skipping practice. There are few things he enjoys more than all you can eat his favorite stuffs. A man should have a code. A man should honor that code. A man will attend practice.
Second off, you might hear some stuff that would make you blush at that table. And that's not even the worst of it from there. If you get a seat at this table I can promise you it is not something that you forget.
Shitty high school hot dogs for the win. These were particularly not good and I enjoyed them both all the same.
Here's the real star of the day though. this guy is the opposite of gloomy. He humbly accepts your starting lineup introductions.
Starting the conference season with Appleton North and then Neenah is a bit of a bummer. Tough teams to thrive and get off to a good start against. They've hung tough in both matches though, so I remain optimistic.
If I ever feel guilty with just how selfish I can be, it's when
fern is in the house and I am not there for him. Here I am off visiting my favorite spots, connecting with an old pal, and he's home. Suffering.
lol omg jk - that mfer is the most spoiled single collection of atoms on the face of this earth. He'll live.
Here's the real headline news today though - I think that ya boi misses his mom & dad.
Here's the other thing though: I know a guy who would be open to trying a potato chip. Say this fella was just letting you know he's open to try new things. Like, say a potato chip. He might be thinking he'd be totally fine with even one of 'em.
We're really here for jeff meff today though. About halfway through the day this knucklehead asked me to send a picture of my signature so he could forge my name on some senior document needing to be signed. Some of you might recoil at the thought. Me though? I shared it with all my best friends and then immediately sent him a photo of my signature.
My only regret is that I should have asked for a picture of what he ended up creating. Good lad.
Here the thing. When I created the volleyball portion of the site, I knew that I was going to need to rethink the overall structure for mr. meff's senior season. Here's the other thing though - who the fuck cares; it might work well enough as it is.
On the real though? I was quite emotional tonight as our boi was introduced as a varsity starter. The best part? He earned it. Earned it with grit and sticktoitiveness.
Somehow, he might lowkey be the hardest worker of us all.
As for the first match against Appleton North? First of all, fuck Appleton North. Second of all they dropped the first two sets, took the third, and ran out of gas in the fourth set. North is typically good in this space, so even with the loss, I'm encouraged.
I kinda feel like this young man is about to embark on the best year of his life and there's no way he'll know it until it is way too late.
Good......to the......lad.
PS......Tuesday evening dinners are solved for the next few months. Let's sample all of the most disgusting high school hot dogs in all of the land. Barf city and I absolutely love it.
Sunday's are a bit like the calm within the eye of the storm. A step or two removed from the last battle and one step away from the next.
So remember how I stayed up too late last night? Well, I hadn't accounted for the fact that this fern fella was waiting in bed and would need some love and affection VERY early in the morning. I'm just gonna note that this is a lot of tongue that early in the morning, son.
Here's the thing though - we taught him to "shake" this week and he's really turning a corner since the majority of his teething has passed.
When I woke up in the middle of the night with a coughing fit I came downstairs so that I didn't keep nikkigirl awake with me.
When I did finally fall asleep down here again, I woke up to the name of today's chronicle.
Also, my sweet lulu went out of her way to help me out tonight. I'm actively struggling to stay awake and finish this page while the drowsiness settles in.
It's hard to imagine I've had a stuffy head situation worse than this since I've been writing here. This is peak stuffy me thinks.
PS......lulu also likes the look of the new "homepage" (⬅️ what she calls it). I made the change just for you little lady; glad you noticed.
PSS.......I also passed her "what are the last comments I have dropped" test. I see you. All of you.
This grainy image is maybe 20 minutes before a young dirty bastard started to get sick and went all vomitspit on me. He puked, and if I hadn't jumped out of the way, he literally would have vomited on me. Turns out that he ate a random sock that was on the bed somewhere in the middle of the night and my face is where he thought it should go the next morning.
100% always up to something if you don't keep your eyes peeled when he is around.
The home team took it 4-1 over the braves on a hank aaron jersey giveaway day. We were in the nose bleeds and in the sun all afternoon long. It was a toasty and sunburned good time with my oldesst and youngest (kinda).
bonnibel even helped me dole out some good ol' fashioned
life advice to our upcoming senior.
Said senior will be stopping by the rest of sqaud for additional advice in the
coming weeks.
Which reminds me, go checkout the movie nikkigirl, bonnibel, and I watched last night. I forgot to snap a photo as during the visit and thus, forgot to add it yesterday (typically a photo is an easy way to remember to write something for you). Luckily, I created this new linking functionality to take you back in time with me.
So here's the thing, I think I found a new (mini)squad.
I took today off so that I could watch new emma overnight and once fern was dropped off, he started asking to be released from his kitchen prison, and ended up waking up the little lady. After that, we made phone calls, she dressed me like minnie mouse, and a new team was formed. We play well together.
Not pictured: all of us singing disney tunes at the top of our lungs. Starting with......
song: part of our worldalbum: the little mermaid
......and then she helped me realize that jeff-meff has been living his whole life according to this motto......
We ended up in Hortonville for the party quite early so we stopped at the local Dollar General and ran into p-funk and tyler picking up table covers for the party at the park less than a block away.
No selfies with the kiddos today. We briefly found kade's belly button, but for the most part they had plenty to entertain themselves and they didn't need us (this time).
Trust the process.
While at Dollar General you are damn right I snagged some cards from 2023-24. Always chasing wemby......and I just looked: don't have a RC from this set.
The big event of the day was aria's 4th birthday. We weren't sure how much she would really remember us from the last time she was over, and spoiler alert - it wasn't much. In fairness to her, she was having a blast well before we even got there.
Just a blip on the radar.
When we stopped to get a birthday bag at Walgreens I took the opportunity to buy some cards for the first time in a hot minute.
So here's today's thing: I haven't been a good friend to derek these past few months. First, a few missed text responses, then a few more, and before I know it, I've ghosted my all-time best friend for months. I ignored his birthday wishes to me, and I didn't take the time to give him his. Y'all get to see me try to make it up to him.
I'm sorry dude. I'm not sure what exactly it is other than when I get overwhelmed it's easy for me to turtle. Work stress, home stress, family stress, and all of a sudden I leave you high and dry. That's not so much excuse making as it is me realizing when I've fallen into some well worn ruts and calling myself out for it. Now when I call myself out, I guess it's on the internet for maybe as many as four people to read it. I saw your comments yesterday and it warmed my heart to know that you may be one of those four.
I'll also finally respond to a text. I love you, friend.
From me to you: all apologies.
For the rest of you, please understand that if there's anyone on this planet that will give me grace for being a turd stain, it's my best ol' pal. All-time great good guy. A huge portion of my trades this year are soley due to his kindness.