random huck-a-buck......

i asked if anyone ever heard the saying "jesus criminetly" a few days ago and no one responded. so now i am wondering if anyone says "huck-a-buck" or "hucklebuck" like i do. i know on howard stern they had a debate about the term and origin. this guy wrote a song with the name in it and i think it's primarily a cleveland saying....

here's a pic groundcat scanned for me. it me and my old pal T on a rollercoaster, about 10 years ago. apparently i turned into a troll!!!! we had a blast that day, taking clients from the group home to cedar point, and getting some of them to ride the rides.

martha (the spider) has decided to really take over the bathroom. this morning i found her up on the shower stall, spying on me in the shower. she's huge and furry, and i saw her legs dangling over the edge, above my head. we had a little talk about what's "appropriate", and how i'd prefer she hang out on the angel statue (if she wouldn't mind.)

my drive to work today took 1.5 hours, just driving from mentor to downtown cleveland. and the only reason traffic seemed to be so bad was that it was raining. i didn't see one accident! i can't imagine the commute when it's snowing. i need a heliocopter! we could store it in the barn on weekends.... yes, that's a brilliant idea!



one thing that makes the drive better is listening to rover in the morning. when howard stern left radio i was so sad, and not interested in any replacements. but i caught a few mornings of rover and i am hooked. and now that they're back in cleveland! they are 1 block from my work, so i am determined to see "dare dieter" some day in person. a few weeks back my evil boss was out on euclid ave. smoking and came in to report seeing a guy in a werewolf costume riding on top of a ford escort. dammit, i missed him that time!

ok, now let's discuss sweetest day. i have never paid any attention to this "holiday", but folks at work brought it up. so i looked it up on wiki, and apprently it IS a made-up holiday and it IS primarily a cleveland/ great lakes thing. i just like the quote, "sweetest day is an occasion which offers all of us an opportunity to remember not only the sick, aged and orphaned, but also friends, relatives and associates whose helpfulness and kindness we have enjoyed." so this saturday, don't forget to send a card to an sick, old orphans you might know!!!

Push your partner out,
Then you hunch your back,
Start a little movement in your sacroiliac,
Wiggle like an eel, waddle like a duck,
That's the way you do it when you do the Hucklebuck

also, check out zak's new post on the old blog, and stacy's post from the weekend with awesome kid pics, and you know i am not normally a sucker for the kiddie photos, but H & A are so lovely!!! here's little henry the first day i met him, in my rastafarian wig: