Category: Family

All things family related go here (so pretty much everything).

Announcements, Announcements, I Have Announcements!

Today is the start of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month).  To celebrate the month Nathaniel and Anne are writing novels for their schoolwork!  When they are done with their great works of literature we are going to start posting their novels on the blog in serialized form!

I know it’s a little unconventional to post two separate stories on the same blog along with all the other family post, but I never claimed to be typical, or us a typical family.  I considered starting another blog especially for the serials, but we already have three blogs and four blogs seemed a little excessive for one family (even a family our size).

So while I don’t claim any of us to be the next Alexander Dumas, I do hope you will all check back in a few weeks to see my siblings work!

It’s Not My Fault, Coffee Did it!

I have a terrible migraine today.  In case you’ve never had one, a migraine is a lot like a headache, only it feels like there’s a jackhammer right behind one of your eyes.  Like the responsible adult I am I have decided that my headache is clearly due to not getting enough coffee two days ago (thanks to the broken carafe) and not due to me staying up until one thirty last night writing an assembly level computer program to solve the quadratic equation (I only had a week to do the assignment so…I have no idea what I was thinking).

This bit of genius (blaming my headache on coffee not working into the A.M. on a complex computer program) lead me to an even greater stroke of genius.  I’ll just blame all my problems on coffee (or rather lack of coffee).  I play my song wrong, not enough coffee.  I draw Nightstick, but he looks like a badger, not enough coffee.  I drop a plate while clearing the table, too little caffeine.  It’s a perfect plan!

Big Thanks to Grace Manor!

A big thanks to the Grace Manor for having us come play our show yesterday.  We had a great time and the staff was very helpful.  The people there were all enthusiastic and appreciative. They really seemed to like our show, almost as much as they liked Veronica.  She is a tiny ham.

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Me and My Saxophone

(Of course I just posted a picture of me so I’m not really one to talk.)

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At Grace Manor

We had so much fun performing we forgot to take any pictures except for Nicholas who had the presence of mind to take the one of me and one of our delightful audience.

This is Why no One Likes Drummers

As you probably know I’m part of a band called Longbow.  All of my bands members are also my family members (which is really nice because I already know all their names!).  Yesterday we were practicing together.

Dad said, “That wasn’t quite right, go back to the key change.”

To which Nicholas – in all seriousness – replied, “What exactly is a key change?”

Nicholas has been playing the drums for years, but he still didn’t know what a key change is, because he never had to learn.  He never had to learn!

 

If I was Water I Wouldn’t Get Wet!

I was working outside in the rain with my younger brother Jonathan when it started raining (in Florida the weather can go from sunny to rainy in 0.0 seconds).  As my brother and I were pelted with atmospheric precipitation Jonathan says to me,  “You know sometimes I wish I were made out of water so I wouldn’t get wet.”

“What?” I cried incredulously, “You wouldn’t be wet, you’d be water, you’d be the embodiment of wet.”

Jonathan stuck to his guns, “Water can’t be wet.”

Now you might think that Jonathan was on to some great philosophical truth for wanting to be water to avoid being wet, but I think it’s crazy, I just wanted an umbrella.