Partyof5's Even Groovier Blog (Book) http://www.Writing.Com/main/books.php/item_id/1391383-Partyof5s-Even-Groovier-Blog So, my wife saw my last entry about my old girlfriend and flew into a jealous rage. She dumped my favorite glitter lotion down the drain, then set fire to all of my Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books. Then she tore up my Justin Bieber posters before pulling out the cast iron frying pan and hitting me over the head...made some eggs...then hit me ...[Read Full Post] Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:21:32 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/733499 I had one of those Bill and Ted moments last night. I've always had nostalgic tendencies, but usually they're brief and fairly shallow. Last night, however, I guess all the conditions were right and I found myself firmly back in a place I haven't been much since I left. It was late and I was the last one awake, sitting at the kitchen table looking ...[Read Full Post] Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:21:40 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/733093 Being a conservative Republican type, I am automatically labeled as one who rapes and pillages our mother earth for fun and profit, but this is only partially true and I have the reusable coffee filter to prove it. Paper coffee filters are less than paper thin and come in packs of about 9 billion, so I'm thinking in my lifetime of coffee drinking ...[Read Full Post] Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:36:41 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/732941 Five unrelated and really boring thoughts, just to keep the blog blood flowing. Maybe it's the late summer doldrums, but Blogville has crawled to a virtual halt and it's important to exercise your blog regularly, even if you don't feel like it. Otherwise it gets fat and lazy and doesn't even care that it's fat and lazy because it&#...[Read Full Post] Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:43:52 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/732125 On this day in 1977, Elvis died. And my dad had a stroke. Not because of Elvis. Dad's still doing well. Elvis...I'm not sure. I saw a couple of guys walking down the street arm-in-arm this afternoon and just assumed they were gay until I went past them and realized one of them was blind. Though they still could have been gay. Then I pas...[Read Full Post] Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:41:35 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/731728 ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** There it is, folks. The first car I ever purchased as a teenager, a 1980 Ford Mustang. These were the dorky ugly inbred children of the Mustang family, sandwiched in between their ultra-groovy older classic siblings and their super-cool and sleek younger brothers and sisters, but I didn't know that at th...[Read Full Post] Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:39:32 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/731518 First of all, I would like to thank KayJay and Katya the Horsefly Whisperer for their courage and generosity in pulling me out of the devil's hands in recent days. And before I forget, thanks also to Lana and Scarlett for the birthday badges that led me into his hands in the first place. I am actually grateful for this, as it was a trial I needed to face to mov...[Read Full Post] Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:29:20 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/731259 I was attacked by a horsefly during my weekend in the mountains. Horseflies generally don't attack, but this one did. Usually they kind of lumber about like some frumpy beady-eyed and overweight middle-aged man, lazily surfing for porn, bouncing slowly around from body to body until they decide to stop and try one out. But this one was young and ...[Read Full Post] Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:16:46 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/731086 It was yesterday, July 29, about 100 years ago that it all went down. It was the crime of the century. I remember it well because it was the day before my 18th birthday...and I was in the center of it. The day started innocently enough. My brother Jeff and I had picked up my friend Casey late the night before and drove up into the mountain canyon where we liv...[Read Full Post] Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:37:58 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/730097 I love to read life stories. And not the usual rags-to-riches biographies of the celebrity world, though those can be kind of fun sometimes. It's the stories of the little people that fascinate me. People like us. I was reminded of this yesterday while reading NOVAcat's blog. It's interesting to me to see the timeline of a person's life and the events that stand o...[Read Full Post] Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:05:26 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/729936 The first rule in backpacking is to buy food that everyone else hates so you don't have to share. I did well with the bite-size Almond Joy and Mounds since I knew everyone else hated coconut, but I got totally played when my kids grimaced at my honey dry-roasted peanuts choice in the store the night before the trip, yet hogged them all by the secon...[Read Full Post] Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:35:02 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/729766 Since I just blogged yesterday, I wasn't going to write again till I got back from the weekend hiking trip, but I had these reflective thoughts running through my head this morning and decided to blog again. I hate it when that happens. I'm going to wear myself out. Not reflective like a mirror....that would mean only I could see those thoughts. Reflective like....well....you know... Part...[Read Full Post] Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:39:50 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/729157 This will be one of those all-over-the-place, shotgun entries that has no purpose, no soul, but it will feature an actual shotgun later in the show if you make it that far. If not, just pretend you read it and leave me a "Nice entry, Party!" comment and get on with your lives. But these are my shotgun thoughts for this Tuesday, July 19, 2011. Let's...[Read Full Post] Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:42:22 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/729086 While lounging around the other evening chatting with my son and his bride-to-be about their upcoming wedding, my wife casually threw out a comment about their future kids. She must have forgotten my decision never to have grandkids, but I played along for the hypothetical fun of it. I gloated over the fact that I don't have any of my wife's f...[Read Full Post] Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:26:10 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/728647 The three people who still read this blog may remember there's a wedding in my family's summer plans, and it's suddenly speeding right for us like a bowel movement in its unstoppable final moments. I'm not good at planning weddings. Funerals, THOSE I can handle. Funerals are the diarrhea of bowel movement event planning and pretty muc...[Read Full Post] Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:17:53 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/728413 I learn a lot from Twitter. I just found out that today is National Kissing Day AND National Fried Chicken Day. Nothing like a greasy smooch, I always say. Everyone must want their own day now so they have to double up, though I think National Virus Appreciation Day on Oct. 3 is a better match for a kissing day. But, yeah...fried chicken is better ...[Read Full Post] Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:23:17 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/728067 Bigfoot likes peanut butter. I learned this the other night on a show called "Finding Bigfoot" that I stumbled upon after turning on the t.v. to find the president talking. I instantly got bored and found Bigfoot on another channel and learned this valuable information. I thought I would pass it all on to you in case you missed it. They did...[Read Full Post] Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:59:22 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/726974 Yesterday morning I shuffled out to the kitchen and sleepwalked through the morning ritual of feeding the cats, both the cute one and the disgusting slob, then poured the first of what I'd hoped to be many cups of coffee. My wife soon joined me, and as she settled on the couch, a loud and repetitive noise from somewhere outside pierced the morning quiet. ...[Read Full Post] Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:36:27 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/722225 I just learned that you don't want to piss off a crow because they hold grudges AND they tell their friends about you. The next time you shoo away a crow or fire off a few rounds at its head, you'd better make sure you finish the job or at least wear a panty over your head. Crows never forget a face, apparently, and could come back to crap on your head or sever your brake line or worse. Bes...[Read Full Post] Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:10:59 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/721499 Paypal doesn't believe my best childhood friend was Matt. All I wanted to do was renew my membership here, but that was the security question I had to answer because they also did not believe my first password attempt. Matt will be crushed if he hears about this. Anyway, no, it's not the holiday season yet nor is it even Friday, and I&#39...[Read Full Post] Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:47:50 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/721044