my life as a nomad

mountain pies, muppets, and the dentist

saturday: went down to visit my sister in york after work (york and work look like they rhyme, but they really don't), where she was housesitting for some relatives. main objective: watch muppets wizard of oz, which she had tivo'd from the previous night. her friend robin was down visiting too, as were two of her friends, whose names i can't quite recall (mike and michelle? i think? hmm). i ate pretty much all of the food that liz had made for supper, because it was so good and i was so hungry. and then we watched muppets, which i must admit was a minor disappointment. i mean, it had its funny moments, but it was nowhere near the caliber of muppet treasure island or muppets from space. the funniest thing was that toto was a shrimp instead of a dog, so it was of course played by pepe. and when dorothy (played by ashanti, of all people) was running into the tornado shelter, she's like "oh no, i forgot toto!" and aunt mae says, "get in here, don't go back! after all, he's only a shrimp," to which dorothy replies "he's not a shrimp, he's a king prawn!!!" and the rest of the movie was pretty much forgettable. but, it was worth the trip down there because of the...

mountain pies. what are mountain pies, you may ask? "freakin' awesome!" (that's the answer i got when i asked that question). and it's true, because they are. evidently, robins friend's (from pennsylvania, i do know that much) saw this random fireplace utensil and recognized it as being a mountain pie maker, so they decided to introduce mountain pies to the rest of us. you take some pie filling (cherry, blueberry, etc) and put it between two buttered pieces of bread, which you then place in this:



and then hold in the fire for a few minutes. and they're wicked good... but wicked hot, too. which resulted in a slightly singed mouth, but it was so worth it. mmmm, mountain pies...


yesterday was the last day of sunday school for the year. so, i had a party over at the house after church for my class. it was some rockin' good times. we ate pizza and ice cream sundaes and played balderdash and pictionary and a card game with toothpicks and some legos. and i made a really cool space ship, but i left it on the floor and dad kicked it/stepped on it by accident, so it got demolished. such is the usual demise of lego structures. but yeah, we had a great time, and it was a fitting end to the year. it'll be nice in some ways not to have that pressure every sunday to put a lesson together, but on the other hand, i'll miss those kids. they've been tons o' fun to hang out with every week and learn about God with. good times.


today, i went to the dentist. i hate going. but, i went today for my six-month cleaning, because dental hygeine is important to me. although, i don't think it's important enough to go every six months, so i'm going to back it off to once a year for a while, because it's a hundred and thirty freakin' dollars just for a routine visit. no x-rays, no flouride treatment, just lots of medieval torture implements being plied upon your tender gums. our old dentist retired, so i saw the new guy for the first time today. he's really nice, but he looks alot like jimmy fallon. i mean... alot. would you trust a snl character look-alike to examine your teeth? maybe, but the more important question is, would you pay him over fifty dollars to do so (for less than five minutes)? um... no. i'm not so keen about that. that translates into a wage of $600/hr, which generates a salary of 1.2 million dollars. granted, i'm sure he doesn't make that much, but still... that's just re-dic-u-lous. and my hygeinist likes to floss in a similar fashion to how a machine press works: down, up, move over, down, up, move over, etc. my gums are still tender. and all of that for them to tell me, "oh, you're doing a good job brushing, but you should probably floss more often." gee, thanks. my mom could have told me that.


it's just me and lucy hangin' around the house today. it's a happenin' place

posted by Patrick @ 3:07 PM