Grapefruit - Yum!

I love grapefruit, and so does my family. We actually like all kinds of fruit and some of us are fruit Nazi's. I say this jokingly, but seriously some of us are very attached to our fruit. As an example, we went to Grandma Carol and Grandpa Bobby's a few years ago and I swear Eden ate like 5 clementines (picture to the right is for illustration only) in one sitting. She LOVES oranges of any kind so watch out, if you want your oranges don't leave her unattended by them or they will be gone.

Back to my original topic, grapefruit. I have evolved over the years as a grapefruit eater. When I was growing up we ate them sparingly, with a bunch of sugar and a grapefruit spoon. Then, I got married and Ahnica LOVES grapefruit. The only problem is that over the past few years our special serrated spoons have all disappeared, but one. This is a big problem when you have four people who love grapefruits and two who are Nazi fanaticals about them. So, what do I do? Improvise. That's what I do best, however, Ahnica doesn't always agree with or like my methods or the results. I love to think creatively, in fact it's when I am being creative that I am most in the "zone". I get a weird elation when the creative juices are flowing.

Back again to my original topic, grapefruit. So I improvise and change my grapefruit eating habits; instead of scooping the fruit out with the spoon, leaving behind all of the yummy pulp and and hard to squish out juices, I open it like an orange and de-skin the fruit. It is amazing this way! Here is a picture (left), maybe later I will show you how I do it, step by step, so it doesn't make a huge mess (oooo! Try to contain your excitement, please.). Happy eating!

Bubble Boy

So, I have decided that I am going to start a blog to get thoughts off my chest and onto "paper" so to speak. I am generally scatterbrained, so I thought I would go ahead and start with something,... well, let's just say it's random, which is fitting I think.

Here it goes:

I saw this picture on a friend's Facebook (FB) page that made me think "How cool would that be?". So, I am sharing a similar picture (since I couldn't find the original) and some of my random thoughts explaining just that: "how cool" it would be.

Maybe it was the fishy side of me that couldn't stop thinking about it. Whatever the case, here is a short list of things that sounded like so much fun to do with it:

1. This would be the first thing I would do... get inside and start running across water yelling "look I am walking on water!". How awesome would that be (okay, maybe it's more awesome in my head)?

2. Get two of them and devise a way you could race an equally adventurous brother or best friend down the side of a two story house into a large pool (Ahem, SAFELY!). I have learned through the years that my outer extremities are precious commodities and I don't want to lose the use of them in a stupid stunt like the one I have just illustrated, so I would make sure this was safe before attempting it. For instance, I could let someone I don't like try it first and see if they make it out okay. I know, I know, "next please!"

3. Have a dinner date with my beautiful wife inside the balloon and then roll away off into the sunset. Awesome!

4. Put a bunch of blankets inside the bubble and sleep for a night, maybe this sounds boring to you, but really? How awesome would that be?

5. At the exact moment of anger stick a co-worker, boss, spouse or child inside and watch them roll around in it for a while. I bet you they would forget why they were mad in the first place. Awesome!

I invite you to take a brief moment and think about what you would do in the bubble. The possibilities are endless. Maybe the kid and psychologist inside of me is trying to tell you and me that sometimes we need to step back and have a little fun. It is said that laughter/humor is the best cure, so take off your shoes and play even just for a little while.