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Cinnamon (Cinny) has a sixth sense for clean laundry. She was passed out cold on the couch with her ‘brother’ when I went into the laundry room to take the dry clothes out of the dryer. When I came out with them and dropped them on the bed I glanced over to see if she was still asleep and she was. Not even a slit of an eye open and her paw over her face.

She was playing me, I know she was.

By the time I got back to the room after putting a new load in the washer she was already asleep in the clean clothes on the bed.

That would be where this picture was taken for a scene in Ocean’s thirteen. We went to see it last night. It was really good! Much better than the awful Ocean’s Twelve but still not up to Ocean’s Eleven in my esteem. Mind you it is hard to top that movie in my book. It is up there in my top rotation with Sideways.

It was funny because even though I knew they had filmed it at the terminal we were at..I recognised it even from that shot, but while watching the movie I noticed that they filmed it at the same GATE we were at not a day or so before that.

I’m nudging Tom and going “See! THAT is the Starbucks that we got our coffee at. THAT is the store I spent time poking around in that was everything for under ten bucks. THOSE are the slots that were right across from us!”

He asked me HOW I remember all these details but that is me. Seriously, if you’re trapped in an airport for hours and hours and you are pre-flight nerves nic-fitting and having to beg matches off of total strangers only to get stuck in weird cubby thing in the middle of the walkway what else IS there to do but notice stuff?

Anyway darn it! So close but yet so far. Guess I have to be happy with the wax George Clooney crotch grab eh? (Kidding! Umm seriously Mr. Clooney I promise I won’t grab your crotch fer real, umm honest!)

Oh my gosh this was funny!!

Well, Bill Cosby’s did anyway.

My father on the other hand liked to play “pull my finger”. When I was really little I honestly thought I had the power to make my Dad fart. As I grew older I realized the gas was self propelled so the game lost its charm. My Dad also loved to tickle me until I almost puked. My Mother would be standing doing the dishes and hearing my hysteria behind her disdainfully turned to tell my Dad that I was going to wet my pants or something if he kept it up. I’m a serial tickler now so for that I blame my upbringing.

I lost my Dad when I was 26. Hardly a child but still young enough to feel the loss of it. We didn’t always see eye to eye on things but now I’m older I think I understand him better and realized that when I took my Mother’s side on some issues it was out of a misplaced sense of loyalty. I saw more of her and he was more distant. He never once said he loved me my entire life, weird huh? Yet I know he did in his own way. My Mother never said it either until a few years ago. I’ve made sure I’ve told the Boys that I love them every single day of their lives.

When I met Tom I knew that not only did I find a wonderful Husband but the Boys would be getting a terrific and fun Dad. He has embraced that role and they look up to him and love him very much. My Mother had a Step-Father herself and he treated them just like his own flesh and blood. She always says that anyone can be a Father but it takes a special person to be a Dad and that was her Dad was and it is Tom too. She’s right.

We celebrated Dad’s Day in our house yesterday as the Boys were staying over at their Father’s house last Sunday. We did a dinner at the Keg and then did the card and present ceremony afterwards, or rather Sean and I did.

Card picked out, paid for and signed by Sean awwww

I got him a bottle of Armani Code mmmmmmmmmm now that is a sexsay smell.

Chris forgot his present to Tom in his locker at work so he will get another belated Dad’s day present Monday as Chris works the late shift tomorrow night.

Happy Dad’s Day Hon!  We love you!

You know it is a small world when you take a picture of a guy flying a kite in Bellingham Washington and he finds himself on your flickr pages..click on the picture below to go to the flickr site and see his comment.

Have a look here and here for pictures he takes with a camera mounted to a KITE. A very different view of the Bellingham harbour.

Too funny.