Happies Vs Sads

It is school holidays.  I still have to go to work, but Chyken is a teacher, so he gets to laze about.  We have had some of our nieces and a nephew to visit.  Teenage ones.  It's been fun, they're good kids. Mostly.

We have especially enjoyed freaking them out with how strange we are.  I'm pretty sure they think we are putting it on, that we couldn't actually be as mental as we make out to be.  I have news for them though.  We ARE that mental.

In the last few months we have accidentally implemented something new in the Castle.  Happies and Sads.  Things are measured by them.  The maximum happies a person can have in a day is seventeen.  Chyken said so.  I asked him why seventeen is the maximum and he replied 'For the same reasons that the sky is blue and gravity is'. 

Seventeen happies is a very rare event.  For me, it would be something along the lines of John Farnham arriving at the Castle and singing three songs of my choosing.  I'm not sure what it would be for Chyken, but it would probably involve alpacas.  And perhaps Ikea and/or Costco.

Seventeen sads is also a very rare event.  We don't like to think about what such an event would entail.

Things throughout the day can contribute to your overall happie level.  A surprise chocolate bar would be a couple of happies.  Finding $10 in your wallet when you thought there was only $2 would be three happies.  Coming home and finding the vacuuming done would be seven at least.  Breaking the heel on your shoe would be eight sads, unless you happened to have a spare pair, which would be five happies, thus reducing the sads of the broken heel to three.  Make sense?  Don't worry, it is not really supposed to.

What stupid fun things do you do in the privacy of your own life that others would probably think are weird?

And most importantly, how many happies are you today?

Like A Freight Train

Chyken snores.  Remarkably well.  So well, in fact, that I wear ear plugs.  Every night.  They don't completely take away the noise, but they kinda take the top notes off so it is bearable, ya know?  Over the last couple of days it has become apparent he is coming down with the flu.  Or perhaps it is just a sore throat.  Either way it isn't nice.  The direct by-product of this is that the snoring is HORRIBLE.  Where usually it sounds like a freight train, at the moment it sounds like six road trains roaring through our bedroom at any given moment.

To make matters worse, he keeps half waking himself up and kicking me, so if I wasn't already awake from the snoring, he makes sure I wake up.  Fun times.  Especially when he is on holidays but I still have to get up and go to work each morning.

Just as well I love him, isn't it?

In the interest of full disclosure, I should point out that I am quite good at snoring myself.  But Chyken manages to sleep next to me every night though, so it can't be that bad.  Or perhaps he is either extra tolerant or maybe a bit deaf?

Over The Mount

We went to visit Chyken Snr yesterday.  Mainly to get some wood so Chyken can build some garden beds while he is on holidays for the next two weeks, but also to have lunch. 

My in-laws only live about 15 minutes from The Castle, but there is a rather large mountain between us, we can either go over it or around it to get there.  Before we set off, Chyken always asks me if I want to go 'Through the valley' or 'Over the Mount'.  Yesterday we ended up going through the valley to get there and over the mount to get home.

Once again I wished I had the camera with me, I really need to stop relying on the iPhone.  Most of these were just taken out the window as we drove along.

This is a tree house!  How cool is it???

These people also had the 'over the mount' idea, but were going at a much slower pace than we were.

We really do live in a beautiful part of the world.

We are so lucky!

What have you been up to this weekend?

Band Back Together

Today I have a post published on one of my favourite websites,  Band Back Together.  It's a story you may have already heard, but I am still very, very, very proud to be with The Band.

*image from weheartit

Five Question Friday

It's Friday!  Yay!  We have two more performances of the show to go and then I get my life back.  In the meantime, here are this week's questions. 


1. If you had the opportunity to bungee jump, would you?
I think so.  Although the idea freaks me out.  I would do the one where you are sitting up though, because the thought of hanging by my feet and all the blood rushing to my head makes me feel sick.

2. Would you rather go to the movie theater or to the drive-in?
The drive-in.  I love the drive in!  I loved it even more when I used to smoke.  Now I just like the old nostalgic feel of the place.  I used to live just near one and could see one of the screens from my driveway.  We don't go there often enough anymore.

3. Do you have your groceries delivered?
Nope.  Although I have thought about it.  I think it is a brilliant idea, especially for people with kids.

4. Eyebrows: Do you wax, thread, pluck, or stay au naturel?
I get them waxed, but I have recently heard about threading and I would really like to give it a go!

5. Would the people you went to high school with be surprised by your life today?
Great question!  I am still friends with most of my high school friends.  But the ones I haven't seen in a while? I don't think they'd be surprised.  However, I have done my fair share of facebook stalking and there are several people who seem to have turned out differently than what I imagined they would.








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I hope you have an amazing weekend, however you choose to spend it.