When I look back at the
stuff that happend last year I’m grateful we are alive and happy, but I also have to think, “what the hell is wrong with us?”. If you don’t know a Hampo personally this list won’t mean a thing to you.
You know how people send you those annoying Christmas letters with all their activities and accomplishments? This is like that but way better.
Here we go: A look back at 2010
- Alex takes the Executive Production Chef at Oaklawn Racetrack and faces 6,000 pounds of corned beef in one day.
- I become mildly obsessed with Mike Tyson and I think it’s creeping my family out.
- We declare Bankruptcy and it’s not as bad as you’d think.
- Jack actually graduates from college, hands me his diploma and says, “you can have this. I’m done.”
We put a pedomitor on Alex at work. He averages 13 miles a day! No wonder he’s tired.
- Jack goes to Turkey and discovers….there’s a bunch of people in the Middle East who don’t like Americans. humm. Then discovers you shouldn’t try to leave the Middle East on a plane with a backpack looking like a guy named Mohammed.
- Doctors discover I have almost no blood. I get a massive tranfussion and feel much better. I ask for some Asian blood to improve my Martial Arts skills b
ut they say no.
Mary suddenly becomes ridicicilously georgous and we are all blinded by the sparkle.
- Life Size Pizza comes out with an album and nobody in the family can stop singing the song “Meth Head Bitch”.
- Mary figures out how to pick a good boyfriend. We like Richard.
- Sandor goes to second grade and we discover he’s actually really really smart. We always thought he was just “funny.”
- Mary gets a lab coat and learns she likes cutting up dead things. Oh, that’s called dissecting.
- Lexie gets a planter’s wart that so big it makes the podiatrist say, “Holy Moly That’s a Whopper”!
- Sandor gets to play flag foot ball because Alex took a $20,000 pay cut and can get him to practice.
- I start the Hampoland blog so I can fictionalize our life and embarrass my children.
- Marching season starts for Lexie and that swallows her life cause she’s a band geek. Fountain Lake gets a new field!
- Lexie goes out with Ethan,who plays foot ball and is a deer hunter. At 14 she’s a deer widow. But he texts from the deer stand so it’s not that bad…I guess.
- Sandor breaks his arm playing “wall ball”during recess. His $20,000 flag football season is ruined.
- Jack goes to New York and discovers pot and sushi delivery services. Then he gets a job at Pies and Thighs, a funky and fabulous, soon to be super famous restraunt (great reviews in the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/dining/reviews/19under.html and ZAGAT) . They serve fried chicken, catfish and his favorite
“chicken and bisquit with honey and hot sauce” so Jack feels right at home. Hank Jr. is right, a country boy can survive. - After ten years of Taekwondo Lexie discovers Kickboxing and she looks really bad a** in her pink and black sportsbra. She punches like a 200 pound cage fighter. That’s my girl.
- Mary tells us we can’t put a name of her relationship with Richard. But he teaches Sandor a new drum solo so we don’t mind.
- The running joke in the family for Christmas, “Mary is A Disco Ball, that’s why gay
guys don’t seem to like her.”
The year has come full circle, Race Meet starts in just a few weeks and Alex will look at all that corned beef again. Happy New Year!
*don’t forget to eat your black eyed peas today! DH