You Say It's Your Birthday......

Yesterday I turned 18 for the second time, yep, I celebrated my 36th birthday. We had a big time at the lake with the entire family, there was skiing and "tubing", BBQ, and beer.

There is just something so cool about watching your brother sling your kids all over the lake in an innertube. Now, cause you gotta be safe and all, we have "Big Bertha" innertubes. They are huge and padded and have handles and all of that, back in the day we had the real innertube. Old school, black right out of a truck tire, with a 4 inch stem, tied to the back of the boat with a rope. When you got on that thing you made damn sure it was stem side down. The new ones may be more comfortable, but they are hard for a kid like Magnuts, who weighs 50lbs soaking wet, to keep them on the water. He was bouncing his little brains out and grinning like a lunatic the whole time!

The kids all know the signals, you know thumbs up means faster, thumbs down means slower, but Magnuts kept poking his thumb out to the side. He says that means go "medium speed", duh....

Also had the opportunity to clue my brother in on one of my favorite sayings, "just hold the legs." It is just the second half of the full saying, "I am screwing this chicken, you just hold the legs." This is a nice way to let someone know they have crossed the "helping you" line into being an asshat who is pissing you off.

Well all and all I must say that 36 beats the hell out of 18.