"Well, that's new"

Oh, wasting time.

Today was nothing but a lazy day. I slept in--and by that, I mean 8:00am--cleaned house, and waited on the cable guy to show-up. I have TV now! And get this, I have it in my bedroom too! Excited? Yes... Yes, I am.

I came over to my g-parent's house tonight to scold my grandfather for not making an appearance today; he was supposed to come over after the cable guy left. Anywho, when he didn't show-up, I came over here and we got to watching Nature on NPT. The show was like, "Christmas in Yosemite" or something like that. It had this photographer skiing across the countryside, and my grandfather had me CRACKING UP, talking about his chilling military experience(s) while stationed in Alaska. Oh my goodness--I PRAY that when I die and get to Heaven, God lets me go back in time and watch history unfold itself.

Papa said that there was this one time when he and his platoon (???) had to sleep outside above the tundra line. Said that he made the "awful mistake" of zipping-up his sub-zero sleeping bag to where he only had one little peep hole to breathe out of. (By this point in the story, I'm already laughing cuzz... Well, my Papa is the BEST story teller.) Said something like, "And I tell you what--I must have rolled over in the middle of the night and I'll be danged if I didn't lose that little hole, and I began to panic, a-tossing and a-turning. I finally got two arms out," and he began to reinact the scene here, "and I pulled that sleeping bag apart, and I'll tell you what--I never made that mistake again."

I about DIED. Granted that now that you have read this, it doesn't appear half as funny, but to me--oh my goodness, I was rolling.

It's stories like these that I wish I hear more of. I can't get enough of them. Yes, at times, they can drag on, and yes, there are times when he repeats himself--but they are WORTH IT... Aaaand that's all I've got for the night. =)