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This is Courtney Vallentyne's blog.

Happy Teenager Day

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Today Quinn turns into a teenager, the very thought makes me realize just how crazy time is.  I won’t get all maudlin about how he was an adorable baby just like last week and he’s made of puppy kisses and rainbows.  Well, he is, but that’s irrelevant.

I thought instead I would just say how proud I am that he is becoming the person he is.  He’s my son, but more so he’s my friend, and I’m pretty happy to know him.  He’s a good person, and funny.  I will take credit for one of those things, the other happened because that’s who he is (yeah that’s just a proud parent thing).  I value his friendship and look forward to many years of it.  Sharing a laugh because what makes us laugh is usually the exact same thing is the best thing ever.

Anyway, just wanted to leave a little note to say that my buddy turned 13 here on the blog, and I’m proud of him.  I’ll just leave this here for him to read at some point later on.  🙂

Dear 16-year-old Me – YouTube

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As far as viral video goes, this one is excellent.  It’s funny and touching at times, but mostly it’s an excellent message about melanoma that people need to hear and understand, especially kids.  It’s long past the time where you could say “maybe you know someone”, instead most of us can probably list several loved ones who have been affected somehow.

 

 

 

Well worth spending a few minutes on today, folks.

Lloyd Lloathes Vents

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I was looking through some old posts and I realized how much Lloyd used to love lying on the furnace vents when the air conditioner was running.  If you click on that link you can see a very young Lloyd piled on top of the vent, snoring away.

How times have changed…

Shifty vent

One day, several years ago Lloyd was sleeping on the furnace vent as usual.  I guess the tags on his collar slipped into the vent and got tangled with the grill.  Thankfully I was home at the time and heard the smashing and clatter and general mayhem.  I came downstairs to see Lloyd running all over the house with the vent cover stuck to his neck.  I removed it for him, which he was very grateful for (see what I did there?).

However since that day, Lloyd no longer trusts furnace vents.  At all.  If at all possible he will never turn his back on one because now they are known to attack without warning.  He will avoid walking near them, and would never ever lay on one again.

You could say he’s no longer a fan.

Electrical food puns, or ohm my god this food is good

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Cael and I have done a lot of driving to and from the Pakenham ski hill recently and we have noticed that there is a particularly interesting sign placement for the Centennial restaurant beside a hydro power station.  Being Vallentynes and bored, of course this leads to electrical puns, we quickly rotated through the more obvious ones:

Watts on the menu?

The prices are shocking(ly) low!

etc.

However, just when I thought we had exhausted the whole gamut entirely, Cael came up with this one that I hadn’t actually thought of:

You’ll be ecstatic with our service!

I think that’s a top grade pun right there, and it brought a tear to my eye, being the corny dad that I am.