Tag Archive: Memory Lane

Ma will remember 2015 as the year she got zero home renovations (and survived Pa’s cooking).

Pa will remember 2015 as the year he retired, found a doctor and was deserted by his right mind (ergo the left side of his body).

Thing 1 remembers 2015 as the year he ditched his braces and attended not one but two Japanese rock concerts.

Most Memorable News Event: Terrorist Attacks & Random Shootings

Favourite Pastime: Anything Japanese

Favourite Game: League of Legends

Favourite TV Show: Grimm

Favourite Movie: Kingsman: The Secret Service

Favourite Song:   Gone by Coldrain

Thing 2 remembers 2015 as the year he graduated high school, travelled to Mexico and started his 1^st year at college.

Most Memorable News Event: Falcon 9 Space Booster Landing

Favourite Pastime:  Pushing his mother’s buttons

Favourite Game: Stepping over stacks of cloths at his bedroom door.

Favourite TV Show: Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Favourite Movie: Ant-Man

Favourite Song:  Cha-Ching by the Bank Accounts

Ma will remember 2014 as the year she got her new kitchen.

Pa will remember 2014 as the year he learned to walk and lost just about everything not anatomically attached to him (Oops, my bad, I also lost 2 inches around my waistline).

Thing 1 remembers 2014 as the year he: won the Best Voice Award at the Battle of the (French Language High School) Bands in Sudbury; travelled to Rock on the Range in Ohio; got his first job; started University; and launched a serious new band.

Most Memorable News Event: Breaking Benjamin (a rock band) reunites. 

Favourite Pastime: Lurking (but not twerking) down in the Max Cave

Favourite Game: Monster Hunter

Favourite TV Show: Doctor Who (TV) and Code Gease (Online)

Favourite Movie: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Favourite Song: Public Service Announcement by Of Mice and Men

Thing 2 remembers 2014 as the year he got his license and made skid-loads of money at his first job.

Most Memorable News Event: Parliament Hill shootings

Favourite Pastime:  Pushing his mother’s buttons

Favourite Game: Hide and…Stay Out of My Bedroom!

Favourite TV Show: Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Favourite Movie: The Lego Movie

Favourite Song:  Cha-Ching by the Bank Accounts

Ma will remember 2013 as the year she discovered Korean television on Netflix (and the year she went nutflix on the chipmunk out back).  .

Pa will remember 2013 as the year he didn’t need to pluck dandelions (after he put the little pluckers down with a bulldozer).

Thing 1 remembers 2013 as the year he put our money where his mouth is and the year he made a little Pal to help him make his first dollar off of the internet.    .

Most Memorable News Event: Popular video steamer guy makes over $70,000 overnight when the world dials in to watch others blitzhack his every move. 

Favourite Pastime: Telling us he will just be a few more minutes.

Favourite Game: Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Favourite TV Show: Elementary

Favourite Movie: White House Down

Favourite Song: Shadow Moses

Thing 2 remembers 2013 as the year he also put our money where his mouth was as well as the beginning of the end for some his other disorderly conduct around the house.

Most Memorable News Event: Boston Marathon Bombing

Favourite Pastime: Complaining about our internet and cable service

Favourite Game: Mine Sweeper

Favourite TV Show: IT Crowd

Favourite Movie: Metamucil

Favourite Song: Elevator Quartet (from the Scrubs TV show)

Ma will remember 2012 as the year Thing 1 got better.

Pa will remember 2012 as the year Thing 1 got better.

Thing 1 remembers 2012 as the year he rediscovered indoor plumbing.

Most Memorable News Event: Tool gets back together for a 2012 tour

Favourite Pastime: Rendering foolish.

Favourite Game: Smite

Favourite TV Show: Psych!

Favourite Movie: John Carter of Mars

Favourite Song: Domino the Destitute by Coheed and Cambria

Thing 2 remembers 2012 as the year he earned his Black Belt in jiu-jitsu.

Most Memorable News Event: That great computer game sale on Steam

Favourite Pastime: Bugging Ma (booting/bending Pa when Ma is AFK^ids).

Favourite Game: League of Legends

Favourite TV Show: Psych!

Favourite Movie: John Carter of Mars

Favourite Song: Gangdam Style

Ma will remember 2011 as the first day of the rest of her life.

Pa will remember 2011 as the beginning of the end of everything that was.

Thing 1 remembers 2011 as a year of adjustments and recovery; the Blues Festival and guitar lessons.

Most Memorable News Event:  The Japanese Tsunami

Favorite TV Show: Eureka!

Favorite Movie: Transformers III

Favorite Music: Curl of the Burl by Mastodon

Thing 2 remembers 2011 as another year of fun, fireworks, falls, the urinating rhinoceros and a nosy ostrich.

Most Memorable News Event:  Minecraft Video Game Release

Favorite TV Show:  Eureka!

Favorite Movie: Tron: Legacy

Favorite Music: Diggy Diggy Hole – Remix by Finger Nails on a Chalkboard

Ma will remember 2010 as the year Thing 1 almost died (without telling anyone).

Pa will remember 2010 as the year Thing 1 almost died (without telling anyone).

Thing 1 remembers 2010 as a year of highs in Disneyland and at rock concerts that would bottom out when he landed his ass (and other derivatives) in the hospital over Christmas.

Most Memorable News Event:  The Gulf Oil Spill

Favorite TV Show: Supernatural

Favorite Movie: Ironman 2    

Favorite Music: Remnants/Asylum by Disturbed

Thing 2 remembers 2010 as the year he went to Disneyland and enjoyed his first T-Bone steak.  He also scored his brown belt in Jiu Jitsu and won Silver in a city-wide Junior Mixed Martial Arts Grappling Championship.

Most Memorable News Event:  …

Favorite TV Show:  Chuck 

Favorite Movie:  Avatar

Favorite Music:  …

Ma will remember 2009 as the year that she squandered most of her summer vacation at a nice cottage on a not so nice swamp.

Pa will remember 2009 as the year he was finally downgraded from Superman to mild-mannered reporter.  Having tolerated more doctors and blood tests in one year than he has seen in the last 50 and thumbing his nose at all the flu shots and other prescribed meds designed to make him feel poor and decrepit, he angrily awaits the results of the next series of tests designed to convince him to buy drugs [for the rest of his miserable life].

Thing 1 remembers 2009 as the year he went to his 1^st Rock Concert – Three Days Grace.

Most Memorable News Event:  H1N1

Favorite TV Show: Fringe

Favorite Movie: Transformers 2    

Favorite Music: Three Days Grace

Thing 2 remembers 2009 as the 1^st year that his calendar (and everything else on his walls) outlasted his temper tantrums. He also scored his Blue Belt in Jiu Jitsu and won Silver in the city-wide Mixed Martial Arts Grappling Championship.

Most Memorable News Event:  How Michael Jackson’s death hogged all the attention of all of the media all of the time.    

Favorite TV Show:  StarGate Atlantis (and Everyone Hates Chris) 

Favorite Movie: Transformers 2    

Favorite Music: definitely NOT Fireflies (or Evangeline).

Ma will remember 2008 as the year that she had no trouble getting Thing 2 off to School in the morning (that part from September to December when the Things were split off between different schools for the first time).

Pa will remember 2008 as the first year in history that he opened the New Year with money in the bank and zero debt.

Thing 1 remembers 2008 as the year he stayed in a mansion by the sea and more importantly the year he got his own laptop computer.

Most Memorable News Event:  (Nothing but) Olympics & Elections

Favorite Show: Doctor Who (and Stargate SG1)

Favorite Movie: Ironman     

Favorite Music: No one song comes to mind.

Thing 2 remembers 2008 as the year the North Atlantic surf pounded sand up his butt.  He also earned his orange belt in jiu-jitsu and is still going strong at three nights a week.

Most Memorable News Event:  The Saskatchewan Meteor.

Favorite Show: The Daily Planet (and Future Weapons). 

Favorite Movie: You Don’t Mess with the Zohan    

Favorite Music: Anything but Pa’s voice.

Ma will remember 2007 for her patio but moreover as the year her father put up with the same kind of crap she did a couple of years ago (and we aren’t talking about the Canadian Winter, although that was part of it).  Like daughter like dad, there was a fairy tale ending, but more for him than for her. He is now frolicking in Florida, land of Disney, while she is still soldiering on at home here with The Three Stooges.

Pa will remember 2007 as the busy year that wasn’t.  There was lots of running around but nothing to show for it on any front. All my running and dieting has led to a net weight loss of exactly 0 pounds (I would like to claim the glass is half full but did I mention the dieting part).  At least my mortgage was finally paid off in 2007… but, alas, I will have to wait until next year when I pay off the second mortgage (remember the patio) before I can officially celebrate.

Thing 1 remembers 2007 as the year he discovered and read the entire Les Chevaliers d’Emeraude series of books.  It was also the year he discovered Internet Role Playing Games, the Naruto cartoon on TV and chin-ups.   

Most Memorable News Event:  nothing comes to mind

Favorite Show: Doctor Who.

Favorite Movie: The Transformers     

Favorite Music: Stronger by Kanye West

Thing 2 remembers 2007 as the year he discovered massage furniture (and had the whole family vibrating towards the Sears Home Center whenever negotiations arose to get him to tag along on any kind of serious shopping excursion).  He also discovered the magician/illusionist Criss Angel and jiu jitsu over the course of last year.

Most Memorable News Event:  nothing comes to mind

Favorite Show: Malcolm in the Middle. 

Favorite Movie: The Transformers    

Favorite Music: In the End, Linkin Park

Ma quietly went about her business of getting physically fit again after last year’s operation while at the same time scoring her Orange belt in karate and coaxing Thing 1 to hang in there too.

With a gammy knee, sore shoulder, aching back, throbbing kidney and hurting gut, Pa breaks down and goes to the Doctor.  I request my first complete medical check-up in a decade on the grounds that I can’t do anything I like to do anymore.  Two weeks later the doctor informs me that he can’t find anything physically wrong but provides me with a list of food and drinks that I should be avoiding.  Now, not only can’t I do what I like, I can’t eat or drink what I like either.  Praise the Lord and pass the Alfalfa!

Thing 1 scored in the top 2% of all Grade 3 math students in Ontario provincial exams.  Despite obtaining his Yellow and Orange belts in karate on top of his already busy Academic and Nintendo itineraries, he remembers his discovery of the “One Piece” (a Japanese cartoon series) television show and comic books as his most memorable event from 2005.  The “Treetop” rollercoaster in Upper Clemons Park, Nova Scotia was his least favorite memory.

Thing 2 tells me that he will remember 2005 most for the time he finally beat Ma at chess.  The “Treetop” rollercoaster in Upper Clemons Park, Nova Scotia was also his least favorite memory.