Geek Habitat

While commenting to an entry in a password-protected blog I read daily, I was struck with the seed of an idea. Until I can actually ACT on it properly, I wanted to repost a portion of my comments here.

The Idea is to share and thus document the family traditions and quirky sayings I’ve grown up with or that have developed as the new generation (our nieces and nephews) grow up. Every family has these and thus, while the ones I document will be of greatest interest just to immediate family, other families should do the same. (No, I’m not planning a whole ‘nother website on this, though the idea could certainly support a community-based website. I have way too many website ideas in the works and “simmering” on back burners right now to entertain another — I just had another idea for one this morning that I will act on, if I can find a decent domain name for it.)

SO —

My Family’s Traditions and Sayings
(The quirkier, the better …)

** … I still remember a visit to a canyon in North Texas with my then barely old enough to talk nephew. He took one look at the canyon from the car window as we descended into it (I’m sure all he could see were the canyon walls) and hollered out, “BIG HOLE!”

Now, 8 years later, anytime we adults see a canyon invariably one of us will pipe up “BIG HOLE!” much to the confusion of any non-relatives within earshot.

** I think it’s stolen from “Alice in Wonderland” but we like to tell each other, “HAPPY un-BIRTHDAY!” whenever someone seems to need a little good-natured cheering up. You see, we each have 364 “un-Birthdays” so there’s an excellent supply. Why save all the specialness for just that one day of the year that you were born?

** We have another saying that tends to occur not just on birthdays but whenever the mood strikes: “HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KITTY CAT!”

My Mom swears I uttered it on my birthday one year when I was very young. I guess I felt sorry for our cats (whose birthdays we never celebrated, obviously ? I seemed to feel the cats needed to hear “Happy Birthday!” too.

More to come … Mom, Dad, Bro, Justin, Jack & Jerry, etc… feel free to comment with any I’ve forgotten or left off. Love ya’ll!