{"id":14,"date":"2004-11-29T12:47:26","date_gmt":"2004-11-29T19:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2004-11-29T12:47:26","modified_gmt":"2004-11-29T19:47:26","slug":"pick-up-the-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Pick Up the Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was in the third grade my friend Sabrina and I were playing in our front room when all of a sudden by little brother David comes busting through the back door in a panic.  <\/span>???Someone wet my wizard woose!!!!??? he yelled throughout the house! (Someone let my lizard loose).   <\/span>What a terrible tragedy that was!  <\/span>Can you imagine the horror of it?  <\/span>I find myself asking what is worse?  <\/span>Loosing one???s lizard to a brother that staged a jail break or being incapable of pronouncing the letter ???L????  <\/span>That is a toss up!<\/span><\/p>\n

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David could be the topic of many many many of my memory lane ramblings.  <\/span>He is onery.  <\/span>He is a button pusher.  <\/span>He doesn???t take ???no??? for an answer.  <\/span>He acts first and thinks about consequences later.  <\/span>He says whatever comes to mind without any thought of filtering.  <\/span>He goes against the grain and has no pride<\/span>J<\/span><\/span>.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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He did not even hesitate when he pulled me out of Daniel???s pool and started giving me CPR!  <\/span>(No, I was not drowning.  <\/span>Apparently he just thought I would make a good test case).  <\/span>That is just a wicked thing to do to your sister.  <\/span>Oh my gosh that was disgusting!  <\/span>Who would do that?  <\/span>To their own sister and on purpose?  <\/span>Check out his picture in the Nov album.  <\/span>He even looks a bit Jeff Foxworthyish at the moment.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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He can drive me nuttier than anybody (and he knows it).  <\/span>He is also one of the most giving, unselfish, tender hearted and compassionate people that I know and I love him so much!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Even though I do indeed love him, sometimes a sister does need a little recourse.  <\/span>I have been kissed on the lips by this brother one too many times lately (as Tanner would say ???das gwoss???!).  <\/span>So I thought I would share a little something with you.  <\/span>David is under the opinion that I screen my calls all of the time and that I purposefully don???t answer his calls (not true).  <\/span>He has these very long and one sided conversations with me over my answering machine while continually petitioning Tanner to get me to pick the phone up.  <\/span>(Which we never hear because I am NOT screening his calls).  <\/span>Anyhow, I couldn???t stop giggling when he decided to sing ???Pick up the phone??? to me this week.  <\/span>I have decided to make that message available to the public.  <\/span>Listen to this clip:  Download PickUpthePhone.mp3<\/a> (very short mp3 file).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sadly, my attempt at retaliation will not work.  <\/span>He will probably get great joy and satisfaction out of this.  <\/span>I never win.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When I was in the third grade my friend Sabrina and I were playing in our front room when all of a sudden by little brother David comes busting through the back door in a panic.  ???Someone wet my wizard woose!!!!??? he yelled throughout the house! (Someone let my lizard loose).   What a terrible tragedy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}