There are some songs that just make you smile. There are others that make you think of people. There are some that get stuck in your head.
There are people like that too. People who make you smile, who make you laugh, who make you hit yourself upside your own head and say to them in the most embarrassing moments, “You’re Nuts!”
This song is like my son, Jacob. He makes me smile, makes me feel good. Sometimes he keeps me up all night swimming around in my head, thinking, “He’s Nuts!” And you know what? He IS!
Happy 22nd Birthday to my favorite longboarder (see Mom shudder. Shudder Mom Shudder).
Holding up the Leaning Tower in 1999
FiftyFourandAHalf 
I love this song, its video and the context in which I discovered them! I’m too late to the birthday party, but I hope it was awesome.
(I hope someday I can do one trick on my longboard. Right now, I feel accomplished simply being able to ride it in a straight line.)
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You ride a longboard? You’re nuts, too! Be careful!
Jacob has always been into wheels. He was a great rollerbladers for many years — even skated the streets of Paris from below the Eiffel Tower to Notre Dame.
Thanks for the wishes; you’re never lat to a virtual party.
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I loved that boarding – never seen anything like it! 🙂
Happy Birthday to you son! 🙂
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I like the longboarding much better when my son is not involved! Thanks for stopping by and for his b-day wishes!
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Happy Birthday Jacob! My nephew rides one of those boards – looks like a blast. Love the music video!
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I hate it! Yes, I am overprotective. But I hate it. He, however, loves it. Sigh.
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Great song and great picture- every picture I have from the 90s is guaranteed to make me laugh. 90s fashion is the gift that keeps on giving. And Happy Birthday to Jacob!
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Thanks for the return visit.
I’ll confess I had to scroll back up there to see what he was wearing. I actually wish he’d go back to this style. I didn’t have to tell him to pull up his pants all the time!
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I thought that baggy pants phase was out of style now that skinny jeans for boys is in, or do they just wear skinny jeans low on their waist too? I am out of touch!
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My son wears baggy ones. Always.
I tried to convince him that it really isn’t a smart way to dress when I told a story about a dumb criminal. The man walked into a 7-11 holding a gun and his pants up. When the cashier gave the guy the money, the robber couldn’t hold all three; he tripped on his pants, fell and was arrested.
“We’ll,Mom,” my son responded, “guess I won’t be robbing 7-11s for a living.” That was not supposed to be the lesson.
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Hahaha. Clever boy. But at least you can rest assured knowing he has no plans to rob convenience stores, that’s always good right?
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Yes. It is what every mother wishes for her son!
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Happy Birthday to Jacob. I think he probably does the same pondering about his Mom.
That video is really something. I don’t even know those kids and I held my breath the whole time.
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Thanks, Michelle.
Yes, skateboards make me very nervous, they always have. He wears a helmet and padding. I still hate it. But I love the song!
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Oh, I missed it. Happy Belated Birthday to your wonderful grown manchild. What wonderful pics!
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Thank, Val!
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Happy birthday to your grownup boy!
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Wait! He’s gro.wn up?
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Oops.
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What an awesome picture from 1999! Birthday blessings to your son…PW
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Thanks, PW, it was taken just after having pizza in Pisa. I wonder if there is a tourist who eats anything else there!
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Mothers and their sons have a special connection. Happy birthday to him and happy birth day to you.
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Thanks, Renee!
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Happy Birthday to Jacob …. as something different, take a lesson — at my last job, instead of singing the birthday song (which you can’t sing anymore anyway, because the song police will bust your ass), we came up with an alternative song — one that everyone knows: The Oscar Mayer Bologna song.
Believe me, it’s tough to be crabby about your birthday when you’ve got a bunch of people singing the B-o-l-o-g-n-a song to you ….
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John, that is weird. Just plain weird. No mustard, relish or ketchup.
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It’s not weird.
It’s eccentrically different.
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And weird!
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Happy birthday, Jacob, and rock on!
(When you’re ready to jump out of something, let me know. You’re Mom will love it!)
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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That’s hilarious. They don’t show mine though.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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You left out “constant” …
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Happy Burp-day Jacob! 😀
That was an awesome video and nice song too!
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Burp-day? Does that mean alcohol will be involved?
I love the song too. I worry about my baby being on one of those boards, though.
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Cake, Elyse, cake 😉 lol
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Ugh. Instead of requesting one of mom’s wonderful from scratch cakes, he wanted a Funfetti B-Day cake. Where did I go wrong?
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heheheheh Elyse..I don’t like to say it…but maybe it was just time he learned (for himself with a Funfetti B-day cake) that mom’s cake is the best and has no replacement for it!!!
It could also be the he may have wanted you to take a rest and enjoy not bothering about a cake..
Or well, maybe Funfetti just had a great marketing team? hehehehe
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Happy birthday, Jacob! Your mommy rocks!!
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Thanks, TD. But it will take him a while to admit that, I’m pretty sure.
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Maybe. I think I was already admitting it by the time I was that age.
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Your son was really tall as a kid.
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Wasn’t he? It’s strange, S7, but now that he is older, he looks much smaller to me.
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My kids, too, make me laugh all the time. What could be better than that?
Happy Birthday to your son!
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How about if in addition to making us laugh, they didn’t make us nuts, too? Would that work for you? It would certainly work for me.
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Ah, yes, there is that little side effect of children.
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And it’s nowhere in the warning label. I outta sue.
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Haha, true. Not even in the rapid fine print in the TV ads.
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Happy happy birthday, Jacob! That photo is hysterical.
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Thanks Darla. I love that picture. It always makes me smile.
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And I bet it makes his birthday to know that his Mom is nuts about him.
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Well, Charles, I am. But at 22, I think he’d prefer it if I just threw cash.
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Happy Birthday Day Jacob … just keep driving your mom nuts!
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No, no, no. He’s the nut. Not me. Nope no way.
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I guess you are saying he will not get my message.
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He’d have to read the blog. And in that regard, he takes after his dad.
In everything else, he’s more like me.
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Looks like he’ll miss my suggestion.
Meanwhile … Woo hoo … I just saw the Geico Hump Day commercial!
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Don’t worry, I took your advice, aFrankAngle~
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Oh nooooooooooooo!
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Perfect … Thanks Jacob!
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You have no idea how rare an honor you received. Jacob has commented on this blog, but only under a pseudonym. This was the real, flesh and blood man-cub!
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Here’s what I do know … Because you are the Queen, he is Prince Jacob.
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🙂
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Let’s see for John, how about the Duke of Elyse … or the Lord of Green Diamonds.
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Oy
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Happy Birthday, Jacob!
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Thanks, Georgette!
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Happy Birthday Jacob!
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Thanks, Mae!
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Happy Birthday Jacob! Love that photo…what a cutie.
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Thanks, Tops. He’s a good guy. I’m a lucky mama.
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