Feeling Minnesota

It took an overnight stay in Dallas, three revised flight itineraries, three canceled flights, a $10.00 cab ride to go three miles, and three canceled appointments at work. But we are finally back in Minnesota.

Had a good time in Texas, but today was a little rough as I woke up at 4:30 a.m. to catch our 6:45 a.m. flight out of DFW and went straight to work from the MSP airport.

But leave it up to those crazy kids to make my day worthwhile. If you haven't been to www.homestarrunner.com yet, click here.

If you have, but have not seen the Cheat's theme song, or need a refresher, click here.


The point to all this is there's a kid who has a teddy bear he named "Peef," for fairly obvious reasons (hint: look on the bear's paw).



Image from http://www.princesstoys.com


So Peef joins him in all his sessions with me. It has always been the policy in my office to offer all stuffed animals a chair at the table. Peef obliges. Out of sheer boredom I have been using the tune from "The Cheat Theme Song," to sing songs about Peef. I began with my own lyrics like,

"Who's the bear sitting in a seat?
The Peef. The Peef.
Name the bear with multi-colored feet.
The Peef. The Peef.
Who's gonna beat Mike at Go Fish?
Not The Peef. Not The Peef"

Now I sing it in my head throughout the day and outloud whenever Peef and the kid come to therapy. Peef's owner doesn't like the part when I croon "The Peef is in the house," as you hear in "The Cheat Theme Song," but otherwise he always sings the refrain, "The Peef. The Peef."

And today he actually requested "The Peef song." And came up with his own lyrics. I have no idea what the hell these lyrics were, which means we still have a lot more work to do on the speech therapy front. But it was a long day and if it weren't for "The Peef Theme Song," I may have fallen asleep halfway through it.

The Peef is in the house!!!