So, Mike and I wound up with free tickets to a UT vols football game, and actually managed to swing babysitting, so we had our first date night in way too long. I had never been to a big game like that; UT vs MTSU is not exactly the game of the year, but it’s still a home game at a major SEC school, which was pretty cool. We sat in section Z, which actually afforded us a great view of the jumbotron, the endzone of the home team, and the back of the heads of the 2 drunk guys
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So yesterday I tripped on one of the too many toys my kids scattered all over the house and landed, hard on both knees and one hand (managing to hold on to a full plate of spaghetti without spilling it, I might add. Yea for me). Then, this morning, my daughter headbutted me when I was getting her out of bed. So I have purple knees, a swollen lip, and I ache like I’ve been kicked like a mule. I don’t handle these things as well as I did a few years ago. I’m not sure if I’m just getting
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So, I’ve been away for a bit. Sorry about that. My laptop has had issues for a while with charging, and it finally gave up on me. It was out of commission until my talented hubby could get the right part and solder a new pluggy-in-thingy (that’s the technical term) to the motherboard. But happily, all is well again, and I’m back now. I’ll be writing something brilliant and insightful for you in a bit (that is a terrible lie; I’ll write something silly and inconsequential, but hilariously funny – or at least mildly amusing), but in the meantime,
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So, over the Labor Day weekend, Mike and I actually had a chance to watch a movie together. Alone. Without the kids. An actual, non-animated movie, which contained no talking animals or quirky teenage witches/wizards/sparkly, angsty vampires/insert other kid-themed film genre here. We got to watch one of the many films I’ve been dying to see since before they came out in theaters which, due to scheduling conflicts with parenthood, I still have not seen even though they now are out on DVD. This post may end up being slightly spoiler-ish, so be forewarned. Priest is a vampire film, but
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So, we’re all going to die, apparently. That is, if you listen to the folks at Elenin.org, who believe that the recently discovered comet Elenin, which is currently passing through our solar system (closest to us in early October) is a harbinger of destruction. I don’t really feel like going through all of their rationale here; suffice it to say that their reasons are many. It begins with the unlikelyhood of Elenin’s discovery, the presence of another comet in the vicinity, and progresses to Hopi prophecy and the ever-popular Mayan calendar (with an impressive recalculation of dates based on calendar
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So, at the Bristol race this past weekend, this happened. A man was arrested for streaking- not a novel event for a Nascar weekend, surely. Things didn’t really get interesting until detectives searched his car. In the words of Matt Austin, of the Bristol, Tenn. police: ”With that we also [found that] he and a companion were in possession of a raccoon.” In possession of a raccoon. Is that a thing? Like, in possession of a loaded firearm; in possession of drug paraphernalia; in possession of a RACCOON??? But wait, there’s more! From Matt Austin, of the Bristol, Tenn. police: ”They said his girlfriend
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As a SAHM, it’s a struggle for me to maintain a sense of my own identity. So much of my time is invested in my kids, and that’s OK, that’s kind of what being a full-time mom means, but it is important to stay true to myself as well. The other thing is, having bipolar disorder, it’s really hard to know who this “me” person is, anyhow. I’ve been struggling a lot lately. I’ve been a bit depressed, a touch hypomanic, kind of all mixed up really. I’m working with my doc to get my meds straightened out and get me
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We are experiencing an epidemic of vampire romance fiction. I’ll be the first to admit it; I am not immune. Far from it, in fact. I have read sappy teen books about sparkly vampires, and vampire brothers fighting over the same girl; I have read adult mysteries about vampire detectives, and half-selkie amateur detectives with vampire boyfriends, and telepathic barmaids embroiled in vampire politics; and I have followed brother, barmaid, and sparkly vamp boy to film and tv screens. So, what is the appeal? How do you find romance with a dead guy who wants to eat you? Maybe, that’s part
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The Treaty of Monaco, an agreement between Great Britain and Sweden, The signing of which was one of the lesser known achievements of the Earl of Sandwich. The difficulty between these two great nations arose after the Summit of Stockholm in 1652, when a group of visiting British Cheese distributors were dreadfully embarrassed by a group of Swedish footballers joining them in a local sauna bare-ass naked. Nothing was said to the offending Swedes at the time, for fear it would be impolite, but upon returning to Britain the cheese distributors sent a sternly worded letter to their local representatives.
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