OMG, so I hate this show (so much that I tune in every week), but this kills me. I kind of love these kids. Did they make bad choices? Absolutely. Are they trying to do the best for their baby, despite the uttter white-trashinesas of their backgrounds/lives right now, despite no support from their crappy, crappy parents? YES! OMG, I just wish someone would adopt them you know?

Oh, and and, I meant to mention that the boy reminded me a lot of season one Ryan, if the Teresa fiasco had happened back then, and he was living with Dawn and Frank. Just seeing him go toe-to-toe with his dad, who thought that he should "man up" and have the kid was heartwrenching, since his dad spent 10 years of Tyler's youth in prison. Anyway...

It would be welcome if you throw a few up for my niece, Molly (my husband's sister's daughter). She has a very aggressively growing tumor in her jaw. She's being evaluated next week by two of the best in the field and we're all hoping (and praying) that it's something that's benign.

Anyway...

At the half.

I'm about to have a heart-attack, y'alls.

Please, please, please, please.

Or, you know, please!

ETA: UGH, nevermind, you know? and Urgh! Also? You cannot just sit back on your heels and play defense against, you know, BRAZIL? For 45 minutes.

Is sad.

Whoot!

Okay, since I'm always the last person to get forwarded anything (and I'm kinda okay with that!), I'm sure y'all have already seen this, but I adore this video SO HARD. Heh!

Happy Birthday, famous99! I hope this year is as fantastic for you as I have a feeling it will be (if you're a little tired).

Have a great one, my friend! Also, I think Burn Notice starts this Thursday, so whoot!

Adding my Star Trek loving here.

( some not very deep or thinky thoughts from a definite non-Trekkie under the spoiler cut )

Happy Birthday, overnighter!!!!

For your birthday, I give you a whole lot of pretty in one interview:



Oh, and I officially proclaim you TOO DAMNED OLD for Bandom. For serious!

Have a great one, my friend. My quickly approaching friend (Fruckee!).

I was going to jot down a few thoughts on sebaceanbabe's birthday post, but it got...longer than I was anticipating. It's a bit rambly and all over the place, I apologize for that, since I have to flee to pick up my pops at the airport in a few, so he can come visit with my boys, who have a full schedule of baseball and soccer, which they wanted to show off. Of course, it's now supposed to snow 6-10 inches through Saturday, so...thanks for coming, pops!

Okay, so I’ve now watched through the 2-parter (19 &20?) of Season One of Farscape and I have to admit that I do a lot of it semi-distracted, which is how I watch television on the computer. I’m contemplating doing Season Two on disc and forcing myself into the basement and the big t.v. with no distractions.

That said, I am liking it a lot, despite the Muppets.

( Thoughts on most of the season, and therefore spoilers (for a decade old show) under the Cut...beware of the use of many 'I liked's )

Have a great one dorabelle!!!! I hope you're pampering yourself. New teef, new teef!

I just wish I was closer and we could totally drink coffee, or beer!, and laugh and point and make fun of young, defenseless children (even as I send hostile looks towards your friends). Or, you know, compare notes on Rock of Love.

Good times, good times...

I don't know if anyone's still watching...I'm kinda (hey, I keep keeping the faith that it'll get better, but I totally doubt it, plus its numbers suck, so it's done after this season or before anyway), but...

( Spoilers for T:SCC under the cut )

Off to two birthday parties and two basketball games. Good times, good times!

Oh, and YAYS!

Elsewhere, Jonathan Sadowski, Kevin Simpson, Noureen Dewulf, and Ricky Mabe been cast in FOX comedy pilot Two Dollar Beer.

So, back when I was a miserable bitch, living in NEBF, GA, there was a short-lived bar and restaurant in Lake Oconee, called Zac's Place. This guy, Zac Brown and his dad opened it up, right on the lake and it was kind of awesome, cause Zac was a fantastic acoustic guitar player/singer, who would play most weekends. He also had done some minor tour circuits and met some folk, whom he became friends with and who would swing by and sing as well. Zac's mother was also, for a short period of time, my husband's secretary.

One of the guys who showed up to play (and the only one I could point out in a crowd) was Shawn Mullins, he of the one-hit wonder, "Rock-A-Bye" and Shawn would show up to hang out with Zac and play at Zac's Place (for free! and when Rock-A-Bye had just come out!) and it would be totally awesome. Seriously, it was a really cool place in a hick town, with nothing to do at all (embed not from Zac's Place):



Anyways, the restaurant closed right around the time we were leaving (THANK GOD, with the leaving), because Zac wanted to put more time into getting his music career off the ground and just couldn't spend a lot of time/effort on it. I just got an e-mail from the husband that the Zac Brown Band has a CD, is touring and will be here in March. We're going to go see him. I guess he may or may not remember us, but his showstopper from back in the day "Chicken Fried" has apparently been getting a lot of radio play nationally. It's a bit bizarre hearing it in front of a bunch of folk on YouTube, when we used to watch him play in a really small honkey-tonk local bar, where everybody knew your name, you know?



Good for him, Greensboro/Lake Oconee boy!

You know, all with the escaping Greensboro/Lake Oconee.

*shudders*

*waves to all*

I know that this is such old news, but it will never be not funny to me. Apologies.

( Not Work Safe )

So, I went to see Friday the 13th at "lunch" today. I figured that I'd only want to watch the first 10-15 minutes or so, so I picked a time that had another movie that I could duck into, when I inevitably felt like bailing, which I did, 10 minutes in because (well, any of you knowing why I went probably know why I bailed (not much of a spoiler at all really), and I didn't even make it till Padalecki was on screen):

( Cut for Spoilers for The Reader )

Off to buy some beer for the husband's suprise birthday party, which I totally bailed on hosting. I'm such a good wife. Blah, I knew someone would offer and after having two full weeks of houseguests and being the only working in my department on this lovely Friday, I just couldn't deal with getting the house ready. Plus? I, no lie, just put down close to $300 on a 5-year-old's baseball season (not t-ball, baseball, and they have, like 20 games and he's totally going to support me as a major leaguer some day, right? I'm so not delusional) and another $200-and-change on both boys' spring soccer.

Yay, money! Or lack thereof!

And a Happy Birthday, again, to Brandy. BTW, I'm pretty sure that there were plenty of "anonymice" involved, dear!

Okay, so this may have been posted elsewhere, I'm not on any McKenzie sites, but man...can you imagine?

Question: First-time writer. Long-time reader. Looking for scoop on Psych. Totally love that show. For real. -- Stef
Ausiello: This isn't scoop so much as it is a random tidbit from Super Bowl weekend: At NBC Universal's tailgate party, James Roday, Dule Hill, and Chris Meloni took on Burn Notice's Jeffrey Donovan, The O.C.'s Ben Mackenzie, and an unidentified executive's son in an impromptu game of pick-up touch football. Team Roday-Hill-Meloni prevailed by a score of 21-7. And because I know you'll ask, both teams kept their shirts on the entire game. "At one point shirts and skins were suggested," whispers my gridiron mole, "but it was too chilly."

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There's a whole lotta hot for one field, you know? Man, that musta been fun to watch! Iz jeluss!

Words...

It starts tonight, y'all. If you haven't caught it...by some means, from the DirectTV broadcast, I ask that you catch it this season on NBC. It's as good...if not better in some cases, as Season One. Forget last season. They did. It's truly awesome and I just may have cried during every single episode.

In other news, my dad got here yesterday for my mom's induction into the U.S. Triathlon Hall of Fame in Colo. Springs. My sister and her family arrive today (to round out our five houseguests for a week). Thankfully, both brothers and the other two sisters are doing the hotel-thing.

Oy!

Well, at least the kids will be stoked, to have their cousins to run around with. I, on the other hand, will be silently seething, that my house is being trashed (for serious, my sister and family are the messiest people alive and I'm kinda, sorta, waaaay type-A).

Happy place. Going to my happy place...

Is so totally Fashionette. For serious.

That is all.

Carry on.

( Cut for Talk of Last Night's FNL )

For serious, y'all. It's just...well, let's say that I can set my clock by this shit by now. I'm off of work. Been off since last Monday. My kids have been miraculously well for the last year, but this is also the most sustained time I've taken off in over a year, so I'm sure y'all know where this is going.

Yeah. I skied with the husband on Monday. I intended to ski again on Thursday and Friday. On Wednesday, my older son was home with the croup. We sent him to school on Thursday, but I stayed close to home, just in case. He lasted the day. So...I sent him on Friday and went off to Vail with my next door neighbor.

At 10:00, we got the call that Con was being sent home sick. Oy! Thankfully, Mark was able to pick him up, but wanted to get back to work by 6:00 p.m. or so. Didn't happen. They closed Vail Pass (which, no bigs, when I lived on the other side of it, big bigs, these days). We ended up going back to Vail, eating dinner and eventually making it home at about 11:00.

Ci caught Con's cold over the weekend. Today, we were going to go skiing. Both kids were checked out of school. But? Mark woke up at 6:00 and discovered that the high today is going to be -8. Um...Not that Ci would be able to feel it, he's currently at 103 (with a shot of Motrin, which we're waiting to kick in). So, no skiing. Mark is going to work 1/2 a day and we're going to get our tree. I'm all set to drop Con off at school, and? We get a call, a pipe burst at his library. He's out today, too.

Good times.

Good times.

So not.

How is this a vacation, I ask?

Anyways, we'll try skiing again tomorrow (my last vacation day).

*big sigh*

*waves tiredly*

*on *vacation* *

(hee, at least the dogs are stoked, instead of spending the day crated up, they're free, fat and happy, though Mark says that they refused to meet his eye this morning, so much so that they didn't want to go outside in the cold, wet morning)

So...Sarah wasn't hateful tonight,

( Cut for Alpine Fields )

So, I went skiing with the husband at Keystone today. Only a couple of runs open, but it's snowing a foot here tonight, so hopefully the mountains will be dumped upon. In the news of the good, my ankle felt strong enough. In the news of the bad, I could feel the metal, intimately and fiercely all day. *sigh*

I go again on Thursday. Alone. To Breck(enridge), I think. They've got a $5 parking lot yards away from the gondola and Keystone just has a YUGE walk from the free lot to the gondola (and the pay lot's $20.

Then, I go to Vail with my VBF on Friday (whoot! whoot!) Should be a blast. And I'm also, also off next Monday, when we're going to keep both kids out of school to ski "as a whole family," so yays! Seriously y'all. I've had the shittiest last three weeks, I totally earned my vacation and more.

In other, other news? We sent my 6-year-old off on the bus from the end of the block on Saturday (out at 6:30 a.m.), we picked him up at 5:30 p.m. It was for a full day of ski school. And? Thankfully, he had a blast, can't wait to do it again, so yays!

Though he did lose a neckwarmer and a glove (urgh!)!

At least he got to watch Wall-E on the way up and something else on the way back. Next year and both of them in the discount ski school program can't come soon enough!