And......the flip side

I think I have a cold and this makes me very not happy. Throat.....so scratchy!!!

We just found out *today* that we have to find a babysitter for the littles this Saturday afternoon when we attend a church thing with Claudia.

Tonight when I was rolling out tortillas, my shirt was riding up in the back and Claudia grabbed a marker and drew a "tatoo" on my lower back.

Claudia found what we think are baby wasps in her room so we have to inspect it very carefully before she can sleep in there again (so, tomorrow).

Jordan has a school project due on Friday in which we have to come up with the costume of a frontiersman for her to wear. No problem! Good thing I don't sew! And speaking of this project, my children are having to learn Indiana history and I can't even tell you what a waste of time I think this is. BIG WASTE OF TIME! I don't know why anyone would live here unless they absolutely had to (like us, for example!) and BLURG, who cares about Indiana history?

Ever since I saw this on SNL, I've had the words Hot Tranny Mess in my head and sometimes it's very difficult to not trot that out at work!

On Mortification

Beverly posts today about the challenges of technology and about two minutes after reading her post, I did something so mortifyingly, stupidly technology-challenged, I was in tears.

And worse, this isn't the first time it's happened.

A couple of years ago I received an email from someone in my Democrat group in Houston that was about a rally they were having that sounded like it involved an annoying level of hippie crap (sorry, Beverly). It made me feel very irritated, so I fired off an email to Jamie complaining about it, possibly including the phrase "damn dirty hippies". The only problem was, I actually hit "reply" instead of "forward" so I had to end up apologizing to the dirty hippies and I Felt Bad.

So today I get an email from the SCHOOL, Claudia's school, about the parent meeting for the stupid abstinence-based sex-ed classes they have, which I feel pressured for various reasons to put my kid in (well, so far, anyway--maybe not this year), even though I'm against those classes for about 10 different reasons, and so I vented. To Jamie. With Profanity. Except that, you see where this is going, I hit reply instead of forward.

OMG!!!!

They've accepted my profuse apology, but I'm still cringing.

News

I kind of like Google News

Up until now, CNN has been my go-to news source, just out of sheer laziness. But I'm getting completely sick of them. They have ridiculous headlines--"Only the Lord knows if the miners are alive!" (I don't enjoy the turn-of-the-last-century sensationalistic flavor of that, nor do I like the reference to the LORD in a supposedly secular news source) and just a lot of fluff crap besides. And almost every story has to have a quote by someone talking about The Lord. Guess what? That's not news! THE LORD IS NOT NEWS!

I have yet to read about the assault rifles in a CNN headline (maybe because the pre-adolescents there think guns are oooky), but I do know that someone smuggled a monkey on a plane in his ponytail and a girl killed her father in a filthy apartment and this is a TV headline (note the exclaimation point like it's E! Entertainment, not CNN):

Spice Girl Melanie Brown -- in a paternity battle with Eddie Murphy! She breaks her silence on what she wants from him... in her first TV interview. Tonight, 9 ET.


Squeeeeee!!!!!!! Said the 11-year-old girl who wrote that.

Jamie says he likes the CNN breaking news emails he gets, but other than that, he never goes there. He likes the NY Times, and he said, "the writing for the business/news/health section is very different from the writing in the science/technology section. The science writing is very obviously supposed to be less formal and more breezy and fun. That amuses me. It's like omg you guys, let's talk about quarks!!1!"


I don't like the NY times because I have it in my head (fairly or not) that they're not reputable. I also have it in my head that the Boston Globe is hopelessly left-slanting and all the Fox news peices are written by Rush Limbaugh and not when he's not high.

Goodbye Space Cowboy

I recently had to get new plates for my car, because of moving to Indiana and all. Too bad. Texas plates are way cooler than Indiana plates.

See, the Texas plate features a cowboy and a space shuttle. Ooooooh, cowboy and space shuttle!!!



The Indiana plate is just very lame. It features an--I don't know--farmhouse or something and what Jamie said, in trying to appeal to my overly-jingoistic nature, are "amber waves of grain" depicted in artwork reminiscent of cheesy, earnest, 1970's greeting cards. Oh, we're in the heartland, now. Pass the corn.



So. We're official now, I guess we're here to stay.

You're on Notice!