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Friday, October 17, 2008

My apologies.

I have plently to say on the election, but I’m muzzled by the Hatch Act when I blog from work, which is where I do my blogging these days since I’m so done in by the end of a work day that I don’t bother to go anywhere but to bed when I get home. Thank you, run on sentence.

I love Peggy Noonan, but I disagree with this column. I’m disappointed to hear and read the dismissal of Gov. Palin’s down home personality and speech. Noonan doesn’t get that this is what people are flocking to her rallies for - she is not a wonk or part of the party intelligensia or the good ole boy network in Washington. This is why she resonates with regular people. Show me in the Constitution where a politician is required to speak in so high falutin’ a manner to be qualified to run for any public office. I don’t believe it impacts her effectiveness as a Governor and I don’t believe that it will impact her effectiveness as Vice President. I have no problem with being called “Mom or Dad” instead of “Mother or Father” in speeches. I don’t see it as dumbing down. I am Mom. My mother is Mom. It’s as good a term as mother, imho. Anyway, my 2 cents.

I don’t understand the Fang tribe on Survivor. Two weeks in a row the majority talked about ousting the people who most threaten them and yet they vote out someone else. I think the lack of food is affecting their brains as much as their brawn. That said, it was cool that they had the experience with the elephant that hangs out near their camp.

I really want to go see Quantum of Solace in the theater when it comes out.

How ‘bout them Red Sox?

Monday, October 06, 2008

1. More house hunting yesterday. I’ll sum it up this way - three great houses, but not an offer submitted. It’s a long story with which I won’t bore you.

2. Bizarro pregnancy dreams continue. I had two this weekend that really boggled my mind. I’ll just share the weirdest one.

Friday night. Beau and I decided to adopt a baby girl even though I am pregnant with a baby girl (in the dream I was at about 6 months along). So Lando Calrissian took us to some city in the clouds over Italy in the Millinian Falcon where we waited with other adoptive couples for our baby. When the first one arrived, I booted people out of the way at the door to get to the baby first. It was cold, so the infant carrier was covered. I unzipped it to find a lovely red-haired little girl and I scooped her to me mine. As for the Lando appearance, I can only attribute it to my recent watching of Return of the Jedi on cable. There’s no other explanation because I much prefer Han Solo over any other male in the Star Wars universe.

3. Useless One complained to me about how busy she is and to warn me that medical bills will be coming to me late. And then she proceeded to complain about how our boss told her she had to step up to the plate to take on more in her job. How dare he! Yadda, yadda, yadda. I told her we’ve all had to step up to take on extra at times and that it’s just the way it is when we can’t add the admin staff that we need. She then tried to blame that on the management, but I defended them because I know for a fact that our management constantly asks for more admins and repeatedly gets told no by HQ. We are the red-headed step child of federal agencies - we just don’t get the funding that others get.

4. Jesse is a generous little boy. He takes great delight in sharing food with Beau and I. He loves to feed Daddy grapes or pasta or Froot Loops, opening his mouth as wide as it will go and holding out the piece of food for Daddy to take from his little fingers. I had the pleasure of getting fed Froot Loops yesterday and his happy face made me tear up - or maybe that was the pregnancy hormones.

He has also perfected the zerbert. He loves to tickle, although his tickles are really pinches. But he showed his mastery of the zerbert yesterday when I heard this noise from Beau’s direction. We were watching the Redskins game (hail!) in the bedroom after a long morning of looking at houses. Jesse was wrestling with us on the bed when I heard the noise. “Did Jesse press on your belly hard enough to make you toot?” I asked Beau.

“No, Jesse did that,” Beau said, laughing.

I looked over to see Jesse press his mouth to Beau’s belly and he let out this beautiful zerbert. I cracked up, laughing so hard I had tears streaming. Jesse thought this was great and continued to zerbert. Then he zerberted me, too. And tickled/pinched. So much fun.

5. Oh, and the Redskins started winning when Beau put Jesse into his Redskins shirt. The boy will be wearing that shirt on all game days for the rest of the season.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

1. There’s an update at TG.

2. I didn’t know until last week that Jim Zorn is the head coach for the Redskins. I totally had a crush on Jim Zorn in junior high school when we lived in Washington state. He was the Seahawks QB at the time and had a good passing partnership with Steve Largent. And he’s a solid Christian guy, too. Cool stuff.

3. Phenergan does it’s job really well. Too well. More than 12 hours after taking one last night, I’m still really sleepy and my brain will not work right.

4. My son is the cutest kid on the planet. His favorite phrase right now are “oh no” and the way he says it is hilarious. Also, when he really wants to share whatever it is that Mom or Dad are eating, he will give all of the baby sign language signs he knows in his excitement and desire. It cracks me up to be told, “More, please, more, thank you, please, more….” with some hand clapping included. He is the light of my life.

5. We’re making the switch to FiOS - I just need to call them to schedule it. Our cable bill is ridiculous and Verizon is running a special now that would reduce our bill by more than half for the first 3 months and then the monthly rate will still be less than Comcast.

I guess that’s it for now.

Monday, February 04, 2008

I know I mentioned other commercials from the Super Bowl that I liked in my other post. However, I was reminded of the NFL ad about the oboe player. This is a good one.

I love underdogs. Great Super Bowl last night.

We were with our small group and had a fun time. My faves of the commercials were E-trade with the baby and the clown and fire breather BudLight. Runner up goes to the Coke commercial with the cartoon balloons - yay for Charlie Brown. Honorable Mention to FEDEX carrier pigeons.

Jesse did well - he loves a party. Late in the evening he was so tired but wouldn’t sleep in his PnP, although he napped just long enough to get a second wind. So he chilled with us and crashed when I finally put him in his crib at about 10:45pm. Oh, and I’ve recounted about his first injury, received yesterday afternoon, here.

The rest of my weekend was spent working on my business accounting stuff. Man it’s a lot of work to do bookkeeping for an entire year all at once. You would think that being in budget and finance as my paid job that I’d do this well at home. Not so. *sigh* But once I get things caught up, I’ll be in good shape for this year. So far my net profit is in the negative numbers (I’m only up to June), so the business won’t have any impact on our tax refund. We’re kind of counting on that for our vacation in May.

Friday, January 04, 2008

We’re heasing to Beau’s Sis’s tomorrow morning to spend some time with her and her daughter’s family as a sort of belated Christmas gathering. Should be a fun time.

It’s an early gathering because I’m a rabid Redskins fan and they play Seattle at 4:30pm. I’d like to get home to watch the game as close to game time as possible. Fortunately, Beau’s Sis is gracious and understands. =)

Sunday we’ll do early church and then I plan to spend some time outside playing with my silver wire and torch - outside to keep Jesse out of things and also in case I have fumble fingers. I don’t want to start a fire by accident in the basement. I know it’ll be warmer than it has been, but I’m sure it won’t be quite warm enough. I’m just impatient enough to do it despite the cold.

I’m so glad it’s Friday. For being a short week, it has been a long week.

Friday, December 14, 2007

There were names I expected to see and did. There were names I didn’t expect to see and did. There were names I expected to see and didn’t. The whole thing makes me rather sad.

I have no opinion (yet) on whether any or all should have records taken away, Hall of Fame chances removed, etc. I’m afraid that there’s nothing fair about anything that might or might not be done, which leads me to say, “Let things lie,” for the past and let the new MLB policies continue on and improve in order to stop the abuse and cheating.

I haven’t watched too much baseball since 9/11 and I can’t really explain why I’m still not watching as avidly as I once did. Maybe it’s this issue and the fact that what was once only rumored and speculated about is now fully disclosed and exposed and therefore the bloom is off the rose?

Thursday, November 08, 2007

I laughed in joyous disbelief when I heard Brian Kilmeade tell this sport news this morning.

Gardner-Webb stuns No. 20 Kentucky

That’s my alma mater!

Here’s the article at the university webpage today.

The GWU Sports page.

Awesome.

Friday, October 26, 2007

Consider me one of the Red Sox Nation having adopted the team when I lived in New Hampshah. You can’t go to a bunch of games at Fenway and not get sucked into the wonderful craziness of Red Sox fandom.

I got the following prayer from a friend who lives in the Boston South Shore area and is a die hard Red Sox fan.

Red Sox Prayer

A Prayer for the Red Sox
Our Father, who art at Fenway…Baseball be thy game.
Thy Kingdom come, the World Series needs to be won, On Earth, then on to the Cask ‘n’ Flagon.
Give us this day, a perfect Papi, And forgive us our losses, As we forgive those, Like Bill Buckner.
And lead us not, into desperation, But deliver us from any losses.
For thine is the Power, And the Glory,
To beat the Rockies, Forever and ever….
and the Yankees still suck
A-men!
GO SOX!

Amen!

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

I came in 3rd overall with 118 points. The winner had 121 points.

So close. So. Close.

Monday, March 26, 2007

I haven’t taken a look at the sheets, but it’s likely that I will not win the pool after all.

I dropped to 9th with the UNC loss. And now there are two Florida pickers who are above me in the list.

Oh, well. It was fun to think myself a potential winner for the afternoon.

Sunday, March 25, 2007

I’m currently in 4th place in my sister’s NCAA pool. If Florida wins the tourney, I win the dough. How crazy is that?

So far two of my Final Four teams are in. I’m sure there may be other win configurations that could bring me the win as well, I don’t know. Of the three people ahead of me by points, two of them have UNC winning and the other one has Georgetown.

What’s even crazier is that I haven’t watched more than a few minutes of any of the games. I think I watched some of the first round, but only peripherally - I think the TV was tuned to CBS but I was caring for Jesse and not actively paying attention. I heard some of the games of Virginia colleges in the first round because the local talk radio station I listen to at work interrupted regular programming to cover the games.

How ticked will the serious NCAA hoops fans in the pool be to have some chick who doesn’t pay attention win the money?

Friday, March 16, 2007

I have a sheet in my sister‘s pool.

Let it be known that I did choose VCU over Duke in the first round on that sheet.

That is all.

Sunday, February 04, 2007

Think you know about the two coaches of today’s Super Bowl teams? Maybe you don’t - I didn’t. Check this out.

Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith are making history.

Each has coached his team to the verge of a world championship, something no African-American has ever done in professional football. They are old friends.

They coached together at Tampa Bay. But they also are bound together by something deeper and more profound than a love of football. Each of them, in his own way, is driven by a love of Jesus Christ.

[via The Thinklings]

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Being a Redskins’ fan, I was curious to learn a bit more about Congressman-elect Heath Shuler of North Carolina.

He’s got a pretty good campaign website.

I clicked on the page About Heath and was tracking along great until this:

In 2003, Heath and his wife, Nikol, moved back home to the mountains of Western North Carolina to raise their two children – Navy, 4 and Island, 1 – in the same environment in which they were brought up.

Navy and Island as names for humans? I thought Apple was bad enough.

Those poor kids.