Penn&Teller broke Kevin’s heart a little bit last night when they said he couldn’t join their club. Awwww. 🙁 Their latest show was on The Boy Scouts of America and how they discriminate against homosexuals and atheists, yet still receive government money, ever since the Mormon church got involved. Shame on the BSA! Pick a side and stick with it! Either you are a public group that allows anyone to be a member (and receives government money) or you are a private group that can make membership selective (and does not receive government money).\
Speaking of homosexuals, I was lurking at TWoP and saw a funny post. A woman saw a commercial for Big Love, an HBO show about polygamy set in Utah, where one of the wives got into a screaming match about praying for souls with two guys on bikes. The poster thought the two guys were gay. Hee. Someone else from TWoP explained that they weren’t gay, just missionaries.
Hump Day!
Today is the day that comes closest to a day off for me: Babba Day! After school, Max will go hang out with his grandma leaving Brian and me to do whatever we want. YAY! I even get to take a nap without any guilt! Wahoo! (In reality, I usually end up accidentally crashing on the couch every afternoon when Max and I watch Myth Busters.)\
Kevin has the one working car today, so Brian and I are going to hang out in comfy pants ALL DAY! I am not even going to put a bra on! But I have laundry to do and a kitchen to clean. Plus Brian has a cold and is extra cranky, so today won’t be total fun. But like I said, it is the closest I get to a day off, so YAY! And then tonight we are ordering Chinese food and will settle on the couch for an all new and exciting Veronica Mars (on UPN at 9pm EST)! So, double YAY!\
I must have been extra excited to start my day off because I woke up four times between 5 am and 6 am, when my alarm was set to go off. Isn’t that weird?
Brilliant!
Hey, would ya look at that: all of my posts on this page are sans any mention of Veronica Mars! I’ll have to rectify that.\
The latest episode was The Rapes of Graff and Kristen Bell was phenomenal. I can’t believe you guys aren’t watching this show. There were two scenes in particular that blew me away: when she was talking to the rape victim (it helps to know some of Veronica’s own back story) and when she was talking to a woman who worked in a wig shop. The end of that scene was priceless!
The Global E-Mail Economy
The problem with the global economy is that there’s always someone awake and sending me e-mail. I get a couple hundred e-mails a day, and in the old days, I could be pretty certain that I wouldn’t get more than 10-15 over night, and they usually weren’t serious. Now? I get a good half a day’s worth of e-mail before I even wake up. How am I supposed to keep up with that?
Max’s First Soccer Game
I took pictures, lots and lots of pictures. Most of them were of eight boys running one way or another.\
Little kid soccer is a lot of fun. There’s the thrill of the kick, the attempted kick, the frenzied chase for the ball, the constant in-bounding and then re-out-of-bounding. The kids loved it, and we had a good time yelling encouragement. Next Saturday, more of the same.
Tizzy-time
According to celebrity gossipers, Gwyneth Paltrow has been seen drinking alcohol recently even though she is pregnant with her second child. Let’s all get in a tizzy over this like we did when Britney drove with her baby on her lap. Tizzy-time. Da Nanana Nana Nana. Tizzy time! (yea, to the tune of Hammer Time.)\
Seriously, drinking 2 or 3 glasses of wine is so not ok while pregnant. What an imbecile! And she should know better than to do anything like this in public. Uh.
One of the elite
I have the “stay-at-home-mom” title, I have the house in the ‘burbs, I routinely have play-dates, I own 3 strollers and 4 car-seats, and I even have a van. Finally, I have the last thing needed to be truly crowned a soccer mom: a kid actually in soccer. Max’s first game is on Saturday. Wish him fun!
Little old man
Brian constantly walks around the house with his hands clasped behind his back, which accentuates his belly, making him look like a stodgy old history professor lecturing on something very boring. It is the cutest thing ever!
Eh, whatever.
It’s interesting to read the various reactions about Big Love, especially from LDS members. Some believe that polygamy will be re-instituted on earth at some point and others don’t, some think there will be polygamy in the next life and others don’t. Honestly, there is much I don’t know about how things will shake out. Someone posted this philosophy, “The Mormon perspective, at least, tends to be, ‘Eh, we’ll work out the details in the next life.’ ;)” at TWoP. I laughed when I read that but that is kinda how I feel. Except that I am absolutely positive that whatever happens will be my choice; I won’t be forced into anything. So, either way, the thought doesn’t bother me at all.
Arrested Development Love
Michael Cera and Alia Shawkat, who played George Michael and Maeby Fünke on Arrested Development, are going to be in TONIGHT’s episode of Veronica Mars. Woohoo! That’s Veronica Mars, Wednesday UPN at 9pm EST.\
Kevin and I gave season 1 of AD to his dad as a gift. I am not sure he got it, but it is a wicked funny show!\
ETA- Apparently, some jerk-off decided to play an April’s Fools Joke early and sent out a fake press release that VM was cancelled. THIS IS NOT TRUE, it has not been cancelled. The guy should have just prank-called the zoo like every other self-respecting April’s Foolser.