It’s the Little Things

We finally got DirecTV hooked up at the house, which means the Tivo is back and ready to record. Unfortunately, now I have to go through all the network shows, delete them and add them back (if it can find them). So, this morning as I groggily recover from an allergic reaction to last night’s scallops (the doctor didn’t say to avoid them and I’ve had them before without them doing anything, but for some reason, last night’s got me good), I’m going through the Season Pass Manager and fixing things while everyone else is at church.\
First, I wrote down all the shows, and I thought this would be an interesting list to post. A lot of these shows are Jen’s, but here are our network shows in “priority” order according to Tivo:

  • Heroes (shared)
  • Supernatural (Jen’s)
  • Numb3rs (Jen’s)
  • The Office (shared)
  • Without a Trace (Jen’s)
  • Lost (mine)
  • How I Met Your Mother (Jen’s)
  • Big Bang Theory (shared)
  • Bones (Jen’s)
  • My Name Is Earl (mine)
  • Chuck (shared)
  • 30 Rock (shared)
  • Pushing Daisies (shared)
  • Dirty Sexy Money (Jen’s)
  • Friday Night Lights (shared)
  • Criminal Minds (Jen’s)
  • Life (shared)
  • Reaper (shared)
  • American Dad (mine)
  • The View (so Jen’s)
  • Family Guy (mine)
  • Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (shared)
  • Welcome to the Captain (Jen’s)
  • Swingtown (Jen’s)
  • Secret Life of the American Teenager (so so so Jen’s)
  • Flashpoint (Jen’s)\
    The other 34 shows on the Tivo are all non-network shows spread out over the TV-viewing spectrum. I’ve been so busy, and we’re been in the middle of the summer TV doldrums, I almost haven’t missed having TV at all, other than Pardon the Interruption, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.

Bad mommy # ohwhocares

I am the worst purchaser of Max’s school clothes. For the third year now, I bought the wrong size clothes- twice. Boo.

Lucky, lucky me!

I have the best, most well-behaved kids ever. EVER!! Want proof? Four hours at the health department and nary a peep (and we went unprepared without toys! or books! or crayons!), except when Brian received five shots (Max only needed one).

To do

After weeks of nothing to do, suddenly I have everything to do this week!

  • Go to the Health Dept to have the kids’ immunizations included in the Ga system and have Max get the ear/throat/nose report for school.
  • Get new driver’s license (our month is up), get new plates and tags (sadly, this is at separate places).
  • Register Max for school (the staff is back).
  • Clean up the backyard from the mess the kiddie pool made (ugh, kiddie pools are such a bad idea).
  • Have Brian tested at the Speech and Hearing clinic (free tests on ‘first come, first serve’ basis once a week. Though it might be less crowded after school starts. Hmmm).
  • Get Brian on a few pre-k waiting lists. (This is my one regret about moving here, which couldn’t be helped. I only hope that this delay in school doesn’t have a long-lasting impact.)
  • Buy school supplies (I haven’t been able to get the list from the internet to load, grr. The school should have a hard copy though).
  • Exchange Max’s school pants for a bigger size.
  • Do laundry and pack for Va trip.
  • Ready the house for our first guest, wheee!

Pretty!

Kevin took this picture last week and I love it. It would be perfect for our office, if we had one. Note to self: make sure next house has a great spot for this.\
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Tybee Island Photo Safari

a series of brightly painted but rusting dinghies leaning against a wall.

I took the boys to Tybee Island today, nominally, to go a photo safari. I had my lovely Nikon D80. Max was sporting the Powershot and Brian had the backup Samsung. Of course, I knew we wouldn’t be taking pictures for long after they saw the water. I got a bunch of shots in, though, since I wasn’t going to near the water.\
Here are a couple of my other favorites from the set:

Brian running away from a wave

A funky outhouse.\
close up of palm leaves.\
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Bald guy with an epic head tattoo\
the tybee island pier

Savannah, oh, Savannah

When I think about what I gave up to move down here (the list is long), I sometimes feel like crying. But there haven’t been any tears yet! Well, at least not until last night when we were at a BBQ place and they only had mustard-based BBQ sauce. Apparently it is a thing here, so it isn’t a simple matter of finding a different BBQ restaurant. I mean, really Mustard-based BBQ sauce! I almost high-tailed it back to Virginia right then! I was mollified when Kevin (jokingly) suggested I could bring my own sauce next time. The boys and I are going up to Virginia before school starts. While there, I am going to stock up on individual packets of BBQ sauce from my favorite BBQ place. Oh yea.

Question of the day

What is the appropriate punishment for one kid peeing on the other, while the latter was sitting on the toilet?

Dooty or duty?

Making my husband, everywhere, proud of me: I registered to vote today!!

Firsts

Max got rickrolled today for the first time. (No, Mom, this isn’t anything bad and doesn’t hve anything to do with losing your shoes.)\
Brian used the manual can opener today. He was so proud of himself that he exclaimed, “Me didn’t need any help; me did it all by myself!!” My old can opener was really hard to use even I could barely get it to work. I think this is where his excitement came from.\
Brian drew his first dirty picture today. He was drawing attics with various amenities. One had a bathroom, so of course he had to draw a penis that could use the bathroom. Then he drew the boy to go with it. They were the same size. He then “built” (really, he just drew) a penis for me so I could use a urinal too.