10 on Tuesday!

If your definition of Tuesday is Wednesday. 

1.  Halloween is tomorrow!  WHOOO!   CANDY CANDY CANDY!!!  I steal all the good candy from my children.  I am not ashamed of this.   CANDY!!!!

2.  Treadmills are the bane of my existence.  There are a lot of reasons why I dislike living so far north,  but up close to the top of that list is the fact that I have to run on a treadmill from October through April.  I'm hopeful to get an outside run in this weekend. 

3.  My boy qualified for EI.  I'm not too surprised,  but I'm overwhelmed.   I don't know how the parents of sick kids keep their shit together.  My kid isn't sick but he needs some extra help and I'm juggling appointments, tests, insurance, bills, referrals, and my other kid's schedule.  Craziness!

4.  Go Red Sox!!  Let's take Game 6 and win again!!! 

5.  I really truly mean #4.  I want the Sox to win.   So please don't kill me when I admit that I think the beard thing is stupid and can't wait for it to be over.

6.  I need to be more patient with my daughter.   I'm not sure how to accomplish that,  but I think it involves wine.

7.  I bought myself a new sweater from Old Navy this past Saturday.   I've worn it twice since then.  I saw one of my friends both times I was wearing it.  She probably thinks I have no other clothes.  She wouldn't be that far off from the truth.

8.   I'm reading IT right now - I know, like 25 years late with that one.   HOLY GOD, WHAT IS WRONG WITH STEPHEN KING?  Seriously,  are all his horror books like that?  I've only read 11/22/63, none of his horror books.   That books is not okay.  Not okay at all.  Should not be allowed.   PENNYWISE THE CLOWN IS COMING FOR ME AND IMMA DIE.

9.  My daughter LOVES to walk through the "girl" toy aisles at Target.  But she doesn't realize you can buy those toys and bring them home.   I will cut the person who clues her into that fact.  Cut.

10.   CANDY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Boston Strong!

What a week. 

I was in Boston on the day of the marathon.   I had briefly considered bringing in the kids to watch it, but quickly decided that was insane and we went to Castle Island instead.  I was on the other side of the city, but I was still shaken by the fact that I was there.

Once I got home and stalked the two people I knew that were running the race, finally confirming they were both okay, I watched as much news as I could.   It's not easy to watch when you are also trying to keep the news from your preschooler.  She probably knows too much and I missed a lot. 

I can't quite put my feelings into words, but I'm pissed off that "my" city was the target of a terrorist attack.  I don't live within Boston city limits, but I grew up 3 miles from the Dorchester/Quincy line. The town where I now live shares a border with Boston.  I spent my childhood looking at the skyline.   Going into Boston was never a big deal for me because it's right there.  My friends and I used to take the train into Newbury Street starting in 7th grade.  I did the whole bar/clubbing scene every weekend right after I graduated from college.  I went to UMass Boston for grad school.  We've taken our children into the Science Museum, the Aquarium, Faniuel Hall, and other kid friendly places.  In fact both my babies were born in one of the hospitals that went into overdrive treating the victims.   Obviously I cheer for the Boston sports teams (except the Celtics.  While I'm a general wisher in that I don't wish them any specific harm, I just cannot get into basketball.  And I'm okay with that).  So Boston is my city.  And I'd like to dropkick those terrorists into next week.  I wish #1 had lived,  death is not punishment enough.

Let it snow!

Me and my boy. 

Well.  That was certainly a storm.  Baby Girl got two snow days out of it which is impressive since she only goes to school three days a week.   Our snow day on Friday was fun,  we made Valentine's Day crafts, we make cup cakes,  we watched the snow come down,  Daddy came home early, and we even made a snow man.   Our snow day today sucked.  It rained all day,  all three of us were exhausted,  we've been stuck inside for four days,  and we were even sick of TV.   I'm so glad to be getting back to normal tomorrow! 

In wordly news, we're getting a new Pope.   As much as I know it will never happen,  I'll keep hoping that someone who will guide the Church into modern times will be elected. 

In less wordly news,  I'm DYING for some Malibu rum and pineapple juice.   DYING.  

Every time I stop crying...

I come across something like this

OH NO THEY DIDN'T!

When I saw the news this morning that Hostess is closing,  I didn't really think that I would be effected by it.  After all I haven't had a Twinkie in probably 25 years.    So I grumbled a bit about unions and mourned the loss of the Twinkie.   I went about my day blissfully ignorant.

Then I realized exactly what Hostess makes.   And I died a little bit inside.

First of all,  the best donuts in the world,  Donettes,  will soon go the way of the dinosaur.   IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT DONETTES.   Seriously.  So I haven't had these delicious breakfast treats in 20ish years.  Who cares.  They are FABULOUS.  

Two Words.  HOSTESS CUPCAKES.   What other tasty treat can you peel off the "frosting" (I'm using quotes because god only knows that that stuff really is...) and eat it later?

OMG THE FRUIT PIES.   You have never tasted happiness if you haven't had Hostess fruit pies.
I was a rink rat as a little girl.  My brother played hockey,  I played hockey for a time, and I figure skated for about 15 years (lessons and teaching). The snack bar at the rink sold these fruit pies for 50 cents  (they also sold Jax for 50 cents.  I was a happy kid).   Can you imagine how many of these delectable fruit pies I had?   Cherry was my favorite.  Natch.

I was not a Ho Ho's, Ding Dong, or Sno Ball fan,  but I know many people are were.  I am sad for them.

Fare Thee Well  Hostess.   I'm sorry the unions killed you.

September 12, 2012

One of the "perks" of my current gig is the ability to watch the Today Show for 30 seconds intervals while having my coffee.   Yesterday I turned it on,  made some coffee, and began my day.   My day does not allow me to actually sit and watch it,  but it's on the in the background while I didder about. 

Yesterday, you may remember, was September 11th.

In case you were born yesterday,  September 11th is an important day to pause and remember the nearly 3,000 people who died in the worst attack on US soil in history.

The Today Show, however,  declined to do that.

The showed an interview with THE MOST WORTHLESS PERSON IN THE WORLD Someone Kardashian (I don't know all of their names and don't know which one is which anyway). 

Yes.  The Today Show showed an interview with the person who embodies all that is wrong with our country instead of observing moments of silence to remember all those people who died on September 11th, 2001.

I guess I'm going to have to force myself to watch Good Morning America now.   

Summer TV update

We're halfway through summer now (which means we're getting close to fall TV!) which means summer shows are in full swing.

Bunheads - I will watch anything Amy Sherman-Palladino puts out.   Especially when she re-uses Gilmore Girls alumni in the new shows.  The acting on Bunheads makes me cringe,  but hey - its on ABC Family,  how good does it need to be?  The writing is Gilmore Girls worthy,  but I'm not convinced Sutton Foster has the ability to pull off AS-P's Sorkin-esq witty dialogues.   Lauren Graham, she is not.  Also, I think she show would be much better if they could bring Cameron Hubbell back to life.

Beverly Hills Nannies - okay, so I'm watching a lot of ABC Family this summer.   Eh.  I mean, I'll watch it.  But Kristin is just a bitch, and there's only so much of her bitchiness that I can take.  And why on earth did these families agree to be on the show?  But now I kind of want to hire a gay Australian Manny.

Royal Pains - I love this show,  but the whole Hank Med/Hank Med 2.0 was really  getting to me.  Evan R. Lawson is the best part of the show (and Hank Med) and Hank was seriously starting to piss me off.  I'm a week behind so I don't know the current storyline.   I'm glad Boris is back up to his mysterious ways and that Jill is gone forever.   I want to move to the Hamptons after every show.

I am so excited for the Olympics.   There will be something to watch on TV for the next two weeks!   I'm kind of over Michael Phelps though...  and I'm not loving any of the gymnasts.   But I'm sure that I'll get caught up in something!

2 days down

I went out yesterday and did W1D2.  Hopefully I can bang out W1D3 today and be done with it.  I wish I could magically be where I was last August,  but I know that's not going to happen.   It'd be nice to fit into my pre-pregnancy clothes though.

So.  James Holmes.   He looks like he's on some serious drugs in this video.   Seeing as he has been in jail since Friday,  I'm not sure where he could have gotten those drugs though.   Maybe his head bobs around like that on a normal day...  If I were his lawyer (I assume that's his lawyer sitting next to him?)  I'd be scared to sit right next to him,  just on the creepiness factor alone.  Nevermind that he is a mass murdering psychopath.



creepy.

so little time

Well a lot happened this weekend and I have about 10 minutes before Baby Girl will inevitably throw some sort of fit, so here we go:

* Smash.  I finally watched it on Friday night.   I don't know what I think yet...  I'm already over the story line of who is going to be Marilyn,  and I fast forwarded most of the songs.    But I love Debra Messing, and I like Katherine McPhee as well (I don't watch Idol, so I really had no idea what she could do).   I'll probably give it a few more tries and then decide.   I could use a Monday night show though,  so I'm leaning towards watching the whole season.

* Whitney.   I probably shouldn't have been shocked,  but I was.  Hell,  I was surprised when Amy Winehouse died,  so I guess it doesn't take much to surprise me.   Whitney's self titled album was my very first CD and I played that thing non stop.  I probably still have it up in my attic,  along with my Bodyguard soundtrack.  I hate that we keep losing all these talented people to drugs and other substance abuse problems.  

*  I really want to watch The Bodyguard now.  And you know what,  my mother can't send me out of the room to get her a glass of water during the sex scenes anymore! 

* Baby Girl will be sleeping in her Brand New Toddler Bed tonight!!!  She is really excited about it.    I'm sad that she's out of the crib because I could stick her in that crib at 7:30 and there she would stay until 6:30 the next morning.   But she figured out how to climb out of it last week and this way she has a long time to separate herself from the crib and hopefully be okay with it when the Little Guy takes over. 

Really Paula Deen? 

REALLY?

You have been cooking and promoting  food that is really really really bad for you for a long time.   It's really a shame you developed Type II Diabetes,  but you were diagnosed three years ago.   And yet you continued to show people how to follow in your foot steps?   That's awful.

You didn't have to be a spokesperson for diabetes,  though it would have been nice if you were.   But the fact that you went on with life as usual,  told people how to make DONUT HAMBURGERS, and pretended everything was hunky dory?  No.  Not cool.   And only coming forward when you are being paid to do so by Big Pharma - even worse.   If you want everyone to know you developed Type II Diabetes,  why didn't you say something three years ago?  Why didn't you develop recipes that were healthier and diabetes friendly?  What, do you not think there is a market for that in the US?   You waited until you were going to be paid for it.  Classy.

Not that I ever watched your show before,  but you'll probably now be put on the list of people who are Not Allowed On My TV,  which includes Peyton Manning (though he can probably come off now, since he and I have a lot in common when it comes to playing professional football) and Sarah Palin.   

I rarely watch Anthony Bourdain either,  but I might have to now! 

have you heard the news?  Have you read the tweet begging for a job and a place to live because his wife booted him out of a house and a job?   Dooce and her husband split up.   Since I don't know them personally,  I can't say I saw that coming,  but I was actually shocked to read about it.    I'm always shocked when celebrities get divorced (if you can even call Dooce and her whiner husband celebrities) - I'm still waiting for Brad & Jen and Nick & Jessica to get back together.   I'll admit, I was even surprised when Kim and what's his name split up after 30 seconds,  I figured they'd at least make it a few more months.   I'm apparently very naive -

So sad,  Dooce. 

Other sad news - Wikipedia is down for 24 hours,  but not really because Wikipanion still works on my phone.  My senator is voting against SOPA (or at least one of them is,  to be honest I'm not really sure Kerry is even in Washington anymore, you never hear from him).   You should get your Senator to vote against it too.

Reign Supreme

We're coming up on the last bit of regular season of fantasy football.   Guess who has clinched a playoff position?  Oh, yeah, the same person who is in 2nd place (though I have more points than the 1st place team, which is infuriating).   The same person who beat Andrew (TWICE!!  HA!!! SUCK IT!!!!),  my brother, and my father.   Oh,  and my cousin, and my brother's friend,  and one of my father's friends...   Yup.   Me.    I am the best fantasy football player IN THE WORLD!  Or the second best in my league, however you want to look at it.   And I may only be in 2nd place because I got the first round draft pick and I grabbed Aaron Rodgers,  and this particular league gives a lot of points for quarterbacks.   Or it may be because I am the BEST FANTASY FOOTBALL PLAYER IN THE WORLD!!!! 

Since I have been MIA from the blogging world lately,  here are a few things we need to go over:

1.  Occupy Boston (or wherever you live).   GET. A.  FLIPPING. JOB.   Seriously.   Stop living in tents on public property.  Stop being a waste of space.

2.  Penn State.   Sad.   Disturbing.  Lesson learned?  Call 911 when you see a child being abused.  I wouldn't think this is a lesson that needs to be reviewed.

3.  Demi & Ashton.   Is it wrong that I kind of want Demi and Bruce to get back together?

4.   My kid had her Christmas pictures taken.  Not a single smile.   I'm still using them for Christmas cards though,  you've been warned! 

ugh

As you may be able to tell, the laptop is still unusable. I mentioned that I would go to Walmart and buy a new cord, but Andrew was very against that idea and said he would buy one on Amazon. Clearly that hasn't happened... I'm giving him till Friday and then I am stopping at Walmart on my way home and picking up a new power cord. I don't understand his reasoning, or his delay in getting a new one and enough is enough! My blog is suffering!

That's also why there is no new picture up for August. At this point, I plan on putting one up next week when the laptop is up and running again. I had the same picture up last year for July and August and it still haunts me, I can't do that again. It will just be a little late.

I have no idea what is going on in the world. The last I checked, the debt ceiling bill had passed in the House, but the Senate hadn't voted yet... I wonder if the world is coming to an end. I'm willing to be the Senate passed it though. And on that note, can we talk about how batshit crazy those tea party nutjobs are? Seriously? I mean, I can get behind some Republican ideals, and I can at least understand the reasoning behind others, even if I don't agree with them. But those tea baggers are just crazy people. CRAZY PEOPLE.

Also... I shouldn't be looking forward to this since I am so far behind on my summer shows, but fall TV starts up in about 6 weeks! I'm so excited. I'm going to be watching Pan Am... and maybe the Playboy show too, I haven't decided on that one yet. Oh... the cold dark endless winter nights filled with TV!

Okay, I can't deal with this computer anymore - it has frozen up no less than 7 times while I have been trying to write this post. I will be back soon, despite Andrew's unexplained reluctance to have a power cord.

Happy May!

I know, it's a big picture this month. There's just no way to crop that to be any smaller.

Hi Goose!

So - now that I am married (to someone else), I have a child (with someone else), he is now married (to not me), it's against his law to marry me (since I am technically Catholic), and we've never actually met.... do I give up the dream of marrying Prince William? Or do I just set my sights on Harry?

Well, I know you've either been asked it a million times, or told anyone who will listen to you how you don't care... but what did we think of the dress?

I liked it. Yeah, the bottom was a little plain - but she was marrying a Prince in Westminster Abbey. It's not like she could wear a tightfitting strapless dress. They wouldn't have let her in the door.

Also.... you know you secretly want to be Pippa. As the head Lady in Waiting, she pretty much gets to hang out with her sister at all the fun events, live the good life, but not actually have to deal with the whole "I'm going to be Queen of England" drama.

God, do those Middleton girls ever have look bad?

the gift that keeps on giving

And his name is Charlie Sheen.

From the Vatican Assassin Warlocks to tiger blood to Bi-WINNING... he never gets old. And he keeps passing drug tests! How is a self proclaimed coke head doing that? Is he cheating? Is he really just this crazy on top of his goddess filled coke induced haze of a life? I mean, we all know he's on one drug - CHARLIE SHEEN! That must not show up in drug tests.

Does it matter? We're all WINNING!!

I'm getting the last 2 wisdom teeth pulled out today. I'm actually getting kind of anxious about it - last year I was in awful awful pain for a solid week. Percosets make me sick, and Tylenol with Codeine isn't strong enough... so it's a lose/lose situation. But I'm trying not to focus on that... instead I will focus on all the mashed potatoes I will be eating over the weekend! And I didn't have to go to work today! And Charlie Sheen has lived another day!

AND DAYLIGHT SAVINGS IS NEXT WEEK!!!!
For those of you who live in the Arctic Circle known as New England, tell me that 's not the highlight of your year.

Princess Meghan!

Did you think you would escape a full analysis of Kate's ring? From me? Surely you didn't!

Well here we go:
18 carat sapphire and diamonds. You can't deny that it is an absolutely beautiful ring. If someone gave me an unlimited amount of money and said I could design any ring I wanted, it would look very much like that one.

But here's my issue with that particular ring

It was the ring Charles gave to Diana for her engagement ring - William chose it to honor his mother. Lovely sentiment William, but did you not witness your parent's marriage? Let me clue you in: It was awful, your father cheated on your mother during the entirety of it, your mother was not able to deal with living in a fishbowl, from all accounts your grandmother didn't really help matters, and if there was ever a marriage that should not be honored it was that one.
Never having met her myself, I can't say for sure, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say Diana had some other ring that would have been perfect for Kate's engagement ring.

Regardless of my personal feelings on the particular ring, cheers William and Kate! I hope everyone's learned valuable lessons and Kate's marriage is much easier and happier than Diana's!

Also, PLEASE TELEVISE YOUR WEDDING.

Signed

Royal Obsessed since birth,
MKO

4 dead in O-hi-o

Ah Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young... why is the catchiest line of your song the worst lyrics in the song?

Anyway, I've always been slightly fascinated with the shootings at Kent State. I think because when I told my father that we were learning about it in my history class, he almost fell off his chair. He could not believe I was learing about an event that happened when he was a grown man in history class. I'm sure I will feel the same way when my Baby Girl learns about 9-11 out of a history book.

Anyway, my parents started talking about what they remembered about that day (not that they were there... but both being in college at the time, it was an important event), and that's what made me realize that it was a real thing that really happened to people - and the people that were killed were my parent's age.

This all brings us the news today of the discovery that part of the audio tapes found in 2007 prove that there was a shooter that caused the National Guard to fire (you can listen here)

Take a minute and listen to it.

Can you honestly hear ANYTHING that you are supposed to be hearing? The only thing I can make out is a male voice saying "they got somebody". I cannot make anything else out. I'm fascinated by how they figured anything out on those tapes. I mean, they were recorded 40 years ago by some random dude in his dorm room who stuck a microphone out of his window. He was using 1970's technology (well, it was most likely 60's technology)... and it the quality is atrocious. I want to know how they were able to take that audio and break it down and figure out what is on it. Because I've listened to it about 20 times today, and I just can't hear any of it.
HOW DO THEY KNOW THOSE POPS WERE GUNSHOTS?? I'm in awe of the technology that takes a really bad recording from 1970 and figures out what was on it.

I don't think we will ever figure out what was going through anyone's mind that day... there is an answer as to who fired first, if an order to attack was given or not, if Terry Norman shot his gun or not. I'm just not sure we will ever know the answers.

Lastly, listening to that audio creeps me out a little bit. I can't fully explain why. Maybe because you can practically feel the tension and panic that was present that day?

Rocko's Modern Life

The Beloit College Mindset List came out today - you know the list that makes you realize you are older than dirt?

Let's play: How Old Is Meghan? My comments in red

Here's the list:

The Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2014

Most students entering college for the first time this fall—the Class of 2014—were born in 1992.

For these students, Benny Hill, Sam Kinison, Sam Walton, Bert Parks and Tony Perkins have always been dead. I have no idea who any of these people are. Good start.

1. Few in the class know how to write in cursive. All I can say is FOR SHAME! FOR SHAME!

2. Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail.

3. “Go West, Young College Grad” has always implied “and don’t stop until you get to Asia…and learn Chinese along the way.” pretty much, yup.

4. Al Gore has always been animated. aaahhh... what? He was the Veep, then he invented the internet, now he's saving the world!

5. Los Angelenos have always been trying to get along. Nope.

6. Buffy has always been meeting her obligations to hunt down Lothos and the other blood-suckers at Hemery High. I do remember a pre-Buffy world, but I was young.

7. “Caramel macchiato” and “venti half-caf vanilla latte” have always been street corner lingo.

8. With increasing numbers of ramps, Braille signs, and handicapped parking spaces, the world has always been trying harder to accommodate people with disabilities.

9. Had it remained operational, the villainous computer HAL could be their college classmate this fall, but they have a better chance of running into Miley Cyrus’s folks on Parents’ Weekend. I only know who HAL is because of a Jimmy Buffett song.

10. A quarter of the class has at least one immigrant parent, and the immigration debate is not a big priority…unless it involves “real” aliens from another planet. HAH! My dad is an Irish citizen. But he isn't am immigrant, he along with both his parents were born here.

11. John McEnroe has never played professional tennis. I'm sure he did, but I don't remember him doing so.

12. Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry. eh, not really.

13. Parents and teachers feared that Beavis and Butt-head might be the voice of a lost generation. I always thought it was stoooopit.

14. Doctor Kevorkian has never been licensed to practice medicine. I remember him practicing.

15. Colorful lapel ribbons have always been worn to indicate support for a cause. That didn't start with 9/11? OMG, when this list comes out and college freshman weren't born before 9/11, I might start to cry. It's not that far away, we're already a decade out from it. 8 more years....

16. Korean cars have always been a staple on American highways. Like the Daewoo?

17. Trading Chocolate the Moose for Patti the Platypus helped build their Beanie Baby collection. I'm VERY PROUD to say I was too old for that fad. Thank gawd. Though I do have some Beanie Babies

18. Fergie is a pop singer, not a princess. My childhood BFF and I used to play Fergie and Di. She was Fergi. I was Di. Clearly I lost on that deal.

19. They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly around their wrists while chatting on the phone. sad. I used to do that.

20. DNA fingerprinting and maps of the human genome have always existed. I don't remember them not existing, but then again I was only 11 when these kids were born.

21. Woody Allen, whose heart has wanted what it wanted, has always been with Soon-Yi Previn.

22. Cross-burning has always been deemed protected speech.

23. Leasing has always allowed the folks to upgrade their tastes in cars.

24. “Cop Killer” by rapper Ice-T has never been available on a recording. Really? You can't buy that? I've never heard it (I don't think). Does that mean I never will? And does anything think it's funny that he plays a cop on SVU?

25. Leno and Letterman have always been trading insults on opposing networks. I want to say I remember Johnny Carson, I really do. But I don't.

26. Unless they found one in their grandparents’ closet, they have never seen a carousel of Kodachrome slides. Seen one? Yes. But even back then they were obsolete.

27. Computers have never lacked a CD-ROM disk drive. Nope. Apple IIGS baby! Oregon Trail!

28. They’ve never recognized that pointing to their wrists was a request for the time of day. Then they are just stooopid

29. Reggie Jackson has always been enshrined in Cooperstown.

30. “Viewer Discretion” has always been an available warning on TV shows. nope.

31. The first computer they probably touched was an Apple II; it is now in a museum. The first computer I touched was some sort of Texas Instrument thing. I have no idea what it was. But the first one I had in school was an Apple II. Does that make me old or young?

32. Czechoslovakia has never existed. Yes it did. I was alive.

33. Second-hand smoke has always been an official carcinogen. In my memory, yes. In my lifetime, probably not.

34. “Assisted Living” has always been replacing nursing homes, while Hospice has always been an alternative to hospitals.

35. Once they got through security, going to the airport has always resembled going to the mall.

36. Adhesive strips have always been available in varying skin tones. Honestly, I had no idea that was the case.

37. Whatever their parents may have thought about the year they were born, Queen Elizabeth declared it an “Annus Horribilis.” DO NOT TELL ME THAT WAS THE YEAR CHARLES AND DIANA GOT A DIVORCE!?!?!

38. Bud Selig has always been the Commissioner of Major League Baseball.

39. Pizza jockeys from Domino’s have never killed themselves to get your pizza there in under 30 minutes. sadly, yes they did.

40. There have always been HIV positive athletes in the Olympics. Um, I think I was born before AIDS. Like 2 seconds before, but I still think it was before.

41. American companies have always done business in Vietnam. Yup.

42. Potato has always ended in an “e” in New Jersey per vice presidential edict.aw, to be fair, the plural spelling does contain an E.

43. Russians and Americans have always been living together in space. I did live though a whole decade of the Cold War, but it was the very end when no one was really scared of them anymore.

44. The dominance of television news by the three networks passed while they were still in their cribs.

45. They have always had a chance to do community service with local and federal programs to earn money for college.

46. Nirvana is on the classic oldies station. I remember when Curt Cobain died. I didn't care then either.

47. Children have always been trying to divorce their parents.

48. Someone has always gotten married in space. Again, didn't know this was happened.

49. While they were babbling in strollers, there was already a female Poet Laureate of the United States.

50. Toothpaste tubes have always stood up on their caps. nope! I thought this was ingenious when it came out.

51. Food has always been irradiated.

52. There have always been women priests in the Anglican Church.

53. J.R. Ewing has always been dead and gone. Hasn’t he? Who Shot JR? I actually don't know, but I do know it's from Dallas. Oh wait, it was a dream, wasn't it?

54. The historic bridge at Mostar in Bosnia has always been a copy.

55. Rock bands have always played at presidential inaugural parties.

56. They may have assumed that parents’ complaints about Black Monday had to do with punk rockers from L.A., not Wall Street.

57. A purple dinosaur has always supplanted Barney Google and Barney Fife.

58. Beethoven has always been a dog.

59. By the time their folks might have noticed Coca Cola’s new Tab Clear, it was gone.

60. Walmart has never sold handguns over the counter in the lower 48.

61. Presidential appointees have always been required to be more precise about paying their nannies’ withholding tax, or else.

62. Having hundreds of cable channels but nothing to watch has always been routine.

63. Their parents’ favorite TV sitcoms have always been showing up as movies.

64. The U.S, Canada, and Mexico have always agreed to trade freely. On the contrary, I remember the inception of NAFTA

65. They first met Michelangelo when he was just a computer virus. don't remember this particular computer virus.

66. Galileo is forgiven and welcome back into the Roman Catholic Church. Wait, the RCC didn't admit Galileo was right until 1992? REALLY?

67. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has always sat on the Supreme Court. nope

68. They have never worried about a Russian missile strike on the U.S. Yup.

69. The Post Office has always been going broke.

70. The artist formerly known as Snoop Doggy Dogg has always been rapping.

71. The nation has never approved of the job Congress is doing.

72. One way or another, “It’s the economy, stupid” and always has been.

73. Silicone-gel breast implants have always been regulated.

74. They’ve always been able to blast off with the Sci-Fi Channel.

75. Honda has always been a major competitor on Memorial Day at Indianapolis. I don't follow NASCAR. Or any other professional car racing.

So I think I'm just medium old. What about you?

ha!

Friday Confessions

Is it Friday already? And am I actually posting Friday Confessions on Friday? Sometimes I even amaze myself. Here we go:

we have piles and piles of clean laundry laying around our house at any one time. It's clean, but that's the only good thing about it. We just never seem to put away the clean laundry. Even the baby's laundry is currently all piled up nicely on the chair on the living room. I think I'm a hopeless slob.

But on a completely different note - I got my H1N1 vaccine today!!! The board of health personally invited me to a special clinic for those of us with babies under 6 months. BOO YAH! NO INFLUENZA IN MY HOUSE!