Miscellaneous rambling, and bragging about my kids.

Today we had two birthday parties for the kids' friends, and then guests coming over. So while I'm shuttling them between parties in the minivan I ask, "So Sarah and Brian are coming over tonight, is anybody excited?"

"Yeah!" I hear behind me, followed by "Sarah and Brian are who now?"

So last week I'm sent to do the food shopping by myself, which is a treat because it's quite an easy chore when you're given a list, and no kids in tow. I notice that Kerry has written "hand soap" on the list, which is odd because we use one of those pumps attached to the kitchen sink that uses refillable jugs of the stuff and I know we're not out. I wonder if she means dish soap, but I see that she has written dish soap on the list as well. So, I pick up hand soap and dish soap.

When I go home and we're unpacking the groceries I ask, "Why did you say we need hand soap?"

"I didn't," she says, "We need dish soap."

"Well you wrote that down too, you wrote down both."

"No I didn't."

Right about here I'm sure that I have this victory well in hand. I mean, I have the list! I even tell her this in an attempt to let her save herself. "How can you disagree with me?" I ask, "I have the list in my pocket. Don't make me show you."

"Let me see it."

I show her the list containing both hand soap and dish soap, and wait for the concession. "I only needed dish soap," she says.

"So you acknowledge that you did, in fact, write down hand soap?"

"All I needed was dish soap."

She walks away and I'm left doing my impersonation of a motor boat. "But but but but….."

i absolutely luv this song…chris rocks!

yeah whatever im sorry to for saying
"a**" =p and emily can you say suck up
and for your information im not some bleach blonde airhead i actually know what im talking about
and you dont think people voted for jordin cause they think shes "hot"
*barf* and im not just saying that blake should of won because hes hot he was more talented and better and jordin is an annoying priss

Lots of news coverage about the Norwegian study that says firstborn children are smarter than their siblings, by a few IQ points. I'm not sure if this is just political correctness gone wild or people just don't read stories anymore, but the study focused exclusively on boys, and what it reported is that the first born *boy* (or is it "boys who are the first born" which is not the same thing) is the smartest. I wonder if the people writing the headlines are afraid to write that for fear of being tagged sexist?

Since the study focused entirely on men, it is essentially useless as far as I can tell. My eldest son is actually my youngest child. So what does that mean? Does it mean that he'll supposedly be the smartest? Or that, since this study did not include girls, that my two older girls are just as likely to be smarter than him? Is it safe to say "Boys and girls are the same, so everything they said for boys really applies to both genders"? It would be sadly shortsighted to think so.

This show roxs my soxs!!!!

I too know someone on the show — unfortunately maybe 1 thing out of the entire episode was true. Yes, some people do deserve help, but some people are in it for revenge and to make a buck. ABC really proves they are in it for the ratings value and not the truth. On the other hand, who takes their "family dog" to the pound, take their child along and tapes it. Something fishy about that one. No pun intended.

Was looking for the same song… It's "Winter" by Joshua Radin.

For those who haven't been following it, a few weeks ago Monday Night Raw was treated to one of the more shocking storylines they've done in a long long time – the death of Mr. McMahon. It was actually quite a good stunt, timed and choreographed carefully with spliced footage so that from the minute he stepped into his limo and closed the door, without changing the camera angle, the whole thing exploded. You're left with no choice but to think "Ok, there's was no time for him to slip out the other door." (Actually the explosion was filmed the previous night, so he was of course never in the car to begin with).

Naturally everybody is all over the story, half of them talking about how stupid it is (since we all know that Vince McMahon is a real person who was obviously not killed, duh) and half talking about how much trouble the WWE is going get in for using the FBI's name and other ridiculous trivialities.

Personally I think it was the most creative thing they've done in a long time. Surprised the heck out of me when it happened. It takes a certain amount of…well, balls, to kill off a major character on a show that has no conceivable end. This isn't the Sopranos, after all. WWE storylines are produced in the context that they will continue forever. This makes continuity annoying as you can imagine, because 3 years down the road when you have two people that are best friends there'll always be somebody saying "Remember when they tried to kill each other?" But when you kill somebody, they're supposed to stay dead.

Anyway, now the big question is, "Who did it?" This being a soap opera storyline they of course went with the "No body was recovered from the scene." Unlike a soap opera, though, the WWE has no real respect for its fans or their attention span. In a soap opera if a character is killed off, no matter how mysterious the circumstances, you can expect him to be written out of storylines for months. You eventually stop wondering about him, until one day he's back and you're all "Whoa, holy hell, I thought he was dead!" With prowrestling, however, you're treated every single week to "Let's go back and look at the footage of the explosion" and "Who do you think did it?" This naturally results in the storyline being incredibly boring after a few weeks you find yourself saying "Just get it over with already, tell us who did it, and then have Vince make his return."

My theory is that Vince faked his own death. After all he does love to play the evil genius character. It wouldn't be a stretch at all to say that he felt he was losing the respect of his employees (having just lost his beloved championship) and he decided to fake his own death to learn who was truly loyal to him. That would be pretty anticlimactic, though, and I hope they don't do it. We shall see!

This morning Kerry and I are in one bedroom at the far end of the hall, making the bed. Just then the 3yr old walks in with no prompting and announces, "I'm just in the other room, watching Dora. So goodbye." And walks away.

Ok then. Nice she keeps us up to date.