1. I am thinking that I’m ever so smart for taking advantage of 7 Quick Takes Friday … no need to come up with a complete thought, just tap out 7 incomplete ones! Which is about all I’m capable of by Friday afternoon.
2. How giddy was I to get a comment from the Pemco guy? So giddy. Too giddy. Kind of pathetic really, how happy it made me. The internet just makes this such a SMALL world! I mean I type out my little “I miss Seattle” post to the 9 or so people who regularly read my trifling posts and then BAM! I get a comment from some big muckety muck executive in Seattle. Trippy. (Yes, I KNOW he found the post because of a google word search or notification from youtube or some such automatic type thing. I KNOW my blog is not famous or special. DON’T RAIN ON MY PARADE.)
3. The timing of the giddy was rather fortuitous. I read Pemco guy’s comment whilst watching R at gymnastics. Right after that we drove home. When I got home, the garage ATTACKED MY CAR. No really, I mean it! I pulled in, turned off my car, hit the garage-close button and then CRUNCH! SCRAPE! To which I said “%$&#” … No, not really. R was in the car, so I’m pretty sure I kept my reaction mostly G-rated. The fun part was I had to make the garage door go back up because it was just stopped, halfway down, resting on my car. Cue the crunching and scraping, in reverse. (I was glad for the giddy because I think it made my reaction less severe than it otherwise would have been, you know?) Good news: It appears the crunching was not as bad as it sounded. I think there’s just a big scratch. But I haven’t actually looked at it in the daylight yet. I kind of forgot about it this morning. Because I have the memory of a goldfish, apparently.
4. Note that these things ALWAYS happen when Hubby is out of town. ALWAYS. It’s like the garage door KNEW he was away. Evil door.
5. Yesterday A’s school had a half-day for a teacher in-service thingy. Which meant he was home at 12:20. Total kid-free time: 3 hours 20 minutes. Today K stayed home sick because she woke up with a wicked headache and I am officially paranoid about H1N1 (which is lots less fun to say than “swine flu”, don’t you think?). Total kid-free time today: 0 hours 0 minutes. Not that I’m complaining, or anything.
6. K and I spent our lunch time today signing her up for Facebook. Yes, I PUSHED my 14 year old daughter to get her own facebook account. Clearly I am sick in the head. The thing is, FB is how all the kids talk to one another now. They don’t use phones (um, except to text) and they don’t even hardly use email. Which makes no sense to me – I much prefer email to FB communication. Whatever. She said like 10 different friends have asked her to join FB so they could friend her. On top of that, her journalism teacher said they should join the school paper’s FB page. Also the church youth group is all about FB. In other words, it’s EVERYWHERE. And she is getting seriously left out not being on there. So, great mother that I am, I joined in the peer pressure. Horrible, right? Well anyway I figured this way I could help her set all the privacy settings to the safest possible level right from the start. And I told her she has to friend me, so I can see who is on her list and what they talk about. Which I know makes me sound like a total stalker, but welcome to the 21 century people, this is what parents have to do these days. (And how old did I just sound right there? SO. OLD.)
7. Tonight is Friday night. Which around these parts means “Family Movie Night.” For the umpteenth millionth Friday in a row. And I am all out of good family movie ideas. We have watched every new kids movie on DVD, most of the ones from my childhood, and a good many from before I was born. And yet, I am hopeful that one of YOU can suggest a movie we have not seen. Please? Seriously, what are your top 5 family movies of all time? Or rather, your top 5 old/forgotten/slightly obscure movies of all time? (Because we have not only SEEN every Disney and Pixar movie made in the last 10-15 years, but we probably also OWN it.) Also TV shows are good too… we’ve watched Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew, McGuyver (R loved that. But then it started getting too violent, and we had to stop watching.), the Little House pilot/movie, and one episode of Greatest American Hero. (That one went over their heads and was a little too ‘edgy’ for Zeeb and R.) So if there’s a TV show you loved as a kid, add that to the list too, okay?
See there, wasn’t that easy? I thought so. Go read more Quick Takes here.
October 2, 2009 at 2:57 pm
There are a couple movies that my sisters and I used to watch as teens that we saw so many times, that we practically knew all the words. They’re no great cinema masterpieces, but for whatever reason we loved them (probably because we happened to HAVE them.) Anyway, I’ve been thinking about pulling them out for my kids:
Adventures in Babysitting (Elisabeth Shue)
Can’t Buy Me Love (vintage Patrick Dempsey)
Savannah Smiles
October 2, 2009 at 4:22 pm
WIld hearts can’t be broken
http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Hearts-Cant-Be-Broken/dp/B000B8QG36/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1254514851&sr=8-1
October 2, 2009 at 4:42 pm
My brother and I loved the Back to The Future series when we were kids. Is that old enough?
‘Memory of a goldfish’ cracked me up
October 2, 2009 at 6:04 pm
My boys love Star Wars but I am so done with that series & they’ve only seen the first 3 movies. Anyway, to ‘strike back’ I have made them watch Anne of Green Gables. Oh how I love Anne. The boys won’t admit it, but they like it. Or at least they don’t leave the room & go find something else to do.
We also have done a lot of old Disney, The Apple Dumpling Gang, That Darn Cat, The Cat From Outer Space, Flubber, etc. I love watching the movies from my youth & the kids haven’t complained yet!
October 2, 2009 at 6:28 pm
I liked “memory of a goldfish”, too. (Got here from CD). Good luck with your garage door. A similar thing happened to us as we were pulling out of our garage, in the rain, all loaded up for vacation. We had to pause and get the entire back window repaired before we could leave. Ah, memories.
October 3, 2009 at 12:30 am
I’ll meet you and raise you one in the stalker department. I also sort of more or less pressured my kids into getting FB accounts, I’m on their accounts AND we have keylogging software on all household computers (the kids know). I’m all for joining in. I’m even more for keeping my kids safe without impeding their ability to do reasonable things. I hated myspace but FB is different, I think. It’s become a sort of extended community and I think it is so much classier than myspace or other creepy teen hangouts. Plus as a result of FB, my boys connected with tons of extended relatives on their dad’s side that they NEVER had contact with. They aren’t nutty so they’ve never used it in inappropriate ways – it’s only been a great thing here.
October 3, 2009 at 8:43 am
What?! YOU joined facebook? I thought you were a holdout with me…and now I feel left out. But I’m still not joining;) I do think it’s cool that you did it to help your daughter though (that’s the excuse you’re going with, right;)
I haven’t left a comment in awhile, so I’ve just used google reader…now that I’m here and seeing it, I like the new header!
October 4, 2009 at 10:19 pm
This time of year Arsenic and Old Lace with Cary Grant. We also love Harvey with Jimmy Stewart. And love old Don Knotts movies – Apple Dumping Gang and Private Eyes. If you find any great ones, please share!
October 5, 2009 at 5:41 pm
I have no movie suggestions for you, but I want to know what the PEMCO guy sends you! A~ just asked yesterday if she can have a FB account. McH and I said no without even thinking, but I’m sure we’ll get her on there soon. We just weren’t in the mood to deal with it and have The Facebook Talk yesterday (remember the days when parents just had to have The Sex Talk and The Beer Talk, and maybe The Drug Talk?). Right now we have some FB drama going on in our church congregation (what is up with THAT?) and I’m wishing I wasn’t on it at all (even though I am in no way involved in the drama — I just don’t want to know other people’s crap when there is nothing I can do to help with it and it is just creating gossip, you know?).
October 5, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Okay, I realized what I said about not wanting to read other people’s crap came out all wrong. I mean, obviously sometimes we all dump a bit on our blogs and usually there is nothing I can really do to help with that stuff other than leave encouraging comments, but that is okay. It’s when it’s stuff . . . you know, really personal stuff that somehow turns into FB mudslinging. . . that’s the kind of thing I’m talking about.
October 18, 2009 at 9:52 am
So, I had to come back and tell you (although you prob. would have figured out when you saw it was rated PG-13) that Adventures in Babysitting is not appropriate for little kids! I rented it and watched it again after all these years and – I can’t believe my mom used to let us watch that! She is SO conservative! (I thought! lol) I watched it with my 12 year old and there were several parts I had forgotten about and had to apologize over that were not appropriate for her ears!
I tried to find Savannah Smiles at the video store, but no luck. I might have to order it from Amazon. I do think my kids will like that one.