flashback Friday

I was just thinking back to that one time Kris beat me at Scrabble.  Ah, memories. Too bad it HASN’T HAPPENED SINCE.  Oh yeah, we have a rivalry going.  A nerd rivalry. (Current game – 272 to 192, only 2 tiles left…  mwahaha.)

(GO, by the way…)

Dexter

To fill the void while LOST isn’t on, Kris and I have been watching each and every episode of “Dexter”. We are addicted – sometimes watching 3 or 4 episodes a night. It’s sooo good. We’re almost done with Season 2 and can’t wait for Season 3 to be released on DVD in August. I’ve always been fascinated with forensics, and dang if  Michael C. Hall doesn’t make one charming serial killer.

Wednesday night – LOST night… even while on hiatus

I simply had to do another update on a poll I did a while back. Y’all can’t believe how many views it got. Almost 4000! Bit of advice – if you want people to look at your blog? Simply do a post with the words “LOST”, “Saywyer”, “Jack”, etc., basically anything LOST related. Anyway, I kept noticing that most of these views were coming in from a link to one site in particular. I went to the site and it’s a mom in Hungary! So funny. The online translator isn’t very good, so I’m not real sure what she’s saying in the post – but it seems she disagrees with the previous results. The last time I checked the poll it said the winner was Sayid (the poll asked who your favorite LOST boy was). I have to say I agree with Miss Hungary – Sayid? Seriously?!?! Anyway, I checked the results again tonight, and all is right with the world. The results as of today proclaim Sawyer the winner. Yay!

So there you go. Approximately 160 votes – the public has spoken! And now we only have about 195 days to wait for next season…  sigh.

*by the way, there were a few write in votes for “other”. They were Charlie, Juancita, dd, and Faraday. (Juancita? dd?!?!)  hehehe.

**EDIT – wait a flip, I think she met Matthew Fox! (lucky!) Sawyer might be my favorite, but I wouldn’t pass up the chance to stand beside Jack, that’s for sure…

and so it goes…

something I wish I’d believed sooner ~

If I had to give one piece of advice to our good friends who are becoming first time parents (today!), it would be this…

Truer words have never been spoken. We second guess and doubt ourselves too often as parents. You know your child better than anyone, and no book or tv show can tell you what to do better than you can tell yourself. Follow your instincts, they’ll never steer you wrong.

*Happy Birthday lil’ Kris! Can’t wait to meet you tonight.

happy 4th!

don’t worry that it’s not good enough, for anyone else to hear…

So one of Kris’ favorite things to do is taunt me endlessly regarding my unique ability to misunderstand song lyrics.  Now, this mostly affects the music I heard during my formative years – the 80’s.  And it wasn’t until I was an adult that I realized had pointed out to me that I was “doing it wrong”.  Personally, in some cases, I like my lyrics better – so I continue to sing them my way, and Kris continues to roll his eyes at me.

A few samples (you can just imagine me belting these bad boys out, no video proof will be provided):

On the Road Again – Willie Nelson

Actual lyric:  ”Like a band of gypsies, we go down the highway…”

Laurie lyric:  ”Like a band of gypsies wiggle down the highway…”

~This terrified me as a kid.  Go ahead, picture it – a group of gypsies wiggling down a highway?  Creeeepy!

1999 – Prince

Actual lyric:  ”Got a lion in my pocket, and baby he’s ready to roar…”

Laurie lyric:  ”Got a lime in my pocket, and baby he’s ready to roll…”

~I didn’t understand the sexual undertones of Prince songs when I was little (we won’t even discuss “Little Red Corvette”, I was SO shocked to learn that wasn’t about a cool car!).  So ya know – I just thought he had this little lime in his pocket that wanted to get out and roll around or something.  Ahem.  Moving on…

Benny and the Jets – Elton John

Actual lyric:  ”She’s got electric boots, a mohair suit…”

Laurie lyric:  ”She’s got electric boobs, I’m on her shoes…”

~ Perhaps if I had known a little more about Elton John back then it would have been clear that he was speaking about what the chick was wearing, and not her boobs.

Margaritaville – Jimmy Buffett

Actual lyrics:  ”Threw off my flip-flops, stepped on a pop top…”

Laurie lyrics:  ”Threw off my flip flops, stepped on a pop-tart…”

~ I didn’t know what a “pop top” was, but I did know a little something about pop-tarts, mainly that they were delicious and it was fun to sing about them.

Billie Jean – Michael Jackson

Actual lyric:  ”But the kid is not my son…”

Laurie lyric:  ”But the chid is not my son…”

~ I have no idea.  Maybe I thought it was some hybrid of the words “child” and “kid”?  Who knows – I just know it does NOT sound likes he’s saying kid.

Suicide Blonde – INXS

Actual lyric:  ”You wanna make her, suicide blonde”

Laurie lyric:  ”You wanna make a… SUPER SALAD BAR!”

~ Not much to say about this other than, that SO sounds like what he’s saying. You can’t convince me otherwise.  I know it doesn’t make sense for Michael Hutchence to be singing about copious amounts of veggies, but really.  Do the original lyrics make sense either?  I think not.

Hold On Loosely – .38 Special

Actual lyric:  ”Just hold on loosely, but don’t let go
If you cling to tightly,
you’re gonna lose control”

Laurie lyric:  ”Just hold on Lucy, but don’t let go                                                                   If you cling too tightly,                                                                                                                   you’re gonna lose your toe”

~ First of all, I’ll get a confession out of the way.  Love me some Southern Rock.     Anyhoo, I was almost named “Lucy”, so naturally I thought the song was about a girl with that name.  And the toe thing?  You just listen closely next time you hear it.  Unmistakably talking about the amputation of a body part.  Heh.

The Joker – Steve Miller

Actual lyric:  ”I’m a joker, I’m a smoker, I’m a midnight toker…”

Laurie lyric:  ”I’m a joker, I’m a smoker, I’m a midnight talker…”

~ See, in my version the singer is a sensitive, caring individual – concerned enough to stay up ’til MIDNIGHT!  Just talkin’.  ”Toker” meant nothing to me at that age.

I’ve even passed my “talent” on to my offspring…

Transformer’s Theme Song

Actual lyric:  Transformers, robots in disguise…

Coop and Ty lyric:  Transformers, robots IN THE SKIES…

(hee hee – I don’t have the heart to correct them.)

So there it is.  Actually, there are many more – but this could go on forever so I’ll stop here.  For now.

*Also?  I totally thought the song “Physical” by Olivia Newton John was about exercising.

flashback Friday

These pics are from this past winter when we went snow tubing – it was so windy we were nearly blown off the side of the mountain.  It was FREEZING.

So basically, the complete OPPOSITE of how it feels here today.

summer bummer

Poor Coop “thought” he heard the ice cream man the other day, so he sat outside on the back porch for close to an hour – waiting.  When he finally gave up and came inside, I saw that he had written this on the patio…

no ice cream man today (again!)