Runway

Project Runway is another one of my favorite shows. Shell, are you still watching it? I'm a day late since I have to record it and watch it later but just wanted to share my favorites with you guys.

Rami - his dresses are beautiful. He does a lot of draping to make dresses, it's amazing to watch him work.

Jillian is really good also. I like her clothes but her personality throws me off.

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Well, I'm 0 for 1 in trying to find the numbering for the jerseys. I think trying to stay with the same numbering style is what is going to be hard about this.

The boys are attending their very first dance tonight! I'm bringing the camera so I hope to get some pics taken. I've volunteered to work at the front door selling tickets to make sure that I would be there for their big night. I'm so anxious to see if either one of them will get out and dance or if they will just hang out with their buddies along the wall.

Anyone American Idol?

I do. Not sure why, guess I want to see what will happen now that I've started. This year it's been kind of disapointing. The boys seem pretty girly to me and the girls are just so so. Here are my favorites so far:

Brooke - she sang Carly Simon last night and I loved it!

Carly - love the accent!

Chikezie - Very fun name and his smile makes me smile.

David - He's obviously the front runner and expected to win. I can't disagree, he's really good.

I read on the internet that this guy's wearing a wig. I can totally see that in this picture but honestly wouldn't have ever known. He's not a favorite of mine and they give him a hard time on the show because of his image and they don't quite see him as "rock". Could Simon actually be right? If he's wearing a wig it all makes sense.

Procrastination

Do you ever have a chore to do and you just can't get yourself to do it?

I have to have numbers put on T's soccer jerseys and his goalie shirt. It's not as if I'm actually sewing the numbers on myself but I have to find a place that will do it for a reasonable fee and hopefully they will have the same type of numbering that we used last year. See, the place I normally buy the uniforms from always added the numbers on for you and now they are closed. I've got the new uniforms but have to handle the numbering by myself.

I know of a couple of places that I'm going to try, maybe I'll get lucky and strike it rich with the first one. If I remember to put them in my car tomorrow, I'll try after work. Wish me luck!

Off topic, just heard my youngest sister got the flu! Keep her and her family in your prayers. She's got two little girls and a big guy at home.

Work related...

I’m assuming a lot of people don’t realize that when you are married and you are pregnant, the State automatically recognizes your husband as the father of the child. Your husband can sign a form stating that he is not the natural father of the child but if he doesn’t the true father’s name can not go on the birth certificate.

You will not believe how many times I’ve discussed this with women lately. They are shocked and upset, and then it turns into anger. Unfortunately they aim their feelings at me until they realize it’s not my rules, it’s the State’s. I’m just shocked that until they meet with me this isn’t an issue or concern to them. What do you think happens when you mess around outside of your marriage? Or if you never finalize something legally and just carry on with your life as if you were never married before?

Not to mention, most of them tell me that their husbands aren’t in contact with them, haven’t been in contact for years, live in another state, they have no idea where he is, or there is a restraining order in place so they can’t contact them, etc...

On another note, how in the world can you afford breast implants when you have Medicaid? I don’t think this surgery is something that Medicaid covers unless you’ve had a mastectomy. Priorities, people, priorities!

Weekend and movie reviews

We seemed to have an extremely busy weekend. I’m more exhausted than normal. Saturday we had 4 boys all day and then yesterday T&A went to a birthday party at a new place that opened up here. The web site is: www.itzusa.com/colorado in case you are interested. It was fun; I enjoyed the food even though I had been warned it wasn’t that good. Definitely a place we will go back to, especially on cold and snowy days.

I managed to watch some movies over the past week and I’ll pass on my opinions.

Why Did I Get Married? – Really good movie. I’ve liked all of the Tyler Perry movies so far. I haven’t gone as far as watching the plays like Josh but the movies are touching. If you think you have problems in your marriage this one will show you how much it could be worse!

We Own The Night – watched this one with a group of friends from bible study, odd choice huh? The movie has a lot of bad language and some sexuality in it but overall it was good. Guess I didn’t know enough about it to have an idea of what happens, there were some surprises.

American Gangster – long!!!!! Maybe it’s because we watched the unrated, extended version. I didn’t make it to bed until after 11 p.m. It was pretty good; I think Crow was better than Washington though.

Oh, and I’ll say this while knocking on wood. I think we’ve escaped this round of the flu. Who knows if there will be another but so far, so good.

What's your View?

Okay, I have to admit that whenever possible I steal away from my office at 10:00 a.m. and watch The View. I consider it a coffee break. I don’t want to see the whole show, just the Hot Topics. I love watching their discussions and debates. When Rosie was on, I recorded the show everyday but once she quit I stopped watching. Just recently I started tuning in again and I really like Whoopi. She’s interesting to me and seems real; I don’t think she gives a flip about what people think of her. I have a book that she wrote and I’ve read it but I can’t remember a thing about it. I’ll have to read it again; it’s still on the bookcase so it must have been pretty good.

One of today’s discussions was about school pictures and the new “retouch” options they give you. Back in the day we had retakes, not a “retouch” which is basically airbrushing the pimples, birthmarks, etc. from the pictures. Wow! No age limit either, they offer it on the boy’s school picture forms now. They showed Elisabeth’s school picture and it brought back major memories for me. She had these huge red glasses on with braces. I didn’t have braces but I did have big green glasses in 4th and 5th grade. I may have had red at a time also but I’m not sure. I would have never thought that anyone had glasses bigger than mine back then but she did!! They practically covered her whole face, too funny!

College and careers.

Another interesting conversation between the boys and I recently:

Tristan asked me if we were going to give him some money to pay for college. This blew my mind that he was thinking about this. I never thought about going to college until high school. My parents don't have degrees and it wasn't anything that was ever discussed at our home. I told him that we were working on it but he might get a scholarship to go to a college and then they pay him to go there, live there and eat. His only job would be to do well in school and maybe play a sport.

He then went on to ask me if he can skip college. I said sure, but what job might you get if you don’t go to college? He said that he was just going to go to the NBA. I explained that they don’t allow that anymore and he has to go to college for at least a year before he can do that. He then said he was going to sell lemonade. We did the math a bit and decided that probably wasn’t going to pay the bills. But he decided that if he worked at a gas station he would be okay. A gas station!

Aidan asked if you have to go to college to be a race car driver. I told him no and that was that. He’ll be a race car driver, piece of cake. I have no idea where he gets that from, no one in our immediate family watches NASCAR.

So, I may have a future gas station attendant and a race car driver! I can’t wait to find out how this all plays out.