I was thinking about going to Bountiful today for haircuts, but Mom and Dad are gone to Downey today. Cameron is glad because he got to go to his friend Chris's house. Not that he didn't want to go to Grandma and Grandpa's, but he's been planning all week to go to Chris's and I forgot.
Meagan was up all night with the Girl Scouts. She got home around 7:30am and regaled me with stories of her exciting night - especially the girls that kept screaming about spiders at 5:00 am. I'm OK with spiders as long as they don't bite me. I just scoop them up, take them outside and tell them not to come back in the house. So maybe I'm Buddist as well as Jewish.
David is waiting to get on the computer. I have taken it over. Which is kind of hard not to do if I'm on it. It doesn't really work for two people at a time.
Last week I changed my work schedule. Now I work Mon - Thu from 8:30 to 12:30/1:00 (depending on how long it takes me to get everything done). On Friday I work 8 hours because that's schedule day. Calling everyone and shuffling appointments around takes a while. I like this schedule better - I'm not stuck in Joe's basement doing paperwork for 8 or 9 hours a day (except Friday). About the time I'm getting really tired of it, it's time to go. Yay!
My cute sister Becky made me a Spring cd. I listened to it at work a couple of times yesterday. The first song on the cd is by Tiny Tim. For some reason I thought he was a midget and lived in the late 1800s/early 1900s. After googling him, I found out he was about 6'3" and born the same year as my Dad. Who knew? I played the Tiny Tim song for David and the kids. They were kind of freaked out by it. I think it's called "Living in the Sunlight, Loving in the Moonlight." I thought it was silly and kind of catchy. That and the song "Poker Face" by Lady Gaga have been stuck in my head.
David said, "Why does Becky keep making you cd's with weird songs on them?"
I said, "Because she knows I like weird?"
David rolled his eyes. I think he is disgusted with our taste in songs...
This morning I told David that the Robby Benson movie he has (on VHS, I'm sure - I can't remember the name of the movie) where Robby is up against a punk band in a talent contest, I liked the punk band better. I'm pretty sure the point of the movie is for everyone to say, "Oh, that punk band was horrible, Robby totally deserved to win!" David thinks I'm crazy, but that's OK. As you can tell, we don't have exactly the same taste in music - except that I'll go to a Styx concert with him and he'll go to an Oingo Boingo concert with me...
Amber just came in from the kitchen. "It's too small," she said, holding up a racquet ball.
"Too small for what?" I asked.
"Too small for a solar eclipse," she replied.
"A solar eclipse?"
"Yeah, I tried to block out the kitchen light with it, but it was too small. I could still see the light. Or is that a lunar eclipse? What is a lunar eclipse?"
So then we had to google "lunar eclipse." We decided what she had tried to recreate was, in fact, a solar eclipse.
"Maybe you need to use a basketball," I suggested.
She just looked at me like I was a bit crazy. Yup, my whole family thinks I'm crazy. And I think that's not a bad thing.
3 comments:
glad you wrote about your family. i always enjoy reading your blog. i think you and your kids' whole generations like really weird music. yuck. where have beautiful songs like windmills of my mind and impossible dream gone? i love you all anyway--it's good to disagree on some things; it makes life more interesting. love you lots, your favorite somewhat funny mother
Oh Mommy, you are cute. There are still beautiful songs, I just think the more random ones are more fun for giving away. :) I still put some nice songs on there, didn't I? You'd like the Tiny Tim song, it's funny.
Now that I know my CD's annoy Dave, I'll have to try even harder to find you songs. LOL! P-p-p Poker, P-p Poker Face! (According the Melonie, you can Polka to Poker Face...I think you should try it.)
Mom - You are definitely my one-and-only favoritest mother!
It seems that each generation doesn't like the next generation's music. I think the music you love as a teen-ager is always the best, no matter how old you get. I don't think I'll ever like rap or hip-hop much. I do like some classical music, though. And I like Impossible Dream and Elvis and Louis Armstrong and...lots of other stuff from the 50s and 60s and before.
Beckle - Yes, more CD's that annoy Dave, please! Actually I don't usually play them around him. Meagan and I listened to Love Cats, then I had to find Close to Me on playlist and play it for Meagan and Jarom. Jarom said, "That's the weirdest song I've ever heard!" I had to play it for Jarom because he plays the trumpet. I like the piano on Caterpillar as well...ah, The Cure...gotta love 'em. If I knew how to polka, perhaps I would try polka-ing to Poker Face. Lady Gaga is soooo weird.
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