Blog, Blog, Blog...

Okay after a verbal reprimand from Dr. Write, who sometimes doubles as my sister( older of course, is there any other kind?) I am blogging again. I did not realize how addicting this can be. I find myself lying in bed trying to remember if I blogged or checked my favorite blogs or I am thinking about what to write in my blog or how to respond to someone else's. Jeez!!! In between all of this blogging I am trying to read and do research. I am supposed to observe adolescents in their natural habitat. So my family and I are going to attend a local HS football game next Friday. I wonder, have things changed since I went to one of those almost 20 years ago? Does the head cheerleader look like Barbie and date the quarterback? What will they be talking about? Will they even be talking to each other or just texting the person next to them......I wonder if all those insecurites I felt in HS will come back even though I am old enough to be their mom. What will the girls see? I keep thinking I should warn them or something. Should be interesting!

Future plans and thoughts on Britney Spears

After reading Dr. Write's post I thought that I too should share about my oldest daughters recent plans for her future. She seems to have lost interest in boys for now and while I am sure this is a temporary condition, I applaud it. She knows that a "daddy" is required if one is to have a baby and yes we told her this is with a husband....I will break her in easy where that is concerned. So she tells her father and I that she will get married ie. get a husband, have children and then get a divorce because, she tells me, she wants to be a single. Then her and little sister will move in together and get cats. Well there you go. On a only slightly related topic, she saw a picture of Britney Spears the other day and called her the " girl that does inappropriate things". Pure poetry. I couldn't make this stuff up....

My obessesions etc.

Okay so I was thinking about several things I seem to be obsessed with lately. The first one is WIthout A Trace but more specifically Anthony LaPaglia...I mean I think he is old enough to be my well uncle at least but there is just something about him. Also the Food Network. Everyone makes the food look so darn good I just can't help myself from going out to the kitchen and trying it. Of course the food usually turns a bit different when I make it but fun nevertheless. I am also in love with Project Runway. I don't know if it's because it is something that I could just never ever do and I am fascinated by it or if I just like watching people be petty....maybe a little of both. The daughters sometime join me in watching this but I don't think they like it much until the runway part. The models, they so adeptly noted, look weird......maybe amaciated is the word they were looking for. I also happened upon The Girls Next Door, a show about Playboy bunnies. I believe this is one of the most disturbing shows I ever seen. Three young, bleached blonde girls with implants and spray on tans. Hugh was filmed rubbing the abnormally flat stomachs of one of the "bunnies". Oh heavens!! Then one of them flashed a group of construction workers and said" I think I just made their, made their like, life." And then did one of those airhead laughs...Oh yea, I am sure. If only I had known that's what it took!! Daughters will never ever see that show.

My vocabulary

Okay I always knew I had a weak vocabulary but listening to professors night after night only serves to reinforce my apparent gap in intelligence. (that and having had to take the GRE). So I get a Word of the Day on my Google home page. . He often appears supercilious when he uses those arcane words and refuses to surcease. I think he believes they give his story more versmilitude. Any idea which 4 words were on my webpage???? It sure makes me sound like I know what I am talking about and that I am more educated then I am. Maybe this is the key to being a professor...use big words that no one can remember the meaning to.

Here is the cute half of my family. This was taken at Mall of America during the summer. Don't go on a holiday weekend. Go on a Monday, then there will probably only be gobs of people instead of a gazillion. We are waiting for the merry go round. It was fun for the girls. Then we had to go buy Viking stuff to make our trip there really seem worthwhile. And we got a free drink at Caribou Coffee. It doesn't get much better than that!