Oct 15, 2010 | Uncategorized |
After the success of Silly Supper a few months ago, the mayor of Babysitterville decided to hold a Backwards Upside down Supper. {Technically it wasn’t the mayor’s idea, it was Laura’s but with a little twist. I’m just giving credit where credit is due.} Anyway. If you wanted to attend BUDS you were required to be appropriately dressed. Namely, you had to wear a hat upside down and backward. Wearing your shirt backward was completely optional. The food was served on upside down plates and we attempted sitting on backward chairs. For obvious reasons, we did not drink out of upside-down glasses.
This was our first course:
It was a big hit.
As was to be expected, Molly had some major troubles with her hat but Zachary’s was fine the whole time. That seems to be the pattern of their lives. I wore a hat also but there are purposely no pictures to document it.
Ever since I told Molly and Zachary about the ‘ladies before gentlemen rule’, Molly has been using it to her advantage in every possible situation. About to wash their hands? “LADIES FIRST!” Picking book for story time? “LADIES FIRST.” {Capitals means she’s very loud about it.} Poor Zachary got tired of this very quickly but since he’s not a lady, he can’t really argue. Until Backwards Supper. When it came time to eat their chocolate peanut butter spoons {my latest and greatest invention}, Molly began her “LADIES FIRST” speech as expected. Zachary just looked her very calmly in the eye and as he took the spoon with the most chocolate, he said “Not this time.This is BACKWARDS supper.”
Oct 13, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Columubus Day, 2010
Oct 12, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Ok, folks. Someone needs to get in contact with the owner and operator of this here blog and tell her that she’s been doing a TERRIBLE job of documenting her life lately. It’s an embarrassment really.
The owners of these two names, AUTUMN & JOANNA, showed up at my door the other day for our long overdue, all-important S.L./Scrabble/girls night. We were way behind on our socializing and had A LOT to catch up on. Apparently, we were even louder than usual because when Autumn went upstairs to get her camera, Mom asked her if our group had suddenly multiplied from 3 people to 12. That’s saying a lot because we are not known for our lady-like volume. {There’s a small possibility Molly may have gotten her loudness from me.}We were so into our socializing that it took us 65 minutes to take three turns in Scrabble. What can I say? We like to talk. We were so busy talking that the only food we ate was the 12 cookies I made. That’s a shocker because food is pretty much the fourth member of our club. The final Scrabble scores were 184,148 and 135. I had neither 184 nor 148. Was I surprised? Not in the least. I’ve become quite used to being the LOSER. I wouldn’t know what to do if I won.
{I think I’ve finally lost my brain because 2 seconds ago I know exactly what I was going to say next. NOBODY needs to reaffirm that statement about my brain, thankyouverymuch.}
Oh yes, school updates:
1. In sociology on Thursday, the teacher said such-and-such “happens all the time so it’s really rare.” I have NO idea what he meant.
2. The Dean of the college will be visiting our science class on Thursday to discuss with us proper classroom behavior {or the lack thereof}, respect, and the general mayhem the goes on in Room 104B. As he doesn’t generally have these meetings with students and their teachers, it will be a very interesting morning to say the least.
3. According to my history teacher, the inventor of Facebook makes $559,361{give or take} per hour. The poor man is barely scraping by.
4. I’ve also learned that “it’s bad when trains hit”, “turkeys drown in the rain”, and that Theodore Roosevelt liked attention so much “that he’d go to the opening of an envelope if he could.” Mr. Shadrock’s history class is always worth getting up early for.
Oct 7, 2010 | Friends & Fun, Uncategorized |
One day we were on the beach in Maine and Elizabeth fell in love…with a log.
She rescued it from a watery grave and wanted to bring it home.
Because lugging a log a mile and a half down the beach and into a car to be transported 150 miles away is the most normal thing in the world.
It was one of those times I questioned the validity of our sisterhood.
Oct 5, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Natalie gave me an award and I am very honored. I’m also very late in passing it on because she gave it to me over two weeks ago. I think I’ve been just a tad busy lately. Without further delay, I pass it on to the following:
Laura– because her posts always make me smile
Melanie– because I like her…and because I’ve known her since I was very small…and because I could have sworn that when she moved it was at least an hour away until I went to visit her and I only had to drive 15 minutes.
Not that I should be surprised by that considering I have the direction skills of a 3 year old.
Julie– because she’s sort-of-my-friend-I-just-haven’t-meet-yet. The fact that she lives waaaay out in California and I live waaaay out here doesn’t help to solve that problem. She has a little bald baby that is so deliciously cute it’s probably just as well we didn’t live nearby. Let’s just say that Julie would be minus a child and I’d be plus one.
2. My new best friends
Don’t tell Katie, but I have a couple new best friends. Meet my cup of tea and my box of tissues. They’re helping me through this difficult time of cold and fluness. {Why does Spell checker have to tell me that ‘fluness’ is not a real word? Obviously it has no creativity.}
3. Birthdays
As further proof that I have been a tad busy and sick lately, let’s consider for a moment the fact that I forgot about not one, but TWO birthdays. As the Italian guy in The Princess Bride would say, “it’s inconceivable”.
First we have the lovely Amanda, the wearer of yellow flowers and the brains behind the Civil War ball.
Second is Nikki, sister of my small, gum-eating, lovable little boyfriend Noah.
I just realized she turned 16 which means she can drive. Why do these people think they can grow up without my permission? Noah is never going to grow up. I won’t let him. If he ever tries to go to college, I’m going with him.
4. Autumn and Joanna
Just because they haven’t made an appearance in a while{and also because they’re two of my very cool peeps}.
