Oh Yeah, Baby

Apparently the commercial for Pledge’s Fabric Sweeper for Pet Hair is one of the funniest things Will has ever seen because he watches the commercial for it over and over and over again while laughing hysterically! I know that other nine year-olds get on the computer and play games or check email. Not my boy … he’s busy watching commercials.

Not that we have a pet, or upholstered furniture for that matter.

I just watched the commercial. It's really not that funny. Maybe it would be if I turned the volume up to an eardrum piercing level?

Zing

I told Bri to leave the room so I could listen to a song that I didn’t feel was appropriate for her. “Well then, maybe you shouldn’t listen to it either mom.”

Uh... Slam!

Useless -- but kind of Cool

I found a really cool site. You can see the difference between the spread of Target and the spread of Walmart.

Plutoed

Today is a very exciting day in New Mexico because it is Pluto Day! You might not be aware that Pluto is still a planet in New Mexico (and California). Yes, really! Neil deGrasse Tyson wrote The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet. It was a interesting book. I am now more interested in outer space.

The Fray -- You Found Me

I love this song!

Staring Into the Future

I told my husband that when he is old and has to live in an old people home that I’d go visit him every day. Only then, I realized I’d forgotten about Will. I’ll have to get my husband and a wheelchair and push him out to visit Will every day.

My husband asked me, “Why do you assume that I’ll be the one in a wheelchair and in the nursing home.” I responded that there’s a place in my life where Karma and bad luck collide and I plan on them eventually moving in with me.

My kids just had a five minute argument over who set the garbage can on fire.

I was on my computer listening to Ben Lee’s Numb. Bri was hanging out with me looking over my shoulder, when from out in the hallway I heard Jake say, “Uh mom, the garbage can’s on fire.”

What!? He said it in such a calm way that I didn’t react for a couple of seconds as my mind tried to process the information. Then I went to the kitchen and sure enough, large flames were curling out of the garbage can! I grabbed the garbage can. Jake asked me where the fire extinguisher was but my first instinct was to pour water into it from the sink. It was too large to fit in the sink. So, I ran it to the bathtub and turned on the water. It was literally 30 seconds away from burning a hole through the bottom.

I told Jake that the next time something was on fire he should probably yell. I figure that won’t be too far in the future after all Will is a budding pyromaniac.

I asked my kids which of them decided to char the hamburger buns and transfer them to the garbage can. No one expressed any desire for black buns covered in plastic wrap so I asked Will if he set the garbage can on fire. He sang, “I am like a star shining brightly.”

I’m going to take that as a yes . . . but, Bri remains convinced it was Jake.