Super Girl's airplane

Super Girl's airplane
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Action Girl's Snowstorm

Action Girl's Snowstom
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Missed Opportunity: "Will Canada Arrest George W Bush For Torture?"

I guess it didn't happen, but it gives a fella hope...

Also Next After Galactica: Caprica

Next After BSG: "The Plan"

BSG Finale Thoughts

Okay, after a day of indecision, I've decided to watch the BSG finale, despite being in the midst of five year-old sleep-over chaos.

B.

11:12PM Wow... that is not how I thought the war would end on BSG...

11:57PM Okay its over, allllllll ooooooooover. Bizarre but tasty!

B.

Lost: Season 5 Ep. 9 "Namaste"

Okay is it just me or is Sawyer twice the leader Jack ever was? Maybe he needed those three years to come into his own (or fully develop a conscience). I like the whole Juliette and Sawyer in domestic bliss vibe, but fear that his misguided feelings for Kate will screw it up.

B.

UN Battlestar Galactica Conference

With BSG's last episode airing this Friday, I'm not the only one that thinks its been one of the best written, most thought-provoking shows in television history.

B.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=30217&Cr=television&Cr1=

http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009/03/galactica-un.html

Best Part of March Break?

Well, the best thing is time with family... The SECOND best thing is: TWONNIE MATINEES!!!


We're going to see the Tale of Desperaux this pm. A dollar an hour? Seriously, people... :-)

Chronology of an Eight Year-Old Sleep Over

3:15 PM

First friend arrives with Super Girl.  They have both been at birthday party.

4:30 PM

Second friend arrives.  Trio appears to be getting along well, despite the fact that nature abhors trios.  Playing and singing of most songs from Mamma Mia ensues

5:00 PM

The girls have a "spray fight" with a bottle of Febreeze air freshener.  They use the whole bottle.  I start to have an asthmatic reaction which peaks at about 4:30 the next morning despite over-dosing on my Ventolin inhaler.

5:30PM

Supper- hamburger wraps.  More singing.

6:30PM

Movie starts- Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (the girls' choice).  Snacks and the ritualized wearing of extra underwear on their heads ensue.  Fumes are bad but don't seem to bother anyone else.

7:45PM

Orange pop and vanilla ice cream floats are a hit.

9:00PM

A bed time of sorts.  Air mattress and flip out kids' chesterfield are used in a dizzying array of all possible combinations of girls pillows and blankets.  The girls settle on The Beatles' Abbey Road.  Deep down I am bursting with pride at this classy choice even as my lungs feel like they may burst.

9:15PM

The first of many, many, many "Now its time to quiet down and go to sleep" speeches.  The girls are VERY well-behaved, but very wound-up...

10:30PM

Girls are finally asleep.  I am more choked up than ever.  Not bad...

1:25AM

My breathing has calmed enough that sleep is a good and possible idea.

1:26AM

Super Girl (age 5) is awake and says she thinks that she is going to be sick.  Happily she is not but she does have a fever (and has had one on and off most of the evening).

3:45AM

The girls are awake and noisy.  Happy, but noisy.  I go downstairs and lay down the law about how they are not to be up before 6:00AM.  They don't settle for a while and I end up on the downstairs love seat for the better part of an hour.

7:30AM

Sound of cartoons come from downstairs.  We don't know this for a while, but one girl called her parents at 7AM to announce that she had made it through the night.  Over breakfast of chocolate chip pancakes, the girls claim to never gone back sleep since 3:30AM.  After breakfast, the girls pick Star Wars III as their movie of choice, followed by craft time and pick up by their respective moms.

 

Phew,

B.

E-Bay Item of the Week

Wanna be a real Snowbird?

Updatey Post

As you may have noticed, I haven't been a very faithful writer lately.  This is due to several reasons.

 

1. I've just been very busy at home and at work.
2. I've been in a very funny headspace lately.  Basically, I'm having trouble letting things go at work.  This is far from being a terminal condition, but things seem to be getting to me more than they have in a long while.  Its that and and the fact that I'm really, really tired of my work.  All of that is tied to some lingering feelings I have over the job I lost a year ago- yeah I know I need to let that go.
3. Also, I guess I'm not sure what I should write about.

All of that self-obsessed musing aside, life is good.   Its great, actually.  The four of us are happy and healthy and I'm still fascinated by how the girls are growing every day.  Grade two and kindergarten are going well and the girls have solid wonderful friends.   And, soon it will be spring!  I've tried, but I'm still not a winter person.

All for now,

B.

E-Bay Item of the Week: Big-Ass Zombie-Smashing Truck

Okay, here is what I want to be driving when the Zombies rise. (I see them as a distinct species/national identity, so therefore I will insist, for now, on capitalizing "the Zombies" when I feel like it).  Its big and a little rusty, but worthy of my last stand to gather up the world's remaining supplies of canned food.

 

Here it is:

 

Big Old Land Cruiser on E-Bay

 

 

On a "more" serious note, I read recently that the world basically has an 80-day supply of food.  In the event of a world-wide event that causes food production to cease, past that point there isn't enough food to go around.  How fragile it all is...

 

B.