Craft Show

So I went to a craft show recently, and one of the booths featured....painted saw blades. I realize people have different decorating tastes, but I can't imagine a time that I would need a painted saw blade...

Goodbye, Studio 60

LOVED that show. don't know why it never caught on. My two new mid-season replacements are Wedding Bells, and Raine. Quirky writing, and some fine acting in both series. Love Jeff Goldblum in the latter.

Well, Duh

Book title seen in a local pet store:
"Pit Bulls for Dummies"

Sigh

So, while in Wichita this past week, I went shopping. I had a Michael's coupon for $10 off if you spent $40, or $5 off if you spent $25. And I see a simply lovely scrapbook. A Laura Ashley scrapbook, sprigged with pink rosebuds. The scrapbook of my dreams.
However, the coupon in question only gave you 25% off, and I had another one, good on Saturday, that gave you 50% off. So I determined I would go to the Houston's Michael's on Saturday after we got back, and get it there. Because, you know, Houston is the 4th largest metropolitan area in the United States, and Wichita is ~the 28th largest.
So, after 10 hours of driving Saturday, we arrive home. I unpack and then go to Michaels. Did they have the scrapbook of my dreams? Did the Michaels located 10 miles the other way? NO.

it had to happen

my younger daughter has started losing her baby teeth. she is no longer a baby. sigh. though i appreciate the decrease in labor intensity that having children instead of toddlers or babies implies, i do miss the cuddliness of that era.
plus, it makes me feel old.

p.s. she actually swallowed her 2nd tooth. she was eating a piece of pumpkin pie, and it came out. she thought it was a nut in the pie, and swallowed it, so we had to write the tooth fairy a note. tooth fairy almost forgot to give her any money, but tooth fairy's dad reminded her about midnight.

Shocking!

What?! Brittany and K-Fed are divorcing? I'm shocked!
Shocked, I tell you!

Irony

So I'm at our local public library, perusing the community bulletin board, and lo and behold, there's a flyer vaunting a "Writing Coach". She's got 20 years of experience in teaching, yadayada. All well and good, except that in the flyer, she mentions she is good at the proper form for "sighting" a bibliography.

Ahem. That would be "citing", Miss "Writing Coach".

It's Apparently Pandemic

I go to my DD's school, and there's a story the teacher wrote on the white board about a "goul".
I go down the hallway and see the contract for behavior of another class posted on the wall, and the teacher has written "careing" as one of the adjectives.
If I sign DD out early for some reason, the form asks me for "students name".

Irony: book fair is this week at her school, and "Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" is on sale. I think I'm going to buy everyone there a copy!

Old and New Shows, Updated

It's been a few weeks, and my list of shows to watch has modified a bit, to wit:
Six Degrees -- A bit soap opera-esque, and at the end of the day, who cares? Pass.
The Nine -- see above. How long are they going to drag out the 52 hours of their kidnapping?
Jericho -- Pass. Too dark.
Desperate Housewives -- Used to be one of my must-sees, but at the end of the day, too much sex-based comedy. Pass.
Without A Trace -- ALL of the regular characters are unhappy. Jack is divorced, Martin is addicted, Danny has a brother who was in jail, Marianne's character had heart surgery and doesn't get along with her son, Poppy's character can't decide who she wants to be with, the divorcee riddled with guilt, or the drug addict. Well written, but too dark for me. Pass.
So, here is the list of Terri-approved shows for the fall:
Sunday: Amazing Race -- the BEST reality show out there. You cannot predict what will happen. Will someone have the taxi driver who gets lost? Or put diesel in the gas tank?
Monday:Heroes and Friday Night Lights. See earlier post. I don't think FNL is going to make it. Its ratings have been tanking. Too bad. Kyle Chandler is yummy.
Tuesday: House -- Hugh Laurie makes that show. When did he turn sexy? Dancing With the Stars.
Wednesday -- Dancing's Results Show, which I fast forward thru, and watch in about 20 minutes. The rest is patter and filler.
Thursday -- Survivor. Yes, it has jumped the shark. I still watch it. I fast forward thru it, but I still watch. Grey's Anatomy - LOVVVVVE that show.
Friday -- Numb3rs and Battlestar Galatica. Numb3rs is a cute little show. Filler TV, really, but still enjoyable. A step above Monk. BG is one of the best dramas on TV. Won a Peabody, for heaven's sake.



In care you're curious, DH's list of must see TV: Dr. Who, Battlestar Galatica and The Unit. It did include Blade, but Blade got canned. DH also likes the Stargate series. Notice a trend?

It's an Oxy, You Moron

So I was at Penny's today, shopping for Jillian, and yes, according to Penny's impenetrable sizing charts, she wears a 6x1/2 PLUS jean. That enough modifiers for you? Apparently, in Penneys' infinite wisdom, they don't carry 7 plus. They don't carry 7 1/2 plus. The area between 6x1/2 plus and 10 plus is an arrid vista.
Anyway, so since I was in the jean buying mood, i decided to get myself some jeans. I tried on a pair of size 16 jeans, which fit ok at the top, but skin tight on the thigh. I took them off, and looked at the size. The result? They were size sixteen SLIM. Hello? Nothing slim about a size 16, fella.