: 1 :
I'm watching the series finale of Fringe as I type this. I admit that Jason and I initially started watching because it's a JJ Abrams show, and I might have had extra incentive because of a teeny tiny movie star crush on Joshua Jackson. That it was similar to X-Files also helped our devotion.
The ratings have been terrible and the network hasn't done it any favors by tossing it around multiple time lots, but we have persevered.
I'm sad it's over, but it had a good run. Hopefully Abrams comes up with another ridiculously complicated sci-fi show that defies the laws of nature. I'll probably start watching.
If you're a fan, here's a good cast interview.
: 2 :
One upside of trimming our regular tv shows is that it gives us some time to start watching Downton Abbey. If we hadn't been so busy over Christmas break, we should have watched it then. (Yes, we have access the UK version, so we've had the whole series before it even started here.). Andrea and I were talking (via voice messages) last week, and she started to talk about the season finale. She assumed I had seen it.
I was in the car at the time, and I just about swerved off the road trying to unplug my phone from my car's audio system. (Which indicates how out of my mind panicked I was because there is a perfectly usable mute button right on my steering wheel.)
Fortunately, I didn't hear what happens although I have a sneaking suspicion based on the few words I heard.
I told Andrea we were even now because I accidentally gave away the outcome of the World Series, forgetting in a voice message that I left her that she was watching it tape-delayed.
She said giving away a hint of what happens in Downton's finale isn't even close to giving away the World Series.
I guess that means we aren't even.
{UPDATE: My sister corrected me on my spoiler facts. Technically she didn't give anything away about Downton, although she indicated how she felt about the season finale, which constitutes as a teeny tiny spoiler to me. More importantly, however, it was the SUPERBOWL--not the World Series--that I gave away. She was watching it on a 3-minute delay at a Superbowl party, and the Superbowl was decided in the final seconds. But technically? I didn't give away the Superbowl. I only indicated how Jason felt about the ending. So. You be the judge.}
: 3 :
This last week, Sydney and Jules started an after school class offered at their school. Sydney is taking an art class, and Jules is taking a cooking class. The day of her class, I told Jules I had packed her apron in her backpack.
"I need a change of clothes too," she told me.
"No. You have to stay in your uniform, but it'll be fine."
"What if it gets dirty?"
"Then I'll wash it."
"Even though it has buttons on it?"
"Yes. We can wash buttons."
: 4 :
Despite the fact that I firmly believe Facebook is not the place to have any kind of discussion for things of substance--particularly things of political substance; I'm flexible on parenting or spiritually substantive discussions--a former high school classmate and I have been having a pretty civilized discussion about guns. I wouldn't say we have totally opposite opinions, but they have quite a few degrees of separation.
It doesn't convince me at all that Facebook is a good place for this sort of thing, but I have found it pretty remarkable.
: 5 :
If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, then you already saw this. And, well, with perhaps two exceptions, that's all of you.
Nevertheless, it's worth showing again.
Last week, I asked my speech students to draw or list their nightmare scenario for giving a speech. They had all the usual ones, but one group came up with this:
We all have to agree that getting stung in tongue by a bee while you're giving a speech would be pretty terrible indeed.
: 6 :
Addie has been a little under the weather. It started out last Friday when she woke up coughing in the middle of the night. Then over the course of the next few days her cough got worse, she had a pretty high fever, and her nose was home to a hundred green slugs.
Here she is looking quite pathetic. She didn't want to be out of my arms (or Jason's) for about five days.
She's quite a bit better now...just a runny nose.
As a result of her getting sick:
- she couldn't go to church on Sunday, and I volunteered to let Jason have my usual spot of staying home with the sick child. Partly because I had missed church the week before due to not feeling well, but mostly because the Seahawks were playing and their start time was during church. Jason's feelings weren't hurt too badly about having to stay home and watch football.
- Jason had to miss work on Tuesday because I really needed to go teach, and he really didn't. He actually needed the break from school (its level of stress is a blog post on its own), and I was thankful to have a spouse whose job is flexible enough for him to stay home if he needs to.
- Addie doesn't particularly want to wear anything but pajamas. She's been a bit anti-clothing for awhile now, but I was making her wear clothes any time we left the house. When she wasn't feeling well, I just let her stay in her jammies all day long. And then even after she got better, I just didn't care that she still only wanted to wear jammies. Clothes are clothes, and really? Who wouldn't want to wear jammies all the time. That it is a viable option has to be one of the benefits of being two.
: 7 :
In case you haven't had a good laugh lately, please watch this commercial.
"Tape a cheetah to her back." I want that on a tshirt.
It makes me laugh every time.
Have a fantastic weekend!
{More quick takes found here.}
