I hope y'all saw this skit/commercial on SNL last week. It absolutely describes my mom perfectly. There are TV shows that she's been watching for YEARS that she can't name a single person's real or character name. She'll be 2/3 of the way through the season of a reality show (Survivor/Big Brother/etc.) and only be able to tell me one or two names, but usually just gives a vague description. ("I don't look at the names when they come on the screen!") Then she'll tell me about a movie that she and my dad watched:
"We watched a movie tonight."
"Oh yeah, what was it?"
"I don't remember what it was called, but it had that guy that was on that other movie about the..."
Almost every time. She'll remember the name of the movie OR the name of one of the actors. Rarely both. I was so glad we were together when this skit came on. Apparently lots of moms have this problem. I'm glad she's not alone. She was laughing along with it.

I told her that if they made a sequel to this, it would include word-for-word the conversation that I had with her this past Saturday night. She was describing the end of the CSI: New York season finale and was describing who was in the scene. She doesn't know anyone's real name or character name so this is how they were listed...
"Captain Dan" (Gary Sinise)
"Karinkidink" (Melina Kanakaredes)
"Hill - Obama's Guy" (Hill Harper - I'm proud of her for knowing part of his name.)
"Kelly Clarkson" (Anna Belknap - Someone who "looks like Kelly Clarkson")
"And that weird lab guy/girl" (I don't know which person that is because I don't watch it.)

And that's who's on the show.
Love you mom! You're cute! And not alone!

Posted in: funny things, tv shows on Sunday, May 17, 2009 at at 11:18 PM 1 comments    

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A local boy named Kris Allen has made it to the top three contestants on a popular television program called "American Idol". As a reward for making it to this stage of the competition, he is allowed to go visit his hometown and be honored for a day. I went to this such event. I was off of work that day so Jake and I went with my friend Sarah and her 5 year old niece.
We decided that, since so many people here are fans of this Kris Allen kid and would want to show up to this event, we would park on the opposite side of the river of where he was performing and walk across the pedestrian bridge directly to his location. Well, after a not-long-but-not-short walk to said bridge and after starting to cross it, we were told it was closed and we would have to take the next bridge down the river. Hmph. So after a not-long-but-very-long walk to the next bridge, across the bridge, back down to the pedestrian bridge's location, and Sarah's plastic flip-flop wearing niece proclaiming "I think this is the end of my life," we finally made it to the concert location.

Posted in: American Idol, Jake, tv shows on Monday, May 11, 2009 at at 10:03 PM 2 comments    

Posted in: Jack, Jack Calendar, Jake on Tuesday, May 05, 2009 at at 10:11 PM 3 comments    

A polo shirt and khakis for church...

...and some longjohns for a rainy afternoon...

Posted in: Jake on Sunday, May 03, 2009 at at 5:30 PM 0 comments    

Last Saturday the peach tree looked like this:


And this Saturday, it looked like this:

Posted in: Creation, house, peach tree on at at 5:10 PM 0 comments    

Jake loves to stare at lights. Especially the lamp in our living room. It's his BFF.



If he's fussy, I can sometimes lay him on the recliner in the boppy facing the lamp and he's stayed quiet and still as long as 30 minutes while I get stuff done. Yay lamp!

Posted in: Jake on Friday, May 01, 2009 at at 11:06 PM 1 comments    

Can't. Stop. Taking. Pictures.

Posted in: Jake on at at 7:33 PM 0 comments