Who am I to argue?

For some reason, if anyone out there is able to further explain my conversation with Nattie tonight I'm all ears.

Nattie: Daddy, Macie is sleeping, can I play with the beads please?
Me: Sure.

 

Nattie: Thanks da-da.  I need to exercise them.

Me: You need to what?

Nattie then seperates the beads out into different groups.  This is what the plate looked like when it was time for bed.  I was informed that she was not finished yet but that she will take care of the rest of them tomorrow.

I'm still confused by the whole thing.

Alright Meat, show him your heat

 

If you like the movie Bull Durham (i.e. the greatest sports movie ever), it's worth your time to check out this article even though it is merely good, not great.  While reading, make sure to follow the red "not completely unheard of" link that is embedded towards the end of the article.  It's pretty funny.

Also, if you get a chance take a look at AFI's recent top 10 sports movies list.  Bull Durham finished 5th.
My top three (in order) are: Bull Durham, Caddyshack and Best in Show. 

I do have a soft spot though for others like Field of Dreams, Remember the Titans, Invincible, Hoosiers, For the Love of the Game, Miracle, Cinderella Man, A League of Their Own, The Natural, Unnecessary Roughness, Major League and (unfortunately) The Replacements. 

I probably missed a couple as well.

Whenever you need a smile (Weezer Girls)

Twitchington

So You Can Think You Can Dance is back, the one show Gina and I consistently watch together every year.  Molly is enjoying it with us as well.

Part of the tradition of getting into the show is picking our favorites. 

I now have mine.

From the start Twitch has been my favorite guy.  Tonight, I figured out that Kherington is my favorite girl.  I'm enjoying that they are currently paired together.

Hang another one in the rafters

Five reasons why last night's series clinching win by the Celts was so much fun:

1. One of the two NBA teams I cheer for won the title.  While I am not a huge fan of pro basketball these days, I watched the Celtics play throughout the playoffs whenever I could.

2. KG and Ray Allen, two of my favorite players, now have a NBA title... and even though Garnett's post game interview was one of the stranger ones I have ever seen, I'm very much enjoyed that he gave some love to 'Sota.

3. The Kobe / MJ comparisons will (or at least should) stop.  The Celts owned this series (and Kobe) from game one.  Unfortunately, Kobe is a great player...but let's stop doing a disservice to Jordan please.

4. I loved how much the announcers / sportscasters talked about Boston's D.  The team that played better defense and better team basketball won this series, not the team with the best individual player.

5. Since 2002, Beantown franchises have won six titles across three different sports.  I can tell you that it has been a lot of fun to experience as a fan.  At least for the time being, calling Boston "titletown" would be fitting.  I hope one day we can do it here in Minnesota as well.

5a. A fabulous Bill Simmons article was written about winning the championship.

A chip off the old block

"In your eye"

When I got up this morning (at about 4:30) to deal with Nattie, I noticed that my head was not happy.  Not only did I have a migraine, but I had the kind that shoots across your forehead and simultaneously throbs in your eye even if you aren't moving your head.  At about 4:45 I took some Excedrin (which usually does the trick for me). 

Not today.  At 5:45 my head was still pounding / eye still throbbing. 

Thankfully, by 6:15 it was subsiding and by the time I got to work I was feeling alright.  The verdict is still out, however, if it is going to try and attack again today.  Pieces of it are definitely still lingering.

Walking the line

Macie continues to show her "everything is going to be on my time" attitude.  Last night, Gina and I watched her hold her balance standing up, crouch down part way, stand back up (without touching anything with her hands) and then take about six steps to me with ease. 

Yet, she still has no intentions of walking anywhere right now.  We can't even get her to walk back and forth between us very often anymore, even though she absolutely loves it when we clap for her afterwords.

Like mother / like daughter

Yesterday morning:
Natalie ends up in bed with up at some point and when I wake up to my alarm clock she is laying perpendicular to us (i.e. Gina and I are both on my side of the bed and Gina's knee is her pillow). 
Just before I leave I decide to pick Nattie up and put her head on Gina's pillow in a nomal sleeping position. 
After I do that (without outright waking either Gina or Nattie up), both of them simultaneously did the following:

~ turn their heads slightly to the left

~ pull up on the covers

~ try to snuggle into the pillow and get comfortable

~ realize that they aren’t comfortable

~ roll over onto their right side

~ snuggle in

~ fall back asleep

         

You'd have thought it was choreographed.  It was impossible not to laugh.

Prince Caspian / No Country for Old Men

I'm half way through Prince Caspian and if the book doesn't get going here soon, I can understand why it didn't do that well at the box office.  It's easily the most boring book of the four I've read in the Cronicles so far.  These books aren't action packed either so that's saying something.

Seeing as I needed a pick me up, I began reading No Country for Old Men this morning.  It caught my attention by the end of the first page and when it was time to get off the bus something happened to me for the first time in quite a while...I didn't want to put the book down.

Gluten-Free Grocery Shopping Guide

After no longer wanting to deal with referring to 29 different homemade lists and 44 different websites...along with always scrambling to figure out what is and is not gluten-free at grocery stores / in kitchen cabinets / at gas stations / etc., we finally broke down and bought a gluten-free grocery guide last night.  I have high expectations for it since Gluten Free Mall had sixteen reviews for it, all sixteen of which are five stars.

"Fertilizing the sidewalk"

Other then drinking a bowl of water, between 9pm Wednesday night and 5pm Thursday evening Casey did not eat anything.  Yet, he still found a way to puke seven times (fourteen if you want to get technical since they always happen two at a time).

After talking the the vet when we got home yesterday (I left work a bit early because I was worried about him) it was strongly recommended that we bring him in so I made a 6 o'clock appointment. 

While we were enjoying the torrential downpour, he miraculously began to improve and by 5:30 I was calling them back asking if they still wanted to see him.

The final verdict was to keep him home and for us to watch him closely.  They suggested feeding him only rice, chicken or cottage cheese (I know, weird) to see if he could keep food down. 

He was able to keep the chicken down and hopefully he is on the road to recovery.  He had no issues overnight either.

As for our carpet, we have nine spots that still need to be taken care of so that should be fun. 

Thankfully, our neighbor Kelly let us borrow their carpet cleaner.  That should help quite a bit.

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There's always something there to remind me

Last night, I saw my first preview for The Dark Knight while I was lying in bed.  Even though I turned my head (preferring not to know anything before seeing it), I did happen to hear the commercial say what the release date was.

Most people know that my birthday has never been a big deal to me.  But considering all that's happened in the last six months, I had to half laugh and half shake my head in disbelief at the date (see below).