Back in the Random Swing of Things

So, at our house we are still enjoying the weekend. Lake is out of school which makes it a long weekend for us (well, for me and the boys since hubs is at work). Saturday seemed unusually long, which is always nice. We still wish we were at Disney..........Have I mentioned that I could live there? Yeah, okay, enough about Disney - I will keep my Disney thoughts to myself.

I saw the internet headlines last night that read "Ellen and Portia Wed". Okay, the law may ignorantly say you can marry whomever you please, but that DOES NOT make the parts fit. That's all I have to say about that (well, not really ALL I have to say about that, but all I will say here on the blog ;-).

So, what's the big deal about Facebook? If I have a blog, why do I need Facebook? And how do you even find your long lost high school pals on Facebook? I kind of wonder if I want to find them or if I want to be found. I also wonder how many times I can use the word "Facebook" in one paragraph?

Also, I have to ask all you people who Twitter: why do you Twitter? How do you remember to Twitter? I cant remember to do the things I am supposed to be doing much less text what I am doing to the world........You guys have it much more together than me.

Tony Nolan is preaching at our church tonight. I love it when we have Marvelous Mondays in August (no church on Sunday night - church with guest preachers on Monday night). We are not used to being home on Sunday nights - kind of weird, but fun since we sat around eating junk and watching the Olympics.

American Gymnast Alicia Sacramone (not sure of the spelling) was cheated out of the gold last night by a Chinese girl who actually fell to her knees on a landing from the vault. Alicia's landing was not smooth, but she did not fall to her knees. American Gymnast Nastia Liukin lost the gold to a Chinese girl even though they tied on the bars. Does anyone else see a pattern here? I wonder if the Olympics were being held in America if our girls would have won the gold............Have I menitoned that I am NOT a fan of China?

I have been staying up way too late and getting way too involved in the Olympic games. I wish there was some way I could be part of the Olympics. I guess that isn't going to happen unless they make reading, eating and/or kick ball Olympic sports.

Did ya'll see that Romanian woman win the Olympic marathon on Saturday night? Seriously, we left to go to the mall to buy Lake a backpack for school at around 6:15. She had been running for a while when we left. We went to Dicks, shopped for a backpack and some other school stuff, then we went to MANY other stores in our mall, we ended up in the food court eating cookies and drinking Icees before coming home. When we got home, this Romanian woman was STILL running as fast as she could. We got ready for bed, I took off my makeup, and she was still running. Hubs and I layed (lay?) in bed and watched for some time until she came to the finish line at which time one would assume that she would quit running (I would have died several miles back). She did not quit running - she got her country's flag and ran at east 10 laps around the track. She is like the Energizer Bunny on CRACK!!!! We laughed so hard because she never stopped running. Now that, my friends, is a woman who is in shape!

Speaking of backpacks, have you noticed that they are quite expensive? IF they say "The North Face" on them, they cost around $80. Needless to say, Lake's does not say "The North Face". If they say "Nike", they are around $50. So, we got Lake one that says "High Sierra" for about $35 (which I still say is too much because I am cheap). I mean, come on, he is SEVEN!!! I feel sure that any one of those expensive backpacks would fail the" 2nd grade boy test", so why spend a fortune?

About a week and a half ago, my oven element blew up. It didn't just blow, it blew up! It sparked and fire shot out. I screamed and ran outside to get hubs yelling "The oven is on fire, the oven is on fire!". He came in and unplugged it so it wouldn't burn the house, or possibly the neighborhood down. As of today, we still have no element. We have been so busy with EVERYTHING that we have yet to go out and purchase a new element (translate: I have not made a big deal out of it so I would not have to cook). My father-in-law just called and asked me the serial # off the oven so he can pick us up a new one. It is kind of bittersweet. I thank him for getting us the new element, but it means that I will not be able to use the excuse of not having an oven to cook in. Looks like I will be back in the kitchen very soon..............;-(

Friday evening we went to the new house to clean up as we usually do on the weekend. We pick up nails, scraps of wood, vacuum up saw dust and clear out all their cups/papers from the previous week. If we clean it up, we don't have to pay them to do it. It is a hot and nasty job, but we are saving money by doing it ourselves. One thing that gripes me is that these guys smoke in my new house. Oh, I know it isn't finished yet, but I don't want the smell of smoke in my walls. Hubs says not to say anything because if I tell them not to smoke in the house, they will spend less time working and more time outside smoking. It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't drop their cigarette butts on the floor. As I was picking up their nasty butts (cigarette butts) the other night, an evil thought occurred to me. I should keep all their cigarette butts in a bucket and give them back to them. When they ask me why I am giving them used up cigarette butts, I will say "Because I thought you might want to take them home and throw them on your own floor".

Okay, enough bordeom for now.......I will come back and bore you more later when I have more time to come up with more boring items of little interest to anyone.........Thank you for your time .....sorry to waste so much of it.