birthday time

Today is our son's birthday! Those 14 years flew by pretty fast. He wanted to celebrate last night with today being Ash Wednesday. So, we went out to the famous burger place for dinner and came home and had pie. Good thing today is a day of fasting, I need it!

Speaking of going fast, how did Lend get here so quickly this year? Yikes.

It has been a very busy week and we are only half way through. Lots to do, even this morning, so off I go.

voices in my head

We conducted a phone interview last week with a scientist at National Geographic. We taped the interview and yesterday I needed to transcribe the answers to our questions.

I do not have a future career as a medical transcriptionist.

I keep hearing Dr. S.W's voice in my head. Ugh. It is kind of funny.

Today is the Rotary lunch for the daughter. Exciting stuff. Plus, she found out yesterday she was admitted to the Chancellor's Honors Program at the university. Very exciting stuff.  She's on a roll now and I feel like the next time I blink, we will be loading her stuff into the minivan and driving her off to college.

It is all such an adventure. All day. Every day.

what a weekend

The daughter arrived home by 4:15 on Friday afternoon. So excited to see her. We had a nice steak dinner and peppered her with questions until it was time for bed. Saturday morning both of the girls and I stopped at Chick-fil-a for breakfast and went to the mall. The older one found not only a dress for her Friday night event, but it will also do for the rush party event where they all have to be in her sorority's color - blue. She also found an all white dress, again, a must have for rush parties. They wear all white on pref night. So, she is all set.

The other daughter found a dress she wanted for her big luncheon with the Rotary club tomorrow. She was nominated in the leadership category for one of their scholarships and has to get up and speak and meet the Rotarians. I'm taking PTO to be able to attend with her and hubby will be there as he is in Rotary.

We also went to the prom dress store. OMG. The bling and dazzle on those dresses. The price tags on those dresses. Yikes. She looked awesome in all of them, but we talked budget and have come to an agreement on what I will fund.

After that we came home to find that hubby and the boy had started to repaint our bedroom. Wow! It looked really good and they were able to get it to a stopping point so we could head off to the middle kid's basketball game. Team Rondo had their second loss of the season. Bummer.

Back home we came after a quick stop at the store to pick up a birthday cake and chicken legs. Yep, she wanted smoked, barbecued chicken legs for supper. So, we go busy and ate late.

After Mass on Sunday, hubby and I drove the girl back to Ttown so she could be at her 4:00 meeting/workshop. They are already planning for Rush. I guess when you have a rush week as huge as the one at this university, you have to plan months in advance.

We drove home and collapsed. It was a very busy, but very fun, weekend.

Time to go to work and rest. LOL

do you binge-watch?

I've already learned something new today and it isn't even 6:00 a.m. I hadn't heard the term binge-watch before, but I've done it. Just didn't know it had a name. When you watch multiple episodes of a TV show back to back, you have just experienced the latest cultural phenomena, binge-watching.

The first time the hubby and I did this was with the Sopranos. Back when we had basic cable and the girls were toddlers, we watched an entire season of the HBO hit in one weekend as we had rented the tapes and only had a short time to watch them all. We talked like sailors for the following week, lots of f-bombs. I think we even picked up a bit of a Jersey accent!

Now that folks can subscribe to services like Netflix and OnDemand, binge-watching is pretty easy to do. I've watched a season and a half of the Borgias now that we have Showtime for the next year. Not quite binge-watching, but close.

We did watch the entire third season of Downton in a weekend. I kept wanting to ring Carson for tea by the time we were done.

Thursday is here already. Tomorrow my lovely baby girl will arrive home from college. She has quite a list of things to do planned. I think we will be dress shopping for her sister as well. Prom season has arrived. Here we go!

oops, forgot all about it

Totally forgot about going to the middle school's 8th grade parent meeting last night. I had written it on the calendar. The kid and I had talked about it in the morning. I came home and got immersed in doing a variety of things and totally forgot to get to the school and see what has changed about high school registration since the two girls went through this process.

Ugh. Mom fail.

I'm off to look online and see if I can find any forms they have uploaded or any information they have posted. If all else fails I will shoot off some emails once I get to work and see what is what.

Hey, it is Wednesday!

birthdays

Two of my three kids have birthdays this month. The boy has already put in his request for his meal and his dessert. He'd rather have pie than cake and this year he's requested buttermilk pie and cherry pie. He usually asks for apple, so the cherry was a bit of a curve ball. We will be heading out for burgers at one of the nationally famous local eateries.

The oldest will celebrate this birthday without us. Cue the big sigh and slight welling of tears. We had planned on going to see her the weekend prior to her birthday to celebrate, but that plan won't work now. She has been asked to a big deal fraternity formal and won't even be on campus for the weekend. I knew there was a reason I had to buy her that purple sparkly dress when I saw it on super sale New Year's Day! She is going as the 'date' of her physics lab partner, a fellow engineering major.

But, she is going to be home this weekend, so we may just have to celebrate a bit early. For her birthday I ordered her another winter coat. This one is a true triclimate weather type of coat with a hood and removable liner. I guess she also wants a football jersey with one of the star freshman player's number/name on it.

The boy hasn't decided what gift he wants. He'd be happy with iTunes cards. Way more low maintenance than his sisters!

It is Tuesday, y'all. All. Day. Long.

sporty

The weekend was quite sporty. Hubby was given four tickets to the local university's basketball game on Saturday. So we loaded up the family truckster and headed into the big city for lunch and some b-ball at the big arena. Pretty impressive place. I hadn't been in a NBA facility before and the local uni shares space with our local NBA team. The local team won by 30. Still fun to watch. A different style of b-ball, much more street ball than finesse ball, but some amazing athleticism on display.

Came on home with every intention of watching my beloved alma mater play. I fell asleep! Ugh!! Missed the entire game. But, I guess they didn't need me watching to win as they knocked off the #1 team. Yeah! Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoosiers!

Then yesterday was the Super Bowl. It looked like a blow out was in the making and then the power blew out. The momentum shifted and the 49ers actually made a game of it. But, Baltimore wound up on top.

Now, here's to the real important stuff. I loved the Budweiser commercial. Those Clydesdale's get me every time. And as one soccer mom said, the horse trainer was kind of cute too! Next up, the old folks in the Taco Bell ad. Hilarious! Of course, the farmer themed ad was a blatant tug at the heartstrings. I wonder how many folks in our nation don't have farmers in their past? Universal appeal and well done. Oprah did a nice job with her voice over in the other emotional ad of the night.  M&M commercials are always cute.

So, I'd say the ads this year were a success. The only one that made us all cringe and groan with the Go Daddy commercial with Bar Refaeli and the geeky guy. Hmmm. On the other hand, it was for sure an image that was hard to forget.

Up next for the sporty world is the BIG DANCE. I'm harboring high hopes for my Hoosiers.

Enjoy Monday.