Author: Märia

Totally excited about the movie, except for the whole 3D thing. I can’t handle 3D, it makes me physically sick. I have to watch all the new 3D movies the regular way. Drives my husband nuts as he wants to see them 3D. We end up watching them all separately.

At 9 years old, I think Ace of Base was the first band that I really got into. In fact all 3 of my brothers and I could be found singing All That She Wants and The Sign at the top of our lungs (although I doubt any of my brothers would admit that fact now). I still listen to them every now and then just like the closet dork you may or may not know I am.

About a month ago, I’m listening to the radio and who comes on but Ace of Base (and I’m not on the “Oldies” station that Steven talked about a couple of days ago). It seems the white wonderbread band has got a little Mexican spice thrown in as the song I’d never heard starts talking about various Hispanic men. I think it’s a little weird, but then again I forget the Hispanic population is increasing exponentially in almost every other state in the US. Here, it would be of more worth to speak Chuk or Laos than Spanish. Spanish will get you nowhere. They don’t come here since you know they can’t get here in the back of lemon. **

Anyways, I get all excited as a new song means a new CD. Yippee! Go home and look it up. It’s totally not even Ace of Base, but Lady Gaga. I totally laughed out loud. That woman has more faces than a pair of D&D dice has sides.

**BTW, that was totally a joke. I really don’t care about illegal immigration. Just don’t get my husband started on it.

We live on the 4th floor and have 2 children under 5 years old. There is going to be stuff tossed from our lanai (balcony), it’s just gonna happen. Once a week or so we go down there and pick it all up. This morning the girls go out to the lanai and start saying “Cup in the tree! Cup in the tree!” I look down and indeed there is a cup in the tree. I go down to the ground with a broom thinking I can reach it. When I get down there I realize it is way too far above my head to actually reach with the broom. Steven comes to the lanai and decides he’s going to get it down by throwing something at it. He picks up a package of pull-ups. Aims and gets right where the cup is at. Unfortunately instead of making the cup fall, it just sits there in the tree stuck.

“Hey! Those things cost money!!” My husband in his infinite wisdom, especially when it comes to money, starts throwing college textbooks…

He got the pull-ups back, but the cup, still in the tree. And I’m absolutely sure our neighbors don’t have any doubts how it got there.

In the past 2 weeks I have personally taken care of 8 patients who have had tonsillectomies. I’ll tell you what the younger kids do SOOOOO much better and I have come to the definite conclusion that when the girls are 4 and 6 years old they are getting them surgically removed (in the midst of my recovery I said the same thing, but wasn’t sure if I’d think the same thing 6 months later). I have absolutely no desire for their tonsils to get more annoying as they get older and then they have to get them done when they’re 26 because I know from first hand experience that that just plain sucks. I think I’d prefer it in the summer time when there’s no school. So exactly 2 years from now I am planning for them to have surgery.