conversation with my mother as she entered the room just now (and then left)

mom: "who dat?"
me: "who you?"
mom: "who i?"
me: "yeah, who you?"
mom: "i dat."
me: "you dat?"
mom: "yeah, i dat."

de end

an 87-year-old's needs

one of the nurses at work was getting a resident, kathryn, situated in the sun room. she sat her facing the tv and got a cup of water for her.
'do you need anything else?' the nurse asked.
kathryn, very matter of factly: 'clark gable.'

seriously?

someone stole the numbers off our house. seriously? the numbers?

go vikes

apparently my mother told my aunt that we'd go to her house for the vikings game today without asking my dad. whether or not he would want to go is now no longer the point. the point is that she said yes without asking him (which was actually a miscommunication), so now he won't go. so now, so that it doesn't look like we're standing my aunt up, my mom and i have to go, even though we don't care about the game. (does this all make sense? i'm writing this quickly cuz i have to go.)

oh, well. at least brett favre is woo-woo.

Movie Review: The Princess and the Frog

It's about time Disney made a princess movie, and a real cartoon at that. Computer animation is fine, but seriously, I'm a bit sick of it. With the exception of Toy Story, those movies are nowhere near as good as the good old classics like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast. And don't get me started on 3-D. Talk about overdone.

But I digress.

I like princess movies, so I was happy to hear that Disney was finally doing another one. And I liked it. It was cute. Tiana was pretty, Prince Naveen was woo-woo, the 1920s fashion was fun. I liked that Tiana had spunk. She was more like Belle than Ariel, which is a good thing. She knew what she wanted (and it was not a man), she was willing to work hard for it, and she loved her parents very much.

I did have a couple of complaints, though. The biggest is, why on earth did they not get Harry Connick, Jr. to do the music? New Orleans jazz? Hello! The songs were not at all catchy, and just plain underwhelming.

Also, too much frog, not enough princess. Especially when they were making such a big deal about finally having a black princess. She's a frog for 2/3s of the time, for pete's sake.

I also found the bad guy a little too scary. I can't blame them for going the voo-doo route, since it's New Orleans and all, but he still was a bit much (though Hobbitsister said the kids who were in the theater when she saw it the first time weren't scared, which I found strange - we only had 2 kids there when we went, so I don't know).

Overall, though, I really liked it. What can I say? I'm a sucker for real Disney cartoons.

spring training tickets went on sale today!

(which has nothing to do with this post except that it gives me an excuse to post about the twins.)

i was looking at an old sporting news (cuz yes, i read the baseball parts of the sporting news), and there was an brief interview with john danks, starting pitcher for the icky yucky white sox, and he said that the players he hates to face are the 1-2-3 (well, 3-4-5) punch of mauer, morneau and cuddyer. you go boys!

the hard thing about working at a nursing home

i don't think my boyfriend's going to make it through the weekend

I would've thought she would've stomped her foot, too

Eva is a fun, fiesty, super-duper tiny 106-year-old woman. When she was at the home 3 years ago for rehab, she insisted she had to get out of there as soon as possible because the old lady next door (who was 88) needed someone to look after her. She came back to the home 8 months or so ago to stay, and has been zooming around ever since.
Until Tuesday apparently. Tuesday they didn't expect her to make it through the night, and had her daughter fly in from California.
Wednesday, she was fine. She had her daughter and two friends as guests for lunch, and was her usual cute self. After lunch her daughter asked her if she wanted to go play a game or if she wanted to take a nap (she had almost died the day before after all). "Take a nap?! I'm not going to take a nap! Not while you're all here! I want to play a game. I am not taking a nap. You're not getting rid of me that easily!"

Melilot Classic: October 17, 2007

dear good-looking maintenance guy,
my mom says you look like matthew fox. that is a good thing.
the end

Happy 75th Birthday, Elvis!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFw5a5Bp_Pw&feature=related

Pride and Prejudice

Why aren't things like this anymore? Why can't I go visiting for months on end? Why can't I read books and write letters when I wish? Why don't people come calling? Why aren't there lovely places for me to perambulate? Why can't I be the smart and saucy beauty who drives the haughty rich man to distraction? And for heaven's sake, why can't Colin Firth be single?

here's something

"At the end of the day, when it comes to God and His word, I think that sometimes the point isn't finding out the answer, but the point, rather, is simply just looking for it. I know that God loves to be searched and chased. We won't ever be able to search the Unsearchable, but that should never stop us from trying anyways." - http://mcgintyspub.blogspot.com/search/label/Spiritual%20Ponderings

yeah, so i'm grasping at straws to find something to post

what's your point?

gotta love mn

in 'the cutting edge,' doug says that he was a hockey god in high school; that after the high school hockey tournament 300 people carried him around on their shoulders and it took the state police 2 hours to break it up. considering that he's supposedly from small town northern minnesota, it could totally be true. i love it.

Melilot Classic: June 21, 2007

work gossip

...
2. the good-looking maintenance guy is still good-looking.

i had something to post

but i'll be danged if i know what it is

Happy Eleventy-eighth Birthday, Mr. Tolkien!

i got to see rinney on tuesday

and jonas and their little jewel.

it made me miss living with her. it was nice then to have someone sitting there doing her thing while i did mine to whom i could then say, 'hey, wanna go get supper?' and she could randomly say, 'hey, wanna go jump in puddles?' and i could randomly say, 'hey, wanna go for a walk?' and she could randomly say, 'hey, wanna go make brownies?' and i could randomly say, 'boys are dumb.' and she could randomly say, 'the boy is dumb.' and all that whatnot random stuff that you can say when you live with someone, but sounds funny when you're just sitting there catching up.

i think what that all boils down to then, is that i miss her. love ya, rinney!