I finally got around to watching Desperate Housewives yesterday, and I’ve gotta say – am I just not remembering what 4 1/2 year-olds are like, or is Gabrielle’s child especially well-spoken?
Also, watched Grey’s Anatomy. Every time Meredith starts to dither, I want to slap her.
Kevin McKidd and Christina? HUBBA HUBBA.
Please, if there is a god, they will figure out a way to make Kevin McKidd a regular. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.
So, ever since we moved the chickens to a bigger chicken yard* there’s been a fence post kind of hanging out in the middle of the back yard. At one point it marked a corner of the chicken yard, but when we moved the chickens to a bigger yard, Fred took down the fence to give the cats the run of the entire back yard.
I’ve been harassing him to build something for the cats, because some of them – Joe, Tommy, Sugarbutt, and occasionally Mister Boogers – really like to climb. In fact, at one point they started climbing the tree in the back yard, requiring Fred to put a metal “sleeve” around the tree so they couldn’t get more than five feet off the ground. (This came about after Tommy climbed fifteen feet up into the tree and I had to climb a ladder to rescue him. Fucker.)
Finally, a few weekends ago, Fred decided to put “steps” around the fence post and a platform on the top.
Every morning when I let the cats outside, Tommy and Joe Bob fight to be King of the Platform.
Yesterday, Joe Bob won the fight and he sat on the platform and mocked Tommy, who pretended not to care, and stomped away to hang out in the greenery in the middle of the back yard.
* For those of you who are new, last summer we only had 12 chickens and their coop and yard took up about a quarter of the back yard. When we decided to get more chickens, Fred made a bigger chicken coop and we moved them so they’d have a much larger yard. Now we’re talking about moving them again and using the garden shed Fred made as the chicken coop. This will be the third time they’ve been moved in a year and a half. We’ve found our dream house and have decided to stop moving every so often, but apparently the nomad in us requires that SOMETHING be moved regularly.
Alright, you pushy bastards, I am reading Twilight.
DON’T HURT ME.
It’s okay, but I’m not seeing the great love y’all have for the book. Mostly because that Bella girl is SO FRIGGIN’ ANNOYING. “Oh, look! I fall down all the time, LOL!” and the thing where every boy who claps eyes upon her is INSTANTLY IN LURVE, only she’s OH SO OBLIVIOUS TO THE FACT THAT SHE IS CLEARLY THE HOTTEST BABE THEY HAVE EVER SEEN SHE’S JUST REPORTING THE FACTS, MA’AM.
I know, I know, the way you get to know that a character is GORGEOUS BEYOND BELIEF is by how the characters around her act, but please. It’s so heavy handed! The thing that is truly annoying about this book is the same thing that’s kind of genius – it reads EXACTLY as though a 17 year-old girl wrote it, and there’s a reason 17 year-olds don’t get a whole lot of books published. (I consider myself an expert on this, since I recently re-read my journals from when I was 17, right before I BURNED THEM.)
Bella’s supposedly this klutzy goddess that makes every boy swallow his teeth upon their very first glance at her face, and I DON’T BELIEVE SO, BELLA. Because you annoy me. Also, this Edward fellow spends the entire first half of the book, practically, either glaring hatefully at Bella or smirking and laughing for no reason and of course instead of being all “What’s your issue, douchebag?” she’s all “I LURVE YOU OF COURSE!”
Also, she’s a total bitch about her father.
So I’m not adoring it the way you freaks do, but it is a fast read and I’m enjoying it enough and I know I’m going to have to read the rest of the series so I get all the damn in-jokes DAMNIT.
Apparently I have a wee bit of the vampire lurve going on, anyway, what with watching every episode of True Blood (oh my god, I LOVE YOU, SAM!), reading every book in the Sookie Stackhouse series, every book in the Queen Betsy series, and I have You Suck on my bookcase.
In any case, I’m only halfway through the book. Bella could grow up, Edward (I always want to call him Edmund, for some reason) could be a little less creepy, and something could HAPPEN in the second half, right?
….right?
Caveat: If one of these stupid boys mooning around after Bella pulls out the “It’s fitting that your name is Bella, because BELLA IS ITALIAN FOR BEAUTIFUL AND YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL OMG I LOVE YOU!”, all bets are off. And I can FEEL it coming.
Previously
2007: Crazy Eyes say, “I am a fearsome creature.”
2006: Frying pan in the front flower bed.
2005: No entry.
2004: No entry.
2003: She seems a little wishy-washy about it. I think she might secretly like the book.
2002: (He always calls when I’m in the shower or eating. I think he has a hidden camera somewhere in hopes of catching me with my non-existent luvah-on-the-side Juan.)
2001: No entry.
2000: No entry.