So the spawn and I were sitting around the house today watching movies while I worked from home. And the commercial for the Lifetime"Flying Tigress" came on. We realized that everyone watches Lifetime but no one wants to actually admit it. Where else can you get the cheesy movies that you all love but wont ever come clean about it... But if someone does get up the courage to speak about one, you know every line. You know the programming I am referring to... The Epics "Mother May I Sleep With Danger?" "Sex and the Single Mom" "Army Wives". These are all great movies/shows, but would you really admit that you watch them or are they your guilty little pleasures that you watch as you curl up on your couch on a Sunday in pj's... (This could also be substituted with every Bruce Willis movie ever made).
What about staying in bed all day long on a rainy day, reading books and drinking tea, while skipping the massive piles of laundry that are threatening to walk themselves to the washer?
Or how about in the days of cheaper gas, driving down the road with the windows down, singing "Brown Eyed Girl" or "Surfin USA" at the top of your lungs (not exactly in key).
There is always that shopping trip that you have to make but really don't want to and yet you end up finding the most amazing treasure ever... And at 70% off!!
Those are mine, so what guilty pleasures do you have????
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Fire Watch 08
Smirk and her friends are out in the woods alone! No grown ups (unless you count Smirk, who technically is an adult, but not really), no rules, no curfew, no nothing... Including tent poles and matches....
The group decided to go camping. They planned this for all of about 2 days. Then was the mad dash to get supplies, find a campsite and actually drive up the mountain. None of them had ever been camping without an adult preparing for them so watching this was absolute comedy!! Conversations were had that went like this - Smirk "So what should we get to eat? I am thinking sandwich stuff, maybe some steaks, some spaghetti?" Best Friend #1 "Sounds good!!! So we will need steak, plates and A1 sauce and forks" Interjection from the mother listening from the couch "Unless you enjoy steak tartar, how will you be cooking this side of beef and fabulous pasta meal?" Silence - crickets chirping - "Uh, what do you mean?" said BFF. "Well to cook steak is not that difficult on a grill, but unless you have a rotisserie spit or really large grill for your open campfire, since the campsites do not have a barbecue provided, what will you be doing? And how will you boil the water for the pasta??? Are you bringing a pot and if so, I want to see which one so you dont lose my favorite pot in the woods!"
Eventually pasta was nixed and the girls purchased a small charcoal barbecue. They also purchased all of the food and supplies while the two strapping man boys who are also attending this outdoor fest did NOTHING!!! They said they will give money later.
They finally made it up to the mountain and unpacked the car... Hilarity ensued for us parents when the ex Mr Amused called me and asked if I had heard from the mountaineers... I said yes but hours ago... He informed me he had just received a call from a very unhappy Smirk... She asked him where the tent poles were..... OOOPS.. She took the tent, but failed to grab the poles from the cabinet behind the tent. The boys refused to go back down the mountain (an hour drive) to get them, they also refused to go into town (a 10 minute drive) to go to the local sporting goods store and see if there was tent to be rented. They wanted to be manly and sleep in the outdoors...
I will be going to stock up on calamine lotion for when the return!!! I am taking bets.. They are supposed to return on Thursday evening... I say they will be back Wednesday at about noon....
The group decided to go camping. They planned this for all of about 2 days. Then was the mad dash to get supplies, find a campsite and actually drive up the mountain. None of them had ever been camping without an adult preparing for them so watching this was absolute comedy!! Conversations were had that went like this - Smirk "So what should we get to eat? I am thinking sandwich stuff, maybe some steaks, some spaghetti?" Best Friend #1 "Sounds good!!! So we will need steak, plates and A1 sauce and forks" Interjection from the mother listening from the couch "Unless you enjoy steak tartar, how will you be cooking this side of beef and fabulous pasta meal?" Silence - crickets chirping - "Uh, what do you mean?" said BFF. "Well to cook steak is not that difficult on a grill, but unless you have a rotisserie spit or really large grill for your open campfire, since the campsites do not have a barbecue provided, what will you be doing? And how will you boil the water for the pasta??? Are you bringing a pot and if so, I want to see which one so you dont lose my favorite pot in the woods!"
Eventually pasta was nixed and the girls purchased a small charcoal barbecue. They also purchased all of the food and supplies while the two strapping man boys who are also attending this outdoor fest did NOTHING!!! They said they will give money later.
They finally made it up to the mountain and unpacked the car... Hilarity ensued for us parents when the ex Mr Amused called me and asked if I had heard from the mountaineers... I said yes but hours ago... He informed me he had just received a call from a very unhappy Smirk... She asked him where the tent poles were..... OOOPS.. She took the tent, but failed to grab the poles from the cabinet behind the tent. The boys refused to go back down the mountain (an hour drive) to get them, they also refused to go into town (a 10 minute drive) to go to the local sporting goods store and see if there was tent to be rented. They wanted to be manly and sleep in the outdoors...
I will be going to stock up on calamine lotion for when the return!!! I am taking bets.. They are supposed to return on Thursday evening... I say they will be back Wednesday at about noon....
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