There Ya' Go

It is a rainy morning which means I would rather spend all day in bed with a self-replenishing cup of coffee and a great book. Since I have kids, that isn't happening. I think I'll blog instead. Ready? Let's go.

• I am still trying to figure out where self respect went. The other day hubby and I took a  little time for date night. Love date night and that we're able to leave the kids for a little bit. We went to the mall to get the boy's birthday present. As we were coming out of the mall, package in hand, there was a couple coming into the mall. They were both wearing pajamas. Um, what?!? Are you kidding me. Since hubby and I were holding hands, he took a quick second to squeeze my hand. Kinda hard. Like he was telling me to shut my mouth until we got to the van. And that was exactly what I did. I am not the submissive type, but sometimes I know what hubby is saying when he doesn't use his words. He was saying "It's date night. We're about to go eat dinner. I'd like to do that with all my teeth." Fine. But, are you kidding me? What the hell? They were tattooed and pierced to within an inch of their lives. And you go out in public with cartoon characters on your pajamas. Are you 4? Grow up. Put on some damn clothes!! Have some self respect. All that stuff you did to your body is negated when you wear Spongebob pants to the mall. And fuzzy slippers. I'm taking away their "bad ass" card. Good grief. Guess who's gonna rule our country one day?
• After we left the mall, we went to a Mexican food chain restaurant. You pick up a menu at the door, then walk to the counter to order. As we were sitting waiting for our food another couple walked in. They were wearing wedding rings, but I can't say that they were married to each other. When they walked in, they each picked up a menu. He walked to the counter when he had made up his mind, leaving her standing by the door. When they sat down at the table next to ours, they both pulled out their phones. We left before they did, but the whole time we were there, they said not one word to each other. Not. One. Word. I felt sorry for them. Call me a quitter, but when it gets to the point that you say nothing to each other, you only play on your phone, that would be the time to call it over and done. I don't know them. Maybe that's how they are in public. Maybe they're different at home. Maybe not.
• I like short blog titles. They don't even have to pertain to the blog. I follow one blog written by a woman in Texas who is so stinkin' funny. She usually has these long blog titles that used to drive me crazy. Sometimes they're two sentences long. Then I noticed that some of my blog titles are long. And getting longer. Great. I'm actually starting to dig it a little more. When you read the title of my blogs, and it's a short story, please feel free to let me know. I will rein them in. Please and thank you.
• I feel strong when I dance. It doesn't matter if it's the Wii or dance class or standing out front of CiCi's pizza during a youth fund raiser. Yeah, that was me. Just honk and wave. Everyone else did. I like the way my muscles feel. They feel long and lean and strong and endorphins storm through my body. My knee doesn't like it very much and I have to ice it and take two Advil when I'm done. I missed a dance class because I was sick. Hated it! Nothing I could do about it. There was no way I could have danced without hacking up a lung. Not attractive and I was not feeling well enough to clean up the mess. That and when I get sick, if it's respiratory, like this was, I get a touch of asthma. Not good for dancing. When I went back this week I had to learn from the beginning and learn quick. They were moving on. OK. One of my dance friends said she couldn't believe how quickly I picked it up. I love it! Makes me wish I had followed my dream to dance in music videos when I was younger. Imagine where I could be now. Yeah, I would still be sitting in my room blogging. But I would hopefully have bedroom furniture that matched.   
• I needed to send an email the other day while we were out. I don't email from my phone. Call me crazy. But I really needed to send this one. I did all the stuff to add my email to my phone, and then the dinger went off saying I had email. As I was clearing the emails, an old one popped up. It was the one from my SIL that accused me of ruining the fishing trip my FIL was going to take. It started bringing up all that ick again. I didn't even have to read it, just see the "subject" line. The only decision she could ever make that I would agree with would be her decision to fall off the face of the earth. The icky feeling didn't last long and I was pretty happy about that part. I sent my email, deleted what I needed to, and took email off my phone. Moving on to happier stuff.
• Speaking of my phone, what did I ever do before I had this thing? I take notes on it. I added the note about my first topic to remember to blog about it later. I used it to take pics of the Lego sets the boy wanted for Christmas. I saw a book that reminded me of Big Sis, so I took a pic and texted it to her. Hubby wanted slippers. I saw some on sale so I took a pic and texted it to him. He said no, but thanks for thinkng of him. I'm glad he said no, because they were really ugly. REALLY ugly. I like that I can play word games wherever I am. I have Hanging, Words, and Scramble with Friends. Look out world! Music wherever I go. That is my favorite part.
• I haven't watched the morning news in I don't know how long. I could turn on the TV in the living room and listen to it while I cruise the internet, but I don't want to wake the kids yet. I get about an hour or so in the morning all to myself. I'd like to keep it that way. I don't miss it much anymore. I do miss having TV in the bedroom while we go to sleep. I like the noise. It gets turned off sometime during the night, or I really wouldn't sleep. We don't watch much news anymore. I just don't care to be brought down every night listening to how mean and cruel people are to each other. We get a channel that is all local weather, and that's all we need. They can keep that other junk.

I think that's it for now. I've cleared the notes off my phone and my paper. Well, except the ones that go on the other blog. That's for later, though. See ya'!!