Mass Fun

Big Monkey: It smells awful in here
Me: Shhh!
Big Monkey: It smells awful, like someone pooted awful!
Me: (as I am crawling under the pew- no pun intended) SHHHH!!! It must have been your brother!

This was merely a snippet of the fun we had in mass yesterday!

Holy Crap

Wow Texas, I am so sorry this is coming your way. It is almost as big as the entire Gulf of Mexico! As happy I am that we are not going to be bothered much by this horrendous storm, I am just as sad that the great people of Texas are facing this Ike. I love Texas, lived there several times, several different places. I even graduated high school in Texas.
You all will be in my prayers this weekend.

Cutters

I stayed up WAY too late last night watching one of the best classics movies made, Breaking Away. I was really excited when my husband came into the bedroom (not for reasons he would like) and said he had just watched the movie the other night and it was a great movie. I don't think he had ever seen it before.
Being that I am from Indiana and an IU alum, this movie is of course near and dear to my heart. Such a great story, and it doesn't hurt that you see a very young Dennis Quaid half naked at times. This is a real race every spring in Bloomington, and people get very serious about it. It is also a HUGE party weekend.
So if you need a rainy day movie to watch or are scanning through channels and see this movie is on (it is often on tv) I would recommend it!

Bloggy ID dammit

I have one of those names. You know, one that is apparently very hard to pronounce correctly. I have fought this my entire life. I get tired of it and sometimes just go with the flow.
Every year at the beginning of school I had to correct my name when they were dong the roll call. English was my favorite class simply because any good English teacher knew right away how to pronounce my name, it was a highlight. My favorite is when someone reads my name and calls me Shannon. Where is the "n" at the end of Shanna?!?! I get called Shaw-nah, Shay-nuh, Chan-nuh, and yes even Shin-nun. I don't know why. I always thought it was simple phonics.
Then there is the problem of whether to correct the people or not. I used to constantly correct people, and not always in a nice way. Then I got more relaxed with it all and just let it go when it was someone I did not have to deal with often. Yes, I have often said "it is Shanna, like banana" (hence my blogger addy).
The soccer team mom calls me Shauna. She did so at the game and I was in the middle of something or I would have corrected her. Then she did it again last night and I was in the middle of chasing little monkey to get the cones he had stolen during the relays we were running, so I did not correct it. I feel like my chance to correct her pronunciation has passed. What do you think?

Soccer mom, Plumber's crack

This weekend was once again a blur. I wish we could figure out how to make our weekends as long as our work weeks!! It was a busy one for sure. The monkeys insisted on going with the nanny Friday so I had the morning to myself and I got some major organizing done. Stuff that had been driving me crazy for weeks. In no way did I complete all tasks, but I felt quite accomplished with what I did. So much so, that I took a long nap with the monkeys after I picked them up!

Saturday morning I was good and got up early to go for a run before the husband had to go to work. It was a tough run, but I felt better for doing it. Saturday was also big monkey's first soccer game. It went pretty well, very hot. He did a good job of participating. Did not like the defender's position, but enjoyed the forward position. He needs to be where the action is, that is for sure. No dragonfly chasing, but he did try to take his shirt off at one point in the game.

We went to sesame street live afterwards and the monkeys had a blast. I was very worn out by the time we got home and decided to "take a rest".

Sunday we went to the local outdoor mall. They have a water fountain that they encourage kids to play in. They even let you have birthday parties there. It is the best thing ever. Free, nice setting, fun, and no real chance of drowning, and I don't have to put on a bathing suit. The monkeys had a great time. Yes, little monkey has plumber's crack. He is quite proud of it, refusing to pull his pants up. Who am I to argue?!



I was pretty much spent after such a fun filled weekend, so I went home and took another "rest". Does this make me lazy in your eyes!!??

Tell me your secrets

Aren't secrets so fun?!?! I can't help it. I am one of those people that loves to know something that everyone else does not know. It is like it makes me feel important, lame I know. Of course it is always better if the secret is a good one and not one that will hurt someone or cause turmoil in their life. I am also one of those people that can take a secret to the grave if need be. I get a lot of grief about this amongst my gossipy co-workers, they do not like that I know stuff that they don't know and I don't even bother to tell anyone. They are the type that can take a secret and make it public knowledge in less that 60 seconds and are not above talking about each other to each other. It helps that I have ears like a turkey (whatever that means). I would not call it eaves dropping because I don't go and blab it to everyone. I am just nosey informed.
So if anyone needs to tell someone a secret, I would love to help you out. I have a few of my own actually just bursting to get out soon!

See Ya Gustav

Lucky for us, Gustav took a path away from us. We did get a day full of storms and will probably have some today too. For the first time where I live, we had to get into the hallway because of tornado warnings. We live near downtown and usually we get skipped over as far as tornadoes go, but a few times we heard the sirens.
My parents came down for the weekend and ended up leaving a day early so they would not get stuck in bad weather Monday. It took them 5 hours to get to Montgomery, ridiculous. They said the roads were packed with Louisiana plates. I was glad not to have to leave, it throws such a wrench in your weekend! Plus I am still a bit under the weather and just could not be bothered by the storm.
The monkeys were bouncing off of the walls. Big Monkey was "sick" of watching the weather!! I think mostly they enjoyed making a "camp out" in the hallway and sleeping on the sofa bed with mommy Sunday night. This of course means mommy did not sleep Sunday night.
It looks like Mississippi made it through the storm without too much damage. They were really devastated with Katrina (not that the media really talked about them much). Anyway, I am glad Gustav did not pack as much punch as was feared. I just hope people don't become complacent with the next storm. After all, we are watching Hanna, Ike and TD 10.