The Bed List/The Dinner List

Posted by on May 16, 2008 in dish | 0 comments I haven’t done one of these in a while, but I got inspired (you’ll see why). Click on the “Men” link at the end of the post to see previous choices.BED LIST: ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.He always played the sleaze or the troubled bad boy (not that it was a stretch) in all those 80s movies. But Robert Downey, Jr. has grown up in the “damn, he got hot!” mode previously...
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End of the Dawn Patrol

Posted by on May 14, 2008 in dish | 3 comments Last night, our local school board–in a cost-saving measure–voted to switch the school start times for middle and high schools. So instead of reporting at 7:10 am, we high school folks will now start at 9:30. This also means that Mr. Tuba, my soon-to-be middle schooler, will be waiting for a bus to deliver him to school at 7:30. Yep, in the dark part of the year.I don’t know...
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Bandapalooza

Posted by on May 12, 2008 in dish | 0 comments Swoop home for a quick dinner, then it’s off to the middle school for Bandapalooza! We listen to the middle school band, one high school’s jazz ensemble, and the other high school’s marching band, then the kids get to try all the instruments. Too fun. I ask DS what he thinks he likes. Saxophone and trombone, he tells me. He tries everything. Turns out he likes (and is...
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Yoga Meltdown

Posted by on May 8, 2008 in dish | 1 comment Threw a fit in yoga class today. Quietly, of course, not to disturb the others in the class, but a fit nonetheless. I sneak in and set up, and the first position off the bat is one that’s impossible for me to do. Virasana–hero’s pose.Bending the knees is no problem. It’s the thighs and calves. All those years of Highland dancing gave me calves like baseballs. They do not...
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Musings: Twilight

Posted by on May 5, 2008 in dish | 4 comments Okay. So I finally get around to reading the one book that everyone in the world (at least, every female in the world) has read except me: Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight. Students of mine have raved, friends of mine have raved. I’ve resisted. I did the same with poor Harry Potter. I ignored the siren’s song until Goblet of Fire, then cracked the cover of Sorcerer’s...
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