Once upon a time, there were two brothers who lived in England. One of them moved to Australia with his wife and family and settled there. The other moved to Canada with his wife and family etc. and THAT man was my great-great-possibly-another-great-grandfather.
The end.
Do you think they meant to both go to the same country but one of them got on the wrong boat? Or maybe they waved goodbye to each other gleefully, like "SO LONG! DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU ON YOUR WAY OUT (of England)!"
My sister-in-law is feeling a lot better, thank God. She's still having a very rough time, so please keep her in your prayers, if you're the praying sort.
Eight Things I'm Looking Forward To
Oh, this one is hard. Recent stuff has strip-mined me of optimism, really.
1. I am buying new pants tomorrow!
2. Possibly they will be capri pants!
3. I am going away for the weekend!
4. Um. Exclamation mark!
5. Don't rob my house! There's nothing in it but a bunch of books and some old cats!
6. I am looking forward to not writing another whining-strip-mining-optimism sentence again.
7. I am looking forward to my kids going to bed.... soon! YAAAY!
8. My husband just told me that he has my favorite chocolate bar stashed in the cupboard for my Ghost Whisperer-watching pleasure. Whoo.
Eight Things I Did Yesterday
Yesterday was kind of horrible.
1) Went to a party. A lame party for preschoolers.
2) Felt dour.
3) Hung out with The Girl, who was home sick.
4) Discussed whether or not we had Swine Flu with my child. We were unsure.
5) Called my husband at work. He told us that we had colds.
6) Made myself cry imagining how sad my funeral would be.
7) Called my husband at work again, sobbing. He was strangely very busy.
8) Worried about my sister-in-law.
Eight Things I Wish I Could Do
1) I wish I could CALM THE HECK DOWN.
2) I wish that I could lose an unspecified amount of weight. But not in some horrible Monkey's Paw sort of way, FATE.
3) I wish I could come up with a great answer when people ask me what I'm going to do next year. I'll know when I get there, PEOPLE!
4) I should be writing down actual skills here, eh? Like DRIVING. I like not driving, though. It's restful. It provides a handy excuse for things I don't want to do.
5) I wish I could sew. There ya go.
6) Also knitting. I am not good at the womanly handicrafts.
7) Oh! I know. I've always wanted to know how to use a lasso. That would be awesome.
8) I wish I could watch tonight's episode of the Ghost Whisperer, which is set IN A HAUNTED DOLLHOUSE, but my rotten children are still up. Geez.
Eight Shows I Watch
Okay, this one? Is easy! TV IS MY FRIEND!
1) 30 Rock.
I love this show. This show is everything I have always wanted a show to be.
2) The Office.
I do not love this show as much as I used to. But I still love it.
3) The Ghost Whisperer
The best and greatest show currently being made about a buxom antique store owner who can speak to the dead.
4) National Geographic Specials
Not because I'm so smart but because we've cancelled most of our cable and much of the day, THIS IS WHAT IS ON. I now know more than I've ever known before about lemurs.
5) Martha Speaks
Maybe even better than The Ghost Whisperer and WAY more believable. They should do some cross-over episodes.
6) Mantracker
RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVEEEEES!
7) Magnum PI
The older I am, the hotter Magnum gets. SCIENTIFIC FACT.
8) Murder She Wrote
The greatest show of all time. Jessica Fletcher, you jolly Angel of Death, I salute you.
I don't like tagging people. If you want to do this meme, let me know and I'll tag you AFTER the fact. So very, very lazy.
1. First outta the gate: Mimi! Git workin'.
2. Nicole!
3. Veronica!
4. Subspace! (she tagged herself on twitter.)
5. Heidi!
36 comments:
I'm still laughing at "She bit off my nut sack that I tied around my belt to feed squirrels." Ah. Kenneth. So funny.
I can not watch Ghost Whisperer. I used up my lifetime's quota of bravery-in-the-face-of-creepiness during the X-Files years.
Have a good weekend! Enjoy your pants!
Martha Speaks over WordGirl? Well, it's a tough call. And Martha's owner, Helen, does have a LOVELY name. :)
Your husband is sweetly awesome--favorite candybar! YEs! Mine on the other hand rather unwillingly (not because he doesn't like it but becaus ehe is SO FREAKIN' BUSY) deigned to watch Spaced with me (we have the DVD through NEtflix and I have already watched ait and am watching it with him trying to get it done so we can get the NEXT ONE thank-you-very-much.) And no favorite chocolate bar for me since mine seldom leaves the house.
I am one of those odd people who hates "tv" though I love the tv shows I can rent through Netflix--like Wonderfalls and Firefly and Nova specials and BBC comedies. And am wishing my kids would go to bed and my husband would stop with Left 4 Dead already so we can go watch our nightly episode of Spaced.
I love all the 8s and the insight they give me into YOU. But mostly I want to know ... did those greats, once separated about as far away as any two brothers could be ... ever, EVER see each other again. I can't get that outa my head.
30 Rock: "Yo! You shouldn't end a sentence with a preposition, AT!"
tagmetagmetagme. It's been ages since I did a meme. I feel like an unpopular hermit.
Becky, they never saw each other again.
Oooh, tag me too! Fun!
30 Rock is the best show on TV. I'm watching last night's episode tonight, can't wait for the kiddies to be in bed. CAN'T WAIT.
Darlin, what's wrong lately?
Maybe you like The Office a little more after last week? If you didn't watch it, go watch it online NOW. I wasn't liking the whole Michael Scott Paper Co. but they fixed it all just the way I would've. Hip hip - hooray!
A weekend away is just what the dr. ordered. Buy two pairs of capris. Go crazy.
Magnum and Murder She Wrote. The best episode of Murder She Wrote HAD MAGNUM ON IT. :) I love that one.
Of course you watch Ghost Whisperer. My husband laughs at it, like this: "How did they get this job? I could so do this..."
Me, I'm totally freaked and cannot sleep afterwards. No Ghost Whisperer for me, thanks.
But I can see how once you've had ghosts IN YOUR HOUSE with you, it wouldn't be that scary to watch them on tv. ;) I hope you have DVR because ghosts and dollhouses? That's so YOU, Beck.
you completely played the Loverboy card.
you are SO Canadian
did you really imagine your funeral and make yourself cry?
I feel that if you don't think 30 Rock and The Office are funny then you just don't have a good sense of humor. What do you think?
I LOVE those shows. :)
So glad you sis in law is feeling better, and I will continue my prayers for her. And I'll throw in some for you and your angst. ;)
6) Made myself cry imagining how sad my funeral would be.Dude. The other day I thought I was going blind (turns out I just had something in my eye) and I started SOBBING in the shower thinking I had a brain tumour and I was going to die and I wouldn't get to grow old with my husband and my daughter wouldn't remember me... etc etc... it was pretty traumatic.
Fortunately all the crying cleaned whatever it was out of my eye, at which point I was like FUCK YEAH I CAN SEE AGAIN!
Whoa--my delicate senses have been alerted!
I think you should knit yourself a lasso and then learn to use it, because that would be AWESOME. Then, you should carry it with you everywhere attached to your belt and insist that when, in fact, you do die, you must be buried with said lasso.
I have wished from time to time that I were Canadian. Alas, I am not. So I hang around Canadian blogs instead. Or something like that.
I didn't know you don't drive. Interesting. I waited a few years to get my license, but get it I did.
I will do this meme. Oh yes. I will.
I'm with Nowheymama. Martha Speaks is sweet-and-sloppy funny.
But Word Girl is biting wit. I knew I was in love at "Lady Redundant Woman."
(I just finished my series on disappointment -- in case you're feeling too cheerful right now -- and I related a conversation I had with my husband when I called him at work week during a bad day. Would it kill them to drop everything and cater to our every whim at that moment?)
I want to know, NAY, I need to know why you get to watch the Haunted Dollhouse episode THIS week and we Americans--where the flipping show is made--have to wait until Friday?!@?!?? The last episode of 30 Rock was my fave ever--the one where she is trying to put the water bottle on the stand--I have so been there. Then there was the salty sweetness in the end when Jack and Colleen go off to dinner together. All in all a very well rounded show.
I often think of Australia as our international twin. Like us, they are an ex-British territory, speak English with an accent that is neither American nor British, have lots of wide-open wilderness, are loved by immigrants, are direly threatened by global warming, and are both largely ignored and completely misunderstood by Americans. They also have great public radio. I have been mistaken for Australian from time to time too, but I figure it's a good guess, since Australian is about as close as you can get to being Canadian without actually being Canadian.
Even when you are down, you are funny.
May you all feel better soon. I have tried my darnest to like mantracker, my husband adores it, but I just can't. It's like watching paint dry, only more boring.
a list of my favorite parts:
7) Magnum PI
The older I am, the hotter Magnum gets. SCIENTIFIC FACT.
2) I wish that I could lose an unspecified amount of weight. But not in some horrible Monkey's Paw sort of way, FATE.
7) Called my husband at work again, sobbing. He was strangely very busy.
xoxo. you crack me up.
You are unbelievably hilarious on these memes. Martha Speaks is a funny show. We've been taking the books out of the library now too, which must be the point of the show, huh?
A lasso? That would be awesome! I'm sure you could fashion a whole blog post out of this.
I havent' done anything like this for a while so I might try my hand at it....
"Monkey's Paw sort of way" - ha ha ha! That is AWESOME.
Anyone who can do W.W. Jacobs references is supercool, even if she thinks she can stand to lose a few pounds.
Always remember this. And eat more chocolate.
Even when you're under it, memes bring out the funny in you.
Martha Speaks and all these "intelligent" cartoons of today. Give me good old mindless Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show or Flintstones any day. LOL.
How sweet of your hubby to hide you your favorite bar to munch on while you watch your favorite show.
I can't watch the creepy scary type of shows. They just stay with me way too long.
handfed by loverboy? interesting choice.
My great, great (dunno how many greats) grandpa mapped the coast of Australia. He was French. So his kids left France and settled in Nova Scotia and got kicked out ended up in Louisiana.
I have no idea what that has to do with your post. Something about Australia and Cananda.
I am so glad to see you say that TV is your friend. I get so tired of people feeling superior because they don't watch. I always feel vindicated with I come across intelligent, interesting women who like TV because I like TV, too.
And the fact that you like Ghost Whisperer makes me want to give it a try.
I enjoyed reading your 8 things.
i don't WANT things handfed to me by the members of Loverboy! ewww! horrors! i'd rather be Australian. ;)
I have never watched the ghost whisperer. I am going to check that out. will you tag me? I would like to do this one :)
Mine will be up in the morning. did you have a nice weekend away?
It feels lame to just say "You are very, very funny" instead of being funny back, but that's all I can come up with (and it's true.) I think my favorite line was "7) Oh! I know. I've always wanted to know how to use a lasso
I can't resist responding to the emigrating brothers... My mom's side of the family are Dutch. After WWII, many of them decided to leave the Netherlands. Everyone agreed to move to S. Africa together, and my grandparents went first; they sailed with my mom and her siblings to the other side of the world, paving the way for the rest of the family. The rest of the family then boarded ship to depart Holland... and went to Wisconsin! Can you imagine getting that letter? "Hey, thanks for being the first to go to South Africa! The rest of us changed our minds, and we're going to America." My grandparents and their 4 kids eventually moved to the Midwest, too.
Your SIL is still in my prayers!
Dern. It was cool to know an Australian for a while. Although in the Midwest, it is also cool to know a Canadian. :)
I should totally tivo 30 Rock. I think I will go add it to the queue now. Thanks for that.
PS. There is so much in the Things You Wish You Could Do Column that we could talk about. We could meet in Northern Michigan and have a margarita. (Because, you know, Northern Michigan is closer than I am to Canada. Although you probably would say you couldn't drive there.) Anyway: Ghost Whisperer in a haunted dollhouse? HELLO? Why I am not tivo-ing that gem? And I can sew but I cannot lasso. Lassoing is way cooler but probably less useful.
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