Somethings
Bananagrams – (The following is said in one long breath): Have you heard of Bananagrams? Do you like Bananagrams? We should get together sometime to play Bananagrams. (Pant, pant)
I even like saying it: Bananagrams. Sounds like a fantastic breakfast cereal.
Jason’s birthday is on Saturday. I am so excited about the presents I got him. The annoying, hyperventilating, “Wait ‘til you see what I got you!” kind of excited. This year I have managed not to blurt out what I got him, unlike our first year together where I carefully made him go to the other side of Best Buy, furtively bought a camera for him, and then, once we reconvened in the car, said, “Whew! The last time I bought a camera, it was so much more difficult.” Doh.
Jason is painting our window trim today. We have ghetto window trim because 1) our windows are old, old, OLD and 2) we left our storm windows on because otherwise some of our windows wouldn’t have screens and 3) the storm window trim is not the same color as the rest of the window trim. So he has graciously agreed to paint them “Knight’s Armour,” which is code for “No Longer Ghetto” Gray. It’s going to look great. Also, now we can host Dungeons & Dragons parties and jousting events and such.
Brett Favre is a Viking. I kind of get why Green Bay fans are frothing at the mouth and calling in to all the sports radio talk shows, but also? You had him during his prime, Packer fans. We’ve got him for what, maybe one good year if his femur doesn’t shatter the first time he gets sacked? Move on.
One of the magazines I read featured some families who vowed to give up all unneccesary spending for one year. One family saved $10,000 and they all said how much more they appreciated what they had and the time they spent with family. While I don’t really know if I’d want to go to such extremes, it is a pretty cool thought, especially considering Jason’s current employment status. I wonder how much we’d save. We really don’t spend much on big-ticket purchases except for our partial season tickets to the Twins (which, compared to the rest of Major League Baseball, are CHEAP), but I wonder how our little unneccesary purchases tally up. I bet if I stopped drinking Mountain Dew I could save us A BILLION DOLLARS.
I am reading World Made by Hand, which is about a group of people trying to recreate their little corner of the world after some mysterious bombing and superflu wipes out modern technology (electricity, computers, cell phones, etc.). I am fascinated by books like this because I always wonder how the lazy and entitled would fare, and I also imagine how I would react if something like that happened. Would I become a MacGyver-like figure, conjuring up electricity with an eraser and a potato? Could I build houses out of random pieces of wood and horse poop? Could I survive by growing my own food and supplementing it with edible plants? But then I remember that I have the immune system of a 98-year-old with emphysema and would probably be the initial victim of the Great Superflu Epidemic of 2030.
I was once teasing a boyfriend about how I wasn’t going to tell him the presents I’d bought him, which were U2 cassettes IF YOU MUST KNOW (cassettes! OMG!), and I said “I’m not going to tell you! I’m not going to tell you about the U2 cassettes!” Sigh. The CIA, it has not requested an interview.
Comment by Swistle — August 26, 2009 @ 9:47 am
LOL! You and Swistle, International Women of Mystery! Secret FAIL.
Comment by Shelly — August 26, 2009 @ 10:14 am
Ha- except you WOULDN’T save 10 billion dollars…because mountain dew is obviously NECESSARY spending. I thought the same thing about me and my coffee…but seriously. Coffee is VERY NECESSARY. You don’t want to know me without coffee. Therefore, there will be no savings there. Sigh.
Also…I’m so sick of the entire NFL drama this year! I feel like there are so many ridiculous stories this year…Favre, Vick, Plax, etc etc! I’m so sick of it and the season hasn’t even started!!!
Comment by Sarah — August 26, 2009 @ 10:23 am
We’re trying to save money without going overboard too. So we’ve cut out expenses that seem unnecessary, without punishing ourselves if there’s something we really want. So, yes, I’d like another set of sheets for our bed, but with sheets plus pillowcases plus duvet cover? It would probably be like $200, and we don’t NEED them, so no. We’re saving a fair amount, and it’s great.
Comment by Jess — August 26, 2009 @ 10:48 am
Brett Favre is a Viking. It’s so wrong. We hated him for like a gazillion years and now we’re supposed to welcome him with open arms? What? Why? I don’t get it. I can’t do that. I understand why the Packer fans are upset, although I don’t know why you would be a Packers fan. Brett Favre dressed in purple? It makes me head hurt and lights start flashing and I think I’m having a stroke.
He just needs to go away. And I will go back to thinking that my brain is not leaking.
Comment by NGS — August 26, 2009 @ 11:01 am
I just painted our ghetto garage door yesterday! Our neighbor is probably beside herself with excitement, thinking that we’re moving. No such luck, lady!
Comment by Nowheymama — August 26, 2009 @ 11:14 am
I LOVE Bananagrams! I would totally play with you if you lived within my time zone! I got it for my 8-year-old last Christmas, but I find that my teenager and I tend to play it the most.
Comment by Fiona Picklebottom — August 26, 2009 @ 12:21 pm
The locals in the ‘burg are calling him Brett Farce. Never heard of Bananagrams but I did have a banana for a snack this afternoon.
Comment by Julie — August 26, 2009 @ 4:42 pm
Brett Farve is a dumbass who just needs to go away. I’m sorry you guys are stuck with him.
Comment by Shelly — August 26, 2009 @ 7:26 pm
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Comment by Becky — August 27, 2009 @ 6:10 am
Oops, the last post didn’t turn out once I sent it.
The word was supposed to be great, coming down from the “g”, but it moved over to the “b” when I submitted it.
The message – Bananagrams…great….game.
Comment by Becky — August 27, 2009 @ 6:13 am
Bananagrams rocks my world.
Comment by Ellie — August 27, 2009 @ 3:16 pm
Heh. I’m laughing (well, uh, not in a RUDE way) about you being Patient Zero.
Totally Done with Brett Favre. We made the mistake of going to a sports bar the night of the press conference and I’ll probably never recover. Blech.
Comment by Tessie — August 28, 2009 @ 8:16 am
Love Bananagrams! My husband won’t play with me anymore though, so I have to find friends that are willing to play!
Comment by Haley — August 28, 2009 @ 9:00 am