Monday Mumbles

Here are the ten random things I'm thinking about today. And yes, I am ONLY thinking of ten.

1. Seven Pounds. Hubs and I watched this Will Smith movie last night. I liked it. I am not a movie critic or buff, I tend to enjoy almost all the movies that I watch. I take them for what they are. This movie was touching, and thoughtful. And disturbing. But somehow I related. I might need to talk this out with someone.

2. T.O. asked me this morning, in the car, how we were going faster than the truck next to us. Because obviously cars should NOT go faster than trucks, right? So I explained that although the truck might be able to go the FASTEST of the two cars, at that time they weren't going their fastest and Mama was just pushing her pedal harder than the truck driver. I then went on to point to the speedometer and explain that the orange stick was pointing to only part of the semi-circle and the car could go as fast as the right side of the semi-circle. My speedometer only shows the numbers 20, 40, 60, 80, etc. He then says, "The big line between the 40 and the 60, not the little lines, the big line, means 50." He can't count in fives or tens....how did he deduce that the line would represent 50? Smart little bugger.

3. I'll tell you who I DON'T think is smart. People with vehicle adornments like the following:

"GOOBER" sticker across the entire front windshield of a pick-up truck
"Suckin' Gas......Haulin' Ass" across the entire back windshield of a pick-up truck
(picture of a restroom sign man without his noggin) "Wanted: Head"
Pick-up trucks with bulls' balls dangling from the rear end

**There was a theme with pick-up trucks and you may go ahead and deduce how I feel about them.**

4. For show-and-tell last Friday, T.O. took Wee One's new book he received for his birthday. T.O.'s been reading it, and he decided to read a few pages to his class for S-A-T. He said his teacher told him "good job!" but he said his classmates just stared at him with their heads cocked sideways. Apparently non-reading 4 year olds don't see the beauty in knowing how to read yet.

5. I keep saying I won't cut T.O.'s hair anymore (in case it goes terribly wrong), but it's so curly that you really can't tell I'm doing it with home scissors. And you can't tell if/where the length is screwed up. It's really the ideal hair to cut for cheap mamas like myself. And I think his cut is cute. I'll try and remember to snap a pic for you tonight.

6. Five more working days and then....I'm headed on my vacation. I. AM. EXCITED. I might miss Wee One, and I might miss Hubs and 11 year old...but you can be sure T.O. and I will be having a blast.

7. Hubs just called on his work break. We're chatting. He said he was excited to go to work today because he knows that some people aren't. THAT'S the attitude we want to hear! (sorry - old cheerleader sneaking back into me for a minute. I'm done.)

8. None of us at the house have been able to completely shake this sickness we have. I'm not even sure what it is except a viral infection, most likely. Well, that's per Hubs' doctor because he's the only adult wimpy smart enough to go to the doctor and get it checked. Now, I have a cough that is TRYING to get stuff loose down in my chest, but it's not working. So I'm trying the old fashioned way: guzzling water and tonight I will go sprint around the block and see if I can't get it loose by breathing really hard and squeezing my lungs.

9. I just realized how long this Mumbles is today. I apologize.

10. I am admittedly starting to enjoy FB. I like the chat aspect. I also like that I am friends with my grandmother's brother's wife. How cool is that? And now I have five or so cousins on there, and since we don't see each other terribly often, I can keep up or send them a quick message there if I like. So far, the FB experiment hasn't gone all bad.....but stay tuned.