How I Spent My Saturday

I took my daughter and her friends to see Panic at the Disco in Atlanta this weekend. I am much too old for this stuff! But here are some pictures I took, once it stopped raining. The first is of the Honda Civic they are giving away, and what I assume is their tour bus. My daughter would love me forever if I won this car. She thinks I would give it to her. Ha :)

The second is of me and a guy from the band Phantom Planet. The sing that "California" song from the O.C. show, and some other stuff that I had never heard before. (I didn't actually take this picture, since I'm in it, duh. ) Anyway he was very sweet (and cute) and is probably young enough to be my son. He was probably horrified that he had to stand there and have his picture taken with someone's mommy. I apologized to him for that.

The picture is so dark because we (the adults) were in a bar (no, really) at the venue, and not outside in the rain watching some other band we'd never heard of before.

This last one is an actual picture of Panic at the Disco, and it is fuzzy because (a) I was being elbowed by the teenage girls around me that were angry that I had pushed in front of them a little bit to take the photo, (b) I'm not very good at using a camera phone, and (c) Miller Lite was present in large quantities.

We had fun, though. And we got to eat at the Varsity afterward, which was a first for everyone in our group. Their onion rings are very yummy.

Gabe the Brewer

I can't stop looking...

For Your Viewing Pleasure

(I'm going to refrain from any ball-handling jokes.)

What I Got For My Birthday This Week.

A call from my mom. A card from my Nana (I'm too old for her to put a check inside anymore, darn it!) A call from my five-year-old nephew who didn't want to talk to me because I am "mean." A coupon for a free drink at Sonic. A card from my sister with a silly picture on it. A call from my oldest at college, who probably saw that it was my birthday when he logged on to Facebook that day :) A card from someone who used to be my neighbor when I was in elementary school. Hugs from my two youngest. Some cat throw-up in my favorite chair. An e-card from one of my son's old soccer coaches. Lots of spammy Happy Birthday emails from various companies. A new driver' license with a better looking photo than the old one. A coupon for a free Red Robin hamburger which I can't eat because I'm doing NutriSystem. A call from a very good friend. A fight with my husband. A new zit on my chin! And some flowers from my boss.

If Only She Knew (...and she will...)

Fourteen-year-old daughter says to me while watching The Secret Life of a Soccer Mom:
"It's a good thing YOU never had to give any dreams up for US."

I'm Still Not Ready for the 21st Century!

Two things that happened this week that made me feel OLD and out-of-it (despite the fact that I have three teens who try to make me feel that way every day):

1. Finding out a casual friend is newly pregnant with her second, by seeing her baby's ultrasound photos posted on her Facebook profile. (Congrats, A&J!)
   
2. Discovering another friend's ex had passed away last week, by reading a newsgroup dedicated to the famous music group he had once worked for. (So sorry, R.)
   

I Know a Lot of People Who Could Use This Excuse!

New Study Finds Old Forgotten Head Injuries the Source of Many Mental/Emotional Issues.

Happy Valentine's Day

I'm really sorry I haven't posted at all this month. Lots of stuff going on, though I'm still mostly jobless.

And here's the obligatory Valentine. (The only one I got in real life was from the receptionist in my old office. It had a pig on it!)


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Interview with Kasey Keller

Sounds like he may be headed back to the US, sooner or later...

Q&A: Kasey Keller, Ready To Seattle Down

What I Will Be Doing This Summer.

Going to a lot of these games, apparently.

Eye Candy!

Thanks to the Red Sox Chick for these shots of Gabe Kapler in Boston recently:

YUM.and YUMMER.

What Future Soccer Stars Eat

While going through some old papers, I found a list from about 1997. Apparently my then-9-year-old son was having some issues with what we cooked for him, so he was kind enough to make us a two-page list of the only foods he would eat. And here it is, misspellings and all:

Ham-Burgers
Hot-Dogs
Fried Chicken
Lays potato chips
Brownies
pork rins
Gold fish
chili
rice
steak
subs
cokies
Doritos
crab chips
scrambled eggs
rice cacke
pizza
ice cream
Lobster
crab legg
fish ccat, found, murel (note: WHAT???)
Almons
scaloped potatos
baked potatos
potato weges
Noddles
spagetii with no sause
popsicles
vegetable soup
Macoroi and cheese
Kiwis
peaches
salad
tomatos
Apples
Twix
Snickers
bonckers
War Heads
Shock tarts
Sweet tarts
Ham
turkey
stuffing
mashed potatos
pine apples
Green beans
corn
broccolie
Jello
Lemon sorbe
bagles
gummys
cheese sticks
grape
olives
Holopinios
Alligator
toast
snail
sausig

So we fed him Twix with Holopinios and Alligator for the rest of his life. The End.