Common Sense on Earth Day #tcot

I am so proud of Nicholas, my 12 year old. This morning he told be about an incident at school on earth day. I think he waited this long to tell me because he thought I would be mad, but I wasn't.

Apparently, to celebrate Earth Day, one of his teachers was Going on and on about saving the earth, saying we are almost out of fresh water and oil blah blah blah. So her lesson plan for the say was to make each student in all of her classes make large posters about saving the earth.

My son, raised his hand and said, "if we are trying to save the earth, don't you think using all this paper to make posters is a little hypocritical? Did you drive here today, or ride your bike?"

Apparently the teacher didn't like the questions, and just ignored him. Then the other kids in class started questioning her too. In typical Liberal fashion, because she couldnt answer any of the questions, she sent 4 of the students into the hall, including my son.

I told him that I was proud of him. I explained that it is ok to question what you are told when it doesn't make sense, but to remember to always be respectful when doing so.

Junior high

So tonight was the first night Kids Night Out came back for the school year. Nicholas and Colby were excited, but Colby hasn't been feeling well so only Nicholas went. I was scheduled to pick him up at 10:15 pm.

I unexpectedly get a call at 9:40! He is ready to come home. I wonder if he is beginning to feel Ill like the rest of us, although he says he's ok.

I pick him up, and he informs me that he and his friends have decided that they are now too old to go there, being in junior high and all! He also informed me that he'll probably still attend other weekends just so he can hang out with his friends though!

He's been in junior high for 2 weeks and so far he's begun wearing cologne and is too old for kids night out!


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Back to School Shopping

It's that time of year again.  I've got the school supply lists ready and need to buy back to school clothes.  My plan is to do it this weekend, over two days.  Supplies on Saturday, clothes Sunday.  But, it's already noon on Saturday and I REFUSE to take all the kids.  They are acting like complete monsters today!  It's been everything I can do to not completely freak the heck out!

I received a call from an old high school friend today who I haven't spoken with in probably 15 years.  We were on the phone for 35 minutes.  Do you think my kids showed me enough respect to give me 35 lousy minutes?  Nope.  They didn't even give me 5 minutes.  I was constantly having to correct them or referee.  I finally went in the back yard, but they followed me there, too.

Why do they do that?  The lack of respect is so disappointing, sometimes.  And now, after they have shown me no respect, I'm going to go buy hundreds of dollars worth of school supplies.

What's wrong with this picture!

What Annie learned in school today

Here's what Annie learned in school today:

Went to church today. First time in a decade

And I took my kids. Frankly I was surprised we weren't struck by lightening at the entrance! Although at one point Colby did look like he was in excruciating pain, and I could swear I saw his eyes roll back in his head.

They were pretty mad at me for making them go so I figured that means I did something right. I think I'll make them go again next week, too.


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My children had never seen Michael Jackson's Thriller (videos included in post)

So we were flipping through the channels tonight and Michael Jackson's "This is It" was on.  None of us had ever seen it before, so we started watching.  What an amazing talent.  I don't know what happened in his private life, and I'm afraid he's taken much of that to the grave with him, but you just cannot discount the fact that he is one of the most remarkable entertainers of our lifetime.

While talking to my kids, as they had a lot of questions about Michael, I asked if they had ever seen the Thriller video, and I couldn't believe my ears when they said they hadn't.  Well, we had to fix that, and fast!  So up came youtube, speakers all the way up, everyone crowded around.  They were all enthralled, even Annie who can barely sit long enough to take a breath!

After the video, they had even more questions, now about the moonwalk, so back to youtube we went, and I found the first ever moon walk, which I believe he performed at Motown's 25th Anniversary.  I remember watching that one live on TV with all of my family around.

More questions, more videos, and it was really an amazing experience to share with my children something and someone from my generation who's music made an impact on the world.

And I thoroughly enjoyed it all over again.  It brought me back 27 years, to a much different time; a fun, carefree time, and I was able to enjoy it with my children.  What an amazing night.

I have embedded the videos for you, because you know you want to watch them too, now!

ENJOY!  We did!

Moving my iTunes library is taking forever!

Still loving my new purple puter, and setting just about everything up has gone quite smoothly.  iTunes, though, has proven a bit daunting!

First, hubby needed the charger to the old laptop and took it to work, which was fine, but I had forgotten and then tried to start transferring the library.  The old laptop died about a quarter of the way through the transfer.  None of it stuck.  Not a big problem, just figured I'd work on it in the morning.

So this morning I was able to plug in the old laptop with the charger and started transferring the music.  it took a while, but it all transferred.  Wait, where are all the apps?  How in the world do I transfer all the apps?  After about 30 minutes of researching, I found out that if you right click on the iphone icon in itunes while it's plugged it, it gives you the option to transfer all purchases.  Well I wish I had known that last night!

Anyhoo, all the apps downloaded, but of course none of them are organized at all in my neat little folders I made.  So after lots of dragging and dropping and reorganizing, I finally got it all organized again.

I must say, I was a little apprehensive to sync again, but this time everything went well!

Total time to switch everything over?  5.5 hours

Why Companies Need to Fail. A Letter to the "President."

Dear Mr. President,

Please stop bailing out companies with my money.  You see, I believe it is necessary for companies to go out of business.  It's like survival of the fittest in the business world.  It's nature's way of clearing out the unproductive, and rewarding the good.

For instance, while I was sad to see Circuit City go, I have no doubt that it's competitors such as BestBuy saw an increase in their revenue.  So while Circuit City employees may have lost their job, I'm betting that Best Buy needed to hire a few to handle the additional customers.  <~~~~  Just click here if you don't believe me.

Another example is Bed Bath and Beyond.  While I loved to stroll through their aisles, they were extremely overpriced, and people knew it.  So now they are gone too.

Again, more people get their news from the internet than from print.  That doesn't mean you get to use my money to save newspapers.  Those companies will either need to adapt or move out of the way.

You see, you can't keep every company open.  It doesn't, and shouldn't work like that.  In essence, you are ruining competition among businesses.  Competition is what keeps prices down, customer service good and the consumer happy.  If you keep giving unproductive companies who mismanage their money bailouts, you are essentially making us pay twice for the same product.  First to purchase the product at an inflated price and then second when you give them our tax money as a bailout.

SO CUT IT OUT!  GO RUN THE GOVERNMENT PROPERLY AND LEAVE PRIVATE SECTOR ALONE!


Thanks,
Wendy

Talk About an AnnieTude!

Little Annie still isn't 100% pottie trained, so this morning when she woke up I noticed her pull-up was dry!  I asked her, "Annie, do you need to use the pottie?"  She simply said No.  So then I said, "Your pull-up seems dry, though.  Are you sure you don't need to use the pottie?"

This time, she looked at me like I hadn't been paying attention, leaned in towards my face, and with an inflection in her voice, says

"NOOOOOOOOO !!!"

I looked at my husband and said, "That's her AnnieTude!"

A case of the pre-teen stupids

So my eleven year old has a serious case of the "pre-teen stupids." Big Nick says to Nicholas "please go to the garage and get me two things. A bottle of water and my tackle box". So Nicholas goes down the stairs. I then say to Nick, I'd like a bottle of water too, so when Nicholas only comes up with one of your items, because we know he will forget one, and he has to go back To the garage, have him get me a water too. And sure enough, the stupids won and I got my water!


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