we made it to kinley's birthday party on saturday night - so fun! our friends lori and aaron came up a bit earlier in the afternoon and hung out at our house with us for a bit to catch up before the party. maura's sister brook and her family were there, as were mike's mom and step-dad, so it was a small party, but still a good time. we got to eat kinley's favorite foods, which consisted of macaroni and cheese, calzones, lil smokies in bbq sauce, and fresh fruits and veggies - very diverse, no? it is amazing to watch 2-year olds open presents, by the way. brook's oldest boy's bday is today so maura got him a few gifts to open while kinley opened her presents, and between the two toddlers, it was like a whirlwind of shredded paper and flying boxes and squeals of delight. sadly the two cute outfits we got kinley were nowhere near as big a hit with her as the giant legos and babydoll outfits she got from grandparents - alas. maura liked them, though, which counts for something!
also this weekend, i finally bought myself a food processor! i've been debating the purchase for approximately 3 years, and had purchased a small 1-2 cup food chopper at wal-mart a while back in an attempt to convince myself i didn't need an expensive kitchen appliance, but hated it and thus never used it. in reading reviews of food processors on consumer reports, though, i found that kitchen aid and cuisinart food processors are basically ranked the same - but bed bath and beyond has a $20 mail-in-rebate on their kitchen aid food processors! so between a b3's 20% off coupon (which doesn't exclude kitchen aid - i was surprised!), a $24 in-store credit leftover from christmas, and the $20 mail in rebate, i got this normally $200 food processor for $115 + tax, which is 44% off. awesome! i haven't used it yet (although i should have last night - i had to chop two onions and a bunch of celery and cilantro for the pioneer woman's thai chicken soup), but i'm very excited. homemade pesto here i come.
i've been fighting a cold for the past week, and apparently my body decided to add a stomach bug to that last night. i made dinner, started feeling gross and took my temperature to find it at 96.15*. what? i then spent the rest of the night curled up on the sofa under three blankets, with a bottle of pepto by my side, a packet of saltines on my lap, and watching my gilmore girls season 3 dvd. by the time i went to bed, my temperature was a normal (for me) 97.6*, but this morning as i was getting ready for work, it was up to 99.4*. i took some tylenol and headed to work anyway, and so far i'm surviving the day. i'm tired and my tummy still hurts, though, so i'm debating canceling tutoring for tonight ...
Showing posts with label tv. Show all posts
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glee and marriage philosophy
[quick preface: if you only read my blog via reader or e-mail, please go to my real blog site now to ooh and aah over my new format. i'm very proud - i found the background through a blog, then decided i wanted to change the fonts, so i went to kevinandamanda.com, downloaded and installed her super cute free (free!) fonts, used her tutorial on how to change the font for the sidebar and post titles, and then used microsoft word and irfanview to create the text picture for the header. it's way easier than you'd think to put the words on a transparent background - when you're saving as a gif, there's an option on the right to set a color as transparent. anyway, go check it out - i like it a lot, and i'm quite pleased with myself that i was able to figure out how to do all that.]
so we were watching glee last night, loving it as usual, but at the end of the episode i found it really troubling that the main character is a married man, but you're completely rooting for him to not be with his wife. i'm clearly anti-affair, and as a general principle don't think that divorce is a good option ... and yet when it comes to will schuester and his conniving wife terri and sweet co-worker emma - i want him to leave his jerk of a wife and go be happy with emma! yes, it is just a show and they're just fictional characters, but i do think that the media we consume can shape our views and thoughts. i don't know. i like the show, and i have no plans of cancelling my tivo season pass for it (especially since it's not necessarily any "worse" morally than any other show on tv, and a lot better than many), it just made me stop and think.
food for thought:
- does empathizing with a fictional character who you think "should" leave or cheat on his wife make a person more likely to consider the same behavior in real life?
- as a christian, i hold to the bible's teaching that divorce should really only be an option in instances of adultery (and, i'll add, abuse). (disclaimer: clearly plenty of christians get divorced every day for reasons beyond those two, and while it makes me sad, i'm not going to condemn them for it.) should marriages between non-christian hold to that standard as well?
- what is the purpose of marriage in a society where 50% of marriages end in divorce?
- for non-christians, is there any real difference between marriage and committed co-habitation? which is preferable?
- realistically, are there any differences between the marriages of non-believers and those of christ-followers? (here, i mean real, legitimate christians who are actively following christ - not people who claim the title christian but show no life change.) what about non-believers and christians (by which i mean people who claim the title and may or may not actually put any belief behind it)?
blowin' in the wind
we took flitty back to the airport last night, and it's once again officially just us at home. that may not sound all that unusual, except that scott's parents got into town two weeks ago yesterday, and with the exception of two nights, we've either been with his family at home or elsewhere, or sharing a hotel room with a friend ever since then. i almost don't know what to do with myself ... but then i formulated this lovely plan for this evening: 1) workout, 2) laundry, 3) tivo. doesn't it sound nice? three things that i haven't really gotten to do in the last two weeks - and since shows like glee and biggest loser have now started and are taking up valuable room on my tivo's harddrive, i feel it's only right.
also, last night we were discussing patrick swayze's death, and goo pondered who the other two celebrity deaths would be, since as we all know, celebrities die in threes. this morning, npr informed me that henry gibson and mary of peter, paul and mary are the other two. (p.s., i am a strong proponent of the oxford comma, and it kind of bugs me that peter, paul and mary don't use it in their name.)
also, last night we were discussing patrick swayze's death, and goo pondered who the other two celebrity deaths would be, since as we all know, celebrities die in threes. this morning, npr informed me that henry gibson and mary of peter, paul and mary are the other two. (p.s., i am a strong proponent of the oxford comma, and it kind of bugs me that peter, paul and mary don't use it in their name.)
welcome to fall
i have the greatest husband ever. need proof?
last spring, fox showed a 1-hour premiere of glee, which is about a high school glee club and is billed as a "musical comedy". read: very much my type of show, but scott groaned when i described it to him and told him how much i loved the premiere. anyway, just now, scott was setting up new tivo season passes online, asked me when community (nbc's new office-esque sitcom about a community college that looks hilarious) starts, then asked, "do we want to tivo glee?" i responded with a giant smiley and approximately ten exclamation points after my "yes" (we're on im at work), but seriously, isn't that sweet? not only that he remembered four months later that it's a show i'm interested in watching, but then that he proactively offered to set up a tivo for me - aww. it's the little things, i tell you.
we've had a very busy but super fun five days! this weekend was andrew's wedding in wisconsin/mini-college reunion. we flew in on saturday, out on monday, and in the middle had a wonderful time seeing some great old friends and catching up with people that were in our group of friends in college but that we haven't stayed in close touch with. it was really amazing to me how easy it felt to fall back into life with them. natalie and axel were adorable, and it was so fun getting to see two of my closest girlfriends from college as moms. it was crazy, though, because i think saturday night a bunch of us were crowded around a table for dinner, and i realized that no one lives in the same place anymore - we have people in birmingham, boston, chicago, portland, minneapolis, milwaukee, north carolina. i know everyone lives in the city they live in for a reason, but i have to confess i would love it if all of them wanted to pick up and move to denver. (which i say very selfishly, because i don't want to leave denver to move anywhere else - especially if that elsewhere has humidity. eesh. two days of that was enough.) anyway, it was a really great time, and i'll be getting pics up on facebook as soon as the photo uploader starts working again.
on monday, we flew back to denver and drove straight from the airport up to breck to hang out with scott's parents and sisters for a few days - also fun. we went hiking with them the last two days, then would get back to the condo and play yahtzee and spades and watch movies. very relaxing. for me, at least - i thought his sister wendy would have a nervous breakdown from the tension of our spades games!
last spring, fox showed a 1-hour premiere of glee, which is about a high school glee club and is billed as a "musical comedy". read: very much my type of show, but scott groaned when i described it to him and told him how much i loved the premiere. anyway, just now, scott was setting up new tivo season passes online, asked me when community (nbc's new office-esque sitcom about a community college that looks hilarious) starts, then asked, "do we want to tivo glee?" i responded with a giant smiley and approximately ten exclamation points after my "yes" (we're on im at work), but seriously, isn't that sweet? not only that he remembered four months later that it's a show i'm interested in watching, but then that he proactively offered to set up a tivo for me - aww. it's the little things, i tell you.
we've had a very busy but super fun five days! this weekend was andrew's wedding in wisconsin/mini-college reunion. we flew in on saturday, out on monday, and in the middle had a wonderful time seeing some great old friends and catching up with people that were in our group of friends in college but that we haven't stayed in close touch with. it was really amazing to me how easy it felt to fall back into life with them. natalie and axel were adorable, and it was so fun getting to see two of my closest girlfriends from college as moms. it was crazy, though, because i think saturday night a bunch of us were crowded around a table for dinner, and i realized that no one lives in the same place anymore - we have people in birmingham, boston, chicago, portland, minneapolis, milwaukee, north carolina. i know everyone lives in the city they live in for a reason, but i have to confess i would love it if all of them wanted to pick up and move to denver. (which i say very selfishly, because i don't want to leave denver to move anywhere else - especially if that elsewhere has humidity. eesh. two days of that was enough.) anyway, it was a really great time, and i'll be getting pics up on facebook as soon as the photo uploader starts working again.
on monday, we flew back to denver and drove straight from the airport up to breck to hang out with scott's parents and sisters for a few days - also fun. we went hiking with them the last two days, then would get back to the condo and play yahtzee and spades and watch movies. very relaxing. for me, at least - i thought his sister wendy would have a nervous breakdown from the tension of our spades games!
saturday night at home
we're enjoying a good weekend for the most part. last night, we took goo to black hawk (a casino town just outside of denver) as a birthday present. we meant to take her last year, but house crises intervened (i think that was the night the hose in our bathroom burst and flooded the room), so we did it for her 22nd birthday instead. we had fun hanging out, but i think goo and i quickly realized we aren't gamblers. it just seems like such a waste of money: sure you have the chance to win big, but you also have the chance of going home with nothing. if you don't gamble and just keep the money you came with, you're guaranteed to not lose it! i did mostly penny slots with a little bit of quarter video poker thrown in - gambled $7 and at the end of the night was down $3.68, which wasn't bad. just this month black hawk started doing more table games like craps and roulette, but there weren't that many tables with them yet, and they all had the minimum buy in of $5. whatever, i enjoyed the experience, and i think i'm good to go with having my gambling fix for, you know, life. and i still have zero desire to ever go to las vegas.
today was fun for me, slightly less so for scott. our good friends lori and aaron who moved to mexico to teach two years ago are finally back in colorado, so they and their three month old daughter clara, and mike and maura and kinley all came over for lunch and hanging out - we were tentatively planning to go hiking down in roxborough. while he was at men's group this morning, though, scott started feeling sick. he laid down for a few minutes before everyone got here, made it through most of lunch (but didn't eat anything), and then came inside and went to bed for almost 5 hours while the rest of us hung out. i think he's feeling a little better now, but we're cancelling our plans to play kickball with friends tomorrow. all that to say, though, it was really fun getting to see lori and aaron and meet their sweet (and very pudgy) baby girl. i'm glad to have them back nearby.
i think scott and i are heading to blockbuster to pick up a movie for tonight. we're still in the midst of our no-tv month, and it's been really good for us, but a) movies don't really entirely count, and b) scott's sick and i think having something to do while lounging around will be good. it's really interesting to realize how much we - who really don't even watch that much tv - use it to sort of fill the void, or just provide background, or let us just veg. i don't think tv's bad, but i think this month is a great exercise in making us realize how many other things there are to do at night. and in making us realize how much we tend to rely on tv - for instance, dinner's ready, so we both grab our plates and start to head to the basement to watch some tv while we eat. instead, we've been sitting outside on the patio and talking and enjoying the fresh air. two weeks down, three to go.
today was fun for me, slightly less so for scott. our good friends lori and aaron who moved to mexico to teach two years ago are finally back in colorado, so they and their three month old daughter clara, and mike and maura and kinley all came over for lunch and hanging out - we were tentatively planning to go hiking down in roxborough. while he was at men's group this morning, though, scott started feeling sick. he laid down for a few minutes before everyone got here, made it through most of lunch (but didn't eat anything), and then came inside and went to bed for almost 5 hours while the rest of us hung out. i think he's feeling a little better now, but we're cancelling our plans to play kickball with friends tomorrow. all that to say, though, it was really fun getting to see lori and aaron and meet their sweet (and very pudgy) baby girl. i'm glad to have them back nearby.
i think scott and i are heading to blockbuster to pick up a movie for tonight. we're still in the midst of our no-tv month, and it's been really good for us, but a) movies don't really entirely count, and b) scott's sick and i think having something to do while lounging around will be good. it's really interesting to realize how much we - who really don't even watch that much tv - use it to sort of fill the void, or just provide background, or let us just veg. i don't think tv's bad, but i think this month is a great exercise in making us realize how many other things there are to do at night. and in making us realize how much we tend to rely on tv - for instance, dinner's ready, so we both grab our plates and start to head to the basement to watch some tv while we eat. instead, we've been sitting outside on the patio and talking and enjoying the fresh air. two weeks down, three to go.
spider season
ick ick ick. we have apparently reached the time of year when the inside of our house is cooler and more comfy than outside, and spiders find that attractive. i spent almost two glorious hours laying outside in the sun this afternoon*, and since then i've discovered two very large, black, hairy spiders inside my house. i do not like this!
* - my boss came up front this morning, and told me that he was closing the office at 3 because the weather was so beautiful outside - with the stipulations, though, that we (me and my coworker) had to go spend the time outside and do something athleticy with people we love. i'm down with that! my coworker went on a bike ride with her son; i decided to lay in the sun until scott got home, and then we went to the gym. that kind of counts, right?
also, tonight is the biggest loser's season finale. i love that show! they're currently showing the flashback of the beginning of the season, and it's super inspirational. honestly, i credit this show with making me like working out - in part because it gives good ideas of stuff to do at the gym, and in part because i look at these morbidly obese people and figure, if they can run on a treadmill, i can.
* - my boss came up front this morning, and told me that he was closing the office at 3 because the weather was so beautiful outside - with the stipulations, though, that we (me and my coworker) had to go spend the time outside and do something athleticy with people we love. i'm down with that! my coworker went on a bike ride with her son; i decided to lay in the sun until scott got home, and then we went to the gym. that kind of counts, right?
also, tonight is the biggest loser's season finale. i love that show! they're currently showing the flashback of the beginning of the season, and it's super inspirational. honestly, i credit this show with making me like working out - in part because it gives good ideas of stuff to do at the gym, and in part because i look at these morbidly obese people and figure, if they can run on a treadmill, i can.
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