in case we ever have triplets

so last week on glee, there was a scene where a couple was discussing baby names, and the guy suggested the name "drizzle".  that made us laugh, and scott was commenting that it's the double-z that makes a name awkward.  (because the fact that the name is drizzle is not generally awkward enough?)  i asked what real names have a double-z, and he said, "oh you know, fuzzy ... wuzzy ... wuzzabear."

as in:
fuzzy wuzzy was a bear
fuzzy wuzzy had no hair
fuzzy wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy, was he?

if we ever have triplets, they're doomed.

the high school movie

scott had a bad cold last week and was still feeling sicky this weekend, so in addition to our previously planned tailgating prior to going to the airforce v. wyoming game with friends on saturday and yardwork on sunday, we ended up chilling and watching movies.  since we'd already rented two redboxes, scott consented to watching 10 things i hate about you (the fabulous 1999 teen movie, not the undoubtedly trashy new tv show that i haven't actually watched) on saturday night, and it got us to thinking - what happened to the high school movie?

the eighties had a zillion amazing high school movies, from the breakfast club to sixteen candles to say anything.  the nineties had instant classics like clueless, can't hardly wait, and she's all that.  this decade has had ... what, high school musical?  does that even count?  i guess bring it on was technically made in 2000, but come on, today's high school seniors were going into 4th grade when it came out.  yes, mean girls was made in '04, and it was a fabulous example of a high school movie until lindsay lohan turned into a trainwreck and most likely a "mean girl" herself ... it's just not so amusing anymore.  superbad?  yikes.  it just makes me feel bad for the current generation of high schoolers.

sheesh

i just finished madness, marya hornbacher's book about her bipolar - it was a much faster read for me than wasted and slightly less intense, but still, holy cow.  i am oh so very thankful that i don't have any mental illness to deal with, and also that my husband doesn't.  in college, i remember reading kay redfield jamison's an unquiet mind (among other memoirs about mental illness, like girl, interrupted and undercurrents), and while i haven't read an unquiet mind in probably four and a half years, the difference between bipolar i (madness) and bipolar ii (unquiet) is really startling.  to the best of my recollection, bipolar i is more severe and is typically marked by more mania and mixed episodes, whereas bipolar ii, while still clearly a major problem, is typically more treatable and involves more depression and fewer major manic episodes.  right?  either way, i feel like madness really rounded out my mental picture of bipolar.  not that it really matters that i have a well-rounded impression of bipolar disorder, but hey, i evidently find it interesting.

next up on my reading list is apparently the narcissism epidemic: living in the age of entitlement - i say "apparently" because i had placed a hold for it at the library and my copy came in this week.  then back to finish up the (i think) four books that i have sitting half-finished at home.  hmm.

and now, since i'm at work, i think i'll go do some work.  most of the office is out at meetings this week, so i'm just sending out some (and by some, i mean like 75) tax documents out certified, which is quite tedious work ... thus i wore my yoga pants and uggs into the office for maximized comfort, and plan on catching up on this season of grey's anatomy on hulu while i work.  i really can't complain.

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)?

because i'm a planner

so evidently working out doesn't make my legs immune to walking down ridiculous numbers of stairs. the last time i did the my building's full building evacuation drill (two years ago), i remember my calf muscles were in knots for a full week afterward - and so far, it's looking to shape up the same way this time, too. what a drag.

on a positive note, i discovered close to $1800 in my checking account that we had left over from transfers made for things like landscaping and purchasing walden that didn't get used! i had known for a while that the checking account looked abnormally full, but couldn't decide why and didn't feel like going back through my savings tab to figure it out until this week. even though it's clearly money we already had, it's still fun to be able to transfer it back into savings and mark it down on my spreadsheet. if all goes according to plan, our 6-month emergency fund should be fully re-funded by mid-november, which will allow us to put extra money each month at my student loans, and we could have those paid off by next august! *fingers crossed* at that point, we could throw money toward any number of things - saving for a new car for scott, retirement, paying down our mortgage ... the sky's the limit!