Tonight, Preston and I sat down at the kitchen table.
"Let's eat ice cream, play Scrabble and watch a movie," says I.
"Nay, we must pay bills," says Preston.
"Sulk, sulk, sulk," I reply.
So while he wrassled the family finances, I let him go at it alone and made a movie about Scrabble instead.
Before I go running, I like to hold my cat and stand on the scale. That way, when I get back from my 60 second sprint and weigh myself again, it looks like I lost 9.3 lbs. It makes me feel really good all day.
Delusions are awesome.
I should get this cat.
And now, to the tune of Seven Seas of Rhye (because I like it better than "Princes of the Universe"):
Congratulations, Geoff! I'll submit your email to the unnamed Highlander gifting lady. Cheryl and Christine...I'm really sorry. But, as we all knew (say it with me) there can be only one.
Thanks for participating!
Buzz words! Did you know if you put together the right amount of buzz words in your blog post, people will contact you and ask you to give away free stuff for them? It's true.
A rather nice lady over at at New Video Digital (the people that bring us such hits as Highlander on DVD for home, backyard, or side of a grain silo viewing) noticed that I've got a rabid love for all things Highlander, so much that I regularly try to brainwash kids at church with it. To reward me for my undying (get it? because he's immortal! COMEDY, people!) devotion to the series, they've offered to give one lucky person a FULL SEASON download on iTunes. That's right, 22 plus episodes of Adrian Paul in all his MacLeody glory, for FREEzzles.
So...go post something in the comment section and in one week's time (that's April 29th) I'll randomly draw someone as the winner. If you've never even seen Highlander, now might be a good time to start because come on, who doesn't like free stuff? I'd enter a contest for a free tuna sandwich if I could. Which brings me to my next point: I'm so not above bribery. 
Come get your Highlander!
Now, for my next round of blog buzz words that will result in free stuff, ahem:
FANCY CAR, HOUSE PAYMENTS, STUDENT LOANS, DISNEYLAND, AUTOGRAPHED PICTURE OF PETER WINGFIELD, APPLE COMPUTERS, TIME MACHINES, UNICORN
(And if it helps, yes, I've talked about all of these things with my church nursery kids, too.)
So at my church I'm in charge of the Primary, or the little ones from ages 1-12. This week we were a little shorthanded (congratulations on new Mr. Baby Broderick!) but with all the teachers' awesome powers combined, we were totally Captain Planet, church style. Wind! Earth! Scriptures! Prayer! Heart! Cupcakes! (no really...the cupcakes totally keep them well behaved.)
Anyways...long ago, the CD player that sat in the nursery for the itty bitty littlies (ages 1.5 to 3) was hooliganized away, so we've had to make do with singing the songs ourselves. I decided that this was to be no more and brought in my laptop to play some nice happy Sunday music for them.
Unbeknowst to me (I was off teaching another class at the time) sometimes a laptop can be too much of a temptation for little hands and button punching was soon underway. With iTunes being the user friendly beast that it is, the kids were soon watching whatever was next on my iTunes list after the children's hymns...which just so happened to be The HIGHLANDER TV Series.
"It was the strangest thing," a parent said to me afterward. "One minute they were listening to 'Give Said the Little Stream' and the next, it was a guy in a mask talking about how he wanted to chop someone's head off."
Luckily, it was shut off pretty quick.
I think what's really embarrassing here is not so much the fact that I inadvertently exposed some poor kids to mid-nineties bad acting and violent swordplay...but the fact that I have it on my iTunes. And I watch it pretty often.
We gotta find that CD player.
I know, I know. Flash mobs are nothing new, social experiments have been done to death and everyone who's anyone has done a spontaneous musical at one time in their lives.
But can you get more heartwarming than this?
I submit that you cannot. It's the most adorable social experiment ever.
I asked Preston what we would do if we were rushing for a train to Paris and we saw something like this happening in the station. Would he stop with me and watch? Or would sensibility prevail and we'd hurry along on to catch our ride?
I like to think we'd stop.
...but I REALLY hate missing trains.
Preston and I just spent the last few minutes figuring out the first part of the theme to "The A-Team" in Morse code. In case you were curious, it's K-U-H-B-T. We think.
Ah, the A-Team. Ah, Morse code. Pardon while I reminisce on things slightly before my time but enjoyable nonetheless. Feel free to do the same.
