The Silver Bullet

• It's Friday again. Time for random thoughts. And bullets.
• This morning while driving the kids to school, I got to thinking about the way people yell out "Geronimo!!!" when they jump out of a plane or off of a cliff or something like that. I was wondering where that came from, who was the first person who did that, and why. If you have this information, please fill me in.
• I hate money.
  
• We haven't been swimming in two weeks. This is a long time for us. Poor Mr. Popsicle has a leak in his pool. He thought it was fixed, but someone discovered today that it wasn't. It's been so hot. And we've missed seeing the Popsicles (they've been out of town on the last couple of weekends so we haven't even seen them at church).
  
• There's this big storm that came rolling in a few minutes ago. It's thundering and lightening like crazy. I like summer storms (as long as they are not of the tornado type). I wish it would rain all night.
  
• Second week of school finished. Got the last of the curriculum this week so we are settling down into everything. I think it's going to be a good year. I just feel like I am juggling more balls than ever before---oh, maybe because I am!
• I've been getting up kind of on time this week. If you knew what a life long struggle this has been for me, you would be proud of me for this. And I mean I've been getting up like a normal person, doing the necessary things and being nice about it. (Even as a baby my mother said she knew I was not a morning person.) A couple of nights this past week I went to bed early and maybe that's the secret to being able to get up in the morning. Who would have thought it? Elisabeth Elliott's father was right: it does start the night before.
• Lovely K is going to make a home made angel food cake this weekend (if I can squeeze it in with the four million other things I need to do before the in-laws come in on Sunday for the week). I always used a recipe from my grandmother's home economics book when I used to make these, but I found a recipe in one of those Martha Stewart magazine-type things I was getting there for a while. We're going to try the new recipe. Hopefully I won't be woefully disappointed in another of Martha's recipes. Do I need to remind you?
• I found the cutest dress today at JC Penney's. It was so cute on the hanger. This pale pea green and cream, big polka dots, classic, feminine cut. Kind of looked like it had a '40s or 50's flair to it. I was enchanted with it. And it was on the clearance rack. It had one of those cross over V necks and on the hanger I had no idea that it wasn't just the perfect little dress. Took it into the dressing room and I just could not have been more surprised to find that neckline was a tribute to the deep south. It was ridiculous. I mean, it would have been such a lovely dress....and I'm thinking, who wants this type of dress cut that low? Ridiculously low. I realize I'm still the milk truck here with the nursing thing going on, but I don't think that played much of a part in this situation. It was just so aggravating. Why is it that if you find a dress that's decent on the bottom half, it has to be strapless or expose 85%of your bosom and if you find one that's modest and attractive on the top half, its bottom part is some tight, mini-skirt with a slit to the waistline?!?!? Why is this? Why can't we have the classic, modest cut on the whole dress? Put the stripper neckline with the stripper skirt and not mix the two.
  
• For some reason I'm thinking the title of this post is also the name of a beer. Is that true? I'm not exactly in touch with names of beers, but I'm thinking there used to be commercials for a beer called The Silver Bullet. Or else some beer that is named something else was said to taste like a silver bullet.....or be like a silver bullet in some other way. Why would you want something to taste like a silver bullet? I don't know. But then, I can't think of many subjects I know less about than the subject of beer. If you googled "the silver bullet" hoping to find an article about beer, I'm sorry to have led you astray.
• What do you do when you wake up at night and can't fall back to sleep? This is hardly ever a problem for me. I am a sound sleeper and I'm usually very tired by the end of the day. So I sleep at night like a baby. But when I don't sleep for some reason, I pray. I say all that to say this: I got a lot of praying done last night. I was sooo tired today. And it's a quarter 'til nine on a Friday night. When I was 20, it would still be early enough to call a friend and say "Hey, you want to do something tonight?" How old am I that I just want to get on my jammies and crawl into bed?
• Watched a little bit of Man Vs. Wild tonight. We used to watch that faithfully a couple of years ago. Lovely K and Big E lived for that show. So we start watching it tonight....and I have to say, when Bear Grylls started eating a live octopus, it just made me want to hurl. And then after a commercial or two, he had a jar full of insects that he mushed together into a nice squirmy wad of protein-packed breakfast....I don't think I have the stomach to watch this show any more. I'd drink 100 Silver Bullets before I'd eat that mess. And it's just so strange to watch this great-looking guy just eating these horrible things. Even now...just thinking about it....it's making my face get all wadded up.....yuck.
• Busy weekend ahead. Not like we have a lot of plans going on, just SO MUCH to do. So much to get done before Monday. I could get a head start on it tonight after the kids are tucked in...but weren't you reading two bullets ago? I got a lot of praying done last night, not a lot of sleeping. I'm tired. I'm going to turn in. And I don't care if it's not 9pm yet. I'm a grown woman. I can go to bed whenever I want to.
  
• Have a lovely weekend, Dear Reader.