November 15, 2011
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fake it til you make it
Today I get to go see cows in their natural habitat accompanied by somewhere around a hundred small noisy critters. In regular English, this means I’m going on another field trip with those cats I herded in the grocery store last week. And there will be more of them today because the kiddo whose mother says, “asking ___ to sit still quietly is like killing him” is NOT on vacation. Ok. So… cow poo, small children who don’t listen. Oh, and it’s raining. But I do have a positive attitude. Really I do. Because I have my first monster germ fest of the school year. I can’t breathe. Which means I won’t smell the cow poo.
And I probably will survive this field trip and my cold. Which is good because this weekend is an action-packed adventure of nonstop yummyness. Friday night we’re going to see TSO again. Last year we had tickets so close it was scorching hot to see this spectacle. Not so close this year, but that’s ok.
The best part of Trans Siberian Orchestra is the importance of synchronized hair flipping. This is one of my favs. (What with Pachelbel’s Canon being such a fine thing on its own.)
Spawn and I are doing a craft show on Saturday because she wants to. And I have tickets to two more performances this weekend: one a high school play that my 2nd favorite 14 year old is in and the other a murder mystery that one of my good friends is in. No sitting at home.
Everybody’s working for the weekend. I can finish my paper in spite of myself (although I think it may require playing hookie tomorrow), make it through everything I have to do, because there’s good stuff out there. Well, there’s lots of good stuff. I just need the big shiny, spectacle stuff to make it this week.
Excuse my little peptalk to myself. It’s been days since I said something long-winded and we can’t have that.
Comments (19)
thing about kids is they keep you in the game. and damn, you even pepped *me* up with that.
@complicatedlight - you got a point there. glad you got pepped. have a good day bear.
Walking with cows…
A new Broadway musical.
@homealivein45 - moooove over “wicked”
sounds like a cool weekend planned !!!!!!!!!
that was the best flippin hair I’ve ever seen …
@roscoes_farm - i’ll need to go to work on monday just to get some rest.
@mlbncsga - i know, right? and the guys do choreographed hair flipping too. it’s almost ridiculous.
You have a lot of energy for the weekends.
@ordinarybutloud - absolutely not. i’m somewhat dreading it. weekends are made for collapsing. (hence the title of my post) it’s unfortunate that everything has to be this weekend.
@promisesunshine - oh…you sounded so upbeat…I have to tell you, I dread any weekend that involves more than two things. And one of them better be, “sleep in.”
@ordinarybutloud - oh. sleeping in…… what would that be like? but i’m playing hookie tomorrow. maybe i’ll sleep in then. all by myself. while everyone else goes to work and school.
bwa ha ha. suckers.
@promisesunshine - don’t tell anyone but I went back to bed for two hours after I dropped the kids at school today. ;)
@ordinarybutloud - you wild and crazy woman.
TSO. i’m going to have a listen now.
@be_the_rain - hope you dig it. turning on my pandora station now.
Those vids are so cool!
TSO is amazing! How exciting that you get to go see them! 
Sounds like a good weekend ahead…fun with stuff and kids!
YAY!
Enjoy!
HUGS!
Sounds like a fun field trip to a farm, and i used to love those when my kids were in school. Love this group and thx for sharing the videos.
@Grannys_Place - it was awful. nearly tossed me cookies it smelled so bad. perhaps if i hadn’t been sick, it would have been good. it really was interesting for the kids.