Weekend Sleepover

For a belated Christmas present, our family is getting our floor retiled. Bob, lazy old man that he is, absolutely refuses to do the work himself, so we had to hire some guys to do it for us.
The new tile was chosen by my dear old Ma, and is a weird reddish-brown color.
Anyway, because our house is covered with a thick layer of dust and we can't even walk on the floor half the time because the tile's wet or something, all 11 and a half of us are staying over my Uncle Mick and Aunt Tammy's house. They have a good sized house, but when you add the two families together, there are 15.5 people in it. We slept over last night and the night before, and now it looks like we might be staying tonight as well.
Joey is thrilled about this whole sleepover thing too. He's spent all this morning and a good portion of last night walking around in circles and moping. He's watched everything on his iPod, he says, and he's tired of playing video games. Joey is a fairly convincing moper, and I almost felt sorry for him. Then I remembered all the other times he's acted this way. Nine times out of ten, it's a carefully orchestrated act designed to make me and Bob feel sorry for him and give him something or take him somewhere or something along those lines.

Patriots in the Playoffs

The Patriots have their first playoff game tonight. For those of you who were surprised by their perfect season so far this year, don't be. They were under strict orders from the Divine Purple Elephant Queen to win every game they played. They know that if they loose a single game, then her Divinity will punish them to a life of eternal orangeness once she takes over the world.
And who in their right mind would want to be punished with the orangeness? The practice has been outlawed by the United Nations. They say it's inhumane to lock a person in a room with orange light bulbs, orange floor, orange ceiling, orange walls and feed them nothing but oranges and sweet potatoes. And of course, the person himself would be wearing nothing but, you guessed it, orange.
The Pats weren't to crazy about a life of orangeness (who would want to live so deprived of purple?), so they have no choice but to go undefeated through the entire season. If they loose tonight, though, don't expect to be seeing Tom Brady any time soon.

Happy Belated New Year!!!

I truly, genuinely, totally apologize for my recent absence and the lack of posts caused by it. I'm sorry.
But, seriously, it's Bob's fault. he bought me one of those new-fangled iPods, the one that's like an iPhone without a phone or a camera, for Christmas. As a direct result of that, I became addicted to buying television show episodes off iTunes. So far, I've purchased and viewed the first three seasons of "Numb3rs". Now I've started obsessing over "Bones" There's no time to do anything else when you can be wasting $2 per episode on television shows.
In fact, the only reason I'm writing this now is because I'm downloading another three episodes of "Bones" on iTunes, and it's taking awhile.
Anyway, the kids are starting to complain about how they never see me anymore. I've been spending half my time hiding in my bedroom staring at the 3" screen of my iPod touch. The other 12 hours a day, I'm either sleeping or performing my duties as chef/maid/taxi driver, all of which Bob is to lazy to perform.
Does anyone else think I'm obsessed?