More administrivia

I’ve finally (finally) gotten around to updating my blogroll.  It has begun to resemble it’s former self (but all the links are hosted here and all that jazz).

Please don’t be upset if I’ve left you off, I’m doing this between loads of laundry and dishes and kids that need something Right Now and trying to eat healthy and all that.  Plus every time I pull up somebody’s blog (especially if I haven’t been there in a few days) I get drawn in to reading stuff.

So – if I haven’t put you on my blogroll (it’s over there, on the left.  yeah, that one) and you wanna be there, drop me a line in the comments or privately – my email is the same and there’s a handy Contact Form that you can reach from just about any page that you can use, too.

Question of the day

My five year old loves to take showers.  Begs to take them, actually.

And I don’t mind much, because when he’s in the shower he isn’t raising a fuss with his sister or asking me thirty questions about whatever I’m doing at the moment.  We both get a break, from each other.

So here’s my question:

He has been in there thirty minutes.  Do I make him get out, or just wait for the hot water heater to run out?

Hedging your bets

If you haven’t seen it yet (I’m talking about any of you with kids who might have uttered “I’m bored” this weekend), check out Over the Hedge.

Oh, my, this is what a cute-talking-animals-voiced-by-celebrities-who-are-tired-of-sitting-in-makeup-meet-stupid-people-and-hilarity-ensues movie should be!

From the beginning there were plenty of sight gags, movie references (“Stella!”), and characters to keep everyone interested.  Parts of it were laugh out loud funny, and at least two parts were pee in your pants funny, so consider that if you have a hard time holding your Jumbo Soda.

And, just for grins, we went to the New Theater in town, since they had the same movies as the Old Theater and hey, we’d never been there since they’ve only been open a week or so.  And you know what?  It passed inspection.  There was easy parking, no lines for concessions, ticket prices were the same, theater was clean and comfy with rocking seats, and all the employees were uber-helpful.  On top of that they have some kind of restaurant there that sells beer (but I don’t think you’re allowed to take beer into the movies, but I didn’t try it, I’m being good to my dieteating plan.

But back to the movie – Captain Kirk playing dead as a possum (“can’t… feel… my… legs”), Bruce Willis as a racoon on a mission, Lowell (whatshisname from the wine country movie and Wings) is an exterminator.  You get a lesson in family values, I guess a lesson about being friendly to the environment (or not), and a few wisecracks about SUV’s and us sedentary Americans in general.  Oh yeah, and a hyperactive squirrel (my son liked that one).

I thought it was fun.  I’ll own this one.