So I know that blogging about blogging is redundant and also cliche and all that, but have you ever gone so long without updating that you a) don’t remember how to go about it, b) don’t know where to start, and c) have no idea what to write about anyway even though you clearly did *something* over the past couple of weeks?
Yeah. No, me neither. Cough.
So let’s see what happens if I leave this window open and just write whatever pops into my head. Ummm. Wow, do you hear crickets chirping?
Okay, here’s something! You probably know that I wrote about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at a site called PittWatch. Due to some changing around of this, that, and the other thing, I now write the same sort of thing over at a new site all my own, so if you have any interest in celebrity life (and specifically Brad and Angelina’s life), you can check out JoliePittWatch.
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Last week was March break. During March break which was, if you count the weekends, nine days long, I discovered how many times two sisters can argue over the television, the computer, the Wii, the blocks, the bathtub, who gets to splash in which puddle outside, who has more pine cones collected, whether we’re going to walk in this direction or that one, who’s bigger, smarter, funnier, prettier, smellier, etcetera etcetera ad nauseum holy frickin’ run-on sentence.
That’s not to say the entire week sucked. It did not. Specific moments certainly did and there were some evenings where I was counting down the seconds until bedtime (often aloud) but overall it was a nice week. It was great to not have to get up early in the morning even though the kids clearly have different concepts of what constitutes “sleeping in”. It was also nice to not have to rush through the evening for an 8 pm bedtime, and it was awesome to not have any homework to deal with for a full week.
The weather was odd but really nice. We call it March break not only because it’s (duh) in March but because it was ridiculous to refer to something as Spring break when there were snowdrifts taller than we are lingering around. This year has been the year of Very Bizarre Weather though, and as a result we had almost no snow on the ground at all and temperatures above freezing. Let’s put it this way – one day Hayley insisted that she wear snowpants even though I had walked the dog and told her there was more grass (and mud) than snow. She carried on so much I went ahead and put them on her and we went outside where she discovered I was right and she was way overdressed. Guess who needed to have mud washed out of her snowsuit?
I’m mostly enjoying the weather because this is Eastern Canada dammit, and we don’t see this weather until at least late April if we’re lucky. It’s hard though because every day that they say it’s going to be 7C and sunny when we should be buried in our 83rd snowstorm feels like it’s one day closer to the apocalypse.
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Speaking of the apocalypse, I watched 2012 the other night. I regretted not seeing it in theaters on a huge screen with massive surround sound but I still really enjoyed it. Naturally it was over the top, had many highly unlikely situations, and was ludicrous, so I loved it. Honestly, one of my favorite types of movies is the “holy shit it’s the end of the world mega-disaster say goodnight Irene” movie. It doesn’t matter if it’s natural (2012, Armageddon, Dante’s Peak, etc) or if it’s man-made (I Am Legend), if 95% or more of the human species gets wiped out, I’m all over it. It was a fast-paced movie, they surprisingly didn’t ruin it by showing all the good stuff in the trailers, and it didn’t feel as long as it actually was.
On the other hand, watching it on the same day where Chili was hit by an earthquake so strong that it shifted the planet’s axis and caused massive tsunami warnings… well, that might not have been the best idea ever. I was a little more, shall we say, TENSE while watching it considering what had been on the news.
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Speaking of 2012, I’ve given it some thought and wonder just how plausible it is that the world might really end in two years’ time. Because if it’s going to happen I’d like to have some notice so I can stop paying my bills and bothering with housework.
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So. What’s new with you? Anything exciting? Seen any good movies lately? Who do you think was best-dressed at the Oscars (Sandra Bullock, IMO)? Tell me a story!
