Lovely grapefruit lunch
spherically splendid, so pink;
ferociously squirts.

Here are lines from a few movies I enjoy. . .do you know which movies they are from? Leave your answers in the comment section! I'll put the answers up by Wednesday :-)

1. "Not much meat on her but what's there is cherce."
2. "Cheese me no likey!"
3. "Have fun stormin' the castle!"
4. "You broke the ship, you broke the bloody ship!"
5. "Great Scott!"
6. "Nature, Mr Allnut, is what we are put on this earth to rise above"
7. "You normally don't see that kind of behavior in a household appliance."
8. "Head! Paper! Now! Move that melon of yours and get the paper if you can! Haulin' that gargantuan cranium about! I'm not kidding, that boy's head's like Sputnik! Spherical, but quick pointy in parts. Well, that was off sides, wasn't it? He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight on his *huge* pillow! "
9. "If you gotta live hand to mouth, you'd better be ambidextrous"
10. "Round up the usual suspects."

Some of them are classic, some are contemporary. . .it's a pretty big mix- can anyone get them all?

Last night I was checking out a Thomas the Tank Engine website that I plan to order Jonas’ birthday present from. Jonas is very enthusiastic about these toy trains. He frequently (like every hour of the day) asks me to go to Barnes and Noble so he can play with the huge train set they have there. He also likes to look at the toy trains online. Whenever he wants to see them he tugs on my arms and asks, “Choo-Choo? Choo -Choo? Choo-choo choo choo choo chooooooooo,” until I either take him to the store or look them up online, or go crazy from the incessant choo-chooing.

Jonas has started adding new phrases to his small vocabulary, much to our amusement. As I was looking at the little engines online Jonas saw a set he liked and out of no where exclaimed,
“I WANT IT!”

Both Chris and I were like, “whoa, where did that come from?” He has said the word want before, but never very clearly. So we had some fun with it. We made a little wishlist at the site I was shopping at and put everything Jonas really wanted on the list ( umm, yeah, he won't be getting everything on the list because my birthday budget simply isn't that extravagant). I would have thought that being two, he would have said he wanted everything, but he is actually a very discerning train connoisseur. Not all toy trains are created equal, apparently.


I guess these three are really awesome,


but this last one, well that set just stinks, according to Jonas.

This new vocabulary was all well and good until we went to Target an hour later. I think Jonas wants the whole store delivered to our house. He yelled I want it at almost everything he saw. He has been on a no treats ban for almost a month because I was hoping he would learn to deal with the fact that he doesn’t get a treat every time we go somewhere. I can’t afford it and he doesn’t need it. He has gotten better about dealing with me saying no, so that is good. He actually did pretty well when I made him put back 98% of what he was grabbing, especially for a kid who had skipped his nap. At the checkout he hopped out of the cart and grabbed all of the hotwheels cars off of the impulse buy rack by the checkout counter and started putting them on the counter. He didn’t see me put them all back, but I think he did wonder where they were when we got home.

Babies have such tiny nails!

I've been reading a lot about the new Pope lately, and while I really don't care one whit or another, it strikes me as odd that people are offended by the fact that he plans no sweeping change to the current views on issues such as abortion, birth control, homosexuality, women priests, etc.

I'm not Catholic, but as far as I can see, when you ascribe to a set of religious beliefs that you consider to be God's Word, or God's Holy Law, why would you expect it to change? Christianity is based on the premise that God is infalliable. His word does not change and is never wrong and if it were so, He would cease to be God. In Catholiscim, the Pope speaks for God. So, with liberal Catholics calling for change, one would have to surmise that, in their hearts, God has ceased to be God. They have become Master of their own lives, instead of submitting to God's will. They just feel insecure about moving on from it, and hope to have the Papacy say that what they are doing is ok, so they can do what they want in good conscience and still be aligned with the Catholic church.

Now, I really don't care what the Catholic church says or does, or what your opinion is on the hot topics, and if it is morally or ethically wrong or right. I know the hot topics are pretty hot and spark a lot of controversy. I just think that if you are going to be Catholic, then be Catholic. Live your religion. If you don't agree with several things that your religion feels strongly about, find a new faith. The point of religion isn't to have it bend to your will; it is about bending to the will of a supreme being.

I also don't understand how you can be a liberal or conservative proponent of any faith. I haven't seen many religions that say, "well, you could do this and be more righteous, but you don't have to so, you know, whatever you want to do, that's just fine." You either are or you aren't. You live it, or you don't. Perfection isn't neccesary, but all of your effort is.

I have the utmost respect for any individual who truly lives their religion, regardless of their faith. Being wishy washy never benefitted anyone. Decide who you are and be it. If you are Catholic, then I would assume that would include living by the Catholic church's official stance on things. I know some Christians feel that what they have currently is the best they have found so far, even if they don't 100% believe everything that faith teaches. If that is the case, call yourself the broader definition. Be simply Christian, or if you really don't know, call yourself agnostic, and admit that you don't know. There is no shame in that.

Do you remember the plant my husband fell in love with a few weeks ago? The one I thought was a jasmine bush, perhaps? It’s not.

I was browsing through the BX garden center today shopping for a clematis when I spotted a very small plant that had flowers exactly like the big twiggy plant I had at home. The plant Chris bought didn’t come with any instructions so I really had no idea if I should put in it sun or shade or if it had any weird preferences. I was itching to get my hands on an identification tag, so imagine my delight at spotting the plant again. I grabbed the tag, flipped it over, and lo and behold. . .

It’s a grapefruit tree! I busted up laughing right in the middle of the garden center. My husband was enchanted by the lovely blooms of a grapefruit tree. It does explain why it smelled so good. It also explained why the darn flowers kept falling off; I was getting really skeeved about that. Well, when you are growing fruit, that’s a good thing. This whole time we figured it was a shrub or a vine of some sort. The word TREE hadn’t crossed my mind.

At any rate, the tree went back to the store. I didn’t think it was going to be happier much longer in a pot. We live on an Air Force base, and they have crazy rules about what you can and can’t plant and you can’t plant trees without special permission. (Not that we have enough yard to plant one in to begin with.)

My poor husband. I could tell he was bummed. He really liked the grapefruit tree. We did about ten laps around the garden center hoping something would strike his fancy (and like being in the shade). I finally talked him into a blue hydrangea. I know he will like it when it blooms. How can you not like a hydrangea?

I just spent the past two hours putting together a yummy chicken soup. It smelled really good. All the vegetables were just right, so I added the noodles. Ten minutes later all of the juice has boiled out of the soup and it's all burnt and nasty and sticking to the bottom of the pan. So, basically eight dollars down the drain. I swear I'm going to just start eating out. This is depressing.