Bernard Sumner

Did you watch New Order on Jimmy Kimmel last night?

What was that dancing with  the "hands" all about? Drove me bonkers?

His voice is still velvet to me but I think he is better singing with his guitar and NO dancing.

Oh how I had a crush on you...I'm just going to pretend it's the 90's again.

Oh No..No Bruno

First I thought he was a punk who was on the pop wagon.
I didn't even give him a chance until I saw him @ the Grammy's in 2011.
I loved his live performance and I have been hooked ever since.

I enjoyed his dance moves and really like his songs once I took away my tunnel vision of hating him.

So, I couldn't get concert tickets when he came to the rodeo. Sold OUT!
Really, the rodeo? He broke the Houston Livestock record of attendance, but it was short-lived.
George Strait holds that record but I still think that's by default, hello, it's the rodeo, I
guess Strait should hold the record but....you get my drift.

Ok, so I didn't sweat it, since I found out he's coming to Houston for a real show.
Yup you guessed it...SOLD THE FRIGGIN OUT!

I guessed I would have tried harder if I had a crushed on him, but alas, I don't.

Double Header

I couldn't make it to Madison's 7 games within two days but her new team won third place in the tournament. Yay Madison!

This weekend was also Angelina's Suessical performance. It was a delightful show filled her six costume changes for Lina. She not only was the ballerina, but she sang dance and tapped her ways to our hearts.

It was as if I saw a mini Melissa on stage just dancing and singing her heart out on stage.
This is something that I wished I had Luke and Hayden. The kids who attended were just loving The Cat in The Hat.
I just wished the tickets were cheaper...$35.00 is a lot of moo-lah!

Bravo my little ladies ;-)

Spring Time

I love the Houston Winter.
Not too cold and doesn't last long enough.
Best of all, my electric bill is small.
I have a modest house and the winter months, it's about $30.00.
Almost nothing, then summertime hits and I'm looking between $300 to
$400 a month. Oh how I dread the heat, more ways than one.

So let's get back to Springtime. A true spring in Houston is short lived, in my opinion. I think summer heat creeps up a bit too soon. But when it is Spring, I get a burst of color in my life. I get to see the
flowers come in bloom again, and replace the ones the heat slaughtered the year before.

I am in the process of taking care of my little green Hobbit door that is on my tree. That will be the next real project I will try to tackle. But in the meantime, it was off to Lowe's to pick up some mulch, soil and flowers.

Perks of being a single girl.
When shopping @ Lowe's you get all the workers willing to help you load up your cart, pull your cart and load your car.

Downside of singledom...
I have to unload all of this "crap" on my own.
;)

Ride'em Cowboy

I didn't get the coveted tickets to George Strait nor Bruno Mars.

Both were records breaking sales for Rodeo .2013

Instead, I got opening night with Toby Keith.      
Being a fan of his patriotism, it made it a nice consolation prize to
see him perform again.

(Sad note: two days after the concert his bass player died in a tragic car accident-hit by a drunk driver in OK)

It was the first night of the rodeo and boy was it cold and super windy. The rodeo committee ended up closing all the carnival rides for the night because some of the stands were being jeopardized by the gust of wind.

But I did manage to get my funnel cake before the closure...All is well.

Magically FUGLY

Did anyone see the movie The Call?

After seeing the Halle Berry and Abigail Breislin do the talk show circuits, I made up my mind that I was going to see the movie. It wasn't as good as Taken, but who is going to be better than Liam?

Well, Halle Berry was not bad at all in this flick and that girl Abigail can act quite well. About a 911 caller (Berry) getting a call from a kidnapped girl (Abigail). This was a 3pm show and most of the people were forty and sixty year old on a Friday. Funny that the women @ the theatre were screaming instructions towards the kidnapped girl on movie screen. Yes, it did happen..It made it all the more entertaining for me.

Not to give anything away...By the time the movie was over, everyone kinda looked at each other and just laughed... and laughed...It took me for a roller coaster and at the end, laughter was the best medicine.If you can resist tearing the movie apart with questions of "Why this & why not that...."You should go see it.

Of course, I have two major gripes about this movie...Can Halle Berry's hair be anymore distracting? It was just awful!

And I just didn't need to see Little Miss Sunshine in her bra....

In keeping with Little Miss Sunshine....I saw another movie, Double Feature,
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone with Steve Carrell & Alan Arkin...
Interesting enough were both in Little Miss Sunshine (About to blog about this next time).

This movie is like the Anchorman for Magicians. I enjoyed poking fun of the Vegas magicians. Example Chris Angel is Mind Freak, and in this movie Jim Carrey is the Steve Gray-Brain Rapist...
I don't know why that cracks me up, but it does.

It is such a stupid silly movie, that it's fun enough to watch. It's as if Michael Scott became a magician, makes oodles of mistakes but somehow finds his way to your heart to overlook his stupidity and give him another chance.  Plus, if you like Steve Bucesmi (Bad teeth dude from Reservoir Dogs), you should give it a chance. Just a silly movie on a lazy day.

Hollywood formatted that these movies are, I did laugh out loud , numerous times.So I guess I have to say, give it a try.

Baseball/Softball

I don't know how parents do it with multiple children. So many activities, I guess the only way you can do it is divide and conquer. Two weekends ago, freezing as it was, Adam had a tournament on the south side of Houston, which meant, I could spend some quality time watching them play.

This is a picture of Madison's socks. She does not like them.  No one on the team likes the socks except the coach. Of course the coach is a man and also the one who picked it out for the team. So what does Co Thu tell Madison? I said, " Oh no Madison, they are adorable, just like a peppermint stick."  INSERT FOOT... Chi Trang was laughing and shaking her head, trying to stop me but I said too loud and fast. (Of course, it would be me) That was Madison's whole point... She just turned 10 and was telling me that these socks were for more like 8 yr olds. Ahhhh, yes, the crisis of a ten year old being mistaken for an eight year old...I get it now....

This is Adam taking a break on the slides and having one on one time with me...He is such a sweetheart. Chi Trang and Anh Vinny were resting in the cars while we were just hanging. Adam tells me, he likes the idea of growing up and loved the idea that he no longer goes to the same school with his mom. I was a little shocked he said that, and happy I dared asked the question, "Why Adam?" To which he replied, "So many eyes watching you and telling on me to my mom." Of course I said, but I never hear your mom say anything bad about you. Adam says, "She just smiles at the teacher but doesn't get mad at me. But I don't like it that they think the got me introuble."

Cool Mom, you got there Adam.

These two really do watch out for one another. This year, their teams are the same color and the both have practically the same #.

Of course, Adam doesn't have those socks..Thank Heaven...