Last Thursday, I took Tara & Sami down to Moab with me on business. After a few hours in some meetings, we were able to spend some time together. We learned a few things: 1) Sami is terrified of swimming, even though she loves her bath. We find this out AFTER we bought a swimming suit, swim diapers, & a floatie thing. Awesome. 2) Moab is way too hot & the shoulders along the main drag way too small for Tara to walk downtown with Sami to get lunch. We need a different plan of attack next time. 3) After putting Sami down, there wasn't much we could do since we couldn't leave the hotel room, so we opened up the laptop and got on hulu.com. After watching the Colbert Report for a few minutes (I disagree with about 90% of what he says, but man he's hilarious) we thought we'd check out Arrested Development. SWEET MERCIFUL CRAP. How did that show ever get canceled after only 3 seasons? You don't cancel genius, no matter how bad the ratings are. I mean, what if they had "canceled" Van Gogh? Anyway, after watching the first 10 minutes of the pilot I already wanted to by the complete series. I think GOB (Will Arnet) is probably the funniest character I've ever seen in either movies or TV. I was at Wal-Mart last night & saw the first 2 seasons in a package for only $20.00. Only Tara's voice of reason in the back of my head convinced me to put it back on the shelf. It looks like AD might be the second television show DVD set to enter our home.
Speaking of entering homes, if I were ever to wake up and find an intruder at the foot of my bed, I think my first reaction would be to beat him into a coma (Or at least try. Although I've come close a few times - all with the same guy in high school - I've never actually been in a fight unless you count the time that Craig kept sticking his face right in front of mine while I was trying to brush my teeth many years ago. I kind of punched him in the face and paid dearly for it.) but maybe I shouldn't be too hasty. It's entirely possible that this intruder is some kind of time traveler that altered the past in such a way that I now live in the house that was his before he disrupted the space-time continuum. Think about it - that dude was going to knock Marty McFly's chiclets out with a Louisville Slugger and he hadn't done anything wrong! It's never a bad idea to think things over before passing judgement. Unless he's got some sort of weapon -then it's game on.
For my siblings - has anyone else noticed that Mom's google screen name, which declares the greatness of her posterity, completely skips a generation?
For my parents - how on earth did you feel any kind of love for me whatsoever during or after my teenage years? I'd have kicked myself out well before the age of 15. I love you guys.
Also for my parents - what do the phrases "Dad Gum-It!" & "Heavens to Betsy!" actually mean?
OK, that's all I got. Tara should be back from visiting teaching in a few minutes.
11 comments:
When I can hear "final countdown" on your blog, I will know you are a true GOB fan.
"I'm not ashamed to BE with you, I'm just ashamed to be SEEN with you."
also
"with club sauce"
That is one of my favorite episodes. Buy it!
Funny entry.
Give me time. I've only seen the first 4 episodes.
Zach, we're only the means to an end. But just say the word, and I'll hack her account and add "myparentsandinlawshavethe" to it.
No hacking allowed if you want your piece of oak furniture when we're gone. Besides, the bestgrandkidsever could only come from the bestkidsever, so it's a given. (Nice save, eh?)
Possible answers to why parents endure the teenager years: their names are on the birth certificate, so they're somewhat committed; two words--Family Proclamation; they see potential beyond those years; the whole bonding thing for the twelve years prior--i.e. we love you; and finally--payback is coming.
As for "Dad Gum It" and "Heaven's to Betsy"--the phrases are legal and I'm pretty sure we heard the same thing from our parents. (My mom used to say "H___'s Bells" and it always made me gasp.)
I have the best teenagers ever, so I must have been an angel.
(I CAN FEEL THE EYES ROLLING FROM HERE.)
ZACH, I have all THREE seasons on DVD and as MP4s. I will bring them to you NEXT WEEK, unless you can't wait that long, in which case, I will start sending MP4s over the internet.
START SENDING! STATR SENDING! At your leasiure, of course. You have my email, right?
Aren't all the episodes on Hulu?
Our internet isn't the fastest due to us being about as far west in the SL valley as possible & pacience, while it is indeed a virtue, is not one of my strong points. The dang viewer keeps freezing up.
THEN POST HASTE JERILYN. THIS MAN CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT THE STYLINGS OF TOBIAS FUNKE.
Zach, I am uploading to a thing called "dropbox" you'll get an invite in your gmail (maybe it went to spam).
Let me know if you need any assitance getting it to work.
OK, it's set up. How do I access the videos?
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