Things I Haven't Done Yet

Things I Haven't Done YetMamacita says:  I’m really not a very cool or adventurous person, and many of the things I’ve never done are done every day by most people.  I get that “raised eyebrow oh really” face from others, a lot.  Sigh.

1.  I’ve never used an ATM machine.  That’s always good for some “oh really” expressions.

2.  I have never watched a survivor reality show, and have no desire to.  Maybe if there was a real reality show, where people had to SURVIVE with only the skills they already knew, I’d be interested, but most of the survivor-type reality shows are more like frat inductions and freshman hazings than anything to do with actual survival.  If people honestly wanted a true survivor saga, drop some businesspeople down in a public middle school for a few weeks. THAT’S survival, my friends.

3.  I still haven’t ever watched Oprah.  Still not interested, either.

4.  Still haven’t lost that last fifty pounds.  My penchant for popsicles on these muggy days isn’t helping.

5.  Summer session starts Monday, and I still haven’t gathered all my syllabi and tests together.

6.  After years of searching, I finally found the Wonderworks version of A Little Princess in DVD format, but I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet.  It’s the only version of A Little Princess that’s faithful to the book, and when a movie is NOT faithful to the book, I have no use for it.  But the Wonderworks version is absolutely wonderful in every way.  Besides, Professor Sprout is in it, so you KNOW it’s going to be good.  I love this book so much, I named my daughter after the main character.  And that’s why there is no “h” at the end of her name.  Don’t waste your time or money on any of the more recent remakes of this book, or on the equally bad really old versions.  The Wonderworks version is the best one.  In fact, Wonderworks versions of everything are the best ones.

7.  I’m going to WordCamp in Chicago this weekend, and I haven’t done any laundry since getting home from Idaho the other day.  Conclusion:  Unless I intend to be either naked or smelly in Chicago, I’d better throw a few loads in before I go to bed tonight.

8.  I priced a commuter flight from Indianapolis to Chicago and it was over two hundred dollars.  In fact, it cost more than my ticket to San Francisco last summer!  Ridiculous.  So, I looked up Amtrak prices, and for less than fifty bucks, I’m taking the train, round-trip, to Chicago on Friday!  I’ve never taken a real train anywhere.  I can’t wait!

9.  I am covered from head to toe and everywhere in between with mosquito bites.  I have never itched so badly in my life.  Plus, I look like I’ve been in a paintball fight.

10.  Speaking of reality shows, I am so not interested in Jon and Kate or any of their 8.  The intensity of my non-interest is so great that when people invariably try to talk to me about that sad dysfunctional family, I have to turn and walk away lest I say something dreadful, such as the fact that I consider them a sad, dysfunctional family.  What they say or do is none of my business, nor is it any of yours, and perhaps my distaste would be made clearer in the words of my idol,  Dr. Perry Cox, who would perhaps put my feelings about Jon and Kate and all of their 8 in words something like these:

Except, of course, that I think Hugh Jackman is hot beyond all existing words.


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Things I Haven't Done Yet — 20 Comments

  1. How funny. I’ve never watched Oprah, either, and I’ve been a housewife for 10 years! That’s quite a feat, I’m told.

    I also finally broke down and asked my mom yesterday who these Jon and Kate people are that I keep hearing about. She told me, and I’m still confused. Why are people watching these people? Don’t they have anything better to do? Somehow I doubt that the day they die they’re going to be wishing they’d spent more time watching and gossiping about total strangers on the tube.

    I’m so glad we stopped watching tv (except for select downloads) so many years ago.

  2. How funny. I’ve never watched Oprah, either, and I’ve been a housewife for 10 years! That’s quite a feat, I’m told.

    I also finally broke down and asked my mom yesterday who these Jon and Kate people are that I keep hearing about. She told me, and I’m still confused. Why are people watching these people? Don’t they have anything better to do? Somehow I doubt that the day they die they’re going to be wishing they’d spent more time watching and gossiping about total strangers on the tube.

    I’m so glad we stopped watching tv (except for select downloads) so many years ago.

  3. I love that version of The Little Princess. My husband tried to make me watch that Shirley Temple abomination once. I made him read the book. I may buy myself a movie. Thanks for finding it!

  4. I love that version of The Little Princess. My husband tried to make me watch that Shirley Temple abomination once. I made him read the book. I may buy myself a movie. Thanks for finding it!

  5. BOO!

    Hi ya doll.

    I hear ya about the travel stuff. Living in the fine greater Cleveland area, it costs a fortune to fly anywhere, drive anywhere, or boat anywhere. Trains are fun, but for some reason they depart this area either at the butt crack of dawn or sometime after midnight. I’ve come to the conclusion that God hates Cleveland.

    Sooooooo darling, my blog received a bunch of milf hits about a month ago… any idea why that happened?

    I’m attempting a comeback… watch me go, lol.

    I have missed you my friend.

  6. BOO!

    Hi ya doll.

    I hear ya about the travel stuff. Living in the fine greater Cleveland area, it costs a fortune to fly anywhere, drive anywhere, or boat anywhere. Trains are fun, but for some reason they depart this area either at the butt crack of dawn or sometime after midnight. I’ve come to the conclusion that God hates Cleveland.

    Sooooooo darling, my blog received a bunch of milf hits about a month ago… any idea why that happened?

    I’m attempting a comeback… watch me go, lol.

    I have missed you my friend.

  7. And I don’t care about Scrubs. Or its dialogue that was surely written by a lonely, smart-enough-to-be-surly-but-not-enough-to-be-witty 15-year old boy sitting in his room. Blech.

  8. And I don’t care about Scrubs. Or its dialogue that was surely written by a lonely, smart-enough-to-be-surly-but-not-enough-to-be-witty 15-year old boy sitting in his room. Blech.

  9. Let’s add the Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt & Jennifer Anniston drama to the mix. I could really care less. Who’s had plastic surgery, could care less.

    I loved the Tristan & Isolde novels so much that I have said the next boy I have I’m naming Tristan. Lucian was of course, named from the Roman Emperor or St. Lucian as the Catholic church calls him. And if I have 3 boys their names will be Lucian, Tristan, and Caspian. Notice a pattern?

    Books do tend to give the best names. One day I plan on writing a story and if they turn it into a film, I pray that they don’t butcher it too badly.

  10. Let’s add the Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt & Jennifer Anniston drama to the mix. I could really care less. Who’s had plastic surgery, could care less.

    I loved the Tristan & Isolde novels so much that I have said the next boy I have I’m naming Tristan. Lucian was of course, named from the Roman Emperor or St. Lucian as the Catholic church calls him. And if I have 3 boys their names will be Lucian, Tristan, and Caspian. Notice a pattern?

    Books do tend to give the best names. One day I plan on writing a story and if they turn it into a film, I pray that they don’t butcher it too badly.

  11. Love the “survivor” comment! My life takes too much time, and is too real to be interested in watching that. And yes, business people, come to our school – we can show you reality!

    Although, I heard the ruckus about some CEOs not being able to survive on $500,000 a year… Wonder if any of us teachers could do that?!?

  12. Love the “survivor” comment! My life takes too much time, and is too real to be interested in watching that. And yes, business people, come to our school – we can show you reality!

    Although, I heard the ruckus about some CEOs not being able to survive on $500,000 a year… Wonder if any of us teachers could do that?!?

  13. I have never watched a SURVIVOR reality thingy either. Absolutely NO interest whatsoever. And I have no interest in that couple who seem to be having troubles now…..I must say I do not understand the Reality Show craze….WHY??? I mean….it isn’t really “reality” anyway…..! OY! LOL!

  14. I have never watched a SURVIVOR reality thingy either. Absolutely NO interest whatsoever. And I have no interest in that couple who seem to be having troubles now…..I must say I do not understand the Reality Show craze….WHY??? I mean….it isn’t really “reality” anyway…..! OY! LOL!

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