Thursday, November 16, 2017

Glasses!


So hey! I just got glasses for the first time in my life. They're not a strong prescription: -.75 in one eye and -1.00 in the other (Wait. IS that a strong prescription? I know exactly nothing about glasses, and the people at "America's Best Eyeglasses" were friendly but not overly communicative about anything.). Basically, i'm getting old, and my far-away vision is starting to get a little bit blurry, so it's harder to read small print across the room. So! Glasses!

Y'know what nobody ever told me about glasses? They completely suck. At least so far they do. I mean, i guess they work, but i have spent the day completely nauseated and dizzy and feeling like the floor is in entirely the wrong place. Also, they make far away things all clear, but they make close up things really blurry, which is awesome for my job, where i am going back and forth between far away and close all the time. (I could get bifocals, but i feel like that would be even WORSE, dizzy-wise.)

ANYHOW. I'm sure that i'll get used to them in a few days and they'll be awesome. But right now? Bleh.

Besides getting new glasses (Yay!), i've just been working on making Christmas presents and getting the house a little bit ready for the switch-over to Christmas decorations.

Well, that and also i've been spending most nights this week forcing Zane to focus on doing all of the math homework that he "didn't have" and therefore didn't do. So that's been fun. But he's finished now, and there is much rejoicing. Woo!!!

Sunday, November 5, 2017

In which i am dumb.


I just did something that i never, ever thought i'd be stupid enough to do.

But let me back up.

So tonight the kids asked (as they do almost every night), "Can we have ice cream?" and i said, "Sure." And so Katrina and Zane ran to the kitchen and got cups of ice cream mixed with milk and came back to the front room, and we started reading "Fahrenheit 451," and then i sent them to bed. And a little while later, i thought, "I would like some ice cream too!

And so i went into the kitchen and grabbed a bowl and got out the ice cream and looked around for the scooper, but it was nowhere to be found. I eventually found it in the ice cream bucket, where one of the kids had finished getting their ice cream, put the metal scooper into the bucket, put the lid on, and thrown the whole thing back into the freezer.

I rolled my eyes and went to tell Juanito that our kids! They are sometimes not the smartest! And then i went back to the kitchen, pried the freezing cold metal scooper out of the bucket, and went to run it under hot water.

But there was some ice cream stuck to it. And it seemed like a waste to just wash all of that perfectly good ice cream down the sink. So i started to lick it off.....

And, as anyone who has ever seen the movie "A Christmas Story" knows, when you touch your tongue to metal, it sticks. Luckily, i only touched the very tip of my tongue to the metal and pulled it off instantly, but now the tip of my tongue is all raw feeling. Sigh. I am dumb.

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Janet Jackson


At the same time that i got the Bob Dylan tickets, i also got 4 tickets to Janet Jackson, so my sisters and i went! And it was TOTALLY fun!

Well, at first it was kind of annoying. It was drizzling, and the lines to get into the building were long (everyone had to go through metal detectors and such), so we all got wet and cold while waiting in line, and then, when we finally got to the front, they were all, "Oh! Yeah, you can't be in this line for Will-Call tickets. You need to go over there." Us: "But...there's no sign or anything that says that!" Them: "Yeah. We probably should tell people." So then we had to go and get in the other giant mob and wait in the rain some more. SIGH. But even though we got into the stadium late, we still just sat around waiting for a little while before the concert started, so i'm glad that we didn't get there extra-early.

Anyhow! I realized that i know way more Janet Jackson songs than i thought i did. And she was really nice and played several songs from the 80's and 90's, so we old people who aren't up on her current stuff could still totally enjoy it. By the almost-end, i was thinking, "Are there any other songs of hers that i would want her to sing? ... Oh! Rhythm Nation!" And then the very next song was "Rhythm Nation.

Even for the songs i didn't know, though, it was so much fun to watch her dance! I'd forgotten that she is an excellent dancer (of course she is!), so when she started dancing, i was all, "OH YEAH! Awesome!!!"

Really, because we just went to the Dylan concert like...4 days ago, i was going to be comparing the two. It was inevitable. And, sadly for Bob Dylan, Janet Jackson's concert was just SO much more exciting and fun and interesting. The sets and lighting and general staging of it were better. There were giant screens so you could see her closer up. The audience stood the whole time, and most people were dancing at least a little. And Janet herself was just adorable and super-fun to watch. AND she came to the front of the stage! And said "Grand Rapids" a bunch of times.

And, at the end, she told me that she loves me. (I'm assuming that that was a singular "you" and not "you" plural.)