Friday Night Lights!

Football season is off and running.  It is serious stuff in this neck of the woods.  The team is steeped in tradition and whether you like football or not, the stadium is the place to be on Friday nights.

Since the oldest is now in high school, going to the games with her friends is the thing to do.  There is a fantastic cheering section that they just have to be a part of for each game.  The younger girls don't bother with the dressing up for games and they sure can't sit in the student cheering section.  But they have a blast too.

The boys of fall . . .that pretty much says it all.  Although the music lyrics don't quite fit our experience. . .in order to fit they would have to include something like "smell that baby powder in the air, watch the fans throw flour everywhere" 

Good stuff.  Great memories for the kids. 

Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport!

This one is for my girls.  One of those silly songs I knew as a little girl. . .and I just had to share it with them.  Excellent song for singing as you roll down the road with the windows down!

Sometimes we just need a little reminder

Because sometimes the days are just a little tougher than we think we can handle.

And speaking of artists, you can't beat Liberace!

With his glitzy costumes--sequins and glittery material and tuxes with tails! 

Oh the rings!  He had more and more of them over the years.

The candelabra. . .on the mirrored piano.

What a showman!

These are a couple of our favorite Liberace moments:

 And finally, the mirrored piano:

Jack Benny--What an artist!

A few days ago we were at school.  One was finishing up homework before we headed home for the evening.  To keep the other two entertained I pulled up some old videos on youtube.  The girls loved this one of Jack Benny with Gisele MacKenzie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3cc0HlO7so

(I apologize, I simply cannot get some of the videos to embed.  But you must follow the links when I post them.  They just don't do entertainment like this anymore!)

Bad Books

There are some things that I just can't stand to read.

I could probably come up with a list of 50. . .or 3.

In all seriousness, I hate reading "dark" novels.  The ones where the characters are just not good souls.  I can handle characters making mistakes and learning about themselves but not when they are just dark dark dark souls.  I read one of those last week.  It was on the New York Times Bestseller list for weeks and weeks so I thought, it must be good, right?  I was so disappointed at the end that I just wanted to kill the two main characters. . .even if that meant that I was just like one of them.

I can handle stressful stories.  I can handle Jodi Picoult plot twists. 

But books filled with foul language and books with dark characters?  I'd rather leave those on the shelf.  Why waste my time?  Even if the book manages to stay on the NY Times Bestseller list for months at a time.  I just can't waste my precious reading time on trash.

Guess I just want a happy ending.

Dancing down the stairs

I was always intrigued by this scene when I was a little girl.  My girls love it too.  It's from the end of the movie "Yankee Doodle Dandy" with James Cagney starring as George M. Cohan.  Fabulous movie.  I have a lot of favorite parts of the movie but this one probably takes the cake.  Unfortunately I can't get the link to embed properly.  But follow the link.  You'll enjoy it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1rkzUIL8oc