Just a Few Things About The Oscars

I'm leaving shortly and headed to Tiger Country {LSU-ville.  Pray for me. Wayne has already taken the Alabama license plate off my car.} but I wanted to share my thoughts on last night's Oscar's.  For simplicity and time purposes, I've decided to number them, so bare with me. 

1.  I thought it was the best Oscar Night that I've seen in recent years.  Of course, there is always the interim "snooze fest" that I think the producers could totally just do without and then MAYBE the program would end at 10:00.

2.  I wasn't impressed with any of the dresses or gowns.  Seeing Jennifer Lawrence in orange - at least it was orange on my TV - was a shocker.  I thought Sandra Bullock was the best dressed.  I loved the navy blue.  I was about to go off on Whoopie Goldberg for her atrocious attire, but when she showed us the ruby red slippers, I decided to forgive and forget.

3.  Which leads me to Pink's performance of Over the Rainbow.  I thought it was a great performance, but it didn't leave me with chills.  I thought her red dress for the performance was spot on.

4.  Was Liza Minnelli drunk?  And just for the record, I knew Judy Garland had three kids.

5.  Yes, I thought Ellen's group Twitter pic was da bomb, but was she telling the truth about Twitter going down?  I tweeted throughout the entire program and never noticed a glitch.  And the pizza delivery was great!  Seeing Brad Pitt hand Meryl Streep a plastic plate was priceless.  I'm not an Ellen fan, so forgive me if I'm not gushing today.

6. I nearly cried when I saw Paul Walker's picture in the Memorium.  I just have so much more respect for him since his death.  And I miss Shirley Temple.  I didn't know that the Ghostbusters dude had died.

7.  I bet only ten people in the audience even KNEW who Kim Novack was when Mr. Matthew McConaughey - more on him in a minute - escorted her to the microphone.  She played on Falcon Crest in the '80s when Jane Wyman left the show.  Jane Wyman was married to Ronald Reagan.  Just a little Hollywood trivia.

8. I nearly came unglued when The Great Gatsby costume designer pulled her thank you speech out of left breast!  Give. me. a. break.

9.  It will take a while for me to get over John Travolta mispronouncing Idina Menzel's name.  A long while.

10.  Oh, Idina.  I got caught up in the hoopla.  I was SO looking for a fantastic performance, but I know you were nervous!  But you hit the notes when it mattered, got a standing ovation, and your song won an Oscar!  Good job, you WICKED girl, you!

11.  I learned last night that Channing Tatum is from Cullman, Alabama!  Rah-Rah to the family home team!!  Thank you to whoever it was that tweeted me a pic of him sporting an Alabama hoodie!

12.  Out of all the movies that were nominated for an Academy Award, I've only seen "Captain Phillips."  Do I think it was Oscar worthy?  No.  Will I watch any of the other films, especially "12 Years A Slave"?  Of all the movies, that one would probably be the one I would be most interested in seeing, but after seeing some of the scenes last night, I think it may be too graphic and violent for me.  I'm miffed that The Butler didn't get an Oscar nod.

13.  So, so, SO extremely proud of Matthew McConaughey!  I'm so glad that he has one Academy Award under his belt because he doesn't normally play roles that are that worthy.  As he was giving his acceptance speech, I was glad to hear him thank God and his parents.  But to me, he will always be Jake Tyler Brigance with that Texas twang from A Time To Kill.

Stay warm!  I'm headed to Tiger Country!

See Ya Next Week!

Alise's Spring Break starts Friday, so we're headed to Memphis, Tennessee, as soon as Wayne gets off work on Thursday.  Can't wait!  I think we're all ready to get out of Dodge for a few days.  This Moma needs a break!  We're going to shop, eat, and take Alise to some fun attractions.  You can follow me on Instagram for up-to-the-minute pics!  I may be out of blog commission for a while because as soon as we return from Memphis early next week, I have to leave for Baton Rouge for a few days for work.  Not really looking forward to being there for Mardi Gras, but maybe I can pick up a really good King Cake while I'm there!!  Here's hoping!

Y'all know how much I loved the Olympics, but I am pumped that the regular TV schedule is resuming this week!  Monday - Dallas; Tuesday - Chicago Fire; & Thursday - Scandal {which we'll have to tape and watch later}.  I'm SOOOO disappointed that the 4th season of Downton Abbey is over.  Gosh, it went by so fast!  A friend of mine suggested House of Cards on Netflix, so we might start watching it.  And, of course, Revenge will be back soon, too.

This past Saturday night, we double dated with Brad and Leigh.  We went to one of my favorite restaurants and had a great dinner and then we went to see Kevin Costner's new movie, "3 Days to Kill," or something like that.  It was actually pretty good.  I kept waiting for Kevin to start looking a little better in the film, but alas, he's aging, Peeps!  What can I say?  He wears a scarf alot in the movie and Leigh and I said that we were going to start making Brad and Wayne wear scarves.  Ha!  Fat chance!!  Anyway, don't get me wrong.  I'm still a Costner fan, but he's just not as young as he use to be, but neither am I.

This past Sunday, I tried this recipe and Alise and I loved it!  The perfect comfort food!  Wayne has a thing about chicken and pasta together.  He said he tried it, but I never witnessed it. Anyway, it made so much that I froze half of it for a few weeks from now when I'm pressed for time. I served it with a Ceasar salad and garlic bread.  On Monday night, I may or may not have made chicken and dumplings without the chicken, at a special eight year old's request.  Of course, Wayne ate something else.

We got an email from Alise's softball coach about starting practice next week. WOW!  Clay had said something to us in late fall about Alise being the pitcher this year, but I look for those plans to change.  I've had to beg and stomp my foot to get Wayne to practice throwing the ball to her, but the truth is, she's really out of practice!  She can throw a really mean ball, though, when she wants to!


Spring will be here soon!!  Hopefully.  To all my local Peeps, stay warm this weekend!  Maybe this will be our last cold snap before Spring officially begins!

See ya next week!

Teeth. That is All.

Ok.  This may be another TMI post because y'all probably don't care anything about seeing my daughter's x-ray of her teeth, but I'm posting it anyway.

Last week, Ms. Cindy sent us a picture of Alise's x-ray and boy, was I glad because I could NOT convince Mr. Horton that his daughter is lacking two teeth.  Everyone I've told just can't believe it.  Well, here's proof!  And if I knew how to do all that fancy-shmancy drawing and arrows on pictures, I would, so if you're still with me, just humor me for a minute.

Looking at the picture from left to right...on the bottom...the third tooth from the left... there should be a permanent tooth under it.  See how there is a permanent tooth under the fourth tooth from the left?  Now look on the right side...same thing!  No permanent tooth under the third tooth from the right.

The two teeth on either side that are adjacent to fourth tooth {the lower ones in the picture} are still permanent teeth that need to come through and don't have any room.  She will have two teeth pulled on the bottom to make room for them, still missing one tooth on each side.  Dr. C mentioned putting in implants one day.  Those will be some expensive implants, y'all, and I forgot to ask if it had to be done before she gets braces.

The top is more readable...you can tell the four teeth she'll have pulled based on the ones to come in above them.

Did you see the sweet note Ms. Cindy wrote her?

So yea.  That's my life right now. 

Thank goodness Spring Break starts Friday!!

Disgusting

Ok.  This post may be a little too "TMI," but I'm putting it out there anyway.

I know I told you last week was a PEACEFUL week - and it was! - except for one incident that happened at after school, when one of the 5th grade boys squirted Alise's Bath & Body hand sanitizer all down her back for no apparent reason.  So yeah, we had a little drama, but nothing I couldn't handle from my own child {it was a good day!  Remember the extra sleep?}.

So, the mother of the 5th grader that squirted the hand santitizer works with a friend of mine at the hospital.  Alise said, "I'm going to tell Ms. L to talk to his {5th grader's} mom and tell her to tell him to stop bullying me!"  To which I replied, "Alise, Ms. L can't do anything about what K did to you."

She paused for a minute and she said, "What does Ms. L do at the hospital?"

And I wasn't quite sure I wanted to go there.  But I did.

"Ms. L does mammograms."

You guessed it!  "What are mammograms?"

My chance to pause.  And sigh.  And sigh some more.

"Mammograms are like x-rays of womens' b00bies. They take pictures to see if someone might have breast cancer."

To which she hollers back, "MS.L SEES WOMENS' B00BIES??"

"Yes, Alise.  That's her job."

"Well, that's just disgusting!"

So much for my dream of her going into the healthcare profession when she's older!

A Peaceful Week

In case you're wondering, I'm still reeling from the whole "pulling six teeth" fiasco from Monday.  And now Whitney has me scared to death that my child will be toothless for three years!  Every time I think about it, I picture Baby Girl with her lips poked over her gums like an old person that doesn't have their dentures in.  I actually dreamed about it!!  

Other than that, we've had a great {PEACEFUL} week!  The weather has been much warmer - and muggy at times {It's hard to believe as I type that we had sleet and ice this time last week!}.  Alise brought home all A's on her signed papers this week!  Ms. R even wrote, "Much Better!" on her math test that she made a 100/A+++ on!!  We only have FIVE tests this week and Alise informed me that her teachers told the class that the number of tests would be shrinking in the next few weeks due to getting ready for their big standardization test in March.  Music to this moma's ears!!

So we've been celebrating by going to bed much earlier this week!  And boy, has it made a difference!  Well, let me clarify: Wayne and I have been going to bed earlier.  Alise still goes to bed at 8:20 {on school nights} and if I had a dollar for every time she reminds me that she gets another ten minutes added to her bedtime come next report card, I would be rich, rich, rich!  So rich!  But back to me and Wayne.  Or Wayne and I.  What evah.  We've been going to bed at 9:00, with lights out before 10:00.  Alise has a totally different and Mommie and Daddy this week!  Who knew that sleep deprivation could be so un-PEACEFUL?? I can't predict how long this new bed time of ours will last - because I'm bound to have my usual week of insomnia, and I still predict nights of punching Wayne to make him wake up from his loud snoring to roll over - but for right now, it's great!  Maybe it's the new pillows we bought at Sam's on Sunday...?

Other than that, nothing else is really going on in our world. I'm enjoying the days until Spring truly hits and our days are suddenly filled with softball practice and games, swimming, and end of the year school activities.

I hope you have a very relaxing weekend!