Posted in Booya on Aug 31st, 2006 5 Comments »
Put this in your pantry with your cupcakes:
Kristi’s Not-Quite-As-Good-Girl Guide to Movies of the 1960’s
Let’s start at the top, shall we? The Graduate is all things holy in terms of moviegoodness. Not good like, I can’t wait to tell my Sunday School teacher about the good movie I saw last night, but [...]
Posted in Booya on Aug 29th, 2006 8 Comments »
A long, long time ago, way back in the ’90s, I decided it was time to grow up. I’d spent my entire life watching Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals and it was time to step into the world of adult cinema (not porn). So I made a concerted effort to watch all those movies [...]
Posted in Booya on Aug 27th, 2006 3 Comments »
Hoping to score points with my part-time employers, I volunteer to man the Daily Bee booth at the county fair on Saturday. This is my first small town fair…I’m thoroughly enchanted. Who knew people actually give out ribbons for best tasting muffins and what-not? No ferris wheels, no roller coasters, just cows [...]
Posted in Booya on Aug 25th, 2006 4 Comments »
Posted in Booya on Aug 24th, 2006 4 Comments »
San Antonio natives are fully aware that 100-and-something year old sportscaster Dan Cook coined the phrase “it ain’t over until the fat lady sings.” I especially know this because we are close and personal friends with this guy, weather personality extraodinaire Bill Taylor. (Like that? Like how I dropped the celebrity-bomb in [...]
Posted in Booya on Aug 23rd, 2006 2 Comments »
Otherwise titled: We’ll be lucky if none them kill us in our sleep.
A few months ago:
Ava: Daddy lost his hair because he was a bad boy.Me: What? Did he tell you that? Wiiillll!!!(confronting Will)Me: Did you tell Ava you lost your hair because you were a bad boy?Will: [...]
Posted in Booya on Aug 22nd, 2006 7 Comments »
And I were computer-generated. Actually, I’d probably be a lot angrier looking if someone stole my nose. Or I’d be screaming and clutching the bloody chasm where my nose once was.
“Curses upon on you, Nose-Thief! Curses upon you!”
Will’s noseless avatar is stunningly accurate. He looks like a hardcore skinhead…which he is, [...]
Posted in Booya on Aug 21st, 2006 5 Comments »
I’ve been saying this for years…no one would listen. During three maternity leaves I would allow whichever children were in the home to watch hours of children’s programming while I nursed and slept and counted down the days before I could begin utilizing my daycare again.
So I’d let the little ones watch [...]
Posted in Booya on Aug 20th, 2006 2 Comments »
I am aware, or at least I’m told, there is a world outside the United States. In keeping with my lofty aspirations of being not-uninformed, I occasionally venture outside the virtual pages of People Online and into the virtual pages of actual global news.
Sometimes I get scared. Sometimes I get smug.
Today I am smug.
I’m a [...]
Posted in Booya on Aug 18th, 2006 4 Comments »
“I always thought you were the bad boy!”“OMGosh! No way! I thought you were the bad boy!“This is sooo funny! Hey! Remember when used to think of new ways to trim facial hair?”“I totally forgot about that! That was sooo fun! We should totally start that trend up again.”“Totally.”
I’m taking [...]
