Life With Frenchie

So, we had decided that we would not go anywhere far for Thanksgiving this year because we were tired of constantly being on the go for holidays. Like I told you in my recap of Thanksgiving, we did go over to the other Florida coast to visit EP’s family, but that was only a 2 hour drive. So what do we decide to do the week after Thanksgiving? Drive to Georgia of course!

Turns out my mother will be in Georgia for the week on business, and it just happens to be the weekend prior to the anniversary of the most glorious of events (my birthday of course!!), so EP agreed to load ‘em up and head out!

We leave this evening and will spend the night with my father and probably get some visiting with friends in tomorrow while my Sister-in-Law and Brother are at work. Saturday we’re going out to eat and more friends are joining us to help celebrate the most glorious of events (refer back to the 2nd paragraph in case you’ve already forgotten). Since we’re not going anywhere for Christmas this year, except back over to the other coast, this will be my holiday visit with the family. MM will also get a chance to see her cousins and hang out with them for a day or two.

The point still remains though - I need a real vacation!!! Visiting family does not count!

I’m forever getting e-mails forwarded to me with “funny” stories and videos. Every now and then, one of them actually is..you know….funny! Like this one.

It’s obviously staged, but good for them for having fun! Dance white boy! Dance!

Seriously, I am not sure if I would ever wear any of these things out in public, but then again, I have a hand painted coffee mug with Actuarial symbols all over it. I am a true geek at heart. C’mon! I work with math! I think math! By definition, no matter how cool I may appear to be, I really am just a dork!

Aside from math, my other passion is coffee! That means that this shirt which has the molecular formula for caffeine on it! Mmmmmmm!!!

So, when you’re racking your brain to find something to buy me, stop by Think Geek! I want to let my dorkiness shine through this year!

So, there really was more to last night’s episode of Kid Nation than just Taylor being annoying and talking about “ugly chickens”.

In the town Journal, there were included some history books which gave the history of the town in which the kids are living - Bonanza. The leaders figured out that their Showdown was going to most likely be a test of the information included in those books. They got all the kids in town to meet with their respective districts and study the books. Well, almost all. Who was the lone holdout? You guessed it….Taylor! (Oops! I guess I lied when I said there was more than just Taylor being annoying!) Actually, it was her and Leila. But, Taylor quickly learned that your “friends” will only stand up for you for so long. Once the town council told them that if they refused to participate in the studying, they would not be allowed to participate in any reward that may be won after the Showdown. That was all it took for Leila to become the model student! Taylor, however, insisted she was tired of being “told what to do”. EXCUSE ME?!?! Seriously folks. Does she have amnesia? In case any of you missed it, go back and check out the episodes where Taylor was on town council. Again, I say “Kettle!”

Anywho…as they predicted, the Showdown was a quiz on the history of the town and the reward was a good one - an arcade. Well, they had the choice between arcade and library. Hmmmm…a town full of kids without adult intervention. I wonder which they’d choose. Taylor, as promised, was not allowed to visit the arcade and boy was she pissed! She finally decided to do her chores. MAN! There was a crapload of dishes just piled up that she had to wash. A couple of people took pity on her. Zach actually said he didn’t think the current council was being fair. Whatever! She got off easy considering that she absolutely refuses to put any effort into doing anything for the town!

In the end, Taylor earned the right to go to the arcade, but things quickly went downhill for the town after that. Apparently, kids can’t be trusted to take care of their responsibilities before spending all day and night in a free arcade! Whod’ve thunk it?!?! Well, it ended with the town council deciding to put a padlock on the door and not opening it until the kids take care of business and they put Sophia in charge of the “law” in the town. Looks to be a real showdown coming next week! This show is like a car wreck. It’s so awful the way these kids act, but I just can’t turn away!

I just have to say this because this show is just really aggravating me! Just like my friend, Colleen, I seriously can not stand that girl Taylor! Oh…my….god! She actually said tonight that she didn’t care if the ugly chickens were killed because she doesn’t like ugly animals. For humans, it was okay to be ugly because they can put on makeup, but you can’t do that with animals. She knows this because she tried it with her dog. Seriously, her parents must be so proud of their deep, insightful, benevolent little….WENCH!

I just sat here for the past 20 minutes or so shaking my head in disbelief everytime the girl opened her mouth! She had the nerve to tell people that she didn’t like being bossed around. Say what?! If you’ve seen any of this show, that’s the pot calling the kettle black! Or, as EP would say “Kettle!” If you haven’t had the pleasure of spending an hour with this charming miss, then check out full episodes online.

 And please…someone…just try to justify this one’s behavior! There is no justification. She is horrible - plain and simple. And if MM was ever on this show and had the nerve to act like that, as soon as I saw it (I don’t know if the kids are home already or if there’s simply a few week delay), I’d be calling the studios telling them to get my child off the show right now cause she needed to come home for her butt whooping!

Okay, now that I got that off my chest, I can un-pause the DVR and finish watching this episode.