The Schmidt House

Today AE took a babysitting class - all day - at the end she received an official certificate and everything. I am excited for her...I think. I can't however get this little clip out of my head, it is a short from "The Incredibles" called "Jack Jack Attack". Jack Jack, along with all of of the other members of the family, has special powers. We watched this over and over again a few years ago and AE had the "Hi, I'm Kari the babysitter" imitation down pat. The clip is a little long, but so funny. I can't get over how much AE does resemble Kari... Let's hope life does not imitate art...

a good pick me up for a chilly morning, it was recommended from a friend at work and i am liking it...try it, i think you might like it too. Martin Roth & Alex Bartlett - Off the World there are actually four versions available on iTunes - i have all four, but like this one the best.

AE went to a birthday party for her friend and BB teammate MT.

Baby girl made the "A" team. She was so excited this morning when she found out - you would've thought it was Christmas morning.

Now that I am staying at Cargill I don't have this entire week off to prep for new adventure because I still haven't left old adventure for new adventure at the same place where my little I/T experiment is still going. In all honesty I am surprised I am not more upset than I am, once again a sign that I was where I needed to be the whole time. Karen - started reading "The Book Thief" you were right it is a bit tough getting in to, however once you get past that what a ride...can't wait to see how it ends. Now wait, I am sad that I don't have this week off because I would have been able to read ALL DAY LONG if I had wanted to.

Blink-182 has been one of my favorite bands for quite some time, even though they aren't together I have followed the offshoots from the band +44 and Angels and Airwaves. Today the drummer Travis Barker survived a plane crash, four people died, but he and one other survived. I am just sad, to many this is just another new story, but I took note when I saw it and was sad. Here is one of my favorite Blink songs, "Adam's Song" it is a sad song, but like I said one of my favorites cause Mark sings it and it was before they were really big and it really touched me at a time in my life. Take a listen.

So over the past 24 hours I have managed to watch two, yes two movies, thanks to the new laptop. All other TVs w/DVDs were occupied in our home which is usually the case. Dan was watching the Twins get trounced by Tampa Bay and the kids were in the basement playing DDR . So, upstairs I went with Colin Firth and Edward Burns in tow. Then She Found Me The first movie I watched was Then She Found Me. I believe it went straight to DVD, can't remember it in the theater. It was written, directed, and starring Helen Hunt. Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler and of course Colin Firth are also in it. ***SYNOPSIS INCLUDING SPOILERS*** I didn't really like it. I was actually quite depressing. It is the tale of April a 39 year old, really wants kids teacher from NYC who marries this loser (Broderick) and he leaves her only to have her adoptive mother die the next day, then she discovers her birth mother who is a nutjob ( Midler ) TV personality only to fall in love with a neurotic father of ...