The Social Butterfly

You may not know - buuuuuutttt - I have won the football pool against all my favorite Village people. That's right - I beat a bunch of BOYS at picking who would win each week. :-) I have my own formula of doing it and it drives Bill crazy. I can't let you in on all the secrets - but I ALWAYS go with Chicago and I ALWAYS go against Green Bay. :-) I also have a thing about Manning so I try to go with him - but last time I had to go against him. (sorry P). :-) I was the ONLY person to predict ALL the wildcard games correctly!!!! :-) I HAVE to gloat because last year I did really poorly. :-)

So I'm *praying* that my prediction of the Giants and Tennessee comes out correctly. :-) (Go Titans!) :-) It's been a fun ride and the trash talk has been LOTS of fun! :-)

We have signed Miss Sally up for all kinds of stuff!!! She comes home with something almost every night that she wants to do. :-) She's got bowling on Thursdays, basketball and social club on Saturdays, Tech club on Tues and Thurs, and she wants to go to Young Rembrandts on Fridays. :-) She's really getting *into* it now. :-)

Jack had his first basketball "class" last night. Afterwards the coach informed us that Jack was very good and would be a great basketball player. I think we BOTH rolled our eyes. Great - just what we need - Jack's thing is - he has a lot of God given talent for sports in general - BUT he has a LOT of quit in him. :-) He's got absolutely no Uncle Brad (standing out in the rain practicing 3 pointers) in him. (also wouldn't hurt to jack him up and run a little humility under him either).

Last night at dinner he was doing the whole "not fair" thing again because Sal's got so many things she's doing now. I told him that no, life wasn't fair. People don't get what the deserve and don't deserve what they get. It's not fair that Sal can't write, ride a bike, tie her shoes, or dribble a ball. It's not fair that he's alive and my friend's Jack isn't. If you don't ever question things when things are good why do you think you should question them when things aren't so good?

I think he really hates that he has a mother who gives ".50 cent lectures" (as my aunt used to say). :-) You can almost hear his little brain saying "why did I even say anything, here she goes again." :-)

We refinanced tonight - got a better rate - everything else stayed the same. Mr G is always happy to see our credit reports. ;-) (mine is better than Bills) :-p He also *loves* dealing with our insurance agent. :-) It worked out well that the kids were at daycare - but the animals were idiots just the same. :-)

The animals - ugghh. Mabe has been better since we put up the gate to downstairs and have closed all doors to the bedrooms. But Lord, she picks on Sade. I try to "rescue" Sade but she starts it too - so I figure let 'em have each other. :-)

Mabel's new trick is when she *does* get downstairs she jumps up on the computer table and into the window. Doesn't matter WHAT is up there - pictures, change, spelling words, you name it - it all goes flying - plus she's bending up my blinds down there. But God forbid she can't see outside. Who would howl at the kids walking to school??? :-)