Flat on My Face

So it is Day one of 2007. I overslept until 9am and almost missed the Rose Bowl Parade pre-parade show. Then my mom fell asleep and overcooked the roast beef (which I didn't know she was even making cause i was asleep too). So she sent my sister and I out to the grocery store to get some beef gravy to compensate for the dryness. Well, we didn't make it out of the garage without catastrophe. It was all my fault. I am a complete moron. In my defense, I virtually only drive my beloved Subaru Forrester. Apparently, when I drove my sister's honda civic to pick up the pizza last night, i forgot to turn off the lights. The forrester's lights automatically turn off when you turn the car off because it has daytime running lights. IF i regularly drove the civic I would remember to turn the lights off. Anyways, we had to tell my dad because we had no idea how to jump a car, or whether the jumper cables would be in the garage. Alpha male (dad) + alpha female (me) = bad because he just would not shut up about the fact that I ACCIDENTLY left the lights on. He's done way more dumb things to our vehicles. Anyways, we jumped the civic, it's recharged and i will always know how to jump a battery for as long as i shall live. I MISS MY CAR!!!!!!!

The Rose Bowl Parade was awesome. There was sunny weather, storm troopers, Oklahoma Centennial floats, Kristen Chenoweth, Imperial Fighters and freaking 6 foot tall roses. On the Oklahoma Rising float, a real-live Rocket Man flew out of the birthday cake on the float. He was airborne for like 30 seconds and it was freaking awesome!!!! Of course there was some damn good marching bands, cause that's why I really watch the parade. My mom and I even watched the Rose Bowl game this evening. USC beat Michigan (i'm an iowa fan so i refuse to root for Michigan because they are a big rival, but i don't like USC at all either). We just watched the 2nd half which is when most of the action happened anyways. I was working on Red Scarf #2 while watching, cause we all know that I can't sit still. It is 16 inches long and the average adult scarf is 60 inches. I'm getting there. It would go faster but I am a bit of a perfectionist, i have to count the stitches in each row twice after I finish a row so that i know for sure that each row has an even 23 stitches. It's my ocd/accounting side. I am loving how easy it is to crochet with Cascade 220. It lends itself very well to the hook.The shade of red I am using is the color of Mister Rogers' cardigan. Lol. Don't you love my technical terms?

I was semi-naughty and ordered two Easy Bake Oven cookbooks for A-dolly online this morning. See, my A-dolly loves her new Easy Bake Oven, and cooking is a very useful educational tool for children because you can teach math, science and social skills in the process. Since I am her official fairy godmother, I am responsible for her education, especially her arts education and she is the heir to my throne after all. So I found two of them online and ordered them for her. I also found some free recipes by doing a google search (i loooove google) and put them into a little booklet for her. It's sad, A-dolly has more cooking skills than I do. LOL...Maybe I should have added that to my resolutions.

In my defense, i used the remainder of my gift card and since my debit card is a mastercard I got to use the $10 off promotion from Barnes and Noble. So basically, my order was 50% off. YAY for me! This order also included Anthony Rapp's new autobiography about RENT and other life experiences and since I'm a bleeding heart liberal, I ordered Al Gore's latest book about the environment called An Inconvient Truth. I've read excerpts and it sounds very interesting. I just like to read about everything. I like science, just not as a profession. I leave that part to my sister the physical science teacher.

By the way Sunshine, after I got off the phone with you, M called. She's started off the new year with a bang, to say the least. Rolls her eyes big time. I felt like Emily Dickinson after I got off the phone with her. Boo to her, props to you for starting a blog, I think that's awesome.

Based on my experiences today, I have decided that my official theme for 2007 will be Alanis Morrisette's cover of Crazy, which was originally made famous by Seal. I originally heard this version when I was hanging out with Sunshine before break and then I was watching The Devil Wears Prada yesterday and this version is on the soundtrack. I like both versions of the song, but Alanis' version brings a certain element of girl power to it.