80’s kid… PAD #1073

80's kid... PAD #1073

Okay, so daughter of an 80’s kid. Eva has a a very cute little jean jacket that Mimi got for her. It has pooh and Tigger on it. She looks adorable in it. She went for a nice long walk around the neighborhood with my parents today. When she got home she was fast asleep in her car carrier. I didn’t want to wake her so I snapped this photo.

Today we had our friends Andy and Rondi over to play a little Wii. We played some Guitar Hero 3 but that is only fun with a group if you have two guitars (IMHO). I really hope that the new version that is All Aerosmith will be sold as a set with another controller. Maybe an Aerosmith themed one.

After we played that we tried out Smarty Pants, a game Allison got for me for Valentine’s Day. To be honest I wasn’t hoping for much from a Wii Trivia game however, playing it with Andy and Rondi was fun because it is much more than a simple trivia game. There are wild cards that you can get and mini games that you can play against other players. It was really very fun. Of course Andy will say that I think it was fun because I won, but it was fun playing the mini games and all the special things as well.

Tonight we had my Great Aunt Millie and Great Uncle Freddie over for Traditional Irish Dinner. I’m going to be on a plane to LA tomorrow morning (1st thing 4:00am wake up to drive to Logan, ouch) for a couple of days (demos for 2 days +2 travel days) so I am going to miss our Saint Patrick’s Day tradition. But we did dinner tonight and it was good. I started the corned beef, cabbage, carrots and potatoes in the crock pot at 8:00am this morning, they went all day till 6:30pm. I boiled everything in beer (as is my custom). I think it all tasted pretty darn good too, one of my best. It topped last year’s by far.

Well, I am off to pack and head to bed, long day tomorrow.

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Entertainment Catch Up…

Last night Allison and I saw Juno. This was a quirky, fun movie with a lot of heart and warmth. Think of it as an edgier Napoleon Dynamite. It had that sort of awkwardness as well as charm. I loved the performances by Ellen Page, Michael Cera and well, pretty much the whole cast. As we watched it Allison stated that we really should watch this movie with our friend Mo. But we will settle for Mo making a video of herself watching it because we really want to see her reactions to the movie, which we know will be absolutely hilarious. Mo, go see this movie.

In birBIG News, Mike Birbiglia has been green lighted by CBS for a 1/2 hour sitcom based on his Secret Public Journal. Both Allison and I are very very excited about this. I’ve been a fan of Birbiglia for some time now. He is hilarious, his Secret Public Journal is his online blog as well as weekly e-mail newsletter. There are also some videos that he did on Comedy Central’s Motherlode that highlight secret public journal entries. Mike has a very down to earth style that is accessible to many people, I hope his pilot and series does well.

Also there seems to be some confusion over who the Oceanic Six are. If you have been watching LOST then you know that Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sayid, Sun and Aaron have made it off the island. Many people are saying that Aaron doesn’t count because he was not part of the manifest. I figure that sometime this season we will see the Oceanic 6 at a press conference, so if Aaron is not one of them then how does Kate explain that he is her son? I would think that Aaron would be at this press conference. I’m pretty sure that we know the identities of all Oceanic 6 members and Aaron is one of them.