Monday Morning Mustings - Hat Hair

We have been having the KoOKiesT of weather lately. Some days it's nice. Most days it's not. We had snow several times over the weekend. These pictures were taken last Friday. My sister Lauren was here playing with Addy and they went out to play in the snow. When I opened the door to take a picture, they pelted me with snowballs.

Emily was in a play last week. She has loved being in Drama Club this year. She told me she loved it so much, she wants to be in Drama next year too. Then she cheerily added, "That's a good reason for staying in school!" And I looked at her and asked, "What, were you thinking of dropping out in the 6th grade or something?"

The other day Addy came down for breakfast, plopped her cute self down on a stool and announced "I'M HUNGRY!" Then she added "...Like the wolf!" I couldn't have been more proud. Yep, that's my girl.

So last night I finished the final book in The Hunger Games series, Mockingjay. Ay, yi, yi. That book got on my last nerve for the most part. The other two books were fine, but this last one. Ir-ri-TATION! It was bugging me so bad I finally had to sit down and figure out exactly what it was that was bothering me so much. It didn't take me long. My thought process was like this:

Main character...girl...annoying as all get out...boy in love...boy in love...sounds familiar...BELLAAAAAA!...No stinking wonder.

The last 1/3 of the book was much better than the first 2/3rds, once we stopped focusing on how annoying the main character was and got on with the action and the blowing up of people. Halfway through the book, I thought I knew what the author was doing and I thought I had it all figured out about how it was going to end, all mamy pamby like the Twilight series. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find I was wrong. That doesn't happen very often. My being wrong.

Halfway through the book, when I was so busy being annoyed, I did find one redeeming quality on its pages. Just a little part I liked and thought relates to our America today, kinda like Katniss' America or "Panem" in the book:

"It's a saying from thousands of years ago, written in a language called Lain about a place called Rome," he explains. "Panem et Circenses translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power."

So yesterday, I bought a hat. I am not a hat person. This is the first hat I think I have ever bought for myself. I have all these friends, and they are always wearing cute hats. And whenever I say, "Cute hat." They say they are just wearing it because they didn't wash their hair that day. And I always think, "Wow...I wish I could not wash my hair for a day." Because my hair is NAS-TAY if I don't wash it every day. But it really is a pain in the booty to have to wash and style it every day. And sometimes there are just days when you have more important things to do. Like yesterday. The kids left for school and Addy was sitting on the couch watching TV. I sat down next to her and started reading my book. I promised myself I was only going to read one chapter, but I had just gotten past the annoying part of the book and was in the heat of battle. So one chapter became another and another and another until I finally looked at the clock and thought JEEPERS! It's late. I better go to the store now. However I was still in my PJ's and to take a shower and get ready would have taken far too long and the day was half over, man. Then I thought of all my friends and their hats and their dirty hair. I decided that I could maybe pull it off if I had a hat. So I bought one when I was out yesterday. I'm not sure if it worked for me or not. Oh well. I'm gonna pretend like it did.

Today, I did something I have never before done. I am so proud of myself. My mom called me this morning (after I had showered and done my hair, thank goodness, for sure the hat wouldn't have worked for me 2 days in a row) and she was at the store and her car wouldn't start. So I drove over and jumped her car for her. And I didn't blow us up or anything!