IT'S SATURDAY

And I Have a beautiful message about growing old:






Well, crap...
Now I forgot what it was....

A Summer Saturday


Grandma J could have traveled to Giddings Texas for a AAU Track Meet that her granddaughter was competing in, or stayed on the home front with A-Ron who had morning baseball practice.





So she stayed home and took A-Ron to practice, and her middle daughter went to Giddings for the track meet.


Practice ended at one, and we headed straight to McD's for A-Ron's lunch because Grandma J had a salad at home....BUT! They decided not to go home, but headed straight for the theatre to see a movie.




We both agreed that Land Of The Lost sounded good. Grandma J was a bit leery because we all know about Will Ferrell and his language can be pretty raunchy, but the movie was rated PG, and A-Ron isn't a baby anymore....




He treated his grandma to ice cream at $3.50 a scoop. She had a double scoop of butter pecan.




Since they still had over 30 minutes before the show started, they grabbed a table to sit and eat their ice cream......yeah, by they, Grandma J means she....because A-Ron wandered off.

To play arcade games. ummmm hello, your ice cream is melting.

And at what age do boys lean over an empty cup to catch the drippings?

So, who wants to know about the movie?

I was hoping no one would ask because I can't even begin to review this movie. It was probably budgeted at $9.95 and their was some change left over. It was terrible......the story line was about traveling in time, but not back in time or forward in time, but sideways in time.

The cast of four, and one being a monkey-ish person/thing, ran from one scene to another, being chased or dousing themselves in dinosaur urine. Honestly it was so bad Grandma J caught A-Ron with his shirt pulled up over his head so he could text someone....he was bored.

Here....take a look......

This is an example of how lame the movie was. she actually thought there was something on the other side of the door. If you go see this movie and like it, please tell me why.

A WEEKEND TREAT...or in simpler words

Friday Matinee on Saturday!

I got a text message Saturday...which is the primary method of communication in our family. To be more specific, I received the message at 2:12 in the afternoon. Here's what it said:

"Mom, we're gonna see Role Model at the movies in 20 minutes, do you want to go"?

I was just finishing up washing my floors, so with a real sense of accomplishment, I said, Sure!



See this map? I must have gotten three text messages on my way to the theatre. I am a good driver, but I can't and won't text while driving. Isn't talking easier? Anyway, after traveling at lightning speed, I got there before the movie started. My granddaughter was in the lobby waiting for me, my son-in-law was buying popcorn, and my daughter and grandson were saving our seats.

The movie....Role Model! Now, it's rated R and it's all about the language again.

Danny (Paul Rudd) and Wheeler (Seann William Scott) are reps for an energy drink company. They push there product with a "say no to drugs" type presentation to Junior and Senior High School students.

Wheeler plays the role of the mascot, and after ten years, totally loves his job. Danny gives the pumped up sales pitch and hates it. He has a meltdown at one school and basically tells the students the energy drink is poison. Of course they get kicked off campus and as they leave, they see their Company Truck hitched to a tow truck.

They have a bit of a scuffle, and end up breaking away, but crashing into a statue. Danny's lawyer-girlfriend breaks up with him but acts as their attorney. She keeps them out of jail, but they must do 150 hours of community service. If they don't complete it, they go to jail for 30 days.

The community service is at a Big Brother type of program called Sturdy Wings...the Bigs where assigned a Little to mentor.

Jane Lynch is the founder, facilitator, and overall boss of Sturdy Wings. She singles out Danny and Wheeler and shows no mercy because they aren't volunteers, but Court ordered Bigs. She assigns them with the most troublesome Littles there.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse is assigned to Danny. He plays a nerdy Dungeons & Dragons or Medieval Warrior type who is considered weird by his family who puts him in the program.

Bobb'e J. Thompson is a fowl mouthed wise guy who is an only child to a single mom. Wheeler is his mentor.

The movie is very funny, and raunchy...with a good measure of life's lessons learned.

I give this movie four stars....

IF IT'S SUNDAY.....

......then this must be Saturday....part II, III and IV

It's been one of those days when you don't stop from sunrise 'til sunset.
Like floating down a lazy river in Texas. Because, if you remember, rivers are the infrastructure of choice when it comes to travel in Central Texas.

Here is where it begins and ends......


I have highlighted my travels this past Saturday for you on this River Map of Texas.
That's home there in Killeen, and after my early morning book signing trip, see Saturday, Part I, I headed to the City of Lampasas for my granddaughter's basketball tournament. The population of the town of Lampasas is about the same as one basketball team with four alternate players.


The family wouldn't miss a tournament for the world.

Neither would this guy...who doesn't have a horse in the tournament. He likes basketball, any basketball.....plain and simple.

We watched my granddaughter shout orders to her teammates on the court...

and from the side lines.

After traveling back home...I changed clothes and headed out to a birthday party for one of my neighbors in the Compound....Donna. Donna invited everyone to her daughter's home to celebrate. She is one of the Aqua Aerobics members, and more specifically, Donna is the one who said Theodore Kaczynski, the Una bomber, was her pen pal.

Donna gets two birthday cakes...one huge one to serve to the 85 guests, and one small one for the candles. It seems last year Donna blew so hard she ended up spitting all over the cake...and no one would eat it.

After Donna opened her gifts of cigars, booze and bath salts, I bid her farewell and best wishes....even though the sun was setting, my day wasn't done.

See here on the map? I headed north on the faux river known as the I35 corridor past the city of Waco to Bellmead Texas, which is really still Waco.

I arrived just in the nick of time to watch the first of two baseball games for my grandson.

This one, with the goofy smile!

And remember the basketball player?

She was there too....to talk on her cell phone cheer on her brother.

The last game was yet to be played, and it was after 9pm. Since it would be after 11 PM when the game would end, and the next game was early Sunday morning, the team parents decided to get hotel rooms so they could party make sure the boys got a good night's sleep.

I had other priorities.......

Making sure He didn't spend the night alone.

SATURDAY Part I

Just a quick update about my early Saturday morning rendezvous.

I got up early.....traveled to Hastings Book Store an hour before they opened. I wasn't the first one there, but I was second in line.

Then my son-in-law, 1st SGT. John showed up.

When the store opened we were privileged to meet Col. Oliver North, and have him sign his lasted book...

He signed it: To John, Soldier on....Oliver North

For me and my soldier, it was an honor to meet Col. North.