Today I received a wrong number phone call. The problem is, the person who they were trying to call was also named Shane! Took a while to sort that one out, let me tell you, very confusing!
Wha happa
Well first let me start on Thursday of last week. I was leaving work kind of late and it was very cold and dark and there was nobody around. I stopped at a stop sign and trotting down the middle of the crossing road was a coyote, cool as a cucumber! I just waited at the stop sign as he calmly trotted by in front of me, probably 5 feet from my bumper. He gave me a little grin like, “What’s up?” as he went by. What is going on with Chicago and coyotes?? My dad suggested that perhaps some ancient Indian spirit guide is trying to get a hold of me or something.
So on Saturday we went up to my brother’s place at Madison and there are two things to note. The first is that I ate a Bacon Brat Burger on Pretzel bread with some sort beer mustard. That’s something you certainly can’t get just anywhere! It was like a double patty burger but one of the patties was made out of a brat. It was interesting enough sounding that I passed up the daily special, the Brat Favre. It was pretty delicious, but I could have done without the pretzel bread.
The other interesting thing is that we went by a theater downtown and on the marquee it said that they were showing the Packer’s game there on Sunday. How cool would that be? I would definitely go for that if I lived there.
After that, we went to my Grandma’s 80th birthday party. It was good to see a lot of my dad’s family that we don’t usually see. We haven’t been to a family gathering for that side of the family in a long time.
YIKES!!! The Packers are one win away from the Super Bowl and it doesn’t look good! Game is currently tied with 4 seconds left, but the Giants are about to kick a FG!
YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSS!!!! Missed FG, overtime it is!
Growing up
I know that I am an adult now because today I received this email from Sara:
“evie is hving some really wet sounding poop right now. oh, stated jmping again, better change her quick! oh no, not done!”
The joys of parenthood!
What else? I’m excited about the prospect of a farmer’s market opening up a couple of blocks from my house this summer.
Sara and I got library cards over the weekend (that’s for you InteractiveReader).
It was really nice to have a weekend at home. Even though I worked my tail off, it was nice to think that I didn’t *have* to do anything! 🙂 Plus I think it may have helped Evie with her sleeping too. ::crosses fingers::
Sheva Weva
So we were talking about Mariah Carey because Evie decided to practice her high pitched shrieking skills all day today. Sara admitted that she only learned as an adult that the lyrics to Dreamlover are “Won’t you please / come around / ’cause I wanna share forever with you baaaaaby”. Until that point she thought the lyrics went, “Won’t you please / come around / ’cause I wanna sheva weva with you baaaaaby”.
Now we’ve all gotten song lyrics wrong at some point, so it’s not that funny I guess, but this just really cracked me up!
I asked her, “What did you think sheva weva meant?” and she not only said, “a dance or something” but she actually demonstrated the specific dance that she thought sheva weva referred to! I mean, sure I can understand not getting the words right, but it is so fantastic that she thought she had the words right and that Mariah just made up a phrase to refer to dancing. That just slayed me.
So don’t forget to ask Sara to “sheva weva” next time you see her. 🙂
Tiny Houses
This reminds me of that fake Geico commercial where the newlyweds had to live in the tiny house. Except it is real. And this man is crazy.
If you don’t feel like going to the website, you can just watch this here:
P.S. Happy Birthday to me!
