Back in the deep freeze.

which is the way it goes in Winter I suppose.  One kid had school cancelled.  One had a delay.  I am not sure if school administrators have gotten smarter or if they are pampering the students.  A few inches of snow and still air.  I am sure the roads are a little slick.  More than likely, they cancelled school because of the cold temps and the propensity of a below zero wind chill.

Anyway we had a splendid Superbowl get-together. The food was so pretty and plentiful.  I am glad it was a good game.  And really I didn't care who won, but it was nice to see the cheese-heads win.

Quite the variety

My man smokes a mean pork butt, haha and brisket

The eggs and brie plates were especially pretty and goooood!

Green Bay cakes

Betting

The commercials didn't seem as good this year but there was a few that got a laugh. Joan River's body transposed over a ripped young bod.  I think it was more of a shock than a laugh.

You probably guessed that wasn't her real 77 year-old body.

The kid in the darth vader, cute but I really didn't think so great.  I loved the Ozzy/Bieber commercial, "We're losing Ozzy, Ozzy's in the background..."  That's funny shit.

Christina Aguilera's nerves got the better of her and she messed up the lyric of the SSB.  Whoops.  What bothered me more was all the runs and bravado she added.  I know she's a heeluva singer but keep it simple seester.

If she was wearing this there would have been room for a costume malfunction.

You know I really wasn't crazy about the Black eyed peas, nothing personal I just don't like that pop stuff.  It was cool when Slash popped up but they should of never has Fergie sing that song. Horrible.

Yesterday I shot for the paper.  I had one assignment for a dining review.  Then it was driving around and then a late assignment about rural poverty in Ellicott.  It was at this clothing/ thrift shop out east.  The smell of stale cigarettes, and the look of worn out people existing the best they can with the help from other's.   I left there feeling a bit sad, but grateful for the lady to put her life into helping others.  I will donate there from now on.

I have seen two fairly good movies in the last few weeks.  I meant to mention "City Island" last week.  What a great movie starring Andy Garcia and Julianna Margulies. I viewed it on Encore but I am sure you can find it as a rental too.

 The dialogue can get to you in the beginning but you get used to their way of communication.  It was very entertaining.  They all had their quirks and habits.  It was billed as a comedy and it came together in one big laugh at the end.

I viewed Opa! last night.  What a cute but predictable story.  I want to live on that Greek Island.  Beautiful.  I could skip skinny dipping with Matthew Modine though.  It was on Encore.

Don't worry about Jack.  He now sleeps in our bed like a person. Beauty dog.

This was the AFA today.  Cold and blowing snow all day.  Right around zero degrees and damn near the artic.  Keep warm....

Illegitimi non carborundum

you know, "Don't let the bastards get you down" and I won't.

I had a very good but non-eventful weekend last weekend.  Had a wonderful evening Sat. at Ron and Char's but cashed it in early for a family portrait.  A friend of Maggie's.

I ran into Sharon at the dog park Sun. morning.  She discovered what a dog-wrestling dog I have.  Yep Jack's a freakin' dog wrestler. Wrastler sounds better.  Anyway after he wrastled him some dogs he sure was dirty so we took him to Wag N' Wash, a local dog washing business.  Sharon volunteered to help, so before she got there I got a tub. On my way to the back of the room, I slipped and fell on the wet floor.  Not a little skid and land, but I big old feet 10 feet in the air, coming down with a boom on my lower back.  Fortunately the only thing bruised was my big ole ego. Everyone asked if I was okay and I just had a good laugh with one of the dog wash helpers.  Sharon showed up and she had a laugh too.  She then said, maybe you are injured? So when they asked me to fill out an injury report she pointed out that was a good thing, that it was on record.  Then we both had a light bulb moment.  Maybe I was in fact "injured" and my ship had just came in.  We both had a good laugh over that.

When we went to check out the cashier treated us like a couple asking us both questions about Jack.  Calling us "you guys".  That was funny too.  Lesbian dog couple.

So I waxed my son's eyebrows the other night.  There's one thing I won't tolerate and that's a uni-brow.  No kid should have to go to school dirty or with a uni-brow. I buy a box of those wax strips and I have gotten pretty good at removing large unruly brow hair.  Anyway, the next day my daughter opened her math notebook in class and noticed two pages were stuck together.  Stuck together with a hair wax strip.  A used hair wax strip with hair on it.  As annoyed as she was, she got a good laugh out of it.  That'll teach her for leaving her school books on a table.

Looking forward to tomorrow's Super Bowl.  I haven't decided who to root for yet.  Leaning toward Green Bay right now.  I've backed off on hating Roethisberger cause now that he's the most hated player in America I figure that's a lot of hate going to a guy who probably hasn't done anything that the majority of these overpaid, largely testosterone-fueled, naive boys in men's bodies haven't done.

Hope your team wins.  I'll add the photos to this post later as it has been a week since I have written and I don't have the photos ready.  OK?