Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Tangled into Knots

First off, if you haven't seen the new Tangled movie, it's fantastic. The horse is the best part, but the chameleon isn't bad either. They do a good job making it accessible for everyone (and by that, I mean that parents won't fall asleep watching it).

I have been working out as much as possible, up to four times a week. At first, the elliptical was terribly painful. but now I can do two miles and not feel like I am going to die. I'm not losing a whole lot of weight, but I am planning on doing a 5K in less than an hour in May, so I'm sort of getting ready for that.

A few funny child notes: Dagny is first in her division for bowling in Southwest Minnesota. In other words, for the girls 11 years old and younger, she's going to State Championships in May. This is hillarious to me. In Districts, she bowled three games with scores of 67, 55, and 70. She beat the girl she was sharing a lane with hands down and the girl had at least five years on her. With her shockingly high handicap (570) she was a shoe in for state. She might not win there, but I'm sure as heck proud that she's going!!

Sintu is quite proud of his potty training (at last) and accompanies Marc into the bathroom where he completely embarasses his father by saying "Good Boy, Daddy!!" every time. This makes me laugh.

The snow is finally gone and today was 70 degrees. We went for a walk last night, but tonight I got out the bikes and we grabbed our neighbors (not literally) to go for a walk around the block. Sintu was sorely outnumbered, six girls to just him, but he didn't seem to care. Roscoe doesn't count, though he joins us on these walks and he's getting better on his leash.

Marc is in Mankato on business for a few days and I'm really bored once the kids go to bed. Marc and I usually veg, have some wine, watch TV, but it's not the same without him. Since Brianna Conrad has chewed me out for not updating my blog, I thought I'd give her something to read. (Hi Brianna!)

George R.R. Martin, my favorite author, comes to the television screen on April 17 (yes, that's my birthday!!) with an adaptation of my FAVORITE book for HBO. I'm such a geek, I can hardly wait. I've even invited friends over to watch it. If you haven't read The Game of Thrones, you should. They're brilliant and definitely not your sunshine and daisies fantasy. He's not afraid to kill of the characters you like.

Well, I'm off to find something to do, like maybe *gasp* read a book. I'm presenting a few books at the MLA conference and I'll have 12 minutes to do 10 titles, in the science fiction and fantasy genres (no surprise there). I'm reading some things I've never read before and it's kind of exciting - I chose some Hugo and Nebula winners and I'll keep you psoted on that! Have a great night.