So.
I almost let this blog go to the graveyard of abandoned blogs.
Almost.
But I couldn’t do it.
Apparently I am more attached to this blog than I thought.
I knew that when the blog first went offline that I would feel something…
But I had no clue that I would feel some sort of weird emptiness. I had no clue that I would feel like I was letting part of me go away. That was weird, unexpected, and, as it turns out, something I am not willing to deal with right now. So I paid the ten bucks and Nello lives on for another year.

This week is finals week and guess what?
Of all the luck in the world, it turns out that I have NONE.
Two words: Stomach.Flu.
I’ve got it.
And I still have got to show up for my finals and perform brilliantly.
Wish me luck… cuz seriously. I’ve got NONE.
None.Luck.

Sometimes life offers few pleasures.
What with working and going to school, I haven’t had much going on in the area of “entertainment”.
Even surfing the web has gotten boring for me…

But thank heaven above for Jack Black’s appearance on Yo Gabba Gabba.
I made sure that we recorded this episode because even the previews being shown to advertise the new episode were freaking hilarious. I waited well over a week until the BEST THING I’VE SEEN IN A LONG TIME finally aired.

This piece of television genius was SO worth the wait:

In other news:
Tyson and I just celebrated our eighth anniversary!
Yay for us! We beat the seven year itch and are looking forward to the…. the what? The eight year cramp? Who knows… The point is that we’ve been married for eight years and I think that’s amazing. To say it has been an interesting ride would be an understatement. All I have to say (that won’t gross everyone out) is that every moment has been, or has turned out to be, completely worth it.

I love me some good old fashioned Mom controversy.
Don’t you? (~snore~)

So. True to form, I’m fashionably late to the party weighing in on the Today Show segment about “cocktail play dates”. (Okay. I’m two years late.) But I don’t care. I’ve thought about this worn out topic for awhile and I feel like adding just one teeny-tiny observation.

First. My opinion on whether or not it is okay for you to have a cocktail in front of your kids is that I really have no opinion. (Of course, I personally would never do such a thing, but guess what? I don’t drink alcohol.) I’ve said it a lot on this blog and I’ll say it again right now for a refresher. I don’t care what you do with your kids or how you raise them as long as it doesn’t merit a knock on the door from Child Protective Services.

Second. Assuming that CPS has no reason to be knocking on your front door, then NO Mother has any sort of right to judge if you are a “great mom”. End of story.

Now to my point.
Have you seen the Today Show video?
I’m sure you have because this is just oh-so-ancient news…. but humor me and check it out again because I am about to give you a few quotes.

“There is a group out there that might argue that this is not the place.” ~Janet Shamlian

“To those people I say that’s great for you, you know what I mean? Be sober fifteen, sixteen, seventeen hours a day with your kids and watch them and I would love to see, like, if they’re a great mom.” ~Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

Interesting thing to say, wouldn’t you agree?
(And those are DIRECT quotes from the video… They are NOT altered in any way.)

For my part, I think that Stefanie should have stopped after her first sentence.
Cuz… Whoa.