- Seriously, why do TV baseball announcers feel compelled to talk 100% of the time? The worst part, aside from the stultifying boringness of everything they say, is that they rarely describe what's actually going on. So what are they talking about Every. Single. Minute?
- Bar Mitzvah planning is continuing apace, and now that the invitations are out I can safely reveal the Top Secret details for which I took a vow of silence nearly a year ago:
- We're having a New Orleans-style Jazz brunch, complete with Bananas Foster and beignets*; the shrimp remoulade*, however, will be displaced by smoked salmon because eww, we're not kosher but still -- eww -- shrimp at a Bar Mitzvah? Noooo.
- The invitations to the kids' dance party were silk screened in fluorescent green paint on black tee shirts and mailed to each guest, with RSVP information on attached laminated lime green cards. This approach presumably cuts down the amount of glowing plastic rubbish we'll have to supply to guests at the actual dance party.
- The celebratory video is still under construction, with estimated completion date some time before June 12, 2010.
- Shouldn't the phrase "Years of Age" have been abolished after Jane Austen died?
- Speaking of Jane Austen, Cupcake and I are reading Pride and Prejudice together and I am utterly thrilled to be sharing one of my favorite books with one of my favorite readers.
- Cupcake is attending a summer school program at a boarding school in Boston for three weeks after her month at camp has ended. She'll take classes and seminars, go on field trips, and live in the dorms like a Hogwarts student. I might be a little bit jealous.
- Today is my father's birthday.
* Spellcheck wanted dragnets, remonstrate or remodel
