Author: The Jody

Okay, Junior has now eaten his weight in bananas, so I have a moment to type. (That would be 3 bananas. And some cereal, apple sauce and two waffles. Apparently the tape worm is back).

Okay, was having a discussion with Junior’s dad about whether or not voice actors/actresses could be eligable for Best [Actor/Actress] Academy Awards (yes, I thought Ellen was THAT good). I said that she was as good in that role as Tim Allen was as Buzz Lightyear, but I didn’t recall him being up for Best Actor. He said that Ellen would be considered a best Actress because she was the lead female, but that Tim Allen would only be best supporting, because Tom Hanks was the main male character.

I claim that in a movie you could have three best actors if there were three leads (i.e. equal billing, equal presense on screen) but that many movie companies choose to split the actors into best actor and best supporting just so they won’t be competing with each other. So here’s the question: If the voice actors from Toy Story were able to run for Acadamy Awards, what category(ies) would they be in?

Cute move, but even big brave Junior was clinging to me during part of it. I liked it. Ellen DeGeneres ROCKS as Dory. Oh my God, she’s amazing. If they ever decide to do a sequel it has to be about Dory.

I have to give my brother-in-law credit…he knows how to throw a great kids party. Today was the joint party for the 3yo and the 5yo, and there was a moonwalk (shaped like a birthday cake, which looked really funny when you came down the street) and Bob’s piece-de-resistance, a homemade wooden ramp and a gigantic container of Lego pieces. Hundreds and hundreds of them. Each kid (there were 17, I believe) could make a car and then run them down the ramp. No formal soap-box derby (which was good because some kids cracked when their cars didn’t make it off the jump, never mind losing a race) but a blast for the kids to learn what worked best to get the cars flying. We learned they needed weight but couldn’t be too top-heavy, for one thing.

Anyway, this idea came from the Lego store down in Disney Marketplace. He bought the Lego wheel set at their online store which was enough wheels to make 36 vehicles, I believe. VERY fun stuff. In fact, right now Junior and I have his Legos (the few we have that are regular Legos and no Duplos) out on the table, makingnew cars with the wheels on the car he got to take home.

I should point out that the post below was made on my phone. I cannot figure out how to get my email function to insert an upper case letter (as in “I”) when it doesn’t follow a period. How stupid is that? I mean, I could do the e.e.cummings thing, but I’d rather have you guys think I wasn’t being all lazy and stuff. Really, I want to type “I” but the phone only lets me type “i”.

Got the lawnmower back. I think it’s safe to say it wasn’t ready when we got there. I know you’re surprised. My dad looked at me after the guy disappeared and we could hear an air compressor with a “is he still working on it?” look. I’d give that a big yes. We did find out that the boss has been out, and this guy, normally the mechanic, has been running the whole place. So I’m sure that’s cut into his mechanic time. Plus he’s 65 and “retired” and only works 40 hours now, period. So I’m sure covering the store and dealing with the customers has cut into his 40 hour “fixing things” schedule. So I’ll cut him a teeeeny bit of slack. Then again, he could have told me yesterday that it wasn’t going to be DONE yesterday.

Got half the backyard mowed before sprinkles started. Electric mowers are not fond of rain, so I had to stop when that happened and moved on to making dinner. And now I’m ready for bed, so goodnight!!!!!