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Of all the Blue things in my life, Blue Man Group is right up there on the list. We had a GREAT night on Friday, and the kids were all thrilled.

Now I’m not a formal reviewer, and I don’t know them well enough to even comment on that particular show, but I laughed through the whole thing, thought it was a great performance (with no flaws that I could see). Having one of the Blue Men stand next to me shining a flashlight in my face and then having one climb on the back of Junior’s chair didn’t hurt one bit.

We have a DirecTV freeview of The Complex stored on the TiVo from last year, and we have watched it a LOT of times. We bought the soundtrack and have worn the sucker out. All the kids love it. So if they had just played music the whole time, I would have been thrilled. I told Mr. Dump if you want to create the absolute perfect show for me, it will be equal parts drumming and tap dancing. Riverstomp. Luckily, the non-musical parts of the show are captivating, and family-friendly. (Junior was thrilled to find the Blue Men waiting at the bottom of the stairs as we left, because “he touched my ear!”)

Talking about it at a dinner party on Saturday (with my BIL, who had the pleasure of being the guy chosen to be the human paintbrush/guy with head in gelatin a few years ago) I guess much of what we saw was “old” stuff, even though the radio commercials for the show said it was new. Well, it was new to me, but if you’ve seen them before, it sounds like you shouldn’t expect all new stuff. I’d say what’s the same, but that would spoil it for folks who’ve never been.

Anyway, I’d go again in a minute. Loved it. (And Mr. Dump got a great parking space so bang-zoom, we were on our way and home by 10pm. Not bad.)

Okay, so there’s a new DumpMobile in the old driveway these days – a Saturn Vue. It came with 3 months of free XM radio, which we are enjoying more than you can imagine.

Interesting XM stuff from this evening:
– listening to Orlando traffic and weather while tooling around the pules of snow from yesterday’s storm is damned depressing.
– I had no idea they made a real song out of “Smelly Cat”. Thanks, XM Kids! (116)

Additionally, I want to show you pictures from yesterday to show exactly why the Orlando weather thing is sad. Here I present the Pillsbury Snow Boy, followed by his sister taking a hit.

…will you sing along? Blue Man Group tonight, baby! How excited am I? Well, let’s just say that like Tobias on Arrested Development, I may just paint myself blue, baby!

Of course, then nobody would talk to me. Would that be so bad, though?

No more cat shootings in the news, so maybe my suggestions saved some lives. I’m happy to provide this level of service to my loyal fans.

Saw this headline on Yahoo this morning, and thought to myself “Oh, you know every cat on the planet is jealous.” I think it was premeditated. If it had been a dog, well, duh, they’re just big and clumsy. But a cat…no. I think the cat was looking for an opening. Far be it for me to wonder why the guy had a loaded gun on the kitchen counter. Maybe it was meant for shooting the squirrels he was cooking for dinner.

But the cat – he had probably been looking for an opening like this for months, and he took it.

That will teach Mr. Stanton to serve Friskies instead of Fancy Feast. And hey, a new toy every once in a while wouldn’t be a bad idea!

(Okay, I am going to go write this up as an interview for the Daily Probe. I’ll let you know if he uses it.)

I was staring at my sandels this morning. I picked one up and held it for a moment, and gave it a big hug as tears filled my eyes.

“I miss you so…” I told it, my voice barely a whisper.

I could tell that my sandels understood, and felt the same way. We promised each other that we would spend time together as soon as humanly possible.