11:10:13 AM Nastinchka: I've never had a meteor strike NFL game before.
11:11:52 AM Livia: AND a game between two teams that I don't really want to root against.
11:12:19 AM Livia: I mean, how do you not root for Favre? Or Eli? Because let's be honest: it is the only chance either of them is ever going to have.
11:12:48 AM Nastinchka: I'm finding it pretty damn easy not to root for Favre, just so I don't have to hear the word "gunslinger" ever again. I just want his boyish heart of a champion to go live on a farm and chase squirrels.
11:14:48 AM Livia: It's not his fault people love him, just like it's not our fault people hate us.
11:15:14 AM Nastinchka: Meh. I've made my choice. And I choose a world in which Jeremy Shockey gets a Super Bowl Ring.
11:16:11 AM Livia: He won't accept it. Kind of like hunters have to make the actual kill before they eat the squirrel.
11:16:43 AM Nastinchka: But maybe he thinks if he kills Tom Coughlin with his bare hands and eats his still-beating heart, he gains one transitively.
11:16:46 AM Nastinchka: Everyone wins.
11:18:10 AM Livia: That is true.
12:16:02 PM JHC: I fucking hate officials.
12:16:14 PM JHC: I wish we could replace them with London's public cameras.
12:16:18 PM JHC: What are they called?
12:16:21 PM JHC: Bobbie cams?
12:16:25 PM JHC: I mean, Bobby cams?
12:16:42 PM Nastinchka: I should ask Momma. She almost got arrested outside their intelligense (sp?) bureau for photographing them for Birds On Things (it had a bird on it).
12:16:56 PM JHC: She could be the replay official.
12:17:01 PM JHC: Quick and decisive.
12:18:06 PM Nastinchka: And irretrievably biased.
12:18:19 PM JHC: I... think that is the greatest idea I've ever had.
12:18:34 PM Nastinchka: "After review, San Diego's pants clash with their helmets. The ruling on the field is overturned."
4:54:44 PM Nastinchka: PLAY WITH ME.
4:56:04 PM Momma: ok but only for 5 more minutes. then I have to concentrate of the marvelous offering that is HSM2.
4:56:11 PM Nastinchka: I can't believe you're watching that.
4:56:58 PM Momma: well, like I said, I need a topic to discuss with my grils next week; they were all gaga today. bless their hearts.
4:57:16 PM Nastinchka: It's hard to be the smartest AND the prettiest girl at the fair.
4:57:43 PM Momma: or on the playground
4:58:03 PM Nastinchka: It's your cross to bear.
4:59:16 PM Momma: ayup
5:00:29 PM Nastinchka: that baton
5:00:31 PM Nastinchka: was ON FIRE
5:00:53 PM Momma: oh. I didn't know.
5:01:00 PM Nastinchka: Well now, you do.
4:56:22 PM 'Bus: FALLING in a bar and slicing an artery?
4:56:25 PM 'Bus: Likely story
4:56:49 PM Nastinchka: He could've fallen on a dude holding a shiv, Nick, c'mon.
4:57:11 PM Nastinchka: I think the more likely explanation is he was thrown through a window.
4:57:27 PM Nastinchka: That qualifies as falling, right?
4:57:33 PM 'Bus: And an accident, right?
4:57:48 PM 'Bus: I mean, he didn't mean to get thrown
4:57:48 PM Nastinchka: Well, I'm sure he didn't MEAN to fall through the window, so, I guess so, yeah.
10:18:25 AM PB : My ex-girlfriend has her away message as "working girl," meaning she's at work. But I really just want to IM her: "whore."
10:20:17 AM Nastinchka: PLEASE DO
10:21:01 AM PB : HA - just did it. Her reply: "fuck you."
10:21:26 AM Nastinchka: "How much?"
10:21:33 AM PB : done
10:21:50 AM Nastinchka: Ten points to Gryffindor!
11:13:31 AM JHC: Marvin's fumble was particularly brutal.
11:14:14 AM JHC: The minute Norv gets down 2 TDs, he stops running the ball. That would have been nice.
11:17:04 AM JHC: i wish he'd wear turtlenecks
11:17:10 AM Nastinchka: I don't know if I'd call it "livid"
11:17:14 AM Nastinchka: as much as "befuddled"
11:17:29 AM Nastinchka: "And Norv has changed color"
11:19:17 AM JHC: He's like a disfigured Al Gore over there.
11:19:24 AM JHC: sorry, but he is
11:22:00 AM JHC: Seriously. If Al Gore was a bumbling, hapless, scarred, perpetually insignificant football coach he would look like Norv.
11:22:05 AM Nastinchka: stooooop
11:22:10 AM Nastinchka: don't make me think about his neck.
12:01:40 PM Nastinchka: gingersnappage
12:01:43 PM Nastinchka: gingersnappage
12:01:54 PM Momma: later, baby
12:01:59 PM Nastinchka: hissssssss
12:02:03 PM Momma: I'm making Pray-Leens
12:02:10 PM Momma: which I have NEVER made before
12:02:15 PM Nastinchka: What could go wrong?
12:02:39 PM Momma: what could go wrong?
12:02:47 PM Momma: with boiling water and Karo syrup?????!!
12:02:58 PM Nastinchka: oh, dear.
12:04:57 PM Momma: ok, I'm off to make a HUGE mess in the kitchen
12:05:07 PM Nastinchka: Have fun storming the castle!
12:05:33 PM Momma: this really will take a miracle
7:17:29 PM Swindle: Did you see that Hardee's commercial?
7:17:36 PM Nastinchka: No, we don't have them out here.
7:17:52 PM Nastinchka: well, we do, but it's Carl's Jr, but at any rate, no, i didn't. *hic*
7:18:01 PM Swindle: It shows someone grabbing ALL of the napkins out of a napkin dispenser
7:18:05 PM Swindle: Violently.
7:18:26 PM Swindle: Then: "Bacon Cheese Fries. At Hardees"
7:18:29 PM Nastinchka: "We threw our hearts over the wall"??
7:18:37 PM Nastinchka: Plaxy, I think it's "hats".
7:18:42 PM Swindle: First thought: "Explosive diarrhea? Vomiting?"
7:18:46 PM Nastinchka: But that might have been the way Coughlin told it.
7:18:53 PM Nastinchka: laced with crushed glass?
7:19:08 PM Swindle: Actually, his pregame speech was:
7:19:22 PM Swindle: Gentlemen, throw yourselves over a wall.
7:19:28 PM Swindle: The wall at the top of the stadium
7:19:31 PM Swindle: I hate you all.
7:19:40 PM Swindle: I would rather forfeit than play this game
7:19:49 PM Swindle: Because I have football more than life itself
7:19:52 PM Swindle: hat
7:19:54 PM Swindle: hate
7:20:02 PM Nastinchka: That's verbatim, I assume.
7:20:08 PM Swindle: Yes
7:25:24 PM Nastinchka: Oh my god please tell me you are still watching
7:25:43 PM Nastinchka: please tell me you are watching Michael Strahan say "SEE! You Don't NEED TRAINING CAMP!"
11:29:06 AM Livia: Also, I need to tell you something.
11:29:21 AM Nastinchka: ...
11:29:31 AM Livia: You know how I've always preferred Matt Saracen as a dumber, less attractive Pacey, with better friends and arm strength?
11:29:40 AM Nastinchka: oh, dear.
11:30:05 AM Livia: After you posted those side by side photos of Shockey and Riggins, I watched Friday Night Lights, and I was OVERWHELMED by just how sexy Tim Riggins is.
11:30:11 AM Nastinchka: THANK YOU.
11:30:17 AM Nastinchka: But I saw him first.
11:30:25 AM Livia: Like, I used to think he was just dirty hot, but now I realize he is HOT DIRTY HOT HOT.
11:30:37 AM Nastinchka: I honestly feel you have grown as a person.
1:36:24 PM Nastinchka: I feel I will have a problem disciplining kids when they've done something bad that's also funny.
1:36:39 PM PB : The temptation to fuck with them must be hard to resist.
1:36:41 PM Nastinchka: Scratch that, I feel it will be impossible.
1:37:15 PM Nastinchka: Tied helium balloons to the neighbors' cat's tail to make it walk on its front legs? they deserve a medal, not a time out.
1:37:37 PM PB : I would undoubtedly blame the neighbor.
1:38:09 PM Nastinchka: Points will be subtracted from whatever punishment for creativity, originality, and moxie.
1:38:25 PM PB : "Lighten up, Bob. It's a fucking cat. Haven't you always wanted to know if it could fly? And barring that, if it would land on its feet when the balloon popped at 150 meters?"
11:23:26 AM Nastinchka: Oh my god, Tedddddy Bruschi
11:23:42 AM Nastinchka: While it may be true for you, the New England Patriots are NOT A TEAM ABOUT OVERCOMING ADVERSITY
11:23:58 AM Nastinchka: unless "overcoming getting caught cheating by not giving a damn" counts as adversity.
11:25:33 AM Livia: Yeah. His own experience does not translate to the team as a whole.
11:27:46 AM Livia: Will it make it better if I kill Caesar, so that you can have your birthday all to yourself?
11:28:02 AM Nastinchka: eh. Who will get us guns?
11:28:20 AM Livia: If you can't kill without a gun, you don't deserve to kill at all.
11:28:36 AM Nastinchka: Fair.
1:54:06 PM Nastinchka: Tonight will be better.
Tonight I can pray for one of Charles Woodson's legs to just snap off in the cold.
1:54:45 PM Livia: Please hold for Ryan Perriloux's future.
6:46:07 PM Swindle: holy fuck offsides for breakfast
6:46:10 PM Nastinchka: Jimmy Johnson looks like my mom in Aspen from the forehead up.
7:00:23 PM Nastinchka: JEREMY SHOCKEY'S GOIN
7:00:26 PM Nastinchka: TO THE SHOW
7:00:28 PM Nastinchka: (ON CRUTCHES)
7:00:45 PM Swindle: He'll be hammered and falling off his crutches all night
7:00:55 PM Nastinchka: Just how I like him best. Easy pickins.
7:01:01 PM Nastinchka: Eli, just don't faint.
7:01:33 PM Swindle: Tom Coughlin looks like he slept in a kiln
7:04:14 PM Nastinchka: WOOOOWEE PACKERS WIN THE TOSS AND THE HEART OF AMERICA
7:04:23 PM Swindle: YEAH PASCAL!
7:04:29 PM Swindle: PROBABILITY IN THE FUCKING HOUSE!
7:10:18 PM Nastinchka: Wow, he gunslingered the hell out of that INT.
7:10:32 PM Swindle: See the running back right there? With an easy five yard catch?
7:10:41 PM Nastinchka: That was the clutchest OT miscue I've ever seen.
7:10:51 PM Swindle: Tom Brady would have positively impregnated that for an easy first
7:13:09 PM Swindle: "Well, we win as a team, and we lose because of Bret Favre."
7:13:10 PM Nastinchka: Tom Coughlin: "GET OFF MY LAWN!"
Posted by Nastinchka at January 23, 2008 10:57 AM
Re: disciplining children when their malfeasance is also funny - easier than you think. About the only time it's hard for me is when it involves taunting - e.g. one time my younger daughter (2 at the time) took a toy sword off a friend's 4 1/2 year old son and proceeded to just lambast him with it. If I hadn't been friends with his parents for ~15 years I might have let it play out... plus they were about to feed us.
I'll tell you what is hard, though, is when you're setting them straight and they get so angry they start to get all red-faced and start to gyrate - it's all I can do not to laugh in their faces.
Posted by: DC Trojan at January 23, 2008 02:42 PMI recently overheard my 6 year old boy singing the chorus of "make it rain" (which he heard on my iPod for full disclosure) word for word except that he was making it rain on them "moes". I asked him what moes were and he responded that he didn't know. This saved a very serious discussion.I wasn't going to punish him but it was hard to keep a straight face.
Posted by: Picture Me Rollin at January 23, 2008 05:13 PM