Tuesday, April 30, 2013

IMHO...

Spring break was kinda exhausting for not traveling.  I basically was a housewife all week- chauffeuring the boys to and from practices, matches etc, doing dishes, cleaning the house (no laundry, the husband did that).  I can see why by 4 PM a lotta housewives need some sort of mother's little helper, aka booze.

The good thing is I got to actually take in three tennis matches for son #1- considering I did not get to see any last season.  I also found out he is the captain of the team!  I am very proud of him and pissed off he did not tell me until I saw his first match.

The husband, my younger brother and I recently ran the Rutgers Half Marathon.  I ran the fastest half I have ever done coming in at an 8 minute mile pace.  I am happy for that but I secretly had the twin goals of breaking 8 minute miles and beating the husband and my younger bro.  I only beat my younger bro by about one minute and the husband beat me by the same margin.  The course was pretty nice except it had three turn arounds- not a big fan of that many turn arounds in a half marathon.  I am fairly certain all three of us will do it again next year.

With the Rutgers Half that officially kicks off race season for us.  The husband is doing an Olympic in three weeks or so along with my younger bro- I am secretly sign up for it too but I need to get in the pools a few more times.  I then have the annual tri I do with my coworkers in June and the husband and my younger bro are doing a half Iron Man a week after up in mom and dad's neck of the woods.  After that we will be doing the NJ State Olympic in July and we will prob end with the sprint tri in Asbury Park.  I am not getting the haircut with a #2 or race season this year- doing something completely different, growing a beard. 

Congratulations to Jason Collins for showing his bravery and courage.  Not to defend that douschebag Tim Brando but I have to say something about the whole situation.  I know what I am speaking of when I say that living a lie, pretending to be something you are not and then admitting to the lie is not heroic.  Maybe I am splitting hairs but when I was living that same lie it felt incredibly cowardly to me.  To me heroic is the actions of the passengers on Flight 93, or the participants in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.  Being heroic to me is facing odds that will most likely end with your death and not backing down.  What Jason Collins did was incredibly brave and courageous but not heroic.  The 14 year old in the middle of the Bible-belt who comes out in middle school should be viewed as heroic.  Yes Jason Collins faced a situation where he may lose many things but I am pretty sure his life was not one of them.  I am not belittling his bravery and courage and he may end up being viewed as a hero for his bravery but what he did was not heroic.  I am sure I will be getting a lot of flack for that paragraph but whatever...

I haven't talked about t.v. lately so:  Orphan Black on BBC America- pretty great show and Paul the bf of the protagonist is smoking hot and you get to see his ass in the first episode.  Arrow is still very good and as JW said clearly the director or producer is gay as they make sure Stephen Amell is shirtless several times each episode.  Supernatural- I thought maybe this season would be tired but it is actually pretty good so far.  Game of Thrones- love it still.  The Following- last night's season finale was great- a serious cliff hanger- need to see how it all plays out next season.  DaVinci's Demons is promising and a lot of eye candy.  I am liking Defiance so far and Grant Bowler is still easy on the eyes.

I started off using Twitter for serious stuff- news, economics etc but have found I am starting to use it more for fun.  I do find it funny though that I have almost 5x as many followers on Instagram than I do on Twitter- clearly my pics are better than my writing...