American Idol, yardwork and other random thoughts

In TV news, American Idol was really boring last night. A tribute to Andrew Lloyd Weber. He may be a genious at composing songs for theater, but I don’t want to hear theater songs on American Idol. Also, I don’t want to hear songs from the 60s, songs from the 70s, 80s or 90s while we’re at it. Here’s an idea – while you’re doing a search for today’s next relevant popstar, why not have them sing current songs? My husband has a theory that it’s just too expensive to buy the rights. Is that it? Doesn’t the show make gazillions of dollars? Isn’t it the top-rated show so they charge prime prices for advertising? And then make money off the kids’ record contracts too? I don’t know, but it’s frustrating. Anyone remember Rockstar INXS? They sang current songs. And it was fun. Anyway …

Ella has a new lease on life with this new thing called sunshine. I thought for sure she would start to be more tired at night from all the fresh air and running around she’s doing during the day. But nope. She even went to the park with the babysitter yesterday and her friends there, which makes me very happy. Then my husband and I walked her to a nearby park last night for a while, then we played in the backyard for a while after that. And she did seem tired, but when I layed her down a little after 7, she was not happy. After 45 minutes of listening to her rustling around and babbling I got her back out of bed. She was so happy. And she ran around the house like she was making up for lost time. And Aunt Sara was there. I think she was excited about that.

She’s also very into her new baby-stroller these days. I found an $8 toy stroller at toys ‘r us this week for her. I remembered how much she loved the one at the doctor’s office. The $40 junior slide I got her, not so much. I was hoping I could lure her away from the tall dangerous slide in our yard. Not happening. You win some, you lose some, I guess.

So, while Ella and I played outside I couldn’t help but look at all the work that needs to be done. Our lawn needs fertilized and mowed. We have a gravelly area for a fire-pit that needs weeded and recovered in gravel. We have a screened in porch that badly needs cleaned. And we bought a new patio table that needs to go in, replacing the old dingy one. The sandbox, or I should say, giant outdoor litter-box, needs cleaned out and refilled and COVERED this time. The garden area needs tilled before we can plant the vegetables. And this is just the backyard.

It’s worth it though to have a whole new area to run and play in though and enjoy fresh air. I just hope the summer isn’t half over by the time we get it all done. So, I got started last night by nearly emptying out the screened-in porch. Tonight I’ll finish and do some vacuuming in there. One step at a time right?

Well that’s it for now. Sorry if the post was really boring today. If it makes you feel better, there’s going to be a good fashion post soon. My friend Karly said she wanted to see all these clothes I bought for Ella recently … I don’t want to disappoint one of my five readers!