RIGHT TURN CLYDE: Wild Wild Blog

DARCY: So yesterday was supposed to be the first day of my diet. The month of May I plan on eating less and walking more. Anyway, we've had severe storms and tornadoes and the works, so I've been up late into the night and early morning with scared children, and my own sleep schedule has been slightly off, so my walking schedule was put on hold the last few days. But damn! if you don't get hungry watching TV at 2 in the morning! So, after a few small snacks last night in the midst of the night, I wasn't hungry when I got up. And then it hit me in mid afternoon...Taco Bell. Darcy, who has been sick all weekend, was nice enough to run real quick and get us some Taco Bell. It was good, too, like I just HAD to eat. I feel a little bad though, since I didn't even think twice when Darcy said she'd run and get me something. She's doing a lot better today than she was the last couple days, but I should've shrugged off my sudden craving and just raided the fridge. Darcy didn't even bat an eye, though. Maybe she was craving tacos, too. I'm sure I can make myself feel better somehow.

I ended up writing later than planned because Darcy and I started working on our upcoming trip. Come June we're going to be seeing family we haven't seen in years, as well as throwing in an amusement park outing! I wanted to cut the conversation short so I could focus on the blog (it's my practice run for writing at a certain time each day), but Darcy shines when she talks about the trip, and this is something I don't like to miss. At all. So I traded in a little writing time for some Darcy Smile. We've changed the date (again) for when we'll be married, this time May 27th. Just one day off, but this way we can leave a day earlier for the trip. I look forward to trips with Darcy. We once drove from Florida to South Dakota, and it felt like a two hour drive. We talked the whole time, forgetting about video games and music and books and all those things that pass the time. We're awesome together.

MY KIDS: Around here it's been rather quiet. Sundays feel like we're all just passing the time to get to Monday, when Gavin and Rinoa get back to school to their friends, and Dallas has the run of the house again (as if he doesn't have the run of the house anyway). I also got to talk with Madeleine tonight, which is always a treat. She has so much positive energy you'd think you could bottle it and sell it! So, in the planning and adding the extra day, we were able to figure out where we could visit with Madeleine. I called to work that part out. Looks like Madeleine will plan the day, which will be great cause she'll be able to show us around her part of life!

FAMILY & FRIENDS: With the new changes to the plan, it looks like we'll be able to visit my sister Kim after all. It's been years since I've seen her, so a day hanging with her should be nice.

Also, Annie and I had a nice long conversation on the phone. She reminded me that the weekend I'll be getting married is Memorial Day weekend, which gave us the idea that maybe we should bump it up a day, which gave us the room to be able to see my sister. Thanks, Annie!

BIG FOUR: I'll admit it, I don't know much of anything when it comes to the Marvel superhero Thor. I thought the character was already being used by mythology, so I didn't pay much attention growing up to this superGod that showed up with Iron Man and Cappy. I just figured it was like when the Harlem Globetrotters showed up on Scooby Doo. But as I got older, I find out that Thor is actually on the host list, not the guest's! And as they are setting up the movie dominoes for the big fall, The Avengers Movie, they are bringing Thor to the big screen. Looks like they settled on Kenneth Branagh to direct, I guess because he's all Shakespearean and shit and this is going to be a "thou and thee" type of movie (since that's who Thor is in the comics). Personally, I still think of Branagh as Dr. Loveless, but that's because I liked Wild Wild West and watched it more than once. But the talk is whether or not Chris Hemsworth, the skinny dude who played Capt. Kirk's dad in the new Star Trek movie, will be able to pull off the part of Thor. Is this really a worry anymore? Didn't Tobey Maguire and Robert Downey Jr. prove that with great budget comes great suspension of belief? Throw in Less Than Zero, or Pleasantville, and tell me if "superhero" pops out at you. But we're preparing for the Avengers Movie, probably the biggest superhero event to find it's way to the big screen. I'm sure someone knows what they're doing. If not, we're gonna love it anyway.

THOR

Still watching Leverage. I'm on season two now. Still an awesome show. A few lines have become pattern (Let's go steal us a new line, shall we?), but other than that, the actors are really settling into their characters with more ease. Timothy Hutton pulls me in anyway, and today I went on and added any streaming movies of his that were available.

RANDOM INTERNET: Strange singing horses....well, this one you just have to play around with on your own.

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PHOTOS

Today wasn't exactly a great picture day, so I figured I'd resort back to some old favorites....