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Getaway

November 5, 2007/2 Comments/in Family, Fun, Trent /by Megan

Wheat Farm

My husband has one of those families that really can make you sick. Especially if you come from a family that grimaces through time together, sitting in uncomfortable silences, or basically ignoring each other all together. Trent’s family is one of those families you see on a early 90’s sitcom, where, yes, there are problems, but most everything seems to be solved within a half an hour, and days are full of laughter and fun. It’s a family where all of the “significant others” get just as excited for holidays together as the sibilings.

This weekend we decided to take a quick two-day trip back to the farm with our buddies Heath and Mikayla and Heath’s parents. I’m always amazed at how much fun people seem to have with Trent’s family, even when it’s their first experience. It always makes me feel so lucky to be a permanent part of the group.

So, after a long weekend full of wine, random games of croquet on the lawn, ping pong, beer, movies, football, all topped off with a pseudo-wedding where Trent wore a sombrero and Lee made us show our love to each other by exchanging baseball gloves, we headed back to real life in the city. And with the new Radiohead CD blaring from the car speakers and Lucy snoozing in her carseat, I mentioned to Trent that we should definitely try and carry on the tradition with our kids. I want them to have so much fun with our family, that driving home on a Sunday night is always a bit bittersweet.

Tick, tick, tick

October 15, 2007/0 Comments/in Blond, Trent /by Megan

Time is just slipping away…crap, it’s Monday. I haven’t written since Thursday. Sorry, people. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s being going on:

-Trent left town for the weekend, leaving me with the child and the dog and no cable TV.
-I spent Saturday night babysitting for three 7-year-olds and Lucy. We watched a lot of cable TV. I realized I am not yet ready to parent older kids when one of the neighbor kids came crying to me that my nephew had called her a dork. My response, “Well, were you acting like a dork?”
-I watched the first two films in the Lord of the Rings series, fast-forwarding through all the scary parts so Lucy wouldn’t freak out.
-Admitted to Trent that I had been hiding a secret roll of toilet paper because I wanted to see how long it would take him to change the empty roll, but, obviously, I needed toilet paper before he changed it. Which took him over a week.
-Oh, and that team that I love. The one where I received twenty emails about how bad they were and how they were “Gay-U” and how fat our coach was? They’re number #13 in the nation. I think I will jump around and scream now.

OK, posting may be sparse for a bit, until this huge project I’m working on for my “real” job is completed. Watch this in my absense.

And then Trent threw the TV out the window

October 10, 2007/3 Comments/in Blond, Trent /by Megan

I’m obsessive, have I mentioned that? And when it comes to movies, it can get really bad. I’ll find a movie I like and then I’ll watch it over and over and over again. I’ll tell little white lies to friends saying, “Why no, I haven’t seen that movie” just so they’ll watch it with me. I’m a freak. And a nerd. And a dork. Amen.

This is why Trent seriously contemplated calling a lawyer and starting divorce proceedings when I discovered High School Musical, because he knew he’d have to watch it a million times or else move out of the house. Things came to a disturbing head this Sunday night when I curled up in bed to watch some movies I’d borrowed from my mother-in-law this weekend, including a new favorite, Pride & Prejudice. In the middle of a very tense scene with Lizzie Bennett and Mr. Darcy, my TV just shut off. The horror! I ran around the house like a crazy person trying to fix it, trying to get my husband to fix it, even trying to get the dumb dog to fix it. Surprisingly, not one of us had any luck, and I think that TV may have to be sent to TV heaven.

So, now I have to watch all of my movies in our living room, therefore having to deal with Trent’s teasing and having to expose that yes, I am watching the same movie I watched yesterday, except I’m fast-forwarding to all of the good parts. And yes, I am crying. Shut up.

Do you want to know what it’s like? To live in my house? To watch movies with a psychopath? Well, thanks to the Internet, I can show you!

First we fast forward through all the crappy stuff, stopping to watch a few scenes here and there, like the one where Mr. Darcy dances with Lizzie at the ball, until we get to this humdinger about halfway through:

Gosh, those two kids are just full of drama aren’t they. But you want them to be together, you know you do. Work it out, guys!

Then you fast forward to the incredibly awkward scene after she refuses to marry him.

I’d run out of there, too, Lizzie. But don’t worry, he still loves you!

See:

Yeah for happy endings! And men walking through the mist. And lines like, “I love. I love. I love you.” Yeah for stuttering!

Then, if you want, you go on the Internet and find the movie trailer, just because you’re a total freak.

Then you find the Harry Potter version of the same trailer, because, apparently, there are people freaker than you on the Internet who seem to have a lot of free time.

Wait, where are you going! You wouldn’t leave would you, we’re just getting to the good stuff!

Crap.

Wherein we spend the weekend arguing by quoting Knocked Up

October 1, 2007/1 Comment/in Blond, Lucy, Trent /by Megan

“She goes apeshit over bubbles. I wish I loved anything as much as that kid loves bubbles.”

“You wanna have sex tonight?”
“Ugh, I dunno, I’m really gassy. Do you really want to?”
“Why don’t you just wake me up in the morning and we’ll do it then?”
“Whatever.”

“Fuck you, hormones!”

“Your face looks like Robin Williams’ knuckles.”

“You think because you don’t yell, you’re not mean. This is mean.”

“I’m going to murderball you!”