I had a 'funny' title for this post, but I forgot....

I'm one of those people who you would call an Eternal Optimist. I can find a bright side to almost everything....I don't like to be disappointed or have a crappy time, so I'm going to make the best out of every situation...life gives me lemons and I'm gonna make some lemonade, dangit...and it's gonna be some dang good lemonade!

So...I could find a bright side to going to the Midlothian Balloon Festival....but I'm just not gonna. It was Lame....with a capital L. LAME. Bleh. First of all...I totally understand that it was windy...but COME ON. Balloons can't fly in the wind? Ok...maybe they can't...but COME ON {stamps foot}.

They had some cool planes on display...I guess they were in a air show...which we missed. But that's ok, because it was probably LAME.

I did get a cute picture of my girlies....of course that lady back there (yes YOU...in the red shirt...) had to go and holler at me for NO REASON. I was lifting Bella up to look inside the plane, and she runs over, hollering "oh oh oh oh...dooooon't" like I was trying to put Bella inside the plane! I looked at her and said "I'm not retarded, I was just showing her the inside, for goodness sakes!!!" PEOPLE! And this was like the first thing we did...I shoulda known.

Lame.

Little dude did very well...no complaints. Of course, we were outside with a big ole blue sky for him to gaze at.

They had the planes do a "closing" I guess....they flew off...

Lame.

It was hot...but the breeze, errrr....WIND....kept the sweat cool (I think you have to live in Texas to appreciate that feeling). But mom forgot a blanket or chairs to sit on.

Lame.

So we were all sitting on prickly grass and dirt.

Lame.

And they wouldn't blow up the balloons because of the wind.

Lame.
So they did these "ALL BURN" (that's how the announcer said it) things.
Lame.
To really cool movie soundtracks, like Titanic or Star Trek...so you thought it would actually be something cool, BUT IT WASN'T.

Lame.

Then the Remax dude thought he could blow up his balloon and fly it over closer to it...

See it...

Ittttty....Biiiiittttty.

Lame.

So itty bitty that you tell your girls "right over there" and they have no clue...

See it...????

No??

Lame.

Then Remax decided to be even MORE daring and blow another balloon up closer...

You get props...but still....

Lame.

Especially at this point in the game.

It got pretty big!

Sideways big...
Lame.

And COME ON....where's the pretty rainbow colored balloon?? We see that Remax balloon everywhere...commercials, billboards....

Lame.

Freebird burritoes don't taste like Zaba's (or even 2nd best Chipotle)...

Lame.

And the Remax balloon stayed sideways.

Lame.

But....

EuroBobbles + Bella = not Lame.

EuroBobbles + Bella = HILARIOUS. (Just wait, I got it on video, too).

EuroBobbles costing $10 for 15 minutes of fun...

only semi-Lame.

So, there you go...
Note to self....DON'T BE LAME....if there is wind...don't go to a balloon show and spend as much as you would on a good steak dinner!

Oddities

***UPDATE***
It WAS just the battery, they said I must have left something on, like a light or an opened car door. I don't exactly remember doing that, but I'm not a mechanic Ü. They are the professionals, RIIIIGHT? So, the car is back, hopefully it will run for just a FEW more months!!


*Buying my girls and I ice cream cones on the coldest day in weeks, then hanging out in the car with the heater on Ü.
*My car not starting in the parking lot of Joann's.
*That same heater not working while we freeze our buns off waiting for James to come jump my car.
*My car starting after the first jump, then dying as I put it in gear, then starting again after the second jump, then dying again while driving out of the parking lot...I got to help push my dead car into a parking spot...thats a first!

So...since we can't afford a new car at the moment, I'm praying that it's just the battery and Firestone can work their magic. If not...please don't point and laugh when you see me and the girls walking down the street from Albertson's in our shopping cart!

dinner talk...

I don't feel like cooking dinner tonite because

I'm ALL BURNED OUT!!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Yes, I know....I'm hilarious :).

Too bad we're broke and I have to cook spaghetti.

Which is on the stove now...

hopefuly NOT burning.

Can I do it 2 nights in a row??

Go for the gold!

Burnin' down the house.....

No, it didn't really burn down...dang it :P

I was warming up my tortilla on the stove

and then walked away to check my email

and then smelled something just awful....

walked into the front room

and the air was THICK with smoke!

My poor poor tortilla, burnt to a crisp

not yet flaming, though...lol

And hmm....no fire alarms went off

must check that*

The house STILL smells like smoke

since we have windows from the 1950's and

either they don't open

or the screens are so warped that

the entire bug population of Grand Prairie

would get in. I hope to get new windows

soon, they are the top of my Christmas list!