Do you ever have conversations that pass the time away right before one hits slumber land? Andy and I often lay awake at night pondering our days, weekends and whatnot. The other night, we somehow began talking about the character’s names on some of our favorite TV shows– and we couldn’t remember even their first names! Take for example, the Chief of Staff from the show The West Wing. The president’s right hand man- had many episodes involve and revolve around him… we couldn’t remember his name. The main detectives on Law and Order- they appear in almost every scene- it was a stretch to get out one of the last names they reference periodically. But… somehow… we could name each character from our beloved FRIENDS (my beloved, not Andy’s) by first and last name, who they dated, almost married or did marry, zany acts from random episodes, idiosyncrasies- I tell you, we were laughing at how much we knew over that one sitcom despite investing a load of time into other time television dramas.
The next morning over our breakfast, his name just popped into my head: "LEO!" I shouted (the name of The West Wing’s Chief of Staff). Ah… I did pay attention!
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The girls and I went to buy some material at Jo-Ann’s and Sarah spied a lady at the end of the aisle and announced, "Look, Mommy, she has a baby in her tummy, too."
Mortified by what my observant daughter had just said (the older lady was clearly not expecting), I suggested we might find what we needed over there and went and looked down another aisle. Yep, I was speechless.
While at my parent’s house last week, I thumbed through a scrapbook and found pictures of Susie the Homecoming Princess… I had completely forgot that I was one, too! Of course I also forgot to steal one away for the blog, so this photo is courtesy my high school yearbook…
