Hunneypunkin asked what he was doing for me for Valentine's Day, and I said he was going to give me a small heart-shaped box of chocolates that were a brand name he recognized because those candies with weird labels taste bad. When I woke up on Heart Morning, there on his pillow was my heart box, but Hunneypunkin's idea of small is waaay bigger than mine. It's going to take me at least several hours to eat all that. Hunneypunkin's the BEST.
In the midst of my Russell Stover episode, Angel Doll decided to watch The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. In Francais. Turns out Thorin Oakenshield is just as magnificent as a French dwarf as he is in English.
Lefty figured it was appropriate to watch The Hobbit in French, what with it being Valentine's Day, and French being the language of love.
Listening to all that French, I kept expecting one of the dwarves to shout, "Sacrebleu!" which of course, as this is a homeschool household and we question everything here, led to wondering what sacrebleu actually means, and we learned all we ever wanted to know on that topic thanks to Bing and Wikipedia.
Pondering the term sacrebleu, in turn, led to the TV show Perfect Strangers from back in the late 1900's--anybody else remember that?--specifically, the episode where Balki was trying to cheer up a child using a sock puppet which he spontaneously named Sockrebleu. I got the giggles about that and decided I'd done enough messing around for the day and needed to start acting like a grown-up for at least a few minutes before dinner so I could feel awesome while I sat to watch the Olympics. GO TEAM USA!
So, because I was already at my desk researching French expletives, I returned to the current millennium and finished e-filing my 2013 income taxes. Then my laptop overheated and shut itself off. It does that a lot. Probably because of the hunky dwarf picture I have on it, but I don't want to take it down.
I'm considering making a film starring both Richard Armitage and Jeremy Renner. I already picked the leading men so all I have to do now is come up with a plot, write a script, and learn movie production.
The whole day turned out so differently from the normal life I had intended for myself. Some days I think it would be nice to have an attention span. Perhaps even some self-discipline. But truthfully, I love this unexpected journey.
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