Monthly Archives for September 2008

HBD Reece!!

We had a gorgeous day at Honey Pot Hill last weekend for Reecie’s 7th birthday party. The highlight was the noise putty in the goody bags. I can’t believe that given my preoccupation with farts and other bodily functions I had no knowledge of the existence of noise putty. It’s like a little tub of flourescent goo, and when you shove your thumb down into the container it makes an extremely realistic farting noise. How cool is that?

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Beware of the $200 Bill

The next time you’re working at the PTO book fair or selling hot dogs for the soccer tournament, watch out for the new Bush bill:

Man Successfully Used a $200 Bill
Posted: Jun. 1, 2007 10:55 a.m.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2007 2:26 a.m.
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HALIFAX COUNTY: North Carolina cops are searching for a guy who successfully passed a $200 bill bearing George W. Bush’s portrait and a drawing of the White House complete with lawn signs reading “We like ice cream” and “USA deserves a tax cut.” The phony Bush bill was presented to a cashier at a Food Lion in Roanoke Rapids on September 6 by an unidentified male who was seeking to pay for $150 in groceries. Remarkably, the cashier accepted the counterfeit note and gave the man $50 change. In a separate incident involving a different perp, Roanoke Rapids cops Tuesday arrested Michael Harris, 24, for attempting last month to pass an identical $200 Bush bill at a convenience store.
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Mel Gibson!!!

Well, it’s not every day you get kicked off a movie set. What started as a normal day took a turn when I arrived to drop Norah off at Lina and Miguel’s. Their entire street was lined with 18-wheelers, dressing room trailers, and other vehicles. The police officer turning people away told me that it was a movie shoot. Lina told me that she saw Mel Gibson arrive at about 6:30 a.m., go into the trailer directly across the street from their house, change clothes, and head to the Mass Pike rest area with a bodyguard. The back entrance to the rest area is just down the street from Lina’s.

Adlani had a dentist appointment so we couldn’t stay and gawk. The Peter Pan bus that hit my front bumper (and kept driving) while trying to turn left temporarily took my mind off Mel Gibson, but only momentarily. When we went back to pick up Norah around 4, a lot of the neighbors were strolling over to check out the movie shoot, so I decided to take the kids over to see what we could see. We saw the cast’s lunch leftovers (lobster), the hair and make-up truck (I think Aliya’s leaning back toward hairstylist as a career choice), and lots of movie people. We caught a few glimpses of Mel (and his body double) in the parking lot and then a big mean-looking security guy came over and said that if the kids were going to hang out there, they couldn’t be “screaming like that.” I personally thought it would add some reality to the scene, but I guess not. The kids were stunned into silence and I asked Meanie if he could come over later and shut them up again. The stunned silence didn’t last long so when he gave me the hairy eyeball and the head jerk that means “Get those noisy brats out of here before they ruin our movie,” I dragged them back to the car.
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I guess I’ll have to wait for the movie to see Mel up close and personal. It’s called “The Edge of Darkness” and according to one of the support staff we met it’s a thriller about a Boston cop. Sounds like a date for Mommies at the Movies.
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