This is becoming a habit
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auntiemeeshSecond weekend in a row that I voluntarily watched football when no one else was around making me do it.
Okay, so I only watched the last eight minutes of the Alabama/LSU game, but it was pretty exciting. I don't really know anything about either team, but the family I was babysitting for are rabid Alabama fans, so I decided to root for them, so that I could celebrate or commiserate at the end of the evening. It was a really close game and Alabama looked like they were going to pull off the win, but couldn't quite manage it.
The babysitting was, um, interesting. I've watched these particular kids a number of times, and I always have fun with them. Tonight, they were really, really wound up. Seriously, almost visibly vibrating they were so wound up. (I found out later that they'd been like that all day.) They were extremely entertaining, though, at least until bedtime. Then the younger one completely melted down (I think he's gone to bed easily for me maybe once) and fought like a wild thing to be allowed to stay up. While I wrestled him into submission, the older one (she's four, to his three) cleaned up all their mess, brushed her teeth, put on her pajamas and picked out her books for bedtime reading. Babysitting doesn't get much better than that.
After the kids were asleep and the game ended (and I finished flipping through pointless fashion magazines) it was a little before ten, I had somewhere between one and two hours to go, and decided to get an On Demand movie. Being the lame-o that I am, I settled on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie. Got it started and five minutes in, the parents were home. *sigh* It's a crappy, cheesy movie, but it's fun, and it's the beginning of the whole Buffy-verse, so that makes it worth watching, if for no other reason. Oh well, it's on my Netflix queue, so I'll get around to watching it eventually.
Okay, so I only watched the last eight minutes of the Alabama/LSU game, but it was pretty exciting. I don't really know anything about either team, but the family I was babysitting for are rabid Alabama fans, so I decided to root for them, so that I could celebrate or commiserate at the end of the evening. It was a really close game and Alabama looked like they were going to pull off the win, but couldn't quite manage it.
The babysitting was, um, interesting. I've watched these particular kids a number of times, and I always have fun with them. Tonight, they were really, really wound up. Seriously, almost visibly vibrating they were so wound up. (I found out later that they'd been like that all day.) They were extremely entertaining, though, at least until bedtime. Then the younger one completely melted down (I think he's gone to bed easily for me maybe once) and fought like a wild thing to be allowed to stay up. While I wrestled him into submission, the older one (she's four, to his three) cleaned up all their mess, brushed her teeth, put on her pajamas and picked out her books for bedtime reading. Babysitting doesn't get much better than that.
After the kids were asleep and the game ended (and I finished flipping through pointless fashion magazines) it was a little before ten, I had somewhere between one and two hours to go, and decided to get an On Demand movie. Being the lame-o that I am, I settled on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie. Got it started and five minutes in, the parents were home. *sigh* It's a crappy, cheesy movie, but it's fun, and it's the beginning of the whole Buffy-verse, so that makes it worth watching, if for no other reason. Oh well, it's on my Netflix queue, so I'll get around to watching it eventually.
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