I watch too much Law and Order

I read this article this morning.  It was about an young recently widowed mother with an infant child who calls 911 asking if she can shoot an intruder if he comes into her home.  Use of deadly force is legal if someone comes into your home unauthorized (good to know!).  She does end up shooting and killing one of her assailants and all I could think after reading the article was that it was all a set up!

It was fishy because there were two assailants and one was killed and the other turned himself in.  This is what I think really happened.  Assailant #1 and the mom concocted this plan to kill Assailant #2 and to make it an accident.  Stage a home invasion to have a justifiable homicide.  The authorities would never think this single mom of a 3 month old with a husband who died of cancer on Christmas could have ulterior motives.  Anyway, stage home invasion leads to death of Assailant #2 and a get out of jail free card for the mom.  Assailant #1 and mom live happily ever after.

Yes, too much Law and Order, The Closer, NCIS, Rizzoli and Isles, and whatever other crime dramas I watch.  It would totally make for good TV though.

I felt old last night

One of my carpool buddies invited me and the hubster to dinner last night at his home.  It was us, him and his girlfriend, and other carpool buddy and his current girl.  We had a great time eating and talking and laughing.  The food was delicious (ribs and chicken, right up the hubster's alley).

Anyway, as we we were talking, I guess the new girl lived near where carpool buddy #1 used to live and knew his girlfriend's friend.  She mentioned that she graduated in 2004 and I thought to myself "Hey, I graduated 2004.  *pause*  I graduated college in 2004.  *pause*  I bet she's talking about high school."  It hit me like a ton of bricks.  I'm old, but not really.  I mean carpool buddy #2 is my brother's age, but it just threw me off.  I'm only 3-4 years older than the new girl.  Carpool buddy #1 is around my age, so I don't know why I felt out of place at that moment.

It also didn't help that they didn't get the hubster's movie quote of "Always bet on black!" of Wesley Snipes and Passenger 57 fame.  I feel like everyone in my family would recognize that quote, but I guess not.  Neither carpool buddies got it and the whole story was killed by it.

I felt old, but I'm not!  Maybe it's because I'll be 29 in 8 days.

29!?@#?@!?@!

Unprofessional Professional

I am by far the most unprofessional professional that I know, but then again, I don't follow others around to see their bad habits.  What do I do that is so unprofessional:

• I don't wear shoes at my desk
• I slouch at my desk, majorly slouch.  At times, you might think I didn't have a spine and I just slid down my chair.
• Some times I don't wear socks at my desk when I'm not wearing shoes.
• I'm currently sitting at my desk with a stolen airplane blanket over my lap.

I'm sure there's more, but this was spurred on by a coworker dropping in on me to pay me for our recognition banquet and I was super slouching in my chair.  It could have not looked good.

Some Girls

are just born with a lot of confidence.  I was at Victoria's Secret this morning (yes, I woke up at 7:30 am on my last day off of work to go there).

Anyway, I'm standing in line to try on some things and this girl who is not exactly thin and had a gut comes out of her dressing room to ask her friends if her ensemble looked cute.  It was a lacy bra and yoga pants.  WTF?!?  Inappropriate much.  I could possibly understand if she was like supermodel thin and asking opinions and she liked to show off her body, but I don't want to see that that early in the morning.  Sure, if this were summer and we were at the pool/beach, then sure, go on ahead.  Every girl has the right to sport a bikini, but in the middle of winter in a dressing room, there is no reason to go flaunting your goodies to everyone.  She definitely was not shy or embarrassed. I will give her props for being so bold and confident.  Sometimes, I wish I were like that.

I mean I have a pretty decent body and I would never do that.  Even when I ask the dressing room person for another size, I either take the bra off and put my clothes on and ask then or open the door a crack and  ask for another size while describing the bra without actually showing them (which I am sure make it difficult for them to ascertain what the hell I'm talking about).

Anyway, just morning adventures at Victoria's Secret.

It's snowing... Finally

And the hubster already decided we're NOT snowboarding today. It would have been perfect.