Atlas Shrugging

Must act like a grown-up….Must do work….

Gawd, I look at my desk and see the piles and piles of stuff I have to do and it almost makes me want to go crawl back into bed. As I sit at my desk and look out my window,

it’s a “severe clear” day—just gorgeous (ok, the grass really needs cutting, but I steadfastly refuse to deal with that task) and makes me want to go outside and read, or knit, or anything other than copying documents to send off to the IRS to justify why Grumpy Guy’s company took a vehicle expense of $22,966 in 2006. I just hate the IRS. It’s amazing anyone tries to start a business in this country any more.

As I’m on a rant, I absolutely refuse to watch news programs anymore. Coming from a news junkie, that’s saying something. I’m sick to death about the debates, the campaign, Wall Street, the economic bail out…celebrities behaving badly, and Cialis and Viagra commercials. Has anyone in government read “Atlas Shrugged?” (Ok, that’s rhetorical…of course not, that’s why they are in government..) Well, this Atlas is shrugging…

Hi! Welcome back to the friendly little blog known as Maison Cou Rouge. Sorry I went off for a bit. I’m back with a fresh cup of coffee and have remembered to take my meds. Good thoughts…breathe…pleasant and peaceful thoughts…right….

So, what’s been up here?? We had a fabulous visit from CruiseGran, who came to see Boy play football two weeks ago.

It always happens that we play the biggest, roughest AAA school when she visits. But no matter, Boy was Captain for that night, which made us all proud.

Anyone who has teenagers will find it amusing that she came all this way to visit with the kids, only to have them both disappear all of Saturday. So Gran, Grumpy Guy and I were left to devour an entire leg of lamb. We stayed up WAY too late and had several rounds of chardonnay. And a little limoncello. Laughed way too much and watched the LSU football game and the Georgia game simultaneously. We are talented. It was great having her here, and we’ll all get together in San Diego next month for my cousin’s wedding.

Well, last Friday’s football game was a different story. Brentwood played Edmund Burke.

And the run through pretty much shows what we did to their D line all night. I’m not sure of the stats, (brother “Larry” has asked that I give scores and stats, and who am I to deny a proud uncle??) as they weren’t in the paper, but I think Boy led in rushing. The opposition was really keying off our halfback sweep and so fullback Boy running up the gut really made progress. Several pretty 20+yarders, and he scored the first touchdown. We won 28-0, and even the freshmen got to play. Great prep finish—now we head off to our region games.

By the Way to the other readers of MCR (if there are any…), my nephew Dude has been cracking heads on HIS football team, the Byrd High School Yellow Jackets. Well done, man!

Girl has been running, of course.

I got the bad mommy of the week award for not listening to her when she said her calves were hurting. Only to realize she’s been running in her spikeless track shoes designed for 800 meters and a rubber surface. Bad mommy, no cookie. New shoes are too heavy, but we have some time before region to remedy that situation.

Now that I’ve had my fun, it’s back to the IRS. Why are they picking on me?????