Murphy's law is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong". (wikipedia)
Ever have one of "those" days where it seems like Murphy has taken up residence in your home, and maybe inside your head. Today is one of those days. So far my phone has gone kaput (it won't even power up), my supper plans have gone the same way, and I lost music plans for a revival I am leading in a couple weeks. And it isn't even lunch time yet.
How do you keep Murphy from winning? How do you not let the fact that everything is going wrong make you grumpy? Well, honestly, most of the time I don't. Although plans I make are always flexible (I do have 3 children and often their plans and my plans don't match up) but when one thing after another doesn't work, it irritates me. Today, I decided to just go with it and I planned a little success into the rest of the day. I pulled fish from the freezer for supper and the kids will be thrilled so I know supper will go "right." Then I redid the revival plans. It really only took a half hour or so and now I don't have to fret about losing them in the first place....and I saved them on the computer instead of scratching them out on a piece of paper so I won't lose them again. I am just trying not to think about the phone. (grrrr!)
I really really want to finish the bag that I started on yesterday but I had to rip out the zipper yesterday and with Murphy's Law still seemingly in effect here I am not going to risk it. No reason to tempt him. I thought about cutting out another pattern but with my luck today I will probably just cut off a finger or something so I am thinking that cleaning is in my immediate future. Of course, that is a positive and a negative...I do NOT like to clean, but I do enjoy a clean house. Of course, I could just go back to bed. :)
Either way, Murphy is not going to win today! Hopefully, he will give up and not come back tomorrow.
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Friday, July 29, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Movie theater ettiquette??
This morning the kids and I made our first trip to the free children's movie offered in an area theater. They show older cartoons or kids' movies for free at 10 in the morning. Today we saw Megamind. It is a great concept. Now, I went with the expectation that there would be disruptive children in the theater...after all it was a free kids movie. What I didn't expect was the utter disrepect that the other parents showed by not trying to keep their kids from disrupting others.
The children behind us were terrible. I'm not sure how many there were but from the noise they made and the insane number of trips they made out of the theater it seemed like maybe there were 50 or so. The little boy who banged on the back of my seat and smacked his lips while eating popcorn with his head stuck between my seat and the one next to me was just delightful. And the daughter who apparently has bladder control issues and continually got up and banged us in the head while leaving the aisle because she had to grip the back of all of our chairs was a little ray of sunshine. Friends in another theater said there was a crying baby and screaming child that the mother never took out.
So where does the fault lie? In the chlidren? In the parents, who did nothing to get them to sit down and be quiet (I suppose the mother did say, sit back please about 1400 times but there was no consequence to disobeying)? And how do you respond to something like this? I did ask the lipsmacking boy to please sit back with his mother. Should I have said something to the mother? The manager? How would you have handled it? What about the girl who kept whacking us on the head (my friend even said Ow! at one point)? She was probably 10 years old.
I do not pretend that my children are always well behaved. I am often that overwhelmed mother making threats in walmart about behavior. Today, though, was a proud mom moment of well-behaved kids...of course, anyone could have been better than the ones behind us.
I really would like to hear what you would have done in this situation as we are planning to go back next week. So let me know so I can go prepared. :) PS- the theater is full (hello, it is FREE movie) so changing seats is not really an option.
The children behind us were terrible. I'm not sure how many there were but from the noise they made and the insane number of trips they made out of the theater it seemed like maybe there were 50 or so. The little boy who banged on the back of my seat and smacked his lips while eating popcorn with his head stuck between my seat and the one next to me was just delightful. And the daughter who apparently has bladder control issues and continually got up and banged us in the head while leaving the aisle because she had to grip the back of all of our chairs was a little ray of sunshine. Friends in another theater said there was a crying baby and screaming child that the mother never took out.
So where does the fault lie? In the chlidren? In the parents, who did nothing to get them to sit down and be quiet (I suppose the mother did say, sit back please about 1400 times but there was no consequence to disobeying)? And how do you respond to something like this? I did ask the lipsmacking boy to please sit back with his mother. Should I have said something to the mother? The manager? How would you have handled it? What about the girl who kept whacking us on the head (my friend even said Ow! at one point)? She was probably 10 years old.
I do not pretend that my children are always well behaved. I am often that overwhelmed mother making threats in walmart about behavior. Today, though, was a proud mom moment of well-behaved kids...of course, anyone could have been better than the ones behind us.
I really would like to hear what you would have done in this situation as we are planning to go back next week. So let me know so I can go prepared. :) PS- the theater is full (hello, it is FREE movie) so changing seats is not really an option.
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