Celtic Women Concert

First of all, I just had to show you pics of our grandsons costumes for Halloween. John-Michael was a gum ball machine and Hunter went as a picnic table....with ants and all. They were so adorable and really hammed it up for the photo!!

The Celtic Women were absolutely wonderful! I took my 87 year old mother and she was more interested in the venue than the concert. The Plaza Theatre was the most beautiful theatre in it's heyday...there was nothing like it between San Antonio and L.A. back in the 30's. My mother used to go to the Mickey Mouse Club, movies and they even had talent shows which many of her friends participated. My father also took her on dates. She said the balcony was considered the "cheap seats," and my dad always made sure they sat in the main theatre!!! I wish I had taken my camera to get all those wonderful, nostalgic expressions. We went from bottom to top and she recognized many of the old furnishings and the light fixtures.

As for the concert, like I said, they were wonderful. Those gorgeous angelic voices filled the theatre and that cute little blond that dances and plays the fiddle at the same time was amazing. Anyway, they put on one hell of show!!! I asked my mother what she thought and she said she couldn't really understand some of the lyrics, except for "Danny Boy!" Of course I told her some of the songs were sung in Gaelic!!! LOL No one understood them!!! However, she agreed, it was a fun show.

Of course there's always that one small group that can be so obnoxious...I called them the "Celtic Women Nerds!" There were 5 of them, one guy had a notebook with Celtic Women memorabilia, protected in plastic sheets of course, wore CW pins and small badges on his jacket (1980's called and they want their jacket and pins back!!!) and was rather large in girth. Then there were the 3 tall, skinny, balding guys wearing CW t-shirts and last but not least, the only female, about 5"2 and weighing in at a ton!!! And lest I forget her hair colour...bright red....let's not call attention to our self, now!!! Just glad it wasn't green!!! oey vey!! Now I'm not making fun of their weight, I'm a rather big girl myself, but come on...don't they have mirrors!!! They also carried some kind of signs, but wasn't near enough to read them. They had front row seats, natch, and when the music started they started clapping...I'm not opposed to people getting into the tunes, but they obviously lacked rhythm!! The would stand up after every song and wooo and holler and hold their signs. Eventually, someone came down and must have told them to control their enthusiasm and just watch the show!!! I'll bet they got their asses kicked a lot in high school!!!

Ok, I'm terrible about describing these people, but it was just too funny. If my daughter were with me, she'd rather die than attend a CW concert, we'd be rolling in the isles!!!! Anyway, it was a great evening and my mother totally enjoyed it and that's what it's all about. Peace out.

I'm Home

Home and just beat!!! Found a great diet...the Blizzard/Kruk diet....visit grandchildren, 9, 7 &4, do their laundry, clean their bathrooms, pick up after them, intervene their sibling spats, watch hours of Pink Panther cartoons and Kung Fu Panda, then make their meals and by the time it's your turn to eat, your too damn tired to open your mouth!!! Oh yes, endure the screaming attacks of a 4, almost 5, year old who wants a drink of water or say goodnight to mommy even though he did a gazillion times!!! Add sleeplessness to that diet plan too!!!

Well post pics of my boys and my new little grandson soon. I'm going back to bed. Peace out and goodnight!!!

Chrildren of the Corn

Are you going "Awwww?" Betch you are. Pictured are my 2 youngest grandsons, fishy face Zach, the big Mac, and the other one is Aiden. As you can see even a 4 year difference doesn't seem to matter...they're both partners in crime. I have a large plastic box of puzzles my sister lent me (till her daughter makes her a grandmother, but hope that's many years from now and the puzzles go the way of kindling) and they both decided to take everyone out and play with the parts, well, Aiden at least liked playing with the parts. Zach thought that was fun, so he decided to play along!

Later, my anal 7 year old grandson, Ryan, decided he NEEDED to put them all back together and the kid did, but I'm sure I don't have to tell you what happened next...yep, the 2 Children of the Corn thought Ryan needed to remain busy!! My poor little Ry, he was such a good sport till the 3rd round!!!