There is a website, here (and see the title above), where people can record--forever, and everyone--song lyrics they have always understood WRONG. For example, Jimi Hendrix never recorded a song called "Kiss This Guy" . His song was called "Kiss the Sky". This is the basis for the title of the site.
Anyhoo. Genius Golfer and I ran away from home this morning to the "early bird" special at the movies to see "Rock of Ages". It was a completely guilty pleasure--both being children of the 80s, and loving the now classic big-hair-band rock anthems of the age.
We we joined in the theater by one other guy, who left half way through and then came back in for the ending. This is not a movie you will hear about when the Academy award nominations come out, but it was good for an embarrassed laugh and a few cringes and rolled eyes. But Tom Crusie, if he is really doing the singing, did pretty well. For a guy that is 50 next week.
Again, anyhoo.
On the way home we were laughing together about how when I was a kid and these songs were current radio fodder, I never heard the lyrics as that overtly sexual or racy or pro-illicit-drugs or anything other than just a 'good song with a beat you can dance to'. But seeing them as a mom (and a YW leader) I sure hear the differences now.
Yikes.
But that beats GG's take. He understood the lyrics to say something totally wrong, so they were never naughty songs for him. He was surprised by the lyrics too as we watched this dumb movie today. He heard these songs for the first time with their actual lyrics--sex, drugs and rock and roll!
You can't take us anywhere.
Friday, June 29, 2012
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
He's A Workin' Man
Yesterday was The Boy's first day of work. He just got a job with The Girl, working at our city pool's snack bar. It is a job he wanted almost as soon as The Girl started there. But this is the first year that the manager there has hired boys.
You see, the storage room for the snack bar paper good, etc is accessible one of two ways. The more cumbersome way is out the building and all the way around to the exterior entrance of the the storage room. The easiest is through the women's locker room. Thus girls only, to this point. However, being a city facility and needing to heed the "equal opportunity employer" statute, Cheryl--the snack bar manager--was told by the city that she needed to hire a boy or two.
The Girl happened to be working the day this edict was made and Cheryl was fretting about finding the "right" kind of boy who would do the work, not flirt too much with the girls, and make the trip the long way to the storage room when he needed to go. The Girl, said "What about my brother?" And Cheryl asked "Does he still want to work here?" To which The Girl answered, "Uh. Yeah."
So The Boy was hired without so much as a n interview. Cheryl is not only the manager down there she also has worked as a teacher's aid at our elementary school and I credit her and one other teacher's aid with helping The Boy learn how to read in the 1st and 2nd grades. They were fantastic for him. And he knows how important they are to him too. Plus, they all like each other. Not a bad back story to getting a summer job.
Yesterday he worked about 5 hours and he seemed to do fine. The stories he shared when he got home were more amusing to me because I know many of the lifeguards that wouldn't believe he was working there--the only boy--surrounded by these lovely young women. But he told them he certainly was working in the snack bar and having a marvelous time. These almost-high school-senior-lifeguards seemed to feel that he was the luckiest kid working at the pool this summer.
I think he might think that too. But today will be the real test. He and The Girl work the full day (1-8 PM) together. If they can do this job all summer without wanting to kill each other, I feel that will be a "payday" for this mom.
You see, the storage room for the snack bar paper good, etc is accessible one of two ways. The more cumbersome way is out the building and all the way around to the exterior entrance of the the storage room. The easiest is through the women's locker room. Thus girls only, to this point. However, being a city facility and needing to heed the "equal opportunity employer" statute, Cheryl--the snack bar manager--was told by the city that she needed to hire a boy or two.
The Girl happened to be working the day this edict was made and Cheryl was fretting about finding the "right" kind of boy who would do the work, not flirt too much with the girls, and make the trip the long way to the storage room when he needed to go. The Girl, said "What about my brother?" And Cheryl asked "Does he still want to work here?" To which The Girl answered, "Uh. Yeah."
So The Boy was hired without so much as a n interview. Cheryl is not only the manager down there she also has worked as a teacher's aid at our elementary school and I credit her and one other teacher's aid with helping The Boy learn how to read in the 1st and 2nd grades. They were fantastic for him. And he knows how important they are to him too. Plus, they all like each other. Not a bad back story to getting a summer job.
Yesterday he worked about 5 hours and he seemed to do fine. The stories he shared when he got home were more amusing to me because I know many of the lifeguards that wouldn't believe he was working there--the only boy--surrounded by these lovely young women. But he told them he certainly was working in the snack bar and having a marvelous time. These almost-high school-senior-lifeguards seemed to feel that he was the luckiest kid working at the pool this summer.
I think he might think that too. But today will be the real test. He and The Girl work the full day (1-8 PM) together. If they can do this job all summer without wanting to kill each other, I feel that will be a "payday" for this mom.
Monday, June 25, 2012
Genius Golfer's Brush With Local Greatness
Genius Golfer played in a charity golf tournament in Provo a few weeks ago. He played in a team of four--with other guys from his Men's Association. I can't remember how well they did--they didn't win it outright, but they seemed pleased enough. But the funniest part was the photo afterwards.
That guy in the middle...in the blue shirt? That is the legendary BYU football coach, LaVell Edwards. He and his wife, Patti, were hosting the event for a children's charity. And the gracious coach posed for photos with the teams as they finished.
GG, while he recognized that this was cool, he knew that I would be really excited to see the photo because of the the two of us, I am the big BYU football fan. And LaVell is truly a legend, in Provo and the world of college football.
Sunday, June 24, 2012
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