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Chinese and the L Word - an arithmetic problem

L Word and Chinese food.
I had honey chicken, Meg had General Tso's. At least I think she did. It was something spicy.
Anyhoo...

Meg got my order right. That's 10 points right there.
The fact that Jenny is still alive on the show? minus 4.
Bette and Tina setting up office at The Planet takes us back up 2.
Shane is still with Jenny! Ack! Lose 10 points immediately!
yikes! we're in a the negative zone here...

Chicken: still warm. 6 points. Rice-kinda blah: subtract 3.
I'm pretty sure Shane is brushing her teeth without any toothpaste on that brush.
That should lose points but since it's Shane, I will give it a plus 2.
Bette and Tina out to dinner with Elizabeth Berkely and whoever that guy was supposed to be should have taken us down into the depths of a black hole no number could get us out of, but due to the HUGE bonus of Tina's ginormous plus 25 thanks-I-will-handle-this-myself performance, we rocket-ship up into a number we can finally take a breath, and relax a little.

My chicken really is good. I'm going to give it another 6 points. I don't know how Meg's was and I'm not even sure I thanked her for going to get it for us. But that just means I'm lame. I'm not going to make the dinner and tv show pay for that by deducting points.

The girls setting Dylan up is just unethical, really. Minus 6.
The fact that they are eating popcorn while voyeuristically spying on the entire charade? Put the 6 right back!
Dylan and Helena getting back together? I'm not sure. The entire evening between them - and I include the love-making scene here - felt akward, at best. No points gained but none taken away.

Jenny reading Shane's texts? Are you kidding me? Minus 5.
And now I suddenly like Nikki. I'm too embarrassed to give that any points.
It's me, not you.
Shane and Jenny having a weird argument in the middle of the dance floor started off gathering many points, but Shane backing off there... eh... gotta subtract 5 more points.

The Alice/Tasha/Third-wheel crush kinda feels like HBO's Big Love, which I love, so I'm going to give it 8 points. And no Bill in the middle of things is a nice bonus. Let's throw in 3 more, eh?

Alright, where are we?
...minus 3...carry the 1...26, 27, 28...
Okay, for Chinese and the L Word we have 35 points.
I have no idea what that means, but I am sure if someone were to analyze the data they would find that it somehow is affecting the economy.

Meet Butch VanDyke

Meet Butch VanDyke

she's our first and are we ever proud!

We got to spend the day with the kids yesterday!

We haven't done anything with them since September so I was really jonesin' for some kid-time.

First off, we headed to the movies and watched Coraline in 3D! Wow, but was it great and Elyana was absolutely amazed at all the "stuff coming right out to us!" After the movie, it was time to head out for some food. Warren's. YUM! The kids hammed it up for the camera:Yeah, I think this is a pose. Wonder if she's been watching one of those Top Model Reality shows?

Me and my punkin'.

Meg and her lil' bud:

Strike a pose!

He's learning from her!

Then it was home for a little 360 game time! Bubba proved to be quite the little gamer.

Then....to complete the day, Dax showed up!!

Meg's other lil' buddy:

But I have to admit, the greatest part of having the grandkids over?

They are grandkids. Which means - they go home when we are done.

Ha!

That's why being a grandma rules!

As promised, the proof of the party that remains: (apparently, she took a nap earlier which explains the hair)

Just got home from the family's annual Super Bowl party.
Okay. It's actually my niece's and Mom's birthdays we celebrate, but since it falls on Super Sunday...
I only took two pics (I forgot I had the camera-duh!): one of my niece, Paige, sporting the comely 3-D glasses. And a fuzzy/blurry one of my mom's right hand.
I'll be posting the one of Paige tomorrow.

Mom's right hand? Sacrificed into the trash-can god of the Canon One Shot!