But sometimes ignorance really is bliss. 

#168

Five Things I Really Don’t Understand:

1. There’s a guy that wants to burn a what?
2. It’s how cold here already?
3. The cable said it was going HD, then cut off, then some stuff came back. Huh?
4. Ron Artest.
5. How I’m so lucky!

Reality check. Tell you more Monday.

#166

Five Embarrassing Thoughts After Seeing Yourself ‘Acting’:

1. You can’t act. It’s just you being you.
2. How do they do it?
3. You are a goober.
4. Where on earth did those facial movements come from? 
5. Do I really sound like that?!??!

About the reality of housework.

#165

Five Things They Don’t Tell You To Pay Attention To When Working Outside, That They Should, But Instead They Make It Look Like Light Easy Breezy Work:

1. Ants crawling in your paint.
2. Bugs crawling on you if you sit still too long.
3. Freak storms messing with your work.
4. Forgetting you’re outside in the sun getting cooked.
5. What to do if a Momma deer and her two babies walk through your back yard, and you think how lovely it is, and then suddenly they are going to the bathroom in your back yard, and your back yard stinks. Because that can happen.

Similar theme to last week.

#164

Five Ways Nothing Says August Like:

1. Buying a fireplace for your house.
2. Dumping and selling your hot tub.
3. Planning Christmas vacations.
4. Cold nights. 
5. Breaking out the sweaters already!

But it just started.

#163

Five Signs Summer Is Going By Too Quick:

1. My parents wedding anniversary always reminds me it’s about to be fall.
2. Getting ready for ski season already.
3. Labor Day weekend plans.
4. People talking about Halloween!
5. The kids getting ready to go back to school.

Somebody’s been a lazy blogger.

#160

Five New Things (Mostly Silly House Crap) I’ve Done This Week:

1. Real wall repair.
2. Mountain biking.
3. Complicated fancy mail stuff.
4. Relocated an entire living room.
5. Designed a kitchen the way they do on TV.

#161

Five Small Town Things To Get Used To After Living In A Big City:

1. Choosing between three places for a night out.
2. Horrible drivers.
3. The WalMart renovation being the big news.
4. Everyone knowing everyone.
5. Neighborly neighbors.

#162

Five Ways To Distract Your Husband From Housework:

1. Good tv.
2. Food.
3. Puppy eyes.
4. Trips to Vegas.
5. Yard work.

Friends and friends of friends.

#159

Five Thoughts On My First Girls Night Out (GNO):

1. Should be called Women Of Varying Ages Night Out.
2. Scheduled to begin at 5pm to avoid being out all night = being out all night.
3. No one RSVPs just to make me nervous then they all say yes.
4. Random place I picked is going to work out perfectly.
5. What am I going to wear?!?!

Going to party this weekend to correct the issue.

#157

Five Things I Nearly Tweeted/Wrote/Said Making Me A Grandma:

1. “The mails been coming later than usual, have you noticed?”
2. Prices on meat are going up, and…
3. It was still light out when we went to bed.
4. Gardening is…
5. Did you see that bird out there? We should get a book and find out what kind…

Trying to tell myself not to sweat the small stuff and that it all is. Small stuff.

#156

Five ‘Don’t You Hate It When That Happens Moments’ I’ve Had This Week:

1. Computer/phone errors triple posting crap on me.
2. Butting heads with MK trying to plan the perfect reunion for people I don’t even know. 
3. Remembering things I didn’t write down and therefore didn’t do. 
4. Every errand was twice as long and half as successful.
5. Forgetting to take before pictures of all our hard housework is driving me nuts!

Give it a break.

#155

Five Throw My Arms Up Moments:

1. Celtics were robbed.
2. That means Dadd gets robbed, no 2010 champion shirt for Father’s Day. 
3. Team USA  thinks FIFA needs some review footage. 
4. MK didn’t get me all furniture I wanted.
5. Running really low on good TV to watch!