In case there is any doubt...

Most of the people who read my blog have no question as to whether I am a geek.   But I am just going to go ahead and set that in stone by admitting a few things.  First, my favorite thing to listen to is NPR.  I listen to NPR when I am driving by myself in the car, when I am on the elliptical at the gym, out on a long run or cooking and cleaning in my kitchen.  LOVE IT! A few times a year they do the annoying fund drives or they are doing a story that I am not interested in or I just need a break. Which leads to my second confession.   At those times my go to is 94.5...which is the pop music station.  I wish I could say that I had a whole bunch of cool indie rock mixed cds that I was in love with or old school jazz music even, but alas I sing along with Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Justin Beiber.  I heard this new song, "That's What Makes You Beautiful. " It had a fun summer-rock sound.  Then the other night Rich and I were watching Saturday Night Live and the "band" One Direction was on.   THEY ARE TOTALLY A BOY BAND!!!  It was so disappointing.  

There IS a band that is actually playing in the background and the tune is catchy, but they aren't the ones singing.  These guys are the NEW new kids on the block/n sync/backstreet boys AND they are wearing skinny jeans.  Apparently the hipster look is the new pop. They don't even dance. Not that I really want them to do a choreographed dance, but the whole walking around the stage jumping up and down or playing the air drums is just too ridiculous.  I hate their hair dos, I hate their clothes, I hate their lack of dancing, I hate that they don't play their music, but mostly I just hate that I LOVE this song by a boy band.  

Wow...I can't believe how passionately I feel about this (and Rich too...he helped me with this post).  I realize that this is so stupid.  Why should I be bothered by the lack of integrity of my pop music?  But I just can't help it...I am annoyed. (yet still can't get the song out of my head.)

So judge away...geek for listening for NPR while running...geek for writing a diatribe about a boy band...geek for using the word diatribe.

ECK...

Also, our baby was adorable for Easter.  These pictures are for my Grandma .  Grandma, the first pictures are the dress you gave Charlotte and then the other ones are from Easter...and sorry about the rant on boy bands. 

VHS

Now that baby girl is more mobile she is pulling everything off of the lower book shelves. The lowest shelves in the back corner of our living room have been holding baskets of movies (and obviously they aren't our favorite movies that are tucked in the back corner of our room).

Anyway, check out what I found back there.

VHS tapes. REALLY?!?! What am I saving these for? We have not owned a working VCR in at least 5 years.

I told Rich that I was going to throw them away and he suggested I save them to give to GoodWill. All of a sudden my mind flashed to the rows and rows of VHS tapes that Goodwill has and I realized NOBODY wants them. How sad it is to be a VHS tape in this day and age! It makes me think of Buzz and Woody and I feel a little guilty that I will be sending these VHS tapes to the grave.

Don't worry I snapped out of it. They are going in the garbage. Unless you know somebody who wants to give them a home. Anybody? ...Buhler? Anybody?