Game of Thrones is Killing Me

So they broke up two of my favorite road trip duos:  Tryion & Bronn, and Jaime & Brienne.  That was a major bummer but at least Arya and Hound are still out there. Unfortunately we didn't get to see them.

This week Bran and his merry band of misfits are sacked out north of the wall when they hear a baby crying.

Curly Sue, "Is that a baby?  It sounds like a baby.  I think it's a baby."
Bran, "I'll check it out."
Curly Sue, "No, you mustn't."
Bran, "I must."

And Bran "flies" off to check out the crying baby and gets distracted by, wait for it, a dog.

Bran, "Hey, that's my brother's dog!"

Me, "Uh, Bran? Remember the baby? Crying in the snow? Abandoned?"

Bran, "But, that's Ghost!"

Me, "Baby? Snow? Anything?"

Bran, "THE DOG!"

Me, "Jesus, Bran, you're an idiot."

Meanwhile, the Night Walkers save the baby, take it into their fold and make it one of their own.  So I'm left cheering for the Night Walkers.  Who are probably marching on the Wall because they're sick of the humans being so stupid.  And can you blame them?

Gym Rat

Text to John:

BOO-YAH

Intimidating, I know.  Gotta cut back on the 'roids.

Another Awesome BuzzFeed Quiz

Who should you marry?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/joannaborns/who-should-you-marry

I got Benedict Cumberbatch!! Shut the Front Door!!

Game of Thrones

I must be figuring out all the plot lines because now I find myself thinking things like, "How are they surviving without antibiotics?" and "Man, they must all smell really bad."

Disneyland FanGirl Moment

So what happens when a 46 year old nerdie girl runs into a pair of stormtroopers?  She gets down right giddy.  Giddy! And starts whispering like no one else has noticed them.  Me, "guys!  guys!  stormtroopers! look stormtroopers.  oh my gooooooood! it's stormtroopers!  riiiiiiight thereeeeeee!"
Kid, "mom, the line is moving"
Me, "huh? oooooh...... there they go!"

And if that wasn't enough....

In Innoventions, there's an Avengers display so we went to check it out.  There was really cool Iron Man suits and props from the movies and while the boys and John were lined up to try on the Iron Man suit via video display, I noticed a bunch of Thor weapons at the Treasures of Asgard. Oh, gotta check that out and next thing I knew I had wandered to the front of a queue just in time to have a happy Disney employee smile at me and say, "You're first for the next group."  "Oh! I am? Cool!" I haven't been first in line for anything!!  So I waited and waited and wondered what was on the other side of the door.  At one point a couple of ladies stopped and asked me what the line was for and I had to say,  "Honestly, I don't know.  But there's a lot of people lined up, aren't there? And I'm the first so I'm staying."  Then we all laughed.  After a while longer, I and my group (I considered them my group because I was the designated Line Leader, after all) were escorted into the next room with more Thor paraphernalia and I had pretty much decided that we were going to be watching some Asgardenian video.  Then Anthony Hopkins voice welcomes us and opens up the Bifrost, just for us, and the side door opens and holy shit! There's Thor.  It's Thor!  IT'S THOR and I'm jumping and clapping and squealing like a little girl at a One Dimension concert.  Thor does his Thor things and then the guide says, "Now you can have pictures taken with Thor, starting with this side of the line" and he points STRAIGHT AT ME!!!!   So now I'm jumping over to Thor and squealing some more and asking the guy next to me to take my picture and Thor asks my name and says, "my, your excited"  and then boom:

It's me and Thor,  Motherfucker!!

Then I bounced out and bought my very own Thor to take home.

But he was missing his hammer.
John, "Look, he's broken.  Just like you."
Me, "I know! Thor! Thor! Thor! Thor! Thor!"

Another Disneyland Fun Fact

Disneyland causes cancer.

huh

Fun Disneyland Fact

If it's a warm day and you wear a lightweight cotton skirt to keep cool, be careful on Luigi's Flying Tires.  Why?  Because as you walk over to board your flying tire hovercraft thingie, the air shooting out of the ground will blow your lightweight cotton skirt up around your ears, exposing your polka dot cotton underwear to all of Radiator Springs.   Just imagine Marilyn Monroe in Seven Year Itch, only completely NOT.  It's a hidden Disneyland gem that they don't include in the guidebooks.

It ranks right up there with our trip to Hawaii, when Sam tripped and pulled down my elastic waist linen pants during brunch.  Good Times.

Drove down to Disneyland yesterday

Found this sign at the pool:

Well, that's a relief....

And one more thing

While watching last night, I got confused and googled "Who is torturing Treon Greyjoy", which by the way is the first thing that popped up when I typed "Who is torturing" so it's not just me.  Anyway, one guy got all snippy at the question "You're not supposed to know yet so stop asking!"  Really? Do you have any idea how may things happened that I am supposed to know but I don't?

"Tyrion, your sister tried to have you killed!"

Wait, what? hold on...I thought that was just some soldier....that was one of her men....how was I supposed to know that? everyone was running around, in armor, screaming.....if I had been reviewing my notes when that was said, I would completely missed that plot line.  It was one sentence.  So don't get all snippy with us.  We're holding on by a thread, here.

Jeez  again

I figured it out

I started watching Game of Thrones and I was going to rant about how confusing it is.  How I have to watch it with two reference guides; a map and a character list.  And the character list is constantly  out of date because of all the deaths and new character introductions.   Not to mention that everyone has two names and a title and comes from a region, a city and a castle, and none of the names are spelled the way they're pronounced.  So it's Daenerys Taragaryan of House Baratheon (I think. no, that's not right) but she's also called Khaleesi, of the Dothraki, wife of Khal Drogo, but sometimes we'll call her Dany pronounced Danny.  Don't ask me how you pronounce "Daenerys" but I'm pretty sure all the "y's" are there just to fuck with us.   I thought it'd be easy with the main character, Ned (who is no longer the main character because he's dead) but they started referring to Eddard.  Who the hell is Eddard? Wait, that's Ned? What the hell?!?  And the show is filled with British dudes with stringy dark hair in battle dress who all look alike!!!!!

But I digress.....What I wanted to say was, I figured it out.   The whole point of the series.  I figured it out!  The Grand Lesson that Mr. George R. R. Martin is trying to teach us. (really? George R. R. Martin? not George Martin? c'mon)  I occurred to me this morning over breakfast.  This whole mess started because of one single incident that happened in the every first episode when Bran (pronounced Bran which actually confused me further because, shirley, that can't be right. right?) Anyway Bran climbed the tower.  After his mother told him not to.

Catelyn: BRAN! How many times have I told you not to climb the tower? (she actually said this)
Bran: <mumble> <mumble> <mumble> I donnow.
Catelyn: Promise me you won't climb the tower.
Bran: <mumble> <mumble> I promise <mumble> <mumble>

And what does he do? He climbs the tower.  Then boom, he's paralyzed, mom starts poking around, dad starts poking around, king get killed, dad gets killed, sisters get kidnapped, huge fucking war, backstabbing, betrayal, everyone gets promised to some creepy in-law, Jamie loses his hand, which is the same hand he used to push Bran out the window so a little poetic justice there ha ha ha. But all because Bran didn't listen to his mother.  See, it's not just me.  Millions of dollars in production value are being spent to teach you to listen to your mother.  LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER AND NO ONE DIES!

jeez.

Flying the Friendly Skies, part III

text from John:

Some folks have all the fun....