Anyone have an extra clue?

There are a lot of people around here who seem to have lost theirs!
Good morning, I'm grumpy today.

I am resisting the urge to take a picture of the paperwork for our house. We're submitting an offer today and I'm waiting for our realtor to come by and pick up all of the papers. It would be really dumb to take pictures of it, right? Sitting there all official and cute.

I'm just a little excited.

Andie and I saw The Illusionist last night. It really is a good movie - and I really do love Edward Norton. A lot. Oh, and did you know that Jessica Biel can act? Well, sort of. All of the drama and subtle emotion of the movie comes directly from Edward Norton and (of course) Paul Giamatti. She just stood around looking either sad or willful. She doesn't even really say much, which I think probably helped. Phillip Glass does the score, and it's probably the most narrative score I've ever heard from Glass. (Plink. Plink. Plinkplinkplinkplinkplink).

While I'm in critic mode... anyone breathe a little easier Wednesday night when the creepy old guy (finally) got kicked off Project Runway? I thought that I was never going to be able to have sex again - every time he said he got "turned on" by his own ugly-assed dresses I died a little inside. And what the hell was up with the yellow plaid number? Ick. (Again, smiling at the irony of a chubby Midwestern girl with wet hair and sweat pants criticizing the fashion on PR).

And we're getting so close to the start of all of the new seasons of my favorite shows... Gilmore Girls and Grey's Anatomy and Desperate Housewives and E.R. and The Office and My Name is Earl and (who am I missing??). From that list it looks like I have a lot more TV time than I actually do. Bean and I do make the effort to be home and together every Tuesday night at 7 to watch Gilmore Girls. It's sort of our thing. Everything else gets recorded or else I go to Television Without Pity for updates. Have you ever seen this website? It's fun... when I was in my Dawson's Creek phase I would watch four or five episodes and then read them on TVWoP and laugh my ass off.

Anyone remember the show What About Brian? from the end of last season? They aired, like, three episodes and then said "wow, hope y'all liked it, stay tuned for the next season in the fall." Is it coming back? I liked it... despite that three-episode teaser crap. And did they cancel Windfall yet? Christ. I've been watching it, but it's such a train wreck.

I just got a call from the husband. He really is a smart, fairly self-sufficient man. I promise. So he calls and says, "There's a problem."
"Ok," I'm alert now, in mommy mode, "what's wrong?"
"We're out of milk and Bean wants cereal." (And this involves me because.....)
"So she can eat toast and drink juice, or you can go to the store." (You know, that big tan building that sells potato chips? They also sell milk. Oh, and vegetables).
"Well, she wants to go to your mom's"
"Is her room clean and ready to pack up?"
"I don't think so"
~~Silence~~
"So you don't want her to go?"
~~Silence~~
"Ok, well, I guess we'll work on breakfast and then go to the store and get milk for lunch." (Good boy).

Do you ever feel like you're the only one in your house with a clue? Does that thought ever fill you with dread and despair? Maybe it's just me.

So far I'm the only person who is going through the house pile by pile throwing shit away. That's either going to change really soon, or the husband and Bean will be missing a lot of stuff in the new house. I'm trapped at work until 6 tonight and so I will not get as much done as I want to today. Tomorrow, though, I'm supposed to get off at 9 and then will have all day to work on cleaning... and you know that when I say "work on cleaning" I mean clean for a bit and nap for a bit and clean for a bit more, right? If I were a "clean until it's done" kind of girl we wouldn't have so much crap to go through.

I'll let y'all know when we hear back from the seller. Keep fingers and toes crossed for me!!