Hubby's Out
Guest written by our friend Gladys Fuentes
My husband went out of town for the weekend with two of his guy friends. This weekend seems incredibly long without him being around. He also took the SUV so I cannot legally drive my kids around because we both forget to take the car seats out of the back seat. We girls are stuck in the house for the entire weekend. The naps have been taken, it is after 3p.m. and it is still a long way off before bedtime. I tried to appease the group by finding that new movie on television that we found on our WWW.direct.TV satellite channels. I could not seem to make the girls happy and they were getting restless. I was about to scream when I get a call from a friend that wants to bring her daughter over to play for about an hour. I could have jumped for joy. I decided that I would turn the play date into a dinner date and invite them for dinner. I needed some motivation to cookanyway and the adult conversation was seriously lacking. The evening ended perfectly. The kids and I both slept well.
Guest written by our friend Gladys Fuentes
My husband went out of town for the weekend with two of his guy friends. This weekend seems incredibly long without him being around. He also took the SUV so I cannot legally drive my kids around because we both forget to take the car seats out of the back seat. We girls are stuck in the house for the entire weekend. The naps have been taken, it is after 3p.m. and it is still a long way off before bedtime. I tried to appease the group by finding that new movie on television that we found on our WWW.direct.TV satellite channels. I could not seem to make the girls happy and they were getting restless. I was about to scream when I get a call from a friend that wants to bring her daughter over to play for about an hour. I could have jumped for joy. I decided that I would turn the play date into a dinner date and invite them for dinner. I needed some motivation to cookanyway and the adult conversation was seriously lacking. The evening ended perfectly. The kids and I both slept well.
X-Men: Evolution
X-Men: Evolution
Written by my friend Anita Glenn
Based off of the X-Men movie, X-Men: Evolution has our favorite X-Men battling it out with Magneto and his Brotherhood of Mutants in a high school setting at a time when mutant powers have yet to be exposed to the mainstream populace. Like all X-Men incarnations, Professor Charles Xavier runs a school for mutants in order for them to learn how to control their powers in a safe setting. The teachers are familiar X-Men: Storm, Wolverine and Beast and the main students are Cyclops, Jean Grey, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat and Rogue.
The plot centers around the recruitment of mutants for both the X-Men and the Brotherhood. Early episodes had a mutant being discovered and then recruited with a few members switching sides. Other side plots to the standard X-Men storyline about prejudice and the ways in which the oppressed seek equality are the love triangle between Cyclops, Jean and Rogue, how each character deals with the concept of identity and the surrogate parent-like relationship between the teachers and their students. I didn't see the initial running of the show, but I've been able to catch it through repeats thanks to the Boomerang channel on mywww.tvbydirect.com. I definitely recommend it to X-Men enthusiasts -- especially those that enjoy the storyline of Mystique, Rogue and Nightcrawler and how it relates to the oldest mutant of all, Apocalypse.
Written by my friend Anita Glenn
Based off of the X-Men movie, X-Men: Evolution has our favorite X-Men battling it out with Magneto and his Brotherhood of Mutants in a high school setting at a time when mutant powers have yet to be exposed to the mainstream populace. Like all X-Men incarnations, Professor Charles Xavier runs a school for mutants in order for them to learn how to control their powers in a safe setting. The teachers are familiar X-Men: Storm, Wolverine and Beast and the main students are Cyclops, Jean Grey, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat and Rogue.
The plot centers around the recruitment of mutants for both the X-Men and the Brotherhood. Early episodes had a mutant being discovered and then recruited with a few members switching sides. Other side plots to the standard X-Men storyline about prejudice and the ways in which the oppressed seek equality are the love triangle between Cyclops, Jean and Rogue, how each character deals with the concept of identity and the surrogate parent-like relationship between the teachers and their students. I didn't see the initial running of the show, but I've been able to catch it through repeats thanks to the Boomerang channel on mywww.tvbydirect.com. I definitely recommend it to X-Men enthusiasts -- especially those that enjoy the storyline of Mystique, Rogue and Nightcrawler and how it relates to the oldest mutant of all, Apocalypse.
