That is what you heard at my house on Thursday night around 9:43.  Right in the middle of the Lost Finale we lost power.  The whole neighborhood lost power.  The island had just disappeared and the helicopter was going down.  Yep that is where my tivo left off.  I still haven’t seen the end yet.  I’m going to watch it today during nap time.

Wednesday I played volleyball.  I thought I was crazy playing volleyball in 90 degree heat but it wasn’t bad at all.  I wish I could say the same thing for our team.  Not bad for a group that hadn’t played in YEARS.  I even subbed for another team after our game and hurt my hand.  I din’t know how bad until the next day when the whole wrist and thumb turned black and blue.  Ouch.  Getting old sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We had another nice weekend.  We had a nice family fun night complete with appetizers that I made.  I pigged out.  Saturday the community had a BBQ cook off.  Mike and Mandy and Jaime and Joel teamed up to make some killer (2 kinds)Brisket, ribs, and cobbler.  Mike Smith also entered his pasta salad.  It was guys against the girls.  Everything had to be made on site and the girls had a secret weapon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000A76V2E/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=1919547581&ref=pd_sl_4v6kwcbshp_b  This cute little thing brought them the gold.  They won best “other ” for their cobbler.  The judges even came over to see how they cooked it.  That CajaChina was pretty cool.  THe guys would not be outdone they won for best ribs.  So our friends won 2 out of the 4 categories.  I don’t know who won for best brisket but I really liked Mike and Joels Brisket.  We ate soooooo well that day.  They even had a slip and slide, wet slides, and a dunk tank.  The kids had a blast.  I took the boys to the pool earlier that day for the kindergarten round up.  We stayed there for 2 1/2 hours.  It was fun.  WE are going to spend a lot of time at the pool this summer(at least until I have to work).  AND……….later that night Cooper took it upon himself to ride the big two wheeler bike.  It does have training wheels but it is still a big step.  Noah even tried it again.  The ever cautious one wasn’t sure it was a good idea.

Yesterday we cleaned cleaned cleaned.  The guys on the path helped Gregg build a work bench on Saturday(thank you) and Gregg and I cleaned and put things away.  We are going to clean out the garage and take the top off the jeep and leave it off all year long.  Now with a cleaned out garage we can put it in when it rains.  Back to the garage.  Gregg is going to pimp it out.  He has a nice size TV and Sat. TV.  He even has his stereo with Sirius there.  He can hook that up to the tv and get surround sound.  And of course we live in TExas so you have to have a fridge.  Right now he just has a small(dorm) fridge but I think that is all that will fit right now.  LOL

Fun things.  Gotta go check the paint progress at Jungle Java.  They said they will be done with the construction in 3 weeks.  WOOHOO

OH am I procrastinating.  I have a bunch of work to do but I haven’t posted in a while.  I even watched some Wiggles with Cooper to get out of doing this(balancing the books).  I will get right on it as soon as I am done here.

Well it is a hot one here today.  Suppose to get up to 100 degrees.  I love it love it love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!  That’s not to say that it isn’t hot but it feels good.  It’s still spring so we get nice cooler nights.  The kids have been having fun in the pool that Aunt Jan bought them.  I think we are going to be playing in it again today!

While in Michigan we traded in our minivan early.  We were already over on miles and weren’t due to turn it in til November.  Well they had some great deals and we got a new car for the same price.  I didn’t really get to drive it much til we got back here.  What a great car.  It is much better than the last model.  WE got the same Walter P Town and Country but it has so many more options.  I like the layout and Gregg loves the touch screen radio.  He loved being able to plug his Ipod into the stereo and download his stuff into the car.  It was nice for him when he had to drive home.  I LOVE the autostart.  I knew it would pay off.  Yesterday we went grocery shopping and we were able to cool down the car before we got to it and put in the kids and groceries.  Perfect!

I have a bunch to say aobut Lost.  I finally watched all 4-5 episodes in one sitting.  I have some thoughts but will share them later.  I still have thoughts on Aaron but we will share those later.

OK well I should get back to work.  I can find nothing to say all day here.  The JJ is moving right along.  I bet they are sanding the drywall as we speak.  We need to get up there.  We go once in the am and once in the pm.

OK gotta get to work.  

Having celiac in Texas sucks.  They do not have all the stuff we had in Michigan.  In Philly I had two stores, Giant and Wegmans that I could find a great selection of GF foods.  Here there is nothing.  I have to drive down to Whole Foods.  The selection at my HEB is bad.  They used to have some good stuff but don’t anymore.  I’m going old school and ordering stuff online again.

Good News/Bad News……………..Taco Bueno doesn’t have a GF menu……..yet the good news is that in talking to the owner he told me that they are building a Whole Foods in Cedar Park area.  That is closer than downtown!  woohoo!!!!

OK some Lost speculation.  I have to be fast cuz I have to get the kids.

I meant to watch the episode with Jin and Sun again.  Seeing Michael and Walt on the outside world had me thinking.  Perhaps even though they say Oceanic 6 some others may me back but not with their families.  They don’t count Walt as an oceanic six or even Ben.  Michael go to go home to his mom but couldn’t talk about anything.  That still would have been risky and I am surprised Ben trusted a hot head like Michael.  I was thinking perhaps the Jin flash was the future like 2012.  That is a bit of a jump though.  However 2000 was the year of the dragon and wasn’t Jin a poor fisherman’s son.  What would he have been doing courting a business client in 2000?  He said he wasn’t married.  Remember he got a job as a door bellman at Sun’s dad’s office.  Then her dad hired him to be a hitman.  That is what got me thinking about Jin and the future.  We already know there is a time Rift.  Desmond would be gone from his “body” for a longer time than when he was in the future.  I think it was something like 5 minutes in the future was 40 minutes or so he was in a dazed state.  So it’s not like it couldn’t have been a future flash.  Hurley had asked if anyone had showed up for the birth and such and Sun said no and he said good.  That had me wondering.  Why was that good unless he meant some of the “other oceanic” people.  You know wanting to keep them hidden and all.  And when Sun said she missed Jin it seemed like she missed him not Missed him.  ya know what I mean?

What the hell is up with Ben?  I am even more determined that they are some rogue government body.  That would only make sense and how they can get off and on the island and have dossiers of everyone.  Don’t ya love that the big other guy is gay.  LOL  I’m guessing and that is the point isn’t it that Mr. Whitmore is the bad guy.  I mean Ben hasn’t tried to make money off the island and its healing powers.  However, what was up with him setting up his daughter.  I knew he was going to kill the guy.  They showed him put his arm around her and Ben cringe.  But poor Danielle.  Why kill her.  She has been on the island forever.  I don’t think she would have ever left but come on.  Not sure what the plan is with that but again precision shooting only leads me back to rogue govt. agency.

Locke is usually smarter than listening to Ben.  I don’t know what is going on with him.  I wish he would get his mojo back but I am afraid he won’t because of the comment that Hurley made to Jack when they got back to the mainland.  “I’m sorry I listened to Locke.”  Locke was one of my favorites.

Speaking of being smarter.  What is the deal with Sayeed?  Yes Michael betrayed them but he came back to try to make a mends.  I would think you would want all the allies you could get on that boat.  I would trust none of them yet keep them all close.  Don’t know what he was thinking but he may have traded away a good source of info.

Well I fogto what else I was going to write and I have to get the boys.  If I remember(3 am) I will write more or add it to this weeks episode.

I’m glad we finally got more story on Desmond.  I have always liked him.  I guess his shipwrecking would explain how he got the power to see into the future but why then didn’t the airplane passengers experience the same fate.  Unless they will blame his future seeing on the blast of electromagnetic waves he suffered when he had to turn the key.

I wonder if he knew what it meant when Penny said that she got Charlie’s message.  Does he even remember Charlie and what Charlie had said.  I know Sayeed does but I don’t know if he was privy to the conversation.  Did Desmond have speaker phone on?  Now they know for sure it isn’t Penny’s boat.  I’m guessing they already knew that with the warm welcome they received on the boat.

I won’t go over the obvious in this post but I will say I had a thought…………

When Daniel looked at his book and said that Desmond Hume would be his constant I realized almost everyone there has a constant from the past to the future.  Most of these people from Oceanic 815 have a connection to one another in some way.  Now whether or not they know they have the connection is another thing.  It will be interesting.  Then again there would have to be a problem for them to need a constant.  Sayeed managed the trip just fine.

I have a headache so I won’t write anymore but if you have any thougths feel free to email me or leave a comment.  I may add more later.

Well there isn’t as much to speculate about but it was still fun.  It was nice to see what happened to Kate when she got back.  We also got to hear about the “story” of the crash.  I wonder who the 8 people who made it were and the two of that 8 that died.

I knew the child was going to be Aaron.  It just seemed obvious that there wasn’t enough time for her to have been pregnant, given birth and lost the baby weight in the time it would have taken them to get a trial started.  Plus Jack was still in tact.

I’m REALLY worried about what happens to Claire.  It has been mentioned that “you never got over the Claire.” but what on Earth happened to her.  I thought Charlie gave his life because Desmond said it would mean her and her baby would be rescued by a helicopter.  Remember though that every tarot card reader ran away from Claire when she was pregnant.  They did not like what they saw when they looked into her.  I guess that was a premonition.

Mile’s situation didn’t shed too much light.  OK there is a big guy out ther hunting Ben down and spending lots of money to do it.  What on EArth did Ben do.  I thought he was always on that island since he was a child.  I want to say he is a rogue spy still that has access to all the things you would imagine a super covert spy would have….aliases(passports), differing currencies, dossiers on anyone, mind game screwing etc.

OK well that is enough for now I may add on to this but I need to get back to work.

I still have to let this roll through my mind but a few things that stick out are……………………

It seems obvious that we are dealing with some sort of time rift.  This is evident in the “pay load” and when Danny told the pilot to go back the way he came and by NO MEANS vary.  No matter what!!!!  I wonder if Naomi will come back to life.  I still wonder if those flashbacks weren’t flash forwards(from the newbies, except for Naomi).

Who are thesse people that Sayid is killing.  The first guy he called Avion which means airplane.  He has to have somehting to do with either the airline or the “island.”  My guess is island.  I would think that someone with the airline would have recognized Sayid right off.

Ben.  I’m wondering if Ben isn’t some rouge spy.  But when would he have had his training.  Unless of course the others were a covert spy group and we all know Ben joined them.  Perhaps they were trying to develop some special program there.  It would kind of explain how Ben had dossiers on every person on the island.  It would also explain why they sent a govt. agent to extract him.  He must have gone rouge.  but why.  Did he discover Jacob and after that everyone followed him?  Still too much specualtion there.

The list.  More on that.  Ben said that Sayid had to kill these people in order to keep his friends safe.  Perhaps these are the people that know the island exists and that there are people there.  Perhaps Sayid is trying to keep Locke and everyone who stayed safe.  Ben loved that Island more than anyone so that would make the most sense.  He didn’t want to leave and maybe he plans on going back once everyone that knows about the island is elimintaed.  Wouldn’t that make a nice ending to Lost.  Everyone is reunited on the island. 

Oh I hope the show does end overall on a happy note.  I hate to think of Jack and Hurley living a miserable life.  I’m sure I will have more ideas and thoughts after I sleep on it.  If you have anything to share please add.

Can’t wait for Survivor and Lost tonight.  It’s only been one episode of Survivor but you have to love that Johnny Fairplay was voted off first.  We shall see what the rest of the season is like.

I got more great news too.  One of the teachers in the new buiklding I have been in really liked me and told the principal that they should hire me for a tutoring position.  I just talked with her today and I am hired.  I will tutor 6th grade kids in an one on one setting.  I pull them from their reading class and prepare them for the TAKS.  That is the Texas MEAP.  Woohoo.  So it is just part time every day and the job ends at the end of April.  Perfect timing as we are planning on heading to Michigan to train the first week in May(coop’s bday too).  The pay is way better than subbing too.

A cold front is coming in.  It was 72 today but is suppose to be 40 by Sunday then back to 75 Monday.  Chilly weekend.  Gotta get the kids outside to run off the Valentines day party candy.  WE also wanted to wish Curly a happy 6th birthday!!!!

Happy Valentines Day Everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have so much to say but most of what I had to say was better summed up in the article that someone sent me in a comment on an earlier post.  http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20177008,00.html  This had some really good ideas.  The author of the article does what a few do.  He brings insight from an English major’s perspective.  While that is cool and all I, not having and English major, prefer to just read into it what I see and feel.

My quick observations…..

Hurley can see/hear Jacob too.  Wonder how that will play out.

I thought that the newbie footage were flash forwards except that wouldn’t explain the Naomi one unless hers was the only one that was a rewind.  Charlotte was excited to see the polar bear “again”, the pilot “knew” that wasn’t the body of the dead pilot because he had been to the island and heard the fate of his friend, Faraday was crying when he saw the footage because he knew they weren’t really dead but wasn’t allowed to say anything(guilt), Miles flash forward or rewind didn’t tell us anything other than he can talk to dead people(unless I missed something..it has been over a week since I saw the show).

Does Ben really not know what the black smoke is?  Did his electric gates keep it out?

I really have to post at least the day after the show.  I am not working tomorrow so I promise to post tomorrow about the show.

If you have any speculation please feel free to share.  I can’t wait for tonight.  The same poster who gave me the link above also listed who she thought were the oceanic 6 so scroll through the comments if you want to see.

OK I can’t make this as indepth as I would like as my mother is running a sweat shop and I have to get back to work.  So here are some thoughts.  And please feel free to share yours.

1)  Who do you think are the Oceanic six?  Of course we know that it is Kate, Jack, Hurley and???????? 

A few episodes back I swear that Desmond told Charlie that he had to flip the switch and die in order for a helicopter to come and take Claire and Aaron.  So could they be the other two?  Or am I remembering incorrectly?  AND how was Hurley taken back when he wasn’t even with the camp that wanted to be rescued.  Perhaps that plays out over the next years episodes.  Why would he tell Jack he was sorry he ever went with Locke?  Unless he was referring to another later situation that we haven’t seen yet.  Because if we were talking about the decision to be resuced or hide I would have trusted Charlie’s deathbed statement more than some women who fell fom the sky.

2)  Why is Hurley seeing things again? 

OK I am starting to get that he is the first one to crack when they are able to tell the world that others survived the crash but didn’t or couldn’t come back.  Again we will have to wait to see why they couldn’t or chose not to come back.  We saw that eventually it did wear on Jack as well as evident by the last season finale.   I don’t remember why he first started seeing people and was committed.  That black guy that was suppose to be a lawyer from Oceanic certainly was creepy.  I can’t remember now(have to look back at tivo) who told Hurley he was there.  Was it the same guy who saw Charlie?  Anyway that is another topic.  Perhaps the lawyer is Hurley’s imagination maybe not but when he asked Hurley if others survived the crash it was creepy.  Even more creepier was the “black smoke” that trailed out the door when the lawyer left the room.  I got goose bumps and had to play it over to show my mother.  Not sure what that means yet.

3)  Speaking of black smoke, Jacob and other paranormal thingys…….

Are we ever going to learn what this is?  or will they sweep it away or ignore it like some dumb polar bear fiasco?  Did anyone catch what the house was saying to Hurley when he got lost in the woods?  I kept playing it over and over and couldn’t figure it out.  I knew Locke would be in there with Jacob when Hurley looked in.  And speaking of him What the hell is up with that/him.  How will they be able to make sense of this?  I’m starting to wonder about the”others” and their leader Ben.    Now this is still tied to paranormal so bear with me while I ramble.  Ben and Locke have a lot in common.  Both were dismissed/hated by their fathers.  Both killed their fathers(I know Locke didn’t really do it but the others think he did).  Now let me stop there for a second because this got me wondering.  I’m thinking that maybe the origianl others(pre ben) had a book/bible or something that spoke of a prophet that would come to their Island to …….make them better, lead them, or something etc..  This prophet would be neglected/abandoned by his father but later in life this prophet would kill his father and become the leader of the “others.”  Ben did that to his dad right when he helped kill all j=his fellow Dharma people and then he became the leader of the others.  Remember when Locke came the others took a liking to him and Ben put him on the spot by demanding that he kill his father, knowing that Locke couldn’t do it.  Remember the spectacle Ben put on and then the speech he gave saying Lock wasn’t ready.  I think Ben knew he would lose his seat of power so he made a power play move of his own.  But then the one other who oddly enough resembles the man who spoke to Ben when he was younger and with the Dharma group, gave Locke the dossier on Sawyer.  Locke knew Sawyer would kill his father for him once Sawyer knew that this was the man he had spent his life hunting.  And so it was done and the others rejoiced when Locke joined them with his dead father on his back.  It was then that Ben decided the ultimate test was the Jacob test.  It seemed obvious to me that Ben had been faking it.  He couldn’t hear Jacob and Jacob gave him an ass wooping.  BUT Locke did hear him and Ben knew he would be ousted as leader so he shot Locke and left him to die.  What does Jacob need saving from?

I have to stop here.  But would love to know what others think and I will post more in the comment section if you do too.