Review: Hectic households and Grammy Awards.

First of all, on any given Monday morning, the Kerr family is, at best, only moderately equipped to get kids out the door to school on time.  Then there are those perfect storm Monday mornings when I believe that the Kerr family should just disband and join other families that are more suited for life in today’s society.

This morning was kind of a perfect storm.  Our Monday malaise is in large part to our weekend job.  Weekends are different for our family because we are to and from church quite a bit and the house pays the price... it gets pretty messy.  Plus we were gone for three days last week and most items of clothing in the house are either piled in unpacked suitcases, piled in dirty clothes bins or piled in the laundry room.  (if you’re ever invited to the Kerr house, the main rooms may look presentable but I dare you to look in the laundry room.  The last person to try that was never found... lost under a pile of PJs)

So if you combine a tired Kerr house that was coming off a full weekend at church, with the disappearance of any clean clothes, you get a striking ineffectiveness and a surprising state of sloth… even for us.  We managed to get the two oldest in the van and off to school in decent time.  I’m not sure if there was any personal grooming/hygene done, but they were at least in the van and on the way to school. 

The elementary school drop off line has the single greatest power of annoyance in my life.   I’ve given up trying to fight it or improve it.  Pastor Alan (rvc youth pastor) has his oldest kid in Kindergarten and thus he’s still new enough that he thinks he can fight the powers that be.  Silly Alan.  In time he’ll get disillusioned like me and just get in a fowl mood at 8:20 every morning.

Looking back at the morning, I now realize that I was no help at all.  I think all I did was get myself dressed and made some coffee.  Perhaps I'm the weak link?

Next.  The Grammy Awards were last night and this is my favorite awards show of the year.  I will now give my annual review of last night’s awards show:

This was by far my favorite Grammys ever.  First of all whoever was producing it and whoever was mixing the sound for TV need to have this gig forever.  The production and the sound were spectacular.  In the first 36 minutes we heard performances by U2, Coldplay, Carrie Underwood, Justin Timberlake and Keith Urban (these are all Kerr favorites) and all were truly great performances. U2 performed their new single and it was great.   Coldplay guy did a piano version of ‘Lost’ which included a rap by Jay Z, and this was my favorite moment of the night…(now that I’m a rapper, I appreciate these things) Carrie Underwood… We like her music a lot and we’ve NEVER heard a bad performance out of her.  Justin Timberlake is always great… Kristie and I both have a secret crush on Justin Timberlake.

40 minutes in to the recorded broadcast, I commented to Kristie that all our reasons to watch had already taken the stage and we still got 3 hours left on this thing, but the rest of the evening was surprisingly enjoyable.  I even enjoyed Kid Rock and the all star rap performance of ‘swagger like us’.  I could’ve done without the teeny duet between Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus… I don’t enjoy hearing either of them sing, but I’ll say this, little Taylor Swift can write a good song.

I’m bummed that Coldplay didn’t win Album of the year.  I know it’s cool to be a Coldplay fan but I believe they deserved the win.  Anyway, best Grammy’s ever.

That’s it.  Enjoy Monday.

Comments

[Jon]

I was also disappointed that Coldplay didn't win. That album was a nice piece of art for me this year. I do have to say that I didn't enjoy the Coldplay performance of Viva La Vida. His vocals were shaky at best.

I was very impressed with the Jonas Bros. Haven't really gotten into them as they make teeny bopper music, but I have to give them "mad props" after that performace. It probably didn't hurt that much to perform alongside Stevie Wonder. I also really enjoyed the Al Green/Justin timberlake/Boyz to Men performance. Boyz 2 Men got the shaft a bit, but those were some solid bgvs. Nothing wrong with a little soul.

Not crazy about the new U2 single, but that was a pretty sweet performance, as usual, for them.

[Olivers]

It feels so validating to hear someone else complain about the school carpool line. It makes me so frustrated!!!

[Alison]

Don't you love the parents that take the deep pause and watch their child get completely inside of the school before moving (even with a huge line behind). Come on!