We were watching a repeat of Fresh Gear yesterday… (Have I mentioned that I think Sumi Das has the best job in the world?) On the show, they reviewed this little, hand held karaoke player and gave it a pretty good rating. Now, we’ve been toying with the idea of buying a good one, used at a pawn shop, but somehow just never got around to it.

Stop making fun of me… We all love to sing, we never get out and it’s something to do besides watch the television that has 870 channels, yet never any decent programming…

I went to the website to read more about it and saw that they sell it at Wal-Mart for $80. Since we had nothing better to do, we decided to go check it out.

When I got there, they had about 300 of them and they weren’t $80, they were $35! I scooped one up, thinking that if it was really awful, we’d just return it. Wal-Mart takes back ANYTHING… literally, anything.

Remembering to check the box to see if we needed anything for it (we did, 4 AA batteries), I bought it (along with the cutest bag for $10… that’s right $10.. but that’s a different story and shall be told at a different time), we rushed on home and plugged this bad boy in.

Now, I have to say that the midi files that they call music, leave a bit to be desired, but the kids had so much fun with it, we were all hysterical for the better part of two hours. It comes with 50 songs pre-loaded, you plug it right in to the tv… it’s a snap. In order to get more songs, you load the software onto your computer, plug the player in via USB port and head on over to the website. I have to tell you that the website was so slow I thought I was going to die… and the songs at a dollar a pop, aren’t really a bargain, but all in all I have to give this product a pretty good review.

It probably makes a difference that we have a home theater system, I would imagine that just the speakers on a television wouldn’t make for much fun, but I know we’re going to drive the neighbors crazy for quite some time with this toy.

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So T is student of the week… Apparently the very last student of the week that there is this year. What does that mean? He gets to bring home a ratty stuffed animal, we get to lug it around all weekend and then on Sunday night, he gets to write a journal entry about it. Oh how I’m going to have to hold my tongue and my hand when he sits down to write it.

I know, I’m really being s***ty about this — (Of course he doesn’t know how jaded I’ve become about this school’s events, so don’t even go there, k?), but I have to say that the disappointment that I’m feeling with this school and everything that’s gone on is getting harder and harder to hide. But, like the good mommy that I try to be, we’ll put up a good front and take the ratty kitty everywhere we go.

I met with the principal of the public school whose district we’re living in and it looks like we have to move. You can’t believe how bad this school was. There’s a new principal and a new assistant principal (and I have to tell you, the asst. principal was grrrr, very grrrr) and they’re both very impressive, but I don’t think they’ve been there long enough to make a difference yet. I sort of played hard ball when I went in, and the principal was pretty good about it, answering the questions that I posed very well, but before I left I asked him if he would send his children to the school and after taking too long to answer, he closed his eyes when he said “yes”. Liar, liar pants on fire.

I’m going to attempt a coup at the superintendent’s office and try to get my kids into a different district, but I don’t think that’s going to work. As much as I love this house and all the room it provides and the pool, let’s not forget the pool, my children come first… and their education is much more important than how many rooms I get to roam around in. *sigh*

So, that’s what’s been going on with me — What are you doing this weekend?

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