2015?!?!? Eh. Bring it on...

Well, I'm sure I'm not alone in my current state of shock. How in the world did 2015 get here so fast?

Sigh...Well I guess we'd better get on with it, right?

How was Christmas, you ask? It was good. Ty was sick the whole time, poor guy. But the chiddlers and I managed to get through the holidays unscathed. Well, mostly. I say I got through the holidays, but now that they're over, I'm starting to ail a bit. Sore throat, stuffy nose, all that fun stuff. Blah. I guess it's best that it happens now, rather than when I start going back to school in a week and a half. I'm doing what I can to help keep this thing from becoming too serious, but even with all of my tried and true methods, I'm still definitely under the weather. It sucks, but as I say, we'll get through it. I may be a bit cranky about it for a few days, but at least none of you have to listen to my whining. (You just get to read it. Ha!)

Good news! I got through both of my classes with A's, so apparently being sleep-deprived on Finals Day isn't always disastrous, though I wouldn't want to do it that way again. It was a very long day, and I haven't felt that crappy in a LONG time.

Okay, random comments:

Ty and I have recently been watching "The A-Team" on Netflix. It's been fun. I never watched it when it was actually on TV, so I've enjoyed taking that little trip down 1980's Memory Lane. Or at least I did for a while. We made it through the first season, and part way through the 2nd, when we could no longer ignore the fact that we were basically watching the exact same episode. Over and over and over and over again.

Someone's in trouble. They find the A-Team and hire them (usually for a lot less money than the A-Team normally charges for their services, but the prospective client's sob story is so very pitiful that Hannibal and his gang are always won over and agree to do the work anyway.) The MP's whine and moan about how much they want to catch the A-Team. They chase them down for a while, and flip at least 3 cars in the process.

The A-Team goes to some small, podonk town where they discover how the locals are being bullied and downtrodden by some egomaniac with a bunch of hired thugs and WAY too many guns at their disposal. Oh and a helicopter. There is ALWAYS a helicopter.

Hannibal goes in and challenges the Bad Guy Leader with some snarky comments, which starts a big fist fight. At first, things don't go so well, until B.A. comes busting through the door and starts throwing his bejeweled fists into people's faces. Once they've K.O.'ed all the bad guys, they head to the client's modest home, where there is always some pretty young woman who immediately starts exchanging googly eyes with Face. (They'll have made out at least once before the end of the episode.)

After a few gun fights with the Bad Guys, the A-Team hunkers down in some barn or warehouse, where they never fail to find absolutely everything that they could possibly need for the final showdown. Dynamite, corrugated steel, some sort of vehicle that they can cut apart and turn into an armored car, endless amounts of ammo, acetyline torches, and all the welding/soldering tools that B.A. could use in his lifetime.

The final showdown consists of the bad guys shooting their guns at the A-Team, never hitting anything. I think these guys are even worse than the infamously incompetent Storm Troopers. There are a lot of explosions. It's almost as though the Bad Guys' cars are made to explode, as all the A-Team really has to do is cough near those cars and they'll blow up in a spectacular display of fire and burning car. Once the showdown is over, the A-Team ties up the Bad Guys, and turns them over to the townspeople, who are suddenly capable of handling things on their own. Then the sound of sirens, and the A-Team looks down the road to see the MP's heading up the road. They promptly run to the ever-accessible helicopter, and Murdoch flies them to safety, as Hannibal chews on his ever-present cigar and taunts the MP's with another quippy insult. The MP's shake their fists at the A-Team. Then Hannibal sits back in his helicopter seat and says, "I love it when a plan comes together."

~Fin~

How did I do? Sound familiar? I've actually decided to compose a list. I shall call it:

"The 9 Always of the A-Team."

1) The Bad Guys are always going to be dumber than any member of the A-Team.
2) There is always a young woman somewhere for Face to...well...womanize.
3) B.A. always punches harder than any Bad Guy. Ever.
4)There is always a helicopter somewhere close by. Always.
5) Hannibal will always charge into a situation, head first, making all of his friends doubt him, but no matter how crazy the plan might seem, that plan will always come together. (If it didn't, he couldn't say his catch phrase!)
6) You will always see at least 5 flipped cars in each episode.
7) The MP's will always be about 3 steps behind the A-Team. Even when it seems they have caught them, don't worry, they haven't.
8) Murdoch will always come through, even when he thinks his sock is a talking dog, his contributions are always vital to success. Somehow.
9) Despite the fact that half of whatever small town they are in gets destroyed, the locals are always going to look with reverence at the A-Team and thank them for it.
10) You are always going to wonder how Hannibal's teeth manage to stay so white, when he smokes about 80 cigars a day.

Okay, random ramblings are over for now. There's a certain 5-year-old who needs to get to bed. And then I'm thinking I'll follow her example. I'm starting to feel pretty crappy. Stupid cold and flu season! Boo!