Monday, March 12, 2012
Mayan soccer
The Mayans were interesting. There was a lot more to them than the calendar. They had a game similar to soccer except it was played with a large stone ball. How fun does that sound? And then there was the part about the losers being killed by the victors. Now that would make "it's not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game that counts" a pretty invalid concept.
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I would not be good at that game...I rarely ever catch the ball....I imagine being hit in the face with a stone and being hit with a ball are two totally different feelings...lol
ReplyDeleteyeah, and sportsmanship would really kinda go out the window.
ReplyDeleteand we think it's bad when coaches get fired for having losing teams.
ReplyDeleteLoosing your head during a game has a new meaning as well...lol
ReplyDeleteYou guys crack me up
ReplyDeletewell not loosing your head...losing your head...lolol
ReplyDeleteI'm cleaning house . . . dagnabit - I would love to have company while I did it. :(
ReplyDeleteI am typing...would love company while I did it...lol
ReplyDeletethrowing stones has a new meaning...
ReplyDeleteI am wrapped up in a blanket trying to get rid of back cramps and shakes so I can go to sleep.
ReplyDeletegirl, you will have company shortly! are you guys going to come see me?
ReplyDeletewell, if I were playing ball with you, if you didn't catch the ball you would be knocked sound asleep...
ReplyDeletei can move a lot faster now. i would get out of the way.
ReplyDeleteI hope so!
ReplyDeleteAnd, at least Cathy can distract you from the pain with laughter. I would probably not knock you asleep if I played Mayan ball. I would probably drop it on my toe.
i would find a way to run like heck because with players like me, my team would surely lose.
ReplyDeleteMaybe there's a way to be disqualified . . . other than dying, of course.
ReplyDeleteI am sitting here trying to vent silly so as to not vent frustration from things happening in my little tiny world. So, this is my choice for the night....walking gracefully....or rather sitting gracefully, with the occasional slap at my hand for trying to itch my stitches...lol
ReplyDeleteI don't think they would care that I pretend to sprain my ankle...
ReplyDeletewhy do you have stitches?
ReplyDeleteI'm watching it scroll while I clean my bedroom.
Skin cancer removal...about a two in. long incision and I am allergic to the bandaids as well...rash and stitches...no fun. Hey maybe if I was playing ball with the Mayans and they saw my rash they wouldn't want to make me catch the ball...
ReplyDeletei have a video on mayan culture and they didn't say anything about a stalemate. i think they liked blood. probably if nobody won, they'd say both teams lost so they could kill them all.
ReplyDeleteCathy can you put vitamin e oil or anything on it?
I read an article the other day that says the whole "end of the world" interpretation is a "misinterpretation", and that it marks the time when the ancient god (forgot name) returns to the earth. Creepy.
ReplyDeleteI have to keep vaseline on the cut with a bandaid for a week...I am using vaseline with aloe and vitamin e....wondering if that is making it itch worse.
ReplyDeleteyeah, like when the prophecies said he would become a human that came in from the sea and they gave the city to Cortez? (who of course subjugated them and gave them diseases that wiped them out)
ReplyDeletewell, that sucks....that is not a nice mayan god...
ReplyDeleteWell the vitamin e shouldn't make it itch. Neither should the aloe. What kind of bandaids are you using?
ReplyDeletewell - i'm not thinking the spirit of antichrist is going to be a very nice spirit . . . maybe the disease thing didn't quite do the trick . . . or the gas chamber . . .
ReplyDeleteSorry - cynical humor. Bad Kat - bad, bad, bad!
I think stitches will itch regardless. The skin is healing. If I could, I would wish it away.
ReplyDeleteGas chamber-makes me think of that pajama movie...ugh, I hated that movie...AD, I am using non latex, I used cloth, I think it is the adhesive maybe...it feels like the cut is searing my skin....did I mention ever that I am a baby...lolol
ReplyDeletecan you try cooling a towel to put over it?
ReplyDeleteI think that it just pulls where it is located so if I sit still it isn't so horrid...lol.
ReplyDeleteI would wish it away as well, but I am glad i don't have the smeared mole anymore...I think I will try a cool rag.
ReplyDeleteI took benedryl last night. don't remember if it worked or not...lol...It feels like someone is holding the tatoo needle straight on over and over...did I mention I am a baby...lololol
ReplyDeleteSome irritations can be yucky. Sorry wishing is all I have to offer. LOL. But, mom's idea is a pretty good one.
ReplyDeleteI actually got a rag and it does help...yay!
ReplyDeleteGood. Yay.
ReplyDeleteThe primary Mayan deity -Q'uq'umatz: Feathered Snake god and creator. Was not a nice guy. Nope, nope. Looked like everything bad. Don't want him returning anywhere.
I wonder if the mayans had lead balloons as well...
ReplyDeletehere honey, happy birthday.
ReplyDeleteI'm confused ... Cath's birthday is in June.
ReplyDeleteMel Gibson's movie on the Mayans was pretty intense...I wouldn't want to live there...in that time.
ReplyDeletelead balloon? birthday? I think she is going to drop balloons on my head... lolol
ReplyDeletesnicker. i'm not giving her lead poisoning.
ReplyDeleteno just gonna drop the lead on my head!!!!
ReplyDeleteI just associate balloons with birthdays that's all. I didn't come up with the lead balloon thing.
ReplyDeleteLOLOL!!!
ReplyDeleteI didn't see that movie Cath ... what is the name?
ReplyDeleteThat's the one, mom. creepy
Boy in the striped pajamas...horrid...made me so mad...lol
ReplyDeleteJonea did a report on children's art from the Holocaust. She had to do a lot of research. It affected her very deeply.
ReplyDeleteFinally got the tiny crumbs of peppermint unstuck from my dresser. That'll teach me to use a wooden surface crack hard candy.
ReplyDeleteIt would affect me deeply, too.
ReplyDeleteI bet. Horrid time. Horrid cowardly man.
ReplyDeleteI ate so many good and plenty last night that I was sick...lol
ReplyDeleteI got a bunch of those long, thick sticks from the dollar store for 15 cents a piece after christmas. Had ten of them in my drawer. I'd smash it with a hammer and nibble on the bits. Made a huge mess.
ReplyDeleteWas good fun with the grandson, though. 8^D
ReplyDeleteI have candy canes from two years ago that I just can't make myself throw away....
ReplyDeletelouis bought this cake for us to celebrate amanda's birthday saturday night. we forgot to eat it because we had so much pizza and then had to get the Christmas stuff out of the back bedroom so the kids could use it. Then we watched 'Soul Surfer' and the cake was forgotton until Sunday afternoon. It was really good and I ate way much of it. I'm glad that there were lots of people here or I'd really be crippled.
ReplyDeleteI have 4 or 5 candy canes from last year. lol. I thought about beating them up and using them in hot chocolate.
ReplyDeleteI love that movie, Evan made pumpkin sheet cake for dad's party the other night, I was really good and didn't eat any of it. but the banana split ice cream cake was to die for ....lolol
ReplyDeleteMy intended just called. He's boarding the plane to Atlanta.
ReplyDeleteI assume you did eat that, Cathy.
ReplyDeleteYay. katherine. I know you're excited to see him.
wow! that is very cool
ReplyDeleteUm, heck ya I ate the ice cream...lol
ReplyDeleteI didn't intend to eat a couple of pieces, but there it was left over and lonely. and then tonight, the coffee needed company. but it's all gone now.
ReplyDeleteyeah, that is how I am feeling about these good and plenties...once they are gone...yay!
ReplyDeleteit's a duty to 'good'dom. you're just being noble.
ReplyDeleteyou know me so well!!! lol
ReplyDeleteI am looking forward to alfredo pizza though....
oh yeah. and, and,
ReplyDeleteand I figure maybe I will get into some healthy stuff while I am there...lol...with some yummy, bad snacks...lolol
ReplyDeleteThat does sound good!
ReplyDeleteoh yeah!
ReplyDeleteDante asked me if we could start to pack already...he is excited.
ReplyDeleteIf you weren't having company, Katherine, we'd plan a girls night out!!
ReplyDeleteI am excited as well and thanks to the kids, all the Christmas stuff is out of the back bedroom. It's coming up. Yay.
well my back has kinda given into the warm blankie and my eyes are getting heavy.
When will you be there?
ReplyDeletethe week of the 25th.
ReplyDeleteDante is excited about sleeping in your house as well..lol...I hope your back feels better AD...and that you get a little rest!
ReplyDeleteAh - simon will be here for 14 days - to the 27th.
ReplyDeleteI am going to stay for a week or so if I don't drive AD crazy...lol. visit some friends on the way home or the way there.
ReplyDeletelove you guys. going to go sleep now.
ReplyDeletenight ad...love you much
ReplyDeletenight Kathy, have fun, lots of it the next couple of weeks!
ReplyDeleteWhy am I laughing about that? Oh, I need to go wash out my brain. On a more serious note - I've been including South American Civilizations in my son's course work for ancient history because you're right. There's a lot there.
ReplyDeleteyes, they were advanced in some ways but i don't think i would follow them in their prophetic or basic conclusion. and they buried their family 'in' their houses. how not cool is that?
ReplyDeleteTam, if you have a library that loans dvds you might look for the Lost Kingdom of the Maya. It's a National Geographic video and very informative if you are studying Central American civilizations. I bought it to teach culture. We had a lot of Central Americans who came here to work in the lower income factories and I really didn't know their culture very well. I bought several, but only saved a few. I actually found a lot of resource at the library on art and culture.
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