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Super Bowl Party Stuff
Today’s search, “Super Bowl party stuff,” filled me with dread.
You see, I hate throwing parties. Even when my kids are involved, I grit my teeth and soldier on, preparing invites and pinning up balloons. I don’t know why I have this aversion to parties — maybe it’s the thought of a bunch of people converging on my happy place, or more likely, the thought of having to clean clean clean both before and after. Or maybe it’s buying a bunch of crap for a ton of money that will essentially just be tossed once things wrap up.
Anyway, months ago my husband mentioned wanting to do a Super Bowl party this year. I’ve thrown exactly one Super Bowl party in my life and it was not my favorite experience. However, I told him I’d make a deal with him: if his favorite team, the San Francisco 49ers, make it to the Super Bowl then we’ll have a party.
I thought for sure it was a long shot and I’d get to spend Super Bowl Sunday in my comfy sweats on my favorite spot on the couch. Right.
Anyway, today I bit the bullet and looked up Super Bowl party supplies. Do I go full-on fanatic and do the team-specific decor, or mellow it out a bit and do generic football decor for those guests who may still be feeling the sting of their own team not making it to the Big Game? I know everyone there won’t be 49ers fans, but they are the only reason we’re throwing the party in the first place, so I think we should rub it in a bit.
This could be all for naught, of course, and I could be breathing both a sigh of relief and defeat this Sunday evening (because I do really want them to win, I just don’t want to have to hold up my end of the deal!).
Why Do People Have Rocks on Their Roof?
My husband and I have started watching the new HBO show “Enlightened” with Laura Dern (no, this is not a sponsored post), and in the first episode when she goes to her mother’s cute mid-century California home there are rocks all over the roof. At first I couldn’t figure out what it was, but it dawned on me that I’d remembered seeing those as a kid on neighbors’ houses every now and then.
My husband and I tried to figure it out for a minute and even though he grew up in California he had no idea what it was for either. The house in the show had a regular-looking slanted roof, but one link I found refers to flat roofs where the rocks are part of a tar and gravel set-up with the rocks keeping the tar from flowing around the roof in the summer months. One Yahoo Answers said the rocks were part of a cheap fad, though they apparently helped with heat damage.
I also found some weird Arizona thing about large rocks being placed on the roof to supposedly control the heat but I don’t know if I buy that.