Wednesday, October 31, 2007
As my daughter goes out tonight...
dressed as a (duh) princess, a client pointed me to this interesting article:What’s Wrong With Cinderella?
Interesting, huh?
Monday, October 29, 2007
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
This morning....
as we were leaving for the school bus, Rora and I had this conversation."Okay Mom, pretend you're a grown-up."
"I AM a grown-up!"
"No, I mean a REAL grown-up!"
Sigh.
Anyway, she took the hamster death fairly well, wanted to see the body, but has no desire to be involved with burying him. Go figure. And she has already picked out a couple of new hamsters, which I guess will be available in a month (if they will hold them for us).
So all's well that ends well.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Superman is dead...
No, not THAT Superman.
Last night, my daughter's beloved hamster Clark Kent died peacefully in his sleep. He lived a short, and possibly unfulfilled life (he was a hamster for Pete's sake- highlight of his day was the exercise wheel and dinner, how fun could that be?), but he will be missed.
Now I have to figure out whether to tell her, and hold a funeral (the likely option), or find a replacement for him. Sigh.
I'm prepping the ice cream and hugs now.
Starting off the day...
so this morning I'm sitting at the bus stop along with a gaggle of kids and a couple of other moms and grandmoms from the neighborhood, when this good ole by comes screeching around the corner in his truck (duh- what did you expect me to say- his mini-cooper?), runs the stop sign right in front of us, tears down the street and then begins yelling at this other dude about his dog.Me, I memorize his license plate, just in case.
Some of the other women have gathered the kids in, just to make sure.
My friend D, she screams at the top of her lungs, "You don't mother-fucking run a stop sign in front of a bus stop you moron!" (I'm paraphrasing, but you get my drift)
So the two dudes scream at each other for a while, then our good ole boy drives around a time or two just to make sure the other guy doesn't think he's backing down, and then he pulls up near us.
He gets out, and in the most humble of all tones (he actually bowed some), apologizes for running the sign, went on about his sweet dogs for a while, the funeral he had to get to, that the other guy threatened to shoot him, whatever.
D let him off with a warning.
The funny thing? He was wearing a shirt that said, "I live in my own little world, but it's okay, they know me there".
So true.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Well, we face to the north and, real sudden like, turn left.
And that's how you get to Kentucky.If you know the quote, good for you- its one of my favorite movies (though not one of my favorite books) with one of my favorite actors. Besides, that dude is hot.
Anyway.
Here are my thoughts on Kentucky:
The drive was a lot more pleasant than I thought it would be- long winding roads with a 70 mile per hour speed limit most of the way. You can easily go 90 without noticing. It still took us 12 hours (should have been 8), but we stopped a lot.
When you are traveling with a 6 week old and a 5 year old, you stop. A lot.
We saw the two tallest porn signs I ever did see. Guess they want to make sure they can be seen over those mountains.
Right next to one of those signs was Tudor's Biscuit World. I wasn't surprised.
We also saw the following:
- Billy Bob's Pizza Wonderland (no, we did NOT stop)
- Marshall University (I actually had no idea it was in West Virginia- I thought it was in the Carolinas or Tennessee).
- A license plate that said "ICE 900". I had to wonder if it was a deliberate reference or just a happy coincidence. Its always nice to be reminded of Vonnegut though.
- The Nitro Antique District (yup, Nitro is a town).
- We never did see any blue people- but I was looking.
- Transylvania University (and Kev had to wonder if their mascot was the trannies- bad Kev).
We also noticed that when Clio is really upset, she looks like her head might explode like a giant blood blister. Would be messy.
And I took roughly 700 pics during the weekend, mostly of the Footy games.
Kev's team (the BCW Eagles) won the first two games decisively, then lost to Denver (these guys won the championship). They were one of the only teams to score more than once on Denver though- those guys were on a different level.
It didn't help that Kevin was sick all weekend either.
And Rora was so good the entire weekend, we let her choose the restaurant both nights- so, we ate at her new favorite restaurant, California Pizza Kitchen both nights. Could have been worse.
And the Hyatt Place Hotel was really nice- I would recommend them to anyone.
Okay, that's all the notes say. If I remember anything else, I'll let you know!
