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March 02, 2007

Friday Shuffle - The Dotty Edition

You knew this was bound to happen sooner or later. Dots and a shuffle. I'm just that uninspired.

• Why why why did I allow Clara Jane to watch The Wonder Pets? She's obsessed, and I'm going to ram stalks of celery into my ears until I hit gray matter if I get that goddamn, "What's gonna work? Teamwork!" song stuck in my head one more time.
• I just love it when my real estate agent calls as I'm putting Clara Jane down for a nap to tell me someone wants to look at the house in an hour or two. Brief nap, frantic house-cleaning, fleeing the house, only to return in time to see the showing agent (not our agent) and the potential buyers drive up, stop, drive to the end of the street, confer, and leave, never to return. They probably couldn't find the house due to the massive brush pile that, we learned today, won't be picked up for another two or three weeks, even though we were told it would be picked up this past week. I'm going to hurt someone badly, and soon.
• The people scheduled to view the house tomorrow better at least get out of their fucking car.
• How am I liking the thrice-daily blood sugar testing? Not even a little, that's how much. The good news, though, is that in two days of testing, my levels have been damn near perfect. I even tested it last night by having a total crap dinner that included white rice in fried form, something I never eat. That was my highest blood sugar reading, and it was still within a perfectly normal, healthy range.
• Yeah, cranky. That's me. But this will be a good weekend. It will. B. and the neighbors are going to do stupid yard tricks with a woodchipper. In order to prevent me from going all Fargo and shoving my neighbor - who I'm pretty sure has the hots for B. - into the chipper, Clara Jane and I will be joining Beqi in a fabric-shopping frenzy near my soon-to-be stomping grounds. I won't be getting anything fancy, thanks to my yarn binge yesterday; just some ribbon and plain lining fabric to turn some of my t-shirts into tote bags. I think the Johnny Cash t-shirt I wore when I was pregnant will make a lovely knitting bag, or perhaps an earth-friendly grocery bag.
• Sunday, we get to pay a visit to our future house. I plan to take a bunch of pictures, so prepare yourselves.
• Clara Jane has reached the time in her life where she questions everything. As in, she must ask a question every 20 seconds or she'll die!!! The nature of the questions? "What are you doing? What's that? Why? What are you doing? Where are we? Why are we here? What color are God's eyes?" Okay, those last few are a little untrue.
• She's also discovered lying. When I tossed a package of baby portabella mushrooms into our cart today, she said, "I can't eat mushrooms. They make me sick." Child has never in her entire life gotten sick from a mushroom. Still, I can respect her intentions. I hated mushrooms with a fervor usually reserved for things like Fascism and Neil Diamond. Something happened when I was pregnant, and now I like them. Go figure. Before, though, I often thought that it would be much easier to tell people I'm allergic to mushrooms, instead of having to defend my distaste. At least my kid's got the guts to do what I considered doing for most of my life.
• Yeah, I'm going to shuffle, but I'm too tired and lazy to come up with a snappy pun.

  1. Bring the Family - John Hiatt
  2. The Wurlitzer Prize - Waylon Jennings
  3. UFOs, Big Rigs, and BBQ - Mojo Nixon
  4. Free Fallin' - Tom Petty
  5. This Old Heart of Mine - The Isley Brothers
  6. Stupidly Happy - XTC
  7. Broken Ship - Immaculate Machine
  8. Radiation Vibe - Fountains of Wayne
  9. The Stairs - INXS
  10. Fall on Me - REM

  Posted by Robin at March 2, 2007 08:12 PM

  Comments

  It could be worse: "Baby Chimp! Take. The banana. Out of your ear!"

  Love the Cash photo.

  Posted by: Eden at March 2, 2007 09:52 PM

  Or you could have a husband who hears a phone ring and must declare "the phone...the phone is ringing....the phone.. we'll be right there...there's an octopus in trouble........"
  

  Posted by: christine at March 2, 2007 10:00 PM

  Oh my gosh. That Wonder Pets song just completely gets stuck in one's head when you hear it. It's maddening.

  The 20000 questions thing is pretty maddening too. My older daughter's been in that phase for, oh, about 2 years now. ;-)

  Posted by: Nancy at March 3, 2007 08:15 AM

  Just wait till she wants her own Lenny in her home as a pet, then you're really gonna want to stick that celery stick into your ears. Cause ya know her hamster is suppose to be the same as the Wonder Pets. Let me know if she tries to make the dogs fly too. That should be intresting.

  Posted by: Cassie at March 3, 2007 10:12 AM

  Helllloooo, if you're fabric shopping on the east side, call me! I'm the fabric coupon queen :)

  Posted by: Jill at March 3, 2007 10:38 AM

  I love the bag-from-tshirt idea. I wish I had a sewing machine because I have some t-shirt that I've never worn that I'd like turned into a bag.

  My MIL has a sewing friend. I wonder...

  This Old Heart Of Mine - one of my all time favorites.

  Posted by: Dixie at March 3, 2007 03:25 PM

  They had Dr. Suess week at school and when her teacher made green eggs and ham for a fun surprise, Bean told the teacher she was allergic. More like just picky.

  Posted by: liz at March 4, 2007 01:50 PM

  Liz: I'd have been with Bean on the green eggs and ham thing. I once stupidly bought my daughter purple ketchup though because she loves purple and said she wanted it. She would NOT use it.

  The Johnny Cash picture would make a lovely bag. I could use it myself. Love that Waylon is in the mix.

  Posted by: Katya at March 4, 2007 03:34 PM