February 2012
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El Kidasaur is limping around the house, because the injection site in his thigh is getting sore. He keeps holding his leg and sighing pitifully, which is seriously too cute.
We are therefore sitting on the couch together, playing video games. He plays A Dog’s Life until he gets bored, then I play Oblivion for a while. Then he goes back to his dog game… He’s way better about...
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I do not, right now, feel like walking a mile to the kid’s new school, in the rain, to finish enrolling him. It can wait until I have my car, right?
We’re literally right on the border of the school catchment area; if we lived on the other side of the street, he’d be in a different school. We’re pretty far from his school. Well, pretty far on little five year old just got...
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“Culture of life.”
Fuck yooooooooouuuuuuuu.
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El Kidasaur survived a whole host of needles in the leg, followed by a mile long hike to the train station in under fifteen minutes. Look, that is practically running when you are five.
I rewarded his bravery and valor with a cheeseburger, from which he took one bite before mooching half my turkey hoagie.
Fucking traffic! Fucking red light on belmont! fucking rain! Fuck a fucking I have places to be why is everyone in my way!
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I’m supposed to be doing a fighters guild quest, to catch the thieves who have been breaking into this guy’s store. This involves a whole lot of standing around, though, so I got bored and broke into all his locked chests and stole everything of value. The best part is, if anyone gets curious, I can blame it all on the dead thieves, right?
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Coming home from the dentist and letting my kid lick the homemade vanilla buttercream right out of the bowl? Probably not a prime Mother of the Year move.
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He was soooooo good at the dentist, the dental assistant was sooooooo good with him, his little teeth are (still) perfect, and the copay was half of what I was quoted over the phone, so I am going to count this as a win and let the victory carry me over to the ped appt at the buttcrack of 9 AM tomorrow (shut up, it really is on the other side of town, taking the busiest highways in town, during...
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Things that I learned from reading my neighborhood newspaper today:
some Dude shot some Other Dude in the face, repeatedly, when Other Dude went to complain about Dude’s dogs pooping on his lawn. On Valentine’s Day. While Other Dude’s wife, 14 year old daughter, and six week old baby were in the house, to hear the murder.
Michelle Obama has no business pushing nutrition on the...
There’s a dog who lives in a house across the driveway, and this dog spends all of her time at an upstairs window, looking out with what I think is an expression of longing, and barking at things.
My kid is out back carrying on a conversation with this dog right now. “I am not a dog! You don’t need to bark at me. This is just a cup in my hands.”
I am laughing.
THIS IS WHY I WANTED TO SWITCH PEDIATRICIANS IN THE FIRST PLACE.
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And if I reschedule my kid at the old doctor office, they’re not going to be able to fit him in until APRIL.
What? Yesterday when I called, they could get him in there first thing on Friday. Today, they can’t see him for two months. I am confuse.
URGH.
Allllllllso… I may as well turn the heat off and open all the windows, no?
It’s a GORGEOUS spring day. Let’s never mind the fact that it’s February, and just enjoy the fact that it’s supposed to go up to the mid-60s this afternoon.
I can’t help but think that registering for kindergarten wouldn’t seem quite so difficult if I had a bit less cold medicine built up in my bloodstream… Look, objectively I realize that this is a very easy task. It’s just that my ability to achieve even the simplest of goals with a cheerful disposition is somewhat compromised at the moment.
This is now a Whining About Being Sick and Whining About Registration For Kindergarten blog, y’all.
And I have realized that I definitely need to reschedule the kid’s ped appointment, because there is no way I’m going to be on time for an appointment that is clear on the other side of town during rush hour when I only managed to drag myself out of bed today at the same time that his appointment is at, tomorrow.
That’s not happening.
I am really tired of shambling around like some sort of hacking, infectious flu zombie. Can I be better now? Because it’s been ten days, and I’m kind of over it. I don’t even know what this thing is. I don’t feel THAT sick, except it’s like I can’t think and can’t sleep and I’m so tired and everything is really hard and unless I down enough Nyquil...
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I took a trip to the bathroom, then returned to the basement to find that the dog had ignored the full pizza box, featuring three quarters of a pizza, 2/3 of a bag of fries, and half a cheesesteak, which was sitting within chow distance on the coffee table, in favor of grabbing the mostly empty bottle of ketchup, chewing the cap off, and licking the ketchup out of the top of the bottle.
Dog, that...
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The best part of Oblivion so far, the very best part, is that you can make your little spotted pony run up the side of a mountain that a goat would probably find impossible. It’s like a 75 degree angle and the pony is like, “Noooooooo,” and then it goes up anyway.
Do you think if I take and sell all of the Blades’ katanas, that it would negatively impact the storyline...
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Switching to a new pediatrician is obviously not going to work out for right now. So, at least for right now, I will stick with the old one that is not a pediatrician, that is on the other side of the city, and that always makes me wait an hour before being seen. Since the new ped will not vaccinate him without his previous vax records, I cannot find my copies of his vax records (wtf?), and the...
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I think my brain drugs ran out. They’re clearly defunct.
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Everything is very, very annoying today.
VERY.
VERY.
ANNOYING.
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The Philadelphia public school system website is seriously the worst. It looks like it is chock full of useful information, but then when you try to find that information, you find that it is full of things like this instead:
How do I register my child for Philadelphia Public School for the 2010-2011 School Year?
The following students need to register to attend Philadelphia public...
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Currently I am feeling vaguely resentful because I have to get up at the crack of a totally reasonable hour tomorrow, and put pants that are not made of fleece on my body, so that I can take the child for his vaccinations so that he can register for school.
And here is why I am crazy. He has not missed a single vaccination. He has received everything on schedule (except for HepB directly after...
Just when I think maybe you’re getting too big and grown up because you’re a big five year old who will be starting school in a few months, you go to the store and choose to buy the sweetest, pinkest elephant toy made for infants, because you like it best.
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First, we took El Kidasaur to the diner, where he ate pancakes and chicken nuggets for dinner. Then, we took him to the toy store, to allow him to pick out his own toy. He is five today. This is what he chose:
He wanted it more than anything else in the store.
Also, a hula hoop.
And I looked out the back window, and there is Best Friend Kid getting ready to heave a seven foot long, three inch thick branch right over the back fence and into our neighbor’s glass window.
Gentlemen, this course of action is ill-advised.
Well.
At least I didn’t spend the day playing Oblivion.
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These cupcakes smell kind of nasty.
I found some whole wheat pastry flour that smelled okay, but it smells kind of whole wheaty. Then I creamed the butter and sugar, but I guess the beater for my stand mixer had some sort of oxidation that turned the mix kind of grey. It tasted fine, so I baked them anyway. Now they have this metallic, dishwatery smell. Like whole wheat dishwater.
I am a good...
Did my husband seriously just text me and ask me if I made sure it was okay for this kid to come over to our house before I let him in?
No, I just kidnapped him and held him in our house for five hours, without telling anyone about it.
Really?
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blueandbluer replied to your post: I also have no all purpose flour.
That’s hardly possible! Didn’t you buy that buy the case while couponing?
I am very confused by this turn of events. I had a lot. Not as much as a case, because it’s perishable, but a lot.
I have plenty of whole wheat and bread flour and Wondra flour and corn meal and NO ALL PURPOSE.
I also have no all purpose flour.
Chocolate covered espresso beans take the pain away.
Apparently, in case of zombie apocalypse, I shall survive on a diet of gourmet chocolate and Gorton’s fish fillets.
Okay.
Since going to the supermarket would mean ending the playdate, and ending the playdate would make the kid sad, he agreed to homemade non-strawberry cupcakes for his birthday. However, all my unsalted butter is in deep freeze. This butter will not be soft for hours.
My lack of ability to plan for even the most foreseeable of consequences strikes again!
My god. I did not know that a combined 90...
Now they are riding scooters around and shooting each other with a bike pump.
My old dog is like, “Why is this happening to meeeeeeee?”
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The kid is having a birthday play date with his best friend, who is I guess home from school today.
I fear that neither his toys nor my house shall survive.
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Loading up this game save of Oblivion, probably not a great idea…
Birthday!
Birthday! Baby baby birthday! He’s five, and very excited about it. He woke up and said, “I don’t look five, do I?” Then he showed me how tall he was, now that he’s five, and how high he can jump, now that he’s five, and how much he likes tuna fish, now that he’s five, and asked me if everyone was going to come over to sing him happy birthday.
And we are...
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There are evil plants! Everyone keeps setting me on fire! I don’t belong here! I DON’T BELONG HEEEEEEERE!
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I am a terrible fighter (there has got to be something important I am missing about the fighting system, like leveling or buying better attacks or SOMETHING because I am TERRIBLE) so I feel like the plan of “send the stranger in to the hell dimension alone while we hold the barricade outside,” kind of sucks.
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Oh, okay. There’s a big fiery portal to a demon dimension spitting fireballs at people, after it has already leveled a whole city, and we’re going to run at it with swords drawn. That’s a great idea.