sleepovers

C had his end of summer sleepover at camp/daycare last night. They watched movies, ate pizza, drank juice & basically stayed up all night. He was a zombie today, we drove over to visit D's dad for a little birthday celebration, C did not make it out of the subdivision before he was fast asleep! We enjoyed the evening by using our dining card at an excellent Japanese restaurant Gohan Ya-very good sushi! I'm not sure why we had put off going there for so long but we will make up for it in short order, luckily it is really close to the house! C has moved onto his grandmothers for the rest of the weekend & we are off to a wedding this evening, an outdoor wedding, on a mostly rainy day. The weather seems to be clearing I hope it lasts!

clearly some tv exec was paying attention

to my pleas for new survivorman & no reservations, now I just need project runway to start again although I am enjoying the current season of top chef.

cursed fridge

yes the cursed fridge is at it again, freezer part working fine the refrigerator part not keeping cool just like in April when we had the thing fixed and then fixed again. If it had been an older appliance we would have just replaced it but now we have $$ plus several days of missed work in the damn thing to chuck it all in now-plus the thing is guaranteed for a year so I guess what another 9 months of dealing with silly crap, works just fine then boom out of nowhere warm milk. So tomorrow I wait to hear back from the repairman, schedule a day then sit and wait for hours for him to show up. I guess this also means I need to toss the contents again..

open toe shoes

it might be time to put them up there has been a RAT sighting at work
oh ick I just want to throw up....

rasslin

C is a big fan of the rasslin. He comes by it honestly there are fans & watchers on both sides of the family for generations in fact. His new thing is to play wrestling in his room, it involves taking his shirt off
" because the wrestlers do"
putting on long pants
" because some of them wear long pants"
then he ties a stuffed snake around his midsection as a stand in for the championship belt and proceeds to wrestle his build-a-bear-monkey who is the wrestler du jour. C is ALWAYS Rey Mysterio because that is his favorite wrestler.
Yesterday evening when I called him for dinner I got
"let me just finish my match mom"

neighborhoods

my brother & I were fortunate(as were my parents) when we were kids the neighborhood we grew up in was on a cul-de-sac and almost every house on the street had kids and we were all pretty much in similar age ranges so there was always someone to play with. Unfortunately C does not have that luxury. One girl lives next door & is the same age but she is away for the summer plus her parents seem to be busy people-at least busier than we are so she is frequently not home. We have an older couple right next door who get the occasional visit from their grand kids(a girl & boy), C plays with them, well mostly the boy who is maybe 3 years older but that is it on our street kid-wise the only other kids are jr high to high school older. There is another boy that was in C's kindergarten class that lives sort of behind us but there are fences & it involves dropping off & picking up or staying & being social which quite frankly is ok most of the time but not today..I hate arranging play dates & I hate calling them play dates it makes me feel like "one of those moms" you know the ones that arrange every aspect of their child's life.I wish I could just send him out the door & tell him to listen for the bell to come home-my parents have a dinner bell sort of thing or maybe it was for a boat, I don't know, but when they rang it you had to go one home. One boy ALWAYS thought it was the ice cream man-seriously for years he fell for it you could probably ring it today & that's what he would think it was!

14 hours in a car is just too long

and uncomfortable, no way around it. It always feels like we ruin the good relaxed vibe from vacationing at my parent's house by cramming the return trip into one day. The vacation was nice we didn't really do much of anything, skipped NYC, napped some, read a couple of books, C shadowed his grandfather the entire time, D watched bad movies on Dad's wide screen tv & re-stocked his scotch collection-it's cheaper in Danbury something to do with the sin taxes in the bible belt-saw Shrek 3 & spent a day with my aunt & uncle who drove up from Long Island for a visit. Back to work for me today-boy wasn't that fun. D took one more day as he had a few things to do including a matinee of Transformers. It has been deemed acceptable for C's viewing so I think as long as he behaves the rest of the week there will be a boys outing to see it this weekend. I think I am going to try and find a girly film of some sort or maybe a trip to the bookstore or maybe just catch up laundry & housework..

Welcome to New Jersey

John"wear your set belts kids" Corzine
governor

happy anniversary

to my mom & dad 41 years & counting!

Ct.

no exciting notes from the road other than we made it in one piece without any craziness or odd stories to add to our "trip file" we've had some odd experiences driving to see my folks. The very first time I guess 12 years ago we drove up so David could meet my family, went to family friend's wedding then mom & dad threw us an engagement party so he really met all of the family-well most of it. We decided to leave middle of the night -aah youth-wound up in West Va. at a Bob Evan's for a much need hearty breakfast & lots of coffee. Started back on our way 10 minutes down the road food poisoning hit Paula when the waves started on David decided to stop & get a hotel room, yes it was that bad, wound up sleeping it off & sharing the bathroom for a few hours at a Day's Inn. Trip continued on & was fun until late evening one night David got gout in his leg so bad that I had to take him to the local emergency room, got some medication ok we left to return to k-town the next day. D couldn't drive at all-which is a story unto itself suffice to say he pretty much does ALL driving in the family ALL the time. So I drove until Natural Bridge Va I was so tired I couldn't see straight & he was in so much pain we had to go to the emergency room in Lexington VA, where he got some sort of shot that made his mouth break out & it was a touristy area so I had trouble finding a Walgreen's to get his prescription filled, plus we weren't married so I was technically not next of kin plus I didn't have all medical info, cards etc. We finally made it back to Knoxville the next day where he promptly got some sort of upper-respiratory infection & was sick another week or so. And despite the road trip from hell we still got married..