Musings from Suburbia on a variety of everyday topics. I have realized that MANY times, it is "just me", but I always hold out hope that there are others out there who occasionally see things as I do.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Welcome home!
When I came back downstairs, I made some further comments to my son about the gifts he had left. He didn't say too much of anything at first, but then suddenly mentioned that he didn't think he'd pooped. I expressed some concern over his uncertainty. I questioned how he thought that could happen without his noticing. My initial glimpse had shown that the "moist butt wipes" had been used (tmi...I know, but relevant to the tale). Since the boy is not usually a fan of those, I inquired further...nope, wasn't him. "Um, but you did use the bathroom? And didn't notice...?" Yikes!
So the culprit was someone who had left AFTER me this morning, and it really doesn't matter who. I mean shit happens, right? Plus, I have already learned that the other adult who lives here is not a magician with a toilet plunger!
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
If you give a mom a minute...
Case in point, today I was given five minutes after taking a shower, and I decided that the weather was conducive to letting some fresh air in the place, so I walked into my daughter's room, but the floor was messy...so, I picked it up, but realized the bed wasn't made...so, I went to make it, but the sheets probably weren't very fresh...so, I changed them, but saw across the hall that a similar situation was brewing in the boy's room...so, I changed his sheets too, but when I went to put something in the hamper I noticed that their bathroom was a disaster...so I cleaned it, but somebody needed a new toothbrush...so I went to look for one, but then it looked like it might rain soon...so I thought I should go enjoy some fresh air before that happened, but then the candy on the kitchen counter called me...so, I had some, but then noticed some ads that I had been meaning to put in a blog post...so I am.............................(and for this reason my hair did not get dried in a timely fashion, leaving it to its own ways of poor styling).
So now you can wallpaper your underwear every month? Is that supposed to distract one from cramps? I would like to know what kind of people were in the focus group that green-lighted this concept. Will diapers be going this route soon as well? Will a cute design make poopy diapers less offensive?!
This is what my friend saw, out in plain sight, when she used the bathroom at her sister's house. The kicker is that it was during Easter dinner, so the company was most surely not unexpected. Kind of makes me wonder what she put away before guests came. Maybe she was just trying to spare anyone the embarrassment of having to ask to borrow some anti-itch cream, by leaving it handy for anyone. That tube specifically says that it is "feminine", so I guess male visitors that day were sadly out of luck.
Just trying to keep one step ahead of the delusional, but happy, mob!
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
whoops...
Bring Tuesday back in general, as I seem to have missed it! We are caught in that limbo vacation-land mindset of not really knowing the time or day. We went away for the weekend, but didn't do that in the usual time frame (left home on Sunday), so all hope is gone of getting myself on track. The best I can do at this point is to show up for work when I am expected, which is luckily at the same time for the next three days! Well, this discussion of my lost sense of calendar skills is not terribly random nor out of the ordinary at all, so moving on...
* I am getting agitated by the items on my to-do list this week. There are not enough bonus items that can be quickly crossed off. In fact, most of them I need to actually leave the house for!
* Part of the point of a part time job came from my realization that my children don't really need me around in their faces as much anymore. So, why is it so hard for me to remove myself from their line of sight when I thought I had already accepted that change?
* I sucked up something odd when I was vacuuming under the bed at someone else's house. (Well that was probably a given, as I can't remember the last time I graced the underside of my own bed with a vacuum cleaner hose.) It looked vaguely reminiscent of some wacko exercise strap system from the seventies at first. Then, I thought it was a velcro leash type of arrangement to keep the bed owner's cat tethered to the bed...oops, but they were on all four "legs" of the bed...and there was only one cat. I just hope someone appreciated that the dust bunnies got removed from the restraints. I must make a note to self, and cleaning customers, that I do not remove things like mice from traps, nor humans from restraints.
I really don't know where to go from there, and since it isn't actually Tuesday where I am anymore, I guess I'll just mosey along.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Fairly random
and now, let the randomness begin...
I know some prankster just messed with the letters, but it cracked me (and my inner child) right up. No wonder the egg sandwich is so expensive...I wonder what size they come in?
*I believe that spell check has some value in the world, but what is the deal with the autocorrect? It changed "pilates", in the last paragraph, to "oilseed". Um, that is not even remotely close to where I was headed!
*Why did a non-coffee drinking and no caffeine kind of gal like myself think it would be a good idea to get a part time job in a coffee shop? Maybe it was the same thought process that landed my borderline lactose and high fat content issues self to work at an ice cream stand for twenty summers. Possibly the same fuzzy logic that pointed my germophobe body to work in a preschool for three years? Oh, and is that me out cleaning other people's houses, when the thought of even locating my dust rag at home makes me want to weep? And when I said "sure, I'm flexible as far as when I work"' should I have accounted for the fact that I fall asleep on the couch just after ten o'clock every night? It also might have been a good idea to not only consider what I could do, as far as a schedule was concerned, but perhaps, also what I actually wanted to do. The point here being that this little something for me that I thought might bring some sanity to my life...is driving me insane. Oops. I do have a sneaking suspicion though that there could be some blogs in the making amidst the coffee grounds.
*I was concerned because the were other kids outside playing and my daughter had no interest in joining them. She was having a grand time playing some game on the computer when I left to go out to walk the dog. During my walk, I heard the girls outside yelling for people to come see the dead mouse they'd found in a garage. I was no longer worried about my daughter's choice that day.
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011
It's Wednesday...all day long!
Saturday, April 2, 2011
(almost) speechless...
Friday, April 1, 2011
Hair we are again!
When my son was much younger, any disputes about when he would get his hair cut were in direct correlation to how much fun he was having with whatever toys he was playing with at home. We then had to incorporate which neighbor kids were playing outside into our plans. At some point a shift was made to him actually caring about the length of the hair itself. The big decision as to whether or not to flip the front up became a quandary of the past. His friends were split pretty much down the middle into long hair and very short "Princeton" clipper cut kids.
Every time my son told me he thought he’d let his hair grow out, I would try to be supportive and inquire as to what style his goal was. He never had one. No long haired boy we knew, nor picture we saw was the look he was aiming for. I knew this was not a battle worth fighting. It just started to seem like right after every holiday, when I was pretending to be used to the unkempt look of our family photos, he would decide to get a haircut. One time I did plan ahead and sent him into the bathroom with a shorter haired picture of himself. I simply asked him to look in the mirror, and to tell me which look he liked better. The forest was groomed the next day. Of course, six weeks later we were at a crossroads again.
At the beginning of this past summer, we decided once and for all to let the mane grow. I told him there was no turning back because he would have a wicked tan line if he tried to change his mind after a two week beach vacation. We got past the cowlicks standing at attention like two horns above his forehead every morning. We also slowly crawled past the just plain overdue for a haircut phase. Acceptance was very quickly followed by some sort of admiration for the new look.
We went for a fall hike at a local waterfall, which was really just another one of my ploys to try to get the kids to let me take some pictures of them, (and to leave the electronic distractions behind). There was some skepticism at first, but we had an amazing time. My son wanted a series of shots of himself as he posed like the Thinker. I was game for anything since he was willing to let the lens capture him. As I kept clicking the shutter, I caught laughter, which is very often seen and heard, but harder to catch...to keep. When I got home and loaded up the images on to the computer, I was struck by this happy looking, wild haired teenager. I felt like I was falling in love with this child, and all of the angst that can come with him, all over again.
Once I stopped longing for the little boy with the short haircut, I realized that this new style, or sometimes apparent lack of one, was just so fitting for the teen he had become. Sometimes he walks by with his face lit up and his whole being is pulled together. Other times, when he sulks and that hair falls just slightly into his eyes, he has a place to hide. Every time I turn around, I am surrounded by photos of the clipper cut boy, and I think “that is so not him anymore”. He is unpredictable with an occasional untamable cowlick. He is undecided with which way his part should go. He is vibrant as he shakes the whole darn mess up. When he is frustrated, he has something to grab onto. Sometimes, when he’s feeling wild, he puts his flap hat over the whole thing and runs outside.
Two weeks ago, he declared that he was going to get his hair cut “back to the Princeton”. I stifled a gasp and reminded myself that hair was not a battle worth fighting anymore. I asked if he was sure, and he mentioned that he didn't like how it was falling in his eyes. I suggested just a shorter haircut, leaving the door open to get the clippers out at a later appointment. He was not interested. He hasn't changed his mind in the two weeks since his initial proclamation. He is showing much more conviction that I ever have about any hairstyle I've considered. No, hair is not a battle worth fighting...not out loud anyways. His appointment is tomorrow morning............