September 28, 2007

you will probably want to wash your hands after you read this

There are 39 kids in Charlie’s preschool program; since Wednesday, 23 of them — and two of the three teachers — have come down with stomach flu.

Charlie’s teacher said, “This has to be some kind of record.”

Henry has it today.  I’m sure I will have it soon.  Charlie all better but is riding the wave of constant TV viewing that comes from having a sick sibling.

That’s all I’ve got.  Now I have to go watch more Scooby Doo with my kids and not think about how horrific it’s going to be when I start throwing up.

You’re welcome!

September 26, 2007

it’s going to get worse before I get better

So right after I said, oh there’s nothing going on here today? Remember that? Yeah.

All hell broke loose.

I went to the furniture store, because nothing inspires you to buy a damn sofa already like hiring an interior decorator (if only because you realize that for $60.00 an hour, you can pick out your own damn sofa). I sat on sofas, I choose fabric, I conned the VERY NICE sales associate into making me a computer mock up of said sofa with the EXACT arms and legs and fabric I want on it. I promised — nay, SWORE! — that I would send Wade back to sit on the sofa THIS VERY WEEKEND so we could order the damn thing already and get on with our lives.

I felt good. Because look at me, on death’s door, but still choosing upholstery fabric! Yay me!

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my handbag is from J. Crew, thanks for asking

I’m sick; I either have ebola or tuberculosis. Or maybe it’s just a head cold. Either way, I feel like crap and I really just want to crawl back into bed. Instead, I think I’m going to go shop for a sofa. Because maybe furniture shopping is easier when your head feels like it’s full of cotton wool.

Speaking of cotton wool, a post I wrote for ParentDish about Zahara Jolie-Pitt’s couture handbag has gotten over 120,000 hits today. Which is even more remarkable when I tell you that I probably spent less than ten minutes on the whole post, and most of that was trying to get the damn picture properly sized. When I told Chris about this, she said, “Don’t people have anything better to do?” I assume she meant the hundred thousand people reading the post and leaving smart comments like “WHO CARES?!?” over and over again, not me. Although I do have to admit that I ALSO read an article about what the tooth fairy brings Maddox (fifty dollars per tooth). But I drew the line at writing about that, because I have my limit. Also because I have a head full of cotton wool.

That’s pretty much it here, which explains why THIS site doesn’t get 120,000 hits a day. Coming tomorrow: a Very Smart Book Review of The Splendor Of Silence, by Indu Sundaresan. I’ll bet 120,000 people are DYING to read that.