March 10, 2008
spring break, day one: what does she DO for $5,000 an hour?
Today is Day One of my kids’ break, which conveniently follows both daylight savings time AND a Sunday night kid birthday party. The boys are overtired and jacked up and truly a pleasure to be around. And then NEXT week, they will go to school for four days and be out on Friday, for Easter. That would be the SAME Friday when I am having my hair cut and colored. I will be taking them WITH ME, assuming we all survive this week of togetherness.
Kill me now.
I took Charlie to the birthday party last night, at Incredible Pizza (sort of a local Chuck E. Cheese, for those of you not from the OC, but without the weird lighting, you know, that makes you think you’re going to have an epileptic seizure the moment you walk through the door) and after bitching all day about how I didn’t waaaaaant to goooooo, we had a great time. Charlie ate two pieces of pizza and a big slice of cake, even though we had JUST come from dinner at my in-laws, where he ate chicken and peas and TWO rolls and a brownie with ICE CREAM.
He was totally cute and polite and pleasant and said thank you and sat nicely in his chair to eat and then bowled two games and came home without crying or complaining or throwing up (which was the real miracle after all that food). And then he was awake until TEN THIRTY last night, which longtime readers know is UNHEARD of in my house, where lights out is at 7:30 sharp.
Because I am a stick in the mud.
Today we saw the Veggie Tales pirate movie, which was cute and included a line lifted from Scarface, of all places, and a funny version of the B52’s Rock Lobster. Missing was the usual Biblical lesson, which left me explaining how the father character was God, see, and he wanted everyone to know that ANYONE can be a hero, see, and …
Then I shooed everyone outside to play with Daddy so I could see what was new on the Internet, and thank god for Twitter, which informed me both that the Pope has declared SEVEN new deadly sins and that Governor Eliot Spitzer had committed one of the old ones. Twitter is also where I learned that Heath Ledger had died which seems to be good evidence that social networking will replace real media one day.
Or something.
There is probably some larger point to be made about vegetables that teach moral values and governors who consort with call girls and the Pope’s declaration that “the excessive accumulation of wealth by a few” is a mortal sin but I’m too tired from the stupid time change to know what it is. Maybe someone at Twitter has an idea.
Tomorrow: bowling! Kill me now.
Posted by Susan @ 9:20 pm • just happy to be here
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March 10th, 2008 at 9:39 pm, Jenn @ Juggling Life Says:
I have seen those women at hair salons and nail places with their boys; I have wondered who those brave souls were. Good luck.
March 10th, 2008 at 9:42 pm, Rhi Says:
I LOVED the Veggie rendition of Rock Lobster. That is all.
March 10th, 2008 at 9:47 pm, She Likes Purple Says:
I worked at Chuck E Cheese in high school. I was employee of the month… the same month I got food poisoning from a slice of sausage pizza. Probably not a coiencidence.
March 10th, 2008 at 10:39 pm, jenB Says:
New sins?!?! wow, must go see if I have committed them all…
March 10th, 2008 at 11:03 pm, All Adither Says:
Your salon has DVD players, right? And pizza and ice cream and video games?
March 11th, 2008 at 5:28 am, Heather B. Says:
Wait, this is a family friendly website, correct? So I’m assuming your title is a rhetorical question or do you want real answers? Because you know I will…
March 11th, 2008 at 8:36 am, Emily Says:
I had to take my two year old with me to get my hair done. He watched Cars on the iPod. Thank you Steve Jobs.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:51 am, gorillabuns Says:
Get thee to a confessional.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:26 am, Anne Glamore Says:
Whatever she does for $5000 an hour, I’m pretty sure I do the same thing for free, but without long hair, fancy shoes and a negligee.
And I don’t think my AA’s would rate more than 1 diamond, if any.
March 11th, 2008 at 11:19 am, Aisha Says:
My dad keeps giggling over the governor thing. He finds politicians getting caught almost annoyingly amusing.
Petty bribery to distract the boys next week. Also, the movies on an iPod or somesuch sounds brilliant. Though the people working the desk will probably find them adorable and talk to them the entire time you are getting your hair done (this happened whenever my grandmother took me with her to get her hair done).
March 11th, 2008 at 3:40 pm, Kian Says:
So the boys get new crayons and workbooks just for haircut day!
I really want to see the Veggie Tales movie. *I* want to see it. LOL. Actually my kids do too, I’ve just been bad mommy and haven’t braved the theater with a baby, a toddler and the older kids sans Daddy.
March 11th, 2008 at 7:13 pm, Sue Says:
I don’t like some of these new deadly sins… they seem a little slanted to hit women. Can we make Never Putting the Toilet Paper on the Roller a deadly sin?
March 11th, 2008 at 8:02 pm, Deva Says:
Can we make “never wipes the drips off the toilet seat?” a new deadly sin?
March 13th, 2008 at 10:10 pm, liz Says:
I don’t do anything for an hour — I’d have a hard time with her job.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:13 pm, Jack's Raging Mommy Says:
I’m guessing that the Cathoic church doesn’t consider itself to be the few. Or are they not as rich as they used to be? I’m no longer married to a Catholic, I don’t know how all that works.