June 9, 2008
three! hours! sleep!
I went today to get a second set of passport photos, because apparently a passport isn’t enough to get me into another country this summer; I also need a tourist visa. My passport photo makes me look like a drunk serial killer, while this photo only makes me look like a detoxing crack addict. Step up, I think!
I spent the whole afternoon wondering what Angelina Jolie’s passport photo looks like. Do you think she looks like crap, too? My friend Angie said, “She probably looks like a real person. I mean, it would be weird to go for a passport photo in full makeup.”
“Yeah,” I said, “but it might have been nice if I had actually PUT some makeup on. Any makeup. At all. And maybe brushed my hair. You know.”
“Yes,” she said, “that would have been good.”
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Charlie and I played a game today: I laid on Henry’s bed, struggling not to fall asleep, while he snuck in and out of the room, asking me “AM I HERE NOW?” and every time I opened my eyes to see where he was, he collapsed in laughter and yelled, “YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO OPEN YOUR EYES!”
I don’t know what the point was, but it was fun.
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Henry: Mom, I have a weird red spot on my knee.
Me: Let’s see, buddy. Where is it?
Henry: Right here, in my knee pit.
Me: Oh of course.
This followed a conversation where the boys took turns smelling Charlie’s feet and trying to convince me that I should do the same. I declined.
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Recently I’ve had several really lovely emails from people who read this blog, about books and graduate school and kids and I don’t know what all. And also recently I realized that when I read emails from my phone and delete them from the phone, they are PERMANENTLY DELETED and I cannot ever respond to them or even find them again.
Technology is not my friend.
If you have emailed me, thank you so very much — I’m not ignoring you I am just too stoopid to make my gadgets really work for me. I think I have the phone all figured out now, and I would love to hear from you again. From now on, I am only deleting crazy ParentDish comments. Promise.
Now who wants to smell Charlie’s feet?
Posted by Susan @ 9:16 pm • Henry&Charlie
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June 9th, 2008 at 10:01 pm, Jenn @ Juggling Life Says:
I don’t think that even with no makeup and after a night of no sleep and heavy drinking Angelina would look like a regular person.
June 9th, 2008 at 10:04 pm, standing still Says:
Boy feet? Um. I’ll pass. But, thanks for the offer. Mighty Oklahoma kind of yuh.
June 9th, 2008 at 10:12 pm, Jenny Says:
Yeah, that’s all well and good, but did YOU get to pull a splinter roughly the size of a two by four from a festering wound in one of the boys’ feet today?
Cause if not then you had a GREAT day.
gag.
June 9th, 2008 at 10:48 pm, jenB Says:
I am 50 pounds heavier in my passport photo than my Visa photo. I hope the red menace doesn’t detain me. KIDDING! hopefully.
June 9th, 2008 at 10:49 pm, All Adither Says:
Angelina is not real. She’s a fabrication of US, People and In Touch. As are all her children. And maybe even Brad Pitt.
June 9th, 2008 at 11:49 pm, Maureen Says:
Hmmmm….I wonder if your son’s knee pit is akin to my son’s “leg elbow”???
June 10th, 2008 at 2:03 am, Missy Says:
I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to have a passport photo that actually looks good. Lucky for me, mine looks like crap.
June 10th, 2008 at 6:19 am, Rebecca Says:
It’s a mystery to me too, but my boys think feet smelling is hilarious!
June 10th, 2008 at 7:34 am, blackbird Says:
In my house we have knee pits and elbow pits.
June 10th, 2008 at 8:06 am, Sue Says:
I love games where you get to lay on a bed and close your eyes! Feet smelling games, not so much.
Hope the whole work/home/summer balance thing is evening out.
June 10th, 2008 at 8:24 am, Busy Mom Says:
That will be a lot of deleting, then.
June 10th, 2008 at 12:01 pm, Velma Says:
I bet Charlie’s feet smell like over-ripe peaches, and grass, and bubble gum. Kind of like what I imagine unicorn vomit would smell like.
Not that I spend a lot of time wondering what unicorn vomit would smell like, O.K.? ‘Cause I don’t spent a LOT of time thinking about it, O.K.?
June 10th, 2008 at 12:24 pm, kat Says:
ha! knee pits and smelling feet. that’s what little boys are made of.
June 10th, 2008 at 8:23 pm, Anna Says:
OK…I didn’t know you wrote for ParentDish so I just clicked over to start reading…ummmm…your commenters over there? THEY ARE CRAZY! How do you put up with all that? I saw a couple of perfectly normal responses…but they were few and far between the CRAZIES. Ugh!
June 11th, 2008 at 5:00 pm, Nina Says:
knee pit! too cute!
And yay for purty iPhones (boo for permanent deleting!)
June 15th, 2008 at 11:39 pm, Kim (Kian) Says:
My passport photo makes me look like I have two black eyes. And a very shiny forehead.
Joy.