When you have two kids in two different classrooms, you are exposed to twice as many germs. It has been one sickness after another here and I have finally fallen victim. So I’m sitting on the couch with the laptop right now and moaning like a big baby. Thankfully no one else is home to suffer through my whining. I promise I will send out those recipes as soon as I get my sorry ass up and scan them in.
In honor of NaNooNaNooBlowMe, I thought I would make a couple of lists today.
Things That Make Me Frown:
- Anyone who thinks that prolly is the correct way to say and spell probably
- Drivers who make a right turn from the middle lane (why do they always turn at 1 mph?)
- Drivers who don’t move into the intersection to make a left turn
- Drivers who suddenly stop in the middle of the road because they think they are the only people on the road (hmmm… road rage much?)
- People who don’t know the true meaning of the word literally, and thus use it more often than they should
- My glasses that broke after SIX MONTHS and the asshat shop from where I bought them
- Our soon-to-be-extinct HD DVD player
- This GD clogged block of bricks posing as my head right now
- The medication I’m on that makes me hungry all day, all night
Things That Make Me Smile:
- My Dad’s benign cyst!
- Scramble (Facebook)
- Making G laugh with my groaning and pathetic whining
- Our beautiful, obnoxiously-large TV
- The return of The Office, 30 Rock, and the rest of the non-reality shows
- Food
- Nyquil
- The Hello Kitty face that Bean drew
- Buddy’s insane attention to detail on car makes and models
- Gems like these:
Buddy: “I have to brush my teeth, Dad. They’re all tangled.”
Bean, with a stuffy nose: “My stuff is all nosey.”
My stuff is all nosey too right now.
So, what’s making you frown/smile lately? Share, commiserate, and make me smile between my moaning, please.
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Smile:
Moving forward with the surrogacy
Spring IS coming, sometime
My Mom’s spirit & spunk
HH’s spoils of me
Daelyn’s curls
The man now says mommy, repeatedly
Frown:
It’s still F-ing winter
The man has explosive ass
Daelyn is coughing
Well, new posts from Halfmama make me smile. Yeah, yeah, just call me the cheezmeister.
Here are my top two:
Smile:
Phone calls from my husband in Korea
Frown:
6 inches of fresh new snow this morning (Did I not ask the big guy to cut. that. out.? Sheesh.)
Thank goodness you cleared that up - I assumed that’s what ‘prolly’ probably meant but was too afraid to ask lest I seem ignorant.
Things that do and would make me smile:
To be able to see you ‘literally’ groan and whine.
Any time spent with LN.
A giant cup of soy latte on my desk right now.
Things that make me frown:
Well, we all know WHAT and WHO.
Not being able to spend time with LN.
Frown:
1. Stupid weight
2. Getting volunteered by Michael to make food for get-togethers and clean up.
3. Getting sick
4. Perfectly capable patients who think they can’t do anything for themselves
5. My hair is getting too long, making me look like an escapee from a Dead concert, but I have no idea what to do with it. I live in a perpetual ponytail.
6. Stupidly tenacious weeds in my yard
7. Getting up way too early to get ready for a crazy stupid day of work
8. Crazy stupid days at work
9. PN. No that doesn’t make me frown. He makes me get all Hulk mad. Swan Smash!
10. AZ summers. Swan sweat. And sweat. And sweat.
Smiles:
1. Arizona spring weather(68 degrees and sunny with a light breeze. BOO YA!)
2. Shopping(Costco, Safeway, Korean grocery stores)
3. An upcoming trip to hang out with lil T(oh yeah, and Carol)
4. Watching patients get better
5. Teasing the hell out of the doctors
6. Michael(when he’s NOT volunteering me for stuff)
7. Gettin’ all crafty w/my friends- need to squeeze in a beading class before Michael’s parents come into town today. Yikes!
8. Hunting through used bookstores for deals and hard to find schtuffs.
9. Sleeping in(if this was an Olympic event, I’d be a gold medalist)
10. My work schedule
11. The kray ji things kids say and spell.
Janet Planet -
Just found your new website. Nice work. You forgot to add to your list the people who don’t CANCEL THEIR SIGNALS when they switch lanes. Especially on Northbound Lake Shore Drive when they’re signaling left and they’re already in the LEFT LANE. HELLO. It made me nuts.
Hope all is well in Chicago. Literally.
Leah
these things prolly make me frown:
1. my use of prolly
2. the tween at a 5 year old’s bday party over the weekend who was on her cell phone the whole time
3. you being sick
these things li’ly (the “prolly”ized way of saying literally) make me smile:
1. my fat son
2. my sexy new leather top desk that i’m still in love with after a month
3. you getting better
I hate prolly, too. And other shortened words, other than “cuz.” I like “cuz.”
Frowns: =
* dealing with the fucktarded public school admissions process in SF.
* the size of my ass.
* stupid people.
Smiles =
* My SIL and her nosey stuff.
* My niece and nephew and the prospect of spending our summer vacation together. hint hint.
* The new ring that the Handy Man bought me for our 5th wedding anniversary. (Well…I picked it out, but it was his idea!)
* Voting for President and having my candidate actually win!