If You Need Me, I'll Be In Crazyland

I am a courteous driver.  I really am.  I know I grew up driving in Los Angeles.  And then dealt with endless traffic in San Diego.  But, I always wave a little thank you when someone lets me in or lets me go at a stop sign.  I don't hit other people's car with my door.  OK, I sometimes tailgate...but I most definitely do not honk my horn unless someone is close to plowing into me.

This was on my windshield this afternoon.   Really?  Someone was THAT agitated with me that they stopped, grabbed a napkin and a pen, and wrote out this nasty little note?  In my defense, I was not parked like someone on crack.  I might have been ever so slightly more to the right than the left but I was 100% well within my two little yellow lines called a parking stall.  Oh my God, I'm not new at this parking business and some unhappy jackass decided to irritate my day. 

On a different note: I forgot to turn my coffee on this morning.  I didn't realize it until this afternoon.  Shit.  How does that happen?

Josh came home today with his second quarter spelling test which he received 100% (which means he doesn't have to take any further spelling tests all quarter!) and was only one of four out of two hundred kids.  Awesome.  Made my day after the prick with the red pen.

Is it wrong to be jealous of Michelle Obama?  A hot husband who happens to now be the leader of the free world and she gets to live in the White House too.  I kinda want to live in the White House and have my children run around among photos of past presidents.

Worst Nightmare:  It's Monday morning at 8:30.  Child number two comes into the office and announces that he forgot to tell me of a project he needed to do over the FOUR DAY WEEKEND.  You're kidding right?  Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.  However, thankfully, the project...make a musical instrument for music class...was not due until Wednesday.  Thank God there were still minutes or shit would have hit the fan. 

I mentioned the project in passing to my mother who made a flippant comment about how unfortunate that Larry was out of town.

Really?  Unfortunate?

Reeeaaaalllllyyyyyy?

Who has done crafts with these kids for the past ten years?  Um, that would be me.  Who wrote an entire book on crafting with kids?  Yeah, me again.  I certainly can handle a simple musical craft! I may not know how to find the area of a triangle or the radius of a circle, but dammit, I got the craft thing covered!  

So, here is the simple mailing tube in its natural state.

And here is Harrison's rockin Rain Stick (a tube that he painted and we hammered nails all around it and then filled with rice and beans and accessorized the top). 

Scentsy has discontinued Vanilla Oak.  I am unhappy about that.

I ditched one Amish bread starter on a doubtful friend that I first enticed by giving her a piece of bread to try, roping her in, if you will.  One down, two more to go.  Any takers?

I am reading the first in the series of mysteries from Janet Evanovich and while it was a bit slow to get started, I am really enjoying it now and find myself laughing out loud.  Good book.  However, I need to hustle because our book club meets next week and I haven't even started that book yet.

Comments

[other driver]

sorry about that note, I didn't realize it was you...

[corinna]

EE.... Ha ha!

Yeah... the note suck!
Not only do you know how to do crafts... but let me just say you can educate your lame friends too... I have never heard of a rain stick! LOL.

That totally rocks about Josh.

The bread. LOL. ummm... we will see if it actually makes it to a bread pan. It is yet to be seen.
The slice you brought me was good. I can feel your high hopes. Thanks.

[darcie]

What a jerk, leaving a note like that-maybe, just maybe he could've parked somewhere else if he didn't like your parking job?!

Way to go on the spelling tests Josh-awesome!!!

you really want to live in the white house WITH kids? Are you sure, lol!?

Love the rain stick! Of course, they will drive you oh so crazy with it in the coming weeks, but still-very cool.