What super cool fun balloons are! My sister dragged my exhausted and haggard looking self to Applebee's, of all places (worked there for waaayy too long...) because there was a balloon man. not a man made of balloons, per se, but he used them to make many fabulous animals and characters. And hats and toys and all kinds of things. I'm going back next Tuesday without kids so i can keep the balloons all to myself, ha ha ha ha!

And I also learned that people I barely worked with still remember me. I'm like a living legend of the Applebee. I want my picture on the wall next to Kirk Heinrich's.

...that running out of toilet paper sucks. You would think that by the 4th decade of life one would figure out when one needs to purchase more tp.

Parenting...

Today I learned how easy it is to forget that your child's mind doesn't work the same as your own! Sounds like a ridiculous concept, but how easy is it to forget that they haven't the world experience - in fact, every moment is the building of their world experience. I suppose that's true of anyone, if you believe like I do that there is no such thing as finally getting to the point in your life where you've always imagined you'd be. Life is fluid, linear continuous and finite - all in one. So now I will go read Winnie the Pooh, and try to remember that for a five year old, telling your grandmother you're sorry you made a nasty face at her might be just a little more intimidating than I would have thought. On the other hand, apologizing doesn't seem to get any easier as we grow...

Today I learned...

That it is definitely possible to screw up your entire life by sleeping through an alarm clock. I suppose my life is certainly not screwed up, but it certainly feels that way sometimes, and I seem to be just as pissed off at myself as if I did screw everything up. Enough of that.

Today I also learned that there is seriously no one out there who can take care of me as well as I can care for myself, and i should probably stop my whining and get to taking care of things. I need a vacation. Today it is 21 degrees cooler in Seattle, and I want to be there now.

Well, this is a weak first post, but I'm too grouchy to write further. Things will get more interesting down the road, trust me. They always do.