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November 8th 2006 15:53
Yesterday, my daughter had the day off, as her school was closed for the election. Being the slacker mom I am, I didn't make it out of the house to vote before Tony left for work. What time did he leave for work? Ummmmmm 11. What time did I get up? When he kissed me goodbye to go to work..... at 11. Yeah, I know. I'm turning thirty in 8 days, yet I still can sleep like a fucking teenager. Then I continued to slack the day away, although I was technically busy doing Christmas shopping online. I got the kids finished for Christmas. Has there ever been anything invented as freaking cool as the internet?
I expected the kids to be all whiny and crabby, and wanting to like DO things with me, but they were pretty cool and left me alone. I appreciated that, so much so that when I walked into the family room and saw a whole bag of shredded cheese all over the carpet (I had to go and get the fancy, finely shredded shit too!) I didn't fuss much. I just cleaned it up. My motto is whatever it takes to shut your pie hole, and leave me alone, is fine by me.
After cleaning that up, I decided I should do my civic duty and exercise my right to vote, as long as the lines weren't long. Yes, I'll only excersise my right if it convenient for me. I decided to brave the trip with BOTH KIDS. I thought for sure they would kick me out of the voting place, but they didn't. Amazingly both of them were pretty quiet. I got to use one of the new touch screen voting machines. When I walk up there, the old lady points to this row of brightly colored buttons and says in her old lady warble "Whatever you do... DON'T TOUCH THESE BUTTONS! It will shut the WHOLE THING DOWN" Crap. I have two kids with me, and of course it's a natural compulsion for kids to push random buttons. How was I going to both vote AND keep them from touching the pretty buttons. Like my friend Teri pointed out, that's like setting M&M's down in front of a kid and saying "DON'T EAT THOSE!"
I decided it was best to threaten Aislinn with maiming and even WORSE cancelling our trip to McDonalds if she even as so much gazed longingly upon the buttons. Jonny, who is still too young to grasp the concept of bargaining and maiming was hoisted in my arms, occupied with a lot of bouncing.
Cars was released yesterday, and so we got Jonny's FIRST movie. He was so excited. We went home and watched it, and he pretended to be "Light Mafreen! Wook mama! I'm wacin'!" Aislinn enjoyed it very much, and we all had a good time.
As much as I complain about my kids, they are the cutest little boogers ever!
I expected the kids to be all whiny and crabby, and wanting to like DO things with me, but they were pretty cool and left me alone. I appreciated that, so much so that when I walked into the family room and saw a whole bag of shredded cheese all over the carpet (I had to go and get the fancy, finely shredded shit too!) I didn't fuss much. I just cleaned it up. My motto is whatever it takes to shut your pie hole, and leave me alone, is fine by me.
After cleaning that up, I decided I should do my civic duty and exercise my right to vote, as long as the lines weren't long. Yes, I'll only excersise my right if it convenient for me. I decided to brave the trip with BOTH KIDS. I thought for sure they would kick me out of the voting place, but they didn't. Amazingly both of them were pretty quiet. I got to use one of the new touch screen voting machines. When I walk up there, the old lady points to this row of brightly colored buttons and says in her old lady warble "Whatever you do... DON'T TOUCH THESE BUTTONS! It will shut the WHOLE THING DOWN" Crap. I have two kids with me, and of course it's a natural compulsion for kids to push random buttons. How was I going to both vote AND keep them from touching the pretty buttons. Like my friend Teri pointed out, that's like setting M&M's down in front of a kid and saying "DON'T EAT THOSE!"
I decided it was best to threaten Aislinn with maiming and even WORSE cancelling our trip to McDonalds if she even as so much gazed longingly upon the buttons. Jonny, who is still too young to grasp the concept of bargaining and maiming was hoisted in my arms, occupied with a lot of bouncing.
Cars was released yesterday, and so we got Jonny's FIRST movie. He was so excited. We went home and watched it, and he pretended to be "Light Mafreen! Wook mama! I'm wacin'!" Aislinn enjoyed it very much, and we all had a good time.
As much as I complain about my kids, they are the cutest little boogers ever!
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