little briton

i love little britain. i never did until aaron forced me to watch it one night and it wasn't as awful as i thought it would be - au contraire in fact, it was wonderfully mean and cruel! now they have an entire series taking the mickey out of americans and i love it even more :) i find myself quoting them more each day - "call me bubbles, everybody does!!" "margaret...? margaret......?" "i'm the only gay in the vill-ege".

today i had to brave the santa ana post office to collect a very urgent parcel that the postman wouldn't deliver (?) i waited 17 minutes for 3 people to be served extremely slowly. what the hell is up with the post office??!! and why do old people insist on queuing to buy 2 stamps that they could buy from a machine AND then write a check with trembling hands to pay? arrghh! anyway, the parcel was soooo worth the wait, i tore it apart when i got to my car - it was full of lovely goodies, homemade gifts and cookies that, ahem, i wolfed on the ride home :) thank you MCJ <3

this afternoon is my Sam date - we go out every friday after school and "hang out" as they say in america. i am not sure where we will end up today, but i think a Rubys peanut butter chocolate milkshake sounds reaaaaally good after all those cookies :)

today i woke with a start. more very important questions about moving out of state. i completely forgot to check how many Corner Bakeries and Paneras were in CO!! and whether Indiana has Supertargets. argh, the pounding of my heart waiting for the computer to return results is almost deafening! anyway there is only a Corner Bakery in Denver, but Paneras everywhere and the bad news - only a Supertarget 136 miles from Evansille, IN. BUT lots of Superwalmarts so i think it will be ok because they DO have 2 Fazolis which would make moving there a HUGE hit with my boys ;) Danny loves his bwedfix (breadsticks)

i keep wondering - as i struggle to keep in stock milk and cereal - why anyone would want 14 children. why???? why when you have SIX already you ever want to see another diaper ever again? i always thought having a second child was totally crazy and irresponsible. i can't even imagine buying shoes for 14 kids or keeping it straight what size everyone was in... the thought of having to remember all those shoes everytime we got in the car. or just GETTING IN THE CAR, buckling up that many car seats, dealing with that many sets of shots, ear infections, diaper rashes, nose boogers, naps, ER visits for stitches, peas up noses, the co-pays, the prescriptions, the washing, the folding, the closet pruning (oh how i hate throwing away beloved clothes that are outgrown)... i know you should focus on the white but that is a whole LOT of black to dwell on. i am blessed (repeat forever until i believe it.....)

we are waiting for blood test results for sweet Blackjack. he had a series of seizures yesterday and seems OK for now but we need to figure out just what happened to the old chap. food poisoning is the most likely... but we have no idea what caused it so we can prevent it again. i don't even want to think of the other possibilities...

back later...