monday thoughts

today's catalogs all declare the words that have nauseated me since the age of 4: back to school :| seriously back to school??? in what continent??? and even worse: the arrival of the chasing fireflies halloween catalog - i feel like i am lost in some kind of lapse in the time space contiuum (like i know what that is) :|

we are still immersed in daily swim classes, my arms are peeling from awesomely looooong days at the beach where you have to keep feeding the meter to stay just a little bit longer and we haven't even made it to a single free tuesday movie yet... i am tossing those party pooper catalogs in the trash where they belong but keeping the garnet hill sale catalog (though it's still too much money for my liking) and the free white house lollipops.

this is why i watch TLC:

• i eat 33,000 calories a day
• the 650 pound virgin
• world's tallest children
• world's strongest toddler
• dwarf toddlers
  
• i didn't know i was pregnant
  
• conjoined twins
• jon and kate

enough said :) it's this kind of quality broadcasting that makes me feel very very very normal...

today during my burst of energy (that lasted approximately 20 minutes) i made:

• flour tortillas
• chocolate chip m&m cookies
• a million dog bones in the shape of question marks
• playdoh dinosaurs
  

things that are driving me nuts today:

• the time warner remote control
• Danny bawling his eyes out about getting a (very cute) haircut
  
• flour getting all over the place (especially when children are 'helping')
• the robotic vacuum cleaner (named 'it') running to hide under the bed instead of cleaning
  
• childless people sitting in childfriendly restaurants looking bemused by children being there
  
• Sam singing one line from one song ALL-DAY-LONG (don't blame it on the sunshine!)
  
• Danny singing one line from one song ALL-DAY-LONG (friller!! friller night)
  
• Friday throwing up during '16 and pregnant'
• the self checkout scanner thingies - if i hear 'unexpected item in bagging area' one more time....
• Sam's slot machine, complete with totally annoying sounds, getting new batteries :|
  

off to make burritos. back with pics maybe, maybe not ;)