help me i am in hell :|

to quote a nine inch nail, who clearly wrote this song after stopping in miserable soulless Tustin Ranch on his way home from San Diego :|

i don't like my boys' school AT ALL and i am having to take serious amounts of alka seltzers and smooth dissolve tums to keep from spontaneously combusting all over the place.

last week it was the ducks. the rotten pathetic little rubber ducks that cost $107 in fundraising for 3 ducks per child (oh no, i didn't) yesterday it was the pumpkin patch - 394 children all fighting to make sand art pixie sticks at a table for 12 :| today it's the dinosaur dash - it's a downward spiral, i tell you...

Sam got a note home from his teacher stating that since dino dash attendance was low this year, she would give 25 extra points of science credit to each kid who signed up, thus giving the school $5 of each $25 admission fee. which made us wonder, as people who don't particularly like to dash or spend $100 on something insignificant.... if you don't particularly care to dash/spend $100, what's the alternative way to earn the science credit? maybe do a home experiment...? or if it's about exercise, how about a hike! well apparently, there is no alternative available;) so it's just about giving money in return for the extra credit? ohhhh nooooo... because that would be bribery and you can't BUY a grade :) but apparently, you can't earn one either. unless you 'choose' to pay $100 to spend sunday morning walking 1.25 miles around the miserable soulless Tustin Ranch market place :|

i don't like this. i hate organized, heavily populated anything - theme parks, parades and fairs etc. i might even have some kind of disease, maybe i should wear a little bracelet that asks people to please respect my three feet of personal space. so the thought of shuffling 1.25 miles through miserable soulless Tustin Ranch on a sunday morning at 1.25mph with 50,000 other people makes me want to turn green and burst out of my clothes and also cry and bite my fingers really hard till they bleed from the stress. attending the dino dash is just not an option :| and neither is just forking over the $100, since buying the grade is just so sooo wrong ;)

if i was a tea kettle, i would be boiled completely dry and ready to explode at any second :| thankfully there is calm and assertive Aaron who can actually breathe and talk, and not cry and threaten to stab things when provoked :) he'll know what to do... hopefully :)