wishes not worth wasting, should a genie suddenly appear ..

i wish i could remember Danny's 6pm swim class. even leaving a pair of swim shorts in a high traffic area doesn't work - every Tuesday/Thursday i forget until 5:58pm, when it's physically possible to still get there by 6:01pm, but horribly stressful to gather up everything necessary/navigate horrible traffic to do so :|

i wish Danny would just DO HIS HOMEWORK without constant encouragement!! he is like a 99 cent store wind-up toy - i have to keep starting him again, his brain putters to a stop after each word he writes. i am sure some would diagnose this as an illness but i prefer to call it just plain old laziness :| and he never ever ever ever ever stops talking either :| E-V-E-R :| (i am so ready for summer holidays. and soooo not ready all at the same time.....)

i wish my hunger pains would just go away :( what the heck?? and it's not as easy as just eating, i tried that already :|

i wish people (not just children - because in my book it's appropriate to remind children to use their manners (unless their parents are present, because if they don't prompt them, there is just no hope...) would be kind and grateful when you're nice to them, because it makes being nice in the future that much harder if they don't show gratitude... and then said person thinks you're just stingy and mean, when in fact you're not mean at all, you just can't face yourself in the morning if you continue to give to overly entitled, ungrateful people :|

i wish the kettle didn't have a mind of it's own and a death wish - it boils for absolutely no reason all day long (most worryingly when it's empty: the thought of the kettle exploding fills me with such fear, i am quite sure the kettle is on a suicide mission to kill me....)

i wish i had never chosen dark granite for the boys' bathroom vanity. covered in soap scum, hard water stains and toothpaste spatter, it's just not pretty - ever :|

(cue: sad whiny voice) i wish Oprah wasn't going away :( i know i have complained once or twice about her distressing opera voice and her saying 'we'll be right back' twice before every commercial break and her being kind of clueless from time to time and how boring it is when she has celebs as her guests (esp Tom Cruise, Will Smith and Chris Rock) and how she really fumbled the ball picking Dr Oz as her resident doctor (can't stand that wiry depressing little man) but what on earth will we do without her? i would waste a genie wish on keeping Oprah around (and for her to move her show to L.A. so i can be in the audience :) and for everyone to get a new minivan that day :) also for said minivan to be a mica grey Toyota Sienna :) and for Nate Berkus to make over my entire house while i'm at the show but still be there when i get home so i can smell him and hug him and show him my picture of a joshua tree that was inspired by his picture of a joshua tree :) (all one wish)

off to bed for a nice cup of mint tea and Jersey housewives... i sure hope this season is better... they are my least favorite (after Miami obviously) xoxox