dissecting the day

woke up with a small, flush-faced child in my bed with a ridiculously high fever - twas 103 last night at the ER and there is no sign of it letting up :( diagnosis: a highly contagious case of strep throat and a very down-in-the-mouth little boy who missed his sculpture class today :(

begged him to pleeease take his medication and not hack it all back up... he threw up (OF COURSE) so we guessed that the original 320 mg minus the 100ish mg all over the kitchen floor would just have to do - sigh

googled "how to get children to keep medicine down"

answer: a spoonful of sugar (honestly... that's what it said!)

tried it with the amoxicillin and it worked! i wouldn't exactly say in the most delightful way... but it stayed down ;) Mary Poppins was like the best nanny EVER!

watched Ryan and Tatum over breakfast of ginger cats and coffee: i admit it, i really really love Tatum O'Neal's soft velvety voice and i want to go to a voice coach who will teach me to talk like that

dropped Sam off for his sculpture class and drove to the beach with Danny, who then decided he was too lifeless to play under the pier and walk to Ruby's for a chocolate peanut butter milkshake (my magic cure-all prescription for every bad thing in the world)

drove towards home at which point Danny decided he did want to go to the beach (grr...)

went to the Irvine Spectrum instead to Nordstrom and Cheesecake Factory for lunch

had a very mediocre salad (with horrible beetroot! and horrible cabbage too!! they both tasted like radioactive dirt/catholic school lunches to me...) they did play Wichita Lineman though, so i gave them one star ;)

watched the valet staff juggle luxury cars for an hour

watched as an ambulance swooshed in to pick up a small sobbing boy - very curious....

went to Brookstone where Aaron tried this chair and i pondered buying this boogie board thing for Sam for his birthday

played with an iPad and it kind of grew on me (but i didn't buy it;)

avoided Anthropologie at all costs - since i was already financially in knots trying to justify buying an iPad :)

went home and made awful veggie juice drinks... it just seems so wasteful with people starving all over the world... all that leftover pulp could feed 5000 people surely!

hated all the drinks and poured them down the drain and felt even MORE wasteful and spoilt :(

looked at oceanfront hotels in Malibu and Pacific Grove. measured the distance between Pacific Grove and San Francisco - it's 121 miles and 2 hours 10 minutes* - which is the perfect distance to drive after breakfast, stopping to pick up a picnic lunch on the way to Golden Gate Park :) how on earth did we survive without google maps???! it's just soooooo wonderfully helpful for a planner such as myself.
*ps on foot it would take 1 day 14 hours... we are soooo driving!)

F5ed canon.com for the googlenth time and saw that my camera is ready!!!

sped to Canon to pick it up then to Walmart to return that stupid bloody suicidal juice machine

hung out with hubbie for a bit in the "TR" (Tustin Ranch that is - center of the universe) and felt sorry for exasperated parents with sobbing children (our children are officially too old to sob in public! we survived!!!)

had extra crunchy peanut butter oatmeal for dinner :)

wondered if Dr Drew will EVER stop talking about Casey Anthony - arghhh!!! she's a lying skank whore - we get it ;)

listened to Sarah Maclachlan but had to turn it off because she reminds me of sad animal commercials :(

replaced her with New Order who made me miss Manchester and rainy days and diesel fumes and perfectly overcast skies and Mulberry. i have one of those purses somewhere, must dig it out and pretend to be English :)

bought new vacation crocs at amazon in size 11 for Sam (who acts his age and his shoe size :) and in size 3 for Danny :) they were on sale - i love when i buy something and it has a big surprise discount:)

pondered if Stockton is so cheap to stay in because it's such a bad place (surely it can't be good... Pacific Grove and Malibu weren't this cheap ;)

off to bed to watch Flipping Out (he simply MUST fire Sarah and Zoila this season!! they drive me absolutely crazy!!! i like Jenny. and Jett... where is Jett anyway?)