I have allot to be thankful for and just cannot see it just yet through the bag of fresh miniature blueberry bagels and a tub of Philly Triple Berries and Cream Swirl cream cheese that sit before me.
Cindy Lou Who has attacked yet ANOTHER computer cord which accounts for me not posting as of late. I made my way to Wally World as I dropped the pooch off at the vet today. She got her first shots, heart worm check, and to be spayed. I told the secretary I thought she was about 10 months old and the vet confirmed it by saying he thought she was either 9 or 10 months old from the looks of her teeth. I hope that she (the dog) is thinking," Damn, if I chew another cord what else is she going to do to me?!" I pick her up on Friday, that will give her time to contemplate on the subject a bit.
I also went into the attic and got all the old baby clothes down that were stored in large Totes. I took some to the consignment shop in a nearby town and got about 50 more hangers from them. I used them up and had not even gotten through the 1st tote yet. I will take them in to the store when I pick up pooch on Friday.
I also stopped into the optical shop and paid my $60.00 for the doctor to tell me I needed reading glasses. He said I would not have to go back to waring full blown prescriptions like before. Oh Thank You Oh Thank You!!!! I do not like waring sun glasses either because the pressure behind the ears causes me to have great headaches.
hummmmm, what else? Oh yeah, I stopped into the local newspaper shop to place an ad, in hopes that I might be able to return to work soon if I find a sitter.
Even though I am officially still an employee I had a random drug screen at 9am this morning. Sydney went with me. I arrived at 9:03. We sat in the large waiting area reading Veggie Tales and looking at pictures in a children's Bible as an elderly man sat to our right and an elderly woman who sat kitty corner across the room and a t.v on a Little Rock morning talk show. The man was called in the forbidden door way, Sydney then sat down with a book to the elderly woman and proceeded to show her that the pea was a pirate. She said he is so full of energy. After the book reading Sydney crawled under the wooden chairs calling them a cave, a woman and her teenage granddaughter arrived and sat 2 seats away. We then began to play Ninja and Karate chopped each other giving out a high-yaw on each consecutive blow. He layed on the ground and I pulled his leg towards me as he slid across the highly polished wooden planked floor, he laughed and was having a good time. By them a couple and their 12ish year old son walked in. It was now about 9:40 and I had to pee bad. The old man finally walked out and the elderly woman was called in. As the door was still opened a woman with a lab coat on looked at me and said," This is a clinic could you keep him quiet, he has not been quiet since he has been here". I thought to myself since YOU HAVE BEEN HERE! and that is why I am still sitting here looking through yellow colored glasses cause YOU could not get here on time. I have to admit I threw in that bitch word in a few times too. Just as fast as the door closed the door re-opened calling my name by a woman in a pair of scrubs. She said," How are you?" "Pissed Off", I replied. "That woman in the lab coat cannot expect to keep a 4 year old still for 45 minutes, she must not have any kids". I sat at the table. "Well this is a clinic and there are sick people here he needs to be quiet." She was obviously sick with a head cold. (I thought) No wonder the test could not be done the day before, she was out sick herself. Sydney sat on the floor to my left saying,"Mommy mommy mommy", between what the nurse was telling me in one ear and Sydney fueling the fire in the other ear I looked at Sydney and slapped his mouth, I said," Sit there and shut-up and be miserable like they want you to be." The nurse jumped in surprise but after she heard what I said she never said another word to me other than ,"sign and initial this." I knew that she knew I WAS RIGHT! I apologized to Sydney for slapping him and he said he loved me. And of course I then cried over it and still am. Kids need to be kids and too many people want them to be on mood altering drugs because the adults cannot deal with the noise. Sure some kids do need to be medicated (and I say that hesitantly), to be a happy, healthy child with enthusiasm, to take on the most scariest of all monsters in the closet- well- that is being a child. It is what we dream of awaiting our little bundles of joy, but the older people are just plain old bonkers theses days! Life has left them pinching their butt cheeks so hard it has affected their brains. How sad. Still to this day nothing is better than the laughter of a child, it is what poems and dreams are made of.
