Month: March 2003

It’s so odd. Now that Junior spends all day Friday with me (after his swim lesson I don’t bring him to daycare) it always feels like Saturday. Compound that with the fact that we go to my parents’ house to play with my sister and her kids and if really does feel like the weekend. I am all for 3 day weekends. Bring ’em on.

A lot of people’s kids have imaginary friends. I did when I was very little. I actually remember her, to some extent. Her name was Deebee. She was my friend when I was still an only child. Then my sister came along, and my parents, for whatever reason (maybe dad will comment on this, I know he’s reading it) decided to name her Debra, aka Debbie. Get it? Deebee? Debbie? Deebee disappeared at that point. I guess the new little person in our house was more interesting. It’s hard to say, I wasn’t even three yet when all this happened.

Well Junior has an invisible friend too (who only comes out at random times, and he’s not a trouble maker – I don’t have to set a place for him at the table, but I do have to sometimes call down to him to make sure he comes up for bed.) Today Junior makes an announcement…Jim has some friends visiting. And they like it here so much that they’re moving in.

“How many people are there?”

“Ten boys and two girls.”

Oy vey, this kid kills me. So now I have 12 invisible people living in my house, but luckily they drive themselves wherever they need to go. Oh, and they have names. Ready? Tammy, Marsha, Jim, Joshua, Fred, Freddie, Anthony, Jeff, Murray, Greg, Allen and Little Critter. (Anthony, Jeff, Murray, and Greg are the Wiggles and Little Critter is from the Mercer Mayer books – we own almost all of them.) Which made me remember something else…when I was only a little older than Junior is now, I used to pretend that I was having adventures with the cast of HR Pufnstuf and the Bugaloos…so I can understand why the Wiggles are living in our house. Jimmy, Freddie the Flute, Harmony, Joy, Courage and IQ used to live at my mom’s house.

Junior swam from one side of the pool to the other ALL by himself today! I’m so proud of him! He and one other boy in the class are really making great strides. It’s so interesting to watch the progress from week to week. It makes me wish he was having more than one lesson a week, but this works out well for us.

It’s SO hot in the pool area. I hate just sitting there and sweating. It makes me want to jump in the pool, that’s for sure.

As those of you who get the email updates know, this page is site #29 on the Yahoo Search results page if you search for “Arab Sex”. (There is none here. Really. Have a nice day.)

So I’m keeping closer tabs on the referrals from the search engines, and learn I’m the #7 site if you search for “naked man snowblowing”. Okay people, this is just wrong. And of course, I haven’t written anything about naked men snowblowing (or mowing the lawn, or weed whacking. Heh.) But apparently I had those three words appear fairly close to each other back in January. I believe I said it was going to get up to 45 degrees and I’d dance naked in the driveway, or something. If you are here because you did a search for this phrase, please, consider getting help.

It’s snowing.

Again.

I was going to write up a rant about Freedom Fries (I believe this is the thing I couldn’t think of in the previous entry. D’oh!) because I think the whole thing makes “us” look like complete idiots, and I want to throw canned goods at the Hair Net who came up with it. But Mister Crunchy did a far better and funnier job than I would have. My favorite on his list is a tie between 7 and 12.