Author: The Jody

Yucko. Rain. You people didn’t leave offerings to Mother Nature for me! Man, I’d be sooooo sad if I’d taken this whole week for vacation the way my boss did. Nasty wet rainy and floody for a week. They even closed part of Route 2 for short while yesterday due to flooding. Blech.

Ya, ya, ya, I know, better than the heat wave in Europe.

I’m only going away for 2 nights (3 days) and I know I’ve got too damned much stuff. I think the problem is that the weather reports are still pointing toward yuckiness. I have no idea if we’ll be able to do outside activities, which is the plan. So with two 5 year olds and a 3 year old, you don’t want to be stuck in a strange place with nothing to amuse them. I ended up telling Junior to use his suitcase to lug games, etc., and I’d pack his stuff in my suitcase.

I did want to brag how impressed I was at his early packing skills. He was making a mental list of things he’d need to pack, which I found incredibly responsible and mature. “I’d better take a sweater in case it gets cold.” I mean, what 5 year old boy thinks of that (and his toothpaste) instead of wondering how many Power Rangers will fit in the zipper compartment?

Geez, at lunch today I poked around a few of my regular haunts and everyone is on such a downer!

I won’t do that to you. I mean, 99% of the time, no gloom. This site started in 1996 as a humor site. It updated between once a month and once a week and my entire goal was to bring a smile to the face of anyone silly enough to stop by.

Just because I use automated blogging software doesn’t mean I want to crab and moan about stuff…I still want to make people smile. Maybe I should try harder – there are sites out there who do a grand job of amusing the masses. Then again, if I only post funny/happy/amusing stuff, the page might not get updated every day. Is that okay? I remember when we made the change from being semi-weekly to daily – I polled my regular users (the people who got the newsletter letting them know there was an update) and even my sister said she didn’t want it to be daily. Maybe it’s not as funny now.

Wait…this post is started to make me sad. Better change direction.

Junior: I had a hotdog for lunch today.

Me: Wow! That’s great! Did you like it?

Junior: No

Me: You didn’t like the bread?

Junior: I didn’t like the brown thing inside the bread.

Ummm. Okay. Hot Dogs are a no. [He doesn’t eat anything. He hates foods that most normal kids beg for, including candy, cookies, ice cream, etc. He doesn’t eat bread unless toasted, and that’s rare. Sandwiches make him gag (I think it’s the bread). He eats his toast dry, but we can put butter on the bread for a grilled cheese.]

Okay, normally I wouldn’t post anything here that makes me look outrageously freaky or odd. Because I’m using my website as a way to build a whole world of people who worship me, and would do anything I ask just because I’m me. Either that or try to find a date once in a while. Anyway, I’m going to be honest with you, because as I pulled things from the dryer, I became more incredulous with every passing moment.

I think I should have done laundry earlier, because obviously I’m too tired to handle it. I pulled the following items out of the dryer just now:

1 nickel

4 ones

1 five

1 ten

2 pens (one leaked, one didn’t)

a little ball of tissues

2 tampons

1 pack of gum (held together pretty well, I didn’t end up with gum all over everything)

You can see how close I came to absolutely destroying everything in the load. Actually, I spotted the ink (purple) on Junior’s Wiggles t-shirt, but it looked like some kind of juice so I soaked it in the sink (Oxy-Cleaned it) instead of putting it in the dryer. That’s when I found the gum, when I was transferring things. I looked through everything else and didn’t see any other ink stains, so I just turned the dryer on.

The money appeared after the clothes were dry. I can see finding a few ones, or the five, but nineteen dollars and five cents? I should have noticed that. (Hell, why wasn’t I worried that I was missing almost twenty dollars? I’m not made of money here!) The pens and the tampons had to be in a canvas purse-thingy I was washing to take to Cow Hampshire with me. I had checked the inside pocket and pulled out some lip balm and some small papers. I didn’t notice there was an outside pocket, though. (Which wasn’t unzipped, so the loose purple pen must have been on the inside and I just missed it. The maroon pen in the zipped pocket faired much better, and didn’t leak at all.) Oh, and I’m just going to tell you that once you run tampons through a wash and dry cycle, you’re pretty much never ever getting them out of the applicator. Not that I tried, mind you, but I could tell by looking.

So that’s my “adventures in laundry” for this evening. Next time I make sure I get a good meal and a nap ahead of time.

I’m checking at least three different sources for what the weather will be like this weekend at our mystery vacation location and there is no consensus. One site says sunny and warm, another says there’s a 50% of rain. I mean, geez, I’m not asking you to agree on the temperature or the humidity level, I just want to know that on Sunday, for instance, it won’t rain.

Is that so much to ask? It’s not a long-range forecast at this point, the weekend is only 2 days away. So do I trust Accuweather, The Weather Channel (shown on my.yahoo.com), the weather service Boston.com uses or what?