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At about 6pm last night Junior asked Mr. Dump if we could change the channel to Cartoon Network. Such a silly child.

It got cold again. I just know that this stupid weather is going to make me sick. I was outside, doing yard work practically naked (okay, I wasn’t really. But my coat was unzipped) and the boom, I drove to work through what looked like a snow globe. I am done with winter. Too many 50 degree days. I just want to get spring started up and not look back.

Junior had a run-in with a baseball in the back yard and got a bloody lip. I keep trying to tell him that this is the kind of thing that happens in baseball if you don’t move quickly enough…someone could hit a line drive and you have to get the glove in front of your face fast. (This wasn’t a line drive, he was just playing catch and we weren’t even throwing it hard.) He’s okay, it sort of knocked into the tooth that was already loose, so I told him we could just keep throwing baseballs at him until the tooth comes out. I mean, the kid is 8 and he’s only lost 2 teeth so far? Once he calmed down from the blood, he got all upset again when he realized that Phantom, King of the Chews, had started ripping/eating the cover off his baseball. His souvenir Disney baseball from our last trip. Oh, the sobbing. Luckily, I told him that in exactly 12 weeks, I would personally replace the baseball. So I guess the first order of business in Florida is to hit the Star Tours gift shop at Disney MGM. Oy.

Happy Barfday to Mr. Dump!

I just wrote a really intense and scholarly sentence to start this paragraph but I erased it because I am about to talk about Gilligan’s Island and I don’t think you can use intense and scholarly sentences to talk about Gilligan’s Island. It forms a black hole that sucks all matter into itself and then you can’t talk about Gilligan’s Island any more. And I don’t want to be in that kind of world.

So I’m sitting here, eating leftover snack foods from our trip to the movies yesterday (more on that later) and pondering the meaning of life. That happened after I wandered through the back yard with a shovel picking up dog crap. Dog crap makes you ponder the meaning of life. It also makes you ponder why you didn’t pick it up while there was still snow on the ground because, dayam, it would have been MUCH easier to do on the snow.

So anyway, what I was thinking about it my favorite moments from Gilligan’s Island. The scenes that I consider the best. In no particular order, I give you:

• When they were sitting there dialing the phone trying to call someone for help. I’m not sure why they were dialing random numbers, but I guess all that time on the island had given them all phone number amnesia.
• When Gilligan is flying around with the jet pack. That’s cool. Jet packs are cool.
• When they were all bad guys/spies and the makeup compact and the soup ladle were communications devices, and Gilligan had the special lip protectors so the poison lipstick couldn’t hurt him. That episode rocked.
• Radioactive veggie seeds. So many different reasons this one rocks, there isn’t enough room to list them all.
• The episode where they make the silent movie. The image that sticks in my head is when the tripod holding the camera sinks lower and lower and they all just crouch down to stay on camera.

And your favorites?

I’m a bad dump truck driver. I have been scarce this week, busy trying to figure out if I spelled scarce properly. I think I did. It looked funny to me, but everything does.

Why do I feel like I haven’t had a moment to myself? I really have had a few, I just haven’t been using the computer in the evening, and I barely have time to pee at work. (Okay, I have time to pee, but you know what I mean.) So what fills my time? Sick boy, Sudoku and Animal Crossing. This is my whole life. I know you won’t believe me, but I am even backed up on reading my People Magazines. So you know it’s serious because that just doesn’t happen.

I am a Sudoku addict. I had let it go for a while, but picked it back up again, and now I am working on doing Fiendish level puzzles. I’m not great at them, but I have finished a couple without cheating. No, really! My current level, if I had to pick one, is “Difficult”. Mild is too easy, I need to at least be slightly challenged. I guess when I finish the current book of them, there isn’t a book 4 so I’ll probably slow down or stop with the Sudoku for a while. But I know I won’t be able to give it up entirely.

As for Animal Crossing: Wild World – now Mr. Dump is hooked on it too. The only sound you hear in my house at night is the whistling sound of someone catching a fish. I’m still waiting for someone out there reading this to let me know that they are playing so we can visit each other using WiFi…I can show you how I decorated one room of my house all in the Snowman furniture. I actually think I might have almost completed the set. I may be missing a piece or two, but I’ve got almost everything, including the floor and the wall. I’m also looking for the Lovely Phone, so if you play and you have the Lovely Phone, you will be my best friend forever.

Junior is feeling better, not 100%. He missed 2.5 days of school (he went home early yesterday) so cross your fingers that he makes it all the way through today. He really can’t afford to lose any more time!

Junior had perfect attendance at school this year…until today. Poor kid has had a low-grade fever since I picked him up last night. It’s not like he wasn’t going to blow it when we go to Florida in April anyway, but I have to tell you, I can’t BELIEVE he hasn’t missed a day of school since it started! The last day of January!

What a difference a few years make. Remember, this was the same child who needed ear tubes because he had so many ear infections as a baby (I’ll have to find the actual number…I think like a fisherman I keep embellishing. I want to say 23 by the time he was 15 months old, but that seems high. Then again, he had a lot of them. He was my little snot-nosed boy. Still is, actually, but a lot of it is allergies. And we’ve just been incredibly lucky this year as far as illnesses. Nothing so bad that he had to stay home. But he’s home with my mom today until I can get out of work. He did seem better this morning, but he still had a slight fever and you’re not supposed to send them to school like that, so I didn’t.

Oh, and as a hint of the weather to come, tonight we sign him up for the 2006 Little League season. C’mon, spring!