Phoenix

We've been in Phoenix, AZ since Thursday.  It's so incredibly hot here that the race my husband's driving in is (fortunately) at night.  At 7pm tonight, to be exact.

The kids and I are at the hotel, as Clara can't get enough of the pool, but I'm going to have to somehow convince them that going to the racetrack now is going to be so much more fun than splashing around.  Ugh.

The dogs stayed at home.  Nora has been going there to let them out, feed them, etc. as well as being there all day yesterday helping clean the house.  On Thrusday, though, no sooner had we just pulled up to the hotel, that our neighbor called to tell me that 2 of our dogs (Malachi and Carmela) were at her house visiting, along with another neighbor's dog (???).  I figured someone must have left the gates open.  But when our neighbor decided the dog party was over and graciously walked every one of them home, our shepherd (Malachi) was already inside and the gate was closed.

It's almost like Toy Story, how the toys come alive when humans aren't around.  Maybe our pets have everything totally figured out and only act stupid when we're there...  maybe they get high or drunk when we're out.  Maybe they can cook gourmet meals and they watch CNN.

Maybe the next time we leave town I'll leave a couple of brooms and the vacuum out and see what happens...

 

PS:  It's so nice being at a race as a family again...  I wish we could do so more often.

the longest break

Man, it really has been forever since I last wrote.  Here I am again, or at least for the duration of this writing...

I've been sick for about a month.  I had a cold, then a cough and it's been with me ever since.  I don't think it will *ever* go away.  I've tried anitbiotics, allergy medicine, massage therapy, ignoring it and it's still as much there as day one...  sigh...

I stopped taking all meds.  I only take one to get me going in the morning, although sometimes it doesn't work (it's something that is given to narcoleptics).  I've also been to a nutritional dr. ("doctor" being loosely used title), whom I really liked and he seemed to hit the nail on the head a couple of times.  So after a lot of talking, we paid for the consult and only half of the supplements they suggested (I'm just not sure I was confident enough to plonker down over $1000 to "try" new methods so we went with the basics) and I've been taking these lately.  I think they are working somewhat...

So nothing funny/weird/off-the-wall/out-of-the-blue to post today, on my very pityful "comeback" day. 

I just wanted to try writing again.

Nevermind, here is one:  Today we went into a Lucky store and as I stood there looking at their corduroy pants very close to a mirror, my daughter informed me that one of her friends has some pants that "make her butt do this" and she promptly stuck her bootie up and out.  All the while she was looking in the mirror.  Wow.

There was more stuff said after that.  Something about "her mom has a pair too" but I was so gone I don't quite remember, plus I think she wasn't even sure she got all the facts right.

Since I have no behind, I immediately wanted to ask her where I could find some pants like that.  Then I remembered she's barely 7 years old and probably wouldn't know how to get to the store that sold them...!!

Actually no, I was as shocked as the next person and somehow in my infinite motherly wisdom I figured out a way for us to finish the conversation and leaving it, as best we could, in a way that all is now well with the universe once again.

Alas, a mental note has been duly made.