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.