ride to the mall

1-21-13

Stupid holiday work schedule.

Dax was crying last night because he didn’t want me to have to go to work today. It is hard to comfort a child in that situation when you want very badly to just say, “Fuck it” and blow off work. Sadly, I have a benefits meeting that is mandatory this morning. Yeah, to add insult to injury, the company has decided to have a required meeting on the holiday they don’t give us off.

An extra day off would have been nice. I still have so much stuff that needs to be done. I have laundry, I have a still quite cluttered house and I still want to go bra shopping. Hopefully come this afternoon I can get some of the house stuff worked on. Ken is going to have Bobby do homework this morning so I won’t have to worry about that aspect. Plus, with them not home for some of the afternoon, I can get more things done.

On Saturday the boys and I rode up to Del Amo in the morning. It was a nice ride and they were shockingly happy about the whole thing. We met up with Stephanie and Sabrina for Build a Bearing awesomeness. Sabrina seemed a smidge overwhelmed, which is pretty normal when you first step foot into the magic that is a Build a Bear Workshop. She picked out a really cute pink kitty and a Merida costume which I gotta say was a better costume than the Halloween varieties I saw last year. The boys helped and they also picked out a couple of Star Wars costumes for JoJo and Carver who came along for fun.

After that, we went and had some lunch and wandered the mall a bit. The boys were a bit more crazed than normal, but overall they were ok. We had a lot of fun and found some nice bargains at the jewelry store that is closing due to the mall remodel. All in all, it was a very fun outing!

The ride home was nice. It was a little more hot out, but doable. We decided to swing by the soccer field where Ken just happened to be finishing up on the last game he was reffing. Apparently there were a couple of sightings of the boys and I on our ride, which is pretty funny to think that all these soccer folks recognize us.

When we arrived home, we found that Lucy and Brianna were still throwing up after eating breakfast. It seemed like another trip to the vet was in order. Thankfully the doc at the shelter did not find any evidence of an infection. He once again gave them fluids and an anti-nausea shot. Poor Lucy had pooed all over herself on the way to the doc, which sucked being that I had just bathed her that morning complete with a slight hair trim for some of the bad spots. I am happy to report, though that as of last night, they both seem so much better. Minimal vomit if any at all, and they both seem back to their old selves.

On Sunday morning, the boys and I went to my mom’s because I was to go through old photos looking for ones of Grammie. Her 80^th birthday is coming and there are plans for a surprise party in her honor. My mom was put in charge of some aspects, but mostly she is Phoebeing the hell out of this party.

Monica: All right, that's a little sketch of the cake, umm some sample menus, umm y'know what I thought we would start out with Tuscan style finger food, and for music, here's an alphabetized list of all my CDs! I've highlighted the ones that would go really good with the food.

Phoebe: What happened to the intimate dinner party?

Monica: Oh, we're not doing that. Okay…

Phoebe: So wow, it looks like you took care of everything. Thanks a lot, co-host.

Monica: What?! I didn't take care of everything, there's-there's plenty of things for you to do!

Phoebe: Like what?

Monica: (Thinks) Cups.

Phoebe: Cups? You're giving me cups?

Monica: And ice!

Phoebe: Cups and ice? Ooh, I get to be in charge of cups and ice? (Thinks of something) All right. Fine, okay, I will be in charge of cups and ice!

Monica: Wait a minute, I can get ice at the restaurant…

Phoebe: I got it! Mine!

(later)

Phoebe: (entering, carrying two garbage bags) Hey!

Ross and Chandler: Hi!

Phoebe: Is it okay if I leave this stuff here 'til Rachel's birthday party?

Chandler: Ah sure. What's in 'em?

Phoebe: Umm, cups.

Chandler: Oh good, because uh we got Rachel 800 gallons of water.

Ross: Seriously that's a lot of cups.

Phoebe: Yeah well, that's 'cause Monica put me in charge of cups and ice, and Monica is gonna rue the day that she put me in charge of cups and ice.

So with this in mind, my mother and I are putting together a lot of party favors and what not. I found a handful, but mostly we determined a lot of the pics are the ones we already organized and presented to Grammie several years back. Hopefully my aunt can track that down so we can utilize those as well. I did manage to scan in the ones we did find and my mom will be able to print out nice copies of all of those.

I also found several other random old pics I really enjoyed. I so don’t understand how people don’t like old pictures of themselves, even when they are bad. I think I like the bad pics of me the best!

The rest of Sunday was spent working on some of the clutter in the house. Ken had ordered a DVD book which was good for us to be able to put all of our movies in there instead of in a stack we had them in before. We also managed to remove the old tv. There is still a lot to do, but it is slowly coming together.

The boys played with their friends all afternoon. It was really cool. At one point there were 6 kids in our backyard playing in the leaves and running around having a blast. Later, Bobby and Jessie put together a show for us. Zach and Dax also put on a show, which I will say was a little more lively, but clearly much more improv.

We watched Homeward Bound while we ate dinner. I am such a freaking wuss! I love this flick, and always have. I always choke up at the end. I was crying before the first 10 minutes were up. Sheesh. Luckily, I could laugh about it and the boys also thought I was funny. Dax pointed out he has seen me cry at lots of stuff and he is used to it. I was just thrilled that they both enjoyed the flick. They have been watching Family Guy and things like that lately so for them to still enjoy a very G rated movie seemed good to me.

I just found out that Maryann is not coming in today since she is still sick. I guess that means I should get my ass in gear.