2004-01-09 - 12:15 a.m.
Ok, I have not been keeping up very well. I’ve had quite a bit of excitement. Here’s a funny thing that happened yesterday: I was getting my kids in line and look over to see one of them putting a bottle of hand sanitizer right up close to his face.
Me: don’t put that in your mouth!
Him: I didn’t!
Me: get in line.
Him: it wasn’t in my mouth!
Me: now!
Later, I took him aside and said:
Why did you have the sanitizer in your mouth?
Him: it WASN’T in my mouth! (very indignant) I was PRETENDING it was my wife and I was saying (he put his hands out by his face) “I loooooooove you”
Me: . . .
Him: . . .
Me: don’t do it again.
What? So, that was his explanation. Say what? That was not the explanation I was expecting. I don’t know what I was expecting, but not that. Another kid had been arguing with me all day. We were doing some test prep and I was telling the kids a definition for a word and he was looking through his dictionary! I was like, I’m telling you the definition! So, I told him to put the dictionary away and listen. He didn’t. He was like that all freakin’ day. I pulled him aside too.
Me: you have been arguing with me all day.
Him: no I haven’t!
Some days, I just don’t know what to say. Jeez.
I also had my winter break. My plan was, visit my mom in her metropolitan town by the sea and soak up the rays. I was so planning on going out on my uncle’s boat and chilling by the pool in their very cool house. It’s this sprawling, glass salute to open 60’s architecture. Very pricey stuff. Luckily my uncle and his boyfriend know how decorate and show it off. Instead, I came down with the flu bug the day after arriving and couldn’t see a doctor because of Christmas. Apparently, no one gets sick on Christmas. Maybe it’s a Jewish thing. I was planning on going to the movies and eating Chinese food. Of course, I got sicky-sicky. By the time I got to the doctor, he told me that since I wasn’t able to get to the doctor for a few days, my flu bug deteriorated into a severe sinus and throat infection. My throat was so inflamed; my vocal chords actually could not vibrate. I was unable to produce sound. It totally sucked. It felt like everything from the bottom of my lungs to the top of my forehead was being scoured from the inside with steel wool and then soaked with acid. I was so horribly uncomfortable. So I spent my whole vacation on my mom’s couch, soaked in sweat and freezing.
At least I got to go to good concert before I was miserable. As an early Hanukkah present, my mom bought us tickets to Simon and Garfunkle. I love them. They rock. I swear, I wanted my ears to bigger so that I could hear it more. I was smiling for two hours. I tried to buy a T-shirt, but they were $40!!!! Can you believe it? I can’t afford that! I got a little poster. I’m framing it with my ticket. The crowd was going crazy at the end of the show. They did their normal curtain call stuff, but no one would go home! Finally, the area put up the house lights to get people to leave, but people wouldn’t budge! The band had to come back out and reprise “Mrs. Robinson” before anyone would go home. It was awesome. They are the coolest senior citizens ever.
