So this morning I took Emma out to Starbucks, where they seriously managed to p*ss me off. Let me ask you something? Do I live in the south? When I order an iced tea, should it be sweetened? NO! And it never has been before today. But as my dehydrated body went to gulp up that first drink of plain, thirst quenching tea…I promptly spit it back through my straw. I mean GROSS! As much as I wanted to go back and protest, I have a toddler in the backseat and the drive-through line is 10 cars deep. So I dumped it out, $2.00 I just wasted.
There, you now have been ranted on. The rest of the morning we ran errands, including buying prizes for her birthday party next week! Yup, Emma’s going to turn 3. And we’re having a Little Mermaid theme. We were going to do Thomas the Train, but grandma would have had a stroke (She’s heavily into the ‘girls must play with girls toys’)
And on a super exciting note, while I was putting some of Emma’s clothes up for bid on Ebay, I stumbled across what would become Emma’s Christmas outfit for this year. Yes it’s not green or red, or fluffy (well the collar is somewhat) but it’s just so cute and shiny looking. It’s a skirt and sweater. And I just wanted different. It’s from a Gymboree line (Prim and Proper) a couple years ago I think. Only I bought it online today and paid about 1/3 or the price.
On that toddler note, I was talking to a friend (I’ll say friend in case she’d rather not be indentified) about children and the school hype. Okay, I figured that was just on tv, that whole ‘Timmy is turning 6months, we need to get him on the waiting list for the ‘I crapped my diaper Genius academy’ I mean… people really think like this!? I was just thinking how great that little preschool down the street is and that it’ll do just fine. They finger paint, do crafts. I don’t need to do an interview, or pay a high price tag, it’s in no way exclusive. If anything I’m delaying enrolling her, because I’m waiting for her to be fully potty trained. And that’s fine with me. It doesn’t mean my child is stupid or will be missing that head start in life. It means she’s normal and middle class! Grrrr. I just can’t get over that people think that way. What’s happening to us?
Okay, rant two done. A bit unexpected that one. Yesterday writing was a little more hard. I didn’t want to, it didn’t feel right, but I forced myself to do it, and it took 2 hours, but I got out the minimum NaNo requirement done for the day (a little under 1,700). So I’m off to do that now. Ciao!
