Daily Archives: November 15, 2006

Overheard in Burbank

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Scene: Burbank Airport
Time: 8:30pm
Spacemom is in urgent need of a restroom. She finds a women’s room and walks in with 2 women following. She manages to get stuck with the handicap stall that is sans lock. Lovely. She steps out of the stall to hear one of the women sudden jump out of a stall

"It’s Broken! My toilet is broken!"
I peer in, looks good to me…
"It doesn’t have a flusher!"
Flusher? WTF?
The other woman also comes out " Mine doesn’t have one either!"
This is surreal, this isn’t true.
I speak up "these are automatically flushing toilets"
A VERY dirty look sent my way "Yeah!, How can these toilets flush without the flusher?"
I start to explain and then realize this is just not worth it. I take the stall she has just abandoned (without the flusher) and void. I get up, zip and button and Ah… the toilet flushes. Thanks to technology.
The stall next to mine flushes. The  "no flusher" woman yells "HOW DID YOU GET IT TO FLUSH?"

Seriously
I
Can
NOT
Make
This
Up

Two women had never heard of automatically flushing toilets. Where have they been? Have they missed the technology boom north of them? Damn, I guess Figlet was right. It’s the Valley Girls.

All this and coffee too?

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Oh Lord, I am tired.

Last night, I spent 3-4:30 am curled up in a crib (with one side off, so really a toddler daybed) with Luna. She must have had too many cookies at daycare, because she was sleeping as stiff as a board until she would fart and then curl up. Then slowly she would go stiff again, fart and repeat. Poor kiddo. Daycare had a Thanksgiving event yesterday. I read about it Sunday night. Monday: we get some sweet potatoes from the store and boil them, whip up with some butter and brown sugar and yummy! Whipped sweet potatoes.

Our work computers are almost recovered. We will have the hideous task of dealing with the mess when they recover our last disk, but that’s tomorrow. I can wait until then!

Life has been fast and furious lately. I don’t understand it. We’ve been swamped with life. First, my parents’ visit. That was fun and frustrating at the same time. I love my parents, but there is some good to the fact that they live in North Carolina and we live in Massachusetts. Next week, my in-laws visit. We are not sure for how long or anything on that order, but hey, we’ll try it!

The girls are so glad to have us home. The virus that swept through our house was nasty. That part is clear. Also, Jay and I avoided it. Whew. Luna was very clingy to me on Friday and that was okay. She is normally a "daddy" girl, but during this trip away, she wanted mommy. She even got Jay on the phone one day and said "Hi Daddy, I want to talk to my mommy". Ah, to be loved! We had 3 days of sleep, but the past two nights have been terrible. I have a honking bruise on my left leg where I walked into the corner of the bed last night when I was carrying Soleil back to her bed. I suppose "Son of a Bitch!" is not appropriate language for my girls to hear. Why yes, Luna was in our room when I said that!

I have several posts stuck in my head….

What do you want to hear?

1) The girls and why I worry about school days.
2) School shootings and protecting our children.
3) Why spanking is not allowed in our house
4) If  I won the lottery, what would I do?
5) the housing crunch in the Boston Metro area.

I have some code to design… Gotta run!