• Random and Odd

    Random


    You don’t realize how much you miss something until it’s not there. -some sappy 80’s song

    My sister-mom’s second favorite daughter- God bless her soul, is probably afraid to answer the phone as of late.

    “Hi. It’s me again.”
    “Hey, you going outside for a smoke?” She asks.
    “Yep.” I sigh as I try to come up with something new to talk about for the 4 minutes it takes for me to smoke a Marlboro Light.
    “Sooooooo….” She’s awesome at coming up with something we haven’t talked about in the 5 conversations we have already have had today. It always starts with, Soooooooooo.
    “Where’s mom?” I ask because even though she is mom’s second favorite, she always knows where she is.
    “Home. Did you try to call her?”
    “Yeah, right before I called you.” I always call mom first, I’m starting to feel like a complete idiot having to call my sister every time I go out to smoke.

    I need to either quit smoking or find another poor soul to drag out to the front porch with me.

  • Random and Odd

    Our Day at the Zoo…

    How can I resist using this picture as the one to draw you in?

    It was free museum day in Sacramento and we decided to go to the zoo.

    I wish I had some funny stories to tell you about how Kara was attacked by the flamingos or Shea decided that she was a monkey and tried to get in the cage. Nothing like that happened.

    So what happened? Shaun happened. Give the man a camera and he’s taking pictures of MOLES! not the animal kind. The kind on the back of the guy’s neck. I’ll let him blog about that because honestly, it was gross and I don’t like gross.

    I did enjoy the zoo. Kara and I walked over to the flamingos and we both started singing the theme song to “Three’s Company”.

    There is no question on who this child belongs to.

    We went to Fairytale land where the kids went down different sorts of slides and I got to see a rooster getting friendly with a chicken. (No pictures—Sorry)

    The kids were so good ALL day. I was pretty good too. I even smiled for a picture while I was on the crooked mile!

    Yes, I smile

    I was having a blast!

    Then we went to Funderland. This is where the day takes a turn.

    We are planning a trip to Disneyland in March. There is a SLIGHT problem in this whole trip. Shea HATES anything that moves faster than 2 mph. She will ride the biggest horse or hold the biggest, ugliest snake. She will NOT, NO WAY JOSE, NOT IN A MILLION YEARS be a part of a swing. She FREAKS THE FUCK out whenever we go to the park and we even SUGGEST that she gets on a swing.
    Because she hates the swing so much, she won’t go on ANY rides. Not the merry-go-round and NEVER the ferris wheel. Don’t even think about the tilt-a-whirl or even those little baby motorcycle rides that simply go around in a circle. Nothing.
    Do you see the problem with the trip to Disneyland?

    So here is how it started. Shaun has a way with talking to the kids. He can get them to clean when I couldn’t even get them to put a fork in the sink.

    NO WAY!

    WILL SHE?

    Take ONE

    I can not believe it. I really CAN NOT believe it….

    I AM ALIVE!!

    SHE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Go here to see the whole set of pictures from our day, which I am calling – The many faces of Shea – Our trip to the zoo, fairytale land, the horses & funderland.

    or for the computer-challenged: CLICK HERE

    And for Alyx’s side: HER BLOG