say it ain't so ..

I am a person who can no longer eat beans. Of any kind. Trust me, you do not want to be anywhere near me within a 2 hour window of me inhaling beans for supper. Just ask the people I live with.

If Only....

Wish I could walk around all day talking like a 1970's TV show, jive-ass brother - that rhythmic, poetic, outspoken, almost singing, fantastic way of speaking...for example: leaving the school after you've dropped off your kid and see another mother looking messed up - hair all over the place, late, straight out of bed - why couldn't I say, "Damn! If that bitch ain't lookin' nasty! Bitch is still up in her pajama's. How late did her ass go to bed. Bitch better get her shit ta-getha!!! Uhmm, hmm. Das right!" But I can't because I am white woman in her 30's/40's (that is an actual category, people). And it is 2011....but wouldn't it be great....

surviving...

With summer holidays a week away, I realize that my present and future will be just lurching from summer holidays to Christmas holidays and attempting to survive the school year in between. I want to watch movies, lounge around, not be asked to give money/volunteer to the school, ignore my growing eyebrow line, not care about stinky homework or if I've bathed my children...or myself for that matter...