Yesterday, I spent a good hour and a half inflating the new hippity-hops we got for Mr. Z and Miss O. I started out using our minuscule hand-held bike pumpette, but ended up blowing the things up with my now completely 'sploded lungs. I almost passed out about 80 times and I think I burned out about half of my alveoli and an odd O-ring or two. But seeing the spawn bounce around the yard, almost breaking every spindly limb on their bodies made it all worthwhile:
Then, I took Miss O to a birthday party at the zoo -- I know, HUGE potential for taint-rippage. But, it was pretty fucking enjoyable. The key was that the parents giving the bash ACTUALLY HAD A FUCKING CLUE HOW TO PARENT and, for once, I didn't have to end up basically hosting the goddamn thing myself. They kept things moving at a timely clip, they had food and liquid served at the right time, AND they offered me a big hunk-o-cake, which I gladly snorted. Oh, and another AND, they didn't give Miss O a godfuckingshitass goodie bag at the end of the party, thank Zeus, so I won't be stepping on plastic whistles and spider rings and tops and mini bottles of bubbles that would all be scattered all over the fucking house for the next month, if they had. It was the closest thing to a non-painful 6-year-old's birthday party that I could've possible hoped for.
And I got to pet a chinchilla.
What else? Uh... oh, I cooked a fucking incredible dinner tonight. Grilled Mahi-mahi (from the Fish Truck, no less) with garlic mashed potatoes and salad. A real grown-up family kinda dinner. It rocked the hizzy. The key was the Soy Vey teriyaki marinade. I recommend it highly for all you fish-grillers out there. My mom always uses that stuff, but I never imagined I'd find it here at the Kroger, which, strangely, I did. Didn't think they let "that kind" of condiment into the state of Michigan. Must've slipped by the ethnic food brown-shirts that rule this state with an iron oven mitt. Regardless, the food was tits.
AND, to top it all off, I tried out my new SwiMP3 player today at the pool, and the thing actually worked! First, I tested it out in a controlled, highly scientific test in the tub this morning, just to make sure. The SwiMP3 passed with flying colors, while I got water up my nose and bumped my head on the faucet.
But the thing is pretty fucking wild. As I mentioned in an earlier post, you don't wear it in your ears, but rather, the pads rest on your cheekbones, and the music is conducted through "the bone" into "the head." You can't really hear it until you stick your head in the water and then, presto, instant music, that kinda floats around your skull, right about here:
I was kinda flipping my lid for a few laps, thinking I was going to start convulsing and then all the bones in my body were going to instantly turn to powder, but I was able to chill and, eventually, really enjoy it. Listening to tunes while swimming... who'da thunkit?! Technology -- here to stay? I say "probably!"
And that's about it. I'll leave you with a conversation between Mr. Z and Miss O that I overheard as they were getting ready for bed:
MR. Z: Shut your pie-holes!
MISS O: Pie holes?! There's only ONE pie hole!
MR. Z: That's what YOU think!
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The "ethnic food" reference reminds me of a story my parents told me about when they were first living in Michigan (late 60's early 70's):
One grocery store/deli kind of place had recently started selling bagels. When the guy handed them the bagels, he also gave them a small tub of cream cheese and remarked "this is how they eat them."
It's a little better out here now, DPK. At least they don't make me wear the yellow mitten patch on my jacket anymore, when I go into town.
I get my Soy Vey marinade at Trader Joe's. It's good stuff!!
They have it in the "ethnic" section of my Kroger, which consists of two shelves with 5-year old boxes of matzoh and some faded jars of tahini.
I think Kim meant to say "KrogerS."
After all she lives in Indiana.
Well, Nora, I think the "Midwest S" was understood. Though to be technically correct, the sentence should've read, "They've got it in the 'ethnic' section, over by the Krogers..."
Although I am not eye-talian, I was amused to see the tube of polenta in the CANDY aisle at Dick's SuperStore (they have a movie rental and beauty salon) in Monroe, WI this past weekend! Population 10,000. (I went to the big city for rations... we were in Browntown, population 235!)
Well, Sarah, obviously Dick thought it was "Good 'n' Polenta."
Bah-dum!
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