the amazing adventures of jen14221

yesterday

It was my first day back to work after vacation.  And that's all I have to say about that.

Will and I met up with Peter at suck-ass Applebee's for dinner; we had a gift certificate that expired on 3/31 so we decided to use it.  I had the suck-ass fajitas and Peter had the suck-ass teriyaki chicken.  Will had a suck-ass children's meal grilled cheese sandwich.

When we got home I decided to tackle the huge basket of laundry I had dumped in the basement the night before upon our return from vacation.  Guess what I found in the laundy basket?  Ants.  Lots of them.  The teensey weensey little kind that can find a miniscule speck of food on say, a baby's bib in a laundry basket, and spontaneously reproduce into one million fucking teensey weensey little ants in my fucking laundry basket.  Of course I freaked out and shook and stomped and vacumned for the next hour or so, and boiled all the clothes in the basket until I was satisfied that all ants were dead and gone from my clothes and the basement in general.  Afterwards I went around the rest of the house with a tiny flashlight - Gil Grissom style - to search the corners of every rooom for evidence of ants.  None, thank God.

Then I got really sick from my suck-ass fajitas and was in the bathroom for 45 minutes writhing in pain.  I also felt imaginary ants on me all night long.

things to do in buffalo

It's always sad to come home after a vacation.  We had a fabulous time and Will really liked spending so much time with his Gram and Gramps and Aunt Meredith.  But now I have nothing but work work work on the horizon and not much fun planned for awhile.  I hate not having anything to look forward to.  I also have to travel to Madison again three times in the next few weeks - ugh. 

In the meantime I will have to plan on taking Will on adventures in the WNY area.  We can always visit the Jello Museum.  I suppose the Buffalo Zoo could use our $$ - they're in bad shape.  Will might enjoy a visit to a petting farm.   And the Ratners are coming again to visit at the end of May.  Sigh.  Two more months.

back from vacation

We're back.  I'm tired.  There's a lot of laundry to wash.  I have to go back to work tomorrow.  Blah.

Me, Will, Sissy and Mom on the teacup ride

Mom and Will taking a break

Mom, Will and Sissy in some long-ass line for a ride

Mom and Dad at the Outback, last night.  No rules.

Will and Peter.  We ate Easter lunch in Italy at Epcot, right after we had Easter margaritas in Mexico.  I ate popcorn for Easter dinner in our hotel room.

I was surprised by a visit from the Easter bunny in our hotel room.  Lindt truffles and Jelly Bellys.  My mom is a good Easter bunny!

the happiest place on earth

Happy Easter! Today I got drunk on margaritas in Mexico at Epcot.  I also have a sunburn.  We're coming back in a few days and I'll be able to tell you more then. 

i'm goin' to disneyworld!

We're going away for a week so you can come rob us if you want.  Can you bring in the mail and feed the cat while you're here?  Thanks. 

I'm not sure the hotel we're staying in has internet access so you may not hear from me until next Tuesday.

Wish me luck.  It might be a nightmare.  Will is only 16 months old; he is not a fabulous traveler.

a trip down route 104

This morning, Will and I took a roadtrip out to Webster, NY.  We went to visit my friend Dawn.  Dawn and I went to high school together at good old Williamsville South.  Webster is just north of Rochester, and about 70 miles from us in Lockport.  Dawn married a dentist, and they have two kidlets with one more on the way.  They have a gorgeous new home that made me salivate.  Check out the view from the back of the house:

That's Lake Ontario.  Nice view huh?  If I had a lot of $$ I would love to have a 5000 square foot home with a Lake Ontrario backyard.  Although I might worry about storms and stuff.

Here's Dawn emptying one of her two dishwashers.  Two!  I only have one and I feel kind of lame now. 

Will and I stayed for lunch and playtime with the kids.  Dawn taught me a new trick today - she puts Triscuits on her sandwiches to add a little crunch.  Tasty.  I sometimes do that with potato chips but I also liked the Triscuit crunch.  I recommend you try it.

Sadly, we had to leave the Spelling mansion at about 3pm.  I spotted this on the way home, on route 104:

The bastards are closed on Mondays.  Suck!

And here's my boy on the ride home.  We had a good day today!

fisher price little people

I like Fisher Price Little People.  I collect them.  I used to make keychains out of them and sell them on e-bay but I got bored of that.  They stopped making the old ones, pre-1986, because of silly kids who tried to eat them and choked.  Now they make these fat chunky ones which I am not in love with but have started a collection for Will. 

Here's some of my old ones:

They're there, at the top of the china cabinet.  I have lots more, all over the place.  I sometimes find one in the laundry or in a shoe.  You never know where the FPLP might turn up.

Here's some of the new ones.  My Aunt Kathy went to the Fisher Price factory a few weeks ago and brought me back a bagful of FPLP.  We have names for all of them.

Here, Will is playing with his FPLP firetruck.  We have actual firefighters and a little Dalmation that go with the firetruck but I like to put Ava and James in there.  See them?  At the bottom?  They are on their way to Mighty Taco  and then they might go save a cat from a tree or something, I don't know.

Here's me, Peter (he fancies himself a racecar driver sometimes) and Will.  See the baby in the front?  That's the little baby girl I will have someday if I can trick Peter into it.  He says no but I'll find a way I am sure.  Stranger things have happened.

Here's the whole gang.  At the far left there's Fred and Ted, mechanic-pornstars, then Eric Strong at the top and Ava and James next to him.  There's also Kaisha, Ricardo, Carlos, Fernando, Cate, Sally Jessy and Zach (amongst others not named here).  Sara the lesbian from Vermont is at the right with her pet chicken and pig.  She might not be a lesbian but she is wearing Birkinstocks, so I just kind of assumed.

I may have had too much time on my hands today.

a tour of the living room

I'm in kind of a bad mood today but I'm not going to bore you with my issues.  Instead I'll just show you around the living room.

Here's a view of my bad boy on the sofa.  Please note that this is our old sofa and we plan to get rid of it.  It currently offers a block of the fireplace which Will would most likely get stuck in were it not blocked by the old saggy sofa.  Please also note the items at the far right of the photo.  Those are Christmas presents that I have not yet put away.  Lazy.

Peter, reading the paper.  That door over behind his heas leads to the sun room, which we have not yet used.  It's cold in there.  There are also a bunch of boxes from the move scattered around in there.  Once it gets warmer we'll air it out and maybe unpack those boxes.  I'm still missing a few things.

The two boys playing on the living room floor.  That's a new carpet underneath them.  We bought it in December.  The cat has puked on it at least 30 times and Will had an unfortunate accident last week in that very spot.  We need another new carpet.

That TV is always on.  It's probably not a good thing for the boy.  Mark Harmon needs to lay off the self-tanner.

good times

I made another bracelet last night to send to my friend Kath.  Kath and I were roommates at BU and oh my god did we cause some trouble together.  We had this fine apartment in Brighton that was pretty much party central and stumbling distance from all the good bars.  She was a Senior, I was a Junior.  She let me have her ID.  She had a handsome Kappa Sigma boyfriend and I was dating this cute freshman at BC.  Six months of nothing but fun fun fun, and my grades pretty much sucked that semester (sorry mom and dad).  Of course I am now a crusty old 35 year-old and I am a bad friend and we have not spoken in months. 

Kath had baby Owen last October so I made her a mommy-baby bracelet.  I'm pretty sure she is not one of the 10 people who read Random Daily Thoughts so she'll be surprised when it arrives in the mail next week.  Here's the finished product:

I used one of Will's toys that he has not even glanced at in weeks for a backdrop b/c I thought it would look kind of cute.  Once Will spotted me touching his toy, he had a hissy fit:

Does the fact that I found this hilarious make me a bad mother?

i just spent $40 @ baby gap, $30 @ Barnes & Noble and $5 at that nasty fast-food Chinese place

It was an expensive lunch break.  But now Will has something cute to wear for Easter and I have some magazines to help plan my bathroom remodeling.  I also have indigestion and a big gut from Sweet & Sour chicken.