My random day

So I'm in a goofy mood tonight. Had a migraine earlier in the day and slept too long.

Now it's midnight and I'm awake!

Gah!

I have found myself in YouTube hell. Watching video after video somehow going from how to nail art to hairstyles to 70's music to stuff I don't even know how to classify.

I once spent 2 hrs watching Asian people create realistic fake food out of powder, water and play dough molds. And then display them in complete miniature kitchens.

I know. Sad.

That said, I decided to come over and check in with you people.

So, um...'sup?

errr....a yeah. Not much I guess.

Spent a few days at the coast with my parents and the kids. Nice way to wrap up my time off. I miss being able to see the water from my house.

Sigh.

Our house on the bluff was the best ever. Huge windows and a view straight to Victoria. Whales swimming by and the many ships and boats.

I loved it.

Today I decided that if I had a million dollars I would buy a marina. Not a huge fancy one but rather a small funky one with character. Like the one we saw in Canada on our last boat trip. It was on one of the islands and probably held 30 boats, if that. It had a small store, grill and a house and a kayak business. It had to have been built pre 1950's from the architectural style.

It was clean and quaint. The owner was just too old to keep up with it.

Which got me to thinking. What if we were too old for it? I mean its hard work keeping a business up, let alone one on a waterfront.

But that didn't last too long as the girls bought into the fantasy and started thinking of ways each of us could run that marina. Oh they had big plans for it. It was fun to make believe and dream.

Speaking of kids. I picked up the oldest child today and took her to coffee. (Or cocoa as she insisted it be called-- so literal! Must get that from her father! ).

It was nice. We shared a cuppa and talked.

I want them to talk to me and not be afraid to confide in me. And I realize that the time is coming that it may get difficult to bridge that gap.

*shudders as she looks down the barrel of teenage years*.

She opted to quiz me for part of the time. State capitols! I was horrible.

No. Really. I sucked. I more than failed. Me! Who can still remember filling in those little maps and taking quizzes about the states. I could see the papers. See the classroom of the elementary school. Knew I got 90's and 100's on those quizzes.

And yet 30 yrs later? Nada! Nyet! Nothing!

I embarrassingly got 24 of them. My daughter found a delight in finally besting her mom at a school subject. Meh. If it made me more approachable than maybe it was worth it.

O shiz nits!!! I just remembered! The freaking tooth fairy. That lazy biotch has forgotten to pick up a tooth for the past 4 days!! I swear! What is the world coming to? And her back up? Well,I he's just as worthless.

I better go get that biotch and put her to work. Make her write some lame arsed note to go along explaining that she got caught in a blizzard back east and had to hole up for a while. I tell you. That weather sure does mess with her flight plans. Hurricane sandy kept her away for a whole week.

After that I am going to sleep. Or at least try.

All we can all do is try.


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Post script anecdote:

As I prepared to go do tooth fairy rounds, the freaking dog started barking for no reason. Dogs up and barking and jumping on kids. Kids awake. General mayhem! Snap!

What's a girl to do? Use the cover of darkness and chaos to drop a dollar bill next to the bed where the kid will find it in the morning. Explanation for no note nor tooth extracted from under pillow? The dog must have been barking at the damn fairy!


Hey! Don't judge me. My kids will always have great stories about that whacked out, derelict tooth fairy that came to our house.

Good night all!