before i finish the jumble
i was really psyched for an entry today. both her and on blogher. latest blogher here.
anyhow. i always close the door to my "home office"/room where i surf blogs when charlotte is around. my office is adjacent to her play room/area of fisher price crap. tonight, i closed the door and it locked itself (yes ITSELF), and nothing mark nor i could do with our limited tools and prowess at Trivial Pursuit would open the fucking door. we called my dad and after probably an hour of gigantic wrenches and drills and other pokey and prod-y things, we triumphed. well, my dad and mark triumphed. i was giving charlotte a tubby. we have to work tomorrow at the gym daycare and charlotte was filthy and i was a bit erm, frustrated by lack of computer access/smelly.
i did upload some photos to flickr and here are a few for you lazy asses who won't bother to check out the flickrness.
my dad pulling a caper
charlotte "eating"
winter is long here mofos.
Comments
God, at least it didn't lock you INSIDE. Well I guess that would be the side with the lock then, huh, so you could unlock it? yeah, i haven't had any tea today, I'm gonna go do something about that. I loved the mangled-lock photos.
Posted by: styro | March 14, 2006 07:01 AM
Just why did you not use your Super Heroine powers and will it open? I see I'm going to have to fly there in my Invisible Jet (loaned from WonderWoman) and remind you of your strength. Also, we'll melt that snow and start summer if you want. Unless you mofos LIKE that long winter.
Posted by: Mocha | March 14, 2006 09:30 AM
That child of yours just radiates personality and cuteness. I think (hope) that if you come to Blogher, you will bring her so I can take care of her. I need a little toddler person in my life.
Posted by: moonandsun03 | March 14, 2006 09:49 AM
GUFFAW! "Fisher Price crap" Amen, Jen, Amen.
Posted by: Dorkette | March 14, 2006 10:08 AM
Your dad looks like he could pull all types of capers.
Posted by: will | March 14, 2006 10:49 AM
Glad it all turned out ok! I love when you post photos of Charlotte along with yourself as a kid..I can see the resemblance!
Posted by: teahouseblossom | March 17, 2006 08:28 AM
I listen to "I love you" by Sarah Mclaughlin whenever I want to think about my dad and cry like a baby.
Posted by: Michelle | March 17, 2006 09:15 AM
When I'm feeling sad I always listen to Van Morrison's 'Into the Mystic'. That song always tugs at my heart for some reason.
I love 70's pixs. Did we all have the same shoes or what?
Posted by: Vee | March 17, 2006 09:27 AM
When I need a good cry (ashamed to admit this) I listen to IZ's Somewhere Over the Rainbow. It's exceptionally cheesey but it really gets the waterworks flowing for me. Hi, I'm Shannon and I'm a sentamentalist of the highest order (but just every third Tuesday, so I'm still cool right?).
Posted by: shannon | March 18, 2006 08:40 AM
You looked like the coolest kid. You were obviously cool--look at you now.
I love the idea of 'stoned downloading.' There was an article in the NY Times about people on ambien who wake up in the night and eat massive quantities of food in their sleep. They don't remember it the next day, just wonder why the popcicle stick is in their hair and their chin has a fine film of whipped cream.
So stoned downloading might be a similar phenomenon.
Gosh, I HATE TO CRY. I FEAR TEARS (I have fears for tears! Maybe this will unconsciously affect your downloading.) I WISH there was a pill that made you have no emotions. I would take it every damn day without fail.
In other words, I'm too scared to see 'Brokeback Mountain.' "Hotel Rwanda"? F*** NO, NEVER! I read an article about Rwanda once and it made me cry so much and as bizarre as this sounds, I probably think about the things in that article every other week. So HELL NO.
But I want to see it! That is the thing that bugs me.
(Then the flip side of this is I get really jealous of other people when they cry. My husband will cry so easily. I envy that!)
Posted by: ozma | March 18, 2006 10:11 PM
I hate it when I ebay after a glass or two of wine. Know the sick feeling you get the morning after ;)
Posted by: Amy | March 19, 2006 10:47 PM