RaNdOm SuNdAy ThOuGhTs

So I finally went to the Lilac Festival this afternoon with my daughter. The sun was shining and it was a bit cool, but better than the thunderstorms that rolled through yesterday. My daughter's a good sport and always up for an adventure, so off we went.
Plus, out of everyone, she's a cheap date.

We got there and I realized I FORGOT MY CAMERA! Oh, NOOOOOOO. *Everyone takes photos of the Lilacs and the various oddities (people) that walk around.

Oh, well, we knew what we wanted to taste and see, so here's our (photo-less) report:

• Top of the list: fresh-squeezed lemonade, corn dog and funnel cake (hey, I never said I was going for healthy and balanced)
  
• I was buying some clever tees that I thought my kids would appreciate,

Bruises are cool.

• and since they were buy 2, get one free; I was deliberating over the design of the third (for me). As I was debating whether to go with one that was too large vs one that was, shall we say, more form-fitted; my daughter pipes up to help me with my decision by saying; "If you want it to last longer (to grow into) you should go with the bigger one." :-X The proprietor and I looked each other and cracked up. Umm, no, I don't think that's what I'm shooting for.
• A select few of you will get why we HAD to have this tee, "I canoe. Canoe canoe?"

• The kettle corn line was about a 1/4 of a mile long. No lie. What is the appeal?
• There was an older man wearing dirty yellow crocs. Why?
  
• There were 2 women who we kept crossing paths with who were dressed like the Wicked Witch of the West with striped stockings and thick black shoes. Yes, 2 of them.
• As I waited in line for a turkey leg (Yay! I don't have to cook dinner!) we were surrounded by a group of gang-bangers (or pierced, bandanna'd, droopy-drawered wannabees) with potty mouths who peppered their speech with so many f%^&s that a girl in front of us told them to knock it off. Aaahhhh, diversity.
  
• I had to mortgage my house to buy 2 turkey legs.
• They were big enough to feed a golf foursome.
• Even my 14 year old gave up and said he couldn't finish it.
• Artichokes French were a HUGE disappointment.
  

Here's a photo I got off google of the Lilac Festival.



They really are beautiful and fragrant.

oDDs aNd EnDs

A lot of ends, not so much odd.

Wow, I don't think I've EVER gone 13 days without blogging.

I'm not sure what's happening, but I can't seem to get past the 140 characters of Twitter. That seems to be just about right now.

So... here's the Twitter version of things I've thought about blogging in the last 2 weeks:

• I *finally got my black v-neck tee. I'm now a part of the club. (see previous post)

• We TOTALLY surprised my kids with Disney World. They thought they were going to the dentist and I had their bags packed when I picked them up from school. That was the best part and I wish I had a hidden camera to record their reactions.

• It was hotter than the Amazon jungle in Florida last week. I sweat so much it looked like I wet my pants. TMI, huh? Sorry.

• We met our Chicago cousins there and went to Animal Kingdom, Epcot, and Cirque de Soleil. All was totally awesome. Well, except for the heat part.

• Everything was great last weekend until we got home. It's amazing how an argument between one stubborn husband and one obnoxious teen can ruin an ENTIRE day, even if it occurs at 6 PM.

• I got new funky glasses that I thought I really liked, but they either photograph really poorly or don't look all that great on me.

• I got my haircut today and had to face the great debate of whether I should A) continue to grow out the bangs and layers, B) go short again, or C) keep growing long and go for bangs.

• I haven't been to the Lilac Festival yet and this is the last weekend. I LOVE the Lilac Festival. Random note: a few years ago I took my kids and a few neighborhood friends and went to see the local teen hearthrob Teddy Geiger (whatever happened to him?) It was cold but totally fun.

• I opted for option A and now still feel like I have a total mom-cut. What should I do?

• My period lasted four weeks last month. WTF? Sorry, again for TMI.

• I have about 300 pics from Disney and about 120 are of tourists wearing fanny packs. You could say I was obsessed.

• Hopefully I'll be back soon with pics and more "interesting" and less "random" (does that count as a submission for the blog of unneccessary quotation marks? If so, sorry.

• I don't want to go to BlogHer, but I totally want to meet up with other bloggers. Just not ones that are too serious, kwim?

• In an attempt to avoid other chores, I cleared out a two ft tall stack of cookbooks. That was helpful, wasn't it?

• I now have backfat. Oh, joy.

Hopefully, we'll return to your regularly scheduled programming later this week (end)

I know I owe you more...

crap, the whole post disappeared. I'll try again.

I was saying that I hope this will tide you over - snarky commentary on the elementary school science fair I went to on Friday.

This woman can't even be that old! She's got a kid in elementary school!


I like this woman - she's nice, attractive, trim, dresses stylishly...but tonight = fail.
She had on ultra low-rise jeans which gave her a muffin top that she probably didn't even HAVE.

(Disclaimer: I know I was sporting back fat, an exposed bra strap and a nice beer belly/ice cream gut, but at least I had on cute sandals and a nice pedicure, dammit.)
And below you can see 5 of the 17+ women who were wearing black v-neck tees with jeans. I'm obviously hanging out with the wrong crowd because they didn't send ME the memo.