Spencer doesn't make sense. Here are my two examples of things that happened yesterday.

Me: Are you trying to eat your lotion?
Spencer: No.
Me: I was talking to Adia, why did you think I was asking you that?
Spencer: I was afraid you were going to ask me it I was eating icecream.

Later that night....

Spencer: I really wanted to spend time with you and Adia. You should have told me to stop playing video games.

Cryberries

Today I took Adia to a farm she loved all the dogs, like this dog and the HUGE dogs I kept calling cows.

I don't like ice cream on hot, humid days it makes me feel heavy. I found the best dessert, frozen blueberries.
everyone who ever reads this (Spencer) buy some frozen blueberries (cause I'm not sharing) suck on a couple and then eat ice-cream. Guaranteed the ice-cream will taste gross and you will finish off that bag of blueberries.

cookies?! for breakfast!

I was very proud of myself when I broke Spencer's habit of eating ice-cream for breakfast, though I realize now it didn't change much of anything. Yesterday he had pancakes with syrup and cream topping off his breakfast with a piece of Mother's Day carrot cake.

Later we had this conversation.
Spencer: Go ahead and get rid of that cream frosting I made I keep eating it plain.
Me: Oh I totally understand sometime I just eat some butter out of the fridge.
Spencer: At least there is sugar in this cream
Me: Well, yeah I dip my butter in sugar before I eat it.

shaking hands with the devil

Adia has chosen her left hand to be dominante.
I try to make fun of her call her a weirdo and freak it doesn't seem to work.
I try playing "quit hitting yourself" with her left hand so she associates it with pain.
It hasn't worked yet.

The genius in me

I hear this too often, "He's really smart just not focused." It goes along with the gifted children post on stuff white people like, Diesle Sweeties posted on it too.
I have a friend who has a 4.0 for three years at a university. I told a mother who's son goes to the same university, "My son is a genius he could get those grades if he applied himself." This is said about a kid who had his computer stolen after he left it in a cafe to go get high.


I am impressed when I met people who are disciplined in their hobbies and professions. If you kid can do complicated math equations but fails to do homework because they are watching Boy Meets Wold re-runs I don't think you are allowed to call her a genius.

Speaking of genius, a cat pooped on our roof last night. I see it every time I walk outside.

Funny Love

Spencer had been reading this fantasy series he loves. It's George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. The first book, Game of Thrones is over 800 pages. He reads them while I work. We finished the first book staying up till midnight.
He was so excited to finally talk to me about it.
"What do you think?"
"I don't know ask me in the moring."
"You didn't like it?"
"No, it's ...it's just so bleak there's nothing happy in the end. There is no love, Every marrige has the husband die, the girl's baby dies and the young girls are beaten daily. It's just ends so bleak and you say the next book is all war I'm not sure I want to keep reading."

....

"I knew you wouldn't like it. It's not Pucca."

Spencer and I have always had opposing opinions of entertainment. Mainly I like anything animated and Spencer needs fighting.

This Pucca is one of my favorites.

Dream a little dream

Last night I had a dream I was on a ship with a couple in their late forties telling them what we (the crew) would be doing with their daughter, who had just died. I positioned the girls arms up dipped them in oil and wax and set her arms on fire as a torch. The ship began to fill with water and the corpse torch began to bob in the water the arms had burned down to the elbows and continued to burn. I was under water looking up at the corpse's face, she turned and looked at me.
Spencer had to wake me up.

the runaway bunny

I was reading Adia The Runaway Bunny last night, and changed the words.
When I was a kid I hated that story, I thought the mom-bunny was scary. The story is about a baby bunny trying to get away from the mom bunny who I assumed was abusive. Why else would a baby bunny want to be away from his mother? I pictured this poor little bunny trying to get away to a safe place but the mom-bunny would find him.
I found the book at a bookstore and I bought it because I always loved the pictures. I changed the story for Adia where the baby bunny is changed into all these objects but the mommy bunny still knows how to get to her poor bunny who is enchanted.

your rice are belong to me

Rant time!
I went to go buy some more brown rice since I'm all out.
I went through 25 pounds in three weeks. Since Spencer has celiac so we eat rice for almost every meal. Our staple breakfast is brown rice, avocado, tomatoes and soy sauce.
I grind up rice for everything I bake.
You can imagine how furious I am that I cannot find rice in the stores. This rice shortage has thrown everyone into mass panic. I know people who have stocked cupboards full when I've never seen them cook even a cup of rice.
Everyone who freaked out and stocked up on rice go return your cases to the store unless you will actually eat it. Remember with every mouth full of rice you eat a starving kid in Africa is saved.

I overhead a 12 year old girl talking with her sister.

big girl: I know a girl whose black and she's actually really nice, I mean if you find someone whose black they can be really nice. Like, if you find one that looks nice. They are really nice people.

Younger girl: You're suppose to call them Native American.

Four years down

What's the most romantic thing you can think of?

If you said, "dead clown" you just guessed Spencer's four year anniversary present to me.



Spencer got tickets to Corteo the Cirque du Soleil play about a clowns funeral. We found our seats up by the some fans.
"Gross!" I tell Spencer. "Someone is smoking out side."
"That smells like weed"
And that's when the magic began...

The show was amazing as they all promise to be. The best is when the audience bounced a midget tied to balloons around like a beach ball at a concert. Sadly, if you did want to see Cirque for the costumes I would hold back on this show, unless you have money burning a hole in your pocket.

WHAAAAA!

It happened when Spencer went on his eco-savior rant talking about how narwhals are becoming endangered.
There is a long silence.
"Wait. They're real?"
Did you guys know narwhals are real? I thought they were made up like unicorns.
I better not find out that unicorns are real or I will start crying. I could have been riding one all these years!

It's comic book day

It's the day new comics come out hooray!

I went to the store to buy two mangoes, It was more difficult than I thought.
I looked at the two in the bag and felt unsure of my selection, tossed another one in and I immediately felt better. Spencer said he need four lemons I threw in an extra one. I began to notice the amount of produce I buy; five onions nine apple, five lemons, five avocado, seven tomatoes...etc.
I can't buy even numbers it just feels wrong.
I also don't like Adia's sippy cups to have matching cup and lid.

World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Me: You know how people around here say...
Spencer: Gah! you were saying how great Utah was today but you hated living there I just think you're never going to be happy.
Me: Don't start fighting with me.
Spencer: I'm just concerned for you.
Me: Concerned?
(Spencer realizes there is nothing here he can say to justify)
Spencer:... Concerned that you're pissing me off.

Punching Poetry

I once met a drunk girl that proclaimed her love of sex.
"I love sex so much," she said. "That's why I don't have kids."
I didn't tell her where babies come from. I think it will be more fun for her to be surprised.

I went to an gallery opening tonight, there was a picture of mine displayed (hooray!). There were also poetry readings all themed around women.


I will share two lines from a poem that was read,
"You are a flower to beautiful to pick. Your fragrance to wonderful to leave alone."

The man reading had written the poem for his wife and when he finished I applauded, not to him but to his wife, because his poetry is to awful to have to be married to.

I found through most all the art (painting and poetry) was about sex.
I do believe that woman are very sexual however I feel that exhibiting woman with sex is a bit cliche.
Why is it that people do not explore other aspects of femininity?
When people continuously combine woman and sex, is it treating woman as sex objects?

I feel that it was also a maturity issue. Many of the people there looked like undergraduates.

So what do any of you think about this? I really am curious do you agree or disagree?

RANT!

My parents filed an anti-harassment against a neighbor. The court (without looking at the evidence) threw it out because my other neighbors love this guy and related stories of memories that happened before they even moved to the area. My favorite from a neighbor who moved in when I was 18, was a memory of my neighbor allowing me and my siblings to play in his garage with his toys.

So, if someone is filing an anti-harassment... doesn't it seem reasonable to assume that they need it?

For Easter Spencer got me this stupid little nodding guy which I totally love and enjoy watching it on my desk.
I also got a bunch of honey.

can terrible two's come at 10 months?

Yesterday I took the phone away from Adia. She freaked windmilling her arms smacking me in the face. She hit me and screamed so I took her into a empty corner of the room and sat holding her trying to get her to calm down. She tried to bite my face instead. This went on for five minutes till I gave up and put her to bed.

But on a cute note she did wake me up yelling "MOoooOM!" from her crib.

At least she found the kid

My friend has four year old twin boys. Most of the time her children multiply themselves and add more until she ends up with 7 kids.
The game of choice is dress up. Clothes are scattered all over the play room while they dress up and play. Once when I came over I found one of the twins in a rainbow sparkle skirt borrowed from his older sister. He told me he was a "Dragon Slayer."
The main problem my friend runs into is when it is time for the boys' friends to leave.
"um... where is Ethan's ____(enter article of clothing)___?"
The worst my friend told me when one of the kids was picked up and they couldn't find his underwear.

lesson on drugs

When my grandma gave us money she would say, "now don't you go rolling it and smoking it."

suicide squirrels

Bellingham is full of suicide squirrels.
When Spencer and I go running squirrels dash out in front of us. It's pretty freaky since you don't see any of them till this jet black rodent dashes out trying desperately to get stepped on or at least accidentally kicked into the air. I scream every time then laugh, not unlike a handicapped child.
There are two squirrels in our yard that run up to me when I open the front door. I thought they were cute until they were almost touching me. I realized that they were just rats with adorable tails and ran inside, I use the back door now.

I'm pretty sure disney made that

I knew the poetry was going to be bad when it opened with, "Everyday is Auschwitz for animals."