Because, as we all know, blogs are about nothing much

Various random thoughts from a Wednesday:

I find it very telling that when I do dishes at home, I have the kids do the silverware - they always have to unload it.  I can't stand doing that chore, and yet I routinuely do between 300-700 pieces of silverware every day at work.  Man, do I hate silverware.  Can't we all just eat with our fingers?

The good thing about working in a Catholic school is that you don't hear, 500 times a day, "Hey, you've got some dirt on your face!" on Ash Wednesday.

My food allergic child was distraught that he wasn't able to eat the King Cake yesterday at school.  Somehow, without knowing exactly how, I agreed to make him his very own this weekend.  Take a look at this recipe - two days?  Gah.

Four days until my cruise, and no passport in sight.  It's being readied in New Orleans, and the Passport dept took off from Friday until today.  When I called to check - again, for the fifteenth day in a row - I was told that the Passport office NEVER guarantees that ANYONE will receive a passport, and that there are, in fact, people who file for passports and NEVER receive them.  The response, when I dared to ask exactly WHEN I'd receive it?  "Well, we tell people to never buy tickets for a trip until the passport is in hand.  We can't help you.  You shouldn't have bought anything."  Since I'm NOT PAYING for this trip, it's not exactly my fault.  I did express order a new Birth Certificate for each of us, and we've been assured that we can, in fact, travel on the cruise with those.  Cold comfort, though, as any sickness in a foreign country will NOT be treated without a US Passport.

A boy in my daughter's class likes her, and he's not exactly shy about it.  Yesterday he brought me his lunch tray and said, "See?  I've gotten it as clean as I can, just to make your job easier."  Guess the best way to the daughter, he thinks, is through the mother.

At Wal Mart, I waited in the express lane, 20 items or less, to buy bananas, cherry tomatoes, strawberries and avocados.  The line never seemed to move, and I finally realized that they lady at the register was purchasing her full cart of groceries 20 items at a time.  Just to use the express lane.

I went to church this morning with The Hubster.  Mass consists of Old Testament reading, New Testament, Gospel and then a homily by the priest.  This takes about 20 or so minutes.  Not only could The Hubster not tell me what the homily was about, he questioned if there had been any readings at all.  Where was he?

Comments

[Alicia]

Love your blog, been reading for months. Just to put your mind at ease, your cruise ship should have a physician and clinic on it! Had one of my kids break her arm on the first day, they were able to x-ray and cast it right on the ship.

[CharmingDriver]

Full cart 20 items at a time?! That's so balls out rude I almost admire the nerve of it except I know that if would was me in that line there would be zero admiration and mucho aggravation.

You should be fine as wine with a birth certificate/without passport on the cruise - I am so excited for y'all!!

[Michelle]

Did I miss where you're going?

I know there are services that will express deliver them in a day or two--for a fee--if I recall correctly. This you already know probably I'd guess.

Here's hoping they come tomorrow.

[Katie]

My brother-in-law is one of those people who never received his passport. He wasn't that keen to travel overseas in the first place so I'm not actually positive he sent in the paperwork correctly to begin with. (My sister was in studying aboard in France, they were engaged at the time, and we offered to use my husband's airline miles to fly him over for a week.) Oh well, we used the miles for ourselves instead. hehe

Hey you have something on your forehead! (Joking! We went to late mass so no one ever even saw ours.)

[meanie]

This is why I avoid WalMart....I would have gotten an ulcer if I had waited in that line....

[dapoppins]

yeah, where was the hubster? In the bathroom?

I am here by way of Shelly and Actual Unretcouched Photo! Nice to meet you.

[Kristi]

I can't stand people that do that in the grocery line. I call BS, and someone should've booted that woman outta line!

[Mrs. Flinger]

I love LOVE that you ran down the Catholic Mass gig ('bout 20 minutes) and he couldn't say what it was about. Oh, yes, I remember those days (raised Catholic myself).

Four days?! You get to leave in four days? Color me green, baby.

[Brandy]

Sending good wishes on the passport. I can not believe the nerve of the woman in line doing 20 items at a time! Very distateful!