HERE COMES SUMMER, (be VERY afraid!)

summer vacation!

15 more days until my vacation is over and Summer Vacation begins for the kids.  I am not ready!  I can only imagine what the grocery bill will look like through the summer months!  And the toilet paper usage.  No doubt I will have to stock up on my dwindling supply of Excederine cus goodness knows I'm going to need it in the months ahead!

Is it just me, or are the teachers just a little bit peppier?  Well, DUH!  They're about to go on vacation as well!  They've put up with the school kids for 9 1/2 months and they finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.  Ironically the school year is about the same length of time of a full term pregnacy.  Figuratively speaking they HAVE carried our babies for the past 9 months, and now they are getting ready to deliver them back to our loving arms, and then they are going to hit the road running!  Can't say I blame them.  I do the same when school starts up in the fall.

Dickidoo got the names mixed up when he ordered Zack's graduation supplies.  He wrote in Art's middle name instead of Zack's so all of the name cards and return address labels are incorrect.  He's embarassed, which means I just MUST mention it at least 10 times a day.  Oh not to worry, I say, we'll just scratch out Zack's first name, write in Art's and reuse them when Art graduates!  I tease a lot but I am constantly calling the kids by the wrong name myself.  In a few years, if any of them are still living at home, I'll probably have to resort to using name tags, and writing their names on placecards like they do at school.  Occasionally, when one of the kids correct me and I'm already in a bad mood I'll scold them for interrupting and remind them that I am the mother, I named them and therefore, if I say another name by accident, then by golly, that is their name for the rest of the conversation and there will be no further discussion on the matter!

My allergies symptoms are lightening up immensely, quite possibly because I have finally run out of mucous and tears.  My eyes still itch in the corners, but they don't water up as bad.  I still wake up sneezing, but now its only about 5 times in succession versus the previous 10 times.  I see that as an improvement.  People no longer peer at my face and ask whats wrong with me, so I must be looking a little better as well, or maybe they've just gotten used to me looking like Jabba the Hut.  What ever the case, I feel so much better.

 We splurged and went to see the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy this past weekend.  Cute movie, go see it if you're in the need for some light hearted fun.  Its very vague and totally unbelievable, so don't go there expecting to find elaborate sub-plots like Star Wars.  Go with an open mind and you will be entertained.  And eat before you go, or take lots of money!  $5 for a bucket of popcorn, $4 for a cup of ice wetted by a little soda pop, $3 for a box of candy... and they didn't even have Twizzlers!  Whats up with that!?  How can you watch a movie without a Twizzler hanging out of your mouth!  What is this world coming to?