she was cuffed to the truth

walmart cashiers look a you funny if you wish them a happy festivus. well, probably not all of them,but my one cashier sample size sure did.

I am done shopping, sort of having spent hundreds of dollars tonight. I was also doing my mother's shopping for her, which counted for some of said hundreds, and I got groceries, but I still bought a bitch ton.

I stopped at shopko to see if they had Discontinued Action Figure that we have the almost full set of, nd they had one, which is more than anyplace else, but it was one we had. boo. but, I found shit on huge markdown and clearance, of the not on their list but holy shit they will love it variety, ranging from a thomas train set, aerosmith guitar hero, the hotwheels set with a t rex that wrecks the city!, gyro cars and launchers, bigass potato head set, miniature pony playset thing, tolee's tree house from ni hao kai lan, and a bunch of other kai lan goodies, all at least half off, some closer to 70% off. also, shopko was fucking empty. woot. scored good gifts for my mom as well, only failed to get anything for z and or hq's best buddy. because z is impossible to shop for. he will enjoy the gyro cars rock band, etc, so fukkit, and I can divert one of hq's to his bff


then I finished up with more crap from walmart, inc. my sims party for 20 bucks. got hq a bunch of board games between tonight and the other shopping, and he's getting a couple video games too.
i still have tto work out what's from us, what's from my mom, since I did her shopping.
I may in fact be trying to make sure that having a grandma in hospital over christmas doesn't wreck it for them by overwhelming them with crap. so many present they won't notice there's only one grandma

Imogene can now sing along to the theme to the backyardigans. and a few parts of the songs between shows on nickjr. This is MUCH MORE APPROPRIATE than the only songs she would sing for quite some time, see icon.


and I may as well call her Imogene here, because I can not all her that to her, or where she can hear, like EVER, STILL. She's Pobo baby now. wtfever. idk what Pobo fucking means either.

HQ and her really play together to some extent, finally, but half of that is him messing with her or her messing with him, not them cooperating. and there's a fair amount of 'OMG MOM, JUST GET HER AWAY FROM ME SO I CAN watch my movie/play pokemon/play guitar' and quite a bit of telling him not to kill his sister. But I'm finally seeing that the age gap between them doesn't mean they can't be peers.

as far as hq goes, srsly, 8 is the new 13, he's all hair, attitude, music and videogames. also, he's almost up to my shoulder. Can read at an 8th grade level but still thinks most chapter books are too text heavy and all picture books are too easy, so he's not reading much for books. which i try not to stress over, not everyone reads novels for fun, right?

I get hit with the holyshit wonderment of how cool my kids are sometimes, but I can't really imagine why people would want to read about what my finkmonkeys get up to, so I try to avoid these kid posts, but sometimes I can not help it.

the baby now not only sings her favorite bits from rent, but does choreography from it. She's got one leg up on the playpen railing, wailing "nanananaOoooOOOOOout, Tonight."

an was doing to opening from today for you at the playground today. She's even got a special scarf for when she's being mimi, and was prancing around going "Wanna prowl, be my night owwwl" while flouncing the scarf around. I'm never gonna get my good mom badge, since technically my two year old is pretending to be a stripper.

I don't have a mimi icon?

this insomniac kid bullshit is going to ucking kill me. this time she slept from about 3:30 to 5. yesteday i dozed off while she was still awake and woke up with clue pieces covering the bed. i got almost an hour of sleep tonight. by the time she's ready to sleep again, the other one will be getting up.