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or the southbay or whatever....
it had been awhile, so made my way down to my home town today. it was time for the 1st grade class to hold their holiday musical presentation something or other. it was cute....no, really.
had planned on getting home much earlier than happened, but could not fall asleep and then my phone would not stop waking me up. finally got up round about 1400 hours, putzed about and then left for home. took near an hour to get there....traffic was fucked for so early in the day. no matter, it all worked out well enough in the end.
the usual took place, in that i got to hang out with the brat. we played with the dogs. we had lightsaber fights. we both had darth maul lightsabiers. the 1st time, he decided that he was darth maul and i was luke skywalker. i reminded him that those 2 never fought. he then reminded me that we were pretending, so anything goes....smartassed little shit. i have to say, the dmls that i got him looked really cool in the dark. worth every penny that i paid for it.
anyway, had dinner and then it was off to the school. 30 minutes of christmas songs....they even sang a hanukkah song, but no songs of the kwanzaa theme. i don't know, maybe there aren't any. i really don't like christmas caroles(understatement of the year), but the kids were cute. i did get a kick out of the kids singing "all i want for christmas", since most of them were missing their 2 front teeth and then some. still can't believe the teachers taught them "the 12 days of christmas" incorrectly. 12 drummers always drum the 11 pipers. they however managed to have 12 pipers piping 11 drummers....
the brat had a line at the end of the show....he flubbed it, but was too cute. "we hope you enjoyed our program", was the intended line. he blew into the microphone....he tapped the microphone...."we hope you enjoyed our pro....we hope you enjoyed our program". i later complimented him on not picking his nose, as so many others had been doing....to which, he farted in my direction. that's my nephew.
eventually made it back to the house. played some more. that child never runs out of energy. talked him into using his new toothbrush. once he starts brushing, it plays the star wars theme for 2 minutes, as long as he's brushing, to keep him brushing long enough. they're cute. after that, tested him on his spelling words for the test tomorrow. he should get all 5, plus the bonus word. the jump from the main words to the bonus word was surprising....how, what, here, said....decorate. he initially left the "e" off the end, so i said to him, it's not "decoRAT"....that stuck.
headed off shortly after he went to bed. stopped at lucky's(alpha beta, lucky's, albertson's) to pick up a few things. even hit starbuck's. wasn't sure what i wanted, but knew it had to be hot. the workers were girls, so i had to settle for a drink. ordered and paid for a venti eggnog latte and was given a grande. um, no, i ordered a venti....oh, sorry, they both have 2 shots. i paid for a venti....she ended up throwing in an extra shot, which worked just fine.
arrived back here some time after 2200 hours and watched movies. now, i do believe it is time for an attempt at sleep.