here's one thing about being the mother of a five year old girl: boy, is your vacuum dust glittery.

tonight our salad greens came entirely from the garden. my favorite is the tiny, tender chard. every vegetable in my refrigerator has a big bite taken out of it. my kid is so weird and thrilling.

i'm reading City of Bones, by Cassandra Clare ( Read more... )

Last night two chums and I saw a performance of Macbeth in a tiny shoebox theater, which had twenty seats, all front-row. It was marvelous: Smoke machines and strobelights. Lady Macbeth was in her undies, and she had cool bruises all over her shins. During the banquet when Banquo's ghost shows up, a woman brought a tray of cookies and ( Read more... )

actually, this was a pretty good mother's day. i was dreading it because months ago during my gentle quitting process, i agreed to work today at the flower shop. but it went swimmingly, as things were just busy enough for me not to notice the time, there were some crazy-awesome orchids i've never seen before, and my married produce boyfriend ( Read more... )

happy mother's day to us!

kid: ugh, i wish i had a real unicorn. mama! i need a real unicorn.
me: baby, i don't have enough money for a real unicorn. i wish i was rich.
kid: but if you were rich, you'd have to have your head chopped off.
me: ... um, that was only during the french revolution, baby.
kid: really? are you sure?

my little sister has always been at least a few degrees less geeky than me, but she's coming into it in her old age - i'm freakin' loving getting emails that say things like "omg future hiro was so hardened and unrecognizable!!" heroes is the first show i've watched while it is on television in simply ages, and i love being able to talk about it ( Read more... )

( Spiderman 3: in which James Franco totally eats some pie )

good things ( Read more... )

eeeeeeee! i just got a job! eeeeee!

my internship is now actual employment. that was the easiest job i've ever gotten - on the way to the shower, pause to answer phone, kid walks by and declares loudly "i'm hugging your BUTT!", they offer me money. YES.

am about to be a paid cataloger, omg.

we went to the musical at the school my kid will go to next year today. it was seussical, which i had never seen (here's my analysis: cut out at least half of the songs for the love of god please). between each song, when everyone was clapping, my kid was hollering "MORE! MOOORE!!" every time. it was awesome ( Read more... )

we had a horrible, horrible trip to the zoo today. we took a girl who was at preschool last year and whose mom really wants the girls to be friends. it was three hours of this horrid, princessy-in-all-the-wrong-ways girl sing-song scolding my daughter and tattling to me. i fucking hate a tattle-tale. i had to tell this girl many times "you know ( Read more... )