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11.10.2003

ok..i do NOT know where i got that it was alanis' b-day. i guess it was a little more exciting than sharing a b-day with jp sousa.

This is what i got for my birthday though....



she's amazing and i got her for 4 whole days.

I didn't realize how hard it is to have so many people in the house. I mean i have done it a million times, but i have this stunning habit of biting off more than i can chew without even realizing that i am going to be trashed by it.
people traveled from all over the place to come to Atlanta this weekend and i wanted to make sure that everyone had a good time and loved atlanta as much as i do. so i wanted to make sure that my sister got to the Margaret Mitchell house and that we were able to get jbl to the much talked about "My Sister's Room" (which was pretty ugly on Saturday night, so i doubt i will hear the end of it from her)
and also to make sure that melanie wasn't totally overwhelmed and that i got to spend a little bit of time with her. she was great but i think that my decision to invite a bunch more people over on sunday for brunch was pushing it.
also thinking about the dog all weekend with the baby. He hasn't been around children since he was a puppy and considering recent events, i was a little nervous, so big boy played a FINE Hannibal Lechter this weekend with cage muzzle and all. He was unbelievably well mannered and mellow. He made his mama proud!

I realized JUST how hard it is to raise a kid.
especially when you have full blown ADD.
my sister asked me to give her a bottle so she could sleep a little bit longer.
i went in the kitchen
started to make blueberry muffins
remembered that i was supposed to be getting a bottle
put milk in the bottle
put it in the microwave
went back to my muffins
TOTALLY forgot about the bottle in the microwave.
the child had her bottle about 45 minutes later when i remembered.

I left a diaper on the bedroom floor

i left a baby wipe in the bed

and while in the car, listening to Sleater Kinney i kept thinking, is it necessary, as a parent to become 'uncool' for the sake of your children?
Like, if I had kids, would I have to give up listening to new music, for fear that my children might want to listen to it and i would ruin their chances at being rebellious? would it make them weird?
I just hope that their mom being queer would overshadow our possible overlap in musical tastes.
hopefully they won't start listening to marching band music or something in order to separate.

.: posted by landry 11:02 AM