Monday, May 5, 2008

Monday Morning Musings - When Life Gives You Lemons


Zac bought some gum at the store last week and it is nasty. It is some fruity funky flavor. But it smells like someone ate a pack of fruit snacks and then threw up. Seriously. All three of the kids were in the play room the other day and they were all chewing it and I walked in there and almost heaved. I was searching everywhere to find where that smell was coming from and I finally figured out that it was coming from their mouths. Mmmmm. Who's idea was it to manufacture vomit fruit gum?

Last week I cleaned out my e-mail inbox. I had 287 unopened e-mails. It was so nice an clean just a few days ago. I just opened it and I have 83 new e-mails. Sigh......I can't keep anything clean around here.

For my sister Lauren's birthday, way back in December, I gave her a coupon for lunch with me. I mean, who wouldn't want that as a gift, you know what I'm sayin' ? So I finally took her for her Birthday lunch on Friday. I think that the place we went to has a very shady practice going on. I'm not for sure, but I have my suspicions. I have thought before when I took my kids to restaurants, and they order a drink, and it comes in a cup with a lid, that I have no idea what they are drinking, they could put anything in there. Well, I'm gonna be checkin' from now on. I ordered a lemonade for Addy. I poured it from the cup it came in into her sippy cup. I thought, that's not very yellowy lemonade. But then I thought (it wasn't even a Thursday either) not all lemonade is yellow, yellow. They didn't have what Aubrey wanted, so she ordered an orange soda. The waitress brought that and Aubrey took a drink and gave it to me and said, "This tastes like water". So I opened it up and looked at it. It looked like water with a shot of orange soda in it. I tasted it and it was NASTY. So I told the waitress and asked her to bring a lemonade for her. Her lemonade was freakin' yellow. Yellow, yellow. So at this moment, I am of the opinion that they water down their children's drinks, and I think that is despicable.

I live in a nice house. That being said, it isn't perfect, and I know it isn't. I can list off all kinds of irritating things about it. They aren't major things, just little ones. All houses have them. Even though I am well aware of the little things, it still really ticks me off when some stranger comes in to look at my house and says bad things about it. If you can't say anything nice, don't freakin' say anything at all.

A few weeks ago we were at my mom's house. My sister Lauren was having a migraine headache. My kids didn't know what that was, so my mom explained. Well, my kids now get migraine's on a daily basis. Zac has called me from school twice since then saying he has a migraine. And Emily had one just this morning that was preventing her from getting out of bed. Just one more thing to make my life that much more fun.

Happy Monday everybooty!

6 comments:

Alicia said...

I like your Monday Musings- you keep it real.

Allyson said...

Thank you dahling, thank you.

Unknown said...

I was laughing so hard at the migraine thing. I am sorry.

What are people saying about your house? And are they saying it to you? Are they prospective buyers?

I can't believe that about the restaurant. Seriously, how much does soda cost them? Barely anything! That is ridiculous.

Although maybe the waitress thought you shouldn't be giving your kids soda. So she watered it down for you. You bad mom you! Just kidding of course! That would make me mad. Do they think kids aren't going to say anything? Was this a local place or a chain? I am interested to know.

Allyson said...

It's stupid stuff, one person said that the kitchen was too small and they didn't like the layout of the bathroom in the master. They told their realtor who told ours who told us.

It was Ruby Tuesday. Do they have those there?

Anonymous said...

smart kids

Amber said...

Hey allyson, I love reading your blog! It always makes me laugh. I seriously laughed out loud to the migraine thing.... Ha!