It's My Place: The Weekend...

Monday, November 01, 2004

The Weekend...

I did absolutely nothing this weekend!! Well, almost nothing. Saturday afternoon, I took P to a friend's house because they wanted her to go with them to a wingding on base (they didn't invite me, I guess I AM a second class citizen now!!).

Once again, P didn't dress up for Holloween. Up until Thursday, she wanted to be a Princess, then she changed her mind at the last minute.

Sunday, I was forced to watch a LOOOONNNNNG Care Bear movie. Not once, but twice! WHY ARE THEY SO POPULAR AGAIN???

Oh, I also watched the complete first season of Ali G. If you want to talk like him, use can use his translator. I remember back in 2000, walking down Oxford Street in London, and seeing him and wondering 'Who is that fool in the loud yellow suit?'. Evidently they were filming a segment for his program. Anyway, the dvd is pretty funny.

Now that I have passed a portion of my hacking cough to P, I need to take her to the doctor. This brings me to another point~~why do total strangers feel the need to diagnose your ailments? While in the commissary last week, 3 different strangers had 'cures' for my cough, and one even had the nerve to tell me that I have walking pneumonia, and that I should hurry and get to the doctor, because I could also have a collapsed lung. So nice of him to care!! I bought some Vicks Formula 44D (liquid crack), drank some and laid on the couch. It didn't help the cough, but I felt good!

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I'm back from the doctor. The doc gave her a prescription for Robitussin. The whole time we were in the exam room with the doctor, P did not cough ONE TIME!! The doctor was giving me the crazy eye. I explained to her that I called earlier, and her lackey said I should bring her in to be checked.

While at the clinic, I made a few observations:

If your spouse is deployed, YOU ARE NOT IN MOURNING!!! Fix yourself up, get out of the sweats in public and for heaven's sake do something with your hair!! The matted/stringy/uncombed look is not you.
If your spouse is deployed, you are a TEMPORARY single parent~~imagine those of us that do it FULL time!! Do not expect a pity party! IT CAN BE DONE!!
It's 50 degrees outside, that means it's time to retire the clogs for the season. It doesn't mean it's time to wear the clogs with white gym socks! As Big Momma would say, PUT A DAMN SHOE ON YOUR FOOT!
If your kids don't listen to you at home, they WILL NOT listen to you in public! If they stand on the chairs at the clinic, I KNOW they stand on the couch at home.

Well, I have class tonight~NOT looking forward to it. It's like the teacher is speaking Farsi or something~'kfaleir faerueir relational database iuoeri.' Thank goodness we have to do a group project!!

I guess I'll get back to pickin' cotton.

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