I find myself swimming farther than I ever planned to go out in this lost ocean /
I still feel hate reaching out to save me, it’s deep down, OH but it’s there.

Hello, sums up how I feel lately, like I’m doggy-paddling vigorously and nothing is happening. Thank god for Emarosa.

My name is Francis and I am an exotic fixture at a bumpin’ little place called The Wet Fish, just started there last week after graduating high school.

At first, I could not master the art of pole dancing, but things there have been progressively getting better. You know what they say: One does not give up just because of a little Indian brush burn to the crotch.

So I tried and tried and tried again until finally one of the seasoned pole charmers, Snapper, came to my aid and clasped her hands around my waist to add support while I gyrated and spiraled down the pole. Her fingers were yellowed from years of smoking Pall Malls’ that reminded me of my grandmama, who was also in the business back in the day. That gave me hope and a sense of familiarity.

We are not allowed to go topless because one night there was a suited man seated in the corner and the sight of topless women triggered something innately homicidal that he never knew he had in him, and he sliced a dancer open with a broken beer bottle. Ernie, the manager, made a new rule that requires us to wear pasties. I use pepperoni to cover up. It’s all part of my routine: I saunter onto stage with a piping hot pizza from Geno’s and seductively pull off two discs of pepperoni and slap them over my nipples, letting the attached cheese ooze down my chest like draping ornamental chains. It makes me feel like a Vegas showgirl. The guys seem to really like it because the scalding of my flesh makes me yell out in pain. Plus, it distracts them from my club foot. And the fact that it is hard to hoist my thick body up off the floor when I do my pole routine.

The other night when I was writhing around the peanut-shelled floor, shimmying in the direction of a rotund man in overalls and hoping for a tip greater than a can of sardines, I kept catching the scent of Dorito’s and seaweed salad. The biting tang seemed to get stronger every time I would do one of my signature leg lifts. The room cleared out rather quickly, except for one gangly old man who tipped me two dollars, a Chuck E. Cheese token and a recipe from the back of a Campbell’s Soup label, reasoning that my odor reminded him of his mama’s cookin’.

It wasn’t until after my show that I realized the scent was emanating from the sanitary napkin that I had left adhered to my underwear for over a week.

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• 16:58 I never thought when I saw 3Oh3! at Warped Tour that I’d be hearing them a year later on So You Think You Can Dance. #
• 16:58 @saucalisha I REALLY WANT STREUDEL. #
• 20:06 Apparently, we have a mallet. I know this because my son just walked in the room & almost struck me dead with it. #
• 21:28 I should start wearing a bonnet during any sort of sexual activities, like gang rapes & cock choppings. #
• 21:32 I should also wear a bonnet while eating streudel, & then use the tag #appropriatebonnetoccasions #
• 22:41 Someone better give me a Prayer Cross for my birthday so I can gaze with amazement. Haven’t gazed like that since I saw prosthetic leg porn. #
  

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• 10:42 Sometimes I like to give Henry recaps from the last Degrassi episode I watched. Often he thinks I’m talking about real people. Wish I was:( #
• 12:12 Today, we buy a helmet for the klutz. Probably would be a good idea to pick one up for the kid, too. #
• 13:02 Made coupons for my shop & each discount code is a 70s porn star. Just call them couPORNS if you will. I love them. #
• 14:14 I don’t know why everyone hates my Summer Jamz, Holla mix CD. I can tell you it makes me raise the roof, that’s how BUCK it is. #
• 14:21 twitpic.com/8l6mt - BUTTERFLIES. #
• 15:38 Henry, after I tried to put windows down in the car wash: I locked them. Me: Why!? Henry: B/c I knew you’d try to put them down? #
• 18:15 If you could see my jackass son right now, you’d think he was abused, thanks to all the facial/head marring from three separate incidents. #
• 19:38 Henry & I are engaged in a sort of relationship repair olympics. He got me sushi & red bean mochi ice cream. Good for the silver. #
• 19:39 Revolutionary War porn for the gold. #
• 19:41 I looked out the window in time to see a tree walking down my driveway. #
  

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• 00:55 Henry should compliment me more on my wonderful dairy. And then I’ll say “Isn’t he wonderful?” as I watch him urinate in the wild. #
• 14:00 Men have all the answers. Thank god for men. #
• 21:58 Purposely drove through some dangerous areas & nothing happened. Dratsies. #
  

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• 00:49 Whenever I go thru the motions, I’m always left with a sticky residue. #
• 10:29 Some broad @ my neighbor’s mistook Chooch’s chin-bruise for dirt & tried to scrub it. Henry informed her that he’s just abused, not dirty #
• 10:41 Interesting. Ex-bff is on my blog right now. #

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What is your favorite way to de-stress on a Sunday?

I was going to write about last Sunday when I spent the day at Kennywood with Henry, Chooch, Blake and Alisha, but all I want to do today is watch the Degrassi marathon, listen to Seaweed and Jawbox, and paint. I’m coming off the tailend of a long and stressful week & my brain has exclamation marks, asterisks and ampersands ricocheting around (and there’s an umlaut doing something strange over by the temporal lobe) and I think that means it wants me to shut it off for a little while. The (very few) moments I have time alone, I catch myself zoning out and staring open-mouthed at the wall. I’m starting to think the best place for me is a cabin in an isolated forest where no one but a deranged man with a hacksaw can find me. I’d even take a beach at this point, and I am SO NOT a beach person.

Also, our neighbors are having a birthday luau for their daughter and it has been going on all the livelong day. At one point, I glanced out the kitchen window while painting (that’s my studio, you know) and spotted some haggard-looking broad sitting under the party tent that Henry helped set up because he’s always so eager to help everyone else but god forbid I should ask him to do a single thing for me and expect it to be done.

So I point out the window and go, “Who’s that lady?” and Henry goes, “That’s Renee, that’s the one whose birthday it is.” Now, I know my eyes are bad, but I always thought that Renee was much younger than me, so I’m a little confused at this point.

“How old is she?” I ask, and Henry informed me that she just turned 24.

She looks much older than me, and I’m about to be thirty in a month. I mentioned this to Henry, and added that she seems to act much older than me, as well.

“Sweetheart,” Henry started, as he braced my shoulders with his meat-paws, “everyone acts older than you.”

I’m growing bored with this blog.

Help.

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• 17:59 In the one minute span it took me to order our pizza, I was called “babydoll” “honey girl” and “sweetheart” by the girl on the other end. #
• 22:22 Very serious about making Bumpit porn into a reality. I think there’s definitely a market for pompadour’d pubes. ‘Bout to get rich. #
  

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• 01:20 Being told how I should or shouldn’t feel gets old after awhile/8 yrs/all my life. #
• 10:11 Precious Moments, urine samples, Clay Aiken posters, STDs, Duggar afterbirth: What are Terrible Things to Collect. #
• 12:08 The ability to turn any situation into a party by launching confetti out ur asshole: #crapsuperpowers. (OR IS IT.) #
• 12:15 I miss the glory days of floating all day in my pappap’s pool, listening to slow jam mixtapes on a yellow Aiwa walkman, plotting murders. #
• 13:21 Just chased my nude son down the street. #
• 20:36 Watching someone try not to puke is in the top 5 of things that make me laugh hardest. #
• 23:05 So badly do I want to watch @saucalisha put a puzzle together while receiving electrical jolts. #
  

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• 17:33 Thanks, because it had been way too long since the last time I caught a rock with my teeth. #
• 19:18 Welp…we kept saying we wanted to see the inside of the new Childrens Hospital. #
• 19:36 Everyone needs someone like me around during accidents. I add that extra punch of trauma and hysteria. Someone bleeding? Watch as I faint! #
• 20:19 Thank god we got a young & cute female doctor. She’s the only one who was allowed to touch Chooch’s wound, as he looked down & blushed. #
• 20:23 Spellcheck changed Chooch’s name to Shoot, might have to adapt that. #
• 20:23 twitpic.com/8bujl - Welcome back from war, Private Shoot. #
• 20:52 Watching a 3yo get staples in his head is not something I had on my bucket list. As soon as I scrape my heart off the floor, we’re leaving. #
  

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• 10:30 It’s good to know that a few staples won’t keep my child from acting like an asshole. #
• 12:18 To my friends who make their own soap/bath products: does it generally take 3mths+ to make & ship orders? Just wondering. #
• 13:39 RIP Farrah Fawcett. #
• 14:21 I’m so glad Chooch now drinks his juice like a contestant on Silent Library, complete with dry heaves & riotous sprays of saliva & liquid. #
• 20:27 Made a Twitter solely for my art shit. If you’re interested in updates, etc, add it! @somnambulantart #
• 22:44 Every ten minutes it’s “Watch, my staples!” & “Don’t touch my staples!” It’s bringing back memories of what I was like after the C-section #
• 22:46 Except that once my staples were removed, it turned into “watch my incision!!” & I dragged that out for 6mths. OK, a year. #
  

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• 00:56 Degrassi, I’m “sorey” but your spirit squad blows. #
• 11:15 Giving Chooch his first taste of the “Thriller” video. I still can’t believe my first celeb crush is dead! (Shut up, he used to be hot.) #
• 15:52 On the 653th viewing of the Thriller video. I should have known better. #
• 15:55 As the latest play-back comes to an end, Chooch wants everyone to know that it’s his “jam.” And now he’s lovingly holding the CD.
• 16:58 If I were a farmer, I’d hire German girls to be my apple pickers and then beat them with a belt while they baked me streudel.

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Leaving Penelope’s shipwreck, Poppy paused. “Am I missing some stockings?” she asked, studying her swishing tentacles.

Paige scoped out her friend’s goods. “Yes, it appears you certainly are missing some stockings.” Glancing down at her own gyrating stems, she went on to say, “And it appears I’m flashing some bareness as well.”

Paige and Poppy looked at each other and rolled their eyes in unison. Every time they spent the night at Penelope’s, they always wound up with AWOL undergarments.

“I know Penelope’s parents have been hurting for money, but this is just ridiculous,” Poppy steamed. “She must have enough of our stuff to photograph her own lingerie catalogue by now.”

They turned in their wake and buoyed back over to Penelope’s. As they cornered her in her room, Penelope’s father floated down the hallway wearing Poppy’s bra and, on two of his chubby tentacles, Paige’s stockings were pulled up taut.

One already had a runner.

Chooch fell down the steps earlier this evening. Thank god he was nearly all the way to the bottom before it happened, but he still fell from a distance great enough to result in a full flip through the air and a sloppy landing into the corner of a bookshelf.

I was at the bottom of the steps when it happened. First, I saw his toy airplane hit the floor, and when I heard a second thump, I turned toward the steps expecting to see more of his toys being hurled, as he sometimes does to be a dick. But the second thump turned out to be Chooch himself, hitting the fourth-to-the-last step and then bouncing back into the air long enough to gain the speed necessary to acquire a gooey gash on the side of his head.

It was a flash of his blue shirt, a sickening thud, and my heart was lodged in my throat.

There was blood.

Since it was a head wound, there was a LOT of blood.

I remember there was that moment when time just flat out stopped, and we stared at each other, him in a supine position on the carpeted landing, and me in a paralyzed lunge. And then I think we started wailing hysterically in tandem. I saw the blood and my legs went noodley and I began gagging which caused HIM to gag and he was crying so hard and I was just flat out in a state of motherfucking PANIC.

Every time my brain would start to churn out rational thoughts, my synapses would get clogged with the sight of blood. It would be like, “Call the doct—-BLOODOMGBLOOD.” “Get some ice from the freez—-OH HOLY FUCK THAT’S A LOT OF BLOOD.” “Chooch, sit down—-OMG HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE THAT’S LIKE AN ENTIRE PERSON WORTH OF BLOOD.”

And he wouldn’t let me touch it. He just kept sobbing “Don’t touch me! Leave me alone!” and he squatted under the dining room table and all I could think was that what if he hit his head so hard that his memory got all fucked up and his mind put together some horrible fable wherein I pushed him down the stairs?

It took something like 28 phone calls to Henry consisting of me screaming all helter skelter at him before Henry finally deduced that he should definitely not be at work and thank god for that man because he walked through the front door all calm like just as I had gotten Chooch to calm down by putting on Silent Library, best show ever. Henry scoped out the gash as best as Chooch would let him, never once accused me of being a shitty mother, and very sedately announced, “OK let’s go to the hospital.” Just like that. He didn’t cry. His voice didn’t tremble. His knees didn’t quake. He kept it together and let me be the shaky, nervous, panicked, OMG-death-is-imminent parent.

It was slow night for emergencies so we were seen within ten minutes of arriving at the new Childrens Hospital. After a nurse took his vitals (I wish she would have checked my blood pressure, too) we were deposited into an exam room, where an older woman in a black cardigan came in wielding a clip board. “OMG it’s a social worker, I’m being questioned, they’re going to take my son away from me” was went through my mind. It turned out to just be someone from Reception, who wanted to verify our address and insurance information. I resumed regular breathing.

Every time I would close my eyes, I saw the accident happening all over again, and it turned into a video game where I try to control myself to get there faster and catch him. Henry kept drilling it into my head that it wasn’t my fault, but I was the one home with him. I had just been with him too — he was in his room, where he goes to poop, and I checked in on him. He said he wasn’t done, I said take your time. I came back downstairs and it happened a minute later. And in the midst of all the commotion, all the crying, and all the blood, all he wanted was for me to change his poopy Pull-Up.

We were blessed to have a young and pretty doctor, and Chooch set him sights on her immediately. He actually let her, without a fight, push his ringlets to the side so she could assess the damage. She ran through some standard tests, making him follow simple instructions like touching his nose, sticking out his tongue, and touching her fingertip, and gave us the reassuring news that she saw no need for scans and that he didn’t seem to have suffered any neurological damage. She left, and we were left to entertain him for twenty minutes while the numbing agent sat on his wound.

Of course, he was back to being a crazy ass, doing and saying all the odd things he’s wont to do and say, and I asked rhetorically, “But was he EVER neurologically sound?” It was also fun to tell him that the zombies were skulking about the hospital floors, searching for him, because they could smell his brain stench emanating from his glutinous scalp cleft. Henry scolded me, so of course I did it some more. What, Chooch LOVES zombies!

While the doctor was gone, Chooch started acting real goofy, walking in clumsy circles and talking with a protruding tongue. At first I was like, “Maybe he hit his head harder than we thought…” but then it hit me. “He’s acting like a kid with a crush,” I pointed out to Henry, who heartily agreed.

“This is how he was acting around the girls working in Kiddieland on Sunday,” Henry said, and we laughed as Chooch pressed his face against the sliding door of the exam room, eye-flirting with a nurse out in the hall. Then I had a fleeting vision of hm growing up to be the next Richard Speck and suddenly it wasn’t so cute anymore.

Chooch wound up getting three staples. The doctor came back with a nurse and somehow they managed to keep him prone on the exam table with him displaying nary a buck or struggle. He whimpered a little when his wound was being washed, and he definitely cried audibly during the stapling, but all in all I’d say he was much braver than I ever would have been in his position. I’d have been, “It’s OK, just let me bleed out, k, c-ya bye” if someone came near my head with a fucking medical stapler, bitch you better step off.

Chooch didn’t want to remove his patient smock, so the doctor let him keep it, along with the large syringe she used to squirt his wound with water.

We were in and out within an hour and a half. The new hospital is amazing and it was a much better experience than the last time we had to take him to the old Childrens Hospital. n of course, why should my night end quietly, all the neighbors were out when we came home so I got to tell them all about how I’m a shitty mother who couldn’t function when her kid needed her most. I just keep getting more and more awesome.

Of course, once we were home, Chooch had at least ten more near-accidents, four of which were on the steps.

Sometimes, when I stupidly have an urge to procreate again, I go back and read some of my pregnancy posts on LiveJournal, wherein I am quickly reminded to close them legs up, close ‘em up tight, ya’ll.

Today, I had a fleeting desire to try and birth a creature that might actually enjoy to cuddle with its mother, unlike Chooch who might as well just start pulling a switchblade out of his underroos and rolling cigarettes in his shirt sleeve. So to LiveJournal I went, and I found this lovely memory of Ponderosa and realized that hey, I still haven’t been to a buffet since then. This grudge thing, it comes easy to me.

Originally written January 13, 2006

It was all Henry’s bright idea, really. While idling around the house, wondering what to do for dinner (I was content extending my breakfast and lunch of gummies into the evening), Henry suggested Ponderosa. I quickly thought back upon my last trip to a buffet and decided that I wasn’t living life to the fullest unless I gave it another go. Besides, my mom used to take me to Ponderosa when I was a wee chitlin’, and if memory served me right, I believe I liked it.

Things immediately got off to a rocky start when we arrived. I stood in front of the large menu hanging on the wall behind the counter, heart rate increasing from the impending pressure cast onto me from the impatient stares of Henry and the cashier. My only option, of course, was the buffet, as everything else was steak, steak, seafood with a steak smoothie, or super steak. That’s gross for a vegetarian.

We walked over to the secluded booth I chose and it was here when I became arrested by what I affectionately call Fish Out of Water Syndrome. I stood there, next to the table, with one knee on the slippery booth, looking to Papa H for guidance. Do we sit down first? Do we stand here and wait for a signal, a green light or the peal of a dinner bell? Maybe we should just leave; I really wanted to just leave.

“What do we do now?” I whispered. I could feel the anxiety branching its russet fingers across my face, panic wavering from my flesh like heat on the horizon.

“Uh, we go up and get a plate,” Henry chided in the tone he reserves for moments he feels I should be reminded of my fucking retardedness, after which he stood there and stared at me for a second longer, then shook his head and walked away. I quickly ran after him, grasping onto the elbow of his shirt with my sweaty fingers.

I hung back awkwardly, observing Henry’s professional buffet maneuvering. Following his lead, I grabbed a plate, making certain it didn’t come complete with a hair like his selection did, and then I began to tentatively prong clumps of withered lettuce into a small mound on my plate. The lack of fresh spinach among the salad spread had me so bereft that I had to mentally talk myself down from tear-shed. Hormones are a bitch, but to be fair I probably would have stamped my foot even without-child. Two steps down, an employee was coveting the green pepper slices, thereby monopolizing the container from all the paying customers such as myself who really had their hearts set on the addition of the crisp, snappy vegetable to their salad. The peppers were already overflowing! There was no need for restocking at that particular moment, but then I remembered that to me, buffets are  merely an extension of a waking nightmare, so I tried to stop having standards and began to expect typical salad fare to lie in festering clumps, marinating in general buffet splooge and skin flakes from the arms of overreaching salad fixers.

Sans peppers, I moved on to the dressings, which I was delighted to find were not labeled. I blindly added a small dribble to the center of my spinach- and pepper-less crap hill, and shuffled back to our booth with my head down. (I shuffle while pregnant.)

As I pushed the questionable bits of salad around on my plate, I took the time to scope out what nonpareils Henry had acquired. This resulted in an interrogation of how he managed to escape my side long enough to seek out an array of slightly-edible choices. Items such as a golden roll and mac n’ cheese garnished the edges of his plate; things that maybe I would have enjoyed as well.

“If you would have continued along, you would have run right into it,” he explained while tearing chicken off the bone like a caveman, as I whimpered with jealousy.

It’s true, I could have taken more time to explore the depths of the buffet, but not while some old man was breathing down my back, waiting for the right moment to swoop down under the sneeze shield. He was right up against me, tongue wagging and elbows primed and jutted, waiting for the opportunity to start jabbing. I imagined him coating me in the remnants of his impending whirling dervish, and to be honest, I wasn’t trying to stick around for that. Buffets make me feel so rushed as it is, but throw a buffet bully into the mix and watch me freak out like the amazing social abortion that we all know I can be.

After I explained this scene to Henry, while trying to be brave and stifle my tears, he promised to take me back once I picked my way through the salad. Henry’s plate of thoroughly gnashed goods had long since been whisked away by the nicotine-damaged waitress, and still the minutes ticked on. He sat hunched over the table, watching me with his glazed-over eyes as I tediously cut too-large florets of broccoli into bite-sized morsels with his knife.

(My knife was adhered to the napkin it was rolled in, courtesy of an unknown viscous substance, so I wasn’t really anticipating using it on food that would eventually wind up in my mouth.)

By the time I had devoured all parts of the salad that appeared to be health code compliant, there were too many people in line at the buffet, so I made Henry wait some more. It was during this interim that I really got a good look at my fellow diners. Interspersed with folk of Henry’s ilk, and a handful of citizens who looked like they could self-suffice for a few weeks without sustenance, sat:

• (1) man who arrived with his belt already unbuckled;
• a troika of children who had thrown their jackets onto the floor upon arrival and then proceeded to lay on them;
• a group of guys who clearly had just gotten high out in the parking lot

I also finally got to put a face on the noisy nose-blower behind me. And boy I wish I hadn’t, because for that moment in time, I feared that I had somehow wound up in Appalachia.

On my second round of facing the ominous buffet, Henry walked me through and pointed out things that maybe I would enjoy, like cottage cheese, potato salad and macaroni and cheese; it was like having my own guided tour and I felt the need to ask when we were going to see the basement. Little dollops of everything Henry recommended dotted the perimeter of my plate, which I then crowned with a hesitant spoonful of buttered noodles (they looked like worms swimming in snot, you guys) and chocolate pudding (it looked like soft serve poop with a  diarrhea skin, you guys). Henry brought me back a smaller plate featuring a diminutive lump of mashed potatoes (which I took one taste of and gagged back up for added effect), nachos and cheese, and a slice of pizza.

I’m really glad that he had the foresight to include the nachos because otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to deduce that the cheese sauce festering away in that vat on the buffet was the same exact coagulated concoction used to coat the macaroni. It was disgusting, and it made my face crumple up like an air-filled paper bag being crushed.

I may have struck out with everything on my plates, but I still had the pizza to count on. The cheese was so thick and heavy, congealed with a luminous sheen of grease not unlike a pool of oil in a parking lot or the complexion of an amputee after performing a one-legged fornication obstacle course on the most humid day of the summer while chugging mugs of habanera chili, that I had to use a fork to pry the slice off the plate. Mistaking that I was in a real restaurant, with a real slice of pizza in my paws, I dove right in. And what a shock to the taste buds (whom I have promised to make it up to, by the way) as they drowned in a wad of artery-plugging mush. I managed to lumber through half before the thick tomato paste became too much to bear. And the crust was like no other: A strange hybrid of what one might assume was soggy Ritz crackers crumbled and rolled out with Nilla Wafers on a tray spritzed with Grandma’s Aquanet to form a sad semblance of pizza dough. I was intrigued. Nauseated, yes; but intrigued nonetheless.

Hope blossomed around the ingested sludge in my stomach when Henry suggested that maybe the desserts would be better. He brought back a smörgåsbord of pint-sized confections: A small bowl, which bore a striking resemblance to an ashtray, housed a small portion each of sugar-plated bread pudding and a crumbled mass of what I believe had “apple” in the name. Next to the bowl, he set down a plate which carried a slice of some curious variety of sweet bread and a brownie.

The crap in the bowl was decent, but the brownie was no more than a glorified piece of school cafeteria cake with an APB out on the icing. And the bread! Good Lord, the bread. Having the inferior taste buds that are programmed into your average blue-collar worker, Henry masticated his bite of bread as though it were a caviar-capped truffle, but I droned on and on about how dry it was — I even conducted an experiment using a small sample of bread, a sip of water, and an extended tongue — and oh yeah, what exactly was I eating, anyway? He insisted it was nothing more than nut bread, but halfway through the shared slice, I bit into a mushy mouthful of banana.

“It’s banana bread!” I announced as I pulled the plate away from Henry and happily ate the rest.

“So because you now know it’s banana bread, it’s suddenly good?” A veritable pylon of steam chugged from his ears as Henry wrestled with this concept. I love confusing him with my nonsensical food laws.

Unfortunately, one slice of banana bread is not enough to change my prior conception of the buffet, so from this day forward, the word will be completely obliterated from my vocabulary. Buffets no longer exist in my universe.

The lesson learned is that evidently, my boobs aren’t the only thing that have gone and changed on me since I’ve entered adulthood; my taste buds are no longer the same under-developed specks upon my tongue as I once knew them to be. Which explains why Chuck E. Cheese pizza isn’t exactly a delicacy worth writing home about these days, either.

What bothers me the most is that I still don’t know what dressing I had covering my wilted salad.

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• 18:20 The first person to ever commit suicide must have had a three-year-old. #
• 18:43 Making a list of “accidents.” #
• 19:07 “I don’t know how Henry wound up vivisected, in a pot of soup, wearing a Mexican necktie, Officer. Must have been some sort of accident.” #
  

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• 14:05 Silent Library just might be my new favorite show & I feel no shame. My new goal is to be on it. #
• 20:12 Dear Diary, I can’t wait for the day my son is old enough to go outside alone & play, & I can stay in the house & mainline Draino. xoxo. #
• 21:18 The combined forces of Chooch & #thingieball just broke my knuckle, I think. #
• 21:37 Oh boy, that’s a positive. #phrasesthatcouldmakethistheworstdayever #
• 22:53 I’m grateful humans were built w/ the capability to summon shrill shrieks from voice boxes. Toddlers (or myself) just wouldn’t be the same. #
  

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• 09:34 My wrist feels like there’s a burning knife pressed against it & I’m freaking out. #
• 14:08 Maternity wards should hand out white flags as a consolation to new mothers. #
• 15:12 The Kennywood trolley has passed my house twice today, leaving a trail of calliope notes in its wake. TWO MORE DAYS! #
• 15:13 And now I can’t stop thinking about Calliope from Days of Our Lives, circa 1980s. She had a LIGHT UP WEDDING DRESS. She was my idol. #
• 16:50 I wish Henry was Trey Songz. Or at least the same age as him. #
• 17:07 Chooch: “What are u doing?” Me: “A dance I just created from sheer Awesome.” Chooch: “You’re blocking the TV” Who’s the 3year old, indeed #
• 18:54 Making Janna watch Silent Library & dying all over again. Watching someone eat a sweaty man’s spaghetti shoelaces never gets old. #
• 21:37 Janna was almost able 2 pee alone in my house for the 1st time in 4mths, but Chooch caught her in his peripheral as she crept up the steps. #
  

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• 13:51 Really need to learn how to delete speed dial entries so I can stop purse-dialing assholes I hate. God forbid they should think I care. #
• 14:01 Yes, roll up next to me in your car that’s vibrating with the basslines of Eminem. & if that didn’t impress me, an eyeful of ur boxers will #
• 14:37 Dear Etsy, thank you for providing me with adequate funds for a day at Kennywood, and also to feed my kid I guess. #
• 19:09 Chooch: “What’s a rainbow?” Henry: “Something in the sky, or if it was on @saucalisha’s car, it would be on the bumper.” She didn’t deny it  #
• 19:12 So I guess now that Chooch wears underwear, he’s too big to give his mother a kiss goodbye. #
• 21:50 Two aversions I’ve created for my son by shrieking excitedly: hockey & firecrackers. #
  

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• 00:41 Apparently Alisha doesn’t like my car-dancing which is just very sad to me. When I started choking she asked if it was on my whiteness. BURN #
• 09:48 Trying to convince Chooch that the Goblin King sings “Changes,” which is on the radio right now. He’s not buying it. #
• 10:34 Alisha requested that I take a valium before we go to Kennywood today but I couldn’t get a hold of my dealer. Owellzorz. #
• 14:31 Kennywood makes me feel bossy & militant, but there’s shit I need to do & everyone should follow w/o argument. #
• 14:42 Alisha & Blake are abusive. I’m crying. On the inside. #
• 14:42 I hate them. #
• 14:55 twitpic.com/80zql - All of Henry’s shirts should be this cool. #
• 15:59 Blake gleefully enjoying an afternoon jaunt upon a merry-go-round (after putting much thought into which horse to pick) is making me LOL. #
• 18:26 We’re eating Potato Patch fries next to speakers pumping out frenetic techno & in my head this is a fry-eating video game & I’m on Level 2. #
• 18:31 twitpic.com/81rtt - Oh shiiiiiiiiii—it’s about to get all a’juggle up in here #
• 18:36 Asked Alisha if my new juggle-lover dropped a ball on purpose, she ANGRILY said “I’m not watching” b/c she’s against the juggling of objects #
• 18:37 I want this guy to juggle Henry’s ballsack. Consider it a Father’s Day gift, you know? #
• 18:47 Ok srsly me and this juggler need to get in my bed. Preferrably without Henry, but that could be fun if Henry didn’t get all needy. #
• 21:34 Henry’s happy watching other people be happy. This is baffling to me. #
• 10:09 I left my voice at Kennywood. Henry will cheer. #

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