Less funny, less edgy, less witty*...but still, she types!

It's been awfully quiet here this week hasn't it? I apologize, I've been asleep.

While in New Jersey over the weekend it took every ounce of my will power to stay awake or once asleep to actually get out of bed. I knew it wasn't the company I was keeping making me so tired, I did start to wonder if the state of New Jersey was just exhausting me. The last time I was in New Jersey....things didn't go very well.

Maybe I was having a Post Traumatic reaction to the state. When I landed in Detroit around 6 Sunday night it seemed maybe it was true. Spring has finally arrived in Michigan, I missed my kids and husband and when we walked into our house (love the house), I wanted to stay awake for hours! Maybe even until 10 or 11 o'clock!

But then, at 7:30 I started watching the clock to see when I could go to bed. I made it to 8:30 and I haven't been awake for 10 consecutive hours since then.

Well, except for yesterday, when I chaperoned five 1st graders through the zoo. I think I may have enjoyed chaperoning five smallish crocodiles through the zoo more than I enjoyed taking 5 boys through the zoo.

Here's the thing about boys. They're insane. Actually I think they're only insane in groups of two or more. There may be exceptions to this, like say, boys who are insane when they're all by themselves. But for the most part "Group Of Boys" = "One long loud fart joke which never ends."

So besides sleeping and dragging a band of hooligans through the zoo, I haven't been doing much of anything this week. I'm hoping next week is better, or at least more awake.

I did manage to write a little about the tooth fairy at The Buzz Off, the tooth fairy who appears to not exist in this house anymore simply because I forgot one too many times. When will kids start taking check cards from the tooth fairy? I mean who the hell carries cash anymore?

I also closed out a little baby shower gift guide at Mighty Junior. Classic gifts meant for the classic baby...the kind that sleeps, eats and cries.

*Title refers to my website's place in a box within an article about Heather Armstrong in the Wall Street Journal. The heading might read, "Not as funny, but still...."

Comments

[bigpikchur.blogspot.com]

Our mom always conned us into "believing" in the tooth fairy longer (I have NO idea why!) by saying, "If you don't believe, you don't get paid!"; which I think should be a motto for all religion.
Jules
House of Jules

[Geeky Mom]

Congrats on the WSJ listing!
I checked out your post about the tooth fairy (even though my kids are at the point where, if any of their teeth fall out, they're going to have to pay me!) and it reminded me of a quick chat I had with a friend that I ran into while out for dinner the other night. He was telling me that they had to stop on the way home to buy a "tooth fairy gift!" WTF??? Apparently, they made the mistake of giving their oldest daughter a gift when she lost her first tooth and now they had to continue the tradition with the other two. Poor saps!

[moniqueb]

You think those boys are insane now? Just you wait missy...

http://ialreadyforgot.blogspot.com/2005_07_01_archive.html

Love your blog...i discovered it many years back and it was part of the inspiration for me starting this blog way back when. Thanks!!

[guslab]

All the Jersey put-downs! You have readers here!

[MelissaS]

I've no idea what you're talking about. Where are the Jersey put downs?

I wondered if New Jersey was making me tired. I came home, was still tired, so it was not.

I sometimes think the world likes to be upset about something.