Potpourri

I don't seem to be thinking clearly today, or able to hold on to one thought long enough to do a full length post about it. So here's a bit of what is rambling around in my brain. Maybe if I get it out I can think like a grown woman and not some brain-addled twit:

- I have had to change 3 poop-filled nappies before noon. Clive is now having peanut butter lunch in the hope it binds him up.

- Her Majesty had a 10 minute sobfest a short time ago when I told her that she'd have to wait 30 minutes for lunch. This after she'd just eaten 2 pieces of left-over pepperoni pizza not 30 minute prior. She carried on like I'd just tossed her favourite blanket in the trash.

- Sparky is an idiot. Have I ever mentioned how the boy looses EVERYTHING??? When is he ever going to learn? This morning it was his wallet. Again. He claims Clive had it last night after Sparky left it on the counter. Why it was on the counter and not in Sparky's backpack like it supposed to be was not explained. I have been cleaning today and have not yet found it. Not happy, Jan!

- How in chocolate's name is Miss Thing ever going to manage getting herself through international airports, including customs and immigration, by herself when she still calls me in a panic because her backpack broke at school? "What am I supposed to do for the rest of the day?!" I will not rest easy until I get a phone call from the States telling me she made it in one piece.

- Is it really only Wednesday? Fuck! This week is going slower than snail sex.

- I bet snails have sex more often than I do. So unfair.

- Why is Westy sleeping like this:

Shouldn't his head be on the beanbag and not his rump?

- Payback is a bitch. I was deathly afraid of thunderstorms when I was kid. It wasn't so much the storm as the thunder - I never liked loud noises and thunderstorms can be really loud. And naturally I became afraid of the lightening as it precedes thunder. Guess which 5 year old kept shrieking and getting herself worked up into a frenzy during the small storm we had yesterday afternoon, setting off her little brother who really needs to excuse to scream?

- The storm yesterday was a disappointment for us at Chez Mooselet. The worst of it went to the north and south. Not that I want a lot of damage, but some really heavy rain to top up the pool would be much appreciated. We're supposed to get more rain today. I just hope it waits until I'm done driving around, or it rains in between trips.

- Headline from ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corp): "Man shot in head dies". I wonder how much they pay someone to come up with headlines like that! Tomorrow's headline: "Sun rises in east". Seriously, I'm sorry for the man's family that he's dead but can't you people at ABC come up with something less obvious?

- Said Sparky to me last night, "I think outside the triangle." Please let him be deliberately joking like he claimed.

- I'm really enjoying the miniseries John Adams, being shown on Showcase on Foxtel. It was shown on HBO back in the States. Miss Thing even watched the end of part 2 with me last night. I try and remember that, after 6 years of living in Australia, she knows next to nothing about early American history when she asks me things I think should be very obvious to a 17 year old. I never would have thought of Paul Giamatti as John Adamsbut now I can't picture anyone else. So far so good!

- This counters my huge disappointment with the screen adaptation of The Other Boleyn Girl. Now the book was extraordinarily kind in its treatment of Mary Boleyn and took lots of liberties with history, but was essentially factually accurate. But the movie... ugh. It was horrible. It felt very rushed and not only took liberties with history, but out-and-out rewrote HUGE parts of it. I wished I rented this first before I bought it outright. If you have never seen this movie, don't waste your time. I'll lend you my copy of the book instead.

I think my brain is pretty empty now. Still feel a bit like a brain-addled twit. Crap.