I am currently sitting about
Posted by: Liz | From: October 29, 2003
I am currently sitting about 6 inches from the computer screen because while I remembered my lunch (after reaching the stoop without it and running back inside), my yogurt (which exploded all over the inside of my bag on the one day I didn’t have time to put it in a grocery sack) and my glasses case, I seem to have forgotten to actually put my glasses in said case, thus leaving me all bleary eyed. Nice.My Halloween plans involve going to PA with Krista to her family’s bad-assed, much talked-up Halloween party. I will be donning my striped t-shirt dress, a wooden finger, black eye makeup, a mournful look, and straightened hair. Now all I need is a Baumer to go with me.
Before I got this new, starting-later job, I used to pass a million kids with their parents on their way to school. Inevitably, these kids were always being fed breakfast on this walk. Of course there was the occasional bagel, but what I saw most of on this walk to work was bags of chips and bags of cookies. Now, I hate to pass judgment on other people’s parenting skills, but these people are BAD PARENTS. Okay, I’ll admit that many “breakfast foods” on the market are a far call from healthy. I doubt Pop Tarts have more nutritional benefits than Famous Amos Mini Cookies, but, c’mon folks: chips at 8 a.m. is just plain giving up on any sort of attempt at good parenting. At least the Pop Tart parents can claim they are making an attempt in the breakfast food area. You can improve from there. Chips, on the other hand, chips are NOWHERE. Chips are what you eat with a cold bottle of ginger ale when you wake up hungover at 2 in the afternoon. They are not a fuel for 8 year-olds headed into a day of class. Bad parents. BAD.
Happy yesterday birthday to EVA!!
Anyone else as anxious as I am to hear how Mimi Smartypants's baby-hunting went?
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