long day

-Josh lost his fourth tooth today-it is the first one he lost at home and not on a vacation. I am vacationed out.

-I am still quite overly dramatically depressed about my camera being stolen and the carelessness/thoughtlessness that led to the theft. If you tell me not to feel the way I feel I'll claw your eyes out. Seriously, I will.

-I fell in love with a lady's earrings as I waited in line behind her at the Apple Store today. I began to obsess. I wanted them. I figured she probably got them in some exotic locale, I just had to ask. I said "Excuse me, I want you to know I have been standing here admiring your earrings for 15 minutes and I love them. Do you remember where you got them?" She said "They are from Prague." (See? I knew it! I have international taste and bad luck) "Well," she continued "not really because I got them in the museum store upstairs." So I smiled at her, backed out of the store and ran up to the museum store as fast as my aching back (yes I threw it out this morning), itchy peeling kentucky fried chest (OMG the itching is totally encroaching on my tid bit of sanity), and sore swollen ankle could carry my massive self and decided to have a little angry shopping spree. They had 2 pairs of the earrings left, now they have one. They are also carrying one less of business card holders, NYC fridge magnets and some mythology thing I picked up for Evan. They would have been out much more jewelry too, except I didn't find anything else that really rocked my boat. When it was time to pay the very extremely refined museum type lady at the counter asked me if I was a member (they get a discount) and I replied "No, I told you, I am anger shopping and I don't want to save him any money" She and the other very refined museum type cashier lady had a good laugh over that one.

-Took grandma to get her stitches out today. The scum-cle brought her to the doctor for this procedure last Thursday during my vacation, but the wound was a bit infected so the doctor wanted to wait until today. When I asked scum-cle yesterday if he had made another appointment for grandma (knowing damn well that he didn't want to come back out here and be useful or anything) he replied "No, I didn't know what your schedule would be" thereby re-earning his moniker again, and now I will never ever ever, no matter how clueless and socially inept he innocently appears to be, think of him as anything other than the scum-cle.

-Got my teeth cleaned today by the brutal hygienist. She isn't the one I planned on seeing but her appointment stood her up (now I know why) so she took me instead. Now all my teeth feel like they are about to fall out of my jaw. And it seems I have pockets that are potentially hazardous to my oral health. I have no misconceptions of growing old with any of my own teeth. I give up.

-I saw the chiro today too, and I think he may have made the whole back pain deal worse. You just can't straighten me out when I am all seized up like this. He doesn't get that.

-I am about 550 pages into the book. About 270 more to go.