Another Day
So, I'm sitting here at work and although I have a lovely looking map with perhaps 50 points I"m going to need to dot and label (didn't know I was a cartographer did you?) (i'm not but they seem to think I am) I can't really start because I don't know what they really correspond to. ... well i suppose I could start, but I'm not just yet. That and I keep looking at my gmail box to see if someone is going to email me or gtalk me because I do love distractions and social connections even if I say I don't.

I actually just got back from a mini-vaca. It was quite lovely really, I was pretty sure I was doing the whitest thing imaginable by going to good old Newport, RI but I did see maybe a small showing of diversity and that honestly did surprise me in the world of cable knits and shiny yachts. I was toting my little one along (well she's almost 6 so insists she's NOT LITTLE despite weighing less than the smaller of my 2 dogs) and another little girl came and said hello and hence forth anchored us into conversing with the parent and not just wandering around or hitting up the bar in the 45-50 minute wait for a table. It's odd how some kids are so outgoing while some or so shy. Mine, Ashley as she decided was her new name (she insists hers is not good enough and would like it legally changed, I don't recall ever wanted that as a kid in kindergarten) is mildly shy at times, but she was tired and this girl was very outgoing and wanted to frolic around and dance and swing around the poles outside in front of the live entertainment and well, act like a kid. My kid does not act like a kid. She just looked at me like, you're kidding right? She wants me to do what? She reluctantly followed once but came right back. Funny, the same day I got a lecture from a senior citizen before our ghost tour in which they charged me the full adult price for the 5 year old that I'd be asked to leave if she got 'fidgety' because their cut-off is usually 8 years old. I have to say I was more fidgety during the slide show than she was, and no I didn't see any ghosts. I'm going to hit up the Balitmore one next, at least that's in the dark.

Not sure where I was going with that. RI hasn't changed too much. A few more new strip malls, Dunkin Donuts is the official sponsor of RI now I'm pretty sure. It's replacing the Mr. Potato Head since Hasbro is poisoning our youth with lead paint anyways, now we'll just fatten them up a little more. You seriously can't go 100 yards without hitting a D&D. I know, I'm just jealous. All we have around here is the over-priced and slightly poisonous Starbucks. My brother and my spouse send each other picture messeges of D&D consumption when we get it around here b/c they are so rare. I got one this morning. Ok 2 from the brother. Thanks. That was my favorite donut kind too, peanut. The one the D&D by us claimed D&D no longer even made. Friggin liers. That's really not even a laughing matter.