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February 26, 2006

Kick...Kick...Kick!

Apparently the universe is taking great joy in kicking the living daylights out of me lately and trust me I'm not impressed and it's getting O-L-D and fast!

Last night our date night, while fun in that we were able to get out and be together, was a prime example of the universe messing with me! It's been a long time since Jamison and I went out on a weekend night. We usually go out during the week because there aren't as many people and in fact before Alexis was born when we'd go out on a weekend we'd go out during the day...we'd catch a matinee movie, then grab an early dinner and beat the crowds. Jamison and I neither one are crowd people and in fact if it's night time we'd rather be cozy at home. I HATE being a room with a ton of people with the noise roughly the decibel level of irritating confusion...you know the level where there is just a din of noise and you can't distinguish one voice from another because it is that freaking loud! That's why I hate crowded restaurants, but I can tolerate them from time to time if I make a conscious effort to do so. Anyway, the point being that we drove to Annapolis and I didn't even think about calling ahead to see if they did reservations or call ahead seating because it was early, but even at 6:15 Red Lobster was a zoo! People were EVERYWHERE!! They were even spilling out onto the sidewalk to wait and usually the riff raff outside are the ones that can't go 2 seconds without a cigarette so you have to walk through their toxic death cloud to get into the building, but that's a rant for another time.

I'm not a person that waits hours for a table...I never have been. I don't see the point. It's a different story all together if you can just go in and sit down, then the hassle of having to deal with the people and the noise level isn't so bad, but if you have to sit forever to even get a table then the whole thing just isn't worth it for me. So since Red Lobster was out of the question we decided to walk across the parking lot to Copeland's to see what their wait was like since no one was outside smoking, it was a pleasant evening and they didn't look as crowded. Their wait was 1 hour so we decided to get back in the car and go somewhere else.

Once in the car we decided we'd just drive over to Columbia and hoped that in the drive over the crowds would die down a little bit, but again no luck. We first checked out the Red Lobster and it was not as crowded as the one in Annapolis, but it was still packed. Then we decided to go over and check out Don Pablo's and see what they looked like...again packed. So we decided to run by Krispy Kreme (for the record Jamison hates Krispy Kreme, but the hot donut light was on and I love those things!) and then ran into CompUSA and killed a little time and thought we'd eat late, which we usually don't do because eating late is never a good idea because it's not good for you and it always ends up making you feel like crap, but again a rant for another time.

At CompUSA they had all their XBox games on clearance since the new XBox 360 is out so we spent a little time looking through the games to see what they had left. We ended up getting Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and an Atari compilation of 85 of their old time games (sadly no Pac Man). When we entered CompUSA I remember what a pain the butt heels are. My feet were screaming by this point so I took my shoes off and carried them until we got ready to check out, where we were waited on by a dude who was in the worst mood I've ever seen in my life! Either that or he had an enormous chip on his shoulder, but he had serious issues!

Sadly our trip to Kripsy Kreme and into CompUSA didn't do much for us as far as thinning the crowds. Don Pablos was still a madhouse so we went back and checked out Red Lobster again and it too was packed. We decided to go check out Bennigan's since it hadn't looked too bad earlier, but by this time it had gotten crowded as well so we ended up driving back toward home and stopped off at the Chick-Fil-A at Arundel Mills around 9. So all that to say, there were no lobsters and there were no Bahama Mamas and quite frankly Christian Chicken (thus named by Jamison because they aren't open on Sundays) didn't hold a candle! But being alone with Jamison was nice.

We got home around 10:15, had a couple of wine coolers (or I did anyway, Jamison only drinks Pile Drivers and he didn't make any) and took a look at the Atari XBox compilation. Around 11 we went upstairs and watched this week's episode of Twins and then Jamison went to sleep. I decided to stay up and get a few of my shows of of TiVo since we were running out of room up there. Around 1:20 I finished up the shows I wanted to watch and deleted them off the TiVo box. I laid down and was completely exhausted. I don't usually stay up that late, but every once in a while (usually when I'm writing) time will slip away from me. At 1:23 I had the first indication that it was going to be a long freaking night when Alexis started whining.

I went to check on Alexis and it turned out her diaper had leaked, which in and of itself was completely weird because I have seen diapers a lot more soaked than the one she was wearing hold a lot more liquid than that! But luckily only her pjs were wet and a towel that she insists on sleeping with also was damp, but nothing else was so I didn't have to change her sheets. I changed her pjs and got her another towel and put her back in bed and thought that would be the end of that...boy was I wrong! Alexis proceeded to whine and whine and whine...and did I mention she whined?? At 2:15 I went back in and asked her what was wrong and of course it was nothing so I told her to be quiet and go to sleep! I went back in at 3:00 and was a little less charitable and told her to shut up and go to sleep!

When I got back to our room I was livid with the universe in general. I told Jamison I was sick of the universe kicking me when I was down! I was tired, I was grumpy and by God I wanted to go to sleep! Of course he wasn't sleeping either, but he was nice enough to pretend it was all about me and at that hour of the morning that was exactly what I needed. At 4 I went back into Alexis room and again told her to be quiet. When I returned to our bedroom I realized that if she kept it up and 7 rolled around I would have been up for 24 hours! She finally fell asleep around 4:30. She slept until 8 and unfortunately although Jamison got up and brought her downstairs I couldn't go back to sleep. And now today she didn't take a nap! I'M OVER THE NO NAPPING THING!!

So when Miss Grumpy Pants goes to bed, most likely around 5:30 because she is rapidly descending into screechydom I'm going to bed too. I'm going to watch a few episodes of Sex and the City Season 6, Disc 1 and then call it a day no later than 7:30. Jamison says he's going to stay up until 9 so he won't wake up too early in the morning. I told him he was on baby duty until he decides to come to bed. I'm literally about to fall over sitting up!

So universe listen to me and listen to me well...It's time for you to go pick on someone else! Pick on someone that deserves to be picked on...I'm a good person, I'm good to other people and by God I'm not going to take it anymore! Do you hear that...I'M NOT LETTING YOU KICK ME ANYMORE!!! Go find another whipping boy...this one is out of business!!

Posted by Daffodil at February 26, 2006 3:42 PM

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