Thursday Craziness, Friday Fun!

hi party peeps!  yesterday was all kindsa nutso.  i still can't post the whole thing i wrote up about it, so i guess i'll just highlight it.  lol 

thursday morning i headed to the torture chamber dentist.  the sharp, pointy scraper contraption that seems to be the most modern invention the dental community has to remove the build up of tartar.  which i THOUGHT i was preventing w/ brushing & mouthwash (i don't floss as often as i should, i know, but that's where the super bubbly alcohol free crest rinse is supposed to come in!  *laugh*).  this scraping prepares your teeth for the toothbrush, or polisher, as i believe it's called in professional circles.  LOL  then you get to have someone else floss for you - which feels GREAT when your gums are already swollen from the hook.  oh yes, lovely lovely.  heh.  getting my permenant crown on also was fabulous w/ the swollen gums.  blah.  thankfully that doesn't hurt at all now, tho, just sensative to cold ...anyway, they took xrays & did gum measurements, and found a very naughty tooth which has a very large cavity under a crown.  how does THAT happen??  so i get to go back in may & have that taken care of. 

thursday afternoon, phil called to say someone had run into my shed & pushed it into the house.  WHAT?!  i didn't get home til after dark, so i didn't get to take pictures.  but oh my heck.  at least it's not actually touching the house, it's just very very close & at an angle.  nice!  boomer's gonna fix it (he's park maintenance) which is great, but still has me wondering WHO would do that & WHY wouldn't they let me know, and apologize?!  yeesh.  goes along w/ my rant on ppl not wanting to take responsibility for their actions, huh? 

so kinda a stressy day for sure!  but then i went to mom's & got to hang out w/ her & leyton & it was all better!  : )  they'd been to aunt janie's & she'd given leyton a whole new (to him) playset...

we had a blast playing w/ it!  this old west town has lots of fun things, too.  see that flag?  if you push it down, a secret compartment opens, & the guy standing up there (well, imagine there's a guy) slides down a tunnel & comes out the blue doors!  and that white board on the bottom right?  it flips up.  LOL  there are some other "hidden" things.  super cute!!  the coach in the background?  yeah, it has a hidden cannon in the back!  sooo much fun!!  : ) 

we'd planned to try out the olive tree cafe for dinner, but leyton said he wanted a burger & fries, and then we passed the sign for cracker barrel, so i said we could eat there since we hadn't before!  leyton had fun, but i think that was MOSTLY because of the giftshop.  oh, and root beer.  LOL 

today was atypically slow, and yet busy.  idk how to explain.  i had plenty to keep me busy, but no one wanted to work!  the IM's were flying about everyone wanting to go home!  and we're not normally like that, just hit us all today, i guess.  even ppl who worked other places! 

after work i met mom at the theatre to see The Bounty Hunter.  while i waited, i started one of the books andrea gave me, Hot On Her Heels.  i only got thru a couple chapters before mom got there, but i'm liking the story so far!  what i'm not liking?  our theatre is no longer national amusements (which was a pepsi place).  it's now a rave (which is COKE).  now, there are good coke places, i admit.  chick fil a has awesome dr pepper.  but that's not really a coke product, that's a separate thing. 

carrie's soda world - this might not be entirely accurate, but it's how i group soda.

pepsi - pepsi, mt dew, sierra mist

coke - coke, sprite, mr pibb, mellow yellow

7Up - A&W, Dr Pepper, Sunkist

anyway, so the theatre is now a coke establishment & they've changed their popcorn sizing & stuff.  but the movie was really enjoyable & the popcorn was tastey as usual.  the new cup they're using for large's doesn't fit very nicely into the cupholder, which seems to indicate to me that no one bothered to check that before ordering the new cups!  ppl, please!  *laugh* 

the one thing mom & i couldn't understand - ppl bringing little kids (like, we're talking kdg - 3rd or 4th graders) to this movie.  it's rated PG-13, which to me indicates (even before reading any reviews or anything) that there could be a lot of language, sensuality, the possibility of boobies... do you really want  your 7 year old watching ppl make out or at a strip club?  or shooting ppl?  oh, wait, i forgot that kids can see that on the tv at home at any time.  well, no wonder parents didn't see anything wrong w/ it then.  oye. 

if you're a parent who takes your 7 year old to PG-13 or R rated movies on a regular basis & sees nothing wrong with that, please don't be offended.  they're certainly your children & you have the right to raise them however you want.  it's just my opinion that we, in our society, tend to force kids to grow up too quickly nowdays.  they don't get to just be KIDS before they have to deal with adult issues.  and i'm not just talking movies - there are a lot of double standards that go on w/ our kids these days.  they're raised to think more like adults, and then penalized when they act like adults - or they get other ppl in trouble by acting like adults! 

sorry, old rant.  i'm better now. 

my point is just that there is a happy medium in raising mature kids who are still kids.  and i'm not sure taking them to adult-themed movies is the way to do it.  but hey!  mom & i enjoyed this movie, and it was a nice night!  : )  on my way home, i saw what looked like a really bad car accident, tho.  : (  that wasn't so fun!  i prayed right away that everyone was okay.  eep!  even after seeing that, for some reason i felt like driving around a bit, so i did a wide berth/long way trek to taco bell.  popcorn was good, but i needed FOOD food.  heh. 

and that all concludes my tale of thursday and friday.  i'm sure i'm missing an interesting tidbit or two, but i really must go to sleep.  i'm taking chloe to the dealership tomorrow for her checkup.  i'm sure everything is fine, but it'll be nice to get the clean bill of health from those who "know her best" so to speak!  : )  i hope your night finds you well & that you have a great saturday! 

ttfn!