Today is one of those days you wish you could go back and start all over because the second time around can’t possibly be as bad as the first. Unless the second time contained white hot pokers and your bare skin. And even then, I might choose the second time over the first.

I’m not dead. I’ve been swamped at work. Cassidy has had a lot of homework. Ben and I have been kinda wrapped up in a “project” that some of you already know about and others will soon. Friday possibly. Saturday for sure.

Since I feel kinda bad for slacking on the posting but I don’t really have anything fantastic or even worth reading to say I’m just going to link bomb you instead:

Go visit this site that Tracy found. The Best Buy and Cell Phone Symphony stunts are especially funny.

Then go visit Jason’s flickr. He has the camera that I dream of at night and has uploaded some of his shots. Every one of them is fantastic.

So, May 1st was a busy day. It was the three year mark from the end of “major combat” in Iraq. 140 American Troops died during “major combat”. 2266 have died since. (Source). I’m not going to get into my views on the war right now except to say that I’m proud of our troops, but not of this war. And I look forward to the day that that number stops increasing.

It was also The Day Without Immigrants. I think that it should have been called An Extra Day Off For Illegal Immigrants That Didn’t Seem To Do Much Good.

Basically, May 1st was a day for the rest of the World to point and laugh at America.

And in that spirit, I thought you might all want to laugh along with them. (I had to look all over for a site that still had that video up!)

P.S. - I *heart* Stephen Colbert.

The Princess is sick. She threw up in the sink last night and didn’t even tell me!! When I asked her why she didn’t come wake me up she just said because her tummy hurt too bad. : (

Today she kept wanting to sit down when we went to Levitz with my mom to get a new couch. Then at Target she was practically begging me to carry her or let her get in the cart. Normally she’s darting in between racks of clothes chattering away non stop. Then at dinner at Buca De Beppo’s she took one bite of bread and told me she couldn’t eat anymore. The last few months she’s been eating as much in a sitting as I do. After the bite of bread she fell asleep with her head on my lap and didn’t even wake up when the ENTIRE ROOM sang my mom happy birthday. So all she’s had to eat today is a half a serving of a McDonalds fruit salad.

The worst part about being a mommy is the helpless feeling you get when your baby is sick. Normally she’s a very independent child but when she’s sick she tries to attatch herself to me and it hurts my insides when I can’t do anything to make her feel better.

When you take medicine that says “May Cause Drowsiness” what they really mean is “You Will Snore”. This isn’t so bad. Unless you snore while still in your cubicle at work. THAT could be bad. I can’t decide which is worse, constant scratching or feeling like a walking zombie.

They went away for about two days but as soon as I was off the Prednizone, they started to come back. This paragraph is mainly for my info. So just in case I’ve taken medicine before I go in to the doctor and start rambling incoherently I can point to the computer and tell him to read. heh Technology is fantastic.

Cassidy has a project due on Monday. We’ve been reading all about Benjamin Franklin. She’s also started multiplication. I swear I was a junior in highschool before we started learning multiplication. Not SECOND grade. I use a calculator to check her homework every night. Okay, maybe technology isn’t so great…

*falls back asleep*

I finally activated Aksimet to get control of some of the comment spam. YOU don’t have to worry about it because you never see it but I was getting 200+ emails a day asking to moderate comments. I activated it today and not a single spambot made it through. Hopefully nothing got sent there that shouldn’t have been. 283 comments were caught between 5:30AM and now.

I’m itching again. Suck. I’m pretty sure I’m gonna have some scars on my wrist where I scratched for a month straight and until I had big sores on my arms. I don’t get it. I’ve NEVER had allergies before. This year I’ve had the Attack of the Killer Hives and I’ve spent the better part of two days on the couch dreading the next time my sinus medicine wears off. Today it was so bad that I got flushed and REALLY nauseated. Like, fetal position begging food to stay down nauseated for about 30 minutes.

Cassidy and I are shamelessly addicted to America’s Next Top Model. She tries to explain to them through the TV how to take better pictures and demonstrates her “walk” over and over and over. I think I actually get more of a kick out of her watching it than the show itself. She also thinks that Jade is “really lame” and has a *hands on hips* ‘BAD attitude”.