Sarah Bellum's Tales of Wit and Charm

lily, my best friend’s beautiful daughter broke her arm rollerblading. ( i swear, i had nothing to do with it!) while waiting to get her arm set jen asked lily what color she wanted. lily wanted blue, but luckily jen put a stop to this by pulling the mom card and said, “if i’m paying for this then you’re getting pink”!

lily’s been forced into pink since the day she came home from the hospital. i was put in charge of finding the outfit she would wear home. i bought the pinkest thing i could find, against jen’s will of course.

i think it’s important to force pink onto people as soon as possible!

sounds weird, i know, but read more here!

in an effort to avoid having to buy an airline seat belt extender, i’ve boycotted eating lunch out every day. it helps that since our offices moved i’m in chair restaurant land, which i hate. to avoid extra caloric intake i packed a lunch and left myself a note so i’d remember to take it.anyway, it was because of this i realized i’ve turned into my mother. growing up she always left herself notes: on doors, car steering wheel, purse, everywhere. i don’t think it’s because she’s an airhead, i think she just had a lot on her mind. sure, i could be saying that to avoid the scatterbrained diagnosis. i’ve just got lots on my mind.

don’t get me wrong, i love my mother–i just don’t want to be her.

as much as i hate that idea of men are from mars women are from venus bullshit, i’m starting to believe in it. i took a geek field trip with the boys today to raelco, an electronics graveyard store. it’s a creepy place and i am, without a doubt, the first female to have ever walked through the door. the way they looked at me was frightening, not undressing me with their eyes frightening, but “what is this person that looks and smells so much better” frightening. odd, because you would think at least one of them had seen a woman on episodes of star trek before.
this place proves to me, yet again, that men and women are very, very different–women so clearly being the superior being.