Mish-Mosh
posted in Uncategorized |Complex: The dotter loves the Free Willy movies. She really loves the song Michael Jackson sings at the end of the first Free Willy. The DVD has a music video of MJ singing the song.
“Michael Jacksman is a boy who looks like a girl.” quoth the dotter. “It’s strange.” Then she shrugs her Gallic shrug: “He’s complicated.”
Everyone knows it’s windy: A western storm swept into our area the past few days, announcing its arrival with huge winds. We actually got up to 59MPH yesterday, with sustained winds of 39MPH.
The day before, the forest service did a controlled burn. While I was waiting at the drive-through gastroenterologist for OmegaDad to be ’scoped (poor baby!), I overheard a man and woman talking about the fire, wondering where it was. I mentioned that it was a controlled burn.
“In a wind like this?! What are they, insane?!”
My sentiments exactly. Gives me the heebie-jeebies when they do a burn on a windy day. I guess they felt the same, because they stopped the burn much sooner than normal.
Starve a cold: The dotter has a cold. So what, my horde of readers ask. Well, we have lots of experience dealing with the dotter when she has a fever–and lots of fever reducing medicaments in the cupboard. But we have nothing for stuffy noses that are streaming snot and doing that horrid “coating” action in the throat. See, she hasn’t had a “cold” for years!
She spent the night in misery, trying to breathe. I spent the night trying to figure out what on earth to do. Any suggestions?
