* Had a great day at Disneyland yesterday with friends. It was our old babysitter's last chance to see the Magpie before heading off to college. Seeing as she has chosen a small school in Walla Walla, WA, she needed to see as many people as possible while she could. It was much fun, and something new occurred- we were evacuated from Winnie-the-Pooh! Which, due to the "honey spill" and a "sticky situation"... ha ha ha... required the poor worker to haul around a set of molded plastic stairs to every seat. No one was permitted to escape their honey car without the stairs, which took forever, and had this been some kind of beehive smoking incident, we'd have all died a horrible death while listening to Piglet's psychedelic voiceover "wake up... wake UP pooh!... wake up... wake UP pooh!" . It was extremely odd.

I did, however, get a sweet opportunity to ride Space Mountain twice in a row due to a swap off of the Magpie who refused to ride it. My friend gave up her seat to watch him, then got a bypass to the front o' the line and she took me the 2nd time so we enjoyed it very much and had quite a fast ride in the front seat of the car. WOW is that the best ride or what??!! Love it.

* Somehow I took my son and his friend to Utility Board Shop today to get what I was assured by the neighbor kid was 2 new trucks for $10.00, but, as It turns out, said trucks are 20 dollars PER TRUCK, and the Magpie's Target board was too small for real trucks and required a new deck [which the pretty cool dude gave us used and free], new trucks, and new bearings. All-in-all, it was a $49.00 out-of-pocket expense that I did not really need just now, and I just virtually used all my birthday money to be the 'cool mom' hanging out at the UBS skate shop. I should probably mention that the boy in front of me at the counter in line was one who in our 8th grade was expelled for beating the crap out of someone on a field trip, so I felt like the Magpie had some really good role models in there. Nice.

* Please note that the stipulations for insect sitting the Kindergarten teacher's stick bugs this summer were as follows:

a) feed rose bush leaves/stems once a day or so
b) spray with water daily to keep leaves and soil damp
c) remove eggs so no babies will hatch

This seemed so simple:


Adult Stick Bug


Oh. Crap.