Queen of Rambles

You guys are not ready for tales of the potty are you? Who the frickin’ frack cares if some one else’s kid can go diaperless for a few hours? Not me. But that doesn’t mean I’m not going to share the silly things the silly boy does.

Oh, and Mommyprof, thanks for the e-mail! It was right along what we were doing.

Anyway, the boy likes to hold his butt cheek and say poo, which must be moving us along in the right direction even though we’ve never even come close to having a successful potty moment. This morning he was holding the butt, declaring poo, and I told him to run and find his potty and poop in it.

Off he went, in the totally wrong direction. I got him sorted out on the right direction and then couldn’t actually find the potty. I was muttering and telling him his mother was crazy and he seemed to agree. I was muttering and cursing, wondering what the heck happened to it and the next thing I know he’s hauling it along, bringing it to me. Guess I should listen to him a little better in the future.

I kept telling him to pee and poo in the potty, but he was more interested in playing around. I didn’t push it, just made suggestions. I know he’s probably a bit too young, but I think the more we talk about it the better, as long as we keep it fun and positive. He took the little cup out of the middle and was playing around with it. I had given up all hope that he really needed to poo and was busy devouring HP5 in the hopes of being done with HP6 in time for tomorrow (not likely!).

Suddenly I heard the distinctive tinkle of pee on the carpet. I look up to survey the damage and see the boy standing IN the potty, peeing over the back edge of the seat. Talking about new meaning to the phrase “pee in the potty!” I was laughing my ass off and Erik got mad at me because I didn’t give him paper towels to clean it up fast enough. He’s not an efficient cleaner, but he’s quick on the draw with the towels.

Speaking of HP, some weirdo freak is calling my house, leaving book 7 spoilers on my answering machine! The nerve! What kind of person would do such a thing?

Ok, so it was just Mike. We all know he’s a weirdo and he doesn’t actually have a copy of the book or know any spoilers, but can you just imagine if someone got the book early and started randomly calling answering machines and leaving spoilers? Or just shouting things like (and this is NOT a spoiler, I am totally making this up right this second and would hope to hell it is not going to happen) “RON KILLS HARRY!” into your ear? Of course, if they yelled that it would be totally unbelievable, but pretend it is something believable. I don’t even want to pretend to write a spoiler even if we all know it is fake. That’s how freaked out I am about spoilers!

I’m really hoping that Neville turns out to be a key player in book 7. I want him to be a hero even though I don’t think it’s likely to happen. I also want his parents to be cured. I’m getting a little obsessed with Neville.

I’d also like to learn that there’s more to Petunia than meets the eye, but it seems pretty clear that Lily was from a Muggle family so I guess she probably isn’t a Squib.

I wish I had a cool HP shirt to wear tomorrow. Mike has one that says “Muggle” on the front. He’s the hero of school aged kids everywhere when they spot it. They nudge each other and stare. I can’t ever wear any stupid licensed character type shirts because they never make them in my size. Bah! Sometimes they have the big sizes in men’s shirts and I could technically wear them, but big boobs and men’s shirts shouldn’t ever be forced together. Also, I need a V neck. I won’t be choked even for HP’s sake.

I guess not all Christians are opposed to HP. I saw a news clip today about a Christian publication that uses both HP and the Simpson’s to teach Biblical principles. (Mixing it Up with Harry Potter). Seems someone finally cottoned on to the fact that HP is actually chock full of morals. Not one person has died from a spell learned in the HP books. Nor will they ever since it’s pretend. Still not sure what kind of magic the crazies think kids are going to learn from the books.

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