Attached at the palm, a train ride and OMGWTF bad example parents

I’m obsessed with my new iPhone. It’s so handy! I’ve read 5 books on it using the kindle reader and downloaded a ton more for free! for Stanza from the Gutenburg Project. You can get things for free or very cheap from amazon too, things like Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill, read Badgers riveting play by play here, it is teh AWESOME! I swears.

I’ve developed a brand spanking new wrist/hand problem from holding the damned thing and scrolling to turn the page. But I care not! I will never let my iPhone go. When Jack remembers his toddler years all his memories of me will be with me holding this phone thingy up to my face and by the time he is remembering shit like this he will have a phone jack implanted in his fucking HAND that like plugs into his eyeball. Or something. The future is HERE!

So I read all the Marked series by P.C. cast and Kristen cast. Heeeheheee. Hiiilarious vampire finishing school girl books where she worries constantly about being a slut, and how much she likes drinking blood and gets awesome sapphire tattoos all over her.

If you say toddler over and over again it stops sounding like a word. Speaking of toddlers… Mr. Pants… is fantastic and all that, HOWSOMEVER. He is also all about hitting lately and saying “FIGHT!”. WHA? Rallys? Where did he get this?! And he scrunches his face all up and flails his arms around. It’s really annoying and I hope it goes away FAST like.

amtrak coffee

Also, he thinks falling is really hilarious. One time, like a year ago he fell off the couch and in order to make him not freak out about it I fell off the couch on purpose and was like all hahahaha see it’s FUNNY. And then Vim called me a bad example parent and ever since Jack has thought that falling is really funny. Farting and prat falls ARE funny but the endless two yr old variety are NOT. Please don’t let my cute little boy be one of those horrible violent little boys like the ones in my neighborhood when I was little! PLEEEESE!

ass end of the train

In other new we took Amtrak’s Coast Starlight train down to San Luis Obispo and it rocked. I shall never travel any other way. Imagine air travel but without the lines, hassle, other people, lack of space and otherwise all round misery. Instead, Imagine walking up to the train, getting on, going to your room, spreading your shit all over, having the car attendant bring you your complementary champagne and then having the train star its happy rocking hooting lullaby to you as you go merrily on your way. Then go to the parlor car and order some food and coffee and more booze. Then, go back to your room (with private bathroom and SHOWER) and fold out your couch into a bed with four fluffy pillows and have a nap.

pismo beach

It’s traveling with a zero hassle, if a tad expensive and not really practical if you are in a hurry.

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  1. I lovvvvvve that photo of you and Jack on the train!

  2. I agree, the photo of you and Mr. Pants is superb. And I totally agree with you, laurakeet, that travel by train is sublime. I love it day or night, being in the observation dome, taking a meal, and oh I so love being curled up in bed in a train that’s rumbling and swaying down the rails. The journey is the destination.
    -RJ

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