Posts Tagged: vodka


14
May 10

the circle of bullshit

i asked verizon if they have an “unlimited bitching plan.” they do, but it gets routed through india, and i only bitch domestically because, even though it’s cheaper, i can’t stand the offshore delay.

is it wrong to nap during a playdate – at your house?

i immediately dislike men who give women the fish handshake. don’t be an asshole & break my hand, but give me a real handshake & show me some R-E-S-P-E-C-T, dammit.

i have found a cure for the common cold: take 2 vodkas & sleep late in the morning.

what is it about the sound of children snoring that is so delightful? oh yah, it means they are finally sleeping.

how many times is it acceptable to wear a bra before washing it? do they really get dirty?

90% of the time i don’t wear undies to work because when i bend down they stick out of these damn low waist-ed jeans. now, i show so much crack, i am in danger of being transferred to the plumbing department.

i’m not bitter – just sweet n’ sour.

i haven’t gained weight -  i’m bloated.

a quick perusal of my dvr menu will reveal that i watch far more cartoons than shows with real people.

there is a saying: your toad, is a prince to another. so, maybe if you leave him in a pond in the middle of a forest, some stupid princess will take him home with her and then you can ride off into the sunset…alone.

ladies, please wax. don’t bleach. it’s still a mustache even if it’s blond.

i am instituting a tampon exchange program called Code Red. here is how it works: any woman can walk up to any other woman anywhere and just say “Code Red” which is universal for “i need a tampon, stat!” it’s like the take a penny, leave a penny dish but it’s need a tampon, give a tampon. imagine the implications for facilitating peace and clean pants globally.

i am tired of hearing people from other countries & states proclaim that everything where they are from is better. really? is it? because here’s a newsflash: we didn’t invite you. see if they will take you & the rest of the assholes back.

my children make unreasonable demands and threats and throw fits when they don’t get what they want, but i told them i don’t negotiate with terrorists.

i know a man who wears a bad toupee with a baseball cap over it every day. i just can not wrap my head around it. is the toupee receding? doesn’t his head sweat doubly? that is a vanity rivaled only by anal bleaching, imo.

cats: the chosen pet of co-dependents – you love them because they hate you.

i am considering having only one eyebrow tattooed raised because i just can’t  master the muscle control to do that on my own.

i think a manic episode here and there can be very productive.

a friend remarked that when people say they have to quit drinking for awhile, she finds it worrisome. i told her that’s i why i have never said i would quit.

people frequently tell me i look like patricia heaton. i am never sure if it’s a compliment or an insult.

an oft overlooked bennie of divorce is the fact that you no longer have to pretend to like your in-laws.

jesus turned water into wine but i can turn a bad husband or a crying child into a vodka tonic.

once i stayed over my mother’s house and came down with a severe case of the runs and had no choice but to violate federal law and use chlorox cleanups in a manner inconsistent with their labeling…

parenting is not a democracy, it’s a monarchy; and i am the queen.

when people of color come into the store, i give them extremely exceptional customer service – it’s a weird reverse racism, but i want them to walk away thinking, “white people aren’t so bad, after all.”

so far the divorce is the the biggest fight we have ever had during the marriage..

all of the experiences in my life have led me to be the person i am today: a huge bitch.

if wine is the nectar of the gods, then vodka is the juice of the mortals.

quitting the gym has actually unexpectedly relieved me of a lot of guilt: the guilt of not going was far worse than the guilt of not working out at all.

the average marriage lasts 7 yrs. the average jail term is 5; but, you can get out of jail early for good behavior.

when people say i am a bitch, i am flattered. it means i am doing a great  job of pissing off the right people.

youth may be wasted on the young , but middle age ain’t no prize. and since i just saw a man wearing a “senior olympics” t-shirt, i am now even more terrified of old age, although it does involve some sweet discounts.

i hate hitting bottom – the bottom of the bottle.

so, i considered having my teeth professionally bleached until the hygienist told me i would have to avoid coffee & red wine afterward. well, that was a very short consultation.

having kids means never you will never have to be alone again- in the bathroom.

hey! the 1980′s called and kit wants his car alarm back.  the rest of us couldn’t give a rat’s ass if its beeping.

i did that no carb diet – until lunch. now, i just follow this food pyramid:

so my daughter wanted to know what the “c-word” is. i considered telling her that it’s her father’s pet name for me since the divorce.

dr. gggb says: one nostril continually running is far more annoying than both being stuffed up.

having a litter box in your home is like having a toilet you never flush.

it has been said that if we all sat around in a circle and put our bullshit in the middle, everyone would keep their own crap. this may be true, but i would still like the opportunity for a bullshit swap meet.

grape juice is really just wine with training wheels.

substitutes i have used for milk in my morning coffee when the milk in my fridge has curdled: vanilla yogurt, powdered milk, yo baby yogurt drink, hot chocolate mix, powdered milk from 1974, whip cream, mini marshmallows, cool whip, vanilla ice cream, sour cream with sugar, powdered sugar, carnation instant breakfast, and anything powdery or white that when mixed with water resembles milk. it would behoove me to learn to drink it black – i hear you never go back after that anyway…

i never realized the true depths of my need for validation & approval until i started a fb fan page. 100th fan gets a pony…

make mine extra dirty, please.

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10
May 10

file it under gggb

from the i am getting too old for this files:

i have been out with my pre-tween girls on more than one occasion when i clucked disapprovingly at what “teenage girls are wearing these days. it’s just disgraceful that their mothers allow that.” pictures from my high school years would reveal that i dressed like one of those tramps myself.

no matter how routine she knows it is, and despite her seemingly huge annoyance with it, any woman over 30 will always be secretly thrilled to be carded.

at 2 am there is nothing sadder than a drunk, over-botoxed, orange spray tanned, too skinny, bleached blond cougar in spandex with new tits on an old body alone at the bar for last call waiting for someone (anyone) to take her home for a mercy fuck. i am going to retire early from the singles’ scene before i can be described as doing even just one of those things (well, except for drunk).

from the that will ruin your day files:

upon sitting in the pedi chair for a relaxing treat after a long hard week, the tiny asian bitch looked at my gut and most likely trying to make conversation said, “you have baby?” i said, “no, apparently i gained some weight since i was here last, but thanks for noticing.” consequently,  she was quiet for the rest of the time which was nice because i always hate when they talk to me anyway.

while purchasing tickets for a movie, my mother asked for the senior discount. the vacuous 18 year old behind the counter then turned to me & asked if i would like the senior price too. at first i wanted to cry, but then i thought, “what the hell?” a discount is a discount.

from the hangover files:

i decided i must make a clean break from dirty martinis.

my liver can’t recover  like it used to. in college i could party as late as i wanted for as many nights as i wanted, pop 2 tylenols before bed & resume all of my daily activities. now if i want to binge drink for even one night, i need to plan for a week of recovery.

a friend remarked, “when people say they have to quit drinking, it makes me nervous.” i told her that’s why i never quit.

from the beauty files:

i decided i won’t  torture myself anymore to lose that last 5 (10) pounds because i realized there is no way you’re gonna get these perky 32DD’s (which are real AND spectacular) on a 5’0 frame without a little extra padding elsewhere.

my mom was never high maintenance (none of us have any idea how she raised me) but she did impart some valuable knowledge that has allowed me to preserve my glowing youth so successfully: 1. it is never too early to start using eye cream. 2. stay the fuck out of the sun especially when you are fair & have skin the thickness of filo dough.

it is not advisable to wear new fuck me heels in which you are unaccustomed to walking after a fresh pedi, because when you fall off them & twist your ankle, you will indubitably scratch up the fresh polish.

after a full day of personal maintenance, it occurred to me that i was all groomed up with no one to fuck.

i quit the gym, but it’s okay because i have some new behaviors in place: 1. i am going to jog to the fridge. 2. i will hide my remote & manually change the channels on the tv. and 3. i will put diet soda in my vodka.

from the lost poetry files:

roses are red.
violets are blue.
it’s been so long since i got laid,
that my legs i no longer shave.

from the irritable bowel syndrome files:

at dinner my pal thought her phone was vibrating, but she realized it was just her intestines.

after a long day or full evening of holding in my gas, i love when i am finally in my car alone and can let loose, but i am concerned my intense flatulence is obliterating the new car smell.

i often wonder what would happen if farts had a color and differed in color according to intensity of stank. kind of like the national state of emergency chart of color level for terrorist activity but for methane intensity. i think we would have no choice but to deem farting socially acceptable. except you might cross the street if you saw someone blow a dark green cloud knowing it was going to be especially foul.

the smaller the girl, the bigger the farts.

you ever think its safe to freely fart in an empty room at work and then someone walks in after you did? they have to know it’s you. no one else is in there.

you know your gas is intense, when you have to roll down the window.

you know you are in a solid relationship when you can lean to one side & lift a cheek and let it all out.

from the random musings files:

why is that i can instantly get most anything delivered to my house except for what i really need? vodka.

so, since i started writing, i can’t simply have conversations anymore or participate in any aspect of my life without wondering if its blogworthy and surreptitiously taking notes on my phone. to be fair, i tell people, “i am so using that in my blog.”

i tried to quit coffee but the withdrawal was so intense i didn’t want to live. plus i was tired and confused all the time. if i owned a drug company, i would develop a caffeine patch or a gum for those trying to quit or who just need a steady delivery system of caffeine to make it through the day. (hey merck, this is a freebie.)

being in bumper to bumper traffic has a domino effect: the guy in front of you moves up 2 millimeters, then you do, and down the line it goes. sometimes when sitting at a traffic light i will notice a space between me & another car that i can either ignore or move up few inches. i usually choose to move up because there is a delicious sense of power in knowing i just set off a major chain of cause & effect for all those poor slobs behind me. i am the traffic queen!

some commercials are so intentionally cheesy i can not imagine that the advertiser even thinks they are good. i figure that the production budget was so low, they advertiser just didn’t give a shit as long as the product was on tv.

i think we need to buy products on infommercials that will “save us so much time” because we wasted all that time watching said infommercials. they are just sooooo fucking long.

why was it when we were in high school (last century) the kids in the band & drama club were usually considered to be giant dorks, but as adults, musicians & actors are some of the most revered people in our society? same is true for the computer nerds whom we now worship when they fix our technology.

there is one good week for women in a month and that is the week immediately after the last day of her period when all of her jeans fit. the rest of the month she is either getting it or has it.

there are now studies extolling the virtues of eating chocolate, taking naps, drinking wine, having orgasms every day, laughing, and limiting hard core exercise. it can’t be long until we find out being a bitch is good for you too.

i think the reason bad weather is so infuriating is that there is no one specific on which to lay blame. you can bitch all you want, but you can’t do shit to change it. weather is the one thing we as humans will never be able to control & that simultaneously freaks us out & pisses us off.

i spent mother’s day with my mom & sister at my friend’s house with her boyfriend’s family for an hour before she came home. when she finally  walked in, i told her i was about to text her: “10 more minutes and this becomes a blog post.”

i am all about having a sense of humor and i really don’t understand how someone can lack one. when i run into a humorless person, it immediately becomes my personal challenge to make them laugh and walk away with a smile. i have a warped need for approval.

from the parenting files:

your child’s entire sex education & knowledge of profanity occurs not from your well thought out talks, but from riding that damn bus back & forth to school every day. that is what happens when you put fifth graders & first graders on the bus together. sound travels up from “the back.”

a woman is always most fertile right after losing that last bit of baby weight.

i don’t know why that no matter what my kids ask me to do, my first response is always to want to say no.

i hate hosting playdates, going to birthday parties, and basically anything  that requires dealing with other peoples’ children but does not involve booze at the same time.

happy hour used to mean going drinking after work with friends. now it’s that one hour after the kids finally go to bed when i think about drinking but fall asleep before i find the vodka bottle.

god, my kids are perfect, brilliant, well -behaved angels…i have never loved them so much as when they’re sleeping.

my friend had to get off the phone with me the other day because, as she put it “she had to bathe the bitches.” see, we all agree that we adore our children, but we are kinda over the mommy thing.

sometimes i overhear my 9 year old  & her friends complaining about me or saying i am mean after i get annoyed with them for asking me for something every 10 minutes and i think “why, you little ungrateful bitches.” then i think, good, i don’t want these fucking princesses to come back here anyway. what happened to the good old days when you were afraid of your friend’s parents and avoided them as much as possible?

from the files of i wish i said this:

i heard a comedian remark that marriage was like the stockholme syndrome. having been there & done that, i must say this is brilliantly true.

from the fashion police files:

i have noticed that generally, most heavy, slovenly dressed, unattractive women, carry the most expensive designer purses. it must be because you don’t have to be thin to wear a purse or even look in the mirror to try it on.

why is it that thin women have more modesty than the big girls? it seems the fatter the woman, the tighter the pants & shorter the top.

men revere summer as a time when women run around half naked to beat the heat. i dread it as the time of year when my retinas are burned by being forced against my will to see far more exposed bodily hair & flab than i could ever have imagined existed. some people need not to dress seasonally appropriately.

from the break-up files:

i realized it’s not the boyfriend i miss so much, it’s the 24/7 texting i have a hard time living without.

i won’t exactly be out on the street after my divorce, but my lifestyle will change significantly. it’s kind of a “riches to rags to story.”

in the process of leasing a new car a few months ago, i discovered going to car dealerships is far better than going to singles’ bars.

when i think about dating again, i refer to that old addage about many fish in the sea, but then a friend said, “same ones keep getting thrown back in the pond.” so i decided to buy the club pack of AAA’s.

from the working girl files:

if he is cute, it’s flirting. if he’s not, it’s sexual harassment.

now that i’m working again (for pay), i am one lazy bitch on my day off  – no more guilt about napping immediately after the school bus leaves.

from the sex files:

a woman scorned will undoubtedly make at least 1 of these 3 revelations immediately after the break-up: 1. he had a tiny penis. 2. she faked ALL the orgasms. 3. he was terrible in bed.

how we know when it’s really over as summed up by a fellow gggb: “my vagina is dry for him.”

i have a vibrator that is so good, that i don’t scream, “oh god.” i scream, “i don’t need a
man.”

women try to rationalize sleeping with a married man by saying, “if it’s not me, it will be someone else.” while that may indeed be true,  i say, let it be someone else, girl.

men have turned online dating sights into a free prostitution ring. keep that in mind, ladies.

once in awhile i get lonely & think i need a man in my life, but then i get some fresh batteries and in 60 seconds, i am over it.

masturbation, by it’s very definition, is a solo act. so let’s agree that i won’t bother to pretend to jerk you off and you don’t have to hold the vibrator.

in case you were wondering: it is possible to burn out the motor on a vibrator.

faking orgasms is like eating potato chips: you can’t stop at just one.

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6
May 10

all around mommy’s big tush…

in honor of mother’s day, i have written some very special nursery rhymes for all the mommies out there. happy day, you wonderful, incredible, strong, superwomen.

old mother hubbard went to her cupboard to see that it was quite dry
she opened the door to see vodka no more and loudly did she cry.

there was a new mommy who was very blue.
she was so fucking tired, she didn’t know what to do.
so she poured herself a double
and took something for her head,
whipped her husband soundly
and then went to bed.

all around mommy’s big tush
the children fought each other.
the children thought t’was all in good fun ‘til,
FREAK! went the mommy.

a vodka a day
keeps the mommy okay.
kahlua in the morning
mommy’s pouring.
gin at night,
mommy’s all right.
bottle of wine before bed,
mommy really prefers red.
ten a day, hundreds each month, empty bottles, liquid lunch.

hey, hey bar keep,
have you any gin?
yes ma’am, yes ma’am
just came in.
one for the mother,
one for the wife,
and one for the kid
who took over your life.

diddle diddle dumpling
one shoe is gone.
went to bed
with my clothes on.
diddle diddle dumpling
i’m a mom.

eeny meeny miney moe.
catch a toddler on the go.
if he bites you,
you best let go.
eeny meeny miney moe.

the itsy bitsy rugrat
got hold of a black marker.
off came the cap
and all the walls were darker.
out came the mom
from in the crapper all alone.
swearing never again will freely that kid roam.

mommy, mommy chocolate eater.
had a diet that couldn’t keep her.
stuffed her mouth full of jelly beans.
fuck! now she needs all new jeans.

pussy cat, pussy cat
where have you hid?
in the bushes, away from that kid.
pussy cat, pussy cat, why did you go?
i crapped in his bed since i hate him so.

wives of a feather flock together.
especially if there’s wine.
gin or vodka, it’s their choice.
as long as i get mine.

the mommy in the hell.
the mommy in the hell.
hi-ho she’s always drunk.
the mommy in the hell.

ring around the soccer mom.
the PTA mom is faster.
fuck you, fuck you.
you’re all over-achievers!

super stressed mama sat in a corner
drinking her vodka & rye.
she chugged the first one and felt quite numb.
and then quietly did she cry.

little miss muff
sat on her duff
eating her kid’s table scraps.
along came a husband who said all day she did nothin’.
now she is doing 25 to life.

little bo peep hid from her sheep
and then she didn’t mind them.
she left them alone and had shots of petrone
animal control would find them.

jack and jill went up the hill
to fetch their lazy father.
they both fell down & broke their crowns
because their father is a moron.

jack sprat ate no fat.
his wife ate no lean.
because he never fucking came home for dinner.

mom be nimble.
mom be quick.
mom catch the kid
about to be sick.
mom run fast.
don’t be slow.
otherwise on the carpet it will go.

fe fi fo fum!
i smell the lies of a bad husband.
i know he’s been in a another’s bed.
i am going to beat him upon his head.

young mother cole was a very lonely soul.
and a lonely pretty wife was she.
she called for her handy man.
she called for her plumber.
and then she called for her painters three.

hey diddle diddle
the kid in the middle
is usually kind of off.
the little one laughed
when the oldest took note
that mommy ran away with a cop.

hickory dickory dock.
somewhere it’s 5 o’clock.
so mommy poured one
and down it went.
hickory dickory dock.

hush little baby,
don’t say a word.
mama’s gonna change your turd.
if that turd really stinks,
then mama’s gonna need a drink.
if that drink don’t do the trick,
then mama’s gonna get really sick.
if mama gets sick and makes a fuss,
the neighbors just may call dyfus.
if dyfus comes to take the kids,
daddy is gonna flip his lid.

humpty dumpty sat on a bar stool.
humpty dumpty drank ‘til he drooled.
all the queen’s horses & all the queen’s men,
wouldn’t let humpty come home ever again.

hush a buy mommy,
in the strip mall.
when the stores open,
visa will call.
before school ends
mommy must leave.
then much will cry mommy, shoesies, & all.

mommy’s pants are falling down.
falling down.
falling down.
mommy’s pants are falling down.
her muffin top is showing
.

i’ve been doing all the housework
all the live long day.

i’ve been doing all the housework
just to scrub this dirt away.

cant you hear the bathroom calling?
it’s the next place i must clean.

don’t you hear the husband shouting?
“i need some underwear!”

bitch, won’t you do
bitch, won’t you do
bitch, won’t you do the laundry?

bitch, won’t you do
bitch, won’t you do
bitch, won’t you do the laundry?

no one’s in the kitchen with mommy.
no one’s in the kitchen, i know.
no one’s in the kitchen with mommy
not helping so she can’t go.
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26
Nov 09

gggb gives thanks

hand-turkey

i could blather on about how grateful i am for my delicious children, supportive family, beloved friends, all my abundance, & yada yada which, of course, goes without saying; but here are a few more things a girl like me is thankful for this thanksgiving…

my young well hung boyfriend.

that my young well hung boyfriend doesn’t give a shit about the 5 extra pounds of muffin top that now pours over my jeans since we started dating.

that after losing my father, i still have a wonderful man in my life (see above) that supports me, gets me totally, thinks i am fabulous just the way i am & loves me unconditionally.

smart food white cheddar popcorn & carbohydrates in general.

the wonderland that is sephora.

joss stone, & alana davis.

chelsea handler & all talented, strong, & funny women, famous or not, who aren’t afraid  to speak their minds.

my lawyer.

my lawyer’s staff.

not having to spend anymore time with the in-laws or pretending to like any of them ever again.

flavored vodka.

texting.

pendente lite.

butt wipes.

the freedom from giving a shit about what The Asshat (a.k.a. ex husband to be)  thinks about anything i do. actually, what he thinks about anything at all.

the wonderful sense of humor my father had and how he taught me to see the humor in everything, every day.

not having to sleep next to a Snoring Fat Ape ever again.

never being seen in a yellow car/suv again.

not pretending to care about anything that has to do with the “the market or “work.”

not having to wash stained underwear, rush (a.k.a. The Worst Band Ever) t-shirts, or filthy socks.

not having to care about how foul the bathroom i don’t use anymore now is.

finally feeling completely free to be myself.

having the fortitude to show some people that payback is a bitch & consequences for bad behavior are real.

ebay, facebook, google mail, zappo’s, nordstrom, & online shopping.

talk soup, the dish, family guy, the simpsons, & the like for making me laugh daily.

my DVR.

ipods & limewire.

paige petite jeans.

flat irons.

high heeled clogs & wedges.

my mom’s new kitty, dexter.

the incredible strength my mother possesses & passed on to me .

the bright future that i know lies ahead of me.

my dear friend mary petto who invited my mother and i to join her family dysfunction this year. she ended up putting out her back & spent it flat on her couch while the rest of us ate ourselves into a tryptophan induced coma in her dining room.

having happy memories of my father being with us last year on this very day.

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24
Nov 09

one of these things is not like the other…

rainbowdrink

remember that skanky biker bar that i told you about over the summer, that my really cute pal likes to drag me to? well, she dragged me there again this past weekend. see, she just got sprung from the joint (her divorce became final last thursday & i am not the least bit jealous…), so we went out to celebrate and i made the mistake of telling her 2 things: 1. that i would drive and 2. that i would take her anywhere she wanted to go. of course we ended up at mcskanker’s bar. we haven’t been there since i last drunkenly flirted with that fat biker (see visual at bottom of teddy bear post) and it seems things have changed a bit…

when we first walked in, the new bouncer was said fat biker. so yah, that was a tad awkward. in fact, none of the usual bouncers were there (including the one she used to drag me to visit), but it still looked to be the usual sub-par crowd of deadbeats & axe murderers. we sidled up to the bar and then trolled for the one good looking dude there. see, we have this standing contest to amuse ourselves which involves seeing who can find the only attractive man (read: has all of his teeth) in the bar we might even consider talking to first. it’s silly, but passes the time until we are drunk enough to pounce on the empty dance floor and shake our little white boo-tays without inhibition. upon scanning the crowd for our contest, it appeared that the patronage of said establishment had, umm,  changed. we saw lots of what we thought were men with their girlfriends, but they weren’t men. and, the actual men there seemed a wee bit more interested in each other rather than us. we both had this realization at the exact same time and said, “umm. i think this place turned into a gay bar, not that there’s anything wrong with that.

at this point, when faced with this situation,  it is then customary for women to discuss the following:

  1. any “experimenting” we may have done in college.
  2. if we would ever consider such a thing now.
  3. if we ever would kiss each other.

i never have taken a trip on that particular wild side and i don’t think i ever will, but nonetheless here are my criteria if i were ever to consider it:

  1. i would have to be all kinds of plastered.
  2. no below the waist action for either participant.
  3. she would have to be supermodel hot, and, since, i am not a supermodel, i am not sure how i would bag a woman of that caliber anyway, so it really is a moot point.

turns out it’s very disconcerting being the lone heteros in a gay bar until the BAC is sufficiently raised. i wondered if  this is how gay people feel all the time out in the straight world: completely out of place & needing a stiff drink. at first, we hoped vehemently that no one would hit on us at the bar and then, when they didn’t, we wondered why isn’t anyone hitting on us at the bar? is no one into lipstick lesbians anymore (because clearly that is the kind i would be)? and then we wondered, hey since those guys over there are really awesome dancers, would they mind if we cut in & danced with them?

it probably goes without saying that the big dance hits of the evening were, “crazy bitch” and “i kissed a girl.”  these songs were met with great cheers from the crowd and jovial shoulder bumping. part of the celebration that night was a big lesbian birthday party which we were fine with until it was apparent she did not bring enough cake for everyone. and that my friends, is where my liberality draws the line: dessert discrimination. we also saw a bunch of swingers doing their thing on the dance floor which was interesting. i have never witnessed the casual partner swap lifestyle in person & it was certainly intriguing. i am sure if i could have gotten another couple to overlook The Troll that was my husband, swinging may have saved my doomed marriage or at least my dead sex life, which honestly, i just may have settled for…

so all in all it was fun being out with the newly freed slave girl, as it always is, it was an enlightening experience, an unexpectedly refreshing change of pace, and most importantly, an amusing blog post. next week we’re hitting the bar from animal house

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6
Aug 09

The Land of Chocolate

so i took the rugrats to hershey park 2 weekends ago (yeah yeah, i’m a little behind in my blogging) with my pal, her lovely daughter & my mom. i had never been there and really had no idea what to expect. my girls had been there last summer, so they were totally jacked. i could only imagine how the concept of a park called “hershey,” that is not only dedicated to the very life-giving substance, chocolate, but to all candy in general, must be nirvana to a kid. that is like taking me to a vodka museum where you get to do free shots at each exhibit.

we decided that the best kickoff for the weekend was to leave during friday rush hour and sit in traffic for a few hours in the monsoon that hit nj. but we got there eventually, had a late dinner served by a very strange waiter & rested up for the next day’s fun filled extravaganza, that only a day at an amusement park can provide.

doesn’t every morning at a huge amusement park start the same way? everyone is so full of excitement and bursting with energy. every group member must have a personal park map which no one can actually fully figure out anyway. you all point out every ride you’re gonna go on, which is all of them, and set a course of action. immediately after getting past the throngs in the entrance area & are birthed into the vastness of the park, you are already confused & holding the map upside down while contorting your head to figure out where you actually are in real life. so, you just say fuck it, let’s go with the flow and get on the first ride the group wants to do, but as the day wears on, you eliminate a bunch of the rides on your list if the kids don’t remember ‘em. however, this only occurs after wrestling them past the endless sea of “gift shops” by the “village”( i.e merchandising area) at the entrance by making all sorts of promises to buy useless crap at the end of the day so you don’t have to carry it around for 16 hours. and really, you just hope they forget about it so you can try to save a few bucks. they never do. to a kid, you are an endless supply of stuff & cash. to some extent you want to do that for them, but you get pissed off at the $7 you were forced to spend on gatorade & a soft pretzel because your little angel is hungry 5 minutes after you got there. the outrageous, unapologetic gouging at “family venues” is so obnoxious. like paying for parking. i would prefer for them just say, hey, “welcome to our park. we will be ripping you off at every opportunity we have today & there is not a damn thing you can do about it.”

while my pal has 1 daughter who is 8 in tow, i have mom, my 2 girls, 5 & 8, and a stroller to wrangle. which means not only a lot of coordination, but also pushing the 36 pounds of 5 yr old AND all the crap hanging off the back of the stroller uphill. apparently, mr. hershey thought it would be a great idea to build a park in the mountains. and it’s a full day of rides, plus a water park, which means extra provisions (read: weight) are necessary: changes of clothes, bathing suits, giant beach towels, snacks (free ones that are totally distasteful to my kids), waters, lotions, goggles, & flood gear. it was quite heavy. that is why i felt bad about nothing highly caloric that i ate that day because i was working it off during my duty as a pack mule. this is one of the few areas in which the ETB was handy – as the family schlepper (yiddishdictionaryonline.com) but i would rather carry my shit to hades and back than ever be forced to vacation with that looney-toons again. but, i do digress.

what is the one thing that always tries to ruin your fun at the amusement park though? the lines. the lines are the suck but you have no choice if you’re a regular schlub (yiddish.com) that has to go on a weekend with the rest of the vacationing populace. waiting endlessly in 95 degree heat and 127% humidity to move 2 millimeters an hour is just not fun for anyone. i people watch to pass the time. it can provide hours of entertainment at any place where the public converges, especially an area set in the middle of the appalachians, america’s third world country. now, it does grant endless material, but be warned that you will see may things you may wish could be unseen and they never can. especially in the water park section where people are barely dressed. many of whom you wish would put on more clothes or larger swimwear. multiple piercings in places in which you can’t begin to imagine the mechanics involved to even get pierced. stab and bullet wounds. scars of all shapes & sizes. endless tattoos. mounds of blubber. progeny of only what could be first cousins. all colors of hair. crazy ass outfits and the biggest, deepest camel toe i ever saw. shiver.

another thing i did on line, which i am not necessarily proud of, but will blog about anyway, was to totally let not 1 but FOUR sbd’s (silent but deadlies) out on an indoor ride line & it was so repulsive in this hot confined area even i couldn’t stand it. peeps were close to fainting around me. seriously though, i knew i got stone cold busted when i heard the chick next to me in the parallel line say to her friend, “i smelled it too, & i know who did it.” and she pointed at me. i tried to look innocent but i was identified. so, people behind me on the great american chocolate tour ride, let me take this opportunity to officially apologize, but all that free chocolate they were handing out, did a number on my colon.

tmi, you cry? NEVER.

technically i wasn’t really tall enough to ride some of the rides unattended by a responsible adult so i stuck to the kiddie rides. leave it to a park in pennsylvania to have a ride called “the convoy” in which tots ride in a “tractor” against a mural of cows and pretend they are corralling the cattle. one cool thing that happened was while i was waiting on line with my 5 yr old to go on the ladybug ride, i felt something tickley on my hand. i looked down & immediately regretted brushing it off because it saw that it was firefly. a single firefly out in the middle of the day in the midst of zillions of people landed on my hand. and if you read my firefly post, you will know why this struck me as happy & sad at the same time (http://singlewithvodka.blogspot.com/2009/06/firefly-firefly-fly-away-home.html).

a cool thing about modern day amusement park visits, is that we all have cell phones now. so we could easily be in contact if we split up. this was the best thing ever. remember how much it sucked to have to guesstimate when you would be done with something & pick a meet-up place? i cant imagine how we ever went to these enormous sites without cell phones & texting ability. this came in handy when we were starving and met up for lunch. lunch is always an expensive ordeal where you also have to wait on a line. except on this line you get to spend $57 on cold chicken nuggets & greasy pizza while the rest of your posse fights for the next empty table. but you are always refreshed after lunch & ready to take on the rest of the park which we did until darkness began to fall. then when you are most exhausted and your feet are screaming in pain, you must try to escape…

to make a break for it you have to navigate the “twilight” crowds that have now descended, walk 12 miles back to the entrance if you can find it, which means you have to venture through the merchandising pit of despair once again, & then miss the parking lot tram so you can walk another 6 miles to your car if you are lucky enough to remember where you parked. its not until you sit down in the car & the kids pass out immediately that you realize how tired you are and that there is no way you can do this again tomorrow.

all is all we had a great time: all of the girls enjoyed it, my mom had fun, and i spent a ridiculous amount of money even though i refused to buy the candy they were claiming was “on sale.” ya, right – 3 bags for 19 bucks. come on, people, i know you are aware you can go buy this in your local supermarket for much less, but the hordes were buying the chocolate like they would never see it again anyway. just plain silly to me. needless to say, it will be awhile before i indulge in the land of chocolate again, so this past weekend i decided to hit AC without the kids which was exponentially more fun, but that is my next post…

my mom ready for the 3d movie in chocolate world. is she not the cutest mom ever?
she would be way pissed of she knew i “violated her privacy” by posting her pic on the “web” but she doesn’t read my blog anyway. which is just as well…

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