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July 15, 2005

say what?

Moo and I went to get soft-serve ice cream yesterday after dinner. We chased the rain all the way. There was a rainbow off the driver’s side window. “Mom,” Moo said to me while we drove, “Did you ever notice that your bellybutton smells awful? And it gets lint and other stuff in it.” This he assumed would be as fascinating to me as it was to him and he went on and on in that vein until we parked and got out of the car, and then thank God we talked about ice cream.

I’m glad my children see me as approachable and open to any topic, but jeez. This was what Herself talked to me about last night: “And C. did this really big poop and it wouldn’t go down; you know how sometimes it doesn’t get in the water and it gets stuck on the…” Et cetera.

My friend A. tells me about the ingrown hair on his lip that he had to tweeze. The Husband tells me that his antibiotics give him diarrhea. My friend D. tells me that when she was at a sex-toy party she bought a vibrator, and then explains how it works. During a long-distance call with her father and me on Wednesday, Herself takes the opportunity to announce that I take “a really long time in the bathroom, and then the seat is damp.*”

I’m sure I ought to be doing something with all this information besides wondering why people have to put voice to it; I’m just not sure what.

^{*No, I don’t, and no, it isn’t.}

Posted by JudyLa at 01:39 PM | Comments (0)