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January 05, 2006

I live in a place where the nuts hunt the squirrels

Moo is in bed, asleep. In fifteen minutes I am going to wake him up and take him to the dentist.
"Is it going to hurt?" asks Herself, a glint in her eyes.
"Uh huh; he's getting cavities filled," I say. We look at each other and smile.

Lately all Moo does is play video games, text-message TGF and sleep. It's irritating. I mean it irritates me. He seems removed from us in some crucial way. Asleep when we are awake; awake when we are asleep. Incommunicado the rest of the time.

I took Emma to her 3:30 doctor appointment this afternoon. We sat in the waiting room until 4:05, whereupon I thought "fuck this" and we left. I texted The Husband to complain. "I'm on my way to the gym," he said empathetically. "I am so tired!"

The doctor called about one second after we walked into the house and I discovered that Moo had not put the lasagna in the oven after all because he wasn't hungry, and apologized. We have another appointment with her, for next Tuesday at three-thirty, because I am desperate. Herself is on medication and needs monitoring and there are apparently no other psychiatrists within a twenty-five mile radius. None who will call me back, anyway.

Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink. Time for the dentist, and long, long needles.

Posted by JudyLa at 05:01 PM | Comments (0)