No, I didn’t, I swear. I went offline Saturday evening after the Muses chat and stayed offline until now basically. I didn’t go too far, just spent the day at the North Carolina state fair and I was T-I-R-E-D. OMG - dawg tired. 
I couldn’t even bring myself to blog or even write an e-mail.
The fair was fun - the kids loved it. Half the fun is picking up all the goodies they get like free pencils and of course, the midway where they win all the crap we ended up toting home. The 13 YO won two large stuffed animals and was happy as a pig in… mud.
They have favorites at the fair like the baby chicks and ducks. They alway shave newborns in the “poultry” building that you can pick up and pet. I think they spend an hour there picking up and petting those little babies. They are pretty damn cute and furry. 
Then there’s the food. That’s my husband’s favorite. Whether to pick apple fritters or dumplings, fried dough or elephant ears, ice cream or cotton candy, candy apples or popcorn. Oh and they have “Texas” turkey legs that are about the size of my calf, which he also loves.
The one thing that drives me nuts about the fair, and forgive me if you’ve got one and use it in places like this, are baby strollers. Oh, geez, they run ya over, get stuck on all the wires and stuff on the ground, have no place to turn around, and generally are a pain in the ass. Carry them or put them in a backie (that’s what we called the backpack thingy for kids). We never took a stroller to the fair although we went with young kids - the 9 YO has never missed the fair since he was a baby.
I think that particular rant is over. I am off to work - tired and bleary eyed and in desperate need of coffee and a Luna bar. It’s 6:45 a.m. but the moon is shining bright out my window. I can’t wait for daylight savings time to end and to think they extended it next year. :shock: That’s a whole nother blog post.
October 17th, 2005
