annoying friends and big boy underwear

Have you ever known someone who disguises themselves as your friend, and then does everything he or she can to make your life miserable? There's someone like that in my life right now, and I lovingly refer to that person as "The Grumpy Old Troll" (thanks Dora the Explorer!) The mere sight of this person's name sends my blood pressure soaring. You might know the type. S/he loves to be your friend when they're in a position to feel superior, but the second things start going well for you, they turn on you and are never around. bah. So much for the 'love your neighbor' idea.

I feel so passive aggressive writing about this on my blog, but I don't think I get too many hits. I feel a bit like a 15 year old whining over her friends. ahhh... well... proves I'm human.

I'm trying to potty train my near 3-year old, but he has absolutely no interest. It's not that he can't use the potty. He's done it numerous times at my urging, but he'll never take it upon himself to go. I bought him some fancy race car undies at Target today hoping to urge him into "big boy underwear", but that lasted about 5 minutes before he peed all over himself. *sigh*

Discarded Christmas Trees and Pirates

As I was driving to work this afternoon, I saw not one, but two live Christmas trees tossed carelessly along the highway. If the previous owners of those trees actually took the time to load them in their vehicles, would it have been to much to ask that they take the trees the extra few miles to Zilker park where those trees could be turned to mulch for free? People disgust me.

People also amaze me ~ like my son for instance. Today we were playing in his playscape treehouse, and I pretended to be a pirate soaring the ocean blue. He looked up at me and said, "The ocean is far, far away Mommy, and we can't get to it cuz we're stuck behind a fence!" He's not even 3, and he's already analytical. *smile*