Booty Booty Booty Rockin Everywhere

If I wanted a distraction this week I sure got it.

I went out to Satellite Beach/Indiatlantic with a friend and three kids/tweens. We stayed overnight at a hotel out there and if I thought my life was confusing...add three kids and that confusion becomes exponential. That Bubba Sparxxx song (subject title) was pretty much on the car overandoverandover again so it's now burned into MY memory. Slightly different than the ethereal vibe of the Eurythmics I blogged about before.

This was the kind of distraction I probably needed, more being a 'parent' than being a child. We started out at Pop Century for lunch and then drove to the coast. We went to Bunky's (again..) for lunch and the kids really liked it because there were tons of live interesting tropical fish around. Then we went to beach and pool. I made a small decision, based on the song that I heard on the causeway, to NOT bring my cell phone with me and just forget about the whole situation I've been mired in the past few weeks. With that out of the way, I felt very free to enjoy myself.
We played hard in the pool (and my body paid for it over the night..) and then, in our bathing suits went to McD's around 10pm to get ice cream. That was actually a lot of fun and we joked/flirted with the guy in the drive through and I got a free Pirates of the Caribbean Happy Meal journal out of it.

That night, I had the two older ones (9 and 10) in my room which I knew was going to make it impossible to relax. B was thrilled she got to sleep somewhere other than w/ K. I said, "You went out of the pot and into the fire. I'm the Kraken." She laughed and thought I was kidding ;-)

I had to flip the light on at 11 at night and break out a can of whoop-ass from the girls goofing around. Of course, they stopped and then of course continued to horse around and then of course someone started crying. Then I really lost my shit and put them to bed with an incredible threat.

The next day was a lot more calm (except for the part where they nearly broke a lamp and spilled a cup of coffee all over the floor) but the weather was not so calm. The rain came and went so we ended up going to the movies to see Monster House which was surprisingly good. I was prepared to sit there bored off my can but it was very entertaining and a lot of adult humor.

Now I need to sort out the rest of the weekend. Today I will probably just work on getting organized at home and then get up early-ish tomorrow morning and head for Sarasota to go to the Ringling Museum. I'm determined to do things this "vacation" and not just lie around in fatalistic repose. I think it's working out.