Geek alert

On Monday night Little S had a tantrum and threw a chic little wood ABC puzzle across his bedroom which hit me square between the eyes on my forehead. I've got an enormous bump to go with the gash and the whole ensemble looks like a huge, pulsing zit.

Welcome to The Terrible Two house. AAAAAhahahahahah ooooewwww.

Um apparently it's Valentine's Day tomorrow. Seb actually had to remind me. That should tell you how much romance I have in my life. I totally forgot. I felt like a moron when he told me. Isn't it usually the husband who forgets?

My cat has been helping herself nonstop to the food bag in the cupboard. I just figured out what's going on. The girl does not know when to stop eating.

I'm talking about my cat...that is

So I called someone I'd met in the park, a new English speaking aquaintance for a play date this week. I'd left her a message on the weekend and she never called me back so I called her and left a message again. She was the one who approached me first for a date? I just decided to fess up and call her again today so I could get on with planning my week. I was a bit proud calling back so I was trying to appear casual.

me: "Hey you know maybe we can do something Wednesday Thursday or Friday" (note casual tone)

Gwyn: *long silence* ...*nose breathing* "Wellll, uh okay. How 'bout we try Wednesday first though and then we'll see about Thursday and Friday, okay."

me: *scratching head* Huh? ...Oh god she thinks I said Wednesday, Thursday AND Friday not OR...OR Friday...OR, OR I said OR! I sound like an idiot now! Why would I want to see her three days in a row anyway? Should I explain (...that she needs to get her hearing checked)? That's so weird she must think I'm such a geek. "Um yeah Wednesday's good for me!"

So here I stand sounding desperate for friendship with a huge zit on my forehead. "Well Gwyn you see it's not really a zit. My son here throws chic puzzles at grownups when he's pissed off. Okay go on now Little S and play with Charlene! Y'all have fun together!"

Later in the day I talked with my American friend Bea in the States on Skype. We were trying to have a heart to heart but a certain toddler wouldn't let us. He just kept pulling my arm and howling to get me to help him with his playdough which I had given him to EAT while I talked. I thought I'd go mad and Bea too. She's having a lot of problems and I really wanted to talk to help her work them out. She just seemed so sad. It was really frustrating because she was telling me really personal details of the "I said, he said" variety and Little S was acting like a total ass screaming like a terrydactyl for no clear reason. I lost my temper and started screaming at him. Groooooan...bad mommy. Then my camera went haywire and I lost video but I could still see Bea. We went through the whole "can you hear me?/I can't hear you/I can see you but I can't hear you" thing. Finally I was so desperate and grumpy I just started clicking everywhere to get it to come back. Bea kept saying "try this! click this!" and so I did but nothing worked. We ended the call with Little S SCREAMING in rage and throwing a play-dough spaghetti machine at me.

Bravo.

Anyway so tonight I pop online to check my gmail and suddenly I've got all these guys calling me named Marius and Enrique and they keep popping up over and over with Skype messages. And suddenly I notice that Skype is on and so is my f*cking camera! And it's been on for six hours in some sort of look at me I'm a cool lady in my living room watching tv in my woolly scarf thing! When did I notice ? When Enrique sent me a message saying I looked charming in my glasses:

"je trouve charmante dans tes lunettes mmlle"

So I'm feeling like a geek. I have no idea what I clicked on but you can be sure I'm deleting Skype and starting over.

Oh and Happy Valentine's day Enrique.