Seven Brain-Fried Quick Takes

So, I know I was supposed to tell you about my New Best Friends (I added one!) and the whole tweetup thing, but turns out I am EX. HAUSTED. I think I got about 4000 emails today, all related to Escape To Sacramento, and my brain sort of hurts and I need to sort of not think. And you know what that means! Seven Quickies!

(Oh, one short note: if you want to hang in Sacramento, please send me an email. There were some comments yesterday where I wasn't sure if it was a Yes! I'm Going! or a That Would Be Awesome But I'm Not Sure I Can Let Me Find Out! So if you ARE in, please email me so I can put you on The List. You can find The List here to see if your name is there. If it isn't and you want to go, eeeeeemaaaaail. Awesome.)

1. If you follow me on Twitter you already know, but this morning Dave Matthews and his son were hanging out in the same toddler gym as me. I'm not sure I would have noticed, because I haven't paid much attention to Dave Matthews since the college days, except the friend I was meeting whispered her News in my ear rather conspiratorily when I arrived. So then it was this secret! thing! And then Dave Matthews was totally standing next to me while my friend was introducing him to her daughter and he was talking about his son. And then I thought about all the boys I knew in college who would pay me frillions of dollars to be standing where I was. Heh. This is my second local Dave sighting, by the way, and my only celebrity sighting besides Pierce Brosnan who was a few rows ahead of me when I saw Billy Elliott in London. I think it was Billy Elliott. And does Pierce Brosnan even count? Anyway, the most interesting part of all this is how DORKED OUT people get (myself included, am not judging) and how some of us cave to the dorkness and some of us unconvincingly pretend like we don't care (me) and a small few of us (like my friend) are totally normal and awesome and end up TALKING TO DAVE MATTHEWS.

2. This morning I was talking to a friend about the Hell that is Two-Year-Molars and she suggested I "double dose" Jack. So: Start off with Motrin, a hit of Tylenol two hours later, a hit of Motrin two hours after that, another hit of Tylenol two hours after that, etc. etc. I did the first three doses, then he took a nap, and I followed up with two more doses in the afternoon. And today was the first day I didn't want to tear my hair out. I even confirmed the okayness of this regime with my pharmacist friend (who also happens to be cool under celebrity pressure, maybe she is taking drugs?) and she told me all the science behind it but all I heard was wahwahwahwahblahblahblah. Anyway. Note to those of you who are thinking of selling your teething children to the gypsies: double doses!

3. I haven't swept my floors all week. You can only imagine how bad they look, how gross they feel underfoot, how terrible it will be to finally clean them up. But this week has been rough and snail-like. Tuesday evening I was shocked to realize IT WAS ONLY TUESDAY EVENING.

4. My mom and dad get home on Saturday. THANK GOD. My mom is always worried Jackson is going to forget her, but the last couple days he's been using the play kitchen phone to call Gamma. And then he has this long gibberish conversations with Gamma and it is hysterical and adorable and sort of sad. I mean, COME HOME GAMMA!

5. Earlier this week when I was complaining about jeans, Charlotte said I should buy Joe's Jeans. Which I've never heard of because I am the opposite of stylish and buy all my clothes at Target. So I googled them, of course, and found this awwwwwesome site where you take this jeans quiz thingy and they find your perfect jeans. VERY COOL.

6. Phillip is out seeing the Star Trek movie with his coworkers. I've heard nothing but greatness about the Star Trek movie and I wouldn't even mind seeing it myself, but come on, I DID have to do a little dig at the people who go to Star Trek movies, right? And in the course of the conversation I brought up that Triumph The Stupid Insult Dog sketch where he's interviewing people standing in line for the Star Wars movie, because it is HILARIOUS and also APROPOS, but I was severely chastised for confusing Star TREK with Star WARS. And I was all, "I'm not confusing them, I know exactly what they are, I am saying that the fans are one and the same" and they were all, "NOT THE SAME" and I was all, "GEEKY BOYS IN COSTUME. SAME." Whatever.

7. Guess what I'm doing tomorrow morning? PLAYDATE WITH THE NEIGHBORS. WOO!

More quick takes here.

And I think no computer for me tomorrow. (I love how I think by TYPING that it might actually HAPPEN.)

Comments

[Jess]

I want to come! But I can't confirm yet. So, no email to you just yet. Hopefully later!

[Melissa]

I have to tell you, I do like my Joe Jeans. And you know WHY I like them? They are more forgiving than the other fancy schmancy pants out there like 7 jeans. You could almost go a size smaller if you want to...but I don't.

We can swap Dave Matthews sighting stories another time. :) I haven't seen too many other famous people except silly reality stars...like Bachelor Bob...when he was still a Bachelor.

[Manda]

You think your husband is a dork? My husband saw the Star Trek the NIGHT IT CAME OUT and then came home all JAZZED because it was the BEST SCI-FI MOVIE EVEEEEEER!! And he knows. He's seen EVERY ONE EVER MADE.
Sigh.
I can't get into seven quick takes. I like other people's but I prefer to do my kvetching stream-of-conscious style these days (not that YOU are kvetching, that's just ALL I do on my blog anymore).
I'm calling Escape to Sacramento FakeHer from here on out. I'm copyrighting it. FAKEHER!! WOO!

[Moose]

When I was in college Dave Matthews (apparently) came with his sister to check out the campus. This was back in 1997 when he was still extraordinarly hip (to my possibly not-so-hip mind). So I may have done some scampering around and ducking behind trees to see if I could spot him. Maybe.

[Kristie]

Hi! I'm coming to Sacramento!! YAY! And I totally dork out in front of famous people. The one and only time I saw Dooce I couldn't stop giggling. I'm a dork, I know.
Also, I have a two year old...I'll be heading this advice with meds when we hit the molar stage.

[Christina]

I'm totally psyched you are having a playdate with the neighbors! How great is that?! (Well, hopefully soon you will blog about it and then we shall know if it was actually awesome or only awesome in theory.)

I think I've never been around any real live famous people. But I'm quite certain I would make a huge embarrassing dork of myself. I mean, I do that with non-famous people, so I can only imagine how I might take it to the next level of dorkiness...

Oh! And speaking of dorky... I LOVED the Star Trek movie. Totally. Also, I liked all the Star Trek Series except the original and DS9 and now I am proving to the world just what a complete dork I really am...

[jackie]

I am a celebrity dork too. In the rare event of a sighting, I'm like "Hey what's that over there?" Worse for me, though, are famous people in the field that I work. "Like, whoa I've read all your research and I don't know what to say to you because you're a genius and I'm ... the mom of a 2 year old."

[Raven]

Thank you for the website recommendation! I definitely need to try some of those jeans and now I have a short list to work from :)

Looking forward to meeting you!

[janey]

OMG that Star Wars skit was hilarious! I think if you talk to Dave once more, you qualify as an acquaintance.

[Lisa]

We got the double-dose instructions from our doctor with Olivia's big infection debacle at 7 months old, and now I'm all over that whenever she gets a fever. I'm all "Take THAT, fever!" And it helps the toddler feel like a normal person, so that's good.