Still building those immunities

My poor baby. Throwing up last weekend and now, a chest cold. It started with a runny nose, then a cough and now she sounds like she’s been smoking 2 packs a day for 20 years. So we took her to the doctor and to make a long story short we have some sorta breathing treatment machine/torture device that she gets to visit three times a day. Poor baby.

Most of the day she wanted held or was really hard to please. We did get out for a walk once which seemed to really please her, but it was really hot out – I worried that she was getting too hot, she already had a fever on and off.

On Sunday we ventured out to the new Wal-mart, where I’ve been doing my grocery shopping since it was completed a few weeks ago. I’m not a huge fan of Wal-mart, but it’s so close and it’s a Super Wal-mart so it has EVERYTHING. Which is also a bad thing though too. The store is soo huge. Anyway, Ella was a little out of hand. OK, a lot out of hand. She was not impressed with the snacks I brought either. I finally went to the fruit snacks aisle, opened and a pack and started giving her some. This calmed her down temporarily, until they were gone. So, I gave her another pack. And again, happy until the pack was gone. The screaming wouldn’t stop, and I caved and gave her one more pack. They were really small packs, but still. I felt like a bad mom – feeding her a bunch of sugar, plus am I teaching her how to get what she wants? I don’t know, but I know at that moment I was desperate. And she fell asleep as soon as we got home. Even after all the fruit snacks. She was already starting to get sick, maybe that was the problem. I also find it odd that ever since we started shopping at this new Wal-mart she’s been really impatient at the store. Is it possible she hates Wal-mart? I have always noticed screaming children there. Maybe all the flourescent lighting and endless rows of groceries just totally overwhelm children. Maybe she’s mad they don’t offer benefits. I don’t know, but I’m going back to Scott’s next week. I’m willing to pay a little more for a pleasant experience for both of us. I’m sure it has nothing to do with my sweet baby becoming a toddler, right?

Sex and the City lives up to the hype

Well, I loved it. The Sex and the City movie lived up to the TV series and then some. And the whole night, going out with girls, the party-atmosphere and seeing everyone in cute dresses and heels at the movies – it was a blast.

We started our night at Biagi’s at Jefferson Pointe for an appetizer, and of course, a cosmo (cosmopolitan) to get us in the mood for the movie. I was very dissappointed though when they brought our cosmos in wine glasses instead of martini glasses – they were all out. Not the same! Guess we weren’t the only ones who had that idea. Oh well. We rushed over to the theater afterward in the pouring rain nearly 45 minutes prior to start time. We did not want to be stuck in the front row for this.

We all settled in our seats (the 13 of us). I went with my SIL, some other friends of hers I knew, and a lot I didn’t. But, I have to say, they were all so fun. One of the girls was cracking me up because she kept having shoe trouble. She had found a really cute pair of heels and when they didn’t have her size 7, she opted to just go ahead and buy a size 8. So she had duct tape, and shoe pads, which kept falling out. Hey, sometimes you have to make sacrifices for fashion, I can respect that.

A whole slew of previews later, a quick announcement from some the theater to have fun but turn our cell phones off, and a little hollering from the crowd the movie started. WARNING: If you don’t want me to spoil any of the movie for you. STOP READING. I kinda thought they would blast the infamous show music – that piano bit, but it just played softly then some new faster song came on. Then a montage of what was happening with the characters last. Which was good. I hadn’t watched in a while. I thought I was a real fan, but when I started talking to people that night, I realized I’m a slacker in their world. Some of them had been watching all the old episodes in preparation for the night, and they could have kicked my butt in trivia.

Anyway, the way that things ended up in the movie are no surprise at all. Charlotte and Harry have an adopted 3-year-old, but also had their own baby in the end, Miranda and Steve remain together raising Brady in Brooklyn, Samantha decides onces again monogamy is not for her and returns to being single, Carrie and Big end up together. But there were a lot of surprises during the movie. I could not believe Big stood Carried up at the altar. And Steve cheated on Miranda. Some people I talked to have serious issues with these storylines. And I do a little bit to, I have to say.

I just can’t believe that Big, a 50-somethingl-year-old, experienced man, would be so fragile as to get cold feet, get freaked out by a comment someone said and leave the love of his life at the altar. Although he was always a commitmentphobe and I suppose after two failed marriages it would be a little daunting. And Steve cheating on Miranda? That was a complete surprise. Steve seems like such the nice guy. It doesn’t seem like something he would do. I really don’t have huge issues with these things though. I’m not like my husband, who watches a movie, finds something unbelievable and never can enjoy the rest of it. It’s fiction. I can deal with it.

Some things I loved:

Samantha. She was so funny. A lot of good one-liners. I loved when she called that jerk out at the rehearsal dinner, and Miranda out for her need for a waxing.

The whole friendship focus. They’ve always emphasized female friendship in the movie and even implied it’s as important as any of the male relationships they are always seeking. I loved the scene where Samantha actually feeds Carrie when she is depressed and in bed. And then when Carrie gets out of bed and goes to Miranda’s to give her company on New Year’s Eve.

The fashion. The whole movie was just so visually fun. The wedding photo shoot was awesome. And I loved the scene where Carrie was trying on her old dresses and her friends were voting on whether to take them or not. Some people hated the feathers she sported with her wedding gown, but I thought they were kinda cool. But that little wedding suit she ended up wearing was not cute. I mean I get the point. In the end it was all about the people and not the labels, but still. She has style and that little suit was not good looking. I don’t buy it.

Jennifer Hudson. She was adorable. And so sweet. I wish I could hire a cute little personal assistant to do stuff for me and give me advice.

That’s all I remember for now. Afterall its been over 24 hours since I saw.

The rest of the night was so fun too. We went to Club Soda after and there were so many cool, interesting people we went with. And nice. One of the girls went to the car, parked kinda far away in the pouring rain and came back to pick us up. And two of the other girls went into the bar and got us cosmos while we were waiting for our table. Nice. Girlfriends are so good …