Preparation + Opportunity = ROCKBAND?

So yesterday was a complete bust as far as writing went, but I'm not scheduled to begin complete isolation overdrive until Monday so that's okay. As far as family time went though, yesterday was awesome.

My son and I discovered how to connect the XBox to the internet so we can download more songs. It was insane. First I downloaded them all and then we mastered them. We rocked out for like four hours from 9am until 1 when we got hungry for lunch. So we had brunch at Cracker Barrel until we could pick Bailey up at 2:30. After that we played more Rock Band until
the guitar ran out of batteries. We got more batteries stat. Then we went to Chuck E. Cheese. Evidently Chuck E Cheese hosts "Single Older Men Take Your Kids To Play" night because there were several groups of two or three kids with an older dad who stayed on his BlackBerry or Laptop and would occasionally say "uh huh" "GREAT!" or pull out some more bills. No wedding rings.

One of them actually approached me and told me he liked my Uggs. He was walking toward me. The Uggs tag is on the back of the boot. He has obviously been trying to figure out what to say for a while. I mean at least he appreciates a good expensive boot. I said "Thank You." and he went to sit down. Then he noticed Eban's Ugg's on his next trip to the soda fountain. I noticed his soda wasn't empty. He said "Wow, your kids have Uggs too." I nodded yes. It was awkward. Joel bought us all Uggs for Christmas. He fed my addiction but my kids couldn't really care less. But they're steppin out in style now too. Anyway, the guy came back again as his kids were trying figure out what to get at the candy counter. He kind of paused. Asked me if I mind if he sat down. I don't really mind if he sits down but I know where this is going and I knew I had to deny him. Because I think he's interested. And I'm seeing someone. And he's just not attractive. And I'm at fricking Chuck E Cheese. It's really hard to imagine being picked up while this lady is changing her kid's crappy diaper blow out on the table behind me and the screaming six year old ten feet away is trying to get BlackBerry dad's attention with no success. There's also a really fat lady asleep at her table in my eyesight line and she's been that way for about an hour and I wonder if she's dead. This is just a bad time for this.

Yeah, No. I say. I just went through a divorce and the kids havent seen me with anyone yet. Might be awkward.
He agrees. I smell that diaper behind me and I wonder if the mother fed that kid dead skunk glazed with tar. Is that even healthy? Probably not. That kid needs to go to the doctor for reals. Should that little girl be on top of that air hockey machine? Oh crap my kids just blew their coin stash on that light slap jackpot thing. I'm sorry, sir, what was that again?

He says..."Well like I said before, I really like your shoes." and he walks away. I can totally see him damning himself for such a lame pickup line. I wanna make him feel better and tell him he never had a chance to begin with , and it had nothing to do with his method of execution. Then I realize that's not nice. I'm pretty sure if my current interest hit on my in Chuckie Cheese, I'd still be so preoccupied with the twelve year old trying to cram himself in Chuck E Cheese's little sidecar to take a photo and the pungent smell of death and spoiled milk resonating behind me.

Looks like Fat Lady is up from her nap. Her kids are sitting there asking her to leave. Crap!! They must have been there all day! Whose kids actually ASK to leave? Wow.

BlackBerry dad is asking ticket counter lady how much to just buy that piece o crap Barbie Knockoff with a Chuckie Cheese shirt on and he's mad because it's $30.00. That's funny.

Chuckie Cheese is just a mess.

So we came home and played RockBand for a few more hours and went to sleep . I did however attempt to get in touch with my photographer who needs to schedule a shoot with me very soon. My phone dropped the call. So I texted publisher and he texted her and we have a phone pow wow at 1230.

So, since I'm gonna be so completely focused on this book pretty soon I'm really glad I got some good family time in.
I work tonight at the airport. The next day I have a Rock Band date with friends. Monday I'll be in NYC and I'll be devoting the whole two days there to writing. If I get my crap done I will reward myself with a trip to MOMA to see Starry Night.
then the whole week will be spent in isolation until Saturday where I will go to San Francisco with Sweet David and chain myself to my laptop even longer while he is in business meetings. Sounds fun!!!

Kisses!!!! Time to get ready for work!

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