A New Trend...

This morning I rushed Ellie and Nico through the routine... clothes, breakfast, brush teeth, brush hair, get backpack together, etc. Still, when I looked at the clock I discovered we had missed the bus (which comes at 8:45). Instead I drove Ellie to school.

As quick as I was, the walk-in door was already closed and we had to drive around to the office "late door". Ughhh... However, instead of her usual question of, "Why are you late?" the secretary greeted us with, "What are you doing here?" Somewhat confused, Ellie simply said, "I missed the bus." The secretary looked at Ellie and then looked at me and said, "It's only 8:25. School doesn't start for an hour."

Somewhat sheepishly, Ellie, Nico and I returned to our car and drove to the bus stop. There we sat in the car for 15 minutes until the bus came... this time at the actual 8:45.

Can you get dementia at 33???

Things I should have known before today...

1. If you pull up to a gas pump and you don't get "options" when you normally get three, warning bells should go off.

2. When the gas nozzle doesn't fit into your tank and it usually does, you should not assume that your tank is just broken and proceed to fill the tank.

3. I have really great friends. One of whom has a really great brother who happens to own a siphon.

4. Siphons don't work on Hondas.

Alex's life on the train...

... will soon consist of studying this:



Courtesy of his upcoming Mandarin Chinese class at NYU.

Chess Masters 2010

fame

Hey, I made the Newspaper of Lower Manhattan! Yow!

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