November | 2014 | The Sadder But Wiser Girl

For those of you that read this monthly, you know what this post is all about…

For those of you that might be first-timers, let me explain what this is. Fly on the Wall is a collection of snippets from everyday life that by themselves wouldn’t make a whole post. Participating bloggers all post simultaneously, because the more the merrier! You not only get to read my randomness, but other people’s fun as well. Stay tuned at the bottom of this post for links to other Fly on the Wall posts.

Let’s face it, my life is a bunch of random snippets, folks. Without further ado, let me present the mostly adult quotes I’ve collected this month. It’s not that my children aren’t funny these days, it’s just that the adults have had more unusual things to say lately.

But first we have the mandatory Halloween photo:

Princess Hello Kitty and Minecraft’s Super Steve. A lot of swearing went into making that Steve head.

Me: “Thanks for the kiss before you left this morning”
Evil Genius: “I gave you a kiss before I left?”
Me: “Yes”
Evil Genius: “Are you sure it was me?”
Me: “Who else would it be?”
Evil Genius: “I don’t know, but that doesn’t sound like me at all.”

Me: “Oh forget it! Just go back to your own little world over there!”
Evil Genius: “You have it wrong. It’s a big world, just very low population density!”

Jack-o-Lantern Pizza. Apparently it’s a tradition now.

Evil Genius: (spitting into the sink) “I don’t know where all that hair in my mouth came from”
Me: “Maybe your beard is growing inward.”
Evil Genius: “Really? Are you telling me I have an In-grown beard?”

The kids desperately wanted to carve a pumpkin. Or rather, they wanted someone ELSE to carve it. Nonsense-dad put them to work pulling out the guts.

Evil Genius’s female coworker: “Men sometimes don’t get the non verbal communication.”
Evil Genius: “No no, we get it! We just choose to ignore it.”

We had just finished watching the movie Chef.
Evil Genius: “What was that movie about?”
Me: “It was about the relationship between him and his son. It was like Real Steel, only without giant robots.”

The Professor ran his first official 5K with dad. He ran all but about ten blocks of it!

While the Professor had a pretty good time of it, I did not. A couple of blocks in I slipped on loose gravel and fell hard, skidding across the pavement. I got back up and kept going, but ended up finishing fourth from the end. I discovered later that I’d taken all the skin off of one knee and was bleeding. Not my best moment-since then I’ve tried to get back into things. I just downloaded the Couch to 5K app and hope to start on that next week. We shall see!

So I went back red. It’s hard to tell just how red in this picture, but I assure you it’s very pretty.

Things overheard in my house recently:

“VETO! No one is duct taping anyone!”

“My eyes hurt having heard that.”

“Never season angry!”

“Will you get that pizza off your head?”

“I have not yet lost my superpower, my ability to determine obscure roles by actors you’ve never heard of.”

I went to the doctor this past month and she was completely honest with me. She told me I was seriously depressed. I’m working on getting better, but unfortunately I have a long way to go. I have several posts just gathering dust in my inbox as I try to put the right words in them so that they can be published. Anything coming out of this brain these days isn’t exactly publish-worthy material-so I hope you enjoyed this post.