Why I should totally get yesterday free

In the world of NaBloPoMo, I guess I failed.

I could cheat and back date a post-but what fun would that be.

I will just share with you my rock solid evidence of why I totally should get a "I failed to post once during the month of NaBloPoMo but that's okay because of your undisputed selflessness in the line of parenting so you get a day free" card

They do make such a card, right? RIGHT?!!?

Behold Defendant's Exhibit A



Yes, folks, that happens to be a movie theatre. Not just any movie theatre. A theatre that we had to walk across a huge parking lot to get to because this particular movie theatre was showing...

Defendant's Exhibit B



And they weren't showing it in one, two, or even four movie theatres. They were showing this particular movie in SEVENTEEN of their movie theatres (out of TWENTY)

The line was out the door-thankfully I listened to my nearly 15 year old and purchased the tickets earlier in the day. The concession lines were even worse. So just imagine that many cars in a parking lot in which I had to walk through. In the dark. When it was cold. Listening to my teenager complain about the fact that she may look like a dork because she was going to see a sparkly vampire movie with her mother.

Her exact words were "Put that camera away are you trying to make this worse for me than it is. I mean, I feel like such a geek coming to the midnight showing with my mom."

I did not force her, if anything, she forced me. Bringing up some crazy promise I made to her when right after we saw the last sparkly vampire movie. I believe it was around THREE A.M. that morning.

I will let my daughter call me a lot of things like awesome, wonderful, mother of the year, sweet, my BFF but non keeper of promises is not one of them. So we trudged to the movies well after my bedtime, and after I worked for several hours in a very warm and well lit television studio shooting people at a phone bank.

Did I mention that I went to the said station before I had a chance to eat the wonderful home cooked dinner I made for the rest of my family? I got to eat veggies, dip, cookies and Diet Coke. But I'm not bitter much.

The movie had technical difficulties and it didn't start until 35 minutes AFTER it was supposed to. I got to sit next to a smelly lovely little boy who...well, let's just say that if I wasn't concerned for the fact that I didn't want to cause a scene or embarass my teenager, I would have told that boy and his mother a thing or two about the words pouring out of his mouth and her humor at them.

Ahem....but where was I?

Ah, yes.....after getting home from the movie at nearly 3 AM, I got in bed, only to get back up again at 5:45 AM and I sort of sat on the couch all day in a sleepless coma watching episode after episode of Desparate Housewives on the DVR.

The good news, I stayed up and went to bed in the evening and woke up after 11 hours refreshed and feeling wonderful.

The bad news, in my coma like state I did not post or read many posts, as words were trickier to get out than they should have been.

So I beg with, throwing myself on your mercies, to excuse me one day out of 30 for NaBloPoMo......watching sparkly vampires way past my bedtime, should more than make up for it.