These are my favorite things this week:

songs:

"Imaginary Love" by Rufus Wainwright
"Modern Girls and Old Fashioned Men" by The Strokes
"Float On" by Modest Mouse
"Goodnight Moon" by Shivaree

movies:

Melvin Goes to Dinner (I think this is one of my favorite things. We had a damaged Netflix DVD, so we won't see the last twenty five minutes until they send a replacement. I really liked the first forty minutes though.)

misc:

Hearing Hayden sing "Let's Go Padres, Let's Go" - (with appropriate hand clapping)

Overhearing Hayden singing "Pink Moon" by Nick Drake ( pink pink pink ........pink moon)

The bee situation is resolved. Dismantling our house's front awning, borrowing an extension ladder, and a couple hundred dollars to the exterminator was all it took. I'm glad to be back in a bee-free zone. I'm excited that Coachella is next weekend, but I ended up having to rent an RV last minute, and renting an RV is not cheap. I just read last night that there is no re-entry to the concert. So, once we go in, we're trapped. The RV will be basically useless. So, Neil and I are going to try to get a parking spot close enough to hear the music during the day, and save ourselves for Radiohead. Yes, this means we'll be spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars to hang out and play cards in a rented RV, and then listen to Radiohead for like thirty minutes. Oh, and I just heard it's going to be 105 degrees.

I was so looking forward to this weekend. This weekend is the one weekend we aren't completely booked solid until like mid-July. That was before. Unfortunately, our house is now a giant honeycomb and we will spend the weekend waging battle against mother nature. I saw three bees in our bedroom yesterday afternoon. This is very unusual, but it's spring, so I thought there may be a logical explanation. I also saw some bees buzzing around outside, but no obvious swarm or anything. Well, this morning, there were a couple more bees in our bedroom. So, Neil called the exterminators. They came after both Neil and I had left for work, so it was just my Mom here watching Hayden. The exterminators said the fact that our roof is so steep and high, and the fact that the bees are coming in through the beam at the apex of the roof, meant this would have to be a two-person operation that involved some dangling over the edge of the roofline, and would therefore cost us $350 just for them to get in position to spray the bees. We haven't agreed to this extortion yet, and we thought we may have some other options still undiscovered. So, when I got home and heard all of this news, I took a peek into our bedroom. I am not exaggerating when I say that I could see at least thirty bees in the area I could view from just having the door open a crack. Neil is on his way home now, and he has calls in to a bunch of bee removal places. So far, though, it seems like no one will be able to come out until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest. I have no idea what to do in the meantime. Stay at a hotel? My bedroom is full of freaking BEES!!!!

Tucson

We drove fourteen hours to stay in Tucson for 26 hours. We had to go for Neil's step-grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary party. It was a lot of driving for a four hour event. Before we went to the party, we did some hiking. I was surprised to find that Tucson is a really beautiful place - maybe it's just this time of year, but there was something about it I really liked.

That's Entertainment

This morning, Hayden has spent the better part of an hour putting rubber yellow kitchen gloves into this decorative bird cage, and then taking them out. Fascinating.....

So, this is one hectic week. I don't even have time to write about how hectic it is. As soon as I got home from Gymboree and grocery shopping today, I was on the phone with work, while putting away groceries, and feeding Hayden lunch. My boss was.....how do you say......not very nice to me today. I don't know how much longer I can keep putting in 32 hour work weeks and still somehow maintain the illusion that I am a stay at home Mom.