The Queen's Rambles

You might be seeing more of me here. I got a laptop for Christmas! How many times have I mentioned that? Maybe just on FB. Erik is pretty sad because he wanted to by me a laptop, but his budget wouldn’t allow it. He doesn’t understand that he should just be happy I got what I wanted.

Mike is taking this week off work and we’ve been total slouches. Or I have been a slouch. Mike has been a cleaning maniac. He’s cleaned so well that I can’t find anything. He also didn’t realize that my jar openers were very important items and he did something with them. I threatened to withhold sex if he didn’t find them. He was not impressed. He couldn’t figure out why I would need them to have sex and thought it sounded too kinky. I don’t think he understands the whole “haggish, naggish wife withholds sex when she’s angry” thing. Probably because that’s not how our relationship works.

Way too much information.

Just saying. Those jar openers are like some kind of miracle. They’re just the standard weird plastic square things that you get as promotions from various places, but they really work. I will be irked if they are truly gone.

Anyway, I saw a friend post pictures of her trip to the Maryland Science Center and decided we should stop being slouchy/cleany and go do something. I wasn’t sure what was best, but a FB poll revealed that The Maryland Science Center is great, so off we went. Mike got a GPS for Christmas so that made our trip even more enjoyable. Usually when we go into the big city (Baltimore in this case) I can’t enjoy it because I feel like we are on the verge of being lost forever and will surely perish while driving in circles, unable to find the way home.

Our FB friends were right–Erik loved the Science Center even though he had declared he wasn’t going and he was going to hate it. We were there five hours and still could go back for another five hours and not be done exploring. I missed most of it because I found a little infant room with a comfy chair and a boppy. After letting Elsa play around on a waterbed thingee (she looked like she was in an aquarium. If you know my love of fish, you know how much I loved this. If you don’t know about my love of fish I have two words for you: severe phobia) I nursed her and she fell asleep.

I had the camera with me so we didn’t get many pictures, so picture me making a sad face. I’m already planning to go back, possibly in April when my mom is here. It looks like there are all sorts of cool things around the Inner Harbor so it would be nice to explore on a day when it isn’t freezing cold.

If you ever do decide to go to the Science Center, which I heartily recommend, I do have one word of advice. Take your own lunch! The prices weren’t too bad and the food wasn’t awful, but the cafeteria set up was insane. I don’t know how such a sleek, well thought out facility could have such a horribly planned cafeteria. We were in line for over 30 minutes waiting to place our order. They cook every thing to order, which is nice in terms of taste, but they don’t have a really good system for getting things done. I almost brought our lunches today, but we have a major need to grocery shop so didn’t really have anything. I thought about going to a restaurant before entering the center, but the only one in easy walking distance was Hooters. I’ve never been in a Hooters. Despite the claim that they have really good hot wings, I think I’d like to continue abstaining. Especially when I have my five year old boy with me. He’d enjoy it too much. You know what his favorite part of the Harry Potter Lego game is? Watching the little videos that explain the action and staring at Hermione’s lipstick.