Tiny Violins

Well instead of "Elmo" days at our house we have "Emo days as in everyone is soooo sad. And everything totally Sucks! You know the scenario, "How was School?" "It sucked." "I hate all my teachers." "Spanish sucks." "Not one kid in my English class can actually read. It sucks."" The lunch line is too long". "Canoes suck". Today was one of those days. Tiny violins all afternoon.

Later on I was watching some fashion designers on TV and there happened to be a Russian guy on the show. I realized Russians are the ultimate "Emo" people. Remember how they had to ban dying on the ice in figure skating a couple of years ago because the Russians kept skating to gloomy music and then laying on the ice. Sesame street is really grey and gloomy in Russia because they aren't comfortable with the more colorful version we are used to. Imagine what happens then when you ask a Russian teenager how school was? No. wait. Let's not go there...

We had "emo" children and crazy ass dogs. Cooper believes we have hidden his favorite toy on the bookcase. Why he believes this we do not know but he does. Every night when we sit down he whines at the bookcase. Incessantly. We have tried picking him up and showing that there is nothing there to no avail. We started hiding things up there but that was a very bad idea. Nothing we do will convince him his koala isn't up there. Tomorrow I think I will take him for a very long walk...