Cleanse Day Beloidia

Not to say I'm weakening, or that the lack of quality nutrition has any sorreanic plopecia del cromulence -- ahhh, la cromulence -- it's so simultaneously tingly and warm on my spine -- on my mental stability, but I am beginning to frebeck some altatroid miffelsots this morning. "Always, no sometimes think it's me, but you know I know and it's a dream. I think I know, I mean, ah, yes, but it's all wrong. That is, I think I disagree."
Yesterday was the hardest day. Jae and I took Kylie to see Bravo the amazing counting dog at the Magic Castle. We got there too late to see the 12:15 show, so we hung around for the 1:15 show. The extra hour did a number on Kylie -- took her into nap time, except without the nap -- which means with an extra dose of fidgety-ness. Jillian came out to see us before the show and took us in first so Bravo could see me and get our mutual affection out of the way and so Kylie could also settle in. Good plan. Lasted 20 seconds. Kylie seemed on her way to loving the show, but she couldn't keep quiet (which seems an odd requisite for a kid-oriented show, but this one is a bit different; Bravo does require calm so he can focus on his performance. As he goes forward, I'm sure he'll be able to do it while disregarding kids in the audience. Thing is, he's still a great dog who loves people and wants to pay attention to them. Would we really want anything different from a dog?) so I took her out of there. At which point, Bravo cocked his ear back listening for me outside the door, rather than paying attention to the act, so Jillian asked Jae if she would mind switching places with me, so maybe Bravo would be more at ease. OK. Once inside, Bravo seemed happy to see me (as I was happy to see him) and he performed with aplomb. Afterwards, we went to the next parlor over and watched another show, with comic magician (forget his name, but he was brilliant). Also in the audience was a British couple and their one-year-old, Charlotte, who had only made it through about three minutes more of Bravo's show than we had. Kylie loved Charlotte and split her attention between the show and Charlotte.
Then it was on to a baby shower for friends, Blake and Alicia Cox (no relation, but deserving of a section within the Cox Section.
Our hosts were Carolyn and Sam Baer, owners of Cheers catering. So you know the food was amazing. And plenty of delicious drinks! This made Sunday the hardest day by -- well, let's say Sunday was Usain Bolt and the next hardest day was the USA Men's 4x100 relay team. Yeah, like that. The difference between beating everybody by 10 meters and dropping the freaking baton. Noodleheads.
Hardest day today.