My Life as a Llama
If you've never seen the kid's movie "The Emperor's New Groove" with David Spade, then you're missing out. I don't care how old you are, that movie is hilarious.
Kind of like my life.
There's a scene in which the Emperor Kuzco (who has been transformed into a Llama by an evil magic potion) is floating down a river with his companion, Pacha. They are having a terrible time and things just keep getting worse. The two are floating downstream when they have this little dialogue:
Pacha: Uh-oh.
Kuzco: Don't tell me. We're about to go over a huge waterfall.
Pacha: Yep.
Kuzco: Sharp rocks at the bottom?
Pacha: Most likely.
Kuzco: Bring it on.
And this is exactly how I feel right about now: BRING IT ON.
Little MJ starts puking as I walk out the door this morning? Bring it on. Little MJ is still puking when I get home tonight? Bring it on. Paul can't take off work tomorrow, my mom is busy and I absolutely, positively HAVE to work? Just bring it on.
You get to the point where you have no choice. No matter how crappy things get...BRING IT THE F--- ON! Just bring it on.
If MJ is still sick tomorrow morning, he's coming to work with me. We have a bed and a TV and he can lay there while I take care of the three (bring it on) ATF agents who are scheduled for the morning.
Oh...it's supposed to be raining buckets during rush hour when I have to walk three blocks to our building with a small, sick child? Whatever...bring it on.
posted by Juanita at
7:20 PM
2 Comments:
I think motherhood, in particular, really is summarized quite adequately by the Rolling Stones' (who I normally don't like that much) Beast of Burden. Or the myth of Sysiphus (sp?). The the Norse idea that you're going to lose, but it's important to go down fighting so that you make it to Valhalla and will have the opportunity, in the afterlife, to get up every day and fight forever. Yup. Oh, there's some vomit I have to clean up. Gotta run.
I hear ya!
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