Prrrreeeseeenting!

CRUNCHY!

Well, sort of.

Today I was invited to take part in a little chit chat at CBC Radio One, about Gen-X parenting and ‘cool’ parenting and what makes THIS generation different from others.

I barely made it.   I hope I sound NORMAL.  I woke up in the middle of the night with a horrendous migraine.  Full blown, pain, nausea, cold sweats, etc.   And no medication.

Lay all night with cold clothes on my eyes WILLING it to go away.   It started to ease a bit when I was getting everyone up, but  I couldn’t make any sudden movements nor see properly.

So I left a little early and whipped over to my moms to raid her medicinal stash.

Took half a pill and roared off downtown.

Traffic in downtown Vancouver sucks the big one.  There is construction everywhere, so trying to find parking was NOT a good thing.  I roared into the library parking lot and drove PAST the ticket dispenser and then couldn’t back up because of the moron drivers behind me.  I say moron about them because how stupid are you to follow a driver who is clearly out of her freaking mind.   I then couldn’t open my door to walk back and get it because  I was too close to the side.  It took a few minutes for the attendant to figure it out.

He kindly stated the bleedin obvious to me, that indeed the ticket machine was back there.   Thank you.

Drive all the way to the lowest level of parking hell to find a spot and then sprint up (can you sprint in an elevator?) to the main level and then try to find the street that I needed in between all the closed sidewalks and so on.

Seriously, I cannot believe I made it in time.

There was our representative ‘alterna’ mom waiting there too and she was very nice and very real.   We sat down with the producer, Michelle, and after head sets were donned, were introduced to our middle of the road cool Dad from Montreal.

Then we sat down for a chat about parenting today.  It was great fun and I think we could have gabbed for ever.  As I said, I THINK I was supposed to be the anti hip parent there….but how can I be?  Not saying I am cool or anything, but I don’t really fit into any ‘stereotype’ categories.   We are kidults.  Will freely admit it.
I can’t tell you yet when it will be on the air.  I will keep you posted though, and I think they also have those ‘podcast’ thingies on their web sites for those people who don’t listen to CBC.

I am feeling much better now.  Even with the Wiggles blasting in the background.  It is a horrible day and so I think there will be lots of dvd’s and playdoh type activities this afternoon.