Day Two Hundred Sixty-Four

I took the girls to Phipps this evening. This is hardly remarkable as that's where we've gone on the days when we've needed some sort of normalcy in the midst of ... THIS.

THIS continues to be so dumb.

Phipps continues to handle COVID in a way that is smart, though. Like, we were the only ones there this evening during our time slot. If we could keep scheduled tickets even after the threat of COVID lifts, that would be swell. They really do make life better.

The fact that we had the place to ourselves meant the girls got to hang out in a few rooms that we normally pass by. Even with scheduled tickets and all of that, there is ALWAYS a traffic jam of people up until the cactus room. I don't know what it is, but I can best describe it as that thing Pittsburghers do when they come to a tunnel.

They stop.

Everybody stops when they get to the first few rooms. They stop and gawk and act all sorts of ridiculous and it's super annoying. Grandma Alexis in particular finds it to be the most frustrating thing on Earth. She reached her low point the day we got caught behind a group that was turning every second of their lives into a TikTok video. But today! Today there wasn't anyone there, so Grandma decided to tell me all about her life plans.

Let the record show, Alexis is Monica from Friends. From the uptight must-have-it-this-way nonsense to the wild hair, she is Monica. We'll check in about 20 years from now and find that she's living her life according to an Excel spreadsheet. Seriously, the kid plans EVERYTHING. She always has and she always will and it's pretty hilarious that she got stuck with me as her mother because I'm over here winging it 99.9% of the time. I win at spontaneous. She wins at planned.

So of course she has planned her wedding. OF COURSE. It's going to take place in a room at Phipps and she can list the guests and tell you what her dress is going to look like and maybe she better screen every person she dates forever to make sure they're okay with her plan before they go on a second date. No point in wasting anyone's time, you know?

So Alexis was outlining this plan and Mila was all, "Where do I fit in with this whole thing?" Because Mila. That kid also wins at spontaneous, but she also wins at being the center of the universe. She accepts nothing less.

There was discussion about bridesmaids and maids of honor and basically Alexis ran through the skill sets of every person she knows to determine who should have which role. There was a whole rant about how Mila can't be the maid of honor because she's unpredictable and won't take care of the details, but then we got to the party planning. Alexis has to have a bachelorette party, of course.

"Nobody is ever going to be better at planning parties than Mila. NOBODY."

True story, that.