Oh winter…..you have crept into my spirit you sneaky villain! I realize my gusto for just about anything has gone out the window. I really haven’t cooked or baked in weeks, no motivation to tackle any house projects except the usual upkeep and I have been forcing my stubborn anxiety to let me make it through my days at work. Draining. Also Vern has been very sick. Without a “TMI” I will just say he is having some extreme tummy issues. At this point the Dr. is running every test he can think of until we find the problem. Poor guy has been miserable for weeks! L And then it snows…and snows.. and makes all of the above that much more complicated…..(digs for big girl panties) ugh.
But on the lighter side of things…I realize I have become a scissor happy Mom with Maxine. Poor kid, in all this wet weather she gets mattes at the blink of an eye if I am not CONSTANTLY brushing her. So to save all of our sanity I snip them out and then sometimes I trim a few more places here and there and well ..we all have a good laugh! She is a good sport about all the hair maintenance and thankfully she is so adorable that her less than perfect haircut often goes unnoticed.
In other news, Del is pushing for grey paint in the living room. I don’t know if I have mentioned it before but for someone who only has 20% of his sight he sure is opinionated about color! He is STILL complaining about the kitchen color yet the remodel he did over a year ago still sits unfinished and our house is 4 different colors on the outside. So I am embracing grey, I look at it as a challenge! Mwahaha (evil laugh) A challenge to find a color as brown (what I want) as possible but that still looks grey enough to fool him. Then I will decorate the room with beautiful bright deco and crisp while trim and molding. (Thanks to my ex husband I have TONS of experience polishing a turd and tolerating stubborn men! LOL Oh I crack myself up sometimes …) I might even throw in a few bits of purple just for kicks…er I mean contrast. ;)
And now for a little laugh...I went out for my birthday and had a few drinks, a few more than I have had in a long time. Tara returned me home safely around 9:30 pm and not ten minutes later my parents called to wish me a happy birthday! As I fumbled with my phone trying to decide what to do, I swiped down on my screen by instinct and answered. Crap. Sooo… I played it cool (what am I?! 16!?) ,thanked them for the card and mentioned I had been out for a few drinks with the girls. I think we chatted on for 30 minutes about things I really don’t remember …. something about me wanting them to look at a house/mobile over here in a nearby “senior community” since they are going for less than 5k at the moment…and then the part that still makes me laugh..
“I really appreciate the phone call and all but… I am just drunk enough that it is hard to talk on the phone.”
BAHAHAHAHAHA!
I didn’t laugh at the time, I was completely serious and trying to maintain just one single ounce of tact.
I think they were as shocked to hear me say it as I was!
“Really? But you sound good to us, talked just fine.?” my Mom replies as she laughs.
They totally understood and we said our good byes. I am so glad to have the kind of parents I can talk to about anything to and that can share a laugh with me when I have a rare buzz. I will be looking forward to our next phone call ;)
A collection of random events and thoughts in my life that I think are worth sharing
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