I have such an awesome man! Monday Night Football is on and he's at the kitchen table helping my youngest daughter with her math homework. She is so tired and frustrated, and I totally empathize with her as I struggled with math for my entire school career. As did Mike, but he's better at it than I am, as I can't even remember how to simplify fractions, and he can, which is why he's helping her. He's much more patient with her than I am when it comes to math homework. I just seem to revert back to that age and I freeze. It's is rather ironic that I ended up working in a field that deals with math, such as interest rates, fractional shares and the like. Thank God for computers and calculators.
Also, my cat is too fat to jump up onto the sofa. I suppose that she really needs to be put on a diet.
Don Meredith died yesterday...I remember watching him and Howard Cossel on Monday Night Football, and those awful gold jackets. I don't think it's possible to forget Cossel's voice, and how he and Meredith clowned around together. Now both of them are gone and Frank Gifford remains.
I just can't seem to find the energy to comment on things political these days. I do pay attention and I have my thoughts on it all, but it's like this ennui has set in. I don't think that it's pessissimism on my part, I don't think that the country is doomed, yet, but I think that we are in for a very long haul. Thinking about it, and the scope of just how much of a shit storm we are in, is a bit overwelming. I think about what I can do to prepare so that my family can survive, and I thank God that we have little to no debt, but the largeness of it all is, like I said, overwhelming. I know that I shall have to think of it, but I choose to break it all into pieces and deal with each piece at a time. Hence the ennui. I'll snap out of it, I'm sure.
Otherwise, on the homefront, I got Mike to myself for most of the day today, I knew that the strange man in my bed looked familiar! Tomorrow, we are both back at work; me from 6:45 am to 1pm and he from 1 pm to 10 pm, so I will get to see him when he gets home from work. If I'm awake. I may be, because tomorrow I start baking for Christmas. Katie and Adele want to give their teachers cookies and fudge for Christmas, and Mike wants me to bake goodies for his station. This will include a pound of fudge. One thing is for sure, my diet has been abandoned, at least until the New Year.
Well, that's it for me tonight. Am off to bed, Need the beauty sleep.
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Christmas and Football Widowhood
Well the tree is up,and I mamaged to tear Mike away from football long enough to watch A Christmas Story while I, and I alone decorated the tree. The last few years it's been me and the kids decorating, but I guess for my 11 year old, Pokemon on Youtube is more important. As is whatever it is my 15 year old considers important today is, as opposed to decorating the tree.
This is the first year Mike and I are going to put up outdoor lights. This is the first time I get ot do this, as I haven't had a house for over a decade. I'm excited about it, but have no clue as to how many feet of lights to buy. I suppose that I will have to play it by ear.
Mike is downstairs watching football, as opposed to cuddling up and watching a scary movie with me. I can't watch scary movies, but am of the theory that if I watched one with Mike, whilst cuddling on the sofa, I could handle it. Making out like teenagers is a given naturally, but apparently, the Steelers/Ravens game take precidence over heavy petting during scary movie.
So be it. I will go to sleep early. I think that women in scary movies are stupid anyway. Why, for intstance, do all women in scary movies insist on running into the woods wearing high heels? If I were in that unfortunate position, I would chuck shoes at villan, and would make certain that I DIDN'T trip over stray roots. If I did, I most certainly NOT stay there and weep like some pussy over a sprained ankle. I mean, really...to hell with a sprained ankle, an psychopath killer is chasing you for crying out loud. RUN! If you are going to die, at least make psycho WORK for it! Jebus, what kind of woman are you? Throw those stelletoes like ninja stars and run your pencil skirted ass off you stupid Barbie wannabe!
Between the Sig and the shotguns and the rifles in my house, no killer is going to just stride into my house. No sir, if I do die, the SOB will at the very least get some pellets in the ass for his efforts, because this chick is no high-heeled helpless chick. Besides, I can run in stelletos. Really, I can. I can also shoot and very, very well. Trust me. Most of my cousins are cajun and I've been hunting since forever....even gator.
Besides, in Texas, we have the Castle Doctrine, so I don't even have the chore of dragging some perv into the house and making it look like he was trying to break in...I can shoot the sucker on my damn LAWN and get off via a grand jury. I love Texas!
Thus is the ramble, in this the 5th day of December in the year of our Lord, 2010. Night all. Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite!
This is the first year Mike and I are going to put up outdoor lights. This is the first time I get ot do this, as I haven't had a house for over a decade. I'm excited about it, but have no clue as to how many feet of lights to buy. I suppose that I will have to play it by ear.
Mike is downstairs watching football, as opposed to cuddling up and watching a scary movie with me. I can't watch scary movies, but am of the theory that if I watched one with Mike, whilst cuddling on the sofa, I could handle it. Making out like teenagers is a given naturally, but apparently, the Steelers/Ravens game take precidence over heavy petting during scary movie.
So be it. I will go to sleep early. I think that women in scary movies are stupid anyway. Why, for intstance, do all women in scary movies insist on running into the woods wearing high heels? If I were in that unfortunate position, I would chuck shoes at villan, and would make certain that I DIDN'T trip over stray roots. If I did, I most certainly NOT stay there and weep like some pussy over a sprained ankle. I mean, really...to hell with a sprained ankle, an psychopath killer is chasing you for crying out loud. RUN! If you are going to die, at least make psycho WORK for it! Jebus, what kind of woman are you? Throw those stelletoes like ninja stars and run your pencil skirted ass off you stupid Barbie wannabe!
Between the Sig and the shotguns and the rifles in my house, no killer is going to just stride into my house. No sir, if I do die, the SOB will at the very least get some pellets in the ass for his efforts, because this chick is no high-heeled helpless chick. Besides, I can run in stelletos. Really, I can. I can also shoot and very, very well. Trust me. Most of my cousins are cajun and I've been hunting since forever....even gator.
Besides, in Texas, we have the Castle Doctrine, so I don't even have the chore of dragging some perv into the house and making it look like he was trying to break in...I can shoot the sucker on my damn LAWN and get off via a grand jury. I love Texas!
Thus is the ramble, in this the 5th day of December in the year of our Lord, 2010. Night all. Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite!
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Hello, Yeah, It's Been A While....
Well, now that I have a computer again, and have rested up, I've deceded to blog a bit. If only to let my whole 2 followers know that I'm still alive. Well, 1 of them knows as he's my fiance', but whatever.
I've been working at a local department store for the last few weeks, as a seasonal employee, and now I remember why I haven't worked retail since I was in my 20's and working for Chanel. Chanel was fun to work for, but retail SUCKS! My customers are nice, but it's hell on one's feet. Also, it sucked having to be at work for 2:45 AM on Black Friday, with a hangover no less. The line of people was wrapped around the building and when the doors opened, they came in an orderly fashion, but they kept coming and coming, like a tsunami! I'd rather pay a few dollars more for the comfort of sitting on my ass in the recliner, in my pajamas, sipping a hot cup of joe and shopping on line. Which is what my dearest Mike did, while I was plunging bravely into the breach! We really should buy Amazon stock.
Still, we got great deals on pretty much everything we bought, and I'm still shopping online, when I have access to "the toy" as Mike calls the laptop that I am currently hogging. We really need to buy ME a lap top. We have a desk top upstairs, but the kids hog that, and when Mike is at home, I prefer to spend time with him, as opposed to closeting myself in the guest room and playing Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook all day (which I can easily do, that game is so damn addictive!).
Speaking of Mike, he is so awesome. We haven't had a serious fight yet. Not that I want to have one, but it's a bit disconcerting that we get along so well...not that I want us to NOT get along, but you know what I mean. Like I said, Mike is awesome, and I can't believe that he puts up with me, my PMS and my love of couponing. Quite to my surprise, I have discovered that I enjoy being a homemaker and love to cook, now that I have the time to actually cook. I really love the enjoyment that my family gets from my cooking too.
The hardest part has been getting used to taking care of a big house (I've lived in apartments for the last 12 years), sleeping next to someone who snores and cleaning toilets in a house that a man lives in. Woman are neater as far as the toilets go, and we will leave it at that.
I just thank God that the Playtex living glove has been invented.
The fact that we each have a female cat, and that they both think that they are the Queen cat, makes for interesting times in the house. After we moved in, me and my kids and my cat Jingles, there were a few tense days... all hissing and spitting, but they eventually reached a detante of sorts. They can be in the same room, but if one gets too close to the other, well, we get cat like behavior complete with flattened ears, raised hair, hissing and spitting...oh and growling.
So, tonight, I have "the toy" since Mike left it home when he went to work. I think I've seen him for about 30 minutes over the last 2 days, as he pulled a double on Thursday and on Friday. He got home at 6:30 this morning, drank a glass of milk, kissed me then went upstairs and fell asleep. I went to work. He had left for work by the time I got home today and I have to be at work for 7:45 tomorrow morning. In fact I'm pretty much working everyday for the next two weeks. God I HATE retail!
Mmmmmm...my Au Gratin potatoes are ready. I'm junk fooding it tonight, and I may heat up some left over chicken breast to go with it. Then again, maybe I will just eat the potatoes and leave it at that. I love Au Gratin potatoes.
As for politics and current events, I've been follwing them, I just haven't had time to blog about them, Besides, there are plenty of others, who are more articulate than I am right now. I'm so tired, it's shocking how tiring it can be to just stand on one's feet all day!
Think that I'm going to go eat my potatoes now. Maybe I will blog later.
I've been working at a local department store for the last few weeks, as a seasonal employee, and now I remember why I haven't worked retail since I was in my 20's and working for Chanel. Chanel was fun to work for, but retail SUCKS! My customers are nice, but it's hell on one's feet. Also, it sucked having to be at work for 2:45 AM on Black Friday, with a hangover no less. The line of people was wrapped around the building and when the doors opened, they came in an orderly fashion, but they kept coming and coming, like a tsunami! I'd rather pay a few dollars more for the comfort of sitting on my ass in the recliner, in my pajamas, sipping a hot cup of joe and shopping on line. Which is what my dearest Mike did, while I was plunging bravely into the breach! We really should buy Amazon stock.
Still, we got great deals on pretty much everything we bought, and I'm still shopping online, when I have access to "the toy" as Mike calls the laptop that I am currently hogging. We really need to buy ME a lap top. We have a desk top upstairs, but the kids hog that, and when Mike is at home, I prefer to spend time with him, as opposed to closeting myself in the guest room and playing Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook all day (which I can easily do, that game is so damn addictive!).
Speaking of Mike, he is so awesome. We haven't had a serious fight yet. Not that I want to have one, but it's a bit disconcerting that we get along so well...not that I want us to NOT get along, but you know what I mean. Like I said, Mike is awesome, and I can't believe that he puts up with me, my PMS and my love of couponing. Quite to my surprise, I have discovered that I enjoy being a homemaker and love to cook, now that I have the time to actually cook. I really love the enjoyment that my family gets from my cooking too.
The hardest part has been getting used to taking care of a big house (I've lived in apartments for the last 12 years), sleeping next to someone who snores and cleaning toilets in a house that a man lives in. Woman are neater as far as the toilets go, and we will leave it at that.
I just thank God that the Playtex living glove has been invented.
The fact that we each have a female cat, and that they both think that they are the Queen cat, makes for interesting times in the house. After we moved in, me and my kids and my cat Jingles, there were a few tense days... all hissing and spitting, but they eventually reached a detante of sorts. They can be in the same room, but if one gets too close to the other, well, we get cat like behavior complete with flattened ears, raised hair, hissing and spitting...oh and growling.
So, tonight, I have "the toy" since Mike left it home when he went to work. I think I've seen him for about 30 minutes over the last 2 days, as he pulled a double on Thursday and on Friday. He got home at 6:30 this morning, drank a glass of milk, kissed me then went upstairs and fell asleep. I went to work. He had left for work by the time I got home today and I have to be at work for 7:45 tomorrow morning. In fact I'm pretty much working everyday for the next two weeks. God I HATE retail!
Mmmmmm...my Au Gratin potatoes are ready. I'm junk fooding it tonight, and I may heat up some left over chicken breast to go with it. Then again, maybe I will just eat the potatoes and leave it at that. I love Au Gratin potatoes.
As for politics and current events, I've been follwing them, I just haven't had time to blog about them, Besides, there are plenty of others, who are more articulate than I am right now. I'm so tired, it's shocking how tiring it can be to just stand on one's feet all day!
Think that I'm going to go eat my potatoes now. Maybe I will blog later.
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