September 29, 2006
My Dog Pooped on My Floor!
UGH! And I didn't see it this morning in the dark when I went into the den for Mikyla's lunch box. AND I STEPPED IN IT WITH MY BARE FOOT! Ugh!! UGH!!
I got sick, cried out with disgust! UGH!
Mikyla, sitting at the kitchen table started LAUGHING.
The she-devil!
I hopped with one foot in the air to the tissue box to get it off of me, and it was like a car wreck.. Mikyla couldn't turn away, she just HAD to watch..
But then she started gagging... HA, who was laughing now?
Me.
The kid couldn't contain it, she got so sick she threw up. Poor kid.. Was I sympathetic? NOWAY, I had to laugh at her or she wouldn't of recognized me!
It was a good morning around here.. dog poop and all. She went to school in a great mood. The little sick-o! Laughing, LAUGHING at her poor old Mammy like that.
Ha!
While I'm Thinking About It...
...those wonderful summer dinners I was just sure would continue after summer's end, at my Mom's house...have trickled to a blasted stand still.
*eyes Mom with raised brows*
What's up with that?
Werewolves...
Last night about 7 or so, I was flipping through the channels, and one station was playing a movie about werewolves. Mikyla was the only youngin here at the time, and she spotted the fangs and said "Oh Mammy... let's watch this one!"
I kept flipping and she got angry, just insisted she had to see the werewolf movie. Finally, not finding anything better to watch, and honestly wriggling my brows that my darling first granddaughter had my taste in movies, I turned it back on and we sat there with the lights low, sharing our Cheeze-Its, and watched this werewolf movie.
Intently we watched as 2 sisters eventually became werewolves, together forever.. sweet as werewolf movies go.. I myself prefer vampires, but this wasn't a bad movie. Bloody but touching, YES, it was.
We went to bed at bedtime, and for some reason, Mikyla got on my side. I relented, got on her side and we settled down to sleep. "You're on my side." I observed, staring at the ceiling. "Yes, and I'm staying here too." She informed me. "That's okay, you're by the closet, you're the first one a werewolf would get, not me." I yawned and neither of us heard Bonnie coming down the hall.
Bonnie had NO idea, no clue what we were talking about, but by the time she came into the room, Mikyla had turned onto her side, staring at me with big eyes, considering how she was on the rather unsafe side of the bed should a werewolf come in via the closet.
Bonnie, still silent as an Indian on a hunt in the forest just suddenly lay over the bed, over Mikyla and why she did it I'll never know, but she howled. *laughs* Like a werewolf. Mikyla shrieked and I took to laughing, and just as suddenly as she was startled she realized it was Bonnie and not one of the werewolf sisters from the movie, Mikyla started laughing too, with much relief, I could tell.. and she started blathering 100 miles an hour to Bonnie how we were just talking about how a werewolf would get her first seeing as how she was closest to the doors.
All the while she was scrambling over me and onto her own legitimate side of the bed. That was just too funny.
God love ya, Mikyla, I do so adore you!
Just A Few Things...
Mik's play was so neat! She looked adorable, and said her lines perfectly. She looked so nervous. Thanks mom for the pics!
No, I still haven't gotten a port for my own camera. Bleah!
Lisa's birthday was on the 25th, it went great! Mom cooked a wonderful dinner and we had cake and presents, and I was soooo jealous!
Mik and Joel are over their strep, and miraculously *knocks on wood* none of the rest of us caught it. Maegan though didn't act like she felt very well today.
Mallory is doing well - she's liking school these days and this year she gets to be a dance kitten. She and Mikyla are both dance kittens this year, so they really are enjoying that. :)
What wonderful weather we've been having the past couple of days! Stormy and dark, cold and dreary, the leaves look defeated, they're barely hanging on... it won't be long and they'll be all gone. I love fall.. LOVE it! October is almost here and next to Christmas, I can't say I love Halloween, because it's the whole month of October I love. SPOOKY MOVIES ABOUND IN OCTOBER!
The weather is so deliciously creepy.. isn't it good to be alive?!! The fog! Have you noticed how foggy it's been? Usually on Autumn mornings I can look out the living room window and see the fog across the road at the park. The past week it has been right up on my front porch, thick as can be, just like it's stopped by to say howdy on the way through.
Weather-wise, I got a very special treat today. We got a thunderstorm. The rain was coming down in sheets, and this thunder.. it was unlike any I've ever heard. It was like the sky was hungry and it's tummy was rumbling right over the house, sooo low. Just.. over and over, rumbling like it was right on the house, and the best part was when it started coming down my chimney. I sat there staring, thinking lightening was gonna follow it and come spang in and say howdy too - My fireplace was acting like a speaker, the thunder was coming down through it right into the den. How cool is that? We've been here 14 years and that's never happened before. That was awesome! How can anyone not enjoy Fall?!
It's 12:12, early day tomorrow.. gotta get some sleep!
G'nite world!
September 21, 2006
What's On My Mind This Morning...
Is Atlantis Fuct? The last time I made a comment on a shuttle, the thing exploded while I watched live on television. I remember talking to my friend Deanna, and saying something like, man I hope it doesn't explode. About a minute later, the Challenger exploded all over the bright blue sky. If I remember right, it was on Mom's birthday, maybe the day before, or right after. The other day I recall reading that there were some toxic fumes inside coming from their oxygen tanks or something, and now they're saying that there has been some objects floating close to the shuttle, but they're going to bring it down anyway. I sure hope they make it back safely. Why anyone would get on one of those things is so far beyond me, I won't even get on a bumper car. They sure are some brave people to do that.
Willie, Willie, Willie, pot AND magic mushrooms? Greedy bastard! Do you realize how many people watch you? Sheesh.
This morning before they left, Stan was polishing his shoes right at the kitchen table right on my rug. I warned him if he got that polish on the rug there'd be trouble and plenty of it. His reply? "I won't be here to get in trouble."
Mine: "You will be back and I will be waiting for you with a rolling pin!"
He didn't get it on there, but had he, I'd have paced with the rolling pin, determined not to forget until tomorrow. I swear it! Kelly's graduating from Boot Camp tomorrow and they've gone to see the graduation. Way to go kelly, I'm proud of ya!!
It's so cold this morning I turned on the heat. 15 more minutes and it's time to wake the girls for school. They should be well rested, they were sleeping before 10 last night. 9 would be better, but there's no way on earth they're gonna be sleeping by 9. Little Vampires!
I need to bring in my orange tree and hibiscus trees sometime today. It was supposed to frost last night but didn't, thankfully.. but it might just frost tonight and I don't want them to die.
Lisa's birthday is on the 25th. Lisa, you're getting OLD! haha!
Brenda called last night and said that so far Papaw seems to like where he is and he's doing pretty well there.
Nick came over yesterday and played the Sax for me.. wow has he gotten good on that thing! By the year's end he's gonna know that thing forwards and backwards! Gooo Nick. I got tickled at him the other day. He came over here and got an ice cream out of the freezer, which led to a conversation about brands of ice cream, which is best, which really sucks, that sort of thing. We have a dog again and I suppose Nick had his mind on the dog when Stan said he didn't care much for "Pet" Ice Cream, that he favored "Bryers" - Nick spit out his strawberry crunch bar and started wrapping up the remaining ice cream on the stick and he said "Oh God, I didn't mean to eat the dog's ice cream." He turned another shade of white and said, "I didn't even know they made pet ice cream..." He thought Pet was for pets.. dogs and cats, *laughs* He didn't know it was just a name brand, for humans. That was too funny.
Mom's doing better now, but she's had a sore throat and cough all week. The kids shared their strep with her. She's missed going in to school, and was explaining over the phone to Mikyla why she was going to miss the following day as well, telling her that her head was hurting so badly it felt like it was just going to explode. To which Mikyla replied.. "oh NONsense, that's not going to happen." Mom cracked up. Nonsense. There'll be no nonsense on Mikyla's watch. Heads exploding indeed!
Okay, time for waking small children from sweet dreaming slumber, so they can get ready for school.. (no wonder they just love school so much)
Have a good day, world!
September 15, 2006
Strep..
..is spreading in our area like wildfire. Joel and Mikyla have it, but they're much better today than they were yesterday. So far Mallory and Maegan don't have it and are just fine. Maegan spent the night here last night with Mikyla, but Mallory went home. Maegan slept 14 solid hours, that baby was bushed!
Going to stay with Papaw this weekend was an on and off again thing, but in the end he got into the home this afternoon, so that's that. How do I feel about that? Sad, but relieved. He hasn't been happy anywhere in so long, maybe this is what he really wants. I don't know. I just don't know.
Joel and Mik are still awake.. funny how little ones around here don't seem to want to sleep unless it's daytime. Lil Vampires!
I think I'm going to turn in. My eyes are tired and it's been a pretty long day.
G'nite world!
September 14, 2006
And so...
...Pluto isn't a planet anymore.. it's just a number. And now we have planet Eris. Named after a Greek Goddess. *laughs* Doesn't it make you wonder why astrologers didn't see that one when reading the charts...? Looks like one or two of 'em in the past would have said, hey, wait, no.. wait.. listen.. hey i see something here.. um.. ...everyone who thought you were born in Pluto rising... it's not a planet, no, you're actually Erisians! And to think, in olden days if someone was caught doing a King's astrological chart without his knowledge, they'd get beheaded. They had that much faith in those readings. Ah damn, like I'm gonna remember planet Eris, and forget Pluto. Hell Disney doesn't even have an Eris character do they? That's the problem with this world.. everything has to get sqooshed over and changed. I had to MEMORIZE the planets and locations of them in school, and PLUTO ISN'T EVEN A PLANET! What the hell else are they teaching that's just not so? Egads. I fully expect to wake up tomorrow and discover Earth is just a meteor.
Anyway...
Papaw turned on today and caused a big ruckus, and the way it's looking, he's going to be going to a nursing home in a day or so. He's just miserable, the man is just so very miserable I don't know how he stands himself. Some folks don't know when they have it good. He's pretty much been one of them for the past couple of decades. I wish he could be a happy person. I've heard it said that only the good die young.. and too, things like.. man he's/she's old.. how is he/she living so long? The reply..God doesn't want him/her and the Devil's afraid he'll/she'll take over. Papaw's 83. Who knows how much time he has left.. but I sure wish the time he did have, he'd think to enjoy it, smile once in a while and be thankful for what he has, instead of being so mean and miserable that no one can get near him. How sad.
Mallory has taken to going home now after school. She's gone with Sarah all week, can't seem to want to stay here anymore to save her. If she think she even has to come for a little while she starts getting all antsy. She just wants to be with her Mom. Maegan too has been going with Sarah, so that just means I have Joel and Mikyla these days. The house is much quieter, and easier to keep clean, but it's so odd without them. Isn't it funny what you get used to and how everything seems to change just all at once? I sure miss them, but I have to admit I do enjoy the downtime.
Movies.. I've seen some really good ones the past few weeks, if I can remember the titles.. on HBO - Dane Cook.. merciful heaven I don't think I ever laughed so hard at a comedian in my life. He's not as nasty talking as some I've seen, but still, if you watch him, run the kids out of the room first.
"The Village".. it's been on Starz or the Movie Channel, one of them.. Lordy, that was pretty good. Bonnie hated it, said it was a cheat, but I thought it was pretty good. It'd be tempting to agree to go live in a place without violence and crime. But to trick and terrify the young folks to do it was just wrong. The concept though... I could sure understand why they'd want to do it.
"The Well" - Ack! Movies like that one scare the hell right outta me! Watch it!
"Silent Hill" - This had a good start, but quickly turned to cheesy long before the end. It was more like someone's nightmare, someone who ate pizza, ice cream and a chocolate milkshake with a pickle for a straw before going to sleep. Cheesy or not, it keeps you on the edge of your seat.
"In Her Shoes" - About two sisters. Touching. The older sister had one hell of a heart and forgiveness.. wow, I don't think I would of, but all in all it wasn't a bad movie.
My camera is still battery-less. The new battery worked long enough to get some pictures but now it's not charging either. It must be the port.
I had a dream yesterday, I dreamed I had to walk up about 6 flights of stairs, I was going to see if someone had her baby. In the waiting room sat my Mamaw and Papaw, and I smiled and asked Mamaw if the baby had been born yet.. she said, no honey, not yet, we're still waiting. I nodded and told her I was gonna go on up and see if they'd let me see her.. then I headed up even more stairs.. then woke up. I have no idea who it was we were waiting to have her baby, but it was nice to see Mamaw again, if only in a dream.
Midge, I found the memory stick! Yay me! That scared me... I thought I was dead meat!
Mikyla lost her other top front tooth at school day before yesterday. She looks adorable, just like a jack-o-lantern, it's a shame it didn't happen next month for Halloween! She literally lost it at school - she panicked because it wasn't in her little tooth necklace, so the tooth fairy wouldn't be able to come get it and leave her another 5 bucks.. she just lost the other top one a few days before.. but..
somehow, the missing tooth turned up on the counter in the kitchen, so she was able to sell it to the fairy after all. Don't you just love happy endings? :)
I got a picture of her smiling all toothless, but not enough battery to get it off the camera onto the computer. I'll have to remedy that quickly, I don't like not having my camera.
I think Mom's on a mission. She's determined to see Sarah become a teacher. A teacher! She talked with Sarah about it some today, and Sarah just questioned it a little, but maybe Mom can get her to do it. If anyone can light a fire under Sarah's butt, it's Mom. Ohhhh How I hope she can manage it. Mom on a mission is a scary thing! She's still going to school with Mik every morning and they're both still lovin' it. Mallory was doing so well, she wasn't crying, just going right on to her room and that was that, but now, she's hanging onto Sarah and has taken to tearing up in the mornings if not downright crying. :( I sure hope she gets happy again. Mallory happy is an awesome site!
Poor Bonnie, the child.. she believes in Kharma.. Kismet.. things coming back around to getcha to the extreme. Now if things go the way Brenda talked like tonight, they're going to be putting Papaw where Bonnie works. And Bonnie knows who they're moving to move papaw in. And it's on her floor. Oh how she groaned then, and began talking Kharma. Oh Mom! Midge and Granny were talking about Grampa's balls being under the table the other day and they were kidding me about looking under there and picking them up, and I said.. uh.. NOWAY do I want to even remotely begin to think about my grampa's balls you guys, get real...and now I'm going to have to literally pick up my great grampa's and wash 'em! NOOOoooo!
I laughed so hard at that kid. I told her to just explain that he's her grampa that she doesn't feel comfortable doing that.. Her reply.. he's a big man mom, the aide who helps me isn't gonna cotton to trying to move him around alone because I'm uncomfortable. The poor kid.
She hates fall and winter. It's really hard on her psychologically. I guess it's dark and dreary to her and just keeps her in a funk until spring peeps in again.
I, however, love Fall. To me, it's the most beautiful and wonderful season of the year. I told her so the other day, leaves were falling, dancing, and they're turning red and orange and brown here on the trees, it's drizzling rain and getting very cool out there. *laughs* Perfect weather to me, perfect scenery, just my favorite.
She snarled and mimicked a witch's voice... "Ahhhahahahaha.. it's Fall my pretties, everything's dead, Dead, DEAD!!! Look! The trees are just skeletons, I can see RIGHT through them, how beautiful! And those that aren't dead are glowing orange, as if the fires from Hell are lighting them from within! Isn't that just ducky." God she makes me laugh. Her sense of humor is so dry. I swear she must wake up in the morning, scowl at herself in the mirror and mumble Eeyore style... "This is fun."
Joel is completely potty trained now!! Yay, Joel!!
I haven't seen much of Miss Maegan this week. When I have she's been smiley, walking around mumbling to herself, content as always. I hear though that she's taken to biting and screaming, something her cousin Zack has been teaching her. Yipes!
Well, I guess it's time to get some sleep. Morning gets here so very early.
G'nite world!
September 12, 2006
Midge and Jeneene
are heading back home in the morning...gonna go see them off. Seeing Midge REALLY makes me want to stop smoking, but the harder I try the worse I want to. I wish there was some kind of cigarette smokers rehab. ICK!
September 09, 2006
Mal's Card from Dede
Sorry Dede, I forgot to mail this one, the Hello Kitty Tattoos were a big hit around here last night... we all have one! *laughs* Thanks again!
Mikyla
Mik lost her top front tooth yesterday in school. Lord am I glad I remembered just now so the 'tooth fairy' could leave her some money and get that tooth out from under her pillow!
September 08, 2006
It's Been A While..
This place has been a madhouse. School's back in, the swimming is over, and I've been trying to catch up on all the work around here that I let go to go play at Mom's all summer. I'm finally starting to be able to actually see the floor again - we no longer have to manouver our way through the clutter. *laughs* It's not tidy by any means, but we can get through now without breaking our necks.
I'm going through menapause, which means I've "copped an attitude", for which I've been given Remifemin tablets by those who love me, to "curb" my "mood swings". I looked to see what's in them, and they're made of something called 'Black Cohosh'. I sat there musing, what is Black Cohosh? Stan piped up and said "It's Black Widow Venim - the only thing strong enough to deal with women like you..." I Googled it, it's an extract from a member of Buttercups. Black Widow Venim indeed!
My camera battery won't take a charge for some reason - it's not a year old until Christmas but then again, I've taken at least 10,000 pictures with it. Still, I have to have a new one today, TODAY, because the grandparents tea is this afternoon and I HAVE to have my camera.. Mikyla's all ready, she knows the line in her Grandparents Poem - "A is for Always letting us win, when we play games." (Isn't that adorable - letting them win.. hell, they're a half century younger than we are, they win fair and square, we're too slow and feeble to win anymore! If I want to win at something, I have to go play against my mom or my grampa! And I KNOW they ain't letting ME win! I EARN those wins!)
Meli that album you made is just beautiful, that had to take some time to do, you're something else, I love you! Thanks again!
Shelly, I set the tables up in the living room, wow they're pretty, I can't believe you didn't want them anymore! My sister in law sent me roses day before yesterday, FTD, in the prettiest vase, and I put them on one of them, along with 2 bottles of wine. Now Mikyla doesn't like to see Beer, Wine, or any kind of alcohol in the house, it makes her uneasy.. she starts asking Who's going to get drunk?" I was given the wine as a gift and had it in the refrigerator and had to take it out and hide it, it made her that uneasy... but... it's pretty on the table by the roses - so I put it there, and waited to see Mikyla's reaction. She came in from Nana's last night, ran through the house, did a double take in the living room.. gasped and said "Oh Mammy, those tables are BEAUTIFUL! Where did you get them? Why is that 'beer' there?" (All alcohol is beer to her) I said well, I just like the bottles, the color is pretty, and no one around here is going to be drinking it so I thought we could use it for a decoration there, what do you think? She looked at it a second and nodded, then skipped off to wherever she was bound.. calling her approval over her shoulder, "It's just beautiful there!" I tried to get your big screen tv, but Gerald wasn't letting go with it. *laughs* Thanks again for the tables. P.S. You forgot your broom the other day. See you this weekend!
Dede, the tea-set made Mal's day, she just loves it.. and the magnet, ohhh how Mikyla coveted that magnet, she tried to take it, but skinny little Mallory wasn't having any of that, she held her own and got it back, held it over her head like the championship belt a heavy-weight wins and uses it to drive Mikyla crazy with envy. *laughs* Big hugs from her, and from me too, thanks!
And you, Miss Jana, all those trojans, we're going to have to do something about that! *laughs* One broken hand wasn't enough for him was it.. *goes to get the sledgehammer* (just kidding, wouldn't hurt him for the world.) Thank you so much for all the goodies in that box, it was like Christmas! I never saw so much snatching up of lip gloss and toothbrushes in my life! "Ohhh that's MY color!" "Hey, I like this, can I have this!?" I need to go to Middlesboro. Thank you, I'm glad you're partially back, I missed you! This has been three of the longest weeks of my life!
I have another dog. We drove 6000 miles to get him. He's 3 and a half months old, peckingese. He's beautiful, with the most adorable eyes you've ever seen. And gentle! He's training himself to go do his business outside...Amazing, I've never had a dog that wasn't brain dead in some form or fashion, this little fella is just perfect. If you don't believe me, ask Mom. She isn't a dog person at all, but said she wants him, she and Bonnie are fighting over him. As if...
Mikyla, Mallory, Stan and I each wrote a name we liked on a piece of paper. Stan picked "Corky"...Mikyla wanted it to be "Angel Cake", Mallory picked "Fudge", and I picked a most imaginitive "Jack". Joel just calls him 'doggy' - he doesn't understand the concept of giving something a name. Anyway... we put our slips of papers into a bowl, and let Maegan reach in and get one. Then we read which name she chose. Mallory's name was the one she picked, and so our puppy's name is "Fudge". It's sort of perfect too, because he's the color of fudge royal ice cream.
When I was about 14, I went to the store with my grandfather. On the way home, he stopped to get gas. Back then they had a guy who stood there and pumped it, but papaw would get out of the truck anyway and stand and talk to him while he pumped it. This particular day my grandmother's nephew was also getting gas in the next lane. Papaw turned, saw him and started to talk with him.. just to pass time. As I watched, I remember being disgusted by the way this guy behaved. He nodded once to papaw, distracted, then he cut Papaw off mid-sentence and walked away, into the store.. to me it looked like he wanted to be anywhere but there having an old man talk to him. I was afronted, pretended like I hadn't seen the slight, and I felt bad watching papaw put his hands in his pockets with a puzzled expression on his face. I can remember thinking, "what an asshole, I am going to try to remember never to cut anyone off like that, I'm going to try to listen, and if I can't listen, I'll do my very best to pretend to listen."
Don't you just hate it when you try to talk to someone and you get the same thing, just a distracted reply, then cut off? Or worse yet, the person you were trying to tell something to over-rides your voice, your story with one of their own. Once or twice okay but repeatedly? It's like.. why bother? And why listen to them tomorrow when they call or come by with some anectedote they just 'have' to share...? I sure hope I remembered to teach my own children not to do their grandparents that way. I sure hope that... say... if Mom is trying to tell one of my kids for example, about her day at school, that my girls listen and don't just cut Mom off. I hope that because someday, they'll be glad they took the time to listen. I'd hate for my children to be cheated out of something because I may have forgotten to teach them their manners. I've learned to listen. I've been called a very good listener.. in fact.. it's said that the reason I worry so much is that I listen too hard. Still, you learn a lot when you listen. Worrysome or not, if you want people to listen to you, you really should make an attempt to hear them as well. Fair's fair.
A P.S. on the rude nephew at the gas pump. Some years later he was killed playing a game of russian roulette. Or..he shot himself in the head. I've heard different stories of how he died. And young and foolish as I was when I heard this, I remember thinking... well it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
Listen!
(Hey, I told you in the second paragraph of this post, I've copped an attitude)
I'm going to Brenda's next weekend to stay with Papaw while she and James go away for their anniversary. *laughs* They say he's a tad on the grouchy side.
(noway! impossible, not him! hehe) I swear, I'm not going to walk back and forth at the foot of his bed and just stare at him to freak him out.. I will not say things like.. ohhhh you poor darling you, you can't really get away from me now can you.. you can't run now can you.. you can't hide beneath the table to scare my children now can you... *laughs* I swear I'm not going to do or say those things. I'm going to treat him just as kind and as gently as I'd like to be treated when I'm old and can't move. I promise!
Mom has volunteered to help Mikyla's teacher in school. This has resulted in Mikyla being happier there, but wow what a change in Mom! She's animated, enthusiastic, involved...she's having more fun than I've seen in a long time. I think it's too neat, good for both of them, and I'm tickled to death that they're both so happy and Mik is doing so much better in school! Way to go, MOM!!!!!
Oh.. you know I have to mention the death of the crock hunter. Dead at 44, stung in the heart by a sting ray while filming a documentary called something like "The Most Deadly Creatures of the Sea". The world is shocked. Mom said something that in my wicked state of mind, made me laugh. I can't believe the ray did that to him. I can't get over it, I thought he and the animals read each other's minds...oh that's Steve Irwin, I can't kill him! How dare that ray do that!? *just shakes head* I truly hate that he died, I enjoyed watching him with Mikyla.. *coughs* I don't know if I typed a post about her and what she said of one of those croc hunters or not - how she hoped the thing bit his head off because he was stupid for putting it in the croc's mouth in the first place. I'm sure she didn't mean that literally, and I'm sure I didn't either. Because I was thinking the same thing when she voiced it. I do, I really do hate that Mr. Irwin was killed by that sting-ray, but I wasn't in shock like most folks are. The only thing that surprised me about that man's whole life was that he wasn't killed in similar fashion long before it actually happened.
Hey! I'm gonna swim up beside this great white with my lucky ham around my neck, slap this shark upside the ass with a boat oar, let's see what happens!
Headlines in the paper the following day:
"World Stunned that Shark Eats Beloved Conservationist!"
*furrows brows* That could be a Vonage Commercial... "People do stupid things..."
Take care everyone, I have to go get things together for Tea. Love you all!