moments

Too much that can't be said. Nothing much that can.
The weekend weather was perfect.
Jeff and Carrie came by last night and we played cards and talked till nearly 2 am. It was a good night.
I do love to watch the bats fly at dusk. One little, one big. It relaxes me.
I am so very glad that some happy hats no longer fit. They never should have in the first place. The ones that are knitted now are a gazillion times better. My heart...

Spookie does not like the firecrackers, lol. He shot out of the window like he was shot!
My nerves are just about shot. I'm sure you knew the feeling. Under you skin it just seems to hum all the time...
Tomorrow is the big picnic. Let's all put our happy hats on and give an Emmy worthy performance.
It will be fun none the less. I can forget some crap and enjoy my family for a bit.
What to do, what to do.

numb

The menu for Thursday is pork chops rather than chicken. They will, however, still be marinated in baja citrus marinade. I believe we are also having corn on the cob. And milkshakes for dessert.

Sent my mp3 player back on Saturday. I miss it. Now the other one I got as a gift for someone, has frozen while turning it on...GRRR. It's been like that for 24 hours. Will the battery ever die?! Very frustrating.

I am looking forward to and dreading the weekend. Lots of fun stuff to do with people I love, and too much to do at the same time. I should have taken off Monday. I'll be wiped out.

no over 60 cleavage!

Tonight we went out for dinner at what we thought was The Captain's Cove. We ate at the main part which is Mountain Springs restaurant. I guess it's a good thing we didn't eat outside at the Cove, because it poured! Anyway, we went for the lobster tail special. The food was good, and the drink I had was...oh, heavenly!!
I had a peanut butter martini. yes, you read it correctly, and it was fabulous. And what you get is actually two drinks. They bring out the one in a martini glass and along with that is a refill set in a tiny little pitcher on ice. Drink #2! Yum. We both got the lobster special. Along with that came a salad and two sides- I got roasted red potatoes and sauteed mushrooms, and Kev got a baked and the mushrooms... which when we got our bill, we were charged for the potatoes... I don't know. And no, we didn't say anything. I was a bit loopy. I am very much a lightweight when it comes to alcohol. In fact when he brought the bill, I just slapped my card inside! It could have been the waiters electric bill, or anything! Anyway, the food was very good. Lobster is very yummy.
The drawbacks are that it was VERY NOISY IN THERE!!! I don't get it. Did people suddenly forget how to use their inside voices? And also, until about the last 1/2 hour, we were the youngest people in the place. Maybe THAT WAS THE PROBLEM. THEY ALL NEEDED TO TURN UP THE HEARING AIDS.
Also, Everything took forever. I was very hungry when we got there. That could have been part of the loopy problem...and the drink was so good... Anyway, it took about 10 minutes to send someone to our table, another 15 minutes to get the drinks. Evidently the waiter had to go out to the Cove for Kev's Mojito. ? Uh, okay. I guess they don't make those fancy tropical drinks at the bar 20 feet away from us. Go figure. So, we got there around 6:50 and finally ate around 7:45. We even got dessert which was another peanut butter and chocolate concoction involving peanut butter mousse. Not too shabby. All in all, the food was good, but if we were to go back it would have to be out at the cove with, hopefully the younger, under 80 crowd.

sad for you

Tonight the grass sparkled with lightning bugs, like pixie dust.
It was lovely.

Wild Horses

I find it amazing that you can be in a perfectly fine mood, then a song comes on your mp3 player that has no real significant meaning except that you've always just liked it a lot, then BOOM! You start thinking sad things that make you want to cry. Of course, it may very well be hormones, but, you know.
You just live your life, going along day by day and then realize how much things have changed. You have always known that things would change... I mean, your kids have to grow up, parents get old and die, jobs change, school ends, you get these awful things called wrinkles (HORROR!)... stuff that you never expected to happen does and things that maybe you did expect to happen don't. life. It's just like every spring we are all thrilled over and over again at how one day there is snow on the ground, and seemingly the next, the trees are filled with whole, complete leaves. We humans are so easily impressed, lol.

I read on another blog about this young Mom who felt at times that she gets this nagging feeling that she should be doing something important with her life. Um, honey, you are already doing the most important job. When your daughters leave your home, you will not be thinking "Gee, I sure wish I had spent more time at my job when they were little". Trust me. It may at times be boring or frustrating or tiring beyond belief or more rewarding than you could ever have imagined. But it's still more important than punching a clock somewhere just so that you can have other grown ups to talk to, or feel the need to do something important. The world will still be there in a few years. Your kids will only call you Mommy for so long. Just Mom comes all too soon.
Personally, I was always more proud that I was the only one who decipher my girls' own language. Not even just my own, but some other kids whose mother worked outside the home at an important job. I am certainly not saying that every woman is made to be a stay at home mom, either. If you are not, and work because you will go insane, then please do your kids a favor and leave them in the care of someone who does want that particular job.

Anyway. Happy warm summer nights.

ants in my pants

So tonight after supper I decided that I really can't keep waiting to get this garden going. Also, a certain someone is telling me that everything is dying because it's not been planted. I got changed out of my scrubs and headed out. That black stuff that we put down two years ago was still there, but covered by weeds. The very things it was supposed to keep out. Imagine that. So, I found a corner and started tugging. It came off fairly easy. I was semi-surprised. I kinda figured it would, but, you never know. It was still hard work because it's very heavy with all those friggin' weeds!! As I was going along, I'm feeling what seemed like bites on my legs. Upper left leg mostly. Well, it seems that there are many ant colonies that have taken up residence under this crap!! They obviously were not happy with my efforts to dismantle their homes. Also, I think they had heard from other ant relatives nearer to the house about the slight disruption the night before as I pulled some weeds from between a sidewalk crack. Now I'm quite sure they will come looking for me when I go to sleep. Poppy told me last night that he heard that a good way to get rid of ants is to sprinkle corn meal near them. It ssems that they take it back to the rest of the little buggers and they all eat it and they can't digest it, and die. So, after leaving heaping piles of weedy black fabric around my garden, I headed into the house for corn meal. I sprinkled it all over the garden. At least the birds will be happy in the long run because they can eat ant larvae and cornmeal tomorow!

Petie had been hanging out while all this was going on and I thought it would be nice just to sit with him for a bit, as Kev had gone inthe house. It took him a little bit but soon he was rolling all around, had a nice little pee in my flowers, then came and snuggled up next to me. I talked to him for a bit, and before I knew it, he was in my lap, happy as a clam. Poor little guy. I'm sure that we are the only soft caresses and kind words he has ever had in his short life. He sat with me till my feet nearly fell off from falling asleep, then Kev came out and gave him some treats so I could go in the house.

Well, it's time to go for Kylie, so I'm off. I'm looking so forward to the long weekend...

don't fear the pillow

The weather turned out to be half decent today. I wore my mermaid scrub top because it seemed as though we should all start swimming. Anyway, I took a tiny tour of my garden in the sunshine when I got home. Things seem to be progressing nicely. Especially the weeds! There is this one plant that is growing quite vigorously...but the problem is that I don't know if it's a viable flower or a weed! There is another one just like it a few feet away, so.... Hmm. I'll have to wait and see. I did throw some seeds in there so who knows.
I do love it when the breeze blows the curtains on a warm day. It's one of those little things in life that bring me a little tug of contentment and a bit of sentimentality. The warm weather brings back so many good memories for me.

I have been doing laundry yet again. I do believe I am caught up! Tomorrow morning I will pack. I got an email from the restaurant tonight and I called to confirm the hotel reservation. Tomorrow night at this time I'll be in Pittsburgh. That always kinda weirded me out. You know, how you can wake up in one part of the world and go to sleep in hundreds of miles away. Maybe it's just me that's weird, lol.

There was a commercial on tonight for an Alzheimer drug. Kylie asked if I would forgive her if she put me in a home if I got Alzheimer's! I said no! She told me she would take care of me when I get old!! Then she said that, no, she said I could live with her and that's different. She's not changing my diapers either. She would hire someone or tell me to reach down and do it myself, lol. Then she remembered that Kyra is going to put a pillow over my head if that would happen anyway, so she didn't have to worry. Ahh, Happy Mother's Day to me, lmao. I love my kids.

See you when we get back from Pittsburgh...
Later, and Happy Mother's Day to all of my loyal fans...

lint

So my quilt got completed and was well received and my cole slaw was a big hit at the baby shower. It was nice to have a little party at work. I took the pictures as well and will load them onto snapfish.com and have a little album made fro Dr. K and his wife.
As I was sewing over the weekend, Dirty Dancing was on TV. I love that movie so much. Patrick Swayze is such a good actor. At the very end when they are doing the final dance and he is looking at her and then singing...ohh my heart. Doesn't everyone want their significant other to look at them like that?! And then I had to cry too because it just seems so unfair that a person so full of energy and so gifted should have to suffer so. He always seemed like such a genuinely nice guy. I know God has some reason that we can't begin to understand, but...
I also got to watching a show that evidently was on in 08 and has been canceled on FX called The Riches. It was really good and now I can't watch it anymore!! I'm always so behind the times, lol.
One more day and then we're off to Pittsburgh. I am looking forward to it. I hope the weather is good.
I have so much work that I should be doing on the computer and I just don't take the time to sit down and do it. I need to update the family web page- it's still in December. I have pictures that need to be burned to disc, my mp3 needs to be organized, I should pay some bills, oh the list goes on! And right now I need to do some laundry.
Today we had a plumber come over to open up our clogged drains in the basement for the washer and the two sinks down there. What a pain. In the wallet. He said that at least once a month we need to pour boiling- not hot- water down all three of them to prevent build up. Yippee. Anyway, now I can finish your wash, Kyra.
Tonight we had Parmesan chicken for supper. Yummy!! Don't hate!
Alright. Now to upload some pics while i do some laundry.
Later

Bliss, riight

So today was our 27th anniversary. It was pretty much like any other day, except I got yellow roses sent to me at work. Everyone was all "awww, how sweet!", you know how women are. They are very pretty. There was a man around my age checking out at the window next to mine who said" Someone's getting lucky tonight!", lol. Not likely. Next weekend we will "celebrate" when we go on our weekend trip to Pittsburgh.
I am feeling better. I had some antibiotics called in to combat my "swine flu" and overnight my head junk has changed color. Amazing. The left side of my head felt like it should be surgically removed for most of the day, but seems to be somewhat better after a bit of a nap and a good hot shower. I imagine that this irritating cough will linger as usual, though. Tomorrow will be an exhausting day, since my children seem to have my day planned out, lol. Shopper I am not. I am meeting with Jean for coffee in the morning, so, I'll be available after 12. There seem to be a gazillion yard sales tomorrow, so maybe Jean and I can hit up a few of them.
Most of my weekend needs to be dedicated to making a crib quilt for a shower for one of our doctors' wives on Tuesday. Procrastinator I am!!

Later

Fuzzy Rita

Well, Kyra, since we both have these things and you go to yours regularly, I figure maybe I will do the same. That way we can keep in touch and I won't use so many of your minutes with texting. Also, if anyone ever happens by and reads it, all the better. The more the merrier so they say, but I doubt that will ever happen as my blogs seem to be in the middle of cyberspace nowhere.

Last night we went to El Serrano in/near Lancaster with my sister and her friends. I actually don't really look forward to these get-togethers (shhh!) because my other half is really "on" around the friends because they think he is so verrry funny. Right. Anyway, last night was truly fun. The food was excellent. I had a fuzzy rita to start out, and then a dish called
Pollo Fundido which is a "Boneless chicken breast grilled and stuffed with Monterey Jack cheese, folded in a tortilla and grilled, topped with our special cheese sauce". It was spectacular. The conversation was good- not too much Kevin... just enough. I also had fried ice cream for dessert. Mmm, just like Chi Chi's. Yummy. Then we went back to the friends' house and hung out for a little. It was a good night.

This weather is great for hanging out laundry which i did today. Now we are going to Target to get some yard stuff and new innards for the grill.

Later