Mornings and Dingy Mom
In the morning I like to peek out of swollen eyes and just not talk, not move for at least ten minutes. I just want to sit with my coffee and look out the window. I like to talk about the day at night when we are getting ready to go to bed. This morning it was snowing a lot but the flakes were compounding on the branches and it was the most beautiful piled up snow. It looks like the streets aren't going to stick today so that is a bonus. But I had to show you the pics.
My husband on the other hand gets up motivated and running around with his brain in high gear. He doesn't like to talk at night. In fact he usually falls asleep during the last program of the evening. So when he gets up he wants to discuss death and taxes and any state of affair that rolls through that little head of his. He made me so tense this morning that I had a stiff neck by the time he left. He is getting a new server at work. But he wanted the same email that he is using with this server, Which is his name-at-hisbusiness. I told him he was probably paying for this and that if he used another server it would be his name-at-hisnewserver. He said he didn't want to change it because everyone knew it. I told him he could address everyone in his address book and send the new one out. Real simple. He was confused and upset. I swear, I had to go to the office and show him how to get his mail out of the mail box online the last time.
This is another subject but I was reminded about it in a blog I read and had to write about it. I stopped by a new blog and the writer was telling about getting in a car and thinking about other things and all of a sudden looking down and realizing she didn't have leather seats. That just cracked me up. She wondered how her key unlocked this car. Well, I think maybe it didn't and someone maybe just accidently left the car unlocked. I don't know if two cars could accidentally be programmed the same. Maybe someone out there knows. So here is my story...
We laugh at my mom, who also has the falling down disease. She says she is very careful and always looks where she is going. Not!.....
She has had so many replacements and pins we call her the bionic woman. Two knees, a shoulder and both hips. I took her to Michaels one day to try to find something for her to get interested in because she is always so bored. She is 83 this year. She used to like to crochet so I thought maybe all the new yarns might interest her. We went in and looked around. It was around Halloween so I left here there and went to a discount Halloween store to see if I could find Mr. Cute Baby a 1st Halloween outfit. The doors to both places were a straight shot to the car which was parked about halfway between both stores. I ran over there and she has gotten quite a bit slower with all her parts so when I walked out I saw her walking toward the car. She was closer than I was and I had given her the key to the car. I looked down for a nano second and looked back up and she was gone. No big deal, I figured she just got to the car. Well...I got there and there was no mom. She has gotten pretty small in the last few years so I thought well, maybe I am just not seeing her. I stood there a minute and noticed the trunk was open on the car. So she had made it to the car. I had opened the door and not seen her but my window tint is really dark so I opened both doors and called her. I even went back and looked in the trunk. No mom. So knowing her falling history I started to call her really loud. Felt like an idiot! Who loses their mom in a parking lot? Especially since I saw her walking toward the car. I started looking on the ground, thinking she might have fallen and I couldn't see her anywhere. I started walking back the way I saw her coming from and I got about three cars down and was still calling her name and there she was crawling out of a van. A VAN! Nothing like my car but the color was similar. I wanted to cry, then scream and then we both got hysterical. I tell you, she has given me so many laughs over the years it's not funny. She said, "Well, I thought that you had a console in your car and there wasn't one in this one but I didn't really think it through." Well, isn't that an understatement? I am just so glad she didn't pull out a ciggarette and start smoking in someone elses car. So all you people that are going to be in the store for just a second? Lock your cars anyway or you may come back to find you have a new member of the family sitting in the passengers seat.
This is a new recipe I just tried and it is so good you should try it. It sounds terrible but I promise it is good.
If you use a large roast like for 6 to 8 people follow these directions. But if you use a very small one like I did, about 3 pounds, you can half it.
One roast, I threw mine in half frozen
One bottle of ketchup
One can of coke
That is it. I threw a few potatoes in, but didn't have any other vegetables. It makes the best gravy and you can thicken it or not.
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That's terrible that someone would do something like that. Is it coming to your regular email inbox or to 360? And exactly what is it and what is the rose? I don't guess I have been getting it - thank God, but then I don't check my regular email that often either.....LOL!
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I have visions of Garfield in the morning, assailed by Odie. ROTHF. I guess I am somewhere in between. Laffed at your incredible shrinking mom. As our parents age, they become more like babies, you can't leave em alone for a second.
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I had a 1991 ford escort and I never tried starting another car, but in 1994 I accidently discovered my key would open a friends 1991 ford escort door and then I everytime I saw an escort of approximately the same year I would try the key and most of the doors unlocked. Now I have a Dodge Caravan and once I went to unlock my van and unlocked a different van (i heard the click click noise) but I think the car has to be the same make and probably same model. I say I am a morning person but really I just get up early so I can have time to myself.
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I get up early to have some quiet time to myself...just don't bother me before my first cup. And Mac's the same way when he gets frustrated with his puter. LOL...I end up explaining how to do something or even working on it.
I'll have to be careful from now own. There are 3 other Malibu's around here the exact same color as mine, just different rims. Mine is the only one with the Harley Davidson stickers on the front and back glass though. So, I good.
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Well scifi it started with someone just adding a bunch of names to an email to people in 360. There is a rose typed with symbols on it. It is one of those things that say send this to other people and send it back to me. Then I started getting messages not to spam peoples mailbox. I didn't send to anyone but the person on the list that first sent it to me. I have no idea who it is or how they decided to send it to me. I think the warnings I got were just sent to all, maybe not specifically to me. I don't know.
Yes D I had that thought and the scary part is I will be this woman some day.
Frog, I didn't know that. I thought one key, one car. How weird is that?
Slim, I think all mamas get up to have some time to themselves don't you? And men, you can't live with them and you can't live with them. hehe, present company excluded D. And I should have known about the Harley stickers.
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My husband on the other hand gets up motivated and running around with his brain in high gear. He doesn't like to talk at night. In fact he usually falls asleep during the last program of the evening. So when he gets up he wants to discuss death and taxes and any state of affair that rolls through that little head of his. He made me so tense this morning that I had a stiff neck by the time he left. He is getting a new server at work. But he wanted the same email that he is using with this server, Which is his name-at-hisbusiness. I told him he was probably paying for this and that if he used another server it would be his name-at-hisnewserver. He said he didn't want to change it because everyone knew it. I told him he could address everyone in his address book and send the new one out. Real simple. He was confused and upset. I swear, I had to go to the office and show him how to get his mail out of the mail box online the last time.
This is another subject but I was reminded about it in a blog I read and had to write about it. I stopped by a new blog and the writer was telling about getting in a car and thinking about other things and all of a sudden looking down and realizing she didn't have leather seats. That just cracked me up. She wondered how her key unlocked this car. Well, I think maybe it didn't and someone maybe just accidently left the car unlocked. I don't know if two cars could accidentally be programmed the same. Maybe someone out there knows. So here is my story...
We laugh at my mom, who also has the falling down disease. She says she is very careful and always looks where she is going. Not!.....
She has had so many replacements and pins we call her the bionic woman. Two knees, a shoulder and both hips. I took her to Michaels one day to try to find something for her to get interested in because she is always so bored. She is 83 this year. She used to like to crochet so I thought maybe all the new yarns might interest her. We went in and looked around. It was around Halloween so I left here there and went to a discount Halloween store to see if I could find Mr. Cute Baby a 1st Halloween outfit. The doors to both places were a straight shot to the car which was parked about halfway between both stores. I ran over there and she has gotten quite a bit slower with all her parts so when I walked out I saw her walking toward the car. She was closer than I was and I had given her the key to the car. I looked down for a nano second and looked back up and she was gone. No big deal, I figured she just got to the car. Well...I got there and there was no mom. She has gotten pretty small in the last few years so I thought well, maybe I am just not seeing her. I stood there a minute and noticed the trunk was open on the car. So she had made it to the car. I had opened the door and not seen her but my window tint is really dark so I opened both doors and called her. I even went back and looked in the trunk. No mom. So knowing her falling history I started to call her really loud. Felt like an idiot! Who loses their mom in a parking lot? Especially since I saw her walking toward the car. I started looking on the ground, thinking she might have fallen and I couldn't see her anywhere. I started walking back the way I saw her coming from and I got about three cars down and was still calling her name and there she was crawling out of a van. A VAN! Nothing like my car but the color was similar. I wanted to cry, then scream and then we both got hysterical. I tell you, she has given me so many laughs over the years it's not funny. She said, "Well, I thought that you had a console in your car and there wasn't one in this one but I didn't really think it through." Well, isn't that an understatement? I am just so glad she didn't pull out a ciggarette and start smoking in someone elses car. So all you people that are going to be in the store for just a second? Lock your cars anyway or you may come back to find you have a new member of the family sitting in the passengers seat.
This is a new recipe I just tried and it is so good you should try it. It sounds terrible but I promise it is good.
If you use a large roast like for 6 to 8 people follow these directions. But if you use a very small one like I did, about 3 pounds, you can half it.
One roast, I threw mine in half frozen
One bottle of ketchup
One can of coke
That is it. I threw a few potatoes in, but didn't have any other vegetables. It makes the best gravy and you can thicken it or not.
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That's terrible that someone would do something like that. Is it coming to your regular email inbox or to 360? And exactly what is it and what is the rose? I don't guess I have been getting it - thank God, but then I don't check my regular email that often either.....LOL!
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I have visions of Garfield in the morning, assailed by Odie. ROTHF. I guess I am somewhere in between. Laffed at your incredible shrinking mom. As our parents age, they become more like babies, you can't leave em alone for a second.
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I had a 1991 ford escort and I never tried starting another car, but in 1994 I accidently discovered my key would open a friends 1991 ford escort door and then I everytime I saw an escort of approximately the same year I would try the key and most of the doors unlocked. Now I have a Dodge Caravan and once I went to unlock my van and unlocked a different van (i heard the click click noise) but I think the car has to be the same make and probably same model. I say I am a morning person but really I just get up early so I can have time to myself.
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I get up early to have some quiet time to myself...just don't bother me before my first cup. And Mac's the same way when he gets frustrated with his puter. LOL...I end up explaining how to do something or even working on it.
I'll have to be careful from now own. There are 3 other Malibu's around here the exact same color as mine, just different rims. Mine is the only one with the Harley Davidson stickers on the front and back glass though. So, I good.
Thursday March 23, 2006 - 05:55pm (CST) Remove Comment
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Well scifi it started with someone just adding a bunch of names to an email to people in 360. There is a rose typed with symbols on it. It is one of those things that say send this to other people and send it back to me. Then I started getting messages not to spam peoples mailbox. I didn't send to anyone but the person on the list that first sent it to me. I have no idea who it is or how they decided to send it to me. I think the warnings I got were just sent to all, maybe not specifically to me. I don't know.
Yes D I had that thought and the scary part is I will be this woman some day.
Frog, I didn't know that. I thought one key, one car. How weird is that?
Slim, I think all mamas get up to have some time to themselves don't you? And men, you can't live with them and you can't live with them. hehe, present company excluded D. And I should have known about the Harley stickers.
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