Well it’s Wednesday, commonly known as hump day being the middle or peak of the 5 day work week. Time sure flies.
Yesterday went by fast, it started with Mom heading off to work at 6:30 as she had to go to Bunkie’s first. I then dropped both boys at Grandma’s around 9am as I had a meeting at 9:30. While I was gone she must have made them about 25 or 30 mini pancakes in various shapes. When I showed up she was making christmas tree pancakes for the youngest one. I loaded them up and they grabbed the rest of the uneaten pancakes and we headed home. I had some more work to do on the phone and then we headed out for some errands. The day was broken up with lunch at Mustards Last Stand, a Chicago style hot dog joint that’s very popular. Both boys chowed down on dogs, fries and root beer, good to be a kid. By the time we got home is was about 2 and Mom was getting off work at 3. The boys tried their hand at selling lemonade again with not much luck as not many cars drive by during the middle of the afternoon. I did come up from my basement office and found Aunt Shelly outside talking to the boys. She was on the way to Uncle T’s as she had some problem with her cell phone. It was nice to see her.
Yesterday was also the official 90th b-day for L.O.L. so Mom had invited her up for dinner. She sure gets around for being 90. During grace before dinner, our oldest said “and thank you for June who’s 90 years old and is pretty fast and that’s pretty cool”. Even though it put a crimp in our evening, it was nice to have her over as she really has no one around and is pretty lonely. She and the misses were talking about some jewelry and she said, “you know you acquire these things all your life and in the end, you don’t know what to do with them, they’re just things”. This pretty much sums it up. Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice to have nice things but we shouldn’t lose sight of what’s important which is friends, family and good times, not how many expensive watches you have. Anyhow, you get the picture. The older we get, the more we realize this.
It’s now 6am and Mom just came down while thankfully the boys are both still sleeping. They were so wound up, especially the oldest one, when it was time to go to bed. We watched True Grit and the boys ended up watching the last half with us. It was good but I much preferred the ending of the original so when the new version was over, we dug out the dvd of the 1969 version with John Wayne and watched the last 10 minutes, what a movie and what a great American icon John Wayne was, it’s sad he’s gone. I’m glad I grew up at the time when he was around. Things sure have changed in the last 20 or 30 years and I’m not so sure it’s for the better but what are you going to do, life goes on.
Sometimes I think even though life would have been much harder way back in the times of the old west, life to would have been a lot simpler and fun as well.
Today I have lots of work again (don’t I always) and the boys will be in play mode. Obama yesterday says he’s “not concerned that we’re going to have a double dip recession”, are you kidding me! That’s enough politics for the day as I think that statement speaks for itself.
Oh well, as I’ve said before, you need to rely on yourself and your family, don’t fall into the trap of thinking the government will be there for you in times of trouble. I don’t care who’s in office, our system is so huge and out of whack, it’s not set up to help the individual. Get ready, tougher times are coming before it’ll get better.
Supposed to be in the mid 70’s with isolated showers today, need to run as Mom’s getting ready to leave. Have a great day and we’ll talk tomorrow. God Bless.