I woke up at 4am today which I guess is not that abnormal for me. Good news is we went to bed around 7! The misses has a 6:30am meeting at work which is mandatory so she’ll need to get up around 6. She slept a bit better last night but did wake me a few times.
I have lots of work as always and really need to clean out the basement soon. I did get the house cleaned up pretty well yesterday before I picked up the kids and the misses got home from work. It seems to never end around here. I forgot to mention the other day that when we were driving five 8 year olds to the youngest ones party, one of the kids dropped something and blurted out “oh shit”. I turned around and said “what did you say?” to which he replied “holy crap”. I then said “what” and he sheepish looked at me and said as if he was guessing, “oh shucks??”. Hard to believe that in 2nd grade kids are swearing but it was pretty funny. Next up our youngest said to his friends, “my dad went to the leaning tower of pizza, and guess what, they don’t even serve pizza!”. All his friends said things like “what a ripoff” and “that’s not right”. I didn’t have the heart to tell him it’s the tower of pisa, not pizza, as they were having too good of a time. Sometimes if you can stop and just watch or listen to kids, it’s pretty amazing the things they say and do. Lucky his older brother was in another car or he would have corrected the situation by telling them all “it’s not pizza you idiots, it’s pisa!”.
Right after school the boys went straight for a new lego toy the youngest received for his birthday to put it together. Both kids room needs a makeover to the extent that we should probably apply to one of those tv shows. In fact, our kitchen really needs it. The formica on our counter has delaminated and it raised about 4 inches on one end sticking straight up into the air. We just look at it and laugh, what else can you do.
My Mom called me last night to let me know she didn’t like the sport coat or sweater or whatever it was, that I wore to dinner the night before for the youngest guys bday. I thanked her politely for her fashion advice and told her it was a good thing I only paid $19 for it at Nordstrom Rack. Now I personally like it (it’s actually a sweater that it styled like a sport coat) but I guess I can no longer wear it as if you all remember, my Mom is the Coco Channel of Lakewood Colorado! She did say she found a new coat she wanted to buy me so at least I get something out of it. She also said she thought it was the wrong size for me. When I told her that it was the correct size, she replied, “oh, well maybe it’s the way you stand”. It’s always good to get a few words of wisdom each day from your mother. I don’t know how I would have slept last night without this information, thanks Mom!
It’s really windy outside but seems to be warming up. I think we’re about to pay for all the warm weather we had over the past few months. Seattle had a huge snow storm yesterday that shut down the entire city which means it’s probably headed our way on the jet stream.
We’ve done really well with no tv. We don’t miss it at all but do still watch movies. Hence, I don’t have much to talk about regarding politics but I’m sure it’s the same old thing, nothing new. I’m sure Grandma Dix is happy.
Well I’m running out of material so I’m going to go. Food prices sure are going up, milk’s about $6 a gallon now, Wow! Hope you all are well, stay in touch and send a comment now and then. Most of you are really bad about participating, we need some feedback so drop us a line. Take care and God Bless.