stupid cold virus

Mom has been sick for a week and like I always do I thought I'd escape being infected. Not likely. Since it's just starting and I know I'm going to feel a whole lot worse in the days to come, I ran to the store to stock up on soup and easy stuff. Dead or dying I'm still the chief cook around here. Hopefully I will be back to 100% before my daughter and grandson arrive for a weeks visit. Mom has been down with the bug for over a week with not much improvement so I'm not real optimistic. Life goes on with or without me so I'll just keep trudging along.

Very Small People

Today was my first time volunteering with in the Nursery at church. The only exposure I've had to those little tiny people recently is with my newest grandson Collin. He's just one little guy and a pretty easy going one at that. I showed up early to get filled in on what I was to do and how. There were sixteen toddlers tearing around with their name tag stickers on their backs (so they couldn't tear them off) and one standing at the door crying. Luckily they were all there for the second service and I was working the third. The crying one turned out to be there early for the third service, wow my lucky day. He did finally stop crying and decided he really liked being hugged and pegging a ball at me. We were getting along pretty well by the time he left. It was a little daunting but a lot of fun. So now I get to play and have fun for an hour or so and then they all go home, can't beat it!

Dock Work

Today didn't have many new jobs on the states job board. The only one close by that pays decently was for a dock worker at a welding supply company. Having moved some of those tanks around I know what they weigh. With a serious weight lifting program and maybe a few steroids I'm thinking I could do it. Mom said she wasn't sure I had the language for the job and I assured her that although I don't use it I am proficient. Most likely even with the weightlifting etc. they might be hesitant to hire a 56 year old grandma. Such is life in Florida today.

Changing names

We were talking about changing or not changing your last name after a divorce (of course this usually applies only to women) and a couple of the ladies said they couldn't wait to shed the name that went along with the husband. I said I figured after 28 years I earned the name and wasn't about to give it back. That really wasn't the reason but it did get a laugh. The real reason was it's my grandson's last name and not his mom's. It didn't seem right to make him get used to any more changes than were necessary so I kept it. I'd had my married name longer than my maiden name so it just seem natural. The shorter version is still funnier.

MS Vista

I really believe Microsoft owes everyone who was unfortunate enough to purchase a computer with a Vista operating system a free upgrade to windows 7. They released an inferior product that was by design incompatible with a very large amount of existing software and hardware. Personally I don't feel like I should have to pay for a product to fix their problems. I'm getting a little tired of paying for the privilege of beta testing their products. Somehow I think if I'm paying for a product it should already be tested and the bugs worked out.

Luge Fatality

I don't believe I'm the only one horrified by the constant airing of the video of the fatal luge accident. Not only was it shown too numerous times to count but they made sure it was shown slowed to the point that we could see the moment of impact. Have we become the latter stages of the Roman Empire when the only thing that appeases the mob is the spectacle of death? Can you imagine friends and family with the picture of their loved one's face, bloody as the emergency responder tries to revive him, burned in their minds? My imagination has painted a pretty good picture of my sons last moments, thank God there isn't an actual video to go along with that.

Job Hunting

As I said earlier I am unemployed but unlike the ones who were cut back, terminated, let go or as the Donald would say FIRED, I quit. Now I'm thinking it might have been more entertaining to have a nervous breakdown right there. One bad enough to call for guys with restraints and the police being called. I never think of the various fun alternatives until after the fact. Fact is I left fairly quietly. Anyway when I tell people I'm unemployed I feel bad accepting their sympathy because I didn't get fired. Now I spend my time putting in applications and emailing resumes to people who aren't going to look at them because cousin Dinky is going to get the job. I really picked the wrong family or I could be cousin Dinky...again poor planning on my part. Since I had the time and the paint was already purchased I've been painting the interior of my house. I was thinking it might be fun to paper one wall with all the "we received many applications from well qualified applicants such as yourself but...." letters. Just once I'd love to get an email that says upon completion of the interview process we have decided that not only do we not like you one iota but we feel that your mother dresses you funny. Please do not ever apply here again. Now that would be original!

Valentines Day

Valentines Day is so exciting for all the cast offs like myself. Not that I'm alone out of necessity, I just haven't felt like jumping back into the fire. Being surrounded by love from family and friends it's not like there is no love in my life it's just all the commercials, fliers and romantic crap in the stores is constantly in my face. There might as well be a billboard saying that anyone who doesn't have a romantic relationship is the ultimate loser. It's really a perfect addition to my fruitless search for employment.....another story for another time.

sleepless nights

My mom stays with me in the winter...I know, how lame is that living with your mom at 56 but that's another story for another time. She likes to party in her sleep. It wouldn't be so bad but as she's laughing and chatting with who knows who in her sleep she won't speak clearly. It would be kind of fun if I could understand anything she says...maybe through in a prying question now and then. How much fun would it be to interrogate your mom without her every knowing. If I recorded it maybe if I slowed it down or played it backward.....