Thinking Out Loud.....

Aw - thanks for the invite.  NC sounds like more of a trip than I could make...DS still at home and the crappy job and all...  

DD is marching at a game tonight.  Kinda wish I could go, but since I have no friends, I have no one to go with and it's going to be cold (not to mention expensive...) (The boys are camping - brrrr)  I hope someone posts a video online so I can see the band.   ( I actually have 2 friends, but they are both too busy to do stuff)

So, I will spend my evening puttering around the house doing a little cleaning (emphasis on "little") and watching Breaking Bad on Netflix - I'm trying to catch up - now I find out this is its last season?  Figures.

Oh - and I managed not to pick up DD's jacket in time.  I thought I read that Saturday hrs were until 4 last weekend when we walked by there... today the sign said 2:00.  It was 3 when I went.  Could I BE more of a loser?  Sheesh.

(((((TOL))))) 

Chris, your day/week sounds like a normal one for me.  I had an excuse (5 kids) but now that it's just DH and myself, nothing has changed!!!
Anyway, 50% may sound like an F but we will socially promote you

Today I was broiling an omelette in the oven so I'd have a week's worth of healthy meals for work...DS called and while we chatted, it caught fire and the smoke detector was blaring and I was so close to calling the fire department but instead I called DH's cell to find out if we have a fire extinguisher.  There were flames in the oven and dark smoke escaping...but eventually it burned itself out.  Then I had to air out the house for about 8 hours.  I can't be trusted with anything...maybe I can blame it on Femara brain.

FireKracker, NC is a long way...gheesh i can't even get to PA...
Wish we could meet in DC...halfway for both...or my house...nobody here anymore so bedrooms are empty.  Well, if we dream it enough, maybe it will happen!

Beautiful day....saw the sunset at the beach.  Life is good...

Linda - omg - I wish I go back and do college right...  so jealous of DD.  Well, I had my chance...

Joan -glad you didn't burn the house down.  We have a fire extinguisher - I'm just not sure I could figure out how to use it if I needed it (or if it still works!)  We had an older one - one day I realized it had a tie on it to keep it from being discharged accidentally - I'm thinking - good thing I  haven't needed it - not the best to realize you need to find scissors in order to cut the tie so you can use the extinguisher.  Duh.

I see a very pretty lady.

Awww thank you

Veggy did u tell the sistas you gave me a surprise visit?

Hope you can have a great mom mom and Andrew day!

Good luck tomorrow, Linda!  They crushed me so hard today, i thought wine might come out.  Didn't sleep at all last night so heading to bed right now!!!

Sandy - thank you for asking, I am feeling better but when I get something respiratory or sinus, it takes me forever to shake it!  How are you feeling?  Hope you get your Mom Mom and Andrew day

Ducky -Your phone bills sound like my insurance bills...  still don't know what I owe to whom for sure...  between the doctor's offices billing as though DH was the patient when it was DS - duh and insurance not paying out all the health reimbursement money and reaching our deductible all at the same time... it's all screwed up.  Then I have the dentist still billing me for an appt I had where MY dentist wasn't in the office so the new partner did my exam, but he wasn't listed as participating with my insurance so they are billing be as though I went out of network  - wtf.  And coincidentally that dentist used to me our old dentist 'til he stopped participating with our insurance and I got stuck with bills for 3 cleanings that should have been free.  Now he's back!  Ugh.

Linda - how do I do it?  I don't do anything.  DD doesn't bother answering my questions on FB or text - so I'm about to stop bothering to communicate with her- too frustrating.  And DS doesn't participate in many activities  - just band - so we'll be busy for a month - end of Sept to end of Oct - then it will go back to just me chasing DS around to do his work and his laundry.  Though I suppose getting him to do what he needs to do to apply to college should be fun.  I think if you need to pull teeth to get kids to apply to college, they aren't ready for college.  He is going to be SO SCREWED.  He's not used to doing much work at all - I think he will flunk out the first semester.  DD is barely hanging on.  She doesn't do the work the way it needs to be done and then stresses about the results.  Maddening.

I got to find out that DD had a microbiology exam today when I went on FB and saw her post from last night.  Yay.  So glad other people I know are more in the know about what is going on with my DD than I am.    Whatever.  If that's the way she wants it.  I can find other things to do with what little time and energy I have.

Sorry to bitch.  It's been a long day.  worked 9-9:45 - on my feet the whole time - no break.  So I'm grumpy.  But I could use the money...

(((((TOL)))))

Christ......my oldest is 56....youngest 44...........it doesn't change........they will all learn when it is too late.......wonder why we still keep trying........,guess that is what a good mother does......I have no answers.....only that it does not change.....,age makes them no wiser.....and my kids are super intelligent successful people, so explain it to me.......

Granny  -  been there, doing that.  DS is between a rock and a hard place and wants you to know that he is aware - that'd be my take on it.

Being a Mom is not easy, but it's the best job I ever had......and like Jacqueline Kennedy once said when asked what her goal in life was.....her answer......TO BE A GREAT MOTHER....BECAUSE IF YOU FAIL AT THAT JOB......YOU HAVE FAILED IN LIFE.......

Joan....hugs for you.....up early today.......my son is coming for lunch.......tomorrow down the shore for the final trip.....closing down the house till next May.......always bittersweet......less bills (running 2 homes), but that long, lonely winter........if I was younger I would find a job....but who will hire a 78 year old that can' stand for long periods, .no more going to my daughters to watch the kids.......she is working from home for now, but even when she goes back, at 15, and 13, they feel they can let themselves in, and she is home within the 1/2 hour.......



What to do..........you can only clean so much.......and wash clothes do many times......thinking of getting a knee replacement so I can finally walk like I use to, but I'm afraid the LE, in my arm, could happen in my leg............



Anyone know anybody that it happened to?............have a great day......beautiful here....

Linda......one of my Grandsons did the same thing.......his Dad made him leave after the first year was over, come back home, and commute......he was at Shippensburg, in Pa, but just far enough away....he is finishing ay Penn State, Brandywine Campus and doing great, will graduate in May.....another was at Temple, also in Pa.....he commuted and still screwed up, ended up leaving after the first year, and is now a Union Journeyman Carpenter after doing a 4 year apprenticeship....



Yet I have others who applied themselves, and are making 6 figure salaries, so it all depends on the kid and what they want out of life.........everyone is not meant for college......but today parents push it.........never thinking of the Trades.....but I mean going thru an apprenticeship, and being Union trained.......they make great money too....and some kids cannot be confined to an office.....



My GS at JWU......does well, but drinks entirely too much.....I have a huge problem with that.....appears his father doesn't...he is the brother to the one that got pulled and sent to PSU, but this one because he is doing ok, with decent grades manages to stay......go figure......partying, and drinking are the same...good grades or bad......

Glad yours is not partying!  He is now considered part time.  I talked to him tday and told him to fix the prob or you're coming home.  Shoot me!

To anyone I missed.