Are there really only 50 days until Christmas? I am too tired to figure it out myself… but I am sure that this is impossible because just yesterday it was March. I am guessing if I blink it will be March again. I hate being so busy that time is getting away from me. I keep thinking about all the time I am missing and can’t get back. I want to be able to sit back and smell the roses, but there just isn’t enough time for that when you are raising two kids and running your own business. Never mind the relaxing stuff… there never seem to be enough hours in the day to get the work done either. Which reminds me I forgot to stop for gas today, which means I will have to get it in the morning… when it will probably be 10 cents more than it was today. As it is the two stations near the store have gone up 20 cents since Friday. Pretty soon it will be cheaper to take the train in… and that costs an arm and a leg!!

I have that I forgot something feeling a lot lately. I am thinking I should carry a little notepad in my pocket so I can write stuff down, but with my luck I will forget it somewhere. Maybe I should get myself one of those digital recorders… wouldn’t that be fun.. course I would probably never have the time to listen to it.. and besides I hate the sound of my own voice. I hate listening to myself when I have to leave a message on the voice mail here at the house. If I could skip over that part I would. I hate it when The Mr.plays his messages on speaker and I can hear myself leaving a message for him Ugh!

My brother got laid off today. I think he is probably glad, because he has been complaining about the company for a while. His wife makes good money though so they will be ok for a bit.

All of a sudden I am nodding off. It just hit me all at once. I am so old! I can’t even make it up til 11pm anymore.... Ugh!

Night all!

 

So today was the day my mom decided would be good for getting us all together to celebrate the birthdays of my kids and my niece. It was a pretty good day all things considered… Could have been a lot worse getting us all in such a small area. And my SIL2B did pretty good too. I can only imagine what it must be like for someone from a small family to be subjected to the bunch of us!! Well she might as well get used to it!!

Plans were tentatively made for our Christmas get together… gotta do that kind of thing when everyone is together… I say tentative because my middle brother and his wife need to be able to discuss it privately first. It’s their thing. Whatever…

Christmas is gonna be here before I know it. I did manage to get my first gift out of the way (Got my brother a World Series hat… which most likely will be something he has already gotten for himself since he went out the day after and bought some stuff. Oh well.....) The Mr.has him in the grab… I have SIL2B. I am going to grab something off their wedding registry, plus I have a couple little things for her.

Today would have been my grandfather’s 93rd birthday. He passed away 32 years ago. I was 8. Cancer… He was 3 years younger than my Dad is now. That kind of freaks me out a little. And makes me grateful for the relationship we have. Kay don’t want to think about that.. back to my grandfather! He was my mom’s father. She brought it up today and I told her I had been thinking about it too. He loved the sun. He was a major sun worshiper… always had the San Trope tan heh! He did this little whistle hum thing when he went into the water at the lake when it was cold. When we went to my grandparents house for our “Friday Night Fish Fry” I would sit patiently in his chair until he came home from work. When he got home he would scoop me up and we would chat while I took the come out of his chest pocket and combed his hair into his face… then he would read The Monster At The End Of This Book to me. It never got old.

I still miss him! I had these reoccurring nightmare’s for years and years until I realized they were about the moment I found out he was gone. After that I didn’t have them again. Sounds weird, but it is really hard to explain…

Happy Birthday Gump!! Wish my kids could have met you… but you can be sure they know all about you. I have many wonderful memories to share with them.

 

The wind is whipping… but the basement is dry! YAY!

I am enjoying a moment or two to myself while the kids and husband enjoy The Nightmare Before Christmas in the other room. I am singing along.... The Drama Queen played this one to death when it first came out on video. ‘Tis a favorite of The Mr’s as well. We had a fairly productive day at the store… we were still down from last year, but did way better than either one of us expected with the weather the way it was. Not too many people want to walk in that shit ya know.

Last night we went to see Dan In Real Life it was really good, I think The Mr.even enjoyed it… his words, I believe, were “Not bad for a chick flick” Heh!

Gotta work on a new template. This one is old.. I have an idea for a new one, but I am having a hard time actually seeing it through. All I have is the background so far

I need to come up with some topics for the next.... 27 days of posting. If ya have any ideas please post them in the comments…