Happy Birthday, Mommy!

Yay! It's my mom's birthday. She is the big 66 today. I am making her the sugar-free cake and we are going over later for dinner or something. Jenny is making her a birthday breakfast, so I was inspired to make a big breakfast over here as well. It's not that we never have that, but usually I make it for dinner when I have more energy. We are having eggs, bacon, home fries, toast. Yum. I may not need to eat for the rest of the day.

Off to work on breakfast.

Yay, it's Friday!

In the last 2 years, since I got a real job with weekends off, I have really come to appreciate Friday afternoons. I got out early today because there wasn't much to do. Went over to see Zipper Hip and brought her a salad from Wendy's. We visited and gossiped. Aside from the snow, it turned out to be a pretty good day. Plus, it's Friday.

Sunday is my mommy's birthday. Tomorrow I have to make her a birthday cake. The hitch is she doesn't eat sugar. So I have to make this recipe I got from the Splenda website. It isn't completely sugar-free, because I have to use the 1/2 Splenda 1/2 sugar mix, but she doesn't know the difference. I have eaten a lot of sugar-free food in the 17-plus years since my mother gave it up, and that cake is pretty good.

Off to eat homemade pizza in my jammies. I love Fridays.

Fun and excitement

Wow, a lot has happened since the last time I wrote. Last Wednesday I was at work when I got a phone call at around 8:45 am from the Sagadahoc County Sheriff's Department telling me that my mother had fallen outside her house and may have broken her hip. My mother? Breaking your hip is something that happens to old people. But of course my mother is almost 66. So I went to the hospital and stood around for about an hour and a half before I could talk to her. I could see where she was and I could hear her, so that helped. Fortunately she had her cell phone, otherwise who knows how long she would have been there. She said a couple of her neighbors drove by while she was laying there. Hello? Do I have to put up a sign that says "Look for old lady on ground"? Anyway, the fixed her hip and they say she will be as good as new. She was kind of hoping for a new hip so she would be bionic. You can't have everything. She is doing well and in surprisingly good spirits. She keeps calling herself "zipper hip". Have I mentioned my mother is the funniest person I know?

Now she is at my sister's house recuperating. I don't know if I will ever let her back in her house alone again. It is a horrible, offensive mess. She has to use a walker for 8 weeks. There is no way she could even get through her front door with that thing. This has just fueled me and my sister's belief that she can not spend another winter out there. She lives in the tundra. In a big house full of junk. And did I mention she's old? I always liked having older parents when I was a kid, but now it is starting to suck. I can see what my future is going to be like and it is quite depressing.

I am sure I had more things to say, but it took me 2 days to write this and I have lost my train of thought. Oldness is setting in.

Off to find my cane.

Blah

I had a long weekend (Thurs-Sun) and I feel like I got absolutely nothing accomplished. Part of it is I am pathetically broke until this Friday, so I couldn't really go anywhere. We mostly stayed home. Miles went out on Saturday with my mother to spend his birthday gift card at Wal-Mart. He knew what he was getting and exactly where to find it as he has been scoping it out every time we have gone there in the last 3 weeks. For those of you dying to know what it is, he bought TMNT game for PS2. Woo.

Erik and I rented some movies this weekend as usual. I always get them from the vending machine at the grocery store, because it only costs $1.00 so if it sucks I don't' feel cheated. On Friday night we watched "Eastern Promises". I wasn't sure about this movie going into it. I had seen previews of it and thought it looked like crap. On the other hand, I heard good things, and it had Viggo Mortensen in it and I think he is fabulous in everything he does. Plus, he was nominated for an Academy Award for it. Anyway, it was horrid. He was good, but I have come to the conclusion that I don't really like Naomi Watts. The only other thing I think I have seen her in was "The Ring", and it seemed to me like she was the same person as in that. I hated that movie, too. The only reason to watch "Eastern Promises" as far as I can tell is for the nude fight scene, not so much because you get to see Viggo's parts as much as you just have to wonder how stressful that must have been. I am sure it is hard enough to film scenes where you are being beaten, stabbed, and thrown around by large men, but to have to do it naked? That is acting. We also watched "Perfect Stranger" with Halle Berry, that sucked too. But, I only spent $2.00.

Miles is getting his white belt in Tae Kwon Do today. I am in awe of his power.

Off to slack.

Winter sucks

So it's Thursday and I am off, which is nice, but it means I am also not getting paid. That is bad because I am desperately broke right now. It worked out, however, because Miles only has a half-day of school today. I do have a lot to do today. I have to go to the bank, get blood taken because I haven't had my thyroid checked in 2 years or so, and be back to pick Miles up at school at 11:30. I am hoping to get my taxes done this weekend because we need the money. I am sick of winter and how much everything costs. I was thinking of setting my house on fire because that should keep us warm for a while. Good times.

Off to find the matches.

Mmmm...lasagna

So my lasagna is in the oven and it smells awesome. I really do make a mean lasagna, but I don't do it very often because it is a bit of an ordeal. Plus, I don't like to put a huge amount of effort into a meal we can't all eat. And there is no way I am making a lasagna without cheese. That is just wrong. It makes a ton, so we will probably be eating lasagna for the rest of the week. I will be sick of it by Thursday I imagine.

I moved some furniture around today in the spare bedroom/game room/sewing room. I made room for the new storage bin rack I got for Miles' toys. I also hung some pictures and cleaned a little. I feel pleasantly productive.

Back to work tomorrow. Because my work is lame, I am only working 3 days this week. I can't really complain, however, because as it works out Miles is off on Friday and has a half day on Thursday. So I guess it worked out. I will just be really irritated when I get my paycheck. I am horribly broke, as usual, and need to get my taxes done. I have been putting it off because we had planned to use the money for our potential trip to the Grand Canyon and we didn't want to use all the money now. But I have bills to pay that are slightly more important right now than the Grand Canyon. Maybe we could go to New Hampshire instead.

Off to make salad and garlic bread.

Spring forward

I just made a lasagna that I am not even going to eat. Well, not tonight anyway. We were going to have that for dinner, I even invited Jen and Rory over. But Rory was not feeling well and I didn't feel like starting the lasagna at the time I needed to start in order to eat it at a decent hour. So we had something else and I made the lasagna for tomorrow night. Score! Now I don't have to do anything but bake it tomorrow night. I rock sometimes. I mean always.

Nothing terribly exciting has been going on lately, which is why I haven't written much. Just the same old shit. I am tired all the time, and broke all the time. I was thinking Erik and I should do something interesting for our anniversary this year, but I suppose just paying the mortgage would help. I want to rearrange my furniture, but am not really sure how to move it because there isn't a lot of space to work with.

Easter is in 2 weeks already. I can't think about it because it is so early this year. I really want winter to be over with. We have to set our clocks ahead tonight, but that just depresses me. I know it makes the days "longer", but it makes it totally dark in the morning when I got to work again. I know I go to work at an inhumane hour of the day, but a little sun isn't too much to ask. I can't wait for March to be over because then the end of this will be in sight. We were supposed to have another storm last night/today. It kept changing, sometimes they would say 4 inches of snow, sometimes ice, mostly I heard a mix of ice, snow and rain. Well, all it did was rain, I guess. I couldn't even tell when I got up this morning if it had done anything. Then it rained this afternoon. Erik hates rain because the roof leaks. But I just can't take any more snow. I will lose my mind.

Off to put the boy to bed and watch 'Rendition'.