Leftovers

Setting: me, heating up a truly lousy leftover dinner for Wheeler. 

Me: (feeds dinner to him)

Him: Was this dinner any better when it was fresh?

Me: No. 

Him: I don't suppose you'd go get me a Greek gyro and hummus, I really super have a craving for Greek. 

Me: No.

Him: You do know that you suck as a human being, right?

Me: Yes.

Bawahahahaha!

Trapped in the 70s

Help me, I'm trapped in the 1970s - Wheeler bought two SACDs* of Queen and Pink Floyd and now has them intolerably loud with a grin ear to ear on his face. Hey, the guy is stuck in bed with a pressure sore. He deserves something that gives him some happiness!

[* Super Audio CD ... which as far as I can figure just means it costs a WHOLE lot more money!!]

A new tea kettle

So my tea kettle has rust spots on the inside, and thus I need a new one (since being on my Teavana kick, I make tea twice a day minimum and hence I've been noticing all the rust on the inside). 

Somehow I ended up spending almost an hour researching tea kettles on amazon, reading reviews (who knew people actually spend time reviewing tea kettles and posting them on the internet for people to read!?). I ended up with this baby.

Dogley and Swiss train schedules

Offspring has band practice after school and Dogley is beside himself that Offspring hasn't come home at his completely punctual 2:43 pm. He comes over here to me and barks at me, then walks to the front door grousing, then walks to me ad barks, then back again, over and over, like "WHERE IS HE?!?".

Tornado??

Now that's a serious tornado cloud.  It was over our pool at SWIM PRACTICE!  Needless to say, practice was instantly cancelled and everyone hightailed it home. And there was no tornado.  It just looked like there would be.

On being old and out of touch

Now that Offspring is turning 13 in the relatively near future, I asked if he wanted to get a facebook account in after his birthday later this year. He shrugged and said maybe, but that it was mostly for old people (LOL). He said that what he really wanted was instagram and snapflash - or flashchat - or snapchat or some such thing. I had absolutely NO idea what it was he was talking about. I honestly had to look it up on wikipedia. I am officially old!

Hooked on Teavana

I am freaking HOOKED on Teavana.  It is a seriously EXPENSIVE habit to have too.  The tea is about $40-60 per 8 ozs... yes, you read that right, per 8 OUNCES.  But it is sooooooo good.  Here is my Teavana shrine in my kitchen.  I have oodles of tea blends, as can be plainly seen.  

I drink tea twice a day minimum and brew it in this special Teavana brewing cup, which I don't know how I lived without before now.  (I have the purple one)  

It's nifty because it has a brewing basket inside of it that you fill with your tea, then you lift it out and place it inside the top of the lid.  Then the screw top part of the lid has a button that allows the tea to come out as a to-go type cup.  It's an ingenious design.  

This blend is my favorite - its a chai and MAN o MAN is it good.  

If you've not tried Teavana, DON'T.  It will eat a hole in your wallet.  But if you ignore my advice, you'll certainly enjoy it.  

Today is the 25th anniversary of Wheeler's spinal cord injury

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Wine in a red Solo cup

So last night I was drinking wine from a red plastic cup. Offspring said to me "Mom! Is that WINE in a red solo cup???" I said "Yes?" to which he eye rolled and replied "Classy mom. Reallllll classy". I almost spit my wine out laughing. 

I can't help if I'm a little bit trashy .... it's part of my charm. 

Mother's Day gift

So for weeks I've been hassling Offspring about pounding rocks together, it was making holes in the driveway. Then he gave it to me yesterday. It was a Mother's Day gift. He had pounded it into a heart shape for me. Melt....

Which goes where?

I just put a bottle cap in the drawer and threw away the bottle opener. 

I think I should slow down....

Co-ed

Offspring's second helping of pasta tonight was mix of gluten and gluten-free. He quipped "Thanks for the co-ed plate mom!"

Just exactly what am I supposed to do?

Wheeler has two pressure sores. One aggravated by laying down, one aggravated by sitting up in his chair. What am I supposed to do - hang him by his feet? ARGH! 

On becoming a teenager

My son (formerly little boy) is morphing into a teenager. The evidence is mounting:

A) for the first time ever in his life, he has expressed an actual opinion about his hairstyle


B) I caught him singing to pop music and further, he knows who is who in the world of pop music

C) he has been sleepy lately, just the other day he came home from school and promptly fell asleep sprawled out on the couch

D) he has been eating like a billy goat (a HUNGRY billy goat)

E) a sudden lack of responsiveness when queried on any topic ("fine", "whatever", "I dunno") coupled frequently with eye rolling so expansive I'm pretty sure they'll get stuck in the back of his head

Yup, 13, here we come!

A loud frog

A very loud (and I mean loud) frog or gecko has taken up residence beneath our dining room window, which also happens to be very near Uncle Air Force's bedroom window. He (the frog, not UAF) makes this unbelievable noise periodically, day and night, and it really is quite a clatter. 

In desperation, UAF went outside to, as he put it, "punt him through the goal posts of life" but the offender runs silent runs deep whenever he goes outside.

So we all are stuck listening to this frog make a complete and total racket. I bet you anything that the neighbor across the street can hear it at her house since her front door is about 30 yards from the offending frog's bush aka hiding spot.

Anybody know how to lure a frog / gecko / very loud small animal away from one's window?? We can even hear it in our master bedroom on the dead opposite side of the house. He's been singing his song, croaking his croak, yelling his tribal yell for a few days now and it's getting seriously old!

At the store

At store today with Offspring: Sit down. Lift your feet up. Stop doing that. Sit down I said. Stop it! Please come here. Again, I said stop that. Come here. Sit down! Tie your shoes. Stop making that noise. TIE YOUR SHOES. Stop that. Sit in the cart!!!! 

How old is he again? (12 for those not keeping track!!)

Pit bulls

No Working During....

This is my mantra....

8 years

Happy anniversary to me and Wheeler!  8 years and counting......

Not a wimp

The other day, Offspring had a back baby tooth crack and crumble at the top, so the dentist had to positively YANK it out (it was not ready to come out at all so it was really stuck in his gum hard). But that brave boy sat there and just took it like a total man. I was so impressed!! I would have been demanding drugs and sobbing. He even staunchly refused ibuprofen afterwards. 

Not a wimp, that one!