Miscellaneous Mutterings
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First, business: Today is my mom’s birthday; Happy Birthday, MOM! Love You!
Now on to the blog:
We had a nice Christmas, although it seems that the traditions I cling to don’t hold the same comfort and joy for my boys. I love to watch the old Christmas cartoons and specials that have been around since I was a kid – Frosty, Rudolph, The Grinch, A Christmas Carol and It’s a Wonderful Life. But, every time I suggested that we watch one of these beloved favorites of mine, the boys would whine, “No mom, that’s boring! Can’t we just watch Transformers?” And Christmas music? Forget about that. There’s no Holiday collection that can compete with the GameCube and Mario Party 6.
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...that I haven’t done my Christmas shopping yet? No, no, I don't mean that I haven’t “finished” it yet, I mean I haven't “started” it.
Sure, I could be all stressed but, then again, what’s the point? At least when I was a Jehovah’s Witness I could use my “religion” as an excuse. Maybe I still can?
No. The cat’s out of the bag – I’m just a lazy procrastinator.
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There’s a cosmetics saleswoman in Chuck’s Wednesday business networking group. Last week she got up to introduce a new product – a firming eye cream.
Well, Chuck started to smile and when she asked what was so funny, he replied that he was just trying to imagine <i>affirming eye cream</i>, you know, you crack open the lid and it starts talking “My, don’t you look pretty today! Your eyes are lovely in that particular shade of shadow! Have you been losing weight? You look 10 years younger since you started using our new affirming eye cream!”
Oy Vay, that’s my husband. You should hear him at a drive-thru.
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The temperatures this week have been blissfully cold! In fact, yesterday most of greater Austin was closed down due to the sleet and ice that accumulated over the previous night.
Chuck worked from home for a good part of the morning but at 9:30 he decided to take the car for a skate down Parmer Lane. Thirty-minutes or so later he was back at the house because Parmer was a sheet of ice and he didn’t like the way some of the skaters were hogging the road, showing off their spins and bumping the other cars onto the shoulder.
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Every time we decide to take a trip Chuck lays out the same strategy: “Cindy, We need to have the van packed and loaded by 4:00 PM the night before. We’ll sleep in our travel clothes. I want to pull out of the driveway at ‘first light.’” To this I reply, “Yes, Dear, it’ll be ‘first light’ somewhere in the world."
I used to believe that the chance of us leaving anywhere near ‘first light,’ local time, was about as good as Ted Turner finding religion or Satan opening a Snow Cone stand.