My mom is coming for a visit this weekend. And y’all know what that means.
WHERE ARE THOSE FOREST CREATURES WHEN I NEED THEM???
(I started writing this this morning and then a friend came by for a visit, so I took time to bend her ear as far back as Canada. We now resume the post. Don’t complain about your free entertainment.)
Anyway, I have made a list of the stuff I wish to accomplish before she gets here. Keep in mind this list does not include mundane chores like scrubbing bathrooms or cleaning out the fridge.
- Paint small chest of drawers in silver.
- Reorganize the Christmas decorations.
- Clean out the bathroom cabinets.
- Finish hanging my artwork, so-called.
- Put away “excess” wine glasses. Notice the quotation marks.
- Get car registered.
- Hide all my Legos.
She’s actually very cool about my housekeeping, so-called. Which is nice, because if she wants to clean or fix something, she just does it while cooking. Did I mention cooking? Yes…yes, I did. And you know what’s great about it? The fact that I can gorge on her fabulous cooking and not care because she is coming waaaaaay before Lent. I’m so lucky I have sweat pants and loose shirts.
That’s how I measure happiness 😀
Sithy Things 
January 15th, 2014 at 2:38 PM
Ship your Legos to me. don’t forget the pict-o-graph destructions.
January 15th, 2014 at 2:40 PM
*hoards Legos*
That’s crazy talk.
January 15th, 2014 at 6:30 PM
what’s you point?
Is that a no?
January 15th, 2014 at 6:41 PM
That’s a HECK NO!!
January 15th, 2014 at 2:47 PM
Well I probably talked your ear off more than you me. You see I love to talk. I kept eyeing your piece of furniture you had at your front door where your pumpkin sits. I just love it. I’m telling you girl we need to get together and make some stuff and set a booth up like you were talking about. I will have to keep my eye out for you to show your drawers when you paint them silver. Now you have me thinking about mercury glass. HUHM we can make something with mercury glass to sell.
January 15th, 2014 at 2:48 PM
YES!!!! As soon as I organize all the crap 😀
January 15th, 2014 at 3:45 PM
Legos. Tell me about Legos. My son Josh’s room is literally full of Lego creations. He’s even glued some of them together. With super glue.
January 15th, 2014 at 5:16 PM
I like your son. He shows promise 😀
January 15th, 2014 at 8:13 PM
When he comes up with a working fusion reactor built out of Legos, potting soil, and hippie tears, he will have graduated to “Apprentice Lego Builder”. Train well.
January 15th, 2014 at 10:57 PM
You had me at “hippie tears” 😀
January 15th, 2014 at 8:15 PM
That’s all it takes to make you happy? I thought it was a backpack full of claymores, a sharpened machete, and a stretch of undeveloped woodland.
For me to be happy, it takes a can of aerosol whipped cream, two Galapagos tortoise (no more than seventy years old), a weedwhacker, a rubber chicken, one well-greased lemming, two Advil, and……oh, wait…this is a PG-13(ish) site.
January 15th, 2014 at 10:58 PM
It ain’t all, but sure makes a healthy dent 😀
January 15th, 2014 at 11:13 PM
You’re getting cooking by Momma? You are so, so lucky! What does she usually cook for you?
January 16th, 2014 at 7:59 AM
Mostly Puerto Rican dishes 🙂 Rice and beans, plantains, an ethnic beef stew….
I’m already salivating here.
January 16th, 2014 at 8:43 AM
Here is something that might make your spit glands take notice: I’m making a meatloaf … but not just any meatloaf. I’m using both hamburger and sausage. I’ll layer them, with a mat of bacon between the layers. It’s gonna be awesome. Or a heart attack. It might be a heart attack. But, what the hell, everyone dies sooner or later, right?
January 16th, 2014 at 10:25 AM
Ooooo…sign me up for a plate of all that, please! 😉
January 16th, 2014 at 10:37 AM
I’ll e-mail you a serving c/o Aggie. Whether she’ll pass it on to you … 😉
January 16th, 2014 at 1:43 PM
Aggie, when you get that meatloaf, please put a double heaping helping of the rice & beans and plantains on the side, then email it my way. 😉
January 16th, 2014 at 2:08 PM
I’m on it!! 😀
January 16th, 2014 at 8:18 PM
I made the meatloaf, and it is fantastic! I know the next statement may be sacrilege, but next time I make it, I’m leaving the bacon out. I used Sweet Baby Ray’s barbecue sauce and Italian flavor bread crumbs in the hamburger mixture, no ketchup or barbecue sauce, and plain bread crumbs in the sausage mixture. That meatloaf was the best I’ve ever made, and one of the best I’ve ever eaten.