Random Rants

My husband is having his family over for Christmas eve. He planned this all by himself and then sprung it on me. His selling point was it woulde make him lay the tile faster. So, today it rained and he laid tile. Sandy came over and helped me organize my yarn room. She is so handy arranging books. And she thinks if I wind my yarn I will have more room on my shelf. So, I wound two thousand yards this evening and am now in bed with the dogs and a heating pad.

And I've been tagged. Who knew Elisa was a tagger?

Here’s the deal: Once tagged, you must link to the person who tagged you. Then post the rules before your list, and list 8 random things about yourself. At the end of the post, you must tag and link to 8 other people, visit their sites, and leave a comment letting them know they’ve been tagged. So here we go. *some restrictions may apply.


1. I make it a point to talk to strangers and I encourage others to do so as well. Next time you are standing in line waiting for coffee, ask the person ahead of you if this is the line for methadone. I did it just this morning and found out the guy was a screen writer. I told him what a coincidence, I'm a reader.
2. I still enjoy riding shopping carts while in the parking lot. It's great exercise and I highly recommend Trader Joe's carts and I still enjoy tag.
3. I use to ditch school so I could read what I wanted all day. I would go to Bubbling Springs Park, climb a tree and read until it was time to go home. NOTE: Attendance Officer's rarely look up.
4. In grade school I wanted to be a spy. (My spy name was Harriet Heckler) My accomplice "Mildred Mischief" and I would go to the manager of our apartment complex and tell him we were locked out. He would "trust" us with a key that would open any door. We would knock on doors and when no one would answer we would unlock the door and clean the apartment and rearrange the furniture and then leave a note that Harriet and Mildred had struck again. To this day I have no idea what that had to do with spying, but apparently at the time it made sense.
5. I read every night before I go to bed. I can't sleep unless I read something. I get that from my mother who reads her dictionary every day. And for about ten years I read the bible from cover to cover every year.
6. I love my children even though they are fallible human beings and did not turn out to be the programmable robots I had envisioned.
7. I sleep with two dogs, two cats and one husband in a queen sized bed and the occassional Grandson. See above photo.
8. I never had to attend church as a child, so I have been to everything from Kingdom Halls to Budda Rally's with my friends. I have epilepsy and my first seizure was at a Pentacostal summer camp after witnessing a room full of strangers speaking in tongues.


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The Phone Rings

in my office. I pick it up, "Quality. This is Becky." The voice on the other ends starts off...

"Mom, pause, what's an in-house network?" WTF? Who is this?

Jacob qualifies for health insurance at work now and he's in the Carpenter's Union so who does he call? Me. I should have told him to call his Shop Steward and hung up, but against my better judgment I told him to sign up for the HMO because I figure since HMO's don't give you many options, the phone calls might stop.

But somehow, I doubt it.

Thankfulness

I am thankful for my "motley crew" even when they drink my scotch and then think they are "scotch aficionados".

And I am thankful for the son who drove said scotch aficionado home.





I am thankful that the man I married will hug poor Blue when he is in a triptifan coma to let him know everything is alright.



I am thankful that the cat still finds my cooking appealing.



And after the turkey was cooked and the gravy was poured and the last potato was peeled, and the homemade whipping cream was on the pie, I still kicked their asses at bowling.

I bowled a 258.

Tonight

After a debate with Blue as to whether or not I would continue with my blanket for my upcoming grandchild, or not was the outcome BTW. I came to realization that John and I are merely warm pieces of furniture.





On the occassion where they might actually use furnite it is usually my side of the bed.



Or Eli insisting on helping with taxes. Bad idea!



Or the time he helped me weave.



John has no idea that Hank hogs the camera while I try to capture them on film or that he's on the internet, for that matter.



Once Hank even used Blue as furniture




All in all I think it best to take Eli's advise and enjoy life and always stop and smell the roses.




And what you don't know wont hurt you.

What was the greatest thing before TOAST?

We recently purchased a Nintendo Wii and I'm telling you, this is the greatest god damn thing since Tequilla!

Go to your nearest Game Crazy for a free demonstration, I implore you.
Tell 'em Crazy Becky sent you and then go to Carl's Junior and order the Spaghetti Basket.

We have family night dinner almost every Monday, so on Veterans Day we had Mom's enchilada's and dad's beans.

Then, we hooked it up. Note: That's a Croatian and a Serbian working together. It's freaking magical, people. We need to get these to NATO and start distributing them to warring countries. Because, it is quite apparent to me now that Project Panama Red and M & M's didn't pan out. Who knew potheads would fight over the green ones?




And then we bowled




And here's the best part, it's fun for the whole family.



Today I am buying my OWN remote!

Subdued Adventures

This weekend Sandy, Lisa and I attended the "Harvest Artwalk" in Ventura where my co-worker, David Rivas, was the featured artist.

It was lots of fun, but David is going to be in big trouble. He held his exhibit at Fox Fine Jewelry. I bought some lovely Amber earrings and signed up for their mailing list and Lisa and Sandy started wish lists. They have a great selection of martini glasses that I might put on my wish list and I think Lisa said they have some kind of "Ladies Night".

Oh, and they carry Mary Frances PURSES!

But I digress! It was great to see David as the featured artist and he was kind and gracious to my knitster sisters. Sandy even got a hug.

Parking in Ventura is an adventure in itself. After cruising numerous packed parking lots and debating whether to risk a tow away zone Sandy spotted a car that looked like it was leaving in a two hour zone. We waited for them to leave and as soon as we were parked I spotted a vacancy in the "all day zone". So I ran across the street and stood in it until Sandy got her car their.

There was a homeless guy with the biggest water head I had ever seen until we got closer and I realized he just had dread locks tucked into a beanie. Bummer.


We saw One World Drummers and Sandy got me bubbles and a pencil for Eli.

I'll leave you with a picture David took of the 50 Hammer crew where we work. He won first prize for photo journalism for this one. I bought a print and had the whole crew sign it.