we set & it forgot it

here is our lovely leg of lamb cooked to yummy goodness in our Ron Popeil Showtime Rotisserie. I made fun of David to no end when he first ordered this after a bout of insomnia back in the old days before we had a computer and he called one of the many operators standing by....however this was one of his genius purchases this thing is great and we honestly don't use it often enough now that is resides in the garage so I have forgotten how little muss & fuss is involved in preparing dinner.

where did the weekend go?

here it is Sunday night already and I am not sure where my weekend went to...
Friday was good. A late night unusual for us, ok me these days
Saturday was a nice lazy day I kept thinking about getting off the couch and going for a pedicure but that never happened, goofed on the computer some & watched the Lance Henrikson Channel, MIL returned the boy to us with some cash but no new toys for a change. Later on the boys went to see Speed Racer at the dollar theater which is in fact not a dollar at all but $4-still a bargain because that includes the popcorn. I managed to get off the couch and meet some of the girls for dinner at Soho Cafe followed by Ben & Jerry's-Chinese food, ice cream and female bonding what could you ask for? As luck would have it the girls night started early which meant I was home in time for D to head to his poker game so we both managed some alone time.
This morning I discovered the trick to sleeping in till 9-be awake for two hours in the middle of the night-worked like a charm. A charm I hope that is not repeated tonight.
Caught up on laundry-who am I kidding? I did some laundry not caught up though, read the paper, cleaned a little, did my nails, still need a pedicure though maybe next weekend, went grocery shopping and to the dreaded Walmart-don't do that on Sundays-it was nuts! C had a gift card burning a whole in his pocket and wanted to get himself Fate next time we go a whole lot earlier or a whole lot later than 2 on a Sunday. And seriously dude that was waaaay more than 20 items can you not count? The grocery store wasn't as bad and I ran into someone I had not seen in a few months. Could not find knockwurst so we had to settle for brats which were just fine but I am looking forward to some proper German sausage from Karl Ehmer when we are in CT.
Now I've got the Sunday blahs sort of dreading the week ahead....

battle of the bands

well really just dueling CD players. When we were first together D & I would usually go to sleep with music playing somewhere along the way we had stopped by started back up again a year or so ago, neither of us a big fans of complete silence when trying to fall asleep. From birth C has gone to sleep with music as well not just the lullaby stuff in fact first home from the hospital it was the soothing sounds of Mr Iggy Pop that the boy enjoyed. Now the dreaded Wiggles got some play as did Nickoldeon stuff, the Kidz Bop Christmas was ok but not so much in the middle of April, Green Day got heavy rotation for awhile as did AC/DC & Aerosmith and an '80s mixtape of sorts-what can I say we have eclectic music tastes that we have passed along to C.
D was third shifting it last night so after I locked up I turned on the player in the living room I believe he has a Pulp cd in rotation currently. With doors closing & car driving off C woke up briefly but did what he always does turned his music on in his room & went back to bed, his current cd of choice the WWE entrance theme songs-all growly extreme rock type stuff drowning out my Britpop. Bad enough except he can press some button his player that winds up repeating 1 song over and over and over I woke up to that at 2.30am as well and Oscar superpug barking about something or another. The dog knows when D is not home and is ever vigilant barking at each and everything real or imagined.
Needless to say I am hoping for a nap today

random Thursday

-I do not like being awake at 4 in the morning
-neither does Oscar after grudgingly going outside he returned to curl up at my feet , go back to sleep & snore
-happy to see Project Runway returns in July
-if a class and lab are co-requisites there should be an equal number of spaces available in each
-you can have 25 years of academia blah blah blah but it does not add up you blustery fool and I am not an idiot that math does not compute-again 20 open spaces in class should equal 20 open labs
-if I hear uneducated, white & under a certain income one more time.. good grief come on you just want to call them crackers, admit it
-come on you just want to say the crackers won't vote for the black guy
-I am a woman, a liberal, a feminist, a registered democrat and still that does not mean I have to vote for the female for president
-or rather that female
-the assumption that all black people will vote for Obama annoys me too
-you gave up golf? why not something serious like eating broccoli or something?
-oh wait that was your dad-how 'bout making your bed now that is serious stuff....
-I am a bad mamma yesterday afternoon C was busy being his usual perky and repetitive self and I snapped at him-look back in the rear view mirror to see tears welling up in his eyes-just kick me in the stomach next time kiddo. Mommy is sorry.
-I miss my mommy I hate living 800+ miles away from her
-C has really great baseball coaches this season
-I want new luggage don't really need it but I have been ogling sales fliers
-I really hate waking up at 4 am oh did I say that already? I am delirious at this point

road tripping the return

so we are back in rainy 'ol Knoxville. I was very happy to be back sleeping in my own bed next to my dear sweet hubby. When we are at my folks house I usually wind up sharing a bed with C this is better now that he doesn't snore so much but he tends to be a bed hog, kind of cute when he was 20 lbs not so much now that he is 83 lbs! My Dad is talking about cleaning up some space, getting rid of an old couch & buying a day bed in the new year which will be nice.
We tried to go to bed early Friday night in anticipation of the long journey ahead and it was fine till about 2 a.m. when C started tossing and turning which involved thrashing his whole body about, grunting and stealing the covers I threatened him repeatedly but it was a crummy night of sleep regardless. As I related this story to D the next day and C pipes up with his head & legs hurt-gotta love those growing pains! but I pointed out that he needs to say something next time so I can give him some tylenol to help!
The drive back was happily uneventful we were making good time so D decided to push on through normally we stop for a hour or so to have lunch and get out of the car but we grabbed fast food & ate on the go which made the trip only 12 hours instead of 14, we made really good time.
Around 6 C wanted to put a call into grandpa to find out how the Patriots/Giants game was going-grandpa being the die hard Giants fan-so I had to let C know the game had not started yet and grandpa was out at a party anyway.

sleeplessness

It is not unusual to find me asleep in chair around 8 or 9 on a Sat. evening but when I HAVE to go to bed early, I'm as wide awake as can be. Why is that? And why do people leave their porch light on all night? especially in this neighborhood? not exactly a high crime part of town-at least as far as I know, will need to check the police blotter in the Farragut weekly news this week. Why do people leave their dogs out all night so they can bark and wake me up? And why does my Green Day addicted son need to put his CD on repeat every night? So I was up at 3.30 a.m. for inventory at one of the stores, a necessary evil but I HATE inventory. The only one in my 9 million years of retail that I managed to get out of was the one when I totaled my car at 7 months of pregnancy and had to spend 4 days in the hospital, a little dramatic perhaps but I did get out of that inventory..Anyway I am tired and a little cranky so I think it may be bed time!