funerals

so I suppose funerals must have been on my mind yesterday because my great-aunt passed away several days ago & her funeral was in fact yesterday. Mom called to let me know last night not sure why she waited but sometimes my mom can be strange about things. It's not like I was super close to the woman in fact she was not my great-aunt she was my grandmother's cousin but they were basically raised as sisters as her mother died in childbirth. My great grandfather died when my grandmother was 2 so they had the loss of parent at young age bonding thing going on as well.
Any whoodles my great aunt was a nun who lived for a number of years in Hawaii. Mama would visit her once a year and I was promised a trip when I was 13 but of course she was living in NY by that time so all we got were afternoons in Ossining. They were interesting afternoons, we usually would ask to hear about the morning of pearl harbor as she had been on the big island that morning. The Maryknoll nuns are missionaries so the gift shop always had all sorts of neat things from around the world and the sitting room had interesting displays specifically I remember a thing about chinese women and feet binding and some teeny tiny shoes in a display case.
hard to believe all of that generation in our family tree has died off.

random thoughts of the day

-my husband, son AND dog all snore I suppose if I want a good night of sleep I'll need to check into a motel
-I like silly entertaining movies I don't always want to think or be challenged by a film
-I am a firm believer in the christmas season not starting until the day after thanksgiving but for some reason this year I am having trouble waiting to play christmas music, decorate and bake
-I am baking christmas cookies this year something I have not done since before C was born
-I am going to try and talk my Dad into baking as well I have very happy memories of him doing this when I was younger and his cookies rock!
-I will use my son to sweet talk grandpa into baking cookies. I am without shame when it comes to those cookies
-I am not a holiday sweater wearing person however I saw a really cute red christmasy sweater with penguins that I think I may go back and purchase
-the penguins reminded my of my grandmother who collected penguins. I miss the old broad and make no mistake she was a broad in the best sense of the word. I find it hard to believe that is has been 22 years since she passed
-missing her has made me a little weepy this morning
-it also made me laugh our family funerals are generally a three ring circus we should sell tickets really!

maiden name

yesterday I was dealing with the transcript/course description nonsense I had to give the chick at SLC my maiden name, a last name you ALWAYS had to spell it for people. that was just a given. I found myself using my brother's form of spelling it
D as in david
et as in the movie
still cracks me up!

*****!!?!

damn school crap. I got a lovely postcard in the mail last week saying my registration and transcript and everything was on hold because I did not take my placement tests. Can't get my grades or register for next semester. That's ok I will call over to records and inquire about my transcript which PSTCC has had since August. Now I will give them the math placement test I have avoided it thus far but I will take it especially since the plan is for me to take math next semester. But reading & writing NO damn it Sarah Lawrence College is all freaking reading & writing I will not concede on that point.
After 3 phone messages the lady who was suppose to be reviewing my transcript finally called me back today asking if I could get course descriptions from SLC as they were no longer on line. no flipping duh that was 1985-89 no big surprise the info was no longer available. So a call to SLC they can find out and fax it over but it will take some time. Why this didn't happen in AUGUST when I submitted my transcript I do not know.
I need to get a lottery ticket tonight on the way home and some ibuprofen I have a headache...

alrighty then

So one of my bosses just handed me a list of top rates horror dvds that he wants ordered for the store. A halloween top rated horror films list. I wonder is he late or just really early for next year?
I need to freakin win the lottery....

punishments

so C is being punished today no computer, television, dvd player or nintendo ds. Why is it that I feel like I am being the one punished? it is 9.42 and he is driving me crazy! And it is sort of goofy punishing him but he needs to know how to act and not act in school. he had a "off" week behaviorally at school. He still got a B but I had the note to go along with it-all typical 7 year old boy stuff but I still had to play the stern parent-poking someone with a pencil, head under the desk, something about laying on the floor at one point but my favorite was getting his friend to spell ICUP. spell it out loud and wait for it....

dear santa

I think might need a remote starter for my car for these damn cold mornings when I want to warm up my car but it is so very early I am trying to get out of the house without waking everyone up.
I also need more hours in the week. I am looking into what to take next semester and I am thinking microbiology and saving the math for summer. The only problem is I will need to find 4 more hours in my week because it will entail 3 hours class time & a 4 hour lab. Won't that be fun?

is there a support group?

I think I may be a Target-aholic.

my list for santa

I really need a scanner to try and organize the multitude of baby photos I have floating around my house. I was great when the boy was first born taking pics, getting them developed and putting them right into a photo album. Around 6 months that sort of fell apart and now I have boxes of loose photos that could do with some serious organization. Of course we also need a new computer, if I can't even get the antiquated thing to recognize my camera a scanner is out of the question.

fall back

daylight savings time ended in the wee hours of this morning. I let C stay up a little late as he would be gaining an hour, unfortunately he was still up way too early but I tried. When my brother and I were kids my mother used both the spring change & the fall change to "get rid" of us a hour early. It didn't matter which time of year it was always "oh you have to go to bed early because of the time change". Sadly we never caught on...