Month: April 2003

Late last week (either Friday or Saturday) we started to plan a day in Boston with Junior. We don’t go often enough, and because his dad is actually HOME from his extended business trip(s) to England, he was going to take a day off this week to make the trip.

So we looked over weather reports and determined that Thursday would be a better day than Friday, because it would be sunny and in the 50’s. Not as warm as Wednesday, which was supposed to push 80.

Today, I look at the weather on the same website, and not only are they saying it’s going to rain on Thursday, but the high will only be thirty-seven degrees. What the hell? And now they’re saying rain on Wednesday and the 80 degree day will be Tuesday. HOW can it change THAT MUCH in two days? I read about weather modelling, and how accurate it is, actually quite far in advance. I’m telling you, I don’t trust them to get tomorrow right anymore. And yes, normally I use Yahoo for my weather because it’s fed from weather.com, but I’m thinking that maybe, just maybe, they have hired monkeys to throw darts at a weather dartboard. This is ridiculous.

I treated myself to the Bagel Inn this morning…I got a bagel and a cup of coffee to go. They didn’t have any of my favorite flavored coffees today so I went out on a limb and chose “mudslide”. It’s not going to kill me, but someone needs to explain to me why they think this tastes like a mudslide, my favorite alcoholic drink ever. I mean really, you’re kidding yourself if you think coffee flavoring product can simulate the creamy goodness of a real mudslide.

I think my day would be a LOT more interesting if I started it with a frozen mudslide, don’t you? Of course, my family would put my directly into rehab, but still.

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In other news, wait, what was I going to say? I can’t remember. Maybe this IS a real mudslide! Woooooooo! Anyway, I think I’ll mail my state taxes out today. I got a refund from Federal, but owe $250 to state. It’s odd, I know there are ways to play with your Federal withholdings so that you don’t end up paying, but I don’t think there is any way to do that with State, is there? Oh well, I’m just glad I remembered that I have to mail it.

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I swear, there was something else I was going to say, but it’s just lost forever.

We’ve been playing this GameCube game we rented from Blockbuster all week. We’ve made progress, but we aren’t close to being done. The problem? It’s due back by noon tomorrow. That stinks, actually, but I know we only rented, we didn’t buy. How long after you return something can you take it out again? Ad do I want to? Ya, I do. We’re enjoying this game. It’s Spongebob Squarepants and the Revenge of the Flying Dutchman. It’s easy in some places and hard in others and some of it is just annoying enough that you’re willing to spend 2 hours trying to figure out HOW to get from point A to point B. I think Junior will mourn deeply if we bring it back and he never gets to finish the game. It’s driving him crazy that we don’t yet have the reef blower so we can’t finish the downtown section of the game.

Went to the Berlin Orchards Easter Egg Hunt today. I know my Dad reads this so I’ll try to be nice, but next year, I think we should let the kid try to find the candy all by himself. The challenge was definitely removed by having three adults helping. Actually, it’s not that things were hidden so much as you went looking for the candy YOU specifically liked. It was $2 per kid, and they were allowed 15 pieces of candy each. Junior is big enough for the big-kid’s field, and basically they threw candy all over the ground. I know I personally walked on at least 5 Jolly Ranchers because we didn’t see them. Junior doesn’t like candy except for jelly beans and lollipops, and they didn’t have lollipops in the big kid section. So we hunted for little baggies with 4-5 jelly beans in them. It was actually really well-done, and I’m glad we went.

Commenting is flakey today. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. I am aware of the problem. And my email is questionable. I may have to remove some graphics files from the server (temporarily) to fix this problem. I’m an unhappy girl. Will let you know when it’s back. As soon as I change hosting companies this problem will disappear.

Julia, my invisible daughter-in-law, hasn’t been making many appearances. I have to admit I kind of forgot about her. But last night, Junior approached the coach and said

“I can’t find them! I can’t find my kids! I was supposed to only get one, but he game me two!”

“Two what?”

“Two babies. Julia and I have two babies now.”

“Who gave them to you?”

“Joe. He’s the guy who gives out the babies. And he gave us two but I can’t find them.”

“Well, you’d better get looking because I don’t want strange kids running around my house. If you are going to have kids, you have to be responsible for them. You need to keep an eye on them.”

“They’re a boy and a girl. The boy is named Jonah, and the girl is…the girl is named Jody! I’ll go check my room. Maybe they are up there.”

Damn. A grandmother and I’m not even 40.