October 21, 2009

• Just Another *This And That*

  You can always tell with me when my day has been sort of humdrum.  My mind wanders….and it’s too little to be left out alone.    It’s days like this that I have way too much time to think about things and it amazes me how strange your thoughts can be.  There doesn’t seem to be rhyme or reason for how you flit from one thought to another.  Know what I mean?

  It’s like dreams.  Have you ever had a really strange dream that you just had no clue WHY you had it?  The Beast was telling me that he dreamt he was out shopping with Barack Obama.  No kidding!  Out shopping with the President.  They were in Miami and then, suddenly, they were in Chicago and looking for a go cart track.  Now how weird is that?  When I asked him what they were shopping for, he said he had no clue since Obama had just come by to pick him up without notice.

  I was reading my daughter’s blog and she mentioned she had made some gravy (after breading and frying up some pork chops) that I had taught her to make.  How cool that she would mention that, although she DOES know I read it.  I was proud that something I taught her came in handy.

  It made me think of the time my oldest daughter decided that she was going to make us all stew.  Now she was an adult at the time and had worked as a prep cook at several restaurants.  She usually could do a fantastic job at any meal she made.  This time, however, was a real eye-opener.

  She claimed she had watched me often enough to do it even though she had not made it for herself since it can’t seem to be made for just two people.  Since she was trying to be nice and give me a break (I had a houseful of kids, mine and visiting friends of theirs), I left her alone to do her *thing*.  She finally came into the living room and pronounced dinner was cooking.  After about an hour, my sister, Cinderalla, and I went into the kitchen to take a look at how it was going and I almost died.  I called my daughter into the kitchen and had a big spoon full of the various veggies and the beef and asked her *Is this stew for GIANTS?*  The chunks of beef were huge, the carrots looked like they had just been cut in half (and they were large ones)….even the onion looked like it had just been cut in half and dumped into the broth.  My sister and I got out the knives and cutting boards and proceeded to cut everything into more bite sized pieces.  My poor daughter was humiliated and kept saying *Well, I’ve never made it before.*  To which my reply was, *But you HAVE eaten it!*  I gave her a hug and we finished up cutting everything up. 

  It has been a family joke since then.  We talk about the *Giant Stew* dish we almost had to eat.  Like I said, since she had been a prep cook, it really floored me.

  I continue to add things to my grocery list.  No, I still haven’t done it and it doesn’t look like the Beast is going to get his lazy butt out of the house to drive to Huntsville any time soon.  I’m going to have to make the trip to drop off the sewing machine by myself OR take the trip with the Princess.  I’m not really crazy about that idea except that we really haven’t spent all that much time together lately.  She wants to do some shopping.  Having gone shopping with her, however, she can be a whirlwind.  I like to do mine in a more leisurely manner.  I’m not really in the market for anything but I suppose I could start doing some Xmas shopping. 

  Thinking about that made me think about the little LED lights I bought (solar-powered) and whether or not I want to put them on the spruce (young) out front OR string them along the bushes beside the walk under our bedroom window.  I still haven’t decided.  I will probably try them both ways and THEN decide.  That’s more my way of doing things.  I want them to really look nice and Christmas-y. 

  I had the baby tonight for about an hour.  Johnnycakes had to go to work and the Princess was at a meeting at her manager’s home.  At least I think that’s what she said.  My phone service has been so lousy the last few days that I have either not had service or I keep losing my connection.

  Chewlee had been missing me the Princess told me when she picked her up.  I could tell because she really wanted me to sit and hold her for quite a while before she finally got down and went to get her composition book to *write* in.  She made me laugh because she kept making her little scribbles and got very frustrated telling me, *A*, gramma!  I went over and made an *A* for her and told her to copy it.  Her *writing* got smaller and smaller as she tried.  She finally got down off the chair, came over to my desk, opened the drawer and got a different pen.  I guess she thought she couldn’t do it because of the pen. 

  Oh, I had a lot of stray thoughts all day long but this is already too long, I think.  Thanks for stopping by and, if tomorrow is like today, expect some more of my stray thoughts.  I also thought about my oldest daughter, the lost one.  But that will be for tomorrow, perhaps.

  Love you all.  Have a great day.  The Beast spent it cutting grass and muttering about how dumb it was to have to mow a lawn in late October.  He also said, *Didn’t I say something last DECEMBER about how weird it was to be cutting grass then?*  Of course he did.  But he was the one that thought it was too long for the Holidays since we were having a houseful.  I don’t want to live where you don’t have to mow the lawn at all during the winter.  No mowing=snow country.  Hasta manana!

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