April 24, 2013

  • Rain, Rain, Go Away!

    TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM

    We weren't supposed to get rain when I first looked at our forecast on the weather channel on Sunday.  But a weather front that was spinning rain and thunderstorms out changed it's shape and speed and we got some.  We're going to be getting it for the next few days, too.  Right now, it looks like we won't get any good weather until Monday or Tuesday.  That is so depressing to me.  I'm a sun person.  My life is perfect if it's both warm/hot and sunny.  Instead, now we have cooler weather and it's wet out so that means more humidity in the air and it feels even colder.  Even Chewlee, when she picked out her pajamas tonight after her bath, picked warm pajamas.  She normally prefers things like shorts or even a short nightgown.  Oh, and no long sleeves.  Tonight it was long sleeves and lightweight flannel bottoms.  She knew without being told.  Most of us aren't turning on our heat for just a day or two of cooler weather.  However, I am running my little heater here in my room because ANY cool, damp weather awakens my arthritis in my left hand (actually my ring and little fingers).  I sometimes end up wrapping that hand in flannel just before I go to sleep so it warms up and doesn't keep me awake.

    Chewlee got a squiggly face today and you won't believe what for.  She pulled her pants down so her butt crack showed and shook her butt at her classmates.  She thought it was funny.  She even started to laugh when telling her mother what she did when the Princess came to pick her up.  She had already gotten a talking to from both me and the Beast but her mother was even sterner.  When I send her to school on Friday, I already know what she's going to wear.  A blue pedal pusher and this long shirt that goes down an extra couple inches below the waist than normal.  The pedal pushers are ones that are tight around her waist so she won't be tempted again.  Today she had a pair of denim pants with elastic on both sides so they are easy to pull down.  The pedal pushers have to have the snap in front and then the zipper pulled down to go to the bathroom so....like I said...definitely not easy to pull down without being caught at it.  I have no idea what she was thinking.  I told her that was NOT something a lady...or a princess...would ever do.  What's funny is her mother said almost the same thing.   

    She was good all evening though and even went and did some drawings on the kitchen table with her coloring book underneath so her markers wouldn't go through the paper and onto the tablecloth.  It's plastic but white with a kitchen type pattern.  I can get the marker off with a clorox cleaner we have but it upsets the Beast more than I want to listen to.  Chewlee didn't do it on purpose.  She really had no idea that the markers could do that.  It's something she has to learn and now she knows.  There are times I think the Beast has to bitch because he has nothing better to do at the moment.  He's more easily upset than a woman going through menopause, I swear.  Worst of all, he over-reacts to everything.  A minor annoyance to most people is a major deal to him.  It's always ticked me off that he does that.

    He didn't react tonight, thank goodness, and just let me handle it.  That alone was amazing and so out of character that it took me by surprise.  Tomorrow we will go grocery shopping together.  He's so used to doing it now that I will have to wean him away from it OR...we will be doing it together from now on.  I really don't care which.  But I prefer to do my major shopping once a week or so and then just pick up milk and bread as needed.  I make lists.  He doesn't.  What he spends in a weeks time is incredible.  He spends more than I ever did....LOL  But then he buys more crap than I would.  He's always, always picking up some of the bakery specialty cakes, donuts and cookies.  I don't although I did keep his favorite cookies in the house.  Know what he doesn't buy unless I ask for it?  Meat.  Only meat (chicken) for the dog or else hamburger for us.  He keeps frozen stuff in the freezer like pot pies or some of those oriental sweet/sour chicken dinners.  He also buys frozen tv dinners which you can only take so much of before you want to scream.  He really prefers to buy fast food...KFC chicken, or one of the shrimp/fish restaurant dinners.  Of course, he DOES love MY dinners but I try to make balanced meals.  I like pork at times, baked chicken, chicken enchiladas (the Princess makes the absolute BEST ones!)...a more mixed bag of foods than what the Beast would probably live on if he lived alone.

    Well, love you all.  Hope you are out of the rain sectors here (and the sleety weather, too).  Be good.  Stay safe and drive carefully.  The life you save may be your own.