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Friday, March 23, 2012

This year, so far...filtered.

2012 was going to be the year of the "no spilled coffee in the car." Now unfortunately, I'll have to wait until next year. (I should know better then to take the lid of my Starbucks, but darn it, there's a reason I order EXTRA WHIP!)

The year started off easy enough, I was blessed to see my parents at Christmas, I treasure every moment with them...and got to thinking how things change over the years...I put Skype on my parents computer last year...the hard sell is trying to get my mom and dad to use it...honestly, I have to beg them just to open the laptop...
Me: Just OPEN the computer...just DO IT! It's already on...just click the button that says answer with video...that's ALL YOU HAVE TO DO...just do it...

My DAD: Skype is spooky.

But get this...My mom use to talk my ear off for an hour, the phone would ring and I'd think "oh boy, I'm gonna be on this phone forever"...and my mom's favorite subject this time of the year is when the sun sets...this particular conversation starts about December 20th, the day before the shortest daylight of the year, where mom notes that after the 21st...daylight will start to swing the other way and every night the conversation would start out, today the sun set at 4:22p but tomorrow it'll set at 4:20p so we're going to gain another 2 minutes...but I've also noticed in the last couple of months as my mom struggles with breathing that it's changed...after 10 minutes my mom wants off the phone, and I'm egging her on, "so what time does the sun set this afternoon?"

It's crazy how you can leave the house and everything is OK, everything fine, and then you peek at your facebook at work only to see that your daughter put this post on your wall:

Hey Mom,
Dog is sick and had a few problems with bathroom troubles as well as vomiting. Just want you to beware. Not sure if I should give him anything or what.


Well, the good news is that we had just got our tax return. The bad news, husband wanted to spend it on a new bath tub, and I wanted to spend it on our sick dog. The sick dog won...and 600 dollars and 10 pulled teeth later, the dog is in excellent condition and as long as I can get him to take his blood pressure medication (which is easy if you have peanut butter), life should be a breeze...until the next hiccup...


It's been a weird weather year...50's in February??? 80's in March...(is it going to snow July 4---who knows?) Don't know exactly what mother nature is planning for us...so I go to work totally prepared...I wear my boots for snow, bring my umbrella for rain, and my bat...just in case a random game of softball breaks out.

Back to my parents, this past weekend I was in the emergency room Saturday night with my dad when the nurse asked my dad "so how many cigarettes do you smoke?" My dad says "1-3' and the nurse goes "cigarettes?" To which my dad replies "packs...1-3 packs" (a day)...the nurse gasps to which my dad goes..."but it's OK, their filtered..."