So...THIS happened a couple weeks ago...

I know, I know...I disappeared again.  There's only about 3 weeks left in the school year, so I'm hoping to be able to catch my Bloggy Buddies up on my ultra-exciting life (NOT!)  Maybe then I'll also be able to catch up on what's been going on with all of you. 

Wii-U Wednesday

Stud has been obsessed lately with getting a Wii-U.  He's been talking about it, non-stop, for weeks.  And, yes, he's been annoying the bejeezus out of me with it!  The thing that was bugging me the most is that his car insurance is due in the next couple of weeks, and we told him that HE needed to pay it this time.  His father and I have been paying his insurance since he started driving.  He didn't really have a "real" job then, so it wasn't really a big deal.  Plus, I DID have a "real" job, and we could swing it.

Well, as you all know, I no longer have a "real" job, and Stud now has two jobs, so we felt it was time for him to start pulling his own weight around here.  (And, for the record, we KNOW we should have done this years ago, but we can't go back in time :-/  )

Anyhoo, like I told you the other day, I threw a surprise party for him this past weekend.  Thanks to my VERY generous family, he received enough money in gifts to pay his insurance AND get his new Wii-U. 

He went to buy it last night.  I swear, he was like a little kid on Christmas morning.  I can't believe he didn't try and set it up last night when he got home.  He went to buy it with a friend, and then they watched a movie.  But, today, when he finally came up from his "cave," he started setting it up in the living room.  Unfortunately for him, he couldn't even play with it until he charged the main controller, which took a couple hours.  But, as I sit here typing, he's in the living room, having a blast.  Moments like this make it even harder to believe that he's actually 21 now.... 

I guess he'll always be my baby boy. =)

Tidbit Tuesday

I know I dropped the ball this weekend, and didn't post Saturday or Sunday.  (Hey, I said I was unofficially doing NaBloPoMo...)  But, I got busy and just didn't make it here. 

Saturday, the son of one of my besties got married.  The ceremony was at 12:30, and the reception was at 6, so it turned into kind of an all-day thing.  Everything about the day was beautiful.  We really had a nice time at the reception, too.

Then on Sunday, I threw a surprise party at the bar for Stud's 21st birthday.  He was truly surprised.  It was a fun night.

Have you ever known me to keep a post so short?!  There are basically zero details here, huh?  Very out of character for me, as you already know, I'm a total over-sharer (yes, that IS a word!)  But, I'm tired, and not feeling so great, so that's all you're getting, sorry.

So, as I was saying...

We visited with my mom for a while, telling her the whole saga of the missing phone.  Then we eventually said our good-byes so we could head to the bank.  As we were walking out her door, Stud says, "Hey, where are my glasses?!" 

 ARE YOU FREAKIN' KIDDING ME!??!

I seriously wanted to punch him in the throat!  If I was Suz, I would have shanked him!

I KNOW he had them on his face when we were walking out of Walmart, so we figured they HAD to be either in my car, or my parents' house. But, lately, he has gotten into this habit of hanging his glasses on the collar of his shirt.  You know, instead of actually WEARING them!!  So, there was no telling where the hell he might have actually lost them. My fear was they fell off his shirt when he was either helping me put our bags in the car or when he was putting our empty cart in the cart corral.  If either of those had happened, all I could picture was his glasses smashed in the parking lot, having been run over by who knows how many cars. 

He and his grandmother looked all over her house, while I searched every nook and cranny of the car.  Nothing.  We decided we had to drive all the way back to Walmart and search the lot.  Grrrr!

We drove back to the area where I thought I had parked, and looked up and down the parking lot, and in the cart corrals.  No glasses.  Stud went into the store and asked at customer service if anyone had turned in any glasses.  Nope.  He then went and looked in every single cart at the entrance.  Nothing.  We did one more drive through the parking lot, but didn't find anything.

By now, my blood pressure was sky-high, and I may or may not have been screaming at him about how damn irresponsible he is, and how HE was going to be paying for a new pair of glasses, while listening to him whine about how now he can't even drive because he needs his glasses.  The whole scene was something out of a bad reality TV show.  I'm not proud of it, but I know how I can get. :-/

We finally left Walmart, and headed to the bank, then went home.  Magnum was already home when we got there.  I walked into my bathroom, and the first thing I saw on my sink was a pair of men's glasses next to my own glasses.  I asked Magnum if they were his, but they weren't.  I called Stud over, and you guessed it.  They were his! 

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

I haven't got anything close to a rational explanation for how those glasses ended up in my bathroom.  Well, other than Divine Intervention, that is.  The entire time I was driving back to Walmart, I was praying and praying for us to find those glasses.  Right now, we really can't afford to be replacing glasses that cost over $350.  Plus, like Stud said, he can't drive without them, and it would have taken a minimum of a week to have a new pair made.  I would have had to drive him everywhere until the new ones were ready.  I should probably mention that he DOES has a second pair, but they broke about a month ago, and we never got around to bringing them to the eye doctor to get repaired, mostly because I was afraid of how much it would cost.  So, yeah, I was praying hard to find this pair.

Not only do I KNOW he had them on his face when we left Walmart, there would have been no reason for his glasses to be in my bathroom in the first place.  Magnum and Stud are basically barred from using "my" bathroom.  They share the bathroom in the basement, and I have the upstairs bathroom all to myself.  Magnum is lucky I let him occasionally pee in there so he doesn't have to go down to the basement every time.  But, Stud just about NEVER uses my bathroom.  MAYBE once a week, if that.  That's mostly because he never ventures up from the basement unless he's at work or school. 

My point is, I have no freakin' clue how or why those glasses were in my bathroom, but you better believe a sent up a giant prayer of gratitude.  My mother was completely freaked out by this whole thing.  How about you?  Does it freak you out or reaffirm your faith?  I'd love to hear what you have to say.

F@%* Me, Friday

Stud and I had a very busy day today.  He worked early this morning at the grocery store, then when he came home, we took a drive out to his school to take care of a few things.  He needed to pick up his paycheck, and find out about, what we thought were, missing checks.

We were there for quite a while, and walked from one end of the campus to the other.  We walked back across the campus to the car, and as we were getting in, Stud realized his phone was missing.  UGH!  He frantically searched the car, but it wasn't in there.  We then realized we were going to have to retrace every step we had taken in the last hour and a half.  Double UGH! 

Now, let me back up a minute and get some bitching out of the way.  When Stud came home from work, he changed out of his uniform.  He put on a T-shirt, and his flippin' pajama pants.  I can't STAND it when he wears his pajama pants out in public, which he does all the damn time, including to class.  Granted, they are solid black and fleecy, as opposed to plaid flannel, or something like that, so they sort of just look like sweatpants.  But, still, I think he just looks sloppy, because they are so loose and baggy.  I asked him to put jeans on, but he refused.

So, now let's go back to school.  We established that the phone must have fallen out of his pocket.  He got back out of the car, and started retracing his steps.  Oh, wait, I forgot to mention that as we walked from building to building, I used to concrete walking paths.  Stud, on the other hand, took the "short cut" and walked across the grass.  I'm pretty sure it was just to annoy me. :-/ 

He started to walk across the first patch of grass he walked across when we got there, then went into the building.  I originally was going to wait in the car, since it was freezing outside, plus I was pissed at him for being so irresponsible.  But, after about a minute, I figured, what the hell, I might as well look, too.  I took about 5 steps across the grass, between the same two trees he JUST walked between, and lo and behold, there, buried in the carpet of ivy on the ground, was his damn phone.  I think I was more annoyed that he had just walked past it a minute ago and didn't even see it, than the fact that he dropped it in the first place. 

Stud seems to have whatever that gene is that most men have.  When they are "looking" for something, unless it jumps up and bites them in the nose, they can't see it.  ANNOYING!

After I found the phone, I still ended up having to literally chase Stud all around campus.  Gee, if only I could have called him on his PHONE to say I found his PHONE.  He was too far ahead of me to even try yelling across the open campus for him.  I had to just hope that at some point, he would stop long enough for me to catch up.  Luckily, that's exactly what happened.  I finally found him in the department office where he works, on the phone with security, trying to see what they could do for him.

Ok, so we walked ALL the way back to the car again, and went on our merry way.  From there we went straight to my favorite store (yes, Walmart!)  We were there for a while, then had to stop at my parents' on the way home to pick up one of his paychecks before heading to the bank.  That's when the next part of this craptastic day happened.  But, I'm going to save it for tomorrow, so I'll have something to post about. Besides, this post has already been WAY too long, and WAY too boring!  ;-)

Major brain fart...

Ok, so I was watching Grey's Anatomy (in REAL TIME, yay!) when Stud walked in the back door from school.  He brought a friend home, who I haven't seen in a while.  I had gotten up to see who was coming in the back door, but then literally ran back to my room when I saw it was them.  I yelled over my shoulder, "Hi!  Sorry, I'll be back at the commercial!!"

When the commercial break came, I ran down to the basement to say hello properly, and apologize again to his friend.  She just laughed, and said, "Don't worry about it.  What are you watching?"  Without even skipping a beat, I excitedly blurted out, "ER!"

<<>>>

What the hell just came out of my mouth?!?!  I instantly started laughing, as did both of them.  Stud then said, while rolling his eyes, "I think she means Grey's Anatomy..."

Man, it sucks getting old....

Manic Monday

So, Stud had to take the day off work today to attend traffic court.  What a joke!  About a month ago, he got pulled over by some cop who clearly had nothing better to do, and got THREE tickets!  (And, as the ex-wife of a cop, and someone who comes from a cop family, I'm allowed to bad mouth cops! :P )

One ticket was for a headlight that was out.  Now, granted, it was NOT shining, however, there is a short or something in the light, and you have to literally smack it to get it to come on.  Magnum has been doing it for years.  Did I mention Stud was driving Magnum's car?  Magnum even found a couple things online about this particular problem in Mazda 6s, which is what he has.

The second ticket was for the tiny little light above the rear license plate being out.  I didn't even know that was a thing!

The third ticket was for not having insurance.  Hang on, OF COURSE we have insurance on that car.  Unfortunately for Stud, he couldn't find the insurance card because he was driving his father's car, and didn't know where Magnum put it.  After the cop walked away to start writing the tickets, Stud found the card.  When the cop came back, Stud told him he found it, but the cop basically told him it was too bad, he already wrote the ticket.

While the cop was sitting in his car writing away, Stud called me to tell me what was going on.  When the cop came back, Stud just set the phone down, so I could hear what the cop was saying.  He told Stud that all he had to do was come to court, show receipts for the light bulbs and bring the insurance card, and it would all be thrown out.

Sure enough, that's what happened.  Now, trust me, I'm thrilled that there was not even a court fee or anything, and we walked away without having to pay one cent (other than the replacement bulbs).  But, it just irritates me that Stud had to request the day off, and that we had to sit there for over an hour before being called.  The courtroom was chock-full of people, the majority of whom were there for basically the same type of tickets (headlights, plate lights).  Apparently, that must have been the focus of this town's police force last month.  The thing is, every case was being dismissed, so the city wasn't even making any revenue off these cases.  What exactly was the point then?  Just to inconvenience people?  I don't get it.

I realized while we were sitting there that I could have just gone by myself, in Stud's place, and he wouldn't have had to give up a day of work.  A few people who were there were there in place of others.  I wish I had known that.  Since Stud is in school full-time, his availability for work is limited, so he needs all the hours he can get.

Ok, I'm done complaining.  Well, for tonight anyway.... =)

November 6, 1993

21 years ago today, at 4:43 am, the greatest love of my life entered this world, weighing 8 lbs 2oz, and measuring 20 1/2 inches long.  

Ok,I know none of these are new.  Truthfully, all of them were pulled from this blog.  I just have not had a chance to look for any new ones.  However, that doesn't make them any less adorable, right?

Happy 21st Birthday, Baby!  I love you with all my heart!!