musings of Mother Hood

Monday May 23, 2005

I've been told this may have been the hardest working day of my life.

Monday May 23, 2005

I watched the season finale of Desperate Housewives last night (instead of Deadwood...) having never seen a previous episode.  It was mildly confusing, but I think I like it and will make an effort to catch up and watch it in the future.

We went to Don and Keith's for supper.  Calvin and Melanie with baby Calvin, and Lesleigh were there too. Don grilled chicken and made potato salad and beans and I brought cheesecake. Yum! We were all sitting around after stuffing ourselves silly wishing we hadn't ... but it was SO good. I got to see Ace, too, which always makes my day.  He is getting so smart. AND he is getting bigger.  Not taller, just thicker.  When I got him from the pound he was really scrawny, and he's fattened up quite nicely now.  I have a picture but it's really fuzzy.  I'll post one soon.

Master of the House, Quick to catch yer eye...

Sunday May 22, 2005

Yah Les Mis! Yesterday was a seriously long day.  We went to the matinee of Les Mis, where we were interrogated by the crazy old people sitting around us as to where we obtained our tickets.  We were sitting in the dead center of the front of the balcony-- we got so lucky! Apparently we were sitting amongst a bunch of season ticket holders and they knew the people whose tickets we were using.  I had called a week ago and those tickets had been returned.  The old people around us were concerned, and didn't mind asking us about it. 

The show was amazing.  Heck, it is the World's Most Popular Musical.  There was even a little bit of Seinfeld in the show, which, for some people, gave it some credibility.

Last night Cool Water was closed to the public for a wedding.  There were somewhere around 300 people there-- cocktails, appetizers, cake, dinner, the whole nine yards.  It was craziness.  I was bartending with Autumn and Chris and these people were drinking as fast as we could pour it.  It was a big night for CW and a little change of pace-- which is nice, especially for a  Saturday night.  AND I have today off! Busy last couple of days and now a lazy Sunday, my favorite.

Becky went back to SA, which is ok. I miss her, but i think we managed to make the 5 days she was here pretty memorable.

Master of the house, quick to catch yer eye...

Wednesday May 18, 2005

I heart Scene-It.

Thursday May 12, 2005

I just hung up from being on-hold with the Washington Regional Medical Center Emergency Room for SEVEN minutes! That is ridiculous.

Wednesday May 11, 2005

This week I have been very disappointed with the service industry in general.  For example, Sunday night I spent 5 hours in the emergency room at Washington Regional Medical Center.  "Emergency" is really an inappropriate term for that place. I really didn't see anyone who looked like they were reacting to an emergency.  This wasn't the biggest disappointment, however...

So, after spending the night in the ER, I went to the pharmacy Monday morning to get the prescriptions filled.  I have only used the drive-thru pharmacy at Wal-Mart one other time and it was to pick-up a prescription. Now I needed to drop one off.  I pull up to one of two windows at the drive-thru pharmacy to ask if I can drop-off a prescription there or do I need to go inside? There are 2 buttons above the screen, "Call" and "Send".  I push the "Call" button.  This grouchy old lady comes over the speaker and says "I'll be with you in just a minute!". So I wait.  A couple of minutes go by and a truck pulls up in the lane next to me.  I watch him. He pushes the "Call" button, the lady comes over the speaker and says hello, sends him the little canister, he sends it back and drives away. I am STILL waiting for this stupid lady to acknowledge me. So I push the "Call" button a second time.  Clearly this was a mistake.  The crazy bitch comes back over the speaker and says, "I TOLD you, I'll be with you in just a minute!". I didn't know what to do. I needed that medicine or I would have driven away. So I wait some more.  A minute later, a different lady with a very pleasant voice asks what I need, I send her the prescriptions and I'm done.  It was so painless.  What in the world was that first lady's problem!? Not only was she unnecessarily rude to me, but she waited on someone else ahead of me! And it's not like I can just decide to leave, she knows that she has something I NEED! bleh.

I'm feeling better, thanks for asking.

Becky was thinking about moving in with me for awhile, but now it looks like that's not going to happen.  that's ok.  I get to see everyone in 2 weeks from today! I'm getting very anxious about that.  That and the fact that I may have waited too long to get Les Mis tickets! I'm going to call in a minute.

Friday May 6, 2005

Been a normal week, whatever that means.  Working a lot, FYE and CW. Getting anxious about going to WP for graduation.  Nothing funny or exciting and i don't think i can muster the energy or creativity to make something up right now.

I may be done with classes after the summer. details later.