The Last Four Hours of My First Half Century

…Is being spent eating Toaster Strudel (Boston Creme and Raspberry!) and Fig Newton’s, watching “Australia” (for the second time), waiting for the second season premier of “Breaking Bad”, and having hilarious conversations with D-man.
D-man: “DeMommy? Yo birtday tomowoh?”
Me: “Mhmmm…”
D-man: “How owd you be? Fitty?”
Me: (cracking up) “Who told you that?”
D-man: “I dunno. Wan me sing [...]

Wildly Dizzy

I started to write something about how windy it’s been here in Albuquerque. I Googled “Winds of March” and ended up on a spiritual path with the band Journey. While I liked that song (though don’t remember hearing it… ever… and thought I knew just about every Journey song) my favorite song is still “Lights”. [...]

Here’s Lookin at You, Kid

Every time I try to write here… I find myself stuck in complaint. I don’t wanna be like that so I just don’t write. *sigh* It’s a vicious circle. I need to get over it.
Here’s lookin’ at you, kid:
Lulu ate an entire plate of banana pancakes off the kitchen counter this morning. Bugger! Only one [...]

Belated

Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’… Into the Future…
It’s also been slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ right through my fingers. How time flies when you’re havin’ fun, eh? Not so much but it’s been whizzing by at a curious rate. I blame it on Sunday and two things: earlier than ever Daylight Savings and my birthday.
I had [...]

Birthday Embarrassments

Oldest turned 11 today. He’s been asking for one thing and one thing only for his birthday. No matter how much I prepared him that it, “Just ain’t gonna happen.” he was disappointed, nonetheless. He’s all kinds of grown up now, don’t you know? He wanted a cell phone and, let me tell ya, there [...]

EEG: EEK

The Birthday was a tremendous success and great fun. Our neighbor and her daughter came over and had pizza and cake and ice cream with us. D-Man opened all of his presents and was thrilled. My mom got him some Spiderman, die cast cars, which, ironically, fit into the Spiderman car launcher I got for [...]

Happy Birthday!

Today is April 17th. I’ve heard, “Tahday Abil Sebenteenph? DeMommy? Tahday Abil Sebenteenph?” for three months now. Finally, finally, the day has arrived. Today is D-Man’s birthday. He turns seven today. The most amazing thing is… he finally knows what that means and he’s workin’ every angle of it.
We went from his learning the day [...]

Down for the Count

My birthday was wonderful. My mom and I went to breakfast and talked and laughed our heads off. Then we picked-up S and went to the movies. We saw Zodiac. It was long, long, long and just so-so. My father’s “character” was in it for about 1 minute. Hardly worth waiting for…
Then we had dinner [...]

Secret Agent 39

Today is Secret Agent 39’s birthday. I am +9 today. Yes, I’m a late bloomer but these past 9 years have taught me a lot about how to secretly exchange people’s Starbucks with Folgers crystals. It’s been a hilarious run… (Trust me; if you put enough tablespoons in, they never know the difference. Bet you [...]

Call Me Grandma and I’ll Have to Kill You

Standing in line to pay a bill.
Call kids over and hand each of them a quarter.
Knock yourselves out, why don’t ya.
“She’s not the grandma.” I hear from a short distance. S is talking to the dude standing behind me.
I turn, slowly, look at the guy through a side-glance and say, “I might have to kill [...]