Idle Hands

I’m still full from breakfast at “Omlettes n Moore” this morning. I indulged in a full breakfast of pork chops, scrambled eggs and hash browns with gravy. I couldn’t eat it all. They put too much food on the plate. We normally go on Sunday mornings, but the restaurant is closed for a week starting tomorrow for repairs. Then in August, they are going to cash only. Either that or they have to raise the prices. My breakfast is normally $6.00 for all that food. And it’s diner food. I love it.

Charlie has been an absolute angel to me these last few weeks. I don’t know what I did to deserve him. He’s been wonderful. We’ve been hanging out together and enjoying our time together as if we were just married. For our 2^nd anniversary, he took me to White Water Bay then we went to Cold Stone afterwards for some sorbet. Nothing fancy, but we had a blast. He surprised me with a video I-pod as a gift. I was NOT expecting that. He usually gives me jewelry. I love this I-pod. It’s been wonderful having it in the car. He bought an accessory package to go with it, so I can play it through the radio or thru the TV.

Most people have no idea that I love music. Unfortunately, I can’t hear it like most people can, but when I crank the stereo up I’m in heaven. I never understood why the AOL idiots made an issue of me watching American Idol and being rude about it. I guess the sign of a true loser is that they make fun of you for something you can’t control.

But, anyway, I’m trying my best not to buy out the I-tunes store right now by downloading old songs I loved growing up. I used to have tapes of songs that were popular when I was in high school, but the bitch-mother made me destroy them senior year of high school, claiming rock n roll was the “devil’s music”. Yeah, yeah, Foreigner and REO Speedwagon were devil worshippers.

It’s Saturday and I’m bored because it keeps raining and we can’t do much outside. We had planned to attend the CCR tribute band concert at Frontier City but with the scattered showers we didn’t go. Scattered showers, my ass. I keep thinking someone is up there in the clouds dumping giant buckets of water on us. Ice Age: The Meltdown is on and I’m not in the mood for TV. I don’t want to be on the computer either, but here I am. Meagan is at her dad’s for a week and I already miss her.

Charlie and I drove her to her dad’s in Tulsa yesterday and took both kids to a movie and dinner. We went to see Spiderman 3 at the AMC Southroads, and I was able to watch the movie with rear-window captions. I’ve never used this feature before and it took a little getting used to it, but it was fun to see a movie in the theater again. I’ll definitely make the effort to go to the movies when a good one is showing with the captions in Tulsa or Dallas. Meagan wants to go to Grapevine Mills before school starts, so maybe we can go to the movies etc.

I’m rambling. See how bored I am today. I’m gonna go piddle around.

Car Troubles

Meagan’s final concert was Friday night and we had a blast!  The 9th grade sang “Bohemian Rhapsody” as their class song and they did a great job.  Charlie and I were tickled because it’s one of our fave songs and was a nice change from the sacred music the choir sang the rest of the year.  After the concert we went to Braum’s and Emily was telling us how Charlie sang along to “Bohemian Rhapsody” and how funny it was because he sang it so LOUD!

Friday we also discovered that “Clifford” (my 79 dodge diplomat) is no longer serviceable.  I was going to give it to a friend, but discovered a giant rat nest in the engine. The rat chewed through the wires and Clifford is not going to start without some serious repairs.  I’m not willing to spend $500 or more on a car that old, and the friend I was going to give it to needed a car that runs immediately. I felt so bad and desperately did not want to share this horrible news.

When we got home from checking on Clifford, I noticed the neighbor’s garage door open.  They have a car for sale and for the first time I noticed it was a Toyota Camry.  We discussed buying it from them before, but for some reason I thought it was a Ford or Chevy and didn’t think it was a good investment because it has high mileage.  To make a long story short, Saturday, Charlie and I bought the Camry and decided to give the friend our Buick.  The Buick isn’t a beauty queen anymore, but it runs! 

So, I invited my friend out to lunch to share the news about the car.  Of course, first I had to break the bad news first and I could tell he was disappointed.  (I know he was thinking, “Dammit, nothing good ever happens to me!”)  Then I told him that we bought a new car for Charlie to drive and we were giving him the Buick.  He was in shock and literally shaking.  I was enjoying myself because it’s always great to make someone happy. 

Meagan and I cleaned the Buick up Sunday morning, and then I took her to an isolated area and let her practice driving.   She was having some trouble, so I went back to the house and got the Camry and let her try with it instead.  We had so much fun and she did so well.  I want her to be comfortable driving a car before she starts Driver’s Ed.  Good News for us!  The insurance will only cost another $20 to add her to the policy when she is 16.

Emily started working at a local restaurant this weekend, so we went there for breakfast Sunday morning.  While we were there, Charlie and I started talking about the moon the night before.  “Was that Venus next to the moon last night?” I asked him.  “Yes,” he replied, “because it’s too big to be Uranus.”

(Insert sound of me slapping him silly here.)