Jazmee27 
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WHAAAT?
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Mom was goin to come over last night, but her car broke down :(
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Gotta hate the stalled car
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Reply #501. Jun 01 12, 5:34 PM
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Jazmee27
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Michael picked her up, and the car's in the garage already. Maybe she knows what's wrong with it now. She got it in '98, and it's been a very good car (and
Mom has *no* intention of replacing it) ["Just so everybody understands, I am *not* getting a new car" {by the way, for those interested, it's a Blue Jetta}])
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Reply #502. Jun 01 12, 5:35 PM
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Jazmee27
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WHY DID I COMBINE CARS WITH ELECTRICITY?
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The electricity went off earlier, around 12:50, then came back on a few minutes later-Grandma said something similar happened to her the other week)
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Reply #503. Jun 01 12, 5:36 PM
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Jazmee27
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THESE AREN'T STORIES; THEY'RE A BUNCH OF DISCORDANT BITS OF INFORMATION THAT DON'T FIT TOGETHER IN ANY WAY!
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I'm reading the first book in a series called "The Missing" by Margaret Peterson Haddix. I started it last night, and read the prologue and first chapter
before I got too tired to read anymore (my friends have always been envious of the fact that I can read in the dark [and when I lived with Mom, she didn't
care how late I stayed up, so long as I was in bed {so I either called the Newspaper Line-NFB Newsline-on my cell phone or read a book}]).
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Reply #504. Jun 01 12, 5:38 PM
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Jazmee27
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I SHOULD CHECK THE MAIL TOMORROW, AS THE RENEWAL FORM IS DUE SOON AGAIN (I thought it would have already come)
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Then, made two phone calls, one to my bank because I'd been locked out of the phone account (again) and the other to the local Medical Assistance Office telling
them the documents they requested on the online renewal form are in the mail (I'd called two other times today, and got this message: "Thank you for calling
the Lebanon County Assistance Office. All of our staff are busy helping other customers. Your call is important to us, so would you mind calling another
time?" [That's a new one on me!]}
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Reply #505. Jun 01 12, 5:40 PM
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Jazmee27
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Mom came by to pick up my bank statement.
I had to keep her waiting as I was in the bathroom :(
But she brought two boxes of Bagelfuls (I don't know where she bought them, but Food Land may not sell them anymore [a few times, I had them on my list
but she couldn't find them])
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Reply #506. Jun 01 12, 5:40 PM
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Jazmee27
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WHERE'S THIS GOING BUT NOWHERE?
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And it's time to step up my exercising, as I'm putting on more weight :(
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Reply #507. Jun 01 12, 5:41 PM
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Jazmee27
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WHAT POSSESSED ME TO STICK ALL THIS IN THE SAME STORY? IT'S NOT EVEN A STORY--IT'S... UH... RAMBLING ABOUT THIS AND THIS AND THIS AND THAT AND THAT AND THAT!
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Just spoke to Mom, who has her car back. She's going home to take a nap, then she has a chiropractor appointment. We'll talk afterwards, at which time I
hope she's feeling better (it sounds like a combination of allergies and heat and her neck [good news is, tonight's temperature is going back into the
fifties, so no need for air {I'm not opening the windows, as doing so would trigger an allergy attack}])
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Reply #508. Jun 01 12, 5:43 PM
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Jazmee27
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IT'S ONE OF THOSE STRANGE NICKNAMES WE GIVE OURSELVES: "SPAGHETTI HEAD!"
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It’s like one of those things that happens in nightmares, or perhaps a horror film: you’re opening up a can, and all of a sudden the sauce shoots up and splatters you in the forehead and along your hairline. Why are you leaning forward over the can? No idea. All you know is, now you need a shower!
Except in my case, I don’t do showers due to my precarious balance. So, bath then—and scrub that spaghetti sauce out! And, while I’m scrubbing, start calling myself spaghetti head.
Does it really matter? Not if I got it out, though it’s beyond embarrassing—but as one of my friends says, there’s never a dull moment around me!
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Reply #509. Jun 01 12, 5:45 PM
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Jazmee27
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THAT PISSED ME OFF!
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One second, I was struggling with the bag of magazines to right it; the next, trying to figure out what I’d knocked over. Or, to be accurate, what had broken. “Candle’s still there… as is the frame—but what am I missing?” I’d never owned many glass items; I’m too clumsy to keep stuff like that. Even my cups are reinforced plastic—and the glass plates and mugs I *do have are the kind that are harder to break than other glass. That’s why, when I moved in, Mom gave me her plates in place of the flimsy things Janice and Bill had given me.
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Reply #510. Jun 01 12, 5:46 PM
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Jazmee27
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A few hours later, my question was answered: “The vase you keep your sock locks in?” Mom suggested, and my stomach lurched. It was the vase I’d received for my 25th birthday, the one that had flowers in until they withered, the only ones I’d ever owned. That vase was the only thing left, a reminder. And now it was broken, the pieces of glass being swept into the trash. “At least it wasn’t the candle,” I reminded myself, “or the picture.”
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Reply #511. Jun 01 12, 5:47 PM
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Jazmee27
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“I just called to double check,” Mom said when I got ahold of her. “I’m inviting your grandmother up for pizza. Do you have any objections to that?”
“Why would I?” was my immediate reply. And really, I could think of a reason—because she may not want to come up for lunch tomorrow—but I wasn’t about to say anything. The way I figure it, that woman spends too much time in her house—then complains because she’s at home so much!
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Reply #512. Jun 01 12, 5:48 PM
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Jazmee27
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Ya know how they say things happen for a reason? I think some call it synchronisity, while others spew nonsense. But no matter what is said about it, things do usually work out.
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Reply #513. Jun 01 12, 5:48 PM
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Jazmee27
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YOU KNOW HOW SHE IS, SO WHY ARE YOU SURPRISED?
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Grandma’s going to call the vet tomorrow regarding her one cat, Scrappy, who’s itching all the time and scratching her hair off. So she’ll no doubt have to go to the vet tomorrow. So it’s good she got to come up tonight for pizza. But did she have to be sodifficult? Were the excuses necessary?
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Reply #514. Jun 01 12, 5:50 PM
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Jazmee27
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Mom called Grandma after she talked to me—well, I think it was after, but it wouldn’t have mattered when it was—and invited her for dinner. “I’ll see how much work I can get done.” Of course, Mom didn’t accept this and said she was coming and was to be here at 6:30.
Later on, I called and was told, “I’ll see how I feel.” After telling her I hoped to see her later, I hung up.
Later still, Grandma called Mom to say she wasn’t sure what time she should be here because Mom was “rough with her on the phone”. But she also said she was coming, which surprised me. Did my approach bear more weight than Mom’s, even though it didn’t seem to when I spoke to her?
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Reply #515. Jun 01 12, 5:51 PM
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Jazmee27
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After eating two slices of pepperoni pizza and a little turkey salad, I was finished eating. And Mom and Grandma left soon after (Grandma got the mail before we came up, and Mom put away the wash while I was eating). And Grandma told me she’s coming for lunch on Tuesday!
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Reply #516. Jun 01 12, 5:51 PM
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Jazmee27
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Speaking of Grandma, she was supposed to check to see if her number came up for jury duty Monday. She cut the grass today, not wanting to do it Sunday if she had to go into Reading Monday. But it turns out jurrors don't have to go to court Monday. She was thrilled to read that, as she doesn't want to go into Reading in the first place (high crime rate)
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Reply #517. Jun 01 12, 5:54 PM
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Jazmee27
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Scared by the rain slamming into the window :(
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Reply #518. Jun 01 12, 9:09 PM
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Jazmee27
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| In response to crime in general: Sometimes, more and more lately, it occurs to me I got dropped off on the wrong planet. My passport must have been switched or something. (Mom's the one who deserves credit for the idea, well her and about one or two others) |
Reply #519. Jun 01 12, 9:16 PM
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Jazmee27
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Last night I finally found that "Great Quiz Race" I'd heard so much about
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Reply #520. Jun 02 12, 8:36 AM
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