Words to Live By

1.  Note to self:  Never again go grocery shopping on the day before Thanksgiving.  The local grocery store was full to the gills of men who'd been sent for last minute items by their overworked wives.  Lets face it, most men are clueless in a grocery store.  They stand right in the middle of any given aisle, muttering to themselves about the difference between pumpkin pie spice and pumpkin spice.  Look out, dude, you're in my way.

2.  There were some good things about the grocery store, though.  I was in the baby aisle when three little Mexican kids pushed my cart out of the way to get to something they needed.  It didn't bother me too much, but it bothered their mother.  She made them each apologize to me individually.  Then, 2-3 minutes later, the little 8ish-year-old boy came back and said, "Ma'am, jour bebe shore ez bee-you-tiful."

3.  There was also one of the above mentioned clueless men standing right in front of all of the potatoes.  He asked me for cooking advice.  I know!  ME!  Good thing I just happen to be a mashed potato connoisseur and was easily able to point him toward a proper potato variety choice.

4.  It was cold enough to wear socks and pajama pants yesterday.  I was thrilled.  Carolyn and I took a nap together.  I was wearing socks with giant, stuffed snowmen sewn on them.  I'm pretty sure Grainne sent them to me a couple of years ago.

5.  Texas A&M pulled out the win against Texas on Thanksgiving, much to Husband's delight.  BYU, on the other hand, lost to Utah.  Mostly because they were playing not to lose rather than playing to win.  Their last second field goal was blocked.  The final score was 17-16.

6.  The Mousey One at work just walked by and in reference to the BYU loss, sang to me to the tune of You are Sixteen Going on Seventeen from The Sound of Music, "You got sixteen, couldn't make seventeen..."

7.  When he was done singing, he handed me a Texas buckeye.  He said I should put it in my pocket for good luck.  I told him if the Texas buckeye brought me luck the way it brought the Longhorns luck, I didn't want it.

8.  I told mom yesterday that we're going to have to put Carolyn in daycare starting next week. When she semi-freaked out, I told her that daycare was the only remaining option right now. She said she thought that instead of that, I ought to just quit my job and go on welfare.

9.  I had way too much fun over the Thanksgiving break.  I loved being home with Carolyn.  And Husband.  Although, Friday officially marked the beginning of the holiday buying season and as such, I've now become a retail widow.  Husband has to work insane hours to get everything done at work before Christmas.  I used to love the holidays.  Now it's just an extra lot of time of me being alone.

10.  And speaking of the holidays, our tree is not up.  I'm not sure that it ever will be.  With all the baby stuff, there's literally no where to put it.  And, since Husband is working so much, I have to put everything up all by myself.  What fun is that?