The Adventures of Being Me

Today we had the surprise party for my sister. She knew something was up when she received a birthday card declaring "Sorry I missed your party". Her birthday was last month. Though she didn't know when or where so she was surprised. My brother-in-law had my Mom visit their place a couple days and his parents came down to have dinner during my sister's lunch break from a class she is taking. Apparently it is an all day class. I can't recall what she said she was taking. There were about 40 people in attendence. Relatives and neighbors mostly. Her old college roommate was there with her family, her kids helped my niece and sister open presents. My sister commented it was a sedate party. People came later when people were leaving. Then it was time to be going. We grabbed the stuff. A niece decided to pummel my baby niece with the balloons so I jumped in and started bopping the balloons back at my niece. We even popped one hitting it at the same and freaked my baby n...

News Item from the local free paper. You know times are tough when thieves are robbing homeless people. A man living in a tent under a local river bridge was awoken by two or three men kicking him to swipe his backpack: containing a shaving kit, glasses, clothes, and personal papers and documents like his Social Security card. They also took his bicycle and TV. Stealing from a homeless man is bad enough, but taking a TV w/out a converter box is downright stupid.

Lovely day today I had to put on a t-shirt. Got my Easter things out. Even though the balcony door is open, cats insist on sleeping on my feet. Yesterday I rushed to work and forgot my DVD player. Then the manager tossed all the magazines away and I also forgot my new Glamor magazine at home. My cell phone runs out of battery power so I figured I would bored most of the night. Even better they kept doing maintenence on the computer so it was hard to do my job. A coworker volunteered to get his DVD player out of his home while he was getting food for the car washers. He even let me borrow his new DVD of Brad Pitt's Benjamin Button movie just because he knows I love Brad Pitt. What I didn't know was that is was a pirated movie he bought from friend of a friend w/out subtitles and bad picture making me wonder if it was copied from Showtime. I work in a noisy airport and need subtitles. It was ok, not spectacular, but ok. I'm only surprised guys went to the theater to watch thi...

Spent the week with Mom taking my cats with me. It took an hour to get them in the carriers and have battle scars from the adventure. Both sisters, brother, nieces visited and stayed the week helping Mom out. Mom didn't want to go home alone. First 2 days cats were terrified from all the visitors and after everyone went to bed did they come out. They hid well we had difficulty finding their hiding places. Once they calmed down my nieces enjoyed petting them. People brought food and Mom insisted they take something with them, like 20 packets of Jello or 10 boxes of cereal. The funeral director and pastor came by for the plans. Preacher asked if she needed meals delivered and I said no because she has grocery store in the basement, Dad could not pass up a sale. In fact I tasted 6 year old Mountain Dew and poured it down the sink when Mom wasn't looking. We picked out the coffin on the computer, Mom never done that before. Mom wanted funeral, cemetery, and then dinner to be the or...

Got to my sister's house and nobody was there. Talked to my aunt on the phone and my sister called to say they will return when my other sister comes. My sister from Nebraska wanted to see him in the hospital. I passed on that experience, I rather remember him alive and rubbing lotion on and telling him I have cable again. I will see him in the coffin. Funeral is Wednesday and visitation Tuesday. I watched Hogan's Heroes my sister records on her DVR and did laundry. Then the rush came in. My sister, husband, and 1 daughter from Nebraska, Mom, Aunt from Grimes, and my sister's family. We ordered pizza. I already ate fish and fries an hour before they came. Mom was still numb and devasted she wasn't there when he passed. The nurses called this morning saying he was unresponsive so she rushed over. Then she left for half hour to eat in the cafeteria and came back to find him gone. He had 2 nurses in the room monitoring him so he was not alone. I told Mom maybe he waited fo...

My sister called me to say our Dad passed away a half hour ago. He was unresponsive this morning and then his blood pressure severely dropped, and he passed away. He was 71. They were planning surgery Monday. Sister was with Mom at the hospital and returning to her house soon. I said I would come over to her house. Precious and Frodo are staring at me wondering what is going on and Precious keeps meowing to go outside. Better go now.

Not much happening here. Monday both car washers called in sick so the bossman had to get his hands dirty and shuttle cars. I think the cars were clean from the day before but the returned cars had to be cleaned. My coworker was busy shuttling cars his entire shift. Had an argument Monday night how we are sold out Tuesday. She never had this experience before. There's a first time for everything. May have been a little unprofessional to say that but at that point I was getting tired of arguing that we are out of cars no matter how much she begs for one, no she can't have a returned car (those go to people to reservations, hence why we are sold out), and she has to rent somewhere else if she needs a car on Tuesday. Tuesday was fun. Would you like a compact or a minivan? Occasionally my car washer brought over a returned car not a compact or minivan so there was an extra choice. Nobody fussed at me about the lack of choices, but we offer to exchange cars the next day when more ca...