Been awhile I know....

I realize it has been two weeks since my last post or so, but I've been busy and on vacation - YEAH! Marshall and I went up to mom's for s few days over my birthday - it was great to just relax and not do anything if I didn't want to...Marshall conned me into making breakfast though our next to last day there (6/9) - he comes and wakes me up and tells me he wants waffles, eggs, and sausage and that Grandma had said if he wanted all of that he was going to have to have me start it for her or we'd be eating really late! Mom gets in from the barn and says, "Wow, thanks for starting breakfast!" I'm like - you told Marshall to tell me to start it - no, she didn't...that was just what he thought he heard or misunderstood (he conned me - my 8 year old child pulled a fast one on me). We had blueberry waffles and a few plain too just in case someone didn't want the fruity ones - I made Marshall and mom and myself eggs - no sausage (it was frozen). I received for my birthday some lovely gifts - Marshall picked out for me (with help from mom) a notepad shaped like the letter "A" and a pink picture frame with lots of sparkles on it. Mom brought me home a rug from Japan (it is cream with a pink hippo on it) - she almost didn't buy it because it's spot clean only!!!!!!!! I will probably use it as a wall hanging anyways, why would I let people traipse all over my beautiful birthday gift? That's like sacrilegious or something. I do have pictures and I will post them as soon as I can get them downloaded into the computer!

Short Week:

Strange week for me, I worked Monday and Tuesday during the day and then on Wednesday I went in overnight for inventory (Every year I am chosen to do it, but this year it was something different for me as I had to log all the items we had issues with.). Then I had the rest of the week off - what to do with four days off in a row? Absolutely nothing got done - not even the laundry I promised myself I would do. I had dinner with Marshall at "Nothing but Noodles" on Wednesday before inventory and then I went and picked him up early from the rec. center on Friday too. Sunday morning I went and got him early (9am) and we picked up breakfast from "Bojangles" - very good, especially the "Botato Rounds". Later on we went to the mall and visited the 2-story Barnes & Nobles so he could pick out a book or two for our trip to moms next weekend (he bought 2 books)...I of course could find nothing. Dinner at McDonald's - they were all sold out of the Shrek glasses already- bummer!!! Back to his house by 6pm and I went home to relax - he was a real handful today, not listening and in general pushing the limitations too far.