Apple Sauce

ever notice how apple sauce tastes awesome when you are sick. socks are suddenly cozier. chairs are more inviting. home just seems nicer when i'm sick. i don't want to go anywhere. i'm glad i have a phone. i have unlimited calling within the US. i love it since most of my family is far away, and some of derek's family is far away. i don't have to be alone when i'm alone. hbcxxzxccvbbbbnnnnmm, ..........gggggggggggaa. those are some notes from my kids. emmy wrote before the comma and andrew wrote after that. they love to mess with the computer. my defenses are down so i let them. just this once. anyway, i need to go and call someone. i'm tired.

Cold

i have a cold. i hate having colds. i feel like crap, but not bad enough to stay in bed all day. i can't just call someone to come and take care of me and my kids. i don't know that i could do that anyway. i don't know who i would get, unless my sister or mom had time. all the women i know that don't work have their own little kids to take care of. anyway, i just have a cold. yesterday was kinda warm during the day so i didn't wear a jacket and i wore sandals. today my nose is running and i'm cold. for me to be cold is really a big deal. i always run hot, so if i'm cold then either it's really cold, or i have a cold. last night my apt was hot. it's the same temperature now, but i have long pants and long sleeves on. well, maybe my mom and sister will take care of me a little bit. i'm going to their house to do laundry today. yay! ray-ray's kids are out of school so we'll play games!

Thomas the Tank Engine Live!

andrew loves trains. thomas the tank engine is coming to town this month. well, actually he's not coming to my town, but to the big city near us. derek is taking andrew to see him live on stage. he's going with andrew's cousin and aunt. his cousin also loves thomas. yesterday, another aunt called me to tell me that thomas was coming and that i should take andrew. i told her we already had the tickets and she said she found some coupons for half off the ticket price. dang it! one day late! oh, well. at least andrew is going to see thomas.

Day of Epiphany

today is traditionally the day that is celebrated as being the day that the wisemen found the baby Jesus. i remember that the amish kids always got out of school this day because they regarded it as a holiday. i just don't understand why this day is believed to be that. why would anybody think it was twelve days. i just don't get it. i like how most nativity scenes show the three wisemen even though technically they would not be there. nursemom always had the wisemen out of the manger as if still traveling, following the star. anyway, just don't get it. why twelve days of christmas? why would mary and joseph stay in the manger all that time. surely the taxing would have been done within a week. even if not people who had been taxed could have left, thereby leaving vacant inn rooms making it possible for mary and joseph to move into one of those. the wisemen would come to the inn instead of the stable. anyway, i'm starting to ramble, so i had better close this blog.

Obesessive Compulsive Disorder

my son likes to wash his hands. he is constantly getting up on the counter to get to the sink in the kitchen to run the water over his hands. whenever i go in the bathroom he runs in so that he can stand on the stool and wash his hands. i wonder if he is starting to develop OCD or something. some of us in my family have OCD issues, so i wouldn't be so surprised. i said something to my husband and all he said was "i blame you". i couldn't really deny that he gets it from me. i think derek has noticed plenty of my problems over the years. anyway, i just find it interesting. i wonder how much of it is nature and how much is nurture.

Pizza Thief Epilogue

i guess derek talked to guy and got some more details. he said the woman told the officer that she is schizophrenic and when they went to the husband, he wasn't working at the behavioral health center, he was being treated there. i guess he had some sort of breakdown or something. i just want to know, who's monitoring the wife while he's "resting". anyway, i told the story the way derek said it was and then found out these other little tidbits. mental health isn't funny, but the whole situation still kinda is.

Pizza Thief

so, derek wanted me to blog about this lady today. he wasn't at work, but some lady called and ordered pizza for delivery. derek's employee went to the house and gave the lady her pizza and she slammed the door before paying. the employee, "young guy", called derek and was told to call the lady's number and if tell her if she didn't pay for her pizza then he would call the police. when she answered the phone she said that she didn't have the money right then, but would pay for the pizza on friday. he said he wouldn't wait for payment and she hung up so "guy" called the police. an officer came and cuffed the lady and put her in his patrol car and drove, with guy following, to the lady's husband at his work. the policeman told the husband that if he didn't pay $20 that his wife was gonna go to jail. lucky for her, the husband had the money. good tip for guy since the bill was only about $11 dollars so he got nine extra dollars. some people are just dumb. she shouldn't have ordered the pizza if she didn't have the money. if she realized she didn't have the money after she ordered she should have either called and cancelled the order or told guy at the door that she couldn't pay for it. i just don't understand how somebody could be so dishonest as to steal a pizza that was cheap to begin with.