Sonthing is now old enough to legally buy alcohol. :-o

Happy birthday Kenny. :)

And Kenny will be old enough to drink alcohol (legally). Yikes!

I've been cooking up a storm. Since I had leftover ham, this past week I've made batches of split pea soup and lentil soup, freezing leftovers in zipper bags. Then A&P put ground turkey on sale, $1.50 for a (20.8 oz package), so I picked up four packs, and made a batch of chili. I still have three packs left to cook up, I may make meatballs or ( Read more... )

Most kids beg their parents for a learners permit. Mine? Not so much. After multiple requests from me over the past two years to please agree to learn to drive, he'd agreed, but as of right now, still hasn't gotten to the DMV for the permit ( Read more... )

Here. By the pc. Work was warned about my predicament, so they know ( Read more... )

Kenny got a letter from the college inviting him to join their honors academic program. He needs to fill out the application and submit an essay by July. Apparently he did REALLY well on the admissions test. (His grades have been middling, due largely to not handing work in. He *tests* well ( Read more... )

Kenny: Mom, can I borrow your "Take the Lead" DVD? I saw part of it at a friends house ( Read more... )

Overheard in the kitchen:
*Kenny and his friend discussing martial arts*

Friend: But I thought Kung Fu just was a general term for martial arts...
Kenny: No, that's 'wu shu'

Friend: Like wu shu pork?
Kenny: That's *moo shu* pork

Me (in the living room): *laughing*

Kenny: Shut up mom...

I set Kenny up with online access to his Verizon account last night. He's not getting anywhere *near* his minutes total usage, which is great. Then I went to pay my bill and it looked...odd. I was pretty sure I *hadn't paid it, but it looked like there was an odd amount paid, and the total said zero. I finally went into the payments history and ( Read more... )

Amusement at work: finding a big box of bubblewrap in the building dumpster, took the contents for packing (we go through tons of it), and noticing the box was labeled "Guest Bedding ( Read more... )