Well, whaddya know - we have a white Christmas. Can't remember the last time that happened, but almost an inch of snow fell today, just enough to touch up everything. Nice. Unfortunately it also touched up the roads, a friend didn't even try to come after she barely made it home, and the family was late ( Read more... )

Or at least two rambunctious nephews are. We just got home and we are pooped. Things went fine, except for my brother changing his mind about half the stuff agreed to in the meeting with the attorney last month. His father-in-law has convinced him the attorney knows nothing about estate law, but the FIL does. Might be time to get my boss involved. ( Read more... )

Today was better than yesterday, not that it would take much. We looked at houses, a couple of which were very nice, and we went out for my 'birthday' dinner. Since I haven't been much on food lately, we drove around until I saw something amenable, which turned out to be a sushi restaurant. Mom doesn't like sushi, officially, although I have gotten ( Read more... )

No, not the movie (although I did recently watch 'The Girl'.) Not the local sports teams, either ( Read more... )

So 2 people backed out of coming and let me know ahead of time, but my neighbor no-showed and one of the other two people didn't make it until 5pm. On the other hand, she didn't have to watch the game. Mom, our one guest and I bailed on the game at halftime. The Ravens' defense - what's left of it - just crumpled, and the offense didn't give them a ( Read more... )

I hope someone actually comes over tomorrow. We hoped to have a Ravens watching/gaming party, but we've gone from 6 to 1.5 guests in 24 hours. Yikes. We have food for 8 people. Gonna be a lot of leftovers this week...

At least, off from the internet, for the most part. I had today off of work (Happy Rosh Hashanah, as applicable) so I took Mom to a Senior Day Center to see what she thought. We were greeted by a dog named Buttercup. I consider that a good sign. Mom thinks it's too expensive, but my brother doesn't, so I'll let him convince her she can afford it. ( Read more... )

Almost, I decided to pass on making it three straight days of gaming. But I went Friday and Saturday, played a bunch of games, learned two new ones and ate a ton. That being the case, and also today being absolutely beautiful, I took Mom to look at a couple of houses (the one I was interested in was meh, the ones I picked for logistical reasons ( Read more... )

'twas a fine day at the fair, if underattended. Only little kids, and the only people between 15 and 60 were the parents of said little ones. Also grandparents with little ones, and a lot of seniors and special needs adults. I was decidedly an oddball at the fair.

At any rate, I met a lot of critters and gave a lot of nose pats (and in a couple ( Read more... )

She forgot her own party with her friends last weekend, but so far so good on what I had planned for her. We went to a restaurant today, they served us dinner even though it wasn't actually dinnertime yet, the bread was great and the salad was was awesome. It was a tomato/mozzarella salad, most tasty. Mom had scallops and I had shrimp salad. Both ( Read more... )