Current mood:

tired

People-We-Never-See Cookout
My mother called Friday night (everyone I invited RSVPed Friday night) to say she and Lee were coming. I didn't send them an invite, but I remember that I put our Crawfish Boil as a repeating appointment on the family calendar the Saturday preceding Memorial Day. We explained that we wouldn't be doing crawfish this year, just dogs and burgers. Kinda unexpected, but it worked.

It was a bit weird. My mother and Mark's fiancee got along really well... I wonder if Mark made the connection: "This is my wife twenty years from now." All in all, I had a great time. We made pancakes for breakfast, got it together, Mom/Lee showed up early, ran out of forks/plates, and finally ended up sitting in the kitchen making fun of life. I had a burger and two glasses of wine, and felt really relaxed. Teddi just got her MBA. We're firing a lady Monday, and I hope to hire her. The pay is closer to $20k, though, and I think she could make $50k. Even if we only get her for a little while... *sigh* Want someone in that middle desk BAD.

It would be money for now and some awesome references for her. Hope she'll come.

Well, I ate too much cake. Other than that, too little protein yesterday. Just six glasses of water. BellSouth, AT&T, BNK, et al. (phone company employers of over 50 years) is trying to screw my Mamaw on her retirement. She's waited on retiring for half a year because they keep saying they need 90 more days to figure out her pay. Sending Alex in. Papaw had stomach ulcer surgery recently; Mamaw started taking arthritis meds; Dad had hemorrhoid surgery. Mom is still crazy and very overweight. Lee grew six inches and madea 29 on his first stab at the ACT. I told him to take the freakin' practice test and beef up on his science. He could easily get 34/35 I think. He still doesn't know if he wants to go to college.

I went to MSMS/college and got some "ideas" in my head. That's why my family isn't encouraging Lee to go. Stupid mother-fuckers... gotta love 'em I guess. Lee will get to see forty or fifty years of the future that they won't. He'll live in a different world. *sigh*

my poison ivy keep spreading and that leg that's the worst is swollen and has heat. I'm going to urgent care after Alex gets back from church.