Pan almost got the vinegar treatment tonight.

We were eating supper – Mozerlla cheese sticks, chicken tenders, mixed veggies, Homemade applesauce, and homegrown-fresh-from-my-dad’s-garden cantelope – (YUMMY!). Mr. Incredible was being goofy – and stretching the cheese as afar as his arm would reach.

and pan says: “Daddy I did that once – I had the F’in thing out to here.” and stretches his arm out as far as it will go.

I look at Mr. Incredible, he looks at me – and I ask Pan to repeat himself:

“Daddy I did that once – I had the fork out to here.”

See how cute he is – there is no way those nasty words would ever come out of his mouth. right? Yeah, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it!

or something.

Guess what I lost?

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Two checks. One from my parents and one from Mr. Incredible’s parents.

I thought I deposited them.

Nope.

I think I know what happened to them. I tossed them out with the trash. I have never been more embarrased…. now I have to call them and tell them.

Just hope the FIL doesn’t answer the phone, he will never let me live this down.

Somedays it’s bad to be me.

The good note – I did not loose the nice big expense check that Mr. Incredible got in the mail.

DAMNITALLTOHECK!!!

****** updated to add: the checks were Anniversary gifts and part of an early Christmas present – I was gong to deposit them in a bank I don’t usually bank at – just so we wouldn’t waste them on TP and Q-tips and now I can’t find them…. I did call my mom and my MIL – they are going to send new checks, but I sure feel like a dumbass!

I’m exhausted.

The camera is a Cannon SD450 -I haven’t gotten a chance to play with it yet – maybe this weekend.

My Dad is in pain. Big Pain. I pushed for him to take the pain meds every 3 hours instead of 4; he was afraid that he would run out before the pharmacy opened on Monday – so we counted it out, he’d have enough to make it to noon on Monday. By the time I left he said the pain was more tolerable. My Dad is a tough stubborn man. He never shows pain, it was so hard to watch him try to get out of bed, and to walk with him. I’m hoping that they start Physical Therapy this week – and get those muscles to loosen up.

The kids had a good time, but got bored. Pan asked me what was wrong with their tv as they only got 4 channels (abc, nbc, cbs and pbs). The kids did play outside in the tireswing, and in the yard, but I think they missed having their cousins around and missed Grandpa being able to play with them. We did take up almost all our DVD’s up for my Dad to watch and the kids watched Shark Tales, Shrek 1 & 2 and Cheaper by the Dozen with him. But even I got bored watching movies.

I helped my mom – I worked in the garden. Picking the veggies and weeding. They have everything growing in their garden – and could run a farmer’s market out of it. It’s hard to believe that when we were kids the garden was even bigger. In this day and age you don’t hear about people living off their garden, but Mom and Dad could. They freeze and/can just about anything and everything for the winter. Mom sent home with me – three paper grocery sacks (the big brown ones) full of apples, Green String Beans, Green Bell Peppers, Banana Peppers, tomatoes (about 2 doz) cucumbers (about a doz) two cantelope, and a watermelon. We will never eat all this food. I’ve already cut up and frozen several quart bags of apples – will make excellent apple pies, crisp and sauce.

Now I’m needing to do some laundry and some stuff around the house – will be around to check out everyone’s blogs – but will take a while…

I’m going up to see my Dad – taking the kids with me.

Poor Mr. Incredible he is going to have the house to himself. (I’m thinking he is going to love the quiet!) There are times when I would love that.

Need to organize some DVD’s to take up there, He is getting restless being on his back.

I’ll be gone for a few days, so don’t have any fun without me!

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Vegas update:
1) Tickets are ordered
2) and Mr. Incredible got me a new digital camera today – it’s so small I love it!

I love my mom – I really do…but there are some people on this earth who should not own a computer and she is one of them, and if anyone ever worked a computer help line, please let me apologize if you had to help my mom.

Bless her heart, (stealing from Brighton) she just has no f*in clue when it comes to computers. The last computer she bought brand new – was an IBM 286 – and my Uncle S who works for IBM came and set it up for her. (that was when I was in the 8th or 9th grade – we weren’t allowed to touch it without asking permission.) The other computers she has had have all been desktops and hand-me-downs from one of us kids. She just never saw the need to upgrade etc. Getting her to go on-line was short of a miracle.

A few weeks ago – their computer died and Dad finally talked her into getting a new computer. So she asked for our opinion. Mr. Incredible loves computer stuff and found something on-line that would work well for her. We sent it to sister L (the cheap one) and then Mom didn’t understand how to order it. I talked her into going to Best Buy and taking the specs with her to find something comparable. She surprised the heck out of me and got one for a few $$$ more and it’s a better model. and get this it’s a laptop!

Then the phone calls started:

8:30 pm Tuesday – MOM: when are you coming up? I need you to set up the computer.

Mr. Incredible talks to her for 45 minutes and convinces her that she can open the box and yes she bought a good computer.

Tonight she calls 1st call at 9:00- and asks where the modem on the laptop is. Mr. Incredible (ever the patient man) tells her look in the right side – and talks her through that.

10 minutes after they hang up she calls….

Mom: Are DVD’s the same as CD’s?

FG: No – well what do you mean?

Mom: I have a CD from the Internet company, and I don’t know where to put it.

FG: Mom – you have to manually open the drive there is no button look at the front of the laptop – put the CD in it – it will Click into place and then you have to manually close the drive.

Mom: Oh, ok – it does fit. Now why is all this (insert name of computer here) stuff going – why does it do that?

FG – there should be something that you can click on to stop that…

Mom: Do I need to buy virus protection? The internet provider gives us…

FG: that should work make sure you run the update and you should be fine.

Mom: Now the paperwork says I have wireless…

FG: Mom, you have dial-up you do not have wireless, the computer is capable of doing wireless, but until you get a cable modem or DSL you do not have wireless.

Mom: Oh – but it says….

FG: I know, but you don’t have a wireless network in your house so it won’t work.

Mom: Can Mr. Incredible install wireless …

FG: Yes, but you will have to pay to have DSL.

Mom: But that’s X amount of money per month

This conversation goes on for a few more minutes… and then it sinks in.

Mom: So I can still use this laptop in the living room – I just have to take a phone wire with me?
FG: Yes.

Mom: What is my log-in name for my Internet?

FG: I don’t know – did you write it down anywhere?

Mom: no, I didn’t want someone to steal it.

FG (thinking to myself – who the hell is going to steal your dial up account): call tech support and they can talk you through this.

Mom: But they are only open during the day, I guess we will have to wait until then.

FG: Good night mom.

Mom: I really wanted to be able to send some emails tonight, but I lost all my email address’s when the computer died.

FG: I’ll send you all the family emails I have. I’ll ask everyone to do the same. Good Night – Love you.

Mom: Did you know this computer can….. blah, blah, blah

FG: Mom, I hate to cut you short, but I have to get up in the morning and get kids ready for school and go to work.

Mom: Oh, is it late?

FG: Only if you need sleep and you have to get up at 6:15. Good Night Mom, glad you like the new computer – have fun!

Mom: good night….

Anyone want to answer the phone the next time she calls ? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? No One? Y’all are chickens!

Doesn’t he just look thrilled to be going into the first grade? We met with his teacher last night. He seems to like her – but is a little hesistant about the whole 1st grade thing.

Hope everyone is having a great first day/first week of school. Tink goes next week!

Sounds like we will be booking the flight tomorrow when he gets home from work. I am so nervous. We will be going in October – so who knows – maybe we will see some of you there! And what happens in Vegas stays in vegas ! But of course I’ll blog about it! Ha ha !

Hope you have a great day – thanks for the words of encouragement. Mr Incredible assures me it will be like one long roller coaster ride and I will have nothing to worry about. I love roller coasters (but you know – even they are attached to the ground!)

UGH…

It’s true – I probably am….because of this…

Here’s the deal. Mr Incredible and I want to go to Vegas – we want to renew our vows – and get married the way he wanted to 10 years ago. Why? Because it’s a long story – so here’s the Reader’s Digest version – He wanted to elope, I wanted the wedding – we had the wedding, and always said that at our 10 year we would go to vegas and get married his way.

We now have half ass vacation approval from his boss to go – the hotel/flight etc is pretty reasonable (meaning we can afford it); The in-laws claim they will watch the kids are our house – so Pan and Tink won’t miss school. So what is the problem?

I am scared to death to get on an airplane….Stop laughing and stop judging me. Are you done? good – because seriously I’m scared to death to get on a plane. Why? Because I’m a nut? I don’t know – I have no reason to be afraid, I’ve just never done it before.

I know that it is safer to fly than to drive. I know the freakin’ statistics. I used to work in the Directors office of an Airport – But I keep coming up with excuses as to why we can’t go – and he knows they are lame ass excuses…. But I don’t think he understands how terrified I am.

Tell me how great it is to be out there, and what we should see – and most of all tell me how easy it is going to be to fly…. Tell me that some idiot isn’t going to pick my flight to blow up, tell me that the pilot isn’t going to be high, or drunk off his ass, and that we are not his first solo flight. And tell me how there are surviors when a plane crashes, tell me that my kids will be fine, that they are not going to be screwed up for life if Mr Incredible and I were to die.

And now he tells me that it’s not going to be a Terrorist target because – it’s an MD-80 and that’s too small for them to waste their time on…yet it’s good enough for us? I see how this is works… So now my first flight isn’t even on a real fucking plane it’s a frickin’ puddle jumper….and we’ll be flying at night… so I won’t see anything which could be a good thing – at least I won’t see the ground as we approach it at a million miles an hour as we go plumenting towards the earth. (yeah I’m not nervous at all)

~Fantastagirl (who probably should make the appointment tomorrow to see her doctor about getting some very very very good drugs – because that hysterical lady you saw at gate 15 – yeah that was probably me)

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Side note – I have been afraid to fly my whole life – the terrorist just add to it.

Thank you for the good thought and well wishes for my Dad. He finally went into surgery around 12:00 and was back in recovery by 1:40. Things went about as expected. He didn’t get back to his room until about 3:30 – and as of 7:00 p. m. he hadn’t gotten out of bed so he is not walking around. Mom said his pain level is about a 20 on a scale of 1 to 10. This is a man who doesn’t complain about pain. He just grits his teeth and bares it…. I told her to tell him to keep hitting his button, but he isn’t on IV pain meds. It’ all Oral…what a crock of shit.

Will be interesting as to when he gets to go home…. I doubt it will be first thing in the morning.

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Now for my rant….

My older sis L is a great person – but she is so FREAKIN’ CHEAP – Not Frugal – cheap! Normally I can deal with this – today she ticked me off. After she called last night to see about an extra TV we have around the house – (hers is broken, and wanted to know if I would give her my old one – which is fine I’ll give it to her) I made the comment that I needed hurry up and get off the phone so I could call Local Store and order a balloon bouquet with a Hugs and Kisses Candy weight for Dad from the kids. She tells me – she will take care of it – I tell her exactly what I had in mind – she assures me it will be ‘no problem’. So she goes to Wal-mart and buys 1 mylar balloon – 1! This is not what I had in mind, and I didn’t ask her to do it – she offered!

She doesn’t understand my disappointment – nor my disgust…and she is so proud because she only spent a buck! I’m sorry – but my Dad is worth more than a buck. And then when talking to Mom tonight I find out My other sister sent a ballon bouquet – from local store with Hugs and Kisses as the weight – which is what I wanted to do….and I think the sounds in my voice let Mom know that I was beyond pissed off at Sister L. UGH!