Hi intertubes people! How’s it hangin? We’re fine here and intend to be right up until we are washed away by Ike. No, not really. I don’t think he’s going to stray this far north, we’re just going to get a good deal of rain. Oh well, we were behind in that department anyway. I just hate getting caught up all at once…*sigh*
A few strange things happened today. Firstly, my 17 year old girl child has gone to a City Council meeting with a friend of hers that is in a US Government class. Her friend says she needs, “moral support”. Yeeeah. Sure. Keelan says she is going to have US Government next semester so why not?
John and I are taking bets on how long they are allowed to stay before being thrown out. Their odds are not good. Contact your bookie.
I have been sitting here watching The Weather Channel and I cannot, for the life of me, come up with a good solid reason for wanting to live in Cuba, year round, except for that pesky Castro not letting anyone leave… I mean these people get totally flayed by multiple hurricanes every single year. They wind up to cat 4 and 5 and go tearing across the island, sometimes twice per storm. These people, for the most part, live in a near poverty situation and are flattened over and over. Hundreds and hundreds die every year. And they couldn’t leave if they wanted to. Not even just for Hurricane season. And that just seems wrong. They should all be allowed to leave during the season for, oh, Europe or something… God knows I wish I could.
Someone should complain.
H has a new caregiver provider person. YES! Again! I know, I know. I have reported this several times already, and no, I wasn’t lying. The latest is “Tiffany”. So far so good. Please, everybody cross your fingers. She stayed here with H today while we ran frantically around for our allotted three hours. Got back and she had done all the things I had verbally laid out for her to do. And for those of you wondering, no, she won’t do taxes or windows. Henrietta got a “bed bath” and put in the chair and her sheets changed. Plus she cooked her breakfast and washed and figured out where to put all the dishes up. All this was amidst her being visited by the nurse and then a very nice little lady from the church that comes by to give her communion. I didn’t ask her to clean H’s bathroom or clean her room or anything cause we were having such a hard time getting out of here and she’s new, so I would have had to take more time than I already had when I showed her what to cook for her breakfast and how and where it all was.
I swear. If she starts not showing up, I will scream. She is very nice and H really likes her and each time she has left, Henrietta says, “Oh thank you so much for everything you did and please come back!” How sad is that? I will talk to her about trying to muster up a tear next time…
So far the contest has been hotly debated. I have given up clues in the comments section, but, I swear, it’s something that is unusual to any mans dress shirt and is the reason John refuses to wear it. It is an obvious thing at first glance and we should have noticed it except that it’s not that obvious. Obviously. I can feel all the obvious evil thoughts you people are sending me, now… Oh! There has been one winner so far! And she’s not even a regular commenter. I erased her comment immediately as soon as I got it and wondered, just as quickly, why I had set it up this way. I should have said the first person to get the correct answer. But I didn’t so if you can figure out what is such an obvious problem with the shirt that John won’t wear it you get a shot at the lovely prize also.
More tomorrow.
8 comments
Comment by Roger on September 9, 2008 at 11:02 pm
So I can make another guess? Cool… I need to find my wife….
Cuba is a tropical paradise run by some really bad people, and God tries and tries to punish them into submission, think Noah, but they are pesky folk, think Job.
I sure hope that makes sense. It sounded good in my mind, but my analogies might be screwy. 🙂
So did your daughter get thrown out?
Being relatively new to your blog, are Henrietta and H the same person? It seems like it, I just want to make sure in how I am thinking. Maybe I should venture back in time to find out myself. 🙂 Of course, if I get the Cliff Notes, it might help me pass the exam.
Okay, back to the shirt, Jenni, I need you to look at something for me…
Comment by Memarie Lane on September 10, 2008 at 9:41 am
Maybe you overestimated us. 😛
Comment by Krissa on September 10, 2008 at 10:36 am
Marie, as of this morning three people have guessed correctly. Keep glancing at it and then look at another men’s dress shirt.
Comment by Madame Queen on September 10, 2008 at 11:27 am
Oh yay! More people are starting to figure it out!
BTW, I want to clarify that I AM a regular reader (though a fairly new one), though I don’t comment all that regularly. 🙂
Comment by Big Hair Envy on September 10, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Bookie – Contacted
Note to Self – Never visit Cuba
Praying that H can muster a tear, and that Tiffany stays.
Too brain dead to figure out the dress shirt thing. I’ll work on that tomorrow!!
Comment by Krissa on September 10, 2008 at 4:04 pm
BAHAHA! Good job. That covers everything!
Comment by Karilyn Hernandez on September 11, 2008 at 2:50 pm
there are no buttons/buttonholes on the collar
Comment by Colleen on September 11, 2008 at 9:48 pm
at first I thought it buttoned the “wrong” way? like a woman’s blouse, but you said something about that (or at least the placket) in your post, so I discounted it. It still looks like one shoulder is slightly lower than the other, even though the shirt looks centered on the hanger.
I am crossing my fingers that Tiffany stays to help with H!
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