As I sit here this am looking outside I can tell it's going to be a beut of a day. The sunfilled backyard is calling my name. I think today might be a great day to work outside. Today we were promised an 80 degree day. YES!!! Outside of this past week we've not had an over 70 degree day since last October. How sad is that?
There are still pockets of snow here and there. I have a massive amount under the basketball hoop. All the low shady areas are still snow covered but not for long. Actually tomorrow we'll have a temperature dive and it's back to seasonal temps which will be not even close to what we're going to see today.
It's really funny to see Quincy with his little green ball, laying next to the car for shade, panting like crazy because he's so hot. At times he gets up, meanders over to the snow pile and plops himself down still guarding his tennis ball.
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Congrats to Aly!!! She got a job at Fox News. She will be an intern for the summer. She was hired immediately. Ha!! Who wouldn't hire her? She's very outgoing and friendly with a huge smile always on her face. She was so nervous too and when she gets nervous she talks alot. Well I guess that's a good thing if you want to be a reporter. She'll probably be following a reporter around doing the grunge type work . But, hey, you've got to start somewhere and this will look good on her resume.
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What is it with guys and the weather anyhow? I mean weather seems to preoccupy my husband very well. He has a great need to not only know our temperature here but other places as well. I'm not sure how many weather forecasts we see nightly but it seems a bit excessive to me. When we go away and hotel it, his favorite station is.......you guessed it.......the weather station. He's like a weather junkie. I've seen that in other guys as well. I'm wondering if it's a guy thing. Tell me once and I'm good for the week. I guess it's no diff than me being a news junkie. So I like my news, he likes his weather. Maybe that's good.
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Our two favorite shows lately have been "American Idol" and "Are you Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" I was soooooo happy to see Sinjaya leave. It was about time. Goodbye Sinjaya Universe, don't come back. He was killing me. I don't really have a favorite although I thought Jordan did very well last week and I agreed with Simon that she really is looking more like an Idol.
On the other show I didn't agree with how they treated the last contestant. He smoked those answers. He was the best I've seen so far only choosing not to risk his half a million for the last question. I didn't blame him a bit. When they finally did ask him that last question based on American History he did know it and I'm sure he's beating himself up over it. But because he didn't win the whole million he had to look into the camera and say "I'm not smarter than a 5th grader." I disagreed. Not only did he do well almost winning it all, the 5th graders got some of the answers wrong including the last question. He definitely was smarter than a 5th grader.
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I heard quite the "come on line" last week at work. A guy who seems to be quite the charmer came in to speak to one of the guys. Since the guy he wanted was on the phone, this guy I'll call Alton, chatted with me while he waited. I've met him before thru a mutual friend but just there at the office. He is older than me, probaby in his mid 60's I'd say. So we're talking and he was telling me how his wife died 8 years ago from cancer telling me a bit about the circumstances. It was sad. One thing led to another and I was telling him about how my Dad and Mom divorced after 30 years of marriage. And this is the line......."Do you look like your mother?" "Yes, I suppose I do." I said. "Well how could a man leave such a good looking woman behind?"
Ummmm that was embarrasing. How do you answer that one? "Thanks for the compliment, but I'm married?" I mumbled something about my mom was the one who left my dad. Thankfully the guy he was waiting for came out just in time. In the meantime after he went into the other office, my boss came running out. Evidently he heard the exchange between Alton and me and was curious to who this guy was.
Hahahah so even being a Grandmother doesn't stop em from coming........poor guy, he needs a woman. But it aint' going to be me!! I keep telling my husband after he's gone, that's it. One man in one lifetime is enough for me. I'll get myself a handyman.
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Do you remember those "priceless" commercials? We've got one we could do. My husband had a birthday last week or so and he got a small package from David. Inside the package was a flash drive. On the flash drive David put a song along with pics of he and his dad and some of the rest of us. The song was by some country singer singing about his son and himself and how his son wanted to be just like him. It started off with the son having a happy meal. I guess it's playing all over the place right now but I've not heard it since I don't listen to Country & Western anymore. It was a sort of tear jerker moment.
My husband said that was one of the nicests gifts he's every gotten from his son. He was very touched. David has always been the sentimental one. He wrote me a poem on my birthday a few years ago called "The Rose." It was more than sweet.
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ok, now really gotta go outside. The sun has started to crawl all over my back deck. The laundry's done. It's time to hang out my clothes and enjoy the beautiful sunshine.