A Quote By Andrew...

"It sure takes you a long time to do your hair and put on your makeup."

                                              Andrew to his then wife trying to get to his favorite seafood restaurant.
                                                                                                                 

I Smell A Rat...

I posted that Lincoln quote yesterday, but something seems a little fishy to me about it. Firstly, it just doesn't sound like the vernacular of the Civil War era. Secondly, after Lincoln's son Thaddeus died as a child, Mary Todd Lincoln went bat shat crazy in grief. She would hold seances trying to speak to her deceased son. That just makes me think Lincoln wouldn't say something like that.

The Return of Yawny...

When is Papa going to get here?

I seem to be in a sleepy haze lately. I slept all night last night and slept all day again. Maggie will watch me yawn and then she will then yawn in turn. Felines won't do this little trick. They are much too independent or aloof.

Maggie is smelling awful doggie tonight as well and I need to give her a bath. It will traumatize her to no end when I do this, though. It's like Superman's aversion to Kryptonite.

I heard my father's car pull up to the curb and Maggie was ecstatic.

"Shit!" dad exclaimed vulgarly as he stepped inside my house tonight for the medication ritual, "I forgot your Cokes and cigars."

At least he brought homemade vegetable beef soup and some buttery cornbread. That was a great and tasty consolation prize.

"Don't worry about it, dad," I replied. "I have enough to get me by until tomorrow morning."

Dad does their household grocery shopping on Wednesday night and mom has asked me if he had left my house. Mom was very lucid this evening and that was a good sign. You can talk some sense into her when she gets like this.

Dad was grilling me on South African history, the Afrikaners and apartheid this evening.  We got embroiled in a talk about an Englishman named Cecil Rhodes that turned around South Africa through mining and building a railroad network across the nation. President Clinton when to Cambridge with an extremely prestigious Rhodes scholarship.

Things Going On Around Here…

• Mom is cleaning up the kitchen after supper.  We check in with each other nightly about this time every day. Mom is the only person on this third rock from the sun that understands me and how I click and what motivates me.  She often has to translate this to my father.
• Mom and dad had Thanksgiving ham, German potato salad, green beans and homemade yeast rolls. I begged for some German potato salad which is one of my favorite salads, but they were all out. “Be sure to get some sandwich bread,” my mother told me. “I am sending you some honey baked ham through your daddy.” While ham is not my most favorite food, I will eat it and this ham is especially good.
• They are having a big sale on Coca-Colas up at CVS so my father is leaving soon to go buy some before we go to the grocery store. He drinks diet Cokes about as much as I did when I still got them from my parents.
• I am doing laundry trying to get ready for our grocery trip tonight. I had about run out of clean clothes to wear – well, the clothes I like to wear that is.  I have a closet full of clothes that no longer fit me since I’ve lost a lot of weight.  Especially blue jeans.  I have two pair I wear normally and switch between the two.
• Charlie has only called me one time tonight about my lawn service.  They didn’t come to his house this week and he wanted to know if they came to my house.  I told him no, but they could’ve come when I was asleep during the day. He also told me good luck on buying groceries. He has to take Horsefly bowling tonight and by KFC for his nightly meal. I told him good luck as well.
• Maggie is feeling her oats tonight and wanting to play.  She feels so much better and it is heartwarming.  I am going to get her some treats tonight at the grocery store.  We keep lining up for a back scratch at the moment aggravatingly as she is so persistent about it. I call it Maggie’s assembly line.
• I went to bed around 8:30am and slept until 6:30pm.  It was nice getting some uninterrupted sleep which is rare sleeping in the day.  I guess the “day sleeper” sign Charlie got me is working and keeping the riffraff at bay.  I also unplug the landline phone and turn off my cellphone before hitting the hay. If I ever leave that phone unplugged, it will ring as soon as I fall asleep every time.
• I am trying to psyche myself up about going to buy groceries tonight. The line is faltering as they say in the infantry, but I am sure my father will bring reinforcements.