Wednesday Whining, a day early


I'd like to make a complaint (or two, or three...)

It will be at least 75° F (that's what? 22° C?) here this afternoon. On November-freakin'-20th. In Missouri. But... we have a front coming through, with rain (yes, the day before Thanksgiving) and my husband will be smoking the meat for Thanksgiving in snow flurries on Thursday. On the flip side, this is the last day this week I'll have to send Daughter back upstairs after breakfast to change out of a calendar-appropriate sweater or fleece top.

I have two bone-in whole turkey breasts and a small ham defrosting in my refrigerator. AND I have twenty-three Butterbraids, only eight of which are actually mine, occupying space in my freezer. The grocery list is a mile long and I don't dare go to the store, because I don't have any place to put things when I get them home. On the flip side, ten of the Butterbraids will go find another home this morning, which means I can move the warehouse-sized boxes of bacon and sausage and the extra bag of English muffins from the fridge into the freezer. Still, I'll have to think twice about the purchasing of perishables (say that out loud three times fast) when I go to the store today.

Daughter and I both have blood testing that needs done, ordered by our respective physicians at our last physicals. We're both way overdue, because the labs don't open until after the time school starts in the morning and I refuse to pull Daughter out of school just to have her blood taken, and I refuse to make two trips (one for me and one for her). But she's off school tomorrow and I've declared we're going. Daughter hasn't done this before, and she's driving me nuts worrying about the fact that she can't have anything to eat for 12 hours beforehand (which is why it has to be done first thing in the morning.) Nag, nag, nag. Suck it up, kid. I'll feed you afterwards. Normally on a Saturday or holiday she wouldn't eat breakfast until later than that, anyway. But you can't tell her that (you can always tell a person of German descent, but you can't tell 'em much.)

Posted: Tue - November 20, 2007 at 07:03 AM   Home         | | View Technorati reactions

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