Date Night

Tonight was suppose to be date night with Mr. Wonderful. He got a cold earlier this week and has had his nose in his hanky ever since. Is there a polite way to get out of date night? I did not want to get sick being so close to him at a restaurant and then shoulder to shoulder with him at the Comedy Club. Our friend bunny saved the day by asking him to the Avs game. At first Mr. Wonderful kindly turned him down, but I encouraged him to go since he probably did not want to get me sick.

I had reservations at the Comedy Works downtown so I asked Bettylou to go. Her BF is in California and she was available. She lives oh so close to downtown and she knows her way around unlike another daughter of mine who lives in the big city and got us lost a lot at our last visit!! No drama to and from, parked, walked, sat and ate. Comedians were good and I had free tickets. A good time was had by all. Tried to get Bettylou to come home with me. She wasn't a taker on that one.

Maybe we can try date night again next week with Mr. Wonderful but this week, my date with Bettylou was fun. She gave me a hug goodbye and watched me get in my car. Hope she calls me again sometime.

Till next time, MOM

Hygienist Hunting

As some of you may know, Grace our hygienist got married in June and moved to sunny San Diego. We've been in mourning ever since. It's like we've had a death in the family. People ask about her all the time. We have her picture on the front desk. Since she left, we've had a very nice temp come in. Her name is Melissa. She's 24 and has grown very close to our little family. Melissa is going on vacation next week. We are using the time to have working interviews every day with a different person to try them on for size. So now we need a temp for our temp. Although Melissa would like the job, she is only a year out of school and wants 38.00 per hour. I feel this is reasonable but apparently, I'm the only one. All that have come in so far to interview want 38-41 dollars per hour. So Melissa still might get the job and that would be just great with us. She's practically one of us anyway.

Baby Brennan will be a hot dog for Halloween. I now have someone to carve a pumpkin with this year. I'm thrilled. Tomorrow, we set up a picnic table and create a scene with him as the main course. Should be super cute and DELICIOUS!!!!

My Bad!!!

I'm a terrible blogger. I very much look forward to coming home everyday and reading the day's worth of bloggings that go on while I am at work. If Bettylou does not blog, I am disappointed. I even sneak a peek at Mer's blog but that hasn't changed in a while. I cruise to chincilla on the loose and the blog of my new daughter in law. Chinchilla's blog is always insightful and interesting. My daughter in law blogs as often as I do. I feel like and addict and say I will do better but always fall back into my old habits of telling myself to do it tomorrow. Tomorrow, there's always tomorrow............

So much has happened. So let's begin.

1. Older sister and 2 nieces came to visit in July.
2. Had blowout baby shower for youngest.
3. Becky came out to surprise youngest.
4. Youngest finished her last class at CSU and officially graduated.
5. Youngest moved to Aurora and moved into a house with the baby daddy.
6. Baby Brennan came 3 weeks early.
7. Officially became the cutest baby ever born. I have to see him everyday but am not allowed.
8. Went to San Francisco for reception in honor of Mer and her partner. Very nice party with lots of dentists and her friends. She is very well liked.
9. Went to Oregon for Leanne wedding to Matt. It's about time they got married.
10. Got boob job!!! They look playboy picture perfect.

Does anyone even read my blog? I suppose it's good therapy to vent. Mr. Wonderful is gone this week and I'm doing what I want. Staying up late and being a hellion. Went to Bettylou's house for dinner last night. Very good food. How did I get so lucky to have a nice daughter that takes good care of me. We laughed over silly cute animal pictures, watch jeopardy and had a great conversation over dinner with very lovely roomie. I did take a minute to clean her room. Some things just don't change. The nice part about her is that I know she gets irritated when I do stuff like that but she never utters a word and even thanks me at the end of the night. did anyone see the movie "Because I said so" I would so interview men for my daughter. You guys out there who say you can't meet a nice girl...well I've got one ready made to take home to your mother. All wrapped up in a nice package. But you have to go through me to get to her. I'm protective that way. Ruff Ruff!!!!

Till next time and only time will tell. MOM

It's as Official as it gets!!!!

Everyone knows I have 3 girls. Just like the Brady Bunch but our family is nuts and fun all at the same time. the oldest is Bettlylou (not her real name of course) and unless you've been on Mars you know her blog. Lots of faithful readers tune in everyday for the Bettylou update. She is in lust and having a great time.

The youngest is very PG and due in August. She loves Justin and Justin says he loves her.

Now the middle daughter, lives in San Francisco with her people (her words not mine) She lives in bliss with her girlfriend, Jen. Today Jen and Becky (her real name) enter into domestic partnership and the ceremony was very touching. I know because I was in Jen's pocket via cell phone. I tried to stay quite but I was excited. The judge took his time. The wording is exactly like getting married in front of the Justice of the Peace except every time they were to say the work marriage, they said Domestic partnership. They took lots of pictures and will send them to me soon. I was crying like a baby. We are all happy for the happy couple. My only child who got hitched is happy. I think she is more settled in some ways then the other two. The big party is in September and the family is flying out for the big event. We're even taking some good friends with us.

Next is a baby for Becky and Jen!!! More to follow.

MOM

All Better now!!!

Whew!! that was a long two weeks. Work is much better. I'm caught up and the new underlings are catching on quickly and they are actually helping me everyday they are there.

Mr. Wonderful is out of town for the whole week and you know what that means. I secretly throw away his stuff that he collects. This week it was picture frames, pillows, and anything resembling a stuffed animal that he has been saving in the crawl space for 20 years. I had a huge pile with a "sort me" sign on it. That has taken 2 days to do. Pictures are everywhere. I am glad everything has gone digital. Sure will be a space saver. I always said I was saving the basement till I retire, But I want to finish the basement in the next 2 years. So that means, every thing's got to go! All the games are going in the crawl space. All the baskets and silver too. The biggest problem will be of course (you guessed it) Mr. Wonderful will not part with his junk. He has gorilla racks full of stuff like old computers, old phones, electrical wiring he doesn't know how to use, file boxes full of stuff, boxes of books just to name a few. He needs to go out of town for a month.

Bitchfest 2

Now usually I'm a very upbeat happy go lucky individual. But not these past few days. I think I've narrowed it down to two things, maybe three. 1) I miss my friend Leanne. I miss seeing her at work everyday. I miss how she made my life very easy by her organizational skills. I miss her helping me so I can get all my work done in one day. She's gone and I should get over it. 2) Grace is leaving too. She is getting married and moving to California. All this creates havoc in our office as we transition to new employees. You don't know what to expect and frankly, work is getting to be work and not any fun anymore. 3) My cheapskate boss is dragging his feet and has not put an ad in the paper advertizing Grace's job. He keeps saying he is going to go the hygiene school but I can't figure out why he wants to go to the hygiene school. It's not like day labor where they are hanging out outside the school ready to be picked up by truck and taken to a dental office. They are all students ansd will not be licensed till August. I talked to him last week and frankly he acts like he doesn't have a care in the world. All the while, I am losing sleep over all that is unsettled. My state of depression is suffocating me.

I just want to be left alone. I don't want to talk to anyone (including Mr. wonderful) I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to go to the gym. I don't want to go shopping. I don't even want to eat.

Help me!!!!!

I know things will get better. But when??

Oh there's more. My boss in all his infinite wisdom has decided his 15 year old daughter who knows nothing about dentistry except that she has teeth will be working with us this summer and I have to teach her my job! This job I've been doing for 32 years just seems to be so easy for my boss. I told him that I will show her a few things but will not show her everything. I'm so far behind "showing other new people stuff I don't have any time to do my job. And get this. He's paying her 15.00 per hour!!! How unrealistic is that! I very mad about that. Boy is she going to get a rude awakening in the real world when she ventures out past the daddy umbrella of life.

Bitchfest

Did you all miss me? I keep thinking that I need all this time to blog and really I only need a few minutes. Will try and I keep making the same promise to do better.

I have been really restless lately. My skin feels all crawly and such. I feel so unsettled. I blame it on work. I like things all in a nice neat little package. It's not so at work when you deal with someone who doesn't mind doing everything last second and then wants me to hurry up and finish. I like to plan and get ahead of the game. Leanne moved to Oregon and Kathleen took her place. Kathleen although is a sweet girl...she is no Leanne. Fun Leanne. The office is not FUN anymore. Now Grace is getting married and moving to California. I will need a hygienist in place by 6-14-07. But do you think my boss has even put an ad in the paper....NO ...that's why I'm so disjointed lately. He gave some excuse that CU is graduating a whole new crop of hygienists this May. That would be good if I were looking for one in August because that's when they will be licensed to practice. I'm throwing up my hands in disgust. OK the bitchfest is over.

I should calm down now.

I'm reading RELIC. Good book so far. Book club is Sunday.