Author: amber4.14.11
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:43 pm
I knew you were lurking around somewhere!! lol
that IS funny that a grown mans scared of a lil ol lady. My hubby’s kinda the same way with my grandma. Shes still getting around just fine, but its like he doesnt want to be left ‘alone’ with her. lol and to think, we BOTH lived with her for like 2 years.
the gorrila has pretty much left me alone, I did give his wife 40 bux a few weeks ago. I did tell her Id give more money IF and only IF the gorrila left me alone. Ive been thinking though, I may only give another 20 bucks, as my ‘peace offering’ and thats it. Ya know? I feel like I didnt need to give him anything to begin with. BUT since Im not moving anytime soon, outta the area I mean, and obviously he isnt either, I guess we had better find a happy medium.
SOOOOOOO, you need some laughs. I was telling my therapist a few ‘stories’ from my past yesterday, I figured she would laugh, but clearly, she didnt think they were QUITE as humorous as I DID…… 
One september, we go ‘school clothes shopping’ me and my brother and my mom. If you grew up as a poor kid, you know that the shoes, (one pair of course) and clothes that you get this day HAD BETTER last ALL year, and summer tooo. If not, and you ripped your pants or something, you were gonna ‘live with it’
So, we get tto the store(s) and mom says we can get NIKE shoes, cuz theyr on SALE…..
me and my brother were SO EXCITED….. we alwyas had the VOLUME shoes, if you were any kid in the 80s, those were NOT the shoes you wanted.
ANyways, we go thru the horror of clothes shopping. My brother always wanted black clothes, I always wanted everything outta
active wear, and Mom was always saying, "why dont you dress more like a girl"
so we’d fight and fight, till mom got sick of us, and we ended up with what we wanted. my brother would pick out a pair of blue jeans to ‘appease her, and Id get at leas one ‘girl shirt’ just so we could be done.
SO, were headin to the parking lot, and we BOTH have on our brand new NIKE’s …… SO excited……..
we get to the car, and mom forgot her keys in the dressing rooms or something, so My brother darts back to go get the keys, hes so FAST in his NIKE BASKETBALL SHOES……
Coming outta the store, he wasnt looking, and ran right into the street.
Now, this was a long time ago, and I dont remember the entire scene, but I do know my brother more or less ran into a car, rather than the car "hitting" him. he did sort of a face plant onto the passenger side, and fell back.
My mom goes running up, and me too, shes SO worried,
and Im like ‘wheres the keys??"
he hands them over, his face is lil bloody, and he’s still admiring his nike’s….. 
the person, that he ‘collided’ with of course takes off, its the 80s. and people are walking by looking at my mother like she should beat BOTH our asses……thats the way it was then.
we get my brother to the car,
and hes crying, and going on and on.
My mom says
ARE YOU OKAY????
"I think so, are my shoes scuffed?"
Im like, NOPE< your good man. those are bad ass shoes, handing him a napkin.
we get in the car, mom;s crying of course. My brothers looking at the gravel in his hand. like his life flashed before his eyes.
heres the funny part……..
MOM says, " If you think you need to go to the DOCTOR, were gonna have to take YOUR SHOES back, becuase I just spent all the money we had"
My brother looks down at his shoes, once more and says, Im okay mom.
I hope you found that funny, and not sad, like my therapist did.
its not that mom wasnt gonna take him to the ER. she was giving HIM the choice.
I guess thats why me ad my brother are ‘survivors’
ya know?
the other day I SLICED my hand just a bit on the TABLE SAW…..I only have the abot an 8th inch past whatever Im cutting just in case, and thank god I did the other day. anyways, a lil DUCT TAPE, and Im good to go.
Wondering, what Im gonna do today, better think of something. gotta go to costco with granma in a lil bit.
Other than that the days open…..
and the good cable is AWESOME by the way.
we havent had more than basic, in YEARS. and its almost like im trying to watch everything allllll at once.
we even have this ‘on demand ‘ thing.
its coooooolll……
never thought Id be THIS excited about cable TV
oh and later I’ll have to tell ya the story about how we won our 46” hdtv…..
you’ll LOVE that one, for sure
