All I Wanted Was a Pepsi and Other Random Notes

1.  All I wanted was a shower curtain.  What was that song from the eighties, "all I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi and she wouldn't give it to me.....?"  I'm off to google.....o.k. I'm back.....Suicidal Tendencies!  Anyway that's what kept going through my head last night because damn it....all I wanted was a shower curtain.  I came home from work and wanted to spirit Ernie away to go buy a shower curtain because somehow that was going to make my wreck of a house seem clean and beautiful and ready for a party.  Why couldn't I go by myself?  Well, because Ernie's probably going to look at that shower curtain even more often than I will since he's home during the day and damn it I wanted him to like it.  Somehow the evening began to disintegrate after I'd been home about ten minutes.....there were battles about picking up Lego which grew to ridiculously gargantuan proportions.....the ice cream truck was heard but couldn't be found.....the whole evening went to hell....and all I could think was "and all I wanted was a shower curtain....."

2.  Ernie and I are finally trying to finish up paperwork for our will.  We had started it a couple of  years ago but never finished it in the chaos of the last two years.  The strange thing is that the two people we were going to put down as guardians of the boys if something were to happen to both us are both gone....not in our lives....one because of cancer, one because of choice.  We have other loving friends and family but it still is a grim reminder of how uncertain life is for us all.

3.  Remember my pretty beets in the last post?  Here are their beautiful greens.  I tossed these with some sauteed onions, orange bell pepper and zucchini and farfalle and put it in the refrigerator for lunches this week.  Just used some crushed red pepper flakes, salt and pepper and some of the pasta water.....

 

4.  I took my mother to lunch last Friday.  We went to Milo's and honestly my food was so-so.  I was kind of disappointed.  My mother barely eats but seemed happy with her salad though.  I wasn't sure if she was having a good time or not but when I talked to her the next day she kept telling me how much she enjoyed it and that she had felt really good last night and woke up in a good mood that morning.....  So I'm going to try to start doing this say every other Friday....  After my father died we had tried to set up a schedule of more visits/meals but then that fell apart with everything else that happened....so this is one of my new goals....  She said she wants to go to Cafe Luna.....is that wheelchair accessible?  Anybody know?  

5.  Does anyone that read this keep chickens----either locally or in a similar zone?  My dear friend Ann is considering it and it would be helpful for her to talk to somebody that has some experience.....

6.  Two days til my birthday....four days til David Olney and Ian Hunter's new album is out TODAY!

7.  Oh, and I gotta say....maybe I'm shallow but every time I see the clips of the moonwalk all I can think of is MTV.