Last night was the first thunderstorm of the season. And this morning my right ankle aches horribly. I couldn’t even stand on it to put my pants on. I broke my right ankle pretty badly several years ago. It involved a 4-day hospital stay and screws. I’ve had three surgeries since then. I so hate my ankle. But maybe it didn’t have anything to do with the weather. It might be that I was chasing Amanda yesterday in an effort to give her a whitewash after she threw a snowball at me. I came oh-so-close to catching her too.

Alas, I never was a runner even before I broke my ankle. But I married a fast guy, and he caught Amanda for me, and she got her whitewash, the little brat. And as I was doing that, Maxine jumped on my back and threw some more snow on me.

AGK is getting old!

I just wanted to point everyone to AGK’s blog, with the countdown. In just 87 days she’ll be 30.

Children, Bird remain alive

I know that should be a given, BUT this is SPRING BREAK WEEK and the children are home and bugging one another. Every 2.3 seconds it seems one of them is at my side reporting that the other one has just hit, kicked, pushed or otherwise maimed them. Really, it’s exhausting.

Because 2.8 seconds after that, the original hitter will come to me in tears that the hitee says she is mean. School is back in session on Monday. Let’s hope we all survive and try not to think of that other vacation lurking, S-u-m-m-e-r.

The bird, Ernie, is also alive. However I have had a hard time keeping his cage covered at night. The other day I covered his cage and less than 5 minutes later he was uncovered. I suspect Mittens, my cat,  is pulling the cover off the cage.

And totally having nothing to do with anything, which could be the title of this whole blog…

I recently ranted about the commercial that just drives me nuts. Topping my list recently is the Burger King commercial featuring the singing cowboy of Hootie and the Blowfish fame. Just drives me insane. So much so that I now have to pretend it doesn’t bother me because hubby likes to torture me (downside of Tivo and the ability to rewind live TV).

But every yin needs a yang, so I thought I’d share the commercial that I really like lately. It’s the one of the mom sitting on the couch trying to talk, and her family chaos is going on behind her and she finally yells, "I’m trying to do a commercial here." It’s for Netflix. I can oh-so relate.

Well I’m off to work. Thanks for playing.

…I was a cheerleader. And a darn good cheerleader I was too. Every year from sixth grade through senior year. My high school cheerleading coach was fantastic! I had lots of fun. Once a few years ago I coached a freshman cheerleading team. Such drama! I happily gave that up after just one season. It didn’t help that it was the year I broke my foot.

I was also a band geek, again every year from sixth grade through senior year. Such a big band geek was I the Drum Major of the marching band for two years. Although I never did go to band camp, well, unless you count Drum Major camp.

Looking at my blog yesterday, my oldest daughter saw the photo of me from 1987 and said, "Mom, that’s not you!" And when I said yes, it was, the girl I swore was my daughter replied, "But she’s good looking!"

And yes, the girl who was my daughter still lives. I’d take a picture to prove it, but she’s already gone off to school, the little bugger. She tried to claim she was joking. I just asked where she thought she got HER good looks from? The Easter Bunny?

Speaking of still living, Ernie the Bird remains alive. Although this morning when I entered the living room and removed the sheet from Ernie’s cage, I found Mittens (my cat) sitting under the sheet (on the floor) looking hungrily up at Ernie.

I am also still alive despite an unplanned return of my mother from Ohio. She plans to remain until the Monday after Easter, I believe. For those of you unwilling to follow the link, she recently stabbed me with a kitchen knife. (I bet you follow that link NOW.)

Ironically, a 19-year-old Lake City man died last weekend from two stab wounds in his chest from a kitchen knife. This isn’t a funny story, but it is weird enough that I wanted to mention it. Lake City, by the way, is just 10 miles west of where I live. He’d had a dispute with a neighbor. In the wee hours of the morning, he called 911 to report his neighbor had stabbed him. Except it now appears that the man stabbed himself twice while on the phone with 911 to get his neighbor in trouble. But the man hit the wrong spot, and bled out within 15 minutes. Apparently the change in the man’s voice on the very graphic 911 tape shows when he made the two stab wounds. He leaves behind a girlfriend who is 4 months pregnant. They don’t think he intended to kill himself.

And I can’t help but wonder…. wouldn’t that make a great episode for CSI?

Totally unrelated

The woman who stoled my mom’s purse was sentenced yesterday. Her husband will be sentenced later in April. My mom spoke briefly. The woman apologized several times to my mom.

The judge sentenced her to 4 months in the county jail, and $1585 in fines, fees, and reimbursing my mom $105 for other items that weren’t recovered (a spare key for her car, $61; refilling prescriptions, etc). If the woman pays her fines, she can get out of jail 29 days early, but she will spend 3 months in jail, and 18 months on probation. Her hubby will most likely just get 18 months probation.

The woman’s attorney had tried to get less than 60 days by offering the woman to make drug buys to nab drug dealers. The woman also had a possession of marijuana charge, and previous retail frauds. And AGK, you would be interested to note that the woman wore a scarf around her hip while being sentenced. And yeah, I don’t get that trend either.

The Amazing Race

I am just loving Survivor’s Rob and Amber being on The Amazing Race. Hilarious.  Absolutely loving the other teams reaction to them. Hehehe.

Public Service Announcement

Survivor’s on tonight, Wednesday, not tomorrow, Thursday. Don’t forget!

I’ve now done my good deed for the day. Thanks for playing.