Wednesday, June 21, 2006

A New Attitute!

So….okay….yesterday afternoon at 4:05 I got a call here at work from my Mom.

“Stanley is at the Safeway in Silverdale and he’s locked himself out of the car!”

My first reaction was to laugh and say, so what does that have to do with ME?, but I refrained from being as cold as I really am, and said,

“Well, there’s really nothing I can do, as I am at work. I guess he could call a locksmith but that would cost a pretty penny. Do you have extra car keys?” Mom said yes, she did.

“Okay, then. Try to get a ride with somebody so you can meet Stanley there and unlock the car.” Mom agreed that sounded like a plan so we left it at that.

I got home about 5:30 and told this story to my Mate, who offered that my brother had called 10 minutes before I got home, back at Mom’s, after calling a locksmith.

“Mom isn’t home! Do you know where she is?!"

I just laughed. I have begun to develop another attitude toward The Artists, my Mom and my Brother who lives with her. Mom is back driving her car again after 6 months in a plaster cast, wheelchair, cane and then orthotic, for the broken ankle….which means I don’t have to grocery shop for Them anymore! Hallelujah! Hence, the New Attitude. I want a break from Caretaking. (Must be kind of how Fossil Guy feels about the Caretaking of Grandson, although I think when he’s doing it for Allie, it’s lots more delightful than when I’m caretaking The Artists.)

My new attitude is “Let them eat crap!” I don’t mean literally let them eat dog shit or ca-ca, I mean let them eat the frozen TV dinners and the frozen pizza and the frozen chicken pieces and the potato chips and the huge blocks of cheese and the canned ravioli and the cookies and the Chex Mix and the ice cream and the Brach’s Candy I’ve been buying per their grocery lists. Let them take the OTC sleep aids and Metamucil to help them sleep and shit after eating all that crap. It was hard for me to fill the basket with the high fat low nutrient foods they've asked me to buy for them, but my Mate told me I had to, it was Mom’s money, so I did. But now I don’t have to see it! Hurray! Let them eat crap, I say! And let The Artists get out of the little mess of the keys locked in the car and then enjoy the story of how it all went down. I’ll have a little respite for awhile, until the next crisis comes along, but for now I’ll enjoy the heck out of myself!

Okay….so now you know the real awful me. I hope you don’t stop reading my blog because of it.

Friday, June 09, 2006

Fossil Guy Rocks!



My old pal, Fossil Guy, has helped me, or rather has done it all himself, to get my picture up on my site! I have been trying to do this for a long time and just didn't have the right combination for the Blog Safe. They don't make it real easy to do this, but Jim had the patience to keep trying things until he got it right! Thanks old buddy, old pal, no emphasis on the "old" but big emphasis on the buddy and the pal. This is one of the best things, blogging, that has come along in a long time and I love all you guys who keep doing it and keep visiting!

Friday, June 02, 2006

Plum Duff

Plum Duff

2 eggs

1/2 c. butter
1 c. brown sugar
2 c. prunes
1 c. flour
1/8 t. salt

1 t. soda
1 T. milk


Cook and mash prunes. Beat eggs. Melt butter.Mix eggs, butter and brown sugar together.Stir in prunes. Sift flour with salt.Dissolve soda in milk.Add flour and milk mixtures to prune mixture stir this in by hand. Bake this in a buttered ring mold covered with foil (it is a steamed pudding).Set mold in pan of hot water and steam in oven for 1 1/4 hours at 350 degrees.Serve with:

Sauce

1 egg.
5 T. melted butter
1 1/2 c. confectioners sugar
1 c. whipping cream
Beat egg till foamy. Add butter and beat.Add confectioners sugar and blend.Beat in whipping cream.
Refrigerate.

This sounds like a great way to take a bit of a "loosener". And did you know that Edinburgh's loudest rock band is called Plum Duff?