I Am So Thankful!

For those of you who may stop by my blog, yes, I'm still alive.  For over a month my monitor wasn't working. I blamed Mercury, that tyrant of electrical gadgets on a retrograde day, and I decided that I would give it a last ditch effort this morning after I unplugged it and was ready to throw it all away.

Voila!

It's a Thanksgiving Day Miracle!!!!!

HERE I AM!

This has been a very crazy week. There is so much to share and as much as I'd love to delve into all that has happened the past few weeks, I shall divulge it all at a later date.  I will say that I did try to post a blog from my phone. For 30 minutes my not so good eyes and my fat thumbs typed away a blog post. I went to post it, and dammit wouldn't ya know it, the stupid thing froze on me. Froze up completely that it caused my phone to fizz out on me and I couldn't access the internet at all. I was not a happy camper. That was my only lifeline to Facebook. My only way to know what was going on in the real world, virtually speaking that is.

I called the phone company and after they tried to work their magic, the woman told me they could do a data restore which would erase EVERYTHING.  I told them I would call back.

The next morning, it was working fine again.

I am spending the day solo, as my kids will be with dad today. I was invited to join them, he swore nobody would be "mean" to me, but there is a giant german shepherd who isn't very fond of me(the feeling is mutual) so I declined his offer and thanked him kindly.

Then I was invited to a friend's house for dinner. At first it was going to be just me as originally the kids dad was going to take them. Then I got the invite and called and asked him what his plans were. He had none. Wanted to watch football and said he didn't care if I took the kids to my friends. Then my friend said that her hubby had to work. So dinner was cancelled for today. Then she offered an invite for this Saturday. As my luck would have it, it was at 7 pm. I don't drive after dark, unless it's well lit and I know the road well enough. Call me a "safety first" kind of driver. I may as well be drunk and behind the wheel driving at night in uncharted territories. Because that's how I'd be driving.

So I declined her offer.

Then she explained how much money she had spent on buying items for the dinner expecting us to be there.  An LOL followed her explanation, but I could not help but feel guilty for not being able to come.  This is what happens with lack of communication, not to mention the tone which is why I hate when people don't just pick up a phone once in a while, I hate texting and messaging for that very reason. You never know the real intent behind the words of someone else.

 Maybe I should have asked her when she offered the Saturday dinner what time was the dinner. Or maybe she should have told me first. I don't know. It's one of those tricky...what if scenarios. Ya know? 

Anyway, no harm no foul. It's not like my kids eat a ton of food anyway. My daughter eats like a bird and my boys eat fairly well, but not $100 worth of food on one day. Even for the 4 of us, my shopping is usually 10 bucks per day to feed all of us. And not having more than one child of her own, perhaps she overestimated how much food 3 kids actually can eat.


It just bugged me.
I hate messaging, I hate texting.

You get the point.

I got a third offer to go to a friend's house from work. I was jumping up and down when she invited me. No joke. The kids in my class were laughing at me. I told her "You really DO love me!" ha ha. She was rolling her eyes, and grinning at me. We are a good team. If anything I am thankful for a coworker / friend like her. She even offered to come get me, and she lives in North Las Vegas, which is quite a drive from where she is to me.  She knows my van is crap, she knows I can't drive at night, and she just..well, knows me.

Then she told me she would bring me a plate anyway today. I told her just save me leftovers for Monday. She said she'd figure something out.  Either way, I'm Thankful for her friendship. You rock D.

Was watching the Macy's Parade with my kids and some poor girl fell while doing their little dance routine. I watched her back up during the routine and then her little hat covered ear-muffed self flopped flat on her hiney. But to that young lady, you did a swell recovery and kept up with the rest of your clan there. Good job!

Okay, I had to get a quick post out. More to come...provided my monitor lets me post more.

May you all have a wonderful, fun-filled, family and friend get together on this special day.

Kids and I will be putting the tree up this evening.  I will post some photos of the festivities and our baking that will follow after.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!