We went to bed at 12:30 after a hard day on Friday. I got up at 1:45 to get something from my table in the living room. Tommy was sound asleep, holding the remote and tv on. I spoke loudly twice and told him to turn off the tv. He acted confused, and rightly so. Then, he just closed his eyes. I hate to yell at him, so I just went back to the bedroom. Just now, he said he turned it off.
I got up once more in the night to go to bathroom. The next time I woke was 11:15 am. I felt bruised all over. It is 8 pm and I still feel bruised all over. I had a sandwich for lunch and ate peanuts a few minutes ago.
There are leftovers--baked chicken breast and vegetables to eat, but I made something else. Chicken in soup, rice, cheese, 12 ounce package of broccoli, and pimientos. There is still taco soup, so I will freeze the rest of that tonight. There is still the other package of chicken thawing. I will cook it and have many packages of frozen breasts for other meals.
Tommy had to help me with this dinner, heavy help. It was also too heavy for me to try to put it in the oven. Dinner is late because I didn't realize how long it would take me.
Today, I started decluttering by cleaning out a bin of paper. Tomorrow, Tommy will go through the paper and get my name and person information off. I usually just rip my name off and put it in something gooey and wet. He cuts it off and takes scissors and gives it a good shredding. He will do this for hours each time. I remembered the other thing I wanted to get him for his birthday--a shredder. His birthday is on Dec 9th. When I have mentioned this before, he has yelled mightily and objected. I see this paper as a detriment to decluttering paper. So, we need this. It will help with decluttering.
Saturday, I went to visit the Tupperware lady who told me she would be there on this date. She has a tent in a parking lot and brought things to my car.
I went into Publix to get one thing on bogo and they did not have it out. I bought $43 worth of stuff that looked good and they finally found the item in the back--$5 more. In my defense, the pork loins were a good price and delicious. I will only buy this one quart of eggnog.
The Christmas cards for the exchange finally got stamps. I forgot where I put the Christmas stamps, so these got winter flowers in the snow.
That's it. Nothing else was done. I am in my snuggly nightgown with pockets. Dinner will be done soon. A Christmas Story is on TV. I love this movie! I asked Tommy if he ever wanted a BB gun when he was a kid. No. However, his father did buy him a shotgun for Christmas when he was about twelve-years-old. !!! His eleven-year-old brother received a shotgun the same Christmas. They lived in the city of Birmingham!
Dinner had an off taste, not sure why.
When you were little did you want a BB gun or get a shotgun?
How about your husband?
Your brothers or sisters?
Children?
Do you love A Christmas Story, also?
We watch A Christmas Story every Christmas Eve. Sometimes we even have fudge so we can eat a piece when Ralphie says "Oh Fudge"
ReplyDeleteAnne,
DeleteNow, that is funny. I need an excuse to have fudge.
Love that show - watch it every year.
ReplyDeleteCheryl,
DeleteWe would not miss it.
You might like the Christmas Story Christmas, Ralphie all grown up. It's probably only in streaming but guess it will be wider spread eventually. My husband and brothers had shot guns. His family hunted, we had live stock. My kids had no interest. I'm sorry you feel bruised- still from fall, or the long wait in car and driving Friday?
ReplyDeleteSAM,
DeleteI know I would love it, Tommy, too. But, he refuses to stream anything! No, not from fall. That is mostly gone. This is pain from the long day, riding in the car, no rest at all. Tommy and his brother had no interest, his father just bought them shotguns and taught them firearm safety and how to shoot.
I never had a shot gun or any fire arm, but my Dad made me a bow and some arrows. He made the bow from mahogany and I don't remember what the wood of the arrows was made from. I was a pretty good shot with my bow and arrows, but never shot anything live. The boy across the street had a b b gun and when I was over at his house he shot a poor little bird that was on the wire and the little thing actually hung upside down by its feet from the wire for a couple of seconds. That made me heart sick. I was mad at the boy across the street for quite awhile about that. He was the one that filled the old brass doorknob with home made black powder that he ordered from some chemical place (or I guess his Mom must have ordered it for him). He filled the doorknob with the homemade black powder, put a fuse in it, took it out and tied it from a tree limb so it could dangle and circle round and round. What it turned out he had made was a homemade very basic hand grenade.I hid down in the concrete steps area that went down into his basement. I watched it spin around shooting out sparks for a minute or less, and then it exploded just as I ducked down behind the concrete wall. It did make shrapnel. He and I used to spend the summer days before July 4 making our own cones, and spinner fireworks and would make a show for our parents. If my dad would have caught us making the doorknob spinner, that would have been the end of it. But he didn't ever see it, and I never told him about it.
ReplyDeleteMy Dad had either a rifle or a shotgun when he was a child. I can't remember which. He shot rabbits and squirrels in the fields which would later have the subdivision where I live now built. Those fields were a quarter of a mile or so from where his elementary school was located. It later turned out to be the school where I and my husband went and our kids went to and our grandson for kindergarten. Back when my Dad was a boy it was totally acceptable for boys to have fire arms when they were real young. That would have been about 85 years ago. Kids had more sense then and had been trained to use weapons.
susie,
ReplyDeleteThat is neat having your own bow and arrows. We had the bought ones which were just junk. That boy sounds dangerous. That doorknob could have killed you. Your parents would have had a heart attack if they heard about it even when you were out of the house, an adult. Oh my!
My father was born in 1916, grew up poor during the Depression. I do know he had guns when he was an adult, but don't remember hearing about it. Kids did not feel beyond parental control!
My bow and arrows were the real thing. My Dad was always an amazing wood worker. When we used to go out on our cabin cruiser that he built and camp on the sandbars, I got to have target practice with his 22 pistol. Dad and his Dad before him always had guns and when Dad was a kid he hunted, My Grandpa had bird dogs and hunted using them. Target practice with my Dad was intense. Among other things he did in the Marine Corps was teaching men to shoot on the firing range.
DeleteHe told me over and over that the gun was always loaded, always. At first, I replied, but Dad I saw you take the bullets out of it, He repeated, a gun is always loaded, until I finally got it and realize that you always treat a gun like it is loaded. Then after a lot of demonstrations and much, much more Marine Corp type instruction, I was allowed to fire the pistol. I was a pretty good shot. I really liked shooting, but could never have shot any kind of animal. My Dad had quit hunting long before that time.
My Dad was real lucky. He was on the rifle range teaching the guys that were on their way to fight in Korea. In the mean time my Dad took a test to see if he had skills to work on electrical systems. He did great on the test, so instead of being sent to Korea to fight he was sent to be on an aircraft carrier to work on the electrical systems of planes. That aircraft carrier was just as far from Korea as it could have been, and still be on this earth.
susie,
DeleteNow, I remember the cabin cruiser he built. Interesting. You got a really good teacher, one who taught soldiers. That is one lesson no one has to teach me because I am deathly afraid of guns. I actually fear some idiot will think the gun is unloaded and accidentally shoot me. Of course, there is the gun violence all over. Your father seems to have had many skills. The electrical skill was very important but kept him out of the immediate line of fire. So, you got Marine Corps training!
I despise "A Christmas Story." I can't say why, but I really do. No BB guns growing up...we didn't even have toy guns beyond squirt guns. My parents were humanists/pacifists, and, also, my upbringing was not fully Americanized, so Christmas looked different for us than most. That said, I love things which go boom when you pull the trigger. Trap shooting us probably the only sport I can stand to watch, and I LOVE it. One kid found out h.s. had a trap shooting team, and joined his freshman year, and it's been a love affair ever since.
ReplyDeleteMeg,
DeleteI suppose a person not reared in the US might have a different view of guns. It is good you at least like guns as sport.
I haven't seen a Christmas story in years. I should try to watch it again. I keep reminding myself that I should watch Elf, but never get around to it. I didn't grow up around guns, although I'm comfortable around it. DS's father was in the military and I also dated a police detective years ago.
ReplyDeleteMs Goose,
DeleteThere is a station. FreeForm, that is showing both those movies. I suppose you are comfortable around guns with your background.
I grew up with guns in the house, my dad and brothers were/are deer hunters. I was never interetested. Dad was very rigid about the proper use of the guns. He would have whaled the tar out of any son that touched a gun without permission or shot animals for fun. Guns were for getting food for the family, period. Trap shooting was to sharpen your skills.
ReplyDeleteI like "A Christmas Story" because it's about a different era. The only thing that bugs me about it is the mom's hairdo. I know, that's super weird of me. But women simply did NOT wear their hair like that back then. EVER.
Sue,
DeleteWe had guns in the house, in a closet and not secured or loaded. As far as I know, no one ever looked at them for fear of getting in trouble with my father. We did not use them to get food although a few squirrels in the wood got put onto the table. I would not eat them!
I noticed the hairdo, too. EVERY TIME we watch it. But, I like the hairdo. However, little boys did not wear those cuts, either.
Oh now I have to have a look at the Mom's hairdo. I never noticed anything about it. However I did notice that they use Fiesta dishes! I have begun giving away my fiesta....it is just too heavy for my arthritic hands.
ReplyDeleteI do like the movie. It is highly quotable. In my family when someone does a good job on something we quote the teacher by saying A+++++ while making exaggerated check marks in the air. Of course we also say that something fragile is "FRA-GEE-LAY! It must be Italian!"
I have never shot a gun in my life and have no plans to do so.
Saturday night my daughter, Granddaughter and I attended a Candlelight concert and ceremony at Disneyland. It was a special event through club 33. I can't tell you how impressive it was. There were choirs from all over, all dresses in white, green and gold choir robes on a massive tiered stage. I estimate there were at least 500 people singing along with a full orchestra. Lots of decorations as only Disney can do! It was beautiful! Viola Davis was the celebrity who told the Christmas story.
I am going home this afternoon but will be back up here on Sunday. I will be spending a week with my youngest grandson while my daughter & her husband are in London. She lives just over 100 miles from me so the trips up and back are not bad.
I noticed the dishes, too. I was going to get Fiesta, and thought they would not be good for me in a few years. I was correct.
DeleteThat is a good family custom to have. No matter how many times I hear him say fragile wrong, I laugh like it is the first time I heard it.
The Disneyland extravaganza sounds wonderful. I wonder if it is on the internet. I will look.
How old are the grandchildren? That will be a nice time for you and grandchildren and your daughter can travel secure in the knowledge her children are safe.
Yes Linda, a portion of the concert is on YouTube.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrH-VkbzdqE&ab_channel=ThemeParkSteve
We were WAY down far to the left of this angle. I later read that there were over 400 people in the choir!
My grandson is 12 ....he'll be 13 in early February.
Janet,
DeleteThanks. I will watch this in a bit.