When all I wanted was to make dinner...

...life dished out other plans. ;-) And it didn't include dinner in any way, shape or form.

So my kitten really loves to watch the parakeet. In fact, she drools all over him, constantly. Tonight I come from work, all ready to surprise my hubby with a real dinner (for a change), and as I'm pondering the situation, I hear a loud crash coming from the den. Horrified, I stare at the bird cage on the ground, all the s**@@ included with it, and the bird attempting to escape it's hungry predator. (Come on Lixy, it's not like I don't feed you or anything!) Meanwhile I can't stop either one of them, and who knows what kinds of words are coming out of my mouth (Please don't tell anyone, Darin! ) Bird is freaking out all over the living room, can't catch him. Can't stop the cat. I trip and fall, and hurt my leg (clutz!!) Got something in my hand, can't remember what it was. I hollar for Darin to come upstairs and catch the darn thing. I'm simply a mess, and to make matters worse, I start to cry. (um, baby!)

Um, why am I writing about this? Not exactly sure. ;-) Just an interesting Sylvester and Tweety moment in my life to remember that I'm sure I'll laugh about later. (Did Sylvester EVER really get to catch Tweety??? I'm not sure.) I feel so horrible for my husband. Instead of coming home to a loving wife with an amazing dinner, he comes home to this freak-a-zoid with messy hair, a sore leg, crying, no dinner, and bird crap all over her. Freezer is broken, and wife can't even fix the ice machine by herself. Hubby shakes his head, asks if wife wants Subway for dinner. Why the heck not? Wife isn't a very good cook anyway. ;-) And even if she were, she doesn't feel like cooking now.

Poor Bob. Husband may think I'm a freak...and hubby just may be right!

Well, thankfully for me, Hubby is kinda a freak too. ;-) In a good, handsome way of course. Here are twenty five random things he wrote about his life on facebook yesterday. He is too darn cute sometimes for his own good, I just had to share:


1. I hate television...and watch it all the time.
2. I like to paint pewter fantasy figurines.
3. My journal is not first person linear, but rather I write scenes from my life...a creative non-fiction extravaganza.
4. I speak fluent Spanish (thanks to 2 years in the Dominican Republic.)
5. I have been living with and treating Multiple Sclerosis since 1998.
6. I listen to classical music in the car to keep me from exploding with road rage.
7. I am happily married to my Jen...the smartest think I have ever done in my life.
8. After 20 years...I am still in school. My current degree program is towards my teaching certificate. I want to teach the fourth grade.
9. I have worked for the past 10 years for AT&T as a circuit design engineer and a circuit tester.
10. I was on the top of the World Trade Center in November of 2000. I didn't know it could be my last time.
11. I love swimming in Waimea Bay.
12. I love sushi, but will only eat it on a coast. How fresh can the raw fish be in landlocked Colorado?
13. I write the word "love" a lot in lists like these.
14. I have a cat named Lixie (actually it's Galaxy) and a beagle named Bella (actuallly its Belatrix.) We had to put our siamese to sleep...her name was Luna. If you can't tell, we name our animals after celestial objects.
15. I like to watch Days of Our Lives because of Josepsh Mascolo. When I saw him playing Stefano DiMera, I knew that they had a real "bad guy" in the line up.
16. My favorite movie, after all these years, is still So I Married an Axe Murderer.
17. I have played every Final Fantasy game that has come out.
18. I have two blue parakeets...does anyone want a bird?
19. I refer to myself as a Judeo-Christian Buddhist, because I think that is good Mormon is all of these things.
20. I sold my dad's home in a weekend last year. I was surprised it didn't stay on the market all summer long.
21. I have decided that I don't like the food so much in Montreal. I expected better.
22. I married a mathematician who has evolved into a writer.
23. Since my father died in 2007 my hair has gone from dark with distinguished silver temples to white with streaks of pepper. Fortuneately Loreal makes my natural color...and every six weeks I apply it. Vanity, thy name is Bob.
24. I am in the worst shape of my life. My aerobic workouts are marred by the fact that MS has weakend my left leg. I tire quickly, and just have a hard time working out. Still, every day, I ride the recumbant bike and workout with light weights and a body ball. 25. My favorite college team is Michigan. Not because I went there. No, but I would if I could drop it all right now and go back to school full time. I have been a Wolverine fan since I was 10. Something about the maize and blue caught my attention. GO BLUE!


(Why didn't he put number 7 first?? kidding...) The way I'm feeling now, I will second number 18 for him!!! Hope everyone's dinner plans go better than mine...

Till next entry~