November 13, 2006

The Long Weekend of Daddy and Catherine--Part TWO!!

So, up early Sunday, more or less. Cat had been so proud about getting up early Saturday, but didn't quite have the same get-up-and-go-itiveness for church day.

After I blew the freon horn and banged on the garbage can with my swagger stick, she finally came to. Clothes, hair, shoes, in more or less that order, then downstairs to doctor Kitty with his meds. He really likes this stuff--"wrap his paws around your forearm and purrs"--likes it. I assume it's full of narcotics.

Breakfast, a quick game of Wheel of Addiction, then on to church. Boy, it was lonesome. Catherine was nice to me, though, and sat with me rather than her usual friend--an older lady who dotes on her terribly. It was nice to have her there with me, even if she racked out on the pew five seconds after she put her dollar into the offering plate. At least she didn't snore.

I sure hope I didn't.

Couldn't stay focused for anything, and kept drifting off into a very strange land of hallucinations and delusions. I do try to keep my Bible open, so I can at least pretend I was looking down reading. I think when my head hits the pew in front of me it is a bit hard to disguise, however.

Afterwards had to remind everyone that my kith and kin weren't sick but were with all the OTHER people's kith and kin at camp and wouldn't be back for a while. "Oh."

Yeah.

LUNCHTIME! Off to the East Buffet, where they serve many food things, and blessedly few of them look like mystery meat. Chicken looks pretty much like chicken, beef looks like beef, shrimp like shrimp, and pork looks like pork. Mostly. I still have a hard time believing those long skewers of "chicken" actually came from a bird. ANYway, it was good.

Home, and HEY! FAMILY'S BACK! YAY!

And mad.

Oops.

Seems that I forgot I was supposed to come home after church and meet them and then we'd all go out to eat together. So much for a big hug and kiss and "happy to see you!"

::sigh::

Helped get everything stowed away and the laundry started--again. The kids kept asking what was for lunch, and Mom kept mumbling about something. Dast not ask.

Instead, I gathered up Jonathan and we went over to the OTHER Chinese place down the highway from us and got some suitable Asian cuisine--hot and sweaty soup, Mongolian beef, and chicken, and shrimp, and some sesame chicken. Brought it home, instant hero status once more. They ate like Mongol hordes.

Me? Well, I had tried while I was out to find a better bag for my new sleeping bag because it was big and I mistakenly threw away the plastic stuff sack it came in. Because I am an idiot. So I'd gotten one from Academy (I felt the need to spend money, for some reason) and after we got home with the food, I found the new sack to be much too small. Back to the store, got another one, it was much too big. Why? Because I am an idiot.

::sigh::

Well, enough of that. Time to head back to church for evening worship, where the song service was led by some guy who seemed to have caught a terrible case of kennel cough or distemper. Why? Because he's an idiot. Did manage to stay awake better this time, though, and enjoyed a very good sermon.

On to home, finished up the laundry, got the kids to bathe (AWWWWW!) and engaged in several more rounds of Cat's new game, and then, it was time to go to bed.

Boy, that sure was a long weekend.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at November 13, 2006 02:44 PM
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