Kids are messy

OK let me start with a disclaimer.... I am not a Mom... I do not have kids... I love kids! I think they are a joy and they hold our future.... with that said, they are slobs! And dangerous little dare devils! I can handle the runny nose of a toddler, the dirty diaper of an infant.... but there comes a time that that stops... right????

OK let me explain.... I spent last night with my niece, who is an intelligent, beautiful, confident young woman! However.... not being a mom, I find a few things problematic... but as we were on the moving sidewalk at the airport, I was a nervous Nelly... she was not paying attention as the end was coming up... Hell, she wanted to sit on the handrail and let it carry her... I put an end to that quickly... and she was dancing and walking backwards on the dang thing... those things are dangerous!!! And she was wearing flip flops, walking backwards, on the moving sidewalk... I saw every 20/20 and Dateline tragedy story possibility on the fringe....

And.... Why would someone wipe greasy french fry fingers on their pants rather than a napkin? And why would you leave the ice cream on you nose? LOL :) it was cute! I had a GREAT time hanging with my niece, and she TOTALLY impressed me with her maturity level... but come on, you can use a napkin, right? (am I too anal?)

As I'm typing I just realized.... I am an old hag! :( What ever happened to having fun, and enjoying life???? I guess I'm a bit too cautious... is that bad? I didn't think so until about 20 seconds ago. SHIT! sorry....

OK, so I am a bit too cautious, but that cautiousness comes from experience... maybe.... or something... Maybe I am just the old hag with all the cats... one of my biggest fears! I did have a great time hanging out with my Niece. It was only a few hours in the airport, as she was on a layover on the way to spend a few weeks with her Dad, but it was good! and yes... maybe I should loosen the f*@k up! but I guess I am me... s'est la vie! or not. Once I was the carefree spirit... how old am I? Seriously.... lately I continue to feel OLD!

On Saturday DH and I were shopping, I saw a kid and a mom shopping and I thought, how nice that (teenage kid) and her mom are having a shopping day/date together... then he turned so I could see his face, and it as a boy! He had long hair that was feathered or wavy... he didn't look like a boy from behind... he looked like a little girl.... Am I getting old?????? I hear Grandpa telling Norm 'Cut your hair, or put on a dress, the choice is yours!' LOL, that was a funny day! And his hair was BARELY touching his collar! but that was 12 lifetimes ago!

OK, I guess that is it for this Sunday night. I did have a GREAT time hanging out with my Niece last night, but I worry that I might be a bit too anal retentive... I'm sorry! Is that the 'curse' of not being a mom?

Good night and God Bless!

Friday the 13th!

Even though I am a superstitious person, I have never been one to be fearful of today. I will try not to step on a crack when walking on a sidewalk, and I will knock on wood occasionally, but today, the 13th... I got no problem with it! (knock on wood) :)

Things are moving quickly here, 2 weeks from today and I will be sitting on a beach in Mexico! This will be my first passport stamp, I'm excited! This year Mexico, next year... Maybe Canada for the Winter games... then it's on to Europe! OH and I can't wait to see Russia, good old USSR! :) Maybe somewhere in this brain of mine I can remember a few words of that language... maybe...

After the Mexico trip I get to start looking for a job again... It's been fun not working, but I need to get back to it... the checkbook is wanting some funds... and who am I to deny the checkbook what it wants. Also, it's hard to meet folks in a new town... I think I need the social benefits of going to work everyday.

We are getting settled into the new apartment, apartment living is... well apartment living. This place is a lot nicer than our last place, we have a townhome style apartment, so there is no one above or below us. NICE! The cats have settled right in :) We were worried about Kitty being able to get around, he is getting old and now has arthritis, so we worried that he would not be able to handle the stairs. We had him in the apartment for... oh maybe 10 minutes, when he headed down the stairs, without a problem! Either we was trying to leave, or he was showing us that we don't have to worry. Smart cat! (or smart ass, whatever). He doesn't go up or down often, but occasionally I find him upstairs, or downstairs just hanging out. He still isn't inclined to jump on the couch, but I guess I will take baby steps... he is doing the stairs without a problem! And Hercules loves having the hallways and stairways to run up and down and attack his shadow or the air... or whatever fancies him at the moment (he's my freaky fur baby child) :)
Here's a photo of thier corner, Hercules has a window to stare out from his perch. and they both have thier bed/pillows to sleep on.

That's it for this update... I am going to try to update the blog at least once a week... that's the new plan!