Eclipse, Maddie, and Hubby Drops His Pants at Dinner

Just popping in! I feel very robot-ish at the moment. I’m just always “on task”! But all is going well, I suppose. So here are just random thoughts as they come to me.

First of all on Monday the eclipse. We had fairly heavy cloud cover. But I prayed that even so we’d get some glimpses. God provided. I was able to view it through the clouds and see it! We did NOT have totality in our area and it did get dimmer and much colder. I didn’t hear crickets, but the birds were kinda going wild flying around and trying to get “settled”. I do have some video so will share eventually. The above pic was created on Canva, by me just telling “AI” on there to create a print of people watching a very colorful eclipse. And this is what it did. I can’t wait to play around more with the art creation on Canva. We have reached a new age. It will do video too. When I retire I’m going to have a Canva hay day! ;-). I have some ideas for the videos!

The videos- well, I have so much footage collected of Hot Springs, Texas, the car video and the decorating of the front porch. I think I have a month worth of videos to do. And I don’t like being behind so I’m just not filming much in April. It’s been kinda nice to just not film anything, but yet I’ve also missed it at times. So the videos will kinda go from March to May, lol. But that works. I was really surprised I had that much footage. Texas trip has two weeks worth because it basically was a 1.5 week trip. My appendicitis week took two weeks of videos. So somehow I got behind. Then there was a week I didn’t post a video but still had footage. Anyway, this lack of filming much in April will mean I’ll be caught up in about 4 videos from now. That way they don’t continue to stack up. Don’t worry, if anything interesting happens I’ll film it. lol

It looks like Maddie is being sassy with me and sticking her tongue out, but I think I just clicked while she was licking her lips! Anyway, Maddie has sometimes thrown up on occasion – ever since we have had her. But it was few and far between. Now she is doing it once or twice a day. She then acts fine, eats, and acts like nothing is wrong. So weird. I am thinking she gets sick from an empty stomach in b/w servings. I mean George gives her a treat or two during the day. And so often it is the mornings that she gets a sick stomach. I tried giving her a cracker this morning when we woke up but she would not have it. She wanted to go out, eat grass, and throw up. Then come in and eat. I guess I should research it some. I supposed we should take her back to the vet. But she acts fine after she tosses her cookies. I keep thinking she will get out of this, like she has in the past – long stretches of not having to go through this. It is just more of a common occurrence. I also keep thinking if it is something bad, like cancer, she would feel bad. I don’t think it is timed with her meds for fleas and ticks either. She started doing it more when we picked her up from boarding. But then she quit when she got home after a few days. Now she started again. So weird, but she doesn’t act sick other than that briefly. So pray for our little girl. I don’t know what the deal is.

The car is doing great! We are bonding pretty good! :-). I’m over the swap issue. It took a week or so. I’m impressed with the gas mileage. I’ve gone a long way with this tank in a week! Have been to Lebanon twice, Gallatin twice, and Work many days.

Mom and I got our nails done Monday night after work. Mom is drinking her iced tea but I got a beer because I wanted one with my burger. We went to Burger Republic. We were going to Cracker Barrel but they were closed for what looked like a remodel.

Neither of us were really happy about our nails. They have a color problem at our place. We pick out a color and they can’t find it and try to get you to pick another and you feel “on the spot” and just finally pick one. I went with one that was really too light and looked like my skin color. It’s ok though. I will deal with it. Mom also wanted hers to be more pink. I am wondering if we just need to go try another location but the people are so nice at the one we go to. Although I got the older lady that hurts me because I guess she cannot see too well. She goes off the side and it hurts.

I’m going to go get my toes done Friday. I also have a follow up Friday morning with the surgeon (finally). I was supposed to go the week we were in Texas. I called to cancel it and they said they never had the appointment in their books. lol. But this time I got an alert reminder, so I know they do this time.

Mom Updates

I’ve checked on Mom’s property tax rebate from the city/county. It’s waiting on approval and they said it takes several months but they will call and let her know when it’s been approved and they will send her the two checks. I also called and checked on meals on wheels, but they don’t ever have the act together I guess. She is still on the waiting list. They said they didn’t have enough funding to make much progress. Oh well.

As far as cleaning help. I really don’t think Mom can afford that right now and it’ll be me doing it after I retire, most likely. I don’t mind spending a couple of hours a week helping out but I won’t be able to do things like windows and a lot of deep cleaning. She may have to hire someone to do that once or twice a year. I imagine my help will be limited to sheet changing, toilet swishing, counter wiping, dusting and light vacuuming. And it won’t be all that every week either. lol.

I am happy with the upcoming video. It’ll be fun for you guys I think. The last video shockingly got 877 views since Saturday and I gained quite a few subscribers. I’m at 476, just a few more away from my goal of hitting 500 by May 1.

I guess I will go read a book. My video is uploading to YouTube. I’ve got 30 minutes before bed. My sheets are changed, Mom’s been checked on, dogs fed, face time with Katy and the grandsons, and we’ve had dinner.

Why Hubby Dropped His Pants at Dinner Time (LOL)

Me making the Oh Face! lol

George is mad at me because right when we were filling our plates to eat I noticed that he had paint on the butt of his britches. He wanted me to scratch it off. I laughed and said no way. I thought he was kidding. He was serious. It was about a thumb’s worth of paint. I still said no because I didn’t want to get paint on my newly painted nails, plus it was time to eat. He was furious with me and said “I’d help you if you asked me to”, trying to plug in a guilt statement. I told him the timing was wrong I wasn’t going to sit there and wipe his butt while filling my plate. We could do it later. It’d already been there all day I guessed so why now. He didn’t like it one bit. And started pulling his pants off in the kitchen to do it himself, LOL LOL LOL, which probably is what should have happened to begin with?

I grabbed a spoon and began finishing filling my plate as he began undoing his britches. He didn’t like the spoon I was using for a dip and wanted me to change it, as his pants slid down to his knees. The scene was quite comical, although no one was laughing. I said the spoon I had was fine. He threw the current spoon in his hand across the counter. I’m not sure where his anger is coming from. He must have had a bad day. He is normally fairly patient, but then again, he normally has things going his way I guess and is not used to being told ‘no’. Being quite on point and making fun at the situation, I told him “sorry I didn’t obey you, lol! But the timing was off!” I also told him I wasn’t going to argue over it. So we had a very quiet dinner, more than usual. I don’t know what went wrong in his day, but I didn’t want to ruin mine by arguing. Life is hard enough. I’ve worked all day and still tried to get through my list of to do’s. And the dinner we had was getting late. I was so hungry.

So I’m back here working on the blog and going to read. I’m not mad. I’m just surprised at his expectations of me getting paint off his britches with my newly painted nails and as I was trying to eat. It was all quite odd, actually. I figure if he is upset at THAT, I can probably do nothing right tonight.

So let’s just toss it off to him having something happen in his day I’m unaware of. Bless Him. I don’t know what is happening. Let’s just hope it doesn’t happen again. I can deal with something once or twice and then it is going to be addressed or come to a head. As I don’t intend on having any future nights like this. :-O

Everyone has wanted me to act perfect in the past according to how they wanted me to be. I’ve endured much criticism through the years because I was not this or not that. So, no one better be alarmed if I happen to have my own expectations suddenly. I’m too old to deal with childish rude behavior. I have left careers over such. I’ve had to give Mom some boundaries and I have another box of boundaries where that came from to hand out if needed, lol.

I’m sitting here wondering if he got the paint off or not. I think he said it was grout. I don’t remember the pants being off for long. I was already eating at that point when the spouse, pants and all came and sat at the dinner table. We did not talk. At all. Except to the dogs. Thank God for the dogs.

Ahhhh…I’m sure it’s just a bad day. Maybe we will laugh about it tomorrow. Maybe not. Or maybe he’ll try to make me feel like I’ve done something wrong for about 10 more years and never forgive or forget it. That’s happened before, lol. I’m just too old for games at this point. I just expect everyone to play nice and be considerate of feelings. Perhaps a “why won’t you scratch my butt” should have been asked and it would have been nice, if we are analyzing it, to see if maybe I had a different reason than just me trying to be selfish.

It’s been expected of me to be nice and considerate though the years and so I have my own expectations too. I’m a person too. I am going to bed. Not angry, just surprised. I’ve had bad days too. I don’t usually throw spoons but I’m sure I’ve thrown a few fits. I pretty much got out of that habit though, as I’d gotten that from my Mom, and others didn’t want to be subject to it…I changed for others so that is why I’m having expectations of others to be patient when things don’t go their way either. But I’ll always protect myself. No doubt about that. I don’t do drama too well anymore. I thought we were ALL broke of that, but perhaps not. I think today I probably care much less about what people think, especially if I know my intentions were good, or not to be rude. It’s on others that they didn’t take the time to find out the correct situation or the truth.

You’d have thought it was some kind of outer space bug on his pants that was going to eat a hole in his leg if not taken care of immediately. Oh well, at least for a while there, I wore the only pants in the house hold.

The Tribe Has Spoken. lol. More than once. The Tribe is retreating and going to bed. No peace pipes here, lol. Just me and Miss Maddie Sue.