Crazy Saturday

Okay so I guess it wasn't TOO crazy, but it was different. I awoke this morning at about 6:30 AM. No joke. I would have gone back to sleep but I just couldn't so I got on up assuming I would likely grow tired and nap a little later. I never did. Aside from that my morning was typical. I spent a large portion of it playing Pokemon Ruby although I did so while watching movies on the Hallmark channel with my mom and sis. We weren't specifically watching them together but we were all watching them in her room.

My sis and I did not play the game together because a plumber was coming out to fix the heating elements in our water heater, plus, she planned to hang with her friend within a couple of hours. We had some, interesting, conversations while the guy worked and he found it funny when my sis and I got to discussing the water's behavior from the kitchen faucet when it came on as the guy had drained some of the water so it kept sputtering and spitting out nasty greyish junk. It was hilarious though.

Soon after that my sister left to hang out with her friend so my mom and I got to playing Nancy Drew: The White Wolf of Icicle Creek while she was gone. It fun but frustrating. My mom and I agreed that the Nancy Drew games seem to suffer on any platform other than on the PC and we have decided we will not buy another Nancy Drew game unless it is for the PC.

After we played for awhile we got to talking about possibly rearranging the living room because we were constantly being bothered by dogs barking at the window at anything that moved and the glare that the sun cast on the screen even through the thick curtains we have up. After suffering the dogs for long enough we were both itching to go through with the change so I put away my Wii and we got to work. It rattled me a bit seeing everything be uprooted as I have always had problem with change, even those I wanted or had been preparing for for a long time, but I knew it would be better as we planned to put the entertainment center against the window they dogs bark at so they cannot get to that window.

The EC wasn't long enough to cover the entire window and we worried about the dogs trying to wedge themselves between the window and the EC and possibly toppling it over so we put the two large speakers on either side of it to remedy the issue and we firmly believe there will be no issues with that now. We also believe that having the window blocked from their view will greatly reduce the pointless noise as they will be unable to see anything to bark at such as cats, people walking along the street, or moving grass. They may still bark at strange sounds but the relentless idiot barking should now come to an end. Not only that, but we no longer have to be bothered by the window glare as the curtains are thick enough to keep the sun from being bright in our eyes, just not thick enough to block the sun from causing a glare on the TV screen making things hard to see/read on video games when we play during the day.

I am very happy with how the living room looks and I was even more happy to know my sis liked it too. We had actually done all this while she was gone and she had no idea we were doing it. We got done about 10 min before she got home. It seemed to shock her a bit but she quickly mentioned that she liked it. I'm glad considering how spontaneous that ended up being. I'm still a little rattled but I know it will calm down and I will love it just as I did with my new room.

For supper we cooked Great Value chicken strips and tator-tots. We even took some cheese slices we've had for awhile now and melted them in a "double-boiler" created using a clear, glass bowl for the cheese sitting in a small pan with boiling water. I was a bit uncertain about the cheese as I was not fond of it the last time I tried it but this time, the way we did it, it tasted just like the cheese Sonic put on their cheese tator-tots. It was so amazing! I absolutely loved it! My sister even agreed with me. The chicken strips were good as always and I ate them with ranch dressing and I had a can of Mountain Dew to drink to top it all off.

Afterwards I helped clean up and to wind down I sat in my mom's room and chatted with her a bit. I made very sure to tell her I loved her very much, not just to make her feel better but because it is absolutely true. She sometimes thinks she is a terrible mother but she is just the opposite. I think she is a really good mom and I thank the Lord that he gave me such an awesome person to be my mother. I wish I could have spent a little more time with her this evening but she was already getting ready for bed about the time I started getting sleepy and I definitely wanted to write this before I was too tired to think, and I do not like writing posts the day after the fact as I lose a lot of thought and detail from the day and thus my posts end up lacking overall.

I know my mom is not reading this, nor will she ever, but the statements about her that I wrote above still stand, no matter if she sees it or not. I pray she can be happy once again because seeing her sad and being unable to do anything about it is crushing.

Well I think I'm going to head off now. Night!