September 3, 2007

• True Confessions

  I decided to force myself out of the house today and went to a friend's pool.  It was nice.  But then I came home and did something I never would have done before the empty nest syndrome. I clicked on Who has a secret crush on you?  I know, I'm 47, you don't have to say it.  I even submitted my name and astrological sign.  Then they wanted my " real" cell phone number.  Thankfully, I clicked off.  I wasn't even on Ambian either.  This is worse than I thought.  But it would have been nice to know who had a secret crush, darn.

  Anyway, I rushed home in anticipation of dinner with expunge.  I wondered what I was getting tonight.  Last night the steak melted in my mouth.  I walked in and found frozen pizza, not only that but it had toppings I didn't like.  At least some things are getting back to normal.  As normal as life can be when you live with your ex- husband and no kids are here.

  My sister left a comment on Jennie's travel blog
  
  JennieBear,  Don't worry about your mom, she'll be okay - or we will
  put HER on an 18 hour flight to South Africa.  I know she would get
  along very well with your Zulu family - and click her way to getting all
  the gossip.  Living in a Zulu town would be so much better than her job
  at Safeway or Safe Haven or whatever that place is called anyway.  My
  advice, If you get to feeling strange in a strange place just play a
  simple tune in your head like "Don't Worry - Be Happy".  Love you! 
  Your favorite Aunt Liz

  So true.  I'm not so sure about the clicking thing though.   I googled it and this is what I found

   
  

  • c - dental (comparable to a sucking of teeth)
  • q - alveolar (comparable to a bottle top 'pop')
  • x - lateral (comparable to a click one may do for a horse)

  I don't want to do that and I think it's weird and hard.  Jennie better not do that when she comes home.  She can demonstrate but it will be irritating if she does the sucking of the teeth thing in normal conversation.  I know how I am, that will get on my nerves.  However, I would get the gossip.  I bet Zulu gossip is much like American gossip.  I'm sure there are break ups and cheating and all that good stuff.  People are people wherever you go.  I wonder if they have celebrities there.  I wonder if they wear pants?  Do you think they have Zulu rehabs?

  I tagged this entry with the word sex.  I don't know why, I just thought it would be fun. 

  My friend and I have decided we are not calling our kids at school anymore.  We are playing hard to get, they can just come to us from now on.

  Matt actually did call me on his own today.  He told me he is really cold at night.  He is in one of the rare dorms that have air, but apparently you can't turn it down.  I fought the urge to drive the four and a half hours to bring him another blanket.  I did say I would put $$$ in his account and told him to buy one.  You might wonder why they don't just turn the air off, but I guess then it's way to hot.  Geeze some people are never satisifed.

  I read a book about Borderline Personality Disorder and decided I have it.  That's another thing us empty nesters do, self diagnose. It's kind of exciting, I wonder what I'll do next.
  
  

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