Name the dinosaur …

Welcome to the week of Texas had a cold front at 5am it was 68 degrees outside. That’s right you read that right . This never happens. Maybe that 100-year freeze did us some good. Actually I wouldn’t mind the 100-year freeze returning. I had no complaints . I would stock up on food better next time though. It wasn’t terrible but just nothing I wanted. I mean I welcome the Snow Margarita again.

Which brings me to I have no winter clothes and who even wants to think about it. And it honestly doesn’t get cold here til Jan . So I suppose I have plenty of time to find attire. But I’ve got a basket on Anthropologie and Free People and well the reliable Red Dress and let’s say I’m going to call it back to school shopping. I mean why not right ? If school is staring in 3 weeks and I have a birthday in 4 weeks I think it’s a two for one situation . But let’s keep that on the down low.

No trips have been planned for the fall and that’s a bit sad. I do not count the fact I’m going to Disneyworld with Kakie . That’s not an adventure . I’m not sure what that’s going to be. I don’t know that I’m looking forward to it except that I don’t have to be at work. And I get to see the castle coated in lights.

As Friday has come . It was a morning of carbs that continued to lunch. Which on Friday I generally do not eat lunch . But today it was a group trip to Cork n Pig, and if you know , you know. Hope you’re in the know. It was a week at the museum and Henry getting a new roomie.

Old hag had the day off . All in all the week was not terrible.

Let’s see what the weekend holds . Shall we ?

Until next time

Infinite X’s & O’s

P.S. I really do need help with the dinosaur name . He already has a friend Chomper .

Grasshopper Knowledge

The weekend was quiet and not very eventful . I cooked the old people dinner and had it there at 5:20 10 minutes early . And the niece and husband had sushi from HEB . Back home to clean up the kitchen . Where I ended up by the pool listening to a drunk friend talk . And finally said “go to bed”

Sunday we bought a blood pressure taker and took it back over to them and went to the ever exciting Lowes. I have no idea what we purchased there. Had lunch with Lisa at Rosas who let me add is never picking lunch . Unless she is really hungry and that’s what she really wants. Otherwise no she doesn’t get a say .

Her birthday is next week and she has decided to have dinner at our house and hangout. So Italian it is.

Monday was a slow very slow day with nothing to write home about. However on Tuesday things picked up . The afternoon was filled with a lot of sitting. In a waiting room. It was a trip to the Oncologist with Sandra to see my good friend Raj . Pretty sure that was a meeting of two who where very happy to see each other. We were both smiling . It’s been awhile . He told Sandra oh I see you brought me a beautiful gift today . So very kind of him to say. He showed me pictures of Chickee . All grown up . 6’1 taller than him . We always knew she would be tall . She was all legs. Two months ago she graduated medical school and is now a Dr. a intern in California learning emergency medicine. He did a good job as a single dad and a busy doctor. Sandra got all her info and her prognosis which isn’t great. But it’s life . The moment you find out how your going out of this world . Has to be an odd feeling.

And here we come to a very slow dragging day . It’s not even noon. Jesus !

Family reunion is this weekend. And it’s unclear if either one of us is going . If it’s a day trip sure. I can’t do overnight that ship sailed years ago . I got spoiled on the thought we live so close. Let go for the day . Then the cabin count got smaller and not a lot of room . And became a daytrip event. Which worked out. Go sweat for the day sleep in my own bed. No taking turns on the shower. The sister in law and her family has always taken president over us anyway . Always makes sure she has a room with the parnets and her kids too. Nobody really cares what happens to us. And that’s okay . Cause I get a day trip.

Lets talk about grasshoppers ! Do you like them ? Do you wish to set them on fire and watch them burn? Clearly the 2021 freeze did something to them and enlarged them to be bigger and jump higher. And also it’s apparent that they snuggled way to much in the freeze .

Did you know grasshoppers don’t bite humans but if they happen to bite a human it’s not dangerous

Did you know females dies after laying eggs

Did you know laying eggs takes 3-4 days and then she dies

Did you know Grasshoppers are Whores ! Did you know it takes 45 mins to mate with a female grasshopper and hops on to the next guy collecting sperm all day

It appears all grasshoppers born this year are girls . They are big and gross . And this concludes your useless grasshopper knowledge .

Until next time

Infinite X’s & O’s

Memorial Day

It was a long weekend for this girl . Took Friday off to run some errands so I could do nothing for the weekend. Henry was happy . He even attempted sitting in a chair. Saturday was grocery shopping and to American British Antiques then to lunch downtown and walking on the river and on to The Coop to see some art and judge it. Which led us to shops downtown. We had seen some old Pyrex bowls at ABA . And we both wanted them . So we looked at other places . But never found them. Saturday night was nothing really.

Sunday came and Breakfast pizza was made. Me thinking I was having another chill day . NOOOO it was in the car we went to travel to Del Rio . Where it appeared it might storm at any moment. But it never did. We could have gone almost anywhere in 2.5 hours. And that’s where he chose to go. Where everything is closed . Chinto’s – Closed , Hardware store – Closed. Rudy’s open … The springs – open so to springs we went . And Henry played in the water I think he was on the fence the whole way . But once he figured out it was a fun thing he got over it. He stomped in the water , he attacked the water. And then he slept all the way home . And that was the big adventure .

Memorial Day flags where placed outside and we were off to check the garden cause in 4 hours the Airbnb would be gone forever !!! I now have squash out my ears . Huge ones. Medium ones, little ones. Lettuce , broccoli , peas. Pumpkins and watermelons are coming . I mean the plant is there , there are blooms, it looks promising . Watermelons might be late in the season . I’m not really sure. Pumpkins should be on time though .

The rest of the day was spent wondering if it was going to rain or not , storm or not . And it rained a bit but nothing like the radar showed could happen, it was nothing to right home about . I’m guessing 3years ago it was 103 by noon and I was sitting a crystal clear pool . Not this year . It was overcast and 65 degrees. And the pool definitely isn’t crystal clear yet . It’s on it’s way there though. We sucked up all the stuff off the bottom. That was a chore . Make sure he doesn’t get sucked into the drain , Make sure the pump doesn’t fall into the pool. Hold the hose and playing with the dog . I did whoops once and sprayed water into the neighbors back yard . At least it was just water. Nobody complained.

And then it happened the Airbnb moved out while I was back at the antique store ! And in true Millennial fashion he put his trash in the kitchen . A large sack and he could of easily taken to the trash outside. But no stuck it in the kitchen floor. And left the key on the table. Which I go find he made the bed. I question why people do this . Want to help strip the bed ! So I walk into the room to find the bed made , the new carpet black and grey . Confused by this cause he never wore his shoes in the house. I go to strip the bed and find the linens which appear as if someone colored them with a charcoal pencil. They now have been washed twice and it’s still there. Looks like I have to buy new sheets. The carpets look better . I put some stuff on them. The Shower has enough hair in it to make a wig. The child should probably eat more than Taco Bell. and last he went through 5 rolls of tissue in 6 weeks. WHAT THE HECK ! Well thankfully I’m done with Airbnb for awhile .

A week of weird temperatures for June . And nobody better complain at it’s 70 . But I bet they will.

And I’m so not into Miss Sour face today I want to knocker her so hard google won’t be able to find her. But of course I will not. I don’t look good in orange. And I’m not a big fan of crocs . But I honestly have No Fucks to give today . stay tuned.

So my darlings

Until another day

Infinite X’s & O’s

Henry made a decision

I’m tired . Everyday . And there is absolutely no reason to be this tired. I go to bed at 9:30 -10ish . Get up and go to work . After work I put on the walking clothes and shoes and it never happens. And at this point it’s only making me bigger . And my summer clothes do not fit. So I really should figure out a way to snap out of all this . Granted today is different Miss Sour face went and created her own hell while I was off for a couple of days and I’m not suppose to know about it. So I’m just waiting to see if this blows up in my face or not. Really, I just pretend like I don’t know anything. But things are different. She’s acting love drunk. Which we all know won’t last. She so badly wants to be the boss that she wants to get a student worker. For what ? Anyway life has changed a bit but just for a little while she will see how exhausted she is at the end of the day .

Mr. Henry made a decision that Daddy no longer needed a workout bench . I came home to it in a million , trillion pieces and he even moved it . Daddy was in disbelieve . I honestly am shocked this didn’t happen sooner . The amount of times he has been left alone with it and hasn’t torn it up . And then it was a pillow. Not so sure those calming chews are working . Which reminds we took the last ones this morning . I really should get him the kennel cough shot and take him to daycare a little bit . He already rotten enough . He gets ice cream on Sundays . Wants to get into the car every time we go . So let us just add doggie daycare to the list. Pretty sure he has us trained.

Saturday was graduation day . I had a luncheon for a graduate. So the daughter told me . 4 people. Cause only 4 could go into the ceremony . However I had 7 . 7 !!! Thank goodness I made pasta . And I almost didn’t have enough. They had salad and a bowtie pasta dish .There were not complaints . And there was no dessert . I thought about it. And totally had the time . And didn’t make anything cause hey I was tired. Honestly have no idea what I would have made either. Really, I thought about pie and then didn’t make it or buy it. Pie sounds good right now .doesn’t it.

Garden is a bit nuts with all the lettuce

This is our time of the year that weather is wacky . We are told we are having bad weather and then it never happens. Clear sky and in 10 mins it’s blowing like a hurricane and the sky is black and then sun appears . Swear mother nature is just menopause.

Airbnb has a week and some days left . Thank goodness. He was the easiest one I have ever had . But yet I’m so ready for him to go. I mean he is gone at 5am but sometimes is back at 2pm and in the evening he goes somewhere to all hours of the night . Might be back by midnight , or he might just walk in and change clothes and go to work. One Sunday he showed up at 8:30 acting like he had been at work . But he had been out all night. But I’m just done for a while. Maybe for good.

He’s obsessed with that table , don’t look at the pool.

I’m ready to travel , run away , take a picture of something new. But only time will tell. We no longer have to wear masks at work or most of the places in town. However Hawaii is still wanting to poke your brain. And we are not really into that. So Hawaii is off the radar for a while. We have talked about San Francisco , Florida but nothing on the books yet . On the front we have 1 college girl moving in Mid-July , a niece hanging out since she is moving back . Niece is just looking forward to Happy Hour and laying by the pool. And who can blame her. I know that’s where I would be on a Friday if I didn’t work .

Let’s see if we get the rain . Fingers crossed.

Until next time darling

Infinite X’s & O’s

Henry , Henry , Henry

Henry has a new obsession . Sitting in cars , not wanting to move. Not sure if he’s decided Opal is more his style or what ? However one evening when getting my purse and putting water in the car he got right in the back seat. I begged . I pleaded , I bribed. I opened doors so he could hear his daddy pulling up . And Daddy finally arrived and he still didn’t want to move. I told daddy don’t be mean. He had a hard day and I’m not sure what this is about . He was kind and finally he got out. I think he has discovered that cars take him places. Maybe . Like you’re not leaving me here. Not sure what’s going through that noggin of his .

He clearly is feeling better cause he destroyed a foot scrubber , and attempted to eat a light bulb out of the nightstand lamp . Thankfully it was plastic or we would have been back at the vet. I would say this time he was mad he was left and I didn’t take him to work . Which I would love to do . But you gotta be sneaky about those thing. Miss Sour face fed him popcorn last time .

The Airbnb resigned which I’m not real thrilled about. Her money was going into my stash . And she sent an email to everyone she could in that hospital. And then they called a meeting . Which she never really would say what happened and maybe she couldn’t . But it slipped out . “All I asked them to do was count .!” And then I texted my sister . And her response was Hell no I wouldn’t work there, at the end of every op report the surgeon says “ estimated blood loss and all counts correct “ If something is left in a patient . Yes, the Doctor will be sued . but the hospital will as well because its there O.R and bigger money . The nurse will lose her job because she didn’t provide standard care. And her license for negligence . So she packed up her life and left at 9pm. Now she text everyday .

Babies . There seems to be trend lot of baby business in my I have one person adopting and I have one person having a baby in October. So baby blankets are in order . I started crocheting one. I don’t feel it’s very gender neutral . But it does say Baby . I have made multiple burp cloths . All that’s left is to find material for receiving blankets . All gender neutral ! Which I suppose is exciting . But wouldn’t you rather know ?

Saturday was a night of Music and Dance . As usual some dances were great and others I shook my head at . My date leaned over and said “this is really hard for you to watch isn’t it ? “ You have no idea. When you do Ballet for 16 years it’s hard to watch such little things that shouldn’t happen at their age. I thinking these girls only take from the one teacher and no summer intensives in the state or the nation like I did and the girls that I danced with . To each their own. So for girls in a pre professional level group . I’m on the fence . But Jude who we went to watch was super excited and even hugged us. Maybe cause we had bundts for her. She did really well. Proud not aunt moment .

Sunday it was planting more squash . There are someone people who request the squash flowers for dishes. I honestly can imagine them tasting like much . One swears he will make squash blossom soup . He said that last year . All he made were tacos ! Never the less we planted more. And the rest of the day was very uneventful .

We shall see what next week brings. I’m hoping for rain .

Until next time .

Infinite X’s & O’s

Easter Adventures

Easter has come and gone . And it was super non-eventful. Good Friday we had a holiday .We are not always that lucky but this year we did . Everyone and their mother were out that day . Which made it a pain to go anywhere . It looked like Christmas Eve around town it was ridiculous !

Henry made it snow . It wasn’t my pillow . But it was everywhere and then he attempted to bring it into the living room.

On Friday I only needed a few things a watch charger , gas for Opal , a carwash , and dinner . But Nooo lets stretch this out to an all-day event to only have someone send me back out at 4pm . Could have pulled my hair out. Derek got stuck out in the country with his dad . And got nothing accomplished. Cause he just assumed it was Good Friday he was off. Serves him right !

We went back and forth all day about what to do Easter weekend . Even though 3 weeks ago I stated I wanted to go to Corpus. And even had the hotel picked out . But NOOOOO ! It was his choice in the end. San Antonio and going to the zoo, and Japanese tea garden , Lupe Tortilla.

This adventure started at 5 am , you heard me 5am because you have to get to the zoo before it opens or you’re not going to the zoo. It rained the whole way there. Until we got there. It was overcast till midway through the zoo and it started to rain . They have some show going on Dragons and Dinosaurs . There are fake animatronics dinosaurs all over the zoo. And the birds are eating them. They are cool but a bit of a waste if the birds are going to snack on them . They have these Mold a Rama machines at the zoo. And every time we go Derek will ask ” What animal today ?” well this time I made all the dinosaurs . I mean really $6 of happy fun and work people either put them on their desk or I keep them at home .

The rain came and we decided to have a look at the Japanese tea garden which wasn’t that great and there were just too many people so we went to get lunch . Venture to Lupe Tortilla took an hour to get our food where we were so stuffed . We decided we would not stay the night . But I needed one stop that required The Quarry or The North Star mall . Derek chose the mall. Store had long lines and people wore masks. But they would only let 5 people in the store at a time. Lucky the store we needed had no line.

And we headed home . Back to town by 7pm and picked up Henry . He was wore out ! Those little girls ran him . Sunday was blah . Checked the garden . It was full of lettuce . It’s pretty ! One taste like butter lettuce . But that’s not what it is.

And then it was wash clothes and make tacos fold laundry and off to bed I went . Had a terrible dream about ticks .

Henry had vet appointment this morning for his ears and hair falling out. $182.00 later he has yeast infection in his ears and no idea why his hair is falling out in circles. But here give him fish oil . If it gets worse let me know . Meanwhile Derek is freaking out . and once we were home he would not get out of the car. For anything !!! I offered toys, milk , bones, treats. Finally he moved and I ran and errand . And totally forgot to get him a new leash . And that’s a must before I go home . And on to work to write this blog .

Well we escaped Easter and it was quiet and no stress or anxiety which was great . No more holidays for a long time Thank goodness.

Until next time

Infinite X & O’s