Every morning when I get in the office, I sit at my desk and spend at least ten minutes drinking Dt. Coke and logging in, logging in to our office network, logging in to Windows, then logging in to my Gmail, my Yahoo mail, Twitter, Flickr, Vox and Expression Engine. Then most days, I sit here and try to look some what serious as I surf the web for about twenty minutes for any new news I might have missed while alseep the night before.
Once in a while I have days like today, where I am pretty much alone in the office, then I become a real slacker. I have been here just over an hour and haven’t done a damn thing but read my sisters blog to see how she is doing this morning and surfed for any new spoilers on the fifth season of Nip Tuck.
God bless the inter net! What would life be like with out it? I might actually be working right now. Scary.

Now, if you will excuse me, I need to go read my horoscope on four different websites, another morning ritual I have. Surely one of them has some thing good to say .

As you can see my very talented and good friend Mel has me all twisted and hooked up. Isn’t it great?  She is Dabomb !
If your jealous, and you should be because my blog looks damn good, go over to Emtwo and check her out.

I took Allison out for dinner and a movie last night. We ate at Chili’s and then saw Underdog, both her choices. We had a great time, laughed almost the whole time we were gone. It felt so good to spend time together, just the two of us. She really is a great kid and I have been so busy working and helping Bethany with the baby that she has been feeling a little left out lately. Last night was just what we both needed.

As for the movie, I don’t see it winning any Oscars or any thing, but listening to Allison laugh for 90 minutes and then talk about how much she loved it on the car ride home made it a winner with me.

A few movies I am looking forward to,

Reservation Road

Things We Lost In The Fire

3:10 to Yuma

American Gangster

Fred Claus

Oh my gosh, my title! I am really a GRANDMA!

Anyway,

My daughter Bethany showed up at our door last night begging for help with the baby.
(see family stress) So guess who is over tired today? Not that I really mind, I love them so much. I just wish we had more room at our house. Every time they stay over, we turn out living room in to a nursery.
I am on my second Dt. Coke and it’s not even 11:00am yet and I still feel like I could fall back asleep at any time.
I am also alone in the office today with no one to talk to. I have around 10 guys working in the shop that come in and out asking for blue prints so I can’t fall asleep.
So who is willing to call me every couple of hours to keep me awake?
Any one,
....any one....
...hello....hello....McFly?

Donating a car to charity is some thing Gerry and I have both talked about in the past. In fact we plan to donate our boat that hasn’t been used in some time, next month. We just need to pull it out of storage, fill out a few easy forms and make the call. So much easier then trying to sell it and we get a nice tax deduction out of it.

It just makes sense. Instead of letting it sit, we would both rather see it make a difference and help fund a program like Car Angel, they offer free vehicle pick up, running or not and Donate Your Car In Los Angeles and then use your vehicle, boat or trailer to help single mothers, distribute educational materials, homeless, teen and adult rehab, food distribution and orphans across the United States. If you chose, you can also suggest to Car Angel the charity of your choice and they will add it to their list.

Car Angel handles so much more then just Los Angeles Car Donations, they also have many other programs going like Free DVDs for Kids.

If you are looking to really make a difference Car Angel is an honest and trust worthy company to call. They also have the nations fastest on line response form and up to the minute tax advice. To make it even easier for you to know all the little details when you make your donation.

I haven’t been blogging much details about becoming a grandmother because it has not been an easy road so far. Having a daughter that you love dearly and are very close to have a baby before she is in any way ready for one, is very stressful. My daughter lives with her boyfriend who thinks cleaning, cooking and any thing to do with taking care of a baby is “woman’s work” and refuses to help her with any of it. He is also very emotionally abusive, talks to her and treats her like crap a good 70 to 80% of the time. For three years now, they have had a very rocky relationship and we (her family) have listened to her cry over and over and begged her to get out of it. Well, now there is a baby involved and things are even worse. I can’t even tell you how this breaks my heart. Every time she calls me crying, I get upset and cry. Then I worry, it’s all I can think about all day and night. Some times I have to get out of bed and pace. Then the next day I call her and they are all happy again. But it never lasts, sure as shit she calls me again crying with in a day or two and things are bad. And it starts all again. To make things even harder the baby cries a lot. I can hear her over the phone screaming, not just little baby cries but screaming hard. I am not sure if she needs her formula changed again or if she is going to have colic or what? I have no idea what to do!
All I know is that I love them both with all of my heart but things have been pretty darn stressful. Some times I feel that it is taking over my whole life, and I can’t do that. I still have an eight year old to take care of. And now I feel guilty for complaining about it.

Not to make light of what this sick-o has done, I personally hope they give him the maximum, but my Roxy needs to get her teeth in to one of these.

Looks like she’s not the only one. The only place they can be found not on back order until September is Ebay.

Allison is at my mom’s for the night and how did I spend my free time? I spent the last three hours swearing at my computer and kicking under my desk, while trying to get a plug in to work. And I failed! I thought for sure if I just kept trying I was going to make it work. I even paid the $15.00 license fee to use the damn thing. Because I have to be up at the butt crack of dawn tomorrow, I am giving up and going to bed. But I know getting this stupid plug in to work is all I am going to think about until I have it.

I ran to Subway for lunch today. When I walked in they were just pulling a batch of cookies out of the oven. It smelled like a bakery! Smelled so good that I told the girl, that is just evil baking those cookies during lunch hour, there’s no way I can leave with out buying some. Evil, ha, when she added the cookies to my order, it rang up at $6.66. She looked at me and said, when you said evil, you weren’t kidding. Of course I bought three for a dollar, and of course I ate all three this afternoon already. Evil yummy cookies.

I took the afternoon off yesterday and Allison and I shopped for her school supplies. I am so glad I did, instead of my usual waiting to the last minute and then running around like a crazy woman because things on her list are sold out. This year we went to Target and came home with EVERYTHING on her list. It feels so good to have it done.