Good Morning. Welcome me back to the land of the living. I lasted about 2 hours yesterday morning at work and then threw in the towel. I was shot, (sickly boy) beyond repair. You know when you are sickly you have to give in to the sis factor no matter how strong you thing you are. Hell if not you will be for garbage anyway and infect everyone from the office secretary to the corner mouse. That is if you have a corner mouse… So where do I begin? Oh let’s first start with the Woman from hell at the grocery store. Oh my god! You know, grocery stores are somewhat like freeways in their layouts. I mean the racks are normally laid out so two, mind you two carts may proceed in each direction. So that allows carts to come in from either direction and peruse the shelves on both sides.. Depending if you’re driving your cart the American way of the French way. I will get to that later. So is true most grocery stores. And some have pillars in the god awful places just to hinder your progress too. Not actually meant to hinder progression through the store but more for holding up the ceiling so you do not see Chicken Little running around screaming the sky is falling when the roof comes down on you. Only kidding…So if you have that special person who like to take up both sides while SHE is SHOPPING! Then there might be just a little problem getting around that SPECIAL PERSON and I had a run in with my special person Saturday morning. It was also in one of those places where there had been a pillar located in that row. She just happened to stop in HER SPECIAL SPOT! Which was right in the middle and normally one can maneuver around said person in the middle but, being there was this pillar smack dab in front of my cart I waited. Until she collected her thoughts…oh no she was not shopping but going over her list ..in the middle of the row…. Two people behind her and me in front but no one was able to proceed and finally a big black lady said “Hey Miss…excuse…” and in no certain terms I said nothing I was just doing the chuckle and not saying a word but had that grin on my face and she seen me. Oh it was on then.. she stormed away. I thought I was done with her. no luck…two rows later I am on the American root going with traffic and stopped right next to the side of the shelves where people could move past me with ease.. when just at the right time a elderly woman came in the other direction and asked if I could reach a can up on the top shelve. I am pretty tall and agreed to do this and then came Miss Wacko and did this clearing of her throat and blurted out not quite at the top of her lungs but very close..”EXCUSE ME!!! “ and this pore ole lady I was helping looked at me as if to say in Granny talk “ WTF is her problem” and before the ole gal could say a word the Lady from hell was beyond us both and moving at whirl wind pace…oh and guess what right smack down the center of the row …All I could do was shrug my shoulders and laugh. I love shopping… So Grocery shopping for our house is normally done early and on Sunday morning it had to be Saturday this week due to Mandy’s debut in the Miss Coloma Fashion show. She was very cute in the three outfits she wore and I am thinking watching America’s Next Top model helped her out. She had that special way she cocked her head and beamed that Manderooski smile she does. so well. The fashion show was held before the MR Coloma contest as filler time for the boys deal and sort of gives the audience a pre-look at the gals one week before they vi for the crown which will be next Saturday at the college. LMC to be exact. The Mendal center is a great stage for the event and 13 queens out of the 21 area communities are scheduled to attend the event. I am not sure if it is because it is held at Lake Michigan College and the auditorium is so great or my second oldest daughter Jaclyn just runs a good pageant, no idea.. But, Mandy will be there along with 10 other gals trying to become the next Miss Coloma…Cross your fingers.. Or not… come to think of it.. It’s Costly to be the parent of the Queen…Recalling all we spent on Jackie that year she won in 99 was well over 2000 in this and that’s… YUCK!!!! Keep those fingers apart!!!
Well Mr and Mrs Winter decided to grace us with their presence. Having no snow most of the winter until yesterday we got hit with an Ice Storm and this morning greeted by 6”…of snow mind ya… I normally get that wake up call after a sip of coffee at the gas station, but this morning pulling out of the drive onto our road and sashaying out on the road…did not take long to…pardon my French know the roads were LA-POO POO! Now why does everyone say pardon my French when they swear? Do the French say.. Pardon my American and say Shit? Oh well.. the roads are rat-nasty to say the least in Southern Michigan so if you are driving our way… Don’t its…Crappy out…. But in all other endeavors you have today please be safe and have a wonderful day…. I wonder how my special shopping buddy does on the roads when they are like this….?
Mart
