The Girl and Teenager were arguing over a late dinner last night. I was sick and exhausted after just getting home from a long weekend at my Parents. When this convo took place:
[Me] It’s like I never left.
[Man] Stopping to stare at me before asking “Why, what were you expecting?”
[Me] I don’t know - maybe that everyone wouldn’t fight. Or that things wouldn’t be so chaotic around here. I don’t know really…
[Man] Wow, babe, you had high hopes. I think your car went through the twilight zone on the turnpike.
[Me] Laughing so hard I choked on my diet coke… the Teenager pops up with “Hey, Mom, can you do my tarot cards tonight so I know what my day will be like tomorrow?”
To which all of them start laughing their asses off - because making fun of me is the only thing they can do together without arguing.
Seriously though, what the hell was I thinking? Maybe I did drive through a twilight zone. I called my Mom to tell her and she laughs this little laugh and says “Yea, I did that once too. I went to New York and for some stupid reason thought something might be different when I got back. Nope, not so much.”
That my friends is an example of the craziness that is my life. But, I did have a good weekend. I saw my Sister and the Kids, had lunch with my Brother, lunch with my best friend and her baby, got a pedicure with my other best friend and lots of shopping and time with my Mom & Dad.
The teenager has been setting his number to private and crank calling me from his cell phone. PAIN IN THE ASS. He did it the other day and I busted him when I accidently brought him into a phone call while I was talking to my cousin about him and didn’t realize I connected the calls. So, today he was doing it AGAIN and I busted him again.
In the meantime my Sister calls me and tells me she changed her phone number because some “whack job” was crank calling her for over an hour. Yep, you guessed - it was my damn son. Kinda funny and yet not. I mean, I wouldn’t have changed my number that fast but she is the impulsive one while I am the worry wart that festers ;)
To top off my day, since he was prank calling me under private and my sister’s number was showing up “private” all day - at one point I answer and say “What?! What do you want?” And why of course it was NOT my son or my sister. But of course one of the Man’s new customers. Real professional I know.
The only thing worse then sunburn is PEELING.
02/04/2007 at 11:59 pm Permalink
HAHAHA ===You are so funny I know I jumped the gun with the phone thing but I just had a day from hell and it was the quick solution. Your family is so funny I think you need your own sitcom…
03/04/2007 at 8:31 am Permalink
Don’t you get the feeling like….. Somedays you wish your car would go through the Twighlight Zone and then just keep on going :) xoxox
03/04/2007 at 11:41 am Permalink
Do you really do tarot card reading?
03/04/2007 at 1:10 pm Permalink
I have one deck I mess around with, but nothing serious. It’s all kind of new to me but I am having fun ;)
03/04/2007 at 2:51 pm Permalink
Cool. I’ve always wanted to have that done. If I could read cards, I’d have my kids scared shitless thinking I could predict their every move.
03/04/2007 at 10:32 pm Permalink
How’s this for funny? I actually thought your son was SEROUS when he asked for a Tarot Card reading, until I read your next sentence.
:)
04/04/2007 at 12:50 pm Permalink
HA! my family does the same thing, bicker bicker bicker all day long, then band together at the dinner table to laugh at mom! The evil plot to take over the home….
I love my tarot, but my kids know better than to make fun of mom’s tarot cards and runes.
05/04/2007 at 3:22 pm Permalink
The funny thing is no matter what age your family is they can still bicker all the time, the only difference we are not sitting at the dinner table every night anymore.
Calgon take me far far away and also the Twilight Zone I live it everyday.
Thank God Chrissie has a great sense of humor you need it in this family. Love ya Chris.