This morning my mom comes into my room and says she's having chest pains so she's going to the doctors, can i make this recipe while she's gone. Hands me a card, a few quick comments on the recipe, and runs out the door. Well my mom has been known to panic pointlessly, and worrying on my part won't help any, so off to make the salad I go.         First we gather all the ingredients together, wouldn't want to get ...

       So my family left for thanksgiving, off to see far away people and such. And I got to stay home, which I consider a good thing. But it's not all rosy here. As they were walking out the door dad mentioned that he had turned the heat down. Makes sense, if they arn't here why should the whole house be kept toasty warm, only room that needs to be warm is mine. So I didn't worry about it...        Well it turns out ...

       So it's almost Christmas. My sister Adele and her husband Nate showed up last night and will be staying until Sunday. They picked Up Grandma on their way here as well, she'll be staying too.        Originally I was going to have to give my bed up for grandma to sleep in, but dad managed to find an old bed somewhere and grandma gets to sleep in it. I'm much happier with this arrangement. My bed isn't all that gre...

       I was awoken this morning by my brothers and sister storming into my room to announce that yes, it was christmas. I keep my door locked to prevent just such an occurance, but it didn't seem to matter to them. So down we all go to see what wonders Santa had left under the tree.        Santa, who we all know is a lie and yet pretend isn't while calling each other liars for pretending. I think I could accept it if w...

       I am going to make a prediction now that I hope ends up being wrong: Sometime in the next oh, month sounds good, I'm going to stop blogging, whether I want to or not.        Today's sunday, so my parents do their whole I really should go to church thing again. Happens every sunday, they say I should go, I tell them I'm not going. But this time was different. This time they came across much more forcefully. As in...

       My parents are gone for the weekend. They left this morning at about 5am and won't be back until 5pm sunday night. So that means I get to take care of my brothers for about four days. Or so I thought, turns out adopted grandma Bertha will be spending most of the time here.        Not that I mind. I was thinking I'd take care of them, make sure they were fed, shove them out the door for school, keep them away fro...

       Early tomorrow morning (baring any problems/accidents/whatnot) I'm going to visit my sister at her home in new jersey. I'm actually looking forward to it, I havn't seen her home yet. She's come up here to visit a few times, but I havn't been down there yet. She got married a little over a year ago and we are taking some stuff to her that she left behind (like her bed, nothing important ). So I'm looking forward to seeing her and her husband. Wha...

       So I get to sleep at a more or less normal hour (a little after midnight). Good for me, much better then the 3 or 4(am) I've been doing the past few nights. Then what happens? My mom wakes me up to fix her computer. The printer had decided it didn't like the paper so it had to be reloaded. But she couldn't tell that, all she had was a computer that didn't appear to be responding (at least from her point of view). So I fixed the paper and it prin...

       I mentioned in another article that we have a new kitten (although at this point he isn't exactly new anymore). Well I went downstairs to have lunch and what do I find? The kitten is on the kitchen counter, one of the places he's not supposed to be (although if you listen to my parents the only place he is supposed to be is in his litter box...). So I grab him and toss him across the room, he should know better then that. And considering he looked...

       As mentioned before, this year the all important job of keeping the white fluffy stuff off the driveway has been passed to me. For years my dad would use a plow on a truck to clear it, but he sold the truck because we had two more cars then drivers (now we have four, go figure).        So it snowed alot a day or two ago (probably over a foot) and I was out blowing it off the driveway. Is frustrating sometimes, I t...

       Last night I pulled a stupid, which led to problems this morning. Or at least that's what I think happened, I might have hit my head and gotten cause and effect confusified.        On a normal night I try to get to sleep by about one (am). Last night (or this morning, depending on how you look at it) I didn't get to bed until 6. Sun was up, birds were chirping, and I was getting into bed. Havn't stayed up that l...