Just an fyi.  I will be absent for a few days until this weekend.  I know you are all sad and will miss my presence:)

When I came to work, I dropped my laptop on the floor.  Ughhh.  Cracked the monitor, broke the keyboard, etc.

Buuutttt, my new laptop is coming in on Thursday...wooo hoooo!  I should have it configured by Friday.  I might possibly update a little from work.  Who knows.  Just wanted to let everyone know I didn't drop off the face of the earth:)

See ya soon!

I was so rudely interrupted by Pops:)  I posted quick and shut down my computer.  Did anyone see the fight?  What the hell happened to my baby???  He really wasn't looking good throughout the whole fight.  Still, I was very surprised when he was knocked down.  I swore it was going to go down to the 12th.  No such luck:(

Back to birthday gifts.  Mother Dearest gave me a pocketbook.  Eh.  I use shoulder bags and this has long straps with no zipper.  I can't work with that.  So it's hanging in my closet.  I'll be giving it to someone for Christmas.  She also gave me a personal organizer.  It's one of those things that has a few blank pages for meetings/schedules and a small address book.  I'm such an IT geek.  I don't use paper anymore!  My schedule and phone numbers are all in my Outlook which is synchronized with my IPaq.  I also have my cell phone for all my phone numbers as well.  Do I really need to keep them in a 4th place?  Mother Dearest is the kind of person who goes to Boscovs, walks up and down the aisles looking for gifts which won't run up her charge card that much and purchases. 

Finally, she gave me a pair of gold hoop earrings.  They look like this.  I wanted to clap.  Not because that was the only thing I liked or anything like that.  Because for the past 6 years, every birthday, Christmas, Valentine's Day, and Mother's day, she has given me really cute silver earrings.  The problem?  I CAN'T wear silver earrings.  I can't wear anything in my ears except 14k gold.  If not, my ears get infected.  Offtopic, I wonder if that's what is going on with my belly button...I know...TMI...Ontopic.  She continuously gave me silver earrings and I continuously told her I couldn't wear them.  She would take them and tell me she would exchange them for me.  Next time I saw her, she was usually wearing them.  But I always had the candle!  PIC and I used to joke that she purchased earrings she'd like and conveniently “forget“ to return them and get me something else. 

What really ticks me off is for the past 6 years, she buys me a candle.  A week before my birthday, I went to the store and I was thinking of buying a candle because I only had one left.  I didn't buy one because my Mother Dearest ALWAYS buys me a candle for my birthday.  Nope, not this year. 

Mother Dearest should just really keep her money.  I told her I wanted a back scratcher.  Give me something I NEED!  But, on the bright side, I don't need to go holiday shopping for DJ's teacher this year.  She's getting a brand new personal organizer!  Next year, I'll hook her up with the pocketbook:) 

BTW, Dawn, I'm not ignoring your comments.  For some reason I'm not able to post any.  Hmmmmm.....

Yep, I am now wireless.  I never got to post about my cool birthday gifts.  Actually, the only cool birthday gifts I got were from PIC.  Let's see, I received a dictionary, a thesaurus, a book, a wireless router, wireless pc card, and some skin stuff:)

Pops gave me a watch, which I had to bring back.  It was one of those stretchy watches that grabs your skin while wearing it.  How can people wear these watches?  I brought it back to the store and I had to wait forever for someone to come over to the jewelry counter.  No one ever showed up.  Then I went to a different store and ran into the same problem.  I'm still watchless.  That's ok.  I picked up a cool school bag.  I know I don't GO to school, but I do bring my school work to work.  I was tired of bring DJ's spiderman school bag to work with me:) 

I just can't believe this.

Of course I can.  Who am I kidding?

Sorry, I've been a busy little bee.  Actually, not sorry, but here a few quickie updates. 

• DJ started school
• I started school
• I don't understand the concept of Citing
• When DON'T I cite?
• I haven't been to my job since last week
• I'm going back tomorrow :(
• I am one year older
• DJ keeps growing, it's pissing me off
• Philly school district transportation, pissed me off
• Mr Big didn't call me to wish me a Happy Bday, yep, pissed me off
• PIC called me yesterday and left me a message on my cell phone telling me how she has a job interview tomorrow (You GO, girl!), yada, yada, blah, blah (she always does this), then tells my voicemail, “Oh, hold on, I have a call on my other line.“ 

I know that was a long hmmm.  But I've been reading many articles and things over the last few months that have made me go hmm.  And that hmm keeps getting longer and longer.

I can only shake my head at this.

This morning I was leaving work.  DJ was like wait, wait, wait.  He told me I forgot to give him another hug and kiss. As I turn to leave, he says, “Mommy, thank you for putting your arm around me in the middle of the night.” 

On the count of 3: 

1

2

3

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

Pops bought DJ Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban awhile back.  I finally sat down to play a bit of it tonight.  It's a pretty cool game except I want to go explore and Ron keeps telling me “C'mon Harry, we're going to be late.” 

 “Shut the hell up, Ron” 

Then I flipendo his ass.  I wish I could smack him silly.