Day After My Birthday ...

LOL. Didn't do anything for my birthday. We had a major snow storm pass by. Over 800 schools were closed locally. Roads were sloppy at best. You know it's bad when Married Son says the roads are awful!

So ... instead of going shopping like I planned, Married Son brought Alien over so we could just hang out for my birthday. Alien and I decided around 8 PM to go up to the grocery store before I had to get her back to Bubba's house. Only, my car decided it didn't want to leave the driveway. Yup, I got stuck! I can't believe it. I rarely get any car stuck in the snow, but the Grand Am wasn't going to cooperate with me in the least. Threatening it and telling it that the Olds would have gotten out of the driveway didn't help! That car wasn't gonna budge.

I called Married Son. Made him come back to the house to get me. Heck he's got four-wheel drive, he can get anywhere in that truck. He pulls up to the house and actually laughs at me. "Yup, you'll get out alright." The brat!!

This was my car just after the snow stopped.

Alien brushing off the snow. Thanks to blowing, there wasn't as much snow on my car as there was on the ground. Good thing for Alien - the official snow scrapper (when she's here at least).

We walked around Meijer's for about two hours. Got my Christmas outfit (jeans and a seasonal long sleeve t-shirt) and a few Christmas gifts ... as well as some groceries. Chased Grandson and Alien around ... they love to wander off and look in the toy aisles. Hunted down Married Son. Easy to find him since he's usually in the electronics department.

Now I remember why I wouldn't take the kids shopping with me when they were little. Just too much WORK involved! Find the item you want, look for a kid who wandered off ... find another item, look for that damned kid again ... and so on and so on and so on. Doesn't change when they're older. Except I don't stop shopping to go look for them! LOL!

Didn't do a whole lot today. DIL and Alien have been going through some of Aliens stuff, sorting it and packing up what she wants to take to Bubba's house. They're working on packing the truck now to take a load over. One more step closer to having the room for Married Son, DIL and Grandson, cat and dog move in.

Had a few funnies happen today. Grandson loves to lock doors! I've been locked in my bedroom a few times today. I get chewed out when I *escape*. "Gramma, I locked you up, you can't get out". Too funny. The one I don't think is too funny, though, is when he locks the bathroom door. Mind you it's the ONLY bathroom in the house. Nothing like doing the pee-pee dance while picking the lock!

So ... doors unlocked ... Gramma's happy. Until I go to sit back down at the computer. CRASH!! My el-cheapo computer chair broke! The cheap plastic star shaped base just snapped in half. I land on my arse with a THUD ... and start counting. Twenty seconds later DIL asks "Mom, are you okay" and comes into my room. She finds me on the floor, half under my computer desk. She's got this OMG look on her face. Alien sees her expression and comes rushing into the room. She sees me and ... busts out in hysterical laughter. She's laughing so hard she can't help me up. Finally I get her to move the freaking pieces of the computer chair so I can unwedge my arse and get up.

I'm now sitting on a really uncomfortable folding chair. When I go to buy a replacement I sure won't buy el-cheapo again. No sirree.

Luckily I didn't suffer any real injuries. Sure ... my pride. And a charlie horse in my arm where it hit the computer desk. Oh, and I'm finding my tailbone ain't too happy right now either.

And three kids who can't stop laughing ...