Happy Easter

I found the perfect place to go for holiday meals! It's called Palace Buffet. Good food and we practically had the place to ourselves!! A little pricey for a buffet, but hey ... I'm not complaining (much).

It was Single Son, Alien, the BF, the two boys and me for an early dinner. Single Son did not want to be there, but he went for my sake. He loathes the BF with a passion. But as an adult he knew that he could handle an hour or so of being around him, that he'd survive the ordeal.

I decided that I'd not bitch too much to Alien about things, that I could shut up for the meal about her getting off her arse and moving out of that house. I was even kind when she brought up Papaw and Mamaw ... but I drew the line when she told me that Bubba called her yesterday and told her that when the Dragon Lady (his wife) is at work, he wants to come over and try to mend their badly broken relationship. I damn near choked on banana pudding when I hear that!! When she's at work?? Oh please!

But you'd have been proud of me ... I didn't say a word, other than to tell her this was neither the time nor the place to bring that up!!

Other than that, we had a good time. Ate too much (typical), laughed ... even Single Son got involved in some of our conversations. JJ slept through most of the meal, waking for only a few minutes (long enough for me to pull out the camera and snap a shot of an awake infant).

okay, you saw me awake, can I go back to sleep now?

Got a ton of pics of Butterball. He's start to get fussy, even cried a few times, but as soon as I brought out the camera he'd stop with his fit and start hamming it up for me. As soon as I'd put the camera down, he'd resume his fit.

Half laugh ... half temper tantrum

Butterball and I pretty much shared a plate of food (or three, LOL). He loved everything on "our" plate, including a few new foods he'd never had before - salmon, garlic bread, and orange chicken especially. He feeds himself usually, but let Gramma feed him ... he made a game out of it. He'd let me know which forkful was for him or when he'd let me feed myself.

Hope ya'll had a good Easter!

Easter

So, how was everyone's Easter?

Mine was ... well, interesting.

Started with signing on to the computer today. I've been having problems with it lately and had asked Single Son to install some updates to our anti-virus program. He was available today to do it. He tried but was unable to do the updates so he did the scan manually. One known virus he found, as soon as he tried to remove it, opened one particularly nasty virus to my computer literally dozens of times. Great. Just what I didn't need!! Then things started to shut down. First my disk drive. Then my USB ports, then finally the entire computer shut down. He could get it started, but as soon as Windows logged on, it'd log off, too. "Mom, this isn't good." Ya think??!! So ... I finally told him to just reformat the hard drive, see if that would help the situation. No other choice really. Got things working again and it only took him about six hours! And luckily it worked!! No signs of any more viruses. Oh ... and the original virus came from the desktop application from the Weather Channel. I won't be putting that on any computer ever again, I tell ya!!!

You wouldn't believe all the files I lost! Thankfully I did have some backed up, but not all. Talk about a live and learn situation. It'll take me months to replace some of what I lost. Others I'll never be able to get back - like the last few months of Grandson's life. I hadn't uploaded those to photobucket - so they're all gone now. Grrrrrrr. And 600 + squirrel photos. Gone. All gone. Not to mention documents ... OMG ... and I'm just now thinking that one of those will be my genealogy files. I had them backed up, but not the most recent file I'd been updating.

Somebody kick me now, will ya??

But, at least we had a nice chance to talk, though. About a lot of different things. And we did have Easter dinner together. Well, if you count Chicken Alfredo as an Easter dish anyway. He was stressing that a simple half hour job (anti-virus program update) turned into a six hour ordeal ... but we did manage to get to laughing at it.

No sense crying over spilt milk, right?

Single Son told me that Alien called him last week. Seems she got a ticket from a local cop for speeding AND an illegal left hand turn in a construction zone, oh and no proof of insurance. Now, I'm not sure where you live, but here penalty and fines are doubled in construction zones. And she wanted him to fix the ticket. He told her hell no, he's not going to fix it. Especially another cop's ticket. It turns out he knows this other cop real well but hadn't seen him in years, so he called him. They had a nice reunion over the phone. And Alien still has a 2 point (now 4 because it was in a construction zone) ticket to face up to.

And she still hasn't called me. You know she's gotta realize by now that I've found out. Hell, she's told Married Son, DIL and Single Son. Not to mention it's all over her myspace page. But she still needs to own up to me - face to face.

Breathe deep ... hold it ... now ... exhale slowly ... hold it ... breathe in ... hold it ... now exhale slowly ... continue this until you pass out ... ah yes ... stress management!!