Anyone Seen My Hamster?

My hamster should have been named Houdini. While I’m at work, she unscrews the cap that locks one of her tubes, and she gets out. I thought the last time was luck; maybe the cap wasn’t screwed on tight enough. So when I found her, I put her back in the cage and screwed the cap on tightly.

Yesterday, the cap was tossed off. No Mousie. Anywhere. I have looked everywhere.. well, except for where she is… wherever that might be.

Normally, she will turn up on her own. She hasn’t been gone this long before.

I even left the cage on the floor with the door open, thinking she has to get hungry or thirsty eventually.

No luck. 😦 ugh.

Ham Shopping

Who knew picking out a ham could be so difficult? My mistake was going for the cheap thing, which was Cook’s Pork Shoulder Picnic, which, according to the Internet information I later read, is more suited for pork steaks than anything else.

So, since we’re having company, we abandoned the $12 picnic whatever for a $22 spiral sliced ham at Hy-Vee. It came with a glaze packet. You can’t get much better than that.

In the morning, I expect it to hop in the oven on its own and cook itself.

It’s Getting Cold in Here

So put on all your clothes. All of them. Seriously. Cause it’s 20 degrees outside. My GOSH! There’s nothing overly good about having a really cold week off, unless you’re a snowman or something. Or perhaps you like skiing, or you’re an Eskimo… you’re racing in the Iditarod?

I believe we are going roller skating today. It will be a good way to spend our afternoon, after slouching around in the house all day.

Well, Sunday is Easter. We are planning on going to church, eating Easter Brunch and cooking Easter dinner for a handful of relatives. It’s the kind of dinner I like, where everyone brings something. 🙂 Less for me to cook. I have the important thing… the ham. My father-in-law is making apple pie, my MIL, dinner rolls and my step-daughter is bringing a few side dishes (mac and cheese with corn mixed in, and some sort of fruit salad).

My daughter is looking forward to an Easter Egg hunt on Saturday. It’s going to be darn cold for it.

Day 1, A Lesson On Being Sick and Being A Mom, Too

I thought it was reasonable to let her know in advance: “Mom doesn’t feel good. I have no patience today, so you’re going to have to listen well.”

As if that would happen.

But we did manage to have a good day. After lunch, when it finally warmed up, we took the bicycle out for another test drive. We were practicing taking off by ourselves without falling over. The only reason anyone would fall directly over is because they insist they must sit on the seat of the bike before doing anything with any pedals.

After a short time, I learned that just because I started off riding a certain way, didn’t mean it was going to work for her. So I let her sit on the seat before finding a good pedal to push down, and it all worked out for her.

Later in the afternoon, it was off to the grocery store, where she insisted on pushing the cart. Or riding the cart, as the case may be. Try explaining grocery aisle traffic to a 6-year-old and having it stick. 🙂 “You could kill someone doing that!” didn’t seem to get the message across.

Any time I felt like I was on the edge of losing patience, I stopped and repeated myself. “Mommy is not feeling well today. You’re going to have to listen to what I say and not force me to keep repeating.” This is not a recording. Ok, it is.

I’m beginning to think 6-year-olds have 2 second attention spans. I know. What was my first clue?

The Week Off

So, next week, I have the week off with my daughter, who is on Spring Break. We’re staying at home all week, probably searching for stuff to do. A lot will depend on the crazy weather.

In anticipation of (or perhaps poor planning, in advance of..) my week off, I took my laptop in for repair. Sometimes, I’ll be typing along and when I hit the left shift key, it types “nbcZ” for me. Just for the heck of it. When I hit the right shift key, my Internet window goes full screen. For no particular reason. Sometimes, it just types 000000000000000000000000000000 on its own. Supposedly, there is a short in a circuit. We’ll see that one back in about 2 weeks.

In the meantime, don’t count on me VPN’ing into work. My work stuff was all on that machine. Darn! A real week without work stuff. What is the world coming to?

Tonight, my husband and I went to see “Wild Hogs”. It was funny in spots. Having ridden a motorcycle, some of it made me cringe… like when they lost control of a bike and it hit the pavement. Ouch. Not, “Oh, I hurt myself badly” ouch, but “OMG… look what you just did to your bike!” ouch.

What did you do with your weekend?

Automobile Insurance

We’ve been fighting with our car insurance company regarding the accident with the Liberty earlier this month.

To recap, the ground is slick. A lady pulls out from the right-hand lane, into our left-hand lane and stops with her left turn signal on. She is not in the turn lane. We have a car length and 1/2 to stop, and so we stop on her back bumper. We slid the whole way. We didn’t have a chance.

The insurance company is saying it’s our fault because we hit from the rear. If we would have been driving differently or safely, we wouldn’t have hit her at all. I know that most rear-end collisions are the fault, generally, of the person behind. But I disagree in this case.

The thing is, she didn’t give us time to stop. It would have been differently if we would have been following her for awhile and she came to an abrupt stop. There is no way that we could have ever anticipated anyone stopping where she did.

The insurance people said she was coming out of the Kentucky Fried Chicken parking lot on one side of the street, and making a left turn at McDonald’s.

I would personally like to kick her butt. Cruising around for food on slick roads, jutting out in front of people and expecting everyone to be able to stop.

Even when we went to the police station to report the accident, she parked in the “For Police Only” area of the parking lot.

.. to be continued… as soon as we get the final ruling from the insurance company…

Sick…

Yesterday, I contracted a small case of what must have been food poisoning. My boss had it, too. He had taken us out for a team lunch at a local chinese buffet. I’m not sure I’ll ever eat chinese food again. It’s laden with sugar and fat anyway.

Today, I went home at noon… made some chicken noodle soup (Bear Creek) and laid down for the rest of the day.

For dinner, we had healthy food, because of this article, which totally disgusted me. We had steamed perch topped with Schwan’s fruit salsa, corn and french bread.

By the way, did you know that a Starbuck’s caramel machiatto has 310 calories? If you go to the Starbuck’s site, you can find out a lower-calorie, lower-fat coffee, some of them way under 200 calories.

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