Friday, August 31, 2007

Surprise visit

Thin slices of parmesan and apples today.

So, Wednesday, after Chris's accident (did I tell you guys about that? The hood on a state vehicle flew up while Chris was driving it down the interstate at 75 mph...windshield shattered, roof dented in. Luckily he maintained control and nobody was hurt) messed his whole day up, he gets a call from his mom..."Can I come down tomorrow and stay with you til Saturday?" Sigh.

She received an email from pastors in flood-damaged areas down by us, requesting help. So she's delivering "flood buckets" from her area churches, which consist of buckets, lysol, etc. to the churches. And the help she's giving? We'll, she's going door to door, offering to listen and pray with the families. Um, ok. Maybe someone will really like that.

She showed up an hour late last night. I had the table on the patio all set up for us to eat dinner and dinner ready at 7:30. Because it was dark by the time she got there at 8:30, we had to move everything inside and eat dry chicken. Oh well. Not that big of a deal, just a little annoying since she has a cell phone and didn't call.

I'm fine with her staying with us, but that means her giant, hyper black lab is at our house all day. She wanted to stick him in the laundry room all day, which consists of a 5 foot strip of walkway with all the stuff it already has in there. I wasn't ok with that, nor was Chris. Both for the potential bathroom hazzard and for the pure sake it's mean to do to a dog for so long (7-5:30 at least), especially a big one. So we had to clean out the garage this morning and he's happily sprawled out in there with a big blanket.
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OMG, my boss just called and RAMBLED. She basically repeated the ten minute message she left me this morning and then rambled for another ten minutes about carp that has no bearing on me.

Off to do some work...

13 comments:

~Nutz said...

Maybe you MIL can pray with your boss. :D

kim (weltek) said...

Nutz! good to see you! I'll ask my MIL in to pray you'll be around more often, mmmmmkay?

MM said...

Ugh, you are being so nice about everything! You are a nice person.

*smooch*

dragonflies said...

I'm glad Chris is ok! That would have been scary. Once we were driving across a bridge and someone threw a bottle or rock or something out of their car, and it shattered our windshield. Couldn't see a thing. DH managed to pull over, but we had little shards of glass in our legs, and in the seats for days.

Anonymous said...

*refuses to eat dry chicken*

Anonymous said...

And I don't recall hearing about Chris' accident. I've also been wondering about Chris especially since this whole hospital bill thing came up. And now this MIL confirms it.

I think your Chris is the imposter.

Anonymous said...

Oh, and we had a similar incident with our SIL recently with the whole dog thing.

Some dog owners are like smokers.

kim (weltek) said...

LOL-maybe he has a secret life in Racine I don't know about, Boo! You might be on to something...his accident DID take place on his way back from Racine "for work." Mmmmhmmm, it's all making sense now.

Bravie said...

Work sucks. Hrmph.
I'm glad that Chris is okay though. Scary stuff.

Debcapsfan said...

If my house was flooded, I'd tell your MIL that she could help clean the mold off with the supplies she brought and it would answer my prayers!
I'm glad Chris is okay.

maroonclown said...

OMH - gets sick in Seattle, gets some horrible intestinal grossosity, gets identity swiped, gets attacked by a truck hood, and impositions you like crazy with MIL (well, technically M, I suppose) and big dog.

Are you sure you want to keep him? Sounds like more trouble than he's worth.

kim (weltek) said...

Indeed, MC, Indeed.

And let's not forget the asthma thing this year.

Puffy said...

Does your MIL know Jameka and Amber?