I've Created A Monster!

When Alex and I were at the hospital with my brother this past weekend, he grined at one of the nurses and she giggled and smiled back. Alex looks at me and....quote...

"Aren’t I the master of cuteness?"

ER Fun

We had a pretty interesting weekend. Friday night, my baby brother Josh who is only a baby at a whopping 20-years of age, was reaching under the seat of his blazer when his pellet gun went off and he shot himself in the hand. The pellet was lodged in his finger so we took him into the ER but unfortunately it was so deep in the muscle, the doctor couldn't remove the pellet. We had to take him to a bone doctor (whatever that is) on Monday. It's swollen and icky looking (sorry to get so technical) but he'll survive. I drove him to the bone doctor yesterday and we waited for about 20 minutes before we were able to see him. He escorted us in the room, looked at his hand and said; yes...we need to remove it. Ummm...okay. thanks for that I thought. Josh has an appointment scheduled today to officially have the pellet removed. Times like this I really do miss my mom. I did run through a quick gun safety course with Josh hoping to avoid anymore bullet wounds. He is a hunter/fishing person so I was really surprised that he was so careless with a pellet gun. I am going to get some bulletproof gear to wear the next time I enter his apartment in case any firearms are hanging around without the safety.

Alex is also going through his seasonal asthmatic routine. We were up most of the night on Sunday with that heavy cough. He is taking Advair for it which really does help but I always feel so bad for his little body when I watch it working so hard to breath regularly.

I guess this post really is a whine session for me but man do I feel better.

Say It Isn't So

Santana gets traded to the Mets and the Twins get....NOTHING ZIP O ZILTCH O for him! Other than Mauer (Mauer-sota), Santana is our favorite Twin!!! Alex has his baseball card proudly displayed in his room. I can't get over the fact that we received four "potentially" good players for the best pitcher in MLB

Goodbye Santana - you'll be missed!

Farm Boy??

Sometimes you can take the boy out of the city, but you can't take the city out of the boy.

As we were walking into the school this morning, Alex and I had the following conversation...

Alex - Mom, why does it always smell like cow poop around here?
Mom - That is how many families in South Dakota make money and feed their families
Alex - (Obviously confused) With cow poop?

I guess I should have explained it more thoroughly

A car with an attitude

Trying to start my car in -18 degree weather, it starts off by making a sound like rrrrr rrrrrr which translates to "are you freakin kidding me? Walk your a** to work"

Momma Bear

Plumtruck

Ah - the creative geniuses in advertising