It Ought To Be Easy Ought To Be Simple Enough

Happy Hallmark and Hershey Day!!

Sorry but Valentines days annoys me on many levels, the least of it being the manufactured sentiment part. On the plus side Greg Glover over at KNRK did one hell of an 8 @ 8 today and included my very most favorite evah Bruce Springsteen song. From my favorite album by the Boss no less. And the best part of it is while driving Miss Thang to school yesterday they did the lead in thing on the Adam Carolla show and used the start of the song, and then CUT IT! I hate that. So the fact that Greg played the whole thing was awesome. Lot of other great songs today. I Want Candy, Two Hearts Beat As One, Shoot That Poison Arrow, Lips Like Sugar, Love My Way, and the 'Mats Valentine. Plus Perfect Way by that freakishly 80's band Scritti Politti. The Valentine tie in being the album that song was on is entitled Cupid and Psyche.

That was the best part of Val Day for me. Oh and the knowledge that my darling daughter was racking up quite a nice profit in cookies at school. Her "business" of choice? Un-matchmaking. That is right for the mere price of a cookie, Kidlet will dump your SO for you. Complete with comforting pat on the back. Her dad and I are not sure if we are proud or horrified. Actually we are both proud in a sick kinda way but we have to play act at the horror part ya know?

I have sucked at both posting and visiting this week and for that I apologize to my peeps. I am back at work after a week off and this DAMN cough is lingering. Kidlet and I have been getting home and damn near crashing at 6. How Golden Girls is that?! I have emails out the wazoo (painful!) and I totally skipped out on both WW and TT. Just didn't have the pep and spent what little I had on Idol.

Anyhow I will try to make the rounds better this week and, like, post and shit. This is probably a rambling post and not at all anything to be proud of, but I finally had to throw in the towel and take hardcore cough syrup. I didn't take any last night and I coughed my ass off all day. Had a charity auction meeting this morning and had to do the reflection and nearly burst a blood vessel trying not to cough.

It was a tough meeting as is. We recently lost a co-worker and a committee friend to mesothelioma. While we knew Ed was ill and have known since last May or so, I don't think anyone thought he would go so fast. He was a tremendous person who truly lived our mission. We will be dedicating this years auction to his memory. So my reflection was about not sweating the small stuff and embracing life. Fortunately our Chairwoman brought chocolate for the Holiday so we have sugar therapy.

On that note I should also mention that my grandfather is not doing so hot. Or doing hot depending on how you want to look at it. He is tired of waiting and pretty much wants to be done with the business of living. I truly think he is horrified he didn't have the good grace to die within 6 months of my grandmother. So there will be a trip to Utah in my future fairly soon and on short notice. It has been nice hanging out with him and taking care of him though.

Gramps and I have always been buds. Although our last meaningful competition was about my "sporting life" aka my dating or lack there of. Something about it being called "sporting" cracks me the hell up. He has quit eating at this time though, and he was pretty out of it last Saturday. Kidlet and I will be over there Sunday providing we are not heading to Utah. Gramps has had a good life and while I will miss him and our discussions on my love life, I know he is ready. And he did me one last good turn, he got mom to make that skordalia for my birthday =)

Sigh...generally your frozen entree's cook faster if you turn the oven on. Lord have mercy. It has been that kinda day!