You’re the boss, Brandice

I missed you guys.

I am super excited today. I haven’t blogged in days, bet you guys never even knew, right? I feel like I have so much to tell you. I don’t even no where to begin…

Thanksgiving was amazing. First of all, when I walked into Laura’s she told me to close my eyes and open my mouth. Then she put some spinach artichoke dip in my mouth. I fell in love with her. While we were eating, Friend Ben’s mom told us amazing stories of Little Friend Ben. Things like, he would read books to his little brother and that he had an imaginary….should I be telling you this? I mean..what’s Friend Ben ever done to me besides put a photoshopped picture of me on facebook. Which was just retaliation of the picture of him I put on Facebook. I give Friend Ben such a hard time, ALL the time, maybe I shouldn’t tell you that he had an imaginary friend named Regganounce when he was a boy. I guess I’ll have to give that some more thought. After we ate, we went on the longest walk known to man. Not really but when you’re out of shape and super full it might as well had been.

Friday I had planned to put up my Christmas Tree, but that never happened because we got a crazy idea to pull up the carpet in our Family Room…and we did. That was an all day project, even though I distinctly remember telling Ben that it wouldn’t be. If time would just listen to me, everything would go much smoother. My mom called and told me she needed all this help at her new office. She couldn’t get her printers to work. When we got to her office, I pulled an envelope out of the printer/copier that had gotten jammed then I plugged it up. It worked fine after that. I don’t know a lot about electronics, but what I do know I give all credit to my mom. If it wasn’t for her not knowing anything she would have never MADE me do all the electronic related things growing up. Actually, she was always trying to make me do weird things growing up. Once, I had spent the night at a friends, and at 7:00am she called me and was all, “Come home now.” She sounded angry, but I wasn’t buying it. “Why do you want me to come home, Mother?”
“Just do it Brandice!”
“This is not a Nike commercial mother.”
Then her voice changed from stern to whiny and she said, ” I can’t get this anklet on because my nails are to long.”
“I’m going back to sleep.”

Saturday, we went to visit my family. I went to see my dads mom first. She made a ginormous lunch for us, and I was telling her how her house reminded me of an I Spy! book. The longer you look around, you see more stuff you never knew was there, even though the stuff has been there forever, like MY WHOLE LIFE. She chuckled when I told her, and then she said, “You know I NEVER throw anything away.” After that we went to my aunts house, and I could have stayed all day except for the fact I had 2 more places to visit before I got home. When I got to my other grandmothers, I started looking for Zoe’s formula so I could make her a bottle. But I never found it. That’s because I never brought it. So we immediately packed back up and drove the hour home so she could eat. We didn’t even get to stop by my dads.

Speaking of my dad, when I called him later to tell him why we hadn’t stopped to see him, something amazing happened. His girlfriend, told him to ask me what I wanted for Christmas. He hasn’t asked me that question since I had kids. Trying not to go into shock, I crossed my fingers and said, “LAPTOP!” You’ll never believe what happened next. His girlfriend said, “Wait! we’re buying a new one for Christmas and the one we have is only a few years old.” Then she told my dad he could buy that one from her, for me. I think it needs a little work, but I could have swore I heard the angels singing as the whole conversation went on. Then I laughed because my dad got roped into that one. I love it when he has girlfriends. So, maybe, just maybe I might be getting a VAIO…

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