Blogging on the Block 1-9-09

Went to my mom's today. Wasn't so bad, she was in a pretty good mood. A lot better mood than my MIL was this morning. I cleaned house for her and played with the boys. Bubba thought that he should get a treat every time he came in from outside.

My brothers, Bubba and Brutus

My best friend called and left me a message on my cellphone today. Her mother was moved to a room, wish I knew which one. She called the house too and talked to my MIL. She told her which room, but she didn't write it down and doesn't remember what she said. That happens. I had to ask her if she talked to her when I checked the caller ID and saw the number. She had also forgotten my brother inlaw was here today and stayed with her until hubby got home. She remembered it when I mentioned it, but she'd forgotten it. She went to bed early tonight, and that was ok with me, since I have to get up and take her to the doctor in the morning. She remembered to tell me she called and got an appt today, but nothing else. I guess I know what was important to her.

We had 2 more cows give birth today. Brownie and Denny. Brownie is ours, but Denny belongs to another one of my brother inlaws, the one who lives closest to us and never calls. The MIL called him and told his wife he was a daddy again. I'm sure my sister inlaw thought she'd really gone over the deep end until she told her it was his cow.

Brownie and her calf.

Denny and her calf. It was getting dark outside and I couldn't get close enough to get a good shot. Mostly because Scooby and Comet went with me and she didn't like them getting close to her calf.

I ordered myself an early birthday present yesterday morning. I hadn't planned to, and I kind of dread it. I'm rather attached to my digital camera, but I dearly need to update with a newer/better model. My old one is a Olympus C-820L, and she does a decent job. But, yesterday I order a new one. I'm not really sure how I feel about it, dread - anticipation - excitement - fear I won't like it, you know the whole gambit. My Olympus has been with me for 6 years, we're used to each other. I know her quirks and she knows my limits. How on earth am I gonna break it to her she's being replaced, retired, handed down to the hubby. I just know she's gonna be heartbroken and hate me forever. Oh she was jealous enough of the other digital cameras I have, they just weren't up to her candid opinion.

(I have 2 Kodak cameras in my desk. One of which was my first digital camera, and I still use it sometimes. The other was a great camera until my son knocked it off the table, now all its shots are too bright. Almost the same model as my first, it just had a zoom lens and the first one didn't. Then there are 2 Casio digital cameras, both take awesome pictures but neither will work with Vista. And then there are 2 small digital cameras that I got for the boys to use, neither of which have any interest in it since they can't talk on it. If it isn't a phone or handheld game they loose interest fast.)

So, when the new Kodak Easyshare 8.2 megapixels with a zoom lens comes on Monday, I don't know how Oly will take it. I mean she goes almost everywhere with me, and I just hate to break her heart.

No, I'm not going to talk about my birthday. It'll happen and I'll live with it. The MIL did remember it was coming up and tried to give me some money to get myself something with this morning. I told her she'd already got me something, and she did on Monday when we were out. She doesn't remember, but my memory works great and I do.

Well, I've still got 101 things to do before I go to bed, so...I'll say goodnight. Hope you had a wonderful day.