note to self: buy a straight jacket for my fiance' for thanksgiving

a lot has happened since i last wrote. first, my chiwawa (george) ran away. he is still m.i.a. i have looked everywhere, posted signs, went to one pound (my sister is going to the other one today)... nothing yet. i am keeping my fingers crossed. he is 12 years old and really fragile, so i just want to know that he is ok.

so besides that, my weekend was alright. my fiance' was working on jit's car all weekend (read my last entry to find out about dumbass jit). so i had to do all of the grocery shopping and make runs up to home depot and the auto parts store. which is fine, alone time is good sometimes.

disclaimer: i am not making fun of handicapped kids, this incident just happened to be hysterical:

when i was at home depot, the woman before me at the checkout had a kid in her basket. this kid had to have been about 13 and mentally hanicapped. the cashier had bent down to put something at the bottom of their cart when the boy grabbed her hair and wouldn't let go. the mother had to pry his hand off her head. the kid was laughing the whole time (so was i). the mother's response: "he likes hair"

sunday, the hunt for george continues... he is still not to be found. i wanted to get russell a surround sound system for christmas but i wasn't sure that is what he wanted, and i am not about to stand in line the day after christmas to return something. so i asked him and he got excited and so we went to walmart to check out the selection. i also got my christmas present. a sewing machine!!! this may not impress you, but i sew alot: curtains, pillows, etc. and the sewing machine i have (referred to as "the dinosaur") is really old, heavy, and doesn't barely work. so he got his present: dvd player+surround sound system. we got home and were playing w/ our "toys". the sewing machine is fabulous, but the dvd system didn't work, so i talked to the phillips magnovox people for 1/2 hour trying to fix it and we came to the conclusion that it was defective. so i returned it. (hey at least my sewing machine works) after that, we went to Woody's BBQ. we waited at the drive thru for 30-45 minutes and paid $7.99 per plate plus an order of garlic bread. the guy also assured me there was sweet bbq sauce in the bag. we get home and realize we just spent $20 on a 5 small slices of beef and turkeyk, lettuce in a cup that was masquerading as cole slaw, cold bread with a smear of butter on each, and a dixie cup of baked beans...AND NO SWEET BBQ SAUCE! boycott woody's! damn woody's!

anyways, that was kind of emotional... so tomorrow is thanksgiving and we are going to my mom's house to eat...or so i thought. last night at dinner russell tells me, "by the way, i am not going" "WHAT?!?" he has to go. see he always complains about family gatherings and how he doesn't like to eat in front of people, play games, etc. so after a long arguement, i am letting him make his own decision about going. he better go, or else i am seriously reconsidering marrying someone who will not go over to my familys house at thanksgiving, christmas, easter, and 4th of july. his excuse: "he doesn't like to sit at the dinner table while we all pray." tell me that's not some bull sh*t.

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