Mcgilla’s Weblog

Logan has been on this…. mommy is my favorite thing…. and Jeremy kinda eggs it on….. So Sunday night Logan was asked who his favorite aunt was…. to which is immediate response was OH! FIRE ANTS!!!!  Then last night after making him “really yummy doubled (deviled) eggs” and giving him ketchup and mustard to mix together when he couldn’t remember what red and yellow make…. and him thinking that it was way cool i might add…. he was asked again who his favorite aunt was….. another quick response… aunt kelli.  DANG!  She’s not nearly as fun as I am!  I play zombie with him, and pirates, and dinosaurs, and robots, and monsters….. AND i have all the cool books.  But kelli has the ultimate trump…. she’s elle’s mom.  sigh. One of these days i’m gonna have the coolest kids ever so that i can be the favorite aunt.

Alli is kinda new to the area….. she hasn’t learned all of the things that we just don’t do around here. 

we don’t say “pop” you’re not in chicagoland anymore.

we wash our hands after we use the restroom.  I don’t care if you didn’t “pee on yourself” wash your hands.

Hit-n-Run is not ridiculous or silly.  And a humm dinger is not dumb.

I just bought her her first ever….. 

i think she’s been touched by the glory

i had this conversation today with matt drury….

me: did you see my new pic with fred bird…. i’m pretty sure he’s making fun of me

Matt: oh… look at that… did we have the all star game?

Me: what do you mean

Matt: has the all star game happened yet?

Me: no, that’s not till the middle of july

Matt: oh…. is it in st. louis this year?

Me: do you live under a rock?

then his mom called and he had to go.

here’s some friendly information for you.  Every time you come in, i don’t particularly want to hear….. How’s that MRS degree coming?  You really need to get that MRS, love is the best.  You got your MRS yet?  Any prospects?  I can hook you up with my son, he just turned 18……. I get it, you want me to get married.  I don’t need 8 reminders of it each and every time you come in.  it’s getting redundant.  So… for now on, instead of dropping 8 of these comments in 15 or so min….. cut it to two, and then at night when you’re praying for the elderly, sick, injured and dying…. just lump me in there… cuz you know, single, elderly, sick and dying…. same diff.

i don’t write much anymore…. mainly because i don’t have funny kids doing goofy things.  A lot of people think i’m real funny, but it’s not true, i just spend time with funny people.  This blog for a while may turn into the Sofie blog for lack of kids to talk about…. Sofie is mom and reda’s new pup she’s a lab/german shepherd mix… and she’s about 5 months old with a TON of energy, so i’ve taken to walking her in the afternoons.  The goal is to walk her daily, but due to rain a couple of previous engagements, i started about a week and half ago but today was only our 3rd walk, it’s been a bit of a comedy of errors. 

Day one: I subbed a half day at dad’s school and didn’t want to take the time to change, so i just changed into tennis shoes and was wearing a simple cotton skirt, tshirt, scarf, and giant running shoes (cute right?) I’m working really hard on keeping sofie on a short leash and teaching her to walk with me.  She’s doing…. okay… and i’m about to let my guard down a little when we stop at a corner for a passing car when Sof got excited and jumped up at me. Her paw caught my skirt and she successfully pulled it straight to the ground, my underwears caught and came down a little too…. so if anyone was looking out their windows, they saw my booty.

Day two: Sofie is getting much better at walking on the leash until about 6 blocks from home when the heavens opened and the rain came pouring down.  Sofie, who is a bit of a chicken, freaked out and bolted.  I could not get her to calm down so we ran the last 6 blocks and came home absolutely soaked

Day Three: Sofie is VERY excited for the beginning of the walk, i give up trying to hold her back and decide to run a bit.  about the second block into the run sofie caught the scent of something she liked and took a very sharp left right in front of me, i FLEW through the air.  flew is not an exaggeration. luckily i landed in the grass rather than getting torn up on the side walk.  I then pulled Sofie over to me, and we had a conversation eye to eye.  she stayed with me REALLY well after that…. and then we hit 10th street…. there are an abnormal number of dogs on 10th.  Sofie is a chicken and was pretty jumpy going down the street, but all in all, we kept it together…. And it starte pouring today as soon as i got in the car and drove away so i feel like my luck MIGHT be improving.

When sitting at a desk looking out on to fergson ave there are a few great time killers.  My favorite today…. counting the motorized wheel chairs that mosey down the sidewalk.  You would think that would be a few and far between kind of occurrence…. but not here!  in about 90min, i’ve seen 4.  And that’s not the same one passing by several times…. that’s four different chairs trucking down the side walk.  Maybe if i’m lucky i’ll see someone hitching a ride on the back of a wheelchair….. I have seen that on ferguson before… more than once.