Me? Apparently not very well!

How well to you know your mother?

So, over the weekend, my sister, mom and I decided to take a small road trip, you know, in the interest of “relaxing” and all that!

Me: 4 year old really likes this song!

My mom: Is that Usher?

Me: Ummm, yeah, you know who Usher is?

My mom: Yes, I like him!

Me: Uh. Ok then.

I surely have the most kick ass birthdays!

So, I woke up this morning and had breakfast served to me, all my favorites of course, french toast, over easy eggs, fresh strawberries, chai... it was completely lovely. Then, I had a plethora of gifts, you know, things I really adore and drool over! And as if that was not enough, some fairies came and cleaned my house for me, and my husband took care of the kids so that I go to a spa!

Who believed that???

Actually, 2 of my sick kids spent the night with their grandparents, the other sick kid went to bed at 2am, I woke up before anyone else, as usually, got some work done, made myself breakfast, ate alone, finally when my husband got up, we took my youngest to the Emergency, waited and waited, then left, finally got to my mom’s house, was greeted by one sleeping kid and another really sick one, home-made cake (because no one remembered to buy yummy cheesecake for me!), although I did safely eat my weight in fruit cake.

Yes, my friends, just like my birthday last year, when I spent 7 hours in the hospital with my sick husband, I am again caring for sick members of my family! Don’t you just wish you were me!!

Merry? What did you just say to me?

As I was walking out of Costco tonight, I said bye to the lady at the exit and flashed her a smile, as is my custom, even if people don’t always appreciate it, you know, me being a hijabi and all, so she says to me “merry Christmas!” and I replied “same to you”, then as I was walking away, she shouts out to me “if you celebrate Christmas that is…” I turned around, looked at her, and started cracking up, people, I don’t understand how a Christmas greeting became offensive… are any of you offended by this? Please, I would really like to know!

And in other irrelevant news, you know how I am working out now, well, one of the reasons I go to that particular place is because it’s frequented by a lot of older women, who, admittedly can “exercise” my ass off, but I like to look at them as “inspirational”, you know, like if I keep doing this, in 20 years I can be just as fit as them, except today, I was greeted by 2 “younger” women. Working out opposite “perky” 18 year olds doing jumping jacks… crap people!!