The Special People Club

One McDonald's breakfast burrito, part of an Egg McMuffin and a cup of McDonald's coffee while we read the paper One viewing of Sweet Land , which is romantic and lovely and beautiful, and looks just like you want love to look One trip to the post office Eyebrow wax while Mom had a wash and blow dry at Eclips Photo taken for the paper to commemorate an earmarked hospice donation in my Dad's name One more stop at McDonald's for a soft-serve cone (they're 49 cents each, for pete's sake) One trip to Culver's for an iced tea with Mom and Carol One very rushed trip home so the van didn't get hailed on Dinner at the Oaks, the steakhouse in the old Cliff House hotel. Say, that Dan has sure done a nice job, hasn't he? I went to high school with him. Don't I remember? One game of scrabble, Mom 316, Me 313 One viewing of Hairspray (the Divine version), wherein I explain to Mom why CP and I adore it and she laughs at the cartoon-like nature of the original ...

One Culver's chocolate custard with butterfinger chips Half of a Culver's tuna salad wrap Some of my mom's Culver's Club Salad Two trips to Super Walmart , one for a box fan and another for a wet/vac. We had a mega thunderstorm in the night and my mom's house is built on soil high in clay content with lots of limestone springs running deep in the ground. This means that the neighbourhood can be prone to a bit of basement flooding in heavy rain. Lucky us...the sump pump broke and we woke to much water in the basement. My day has been spent with plumbers, moving furniture of saturated carpet and sopping wet boxes from parts of the cement side of the basement, getting said carpet lifted and then wet- vaccing the carpet pad. (about 8 gallons out thus far.) One game of scrabble to relax - Mindy 374, Mom 277, with a bingo for Mindy with "begonia"