The Peanut Chronicles

I am so happy to be back up here. I am just relaxing in my town, taking in the beauty of it all, cracking up at Nut who can’t get over the size of the trees around here. The Bear is busy with wedding party things so I am alone in town, visiting friends and relatives.

This morning I crashed a class with one of my prof’’s at the University. I walked in, with my coffee and bag and she looked up at me. It was actually kind of funny because she had been expecting my cousin to come in and talk to her social work class about volunteering with the YES house on campus. (The yes house is a volunteer center here.) She didn’t even put two and two together for a split second. Ironic, since Jewel looks absolutely NOTHING like me. But she gave me a hug and we chatted while the class shuffled in. She wanted to know every thing I had been up to. She new about the book and actually ordered it as her textbook for the class she is teaching next year on crisis response. (Insert little smile here. Yes, I feel a little smug.) That explains all those orders all of a sudden.

However, Prof Crone didn’t know about Peanut!! She was shocked that I had a seven month old (“but you are so skinny!”- Um. Ok. If you say so.) And thought the pix I had of Nut on my phone were hilarious!! Yes, my son is adorable.

But where is Nut right now? I am alone in my coffee shop (Ironic side note: one of my former students from the tutoring center I used to run just came in to say hi. He’ll be 19 this month. I met him when he was 13. My god, time flies.) Mostly doing case reports to email to myself at work. I let the Bear take him because the guys wanted to hang out with him as they do wedding stuff. Whatever. I need a break every once and awhile but can never admit to that other wise I would be called a bad mother, right? Might as well let the Nut hang out with guys and get the “dude time”. I’m going to have him all night anyway at the hotel as the Bear sleeps over at the guys place.

I did a bunch of Xmas shopping while in SW. Went to some of my favorite places, ate my ginger garlic potatoes over the big blue. I noticed something while I was in the local herbal shop buying tea for Punk. I actually feel like when I am in outskirts, part of my soul has withered and died. Really. I can’t describe it any other way then to describe this vague empty feeling. When I walked into the herbal shop, I don’t quite know how to describe it. I felt whole again? Full up? Sure. I guess that’s a happy fun puffs way of saying it.

Bear just called. Panic. There is only one diaper in the diaper bag!! GOD FORBID! My response? “And what would you like me to do about that?”

“uhhh… go to the hotel and get some more and bring them to me.”

The hotel, from where I am, is about 15 miles away. The hotel, from where he is, is about 5 miles away.

The answer is no. what a horrible mother I am. Shame on me. He can get off his ass and go to the hotel and get some more or buy some at the local shop. Not that big of a fucking deal.

Any way, tomorrow is Autumn and Hulk’s wedding. It’s an outdoor wedding and so far the weather has been cloudy and cool, but now the sun is peaking out. Crossing the fingers that it may be beautiful tomorrow. I certainly hope so. Autumn has enough going wrong as it is. Let’s put it this way” you think my in laws are bad? HA! We should start a club.

What else? Bear bought the business. He “secured 50 grand from Bill Johnson” but needed to get another 25 grand to buy the school. He was going to go to the bank but instead he got into a conversation with Able Johnson, Bill’s 19-year-old son, who had 25 grand to buy into the business with.

What kind of 19-year-old kid has 25 grand just hanging around and is able to buy a fricking business with it? Really? I want to know! And he lives on the wrong side of the tracks in Dinora!!! Shit. That’s amazing to me.

I went to visit Little Buddha in his office today and he was n interviews. Turns out they are looking for a stipend coordinator for the department in the University. What kills me is that this was MY STIPEND and if I applied for the position up here it would have paid back my stipend and I could have moved back here!!!! WTF?!?! I could have been gone from metropolis and all the bitchy people who I hate and been back where things make sense. Bummer.

Oh yes... and the picture of the day...

He really wanted some of my potatoes....

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Mamacita Tina said...: Your little man is sooooooo cute! I love his round face.; 5:38 AM

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