monkeymom's Diaryland Diary
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Dying in the desert
27 February, 2002
Hi Moosk,
I got your letter asking for Goldbond powder and Cadbury mini-eggs, but I haven�t done anything about sending them yet. I was, however, inspired to go buy a bag of Cadbury mini-eggs for myself and I am eating some at work as I write this. I am dying to have a can of Diet Pepsi, but in an attempt to avoid having to call that miserable witch Peggy, who is the ER secretary until 7 p.m., to give me a break, I am not drinking any soda between noon and 6 on the days I work. It is only 4:30 and I�m dying for a PEPSI!!
Kim had a half-day of school today, so she came home and got on MSN to chat with her friend Caitlin. They are almost like teen-agers, except that they are IMing about Cartoon Network instead of about boys. Kim�s Young Authors story went to the semi-finals, and she is very excited about that!! I haven�t actually read it yet, but I sent a copy of the rough draft to Aunt Sarah to read.
Oh, speaking of Sarah, I can�t remember if I told you this, but we are in negotiation with Mom to convince her to fly home and let us drive her car back to Michigan. She says that Uncle Roger can drive her, but when Inger went out there to visit a couple of weeks ago, Mom didn�t want to ask Roger to pick her up at the airport because he has chest pains if he has to do too much! Okay, so how is it going to be okay for him to drive all the way to Michigan?
She is also worried because she takes a diaretic (just like Bertha) so she has to pee a lot, and she thinks it will be easier to stop the car every time she needs to go, instead of toddling back to the airplane bathroom. Hello? I said, �Oh, so you think it�s easier to pull off the highway, find a gas station, get the key from the attendant, go to the bathroom, take the key back, get back in the car and drive back to the highway every time you have to pee? How is that better?� So in argument, she tells me about the woman (but it turned out later to be a man) who was arrested for using the bathroom on an airplane when the plane was landing. I said I hadn�t heard that, and she said I just don�t watch the news. Well I mentioned it to Aunt Sheila yesterday and she said it was a man, and the reason he was arrested was because he refused to sit back down and got in a fight with the flight attendants! Of course, then I have to think about how surly Mom gets when she thinks people aren�t giving her enough respect (�They all think I�m stupid!�), and I have no doubt she would end up walking through the airport in manacles, escorted by security guards who would be pulling her oxygen tank on wheels.
So later I talked to Sarah and we were both getting upset about the whole situation and what a crazy old lady Mom was being! We imagined the two of them driving across the desert, stopping every 5 feet for Mom to pee, and then when Roger has a heart attack in the middle of the empty part of Texas, they�ll pull over to the side of the road and he�ll die there and then mom will have to pee, so she�ll crawl out to pee in the sand and she won�t be able to get back into the van by herself, what with her oxygen tank and all, so she�ll just have to sit there in the dirt by the side of the road and expire and be eaten by vultures because they won�t even have a cell phone with them.
So Sarah called the airlines and got some prices and some information on traveling with oxygen � when she told Mom she was going to call and ask the airlines some questions, Mom said that would be fine, IF they would tell her the TRUTH! Yes, mom, the airlines are lying to you, just like the phone company. They�re all in it together, the airlines, the phone company, even the men�s room attendant at the White House.
Sarah collected the information from Mom and sent it to her on Monday, but no one has heard anything back from her yet. I�m sure she is just fuming about it all. Does she think we WANT to go out there and drive her van back? Does she think it�s fun for us? Because I have a newsflash for her, if she does!
So I posted the letter I got from you yesterday, and today I scanned your pictures and put a couple of them on the website. I saw Jason online in the computer lab at school, and he showed Denise, who works there, your site and the new pictures. We were both surprised that anyone would yell at a cute little monkey like you and chase you away!
I am eagerly waiting for your next letter, and I hope to hear about what the members are feeding you and about your roommates. Some of the other moms on the missionary list are saying that their kids have eaten cows heads, including eyes!! YUCK! Also, there was a letter from some boy in the Resistencia mission who wrote home that he and his companion were burglarized this week and lost just about everything! That is so terrible! So one of the other moms wrote about the time her son was robbed, too, and I know it happened to a friend of mine, too, so I hope that you will be safe!
I have been slacking off on writing letters to missionaries and old ladies lately. I only write to you, and then I don�t care enough about anyone else to change the letter around for them to read, so in the last month I only wrote a couple of individual letters. I am hoping to get back on track though, when Dave McDonald goes to the MTC. I think I�m going to make a mission website for him, too, because his parents are too computer illiterate, and also, according to Hope, she HAS a life (as you know, I do not. Oh, was that bitter?).
I started another vest for Scott today, and I ordered 4 patterns for some beautiful sweaters from a company called Cabin Fever. I ordered yarn for one of them in a dark blue called Blue Flannel. It�s more of that Brown Sheep Lamb�s Pride wool. I love that stuff! I wish I had a source for it nearby, but I can keep on getting it by mail order. They make different weights and I�m thinking of ordering some in sport weight, and I would like to try some Cotton Fleece, which is a cotton/wool blend. Yes, I so need more yarn!! I do have quite a bit of sport weight that we got at Mary�s of the yarn that is dyed by that woman in Winslow. I wonder if she�ll be at the Fiber Fair this year? She�s the one who had the table set up for people to dye their own skeins last year. I still have Kim�s skein that I haven�t made anything with.
Oh your friend the Mennonite boy will miss you at the Fiber Fest this year, and you won�t be able to have a return drop spindle challenge! Well I�ll have to buy some yarn for both of us!
12:23 p.m. - 2002-02-27
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