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Going vegetarian…well…

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It’s Memorial Day weekend and, of course, cookouts and cookout food is priority number one. So…this morning, my Mom went grocery shopping.  She loves Eastern Market!!  She came home with all sorts of stuff.  And then…

Mom:  Hey baby, did you know that Tom Brady and Gizelle are vegetarians?

Dad:  WHO?

Mom:  You know the football player and his wife, the model.

Dad:  Ummm, No..I didn’t know that.

Mom:  I read that they are vegetarian 80% of the time.  I think we should try that too.  We eat a lot of vegetables and I’ve read that it is so much healthier.  I went to the market and got some gooood stuff.   Mel, this cantaloupe is gonna be good!!

Dad:  You want us to be Brady and Jasmine??

Mom:  GIZELLE.   We can try it out…why not?  I’ve got some good recipes.  I think this will be really good.  And, it will give us some new things to try.

ME:  (hands on my head)

Dad: (head hanging, chuckling)  OK Baby

LATER THIS AFTERNOON / EARLY EVENING

Mom is in the kitchen.  She usually cooks dinner on Sundays.  She is doing her THANG!!! Daddy comes in the kitchen right after me.

Dad:  Something smells good Baby.  What’s for dinner?

Mom:  Pork chops & gravy, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and mixed vegetables.

(My Dad walks with a walker.  He STOPPED in the middle of the kitchen)

Mom:  And I made some GOOOOD  sangria with those berries from the market..

Dad:  HUH?  You said we were gonna be vegetarians???

Mom:  Well, I said they do it 80% of the time.  We gonna start Tuesday.  Besides, pigs eat vegetables.

(My Dad looks at me…and makes the crazy sign around the side of his head with his finger and then to my Mom)

Mom:  I see you Melvin!!!!!  Go sit your a** down!!  Dinner is almost ready.

OH EM GEE!!!!!!   WHAT is going on??  She was SERIOUS!!!!  So, I guess we will be vegetarian starting Tuesday.

People been…

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My folks have been quiet lately.  Since I announced that I have created and published my blog, I was beginning to think that they were now, all of sudden, shy.  Yup, they knew I would post their words and antics to FB, but I thought that they were now editing themselves.  LOL

Oh. How. I. Was. Wrong.

So…this morning at breakfast, we are doing our usual check-in.  Daddy reading the newspaper (my Dad reads the entire paper every day) and Mom eating berries.

Me:  June 8th is my Grandparents wedding anniversary (I talk about them often.  I never met them, since they both passed when my Daddy was a child…but I feel SO connected to them)

Daddy:  What year was it again?

Me:  1932

Mom:  You know…(pause)…people been screwing a lonnnng time!!

BOOM – Breakfast conversation takes a turn!!

What do I always say?  I can’t make….

As Seen On TV

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So…my Mom is a napper.  She doesn’t really “go to sleep.”   I regularly receive emails from her at 4:00 am saying “Good Morning Sunshine!”  See, she is a like a cat.  She takes multiple naps a day.  What’s funny is when she has meetings or appointments…she really has to focus and stay on schedule.  LOL   It is not unusual for her to be up at any particular time.  Now, my Dad on the other hand is the complete opposite.  I started calling him Dracula when I was in High School.  He stays up ALL NIGHT and sleeps during the day.  When I was in junior high school, he would surprise me with different movies that would come on late at night.  When he would come home from work, he’d tell me that he taped some movies for me.  I would ask which ones and he would tell me “Cooley High” or “Carmen Jones.”  Now, those movies only came on around 2:00 AM. (for my DC folks, on channel 20).

So…back to my Mom.  I admit, I am an online shopper, so the UPS and FedEx guys know us. BUT RECENTLY, things have picked up!!  My Mom has been receiving all sorts of packages. She had several productions over the last few months, so I figured that it was stuff for her theater company.  Nooooooooo……she has been shopping on late night TV!!!!   I think I really paid attention when my Mom gifted me with some yoga socks.  Not just one pair of yoga socks…but 12 (yes TWELVE) pairs of yoga socks.  Don’t worry, she has twelve pairs as well.

Wait, then there are the pasta strainers.  Yes “are” and plural.  She ordered some special pasta strainers, where you put this thinga-ma-jig over the pot to strain the pasta.  I guess that would be OK if we didn’t already have 3 complete sets of cookware, ranging from All Clad to Le Creuset.  The 3 complete sets isn’t bad, they are from 3 households (main house, my former home in Atlanta and their Hilton Head house).  So, she gets a pass on the cookware. I bring that up because, WHY then do we need the red, plastic pasta strainers?   Oh yeah, we received 4 (yes FOUR) sets of 2;  totaling 8 pasta strainers.  She can’t even give these things away…and she has tried!!!

I could go on and on.  So…I finally asked my Mom why she is ordering all of this stuff.  She told me because they look cute on commercials.  CUTE!!!!  She figured that she is doing early Christmas/Birthday shopping or that they are good deals.  Between my Mom and her As Seen on TV good deals and my Dad and his Costco good deal obsession I am gonna turn into practicing yoga, chopping, straining, slicing and dicing, wraptastic Sous Chef!!!

HELLLLP!!!!