First Day (and a half) Home

I've been home for about a day and a half now, and it's already been interesting. One of the first things I noticed was a new toilet. It's so white and clean.....I almost feel bad using it. My dad has a new Eee PC, so he can "take notes" during the various continuing education conferences he goes to. He's heading to California for the first third of June.

About 9pm last night, the lights in the living room started to flicker, then they went out. We were running around, trying to get the circuit breaker back on, but it wouldn't stay on. Apparently, we've got a bad breaker. The bad thing is that this one is where almost every light in the house is connected to. All the overhead lights, the lamps in the living room, and the lamps in the kitchen are on this circuit. It gets dark at night without those. The bathroom is completely on that circuit, so now the only power it has now is from an extension cord running from the kitchen (the only outlet in either of those rooms that still works--the one with the fridge and microwave). The living room has a single lamp, with extension cords running back into the dining room, plugged in to the same outlet as this computer. The only lamps that didn't need extension cords from other rooms to run are the ones in either of the bedrooms or the dining room. My bedroom is almost completely unaffected. Just the overhead light is out.

We went to Grundy Center for Mother's Day, since my grandma's 80th birthday was on Friday. One of my cousins tried to get me to move out of one of the chairs. I can really make it hard to do that when I just go limp. 280 pounds of dead weight is a hard thing to move. The best he could do was drag the chair around--with me still in it. A few times, he tried to push me over the side, so I just grabbed his arms and let my other cousins tickle him--he's kind of the black sheep of the family, so it's easy to gang up on him....plus he tends to start arguments/fights that he can't win. The sad thing is that if he had simply asked me to get up, instead of trying to force me out, I would've gotten up.

The cousin that's married to a former Cy has a new dog, so she was showing off pictures--and a video of the dog taking "mom" for a run.

Well, I'm getting hungry, and I haven't yet read today's paper. I can't believe I've already written three posts.......it's kind of cathartic. Wait, where was I? Oh yeah. FOOOOOOOOOD! Bye for now.