Saturday and I am not in the park.

lightswitch
on 10/1/16 11:14 am

Okay, so today is Saturday and I am sitting with my damn leg propped up on pillows with ice packs around my knee with orders to keep it up...I am having surgery in a little over a month and I am tethered to a damn stool.   The grands are here and they are waiting on me hand and foot and the granddaughter did make me a scrambled egg but I am just not use to not doing things.   Crap. 

I will finish the modify articles and begin posting them...****I cannot do anything else.  

Now that I have sufficiently felt sorry for myself, here's what's good: my granddaughter, who is only in third grade but is a member of the junior high debate team, participated in her first debate on Thursday night. We went down to watch and the teams compete in groups and individually. She debated with an 8th grader from another school with my granddaughter taking the position that girl's restrooms should be just for naturally born girls.  I swear, two weeks ago, she and I had this huge discussion with my sister and my sister's granddaughter so my granddaughter was well prepared. But, it was one of the potential topics so she had done research on the pros and cons on several topics, this one included.  Let me just say that girl is going to grow up to be a supreme court judge...she was so logical in presenting her information and when she countered her opponent....she won second place in the individual and her team won first place. None of her other team members placed in the individual.  Friday was homecoming for the football team and they had a huge assembly for the homecoming royalty and we went down because the superintendent said they were going to announce her and her team's win at the beginning of homecoming...considering she is in third grade, you would think they would have been so proud of her but the captain of the team went on stage to represent the entire team and as an after thought the superintendent drew attention to my granddaughter as having placed second in individual debates and added, by the way, she is in the third grade competing with the junior high team...that was it and then it was on to the girls in low cut dresses....really? Maybe all my pain and the medication is making me grumpy but I would think a debate team should be given more than an after thought announcement.   

B: scrambled egg with 1/2 piece of toast

L: tomato and cottage cheese (1/2 medium tomato and 1/2 cup of cottage cheese)

D: Beans, okra, and potatoes 

Snack: sugar free jelly

With all this inactivity, I can feel my fat cells sucking up every carb, every fat, every thing that goes into my mouth....damnit

mermaidoz
on 10/1/16 11:29 am - Canada

Here's to proud grumpy grandma's. You are so right. About everything.

jen

Ready2goNOW
on 10/1/16 11:38 am

Wow Jeannie!

I'd be proud as a pea**** about your granddaughter & pissed as **** about the minimal fanfare.

What asses! Hope she can at least get some special treatment from family...positive reinforcement from those who know & love her best!

You can choose to tell her this old lady you know thinks she is pretty darn awesome!

Sorry the knee continues to be a bother.

 

Kathy

seasheleyes
on 10/1/16 3:30 pm - Manteca, CA

Your granddaughter is amazing and I totally understand your grumpiness...my daughter graduated 13th in her class but they forgot to give her the extras that go with being in the top segment of the senior class because she was in a medical independent study due to a constant migraine headache. I felt so sorry for her at the graduation. But I was more than pissed about the oversight. I also felt guilty because I trusted that they would remember their promises. 

Breakfast/ protein drink

Lunch - tomato with cottage cheese

Dinner- beans with weinies

Snack- watermelon

mermaidoz
on 10/1/16 4:50 pm - Canada

Connie: Come Back!

jen

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