The Week in the Proverbial Nutshell

It's FRIDAY and time for my week in a nutshell:

Breezy and BestSonInLawEVER were home this past weekend!  I always work myself silly cooking meals for them love it when they come home!  I did notice, however, that I am adjusting well to 'empty nest quiet' because it WAS NOT quiet while they were here and, I missed it.  Say it with me- PROGRESS! LOL

I would know that the weather has turn to the warmth of spring for the last three weeks even if I had not gone outside one single time.  How?  The neighbors on one side of us is how.  DrunkFemale and JerkFaceMale.  As soon as the weather warms up, they go out in their backyard and stay all day long.  So what?  I'll tell you so what.  They are completely, totally, utterly DRUNK which means they are obnoxious, vulgar, argumentative, abusive, irrational and intrusive just to name the main characteristics.  And all of us neighbors in the surrounding area can hear every single word.  Every.  Single.  Word.  ALL DAY LONG.  And then, when Sunday comes around, they are out by 7:00 am and THEY'RE ALREADY DRUNK.  I don't get it.  Did it go on all night or did they just get an early start?  Last weekend they argued, LOUDLY, about the name of a friend's child.  Everyone in the subdivision knows them as the neighborhood drunks.  Hubs and I are known as those poor souls who live next door to them.

 I started participating in the National Blog Posting Month or NaBloPoMo just to see what it's all about, maybe get my momentum going and to attempt some improvement in my writing.  This isn't easy, but it's kind of fun. You can join in any time so it's never too late!  Just follow the link or hit the button and check it out! The theme for March is:  In a Word!  Come on and give it a shot!  My word for today is:  Nutshell. Our actual prompt for today is: What's your favorite thing you love to waste time with right now? A guilty pleasure.  But, since I'm not sure I actually have one right now, I'm just going with NUTSHELL.  That's another nice thing about the NaBloPoMo, you don't have to use the prompt, you just have to write something.  Anything.  It does seem to help with the momentum issue.  Although it tends to make my brain ache just trying to think about what to write.   

Tucker and I have walked 16 miles so far this week.  In the wind.  I mean WIND.  It's practically picking us up and carrying us on our walks.  Yesterday it was crazy strong!  Things were blowing up against the house last night and it was SPOOKY.

Our college babies have spring break next week.  DoodleBug is taking a train trip to Philly with her roommate the Gibbster (or, as my very southern mother likes to say, "The yankee that we like." Oh Mother...there are at least one or two more whom we like. LOL).  Birdie and current boytoy (who will be known from here forward as BoyWeWantForSonInLaw) will be leaving late next week for DC to visit Deanie!  They, too, will be traveling via train.  I won't ride on a train because of a bad experience when I was three that I remember like it happened yesterday.  I will spare you the details but it happened at Tweetsie Railroad (a wild west theme park in the mountains of NC) and involved a steam operated train, Indians who attacked said train, and FEAR.  (Don't judge-the only Indians I knew about at that age were Hollywood depicted.).  Not even Fred Kirby (a rootin' tootin' singin' cowboy a.k.a., my hero) could pry the death grip lose that I had on my dad's neck.    

DoodleBug and the Gibbster came over for supper Wednesday.  They had to take Birdie a plate because she had a research project meeting.  Those Athletic Training majors are having a busy senior year.  I fed them Shrimp Scampi (and the shrimp was FRESH off the boat.  Hubs goes to the docks when the shrimp boats come in and buys them right there...he has to head them though because I'm NOT doing that...once you taste them fresh like that, you won't ever eat them any other way.  Ever.), served on whole wheat linguini, a big fresh, tossed salad, sauteed mushrooms, and french bread with garlic butter.  Nothing big for dessert, just some Bryers mint chocolate chip.  YUUM-EEEE!

And that's the week in a nutshell Dahlings!  Here's to your weekend, may it be all you hoped for and more! 

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