Dick’s Christmas Party

If you’d like to read about he Dru Sjodin case this is the link to the articles in the local newspaper

I am feeling better emotionally. I was in a bad, bad slump for too long. Oh how I hate it when I get in that mood. It is worse than PMS! At least with PMS you know why you are so cranky!

Let me tell you ~ I was cranky! I tried not to be cranky at work last week. It was a good thing that Tattoo (I had to go back and find the entry that I wrote about him before to remember the name that I had given him) was not at work last week. It is not good that he has the flu just good that he was not there. He is so peppy that it gets irritating and it is even more so when I am crabby ~ even if I am trying not to be.

I guess I just needed time out of the house alone with Dick. So the next time that I get in a bad way please remind me that we need to go out on a date. I am sure that I will forget that being with him is the solution to my crappy mood ~ even though he is the one that caused my crappy mood.

We went out for his Christmas party. I was right about the open bar! But he was sensible about his drinking (shocker) and was not stumbling drunk. I warned him early in the evening to be sensible. I guess the threat of losing his penis in his sleep worked. He knows that I would never do something like that but I like to joke about it.

The party started at the home of his boss/brother. They just moved into a new home, they designed it and had it built. I can not even begin to tell you how nice it is. It is gorgeous. Their garage probably cost more than my house. I think that I made everyone uncomfortable because I was not drinking. Those who drink all the time just do not understand those of us who do not drink all the time. If I were to start drinking at 5:30 PM I would be done for by 8 PM or so. I do not like to drink much. I like to have a couple of drinks and be done. I save the stumbling drunk for “special occasions.” I learned early enough that nothing good becomes of being a drunken idiot.

Then we all got on a bus and went to a tiny town up north. That is where we had a meal. I should say attempted to have a meal ~ the salad was frozen and they ran out of soup. The steak ~ I ate a couple of bites and left the rest. The hash browns were awesome. I should have ordered hash browns and a bun. I keep forgetting that I get a bad gut when I eat more than a few bites of meat.

After the meal we all went back into the bar (same building) and continued the party. We left the bar and took the bus back to J and P’s house. By then I was really ready to go home and I asked Dick to start the car since he had the starter in his pocket. He started the car and we went into the house while it warmed up. We ended up staying until 3:30 AM ~ getting home at 4 AM! Yikes! The car did not run that whole time because it shuts off after so long. Neither one of us had a drink after we left the bar. Dick says that he drank 63 glasses of water and that glass was not a normal sized glass. I told him water is good for you. So we were both sober by the time we left. Well sober feeling but had we gotten stopped that might have been proven different.

When we got home we found a note from the baby-sitter. She had left at 2 because the kids had gone to bed around midnight. We warned her that it was going to be late and she had no problems with that. When I hire a baby-sitter I expect them to be here when I get home not just up and leave because the kids are in bed. It is legal for Nadine to baby-sit but we wanted someone older since we planned on being out of town. If something were to happen someone would be here that would know how to handle the situation! I just wonder what she had to do at 2 AM that she could not stay until we got home. The least she could have done is called either Dick or myself since we both have cell phones and she had the numbers. Now I am trying to decide if I want to pay her. Do I pay her until midnight when the kids went to bed? Do I pay her at all? It is not like she had to do anything for them ~ we fed them before we left. All she had to do was be here. Sit here and watch television. She spent some time on the computer ~ I am not sure how long she was on but she was on. In her note she said that she enjoys watching the kids so ask anytime. I am stumped!

Why am I posting at 5 AM? Because I went to sleep before 8 PM and now my body tells me that I should be up for the day! That is not going to happen because I am going to go lie down and have a nap.

*Note to self: Set your alarm so you don’t over-sleep. You have to do the banking.*