Hiatus

Today's Date:  November 29th, 2013, The day after Thanksgiving...

September 2011 - has it really been that long since I've last written an entry!  Well let's just say I was on a three year hiatus with a lot of things going on in between.  Since my last entry, I am still childless.  Yes, that's me, going on 34 and still child free.  And yes, I still receive the phone calls from my cute yet demanding Asian mother, who really WANTS not needs grandchildren, regarding my current abominable state.  My current and ensuing state of childlessness supersedes the fact that since 2011 I have completed a graduate degree and received an award for my thesis research, as well as moved states twice, once to Boise, Idaho and then again to Colorado closer to my younger sister.  I guess it doesn't help matters when my younger sister had a baby in that time and my newly wedded older brother is preparing to welcome their first child!  I thought that my mother gaining two new grandchildren to add to her collection would deter her from harassing me for a while.  Boy, was I wrong!

Tonights phone call started out pleasantly enough.  I happened to just buy a new car today.  Since completing my degree and securing a stable job, I decided it was time to purchase something that doesn't overheat going almost 11,000 feet over the Vail pass to get to Denver.  I purchased a shiny, new Ice Silver Metallic Subaru, something that can handle the snow and ice of the Colorado Rockies.

First inquiry from my mother, "Who drive the new car?"

"Well mom, Josh will drive it most days because his work is further and it will get better gas mileage compared to his truck."

Mom, "What! Why he make you buy the car and he make you drive the truck? That not TRUTH! That not the good thing!  He don't give you baby and he make you drive the truck!"  And she's off!  Her ranting has begun regarding what she views as the "truth" of things and what she deems "good" things.  This made me hysterical - with laughter that is!  How does she manage to fit in the baby talk during a conversation about cars!

"Mom, its okay, my work is only 4 blocks away. I can walk to work. I don't need to drive the car."

"What about the dog? He still live?"

"Yeah, the dog is still alive. I had to find a babysitter for the dog, because the dog was acting crazy and needed someone to walk him."

"They take him from your house? They watch him all day?  How much you pay? Who pay for that, Josh or you?"

"We both pay for it."

Getting angrier, "WHY he make you take care his dog? That he dog. He need to watch he dog.  He want to have a dog but he don't want to give you baby. He WATCH HE DOG!! He PAY FOR HE DOG."

Eeek!  The anger over raising dogs rather than children rises again.  There is a back story to this dog issue.  My mother had once blamed Josh's mother for teaching him to raise dogs instead of children.  Apparently, this is all Josh's mother's fault according to my mom, as she explained it to me back in 2011 shortly after this blog was created.  Back in 2011 around the holidays, she huffed under her breathe, "There goes the son and the father."  She wasn't talking about God or Jesus that's for sure.  She was referring to my husband and Zeuser, his golden retriever son.  My husband did not help matters when he jabblingly described to my mother how his mother calls Zeus her granddog.

My mom, "Hmmmpf."

Since we have moved to Colorado, we now only see my mother a couple times a year.  For her next visit it is my plan to completely shave the dog, teach him to walk on two legs and dress him up like Charlie Brown.  Now, where is that dog whisperer's phone number?  She's so desperate for a baby, I think she'll accept Zeus as her new grandchild.  I just hope she doesn't mind changing his diapers, or reading to him.....in his kennel.