Good Day Sunshine

Though there were a few clouds when I woke up around 9:30, by the time I was eating Whole Wheat Peach Spice Pancakes and talking to my mother on my cell phone, the sun was shining and it was about 80 degrees and dry.

Mom was fine. She'd spent a week that was just as wet in Erma working at Micheal's. (I guess she thought it was better to have a job she didn't like than no job at all.) She was alone at that point, getting ready for the first pro football games of the 2009-2010 season. Dad had gone out for a bike ride, and Keefe was with my sister Anny and her kids. Rose had called her earlier in the week and was also fine, but very busy with her last year of law school.

My nephew Skylar apparently isn't taking school well. He won't leave his mother and is clingy. I can't blame the kid. Anny's gone through a couple of boyfriends since having him and several non-romantic friends. Poor little boy's barely had any stability in his life besides his grandparents and uncle. He's probably afraid Mommy's going to go away and leave him, too. This week's bad weather didn't help. His school was closed later in the week due to the flooding that's constant in the Wildwoods whenever there's so much as a small shower, causing his mother to have to call out of her job. She's already had to cut hours to be able to take him to and from school, a few blocks from their apartment.

Work was mostly fine, off-and-on steady despite a really good Eagles game. My last customer was a real pain. He got upset when his order came out to more than he thought it would be. Two bags of snack string cheese cost $5.19. He claimed he saw $2.50 on the tag. I went back and checked them myself. There were other tags around it that were on sale, but they weren't...and none of them were on sale for $2.50. (Pull-apart string cheese is always expensive for some reason, even on sale. It's probably the packaging.) The guy had a fit, complaining that he'd read on the label that it was $2.50. I ended up just taking one off. He got the price of the big Acme container of old fashioned oatmeal wrong, too. He had really, REALLY thick glasses, partially yellow, like goggles. He may not have been too good at seeing anything, including small print on grocery store tags.

Oh, and the Eagles trounced the Carolina Panthers in their opening game, 38-10...but it may cost them their quarterback. Donovan McNabb fractured a rib and may not play next week. We'll see what happens.