To Laugh or Not to Laugh

Hi, Blogpals,

Are you missing me? I guess Nancy isn't because she just asked me why I'm up so far past my bedtime. It is 11:45 PM, so that's a very good question. Why, I haven't been up this late since the senior prom -- and I don't mean the one at the local nursing home either. I've actually just wandered upstairs after a few hours of sleeping/TV watching. Who says I can't multitask? Why I've been doing it since before the term was invented...Anyway, I think Nancy is annoyed as she is nearing the end of week 4 of being home for Christmas vacation. And let's face it: Christmas is OVER. Why should she have time to herself w/o her parents hovering around? Bob just popped open a bottle of Bell Ridge red wine (you can only get this special variety at Castle Finn Winery outside of Paris, IL, so eat your hearts out, city folk!) and turned the TV up to a comfortable blare. I'm joining her at the kitchen table while she portends to be writing a paper for her intersession English class. However, she has earphones in and was looking at Facebook pictures last time I looked over her shoulder. She now appears to be doing arm dances and chewing a big wad of gum. She has drunk a 2 liter bottle of Diet Pepsi to "stay awake." Does she think she's in college or something? What was I thinking encouraging her to take this class? It seemed like a good way to keep her occupied and gain a few credits. Who was I kidding? As the resident English major, I wake up to rough drafts at my breakfast table with urgent pleadings to "fix them" and figure out what her thesis is. Of course, my biggest problem -- once I get her Mac opened, that is --is getting the dang thing to show up on her computer (I only know my girl Toshiba intimately) and stay there. I feel like the comedian who's invited to a dinner party and turns out not to be funny. The name of the class? Literature and Laughter. After writing a 3 page paper explaining why a few lines in a book were funny, neither Nancy nor I was laughing. ..aside from Nancy:"Why are you guys STILL awake??"...Well,enough on Nancy... What else is happening? Well, Bob met me for lunch today. I decided to spruce myself up before his arrival at the Student Center by applying a dash of lipstick. I smiled widely as I walked across the room and sat down. His first remark? "You have lipstick all over your teeth." Well, you can't say I didn't try. Furthermore, aren't vampires all the rage??..Nancy won't go to bed until I post this blog. But I've insisted that I'll "post no blog before its time". Bob was walking through the kitchen and piped in, "And I'll release no belch before its time." .. So now you know it's time to end this thing and officially go to bed..


Blosting my plog,
I remain
Tizzie/Tiz/Tizmom/Mom/Liz/Elizabeth