Mooo

Back from the surprise visit to Mom. She was thrilled.
Saw purple cow.

More tomorrow when I'm not so sleepy.

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This doesn't feel like allergies. I wanted to explain the purple cow, and my trip to Mom and stuff. But instead I feel like there's an elephant on my head, and my nose is stuffed and my ears hurt and all I want to do is sleep.

I've been blaming allergies for the congestion and sneezing and the three weeks of sore throat...maybe I'm wrong.

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Having not been home in six months, and with impending surgery this summer making it more difficult than usual to get home, I decided that I should go for Mother's Day. I hate travelling to my parents' home in the summer months-it's nothing but beach traffic all the way between here and there and takes far longer than at most other times. Mom had no idea that I was coming...all the better for a Mother's Day gift, although Dad, little brother and little sister all knew. The three of us conspired (as we often do) on a Mother's Day gift, which we decided would be the silly scratch off lottery tickets that she likes. Since I was driving up, we ended up agreeing that I'd stop in the four states I pass through (Va, Md, De and NJ) and my sister would pick up tickets from New York. Many, many hours later (I'd figured an extra hour for all the stopping, and that was about right, but it took far longer than anticipated for the driving-the traffic was extrahorrible, the weather was bad and so on.) The Mom wasn't there when I arrived-which was even better. She'd gone over to the University" to feed her cats. (She feeds them in addition to the eight cats they have that live with them, plus the ninth one who she feeds who hasn't moved into the house yet.) So she and my sister arrive at the house, and Mom hasn't yet realized that I'm there-the neighbors had a lot of company and therefore there were many cars parked in the street. So I'm standing in the kitchen with her Mother's Day cards/gift. She was overwhelmed. And happy. She scratched off her lottery tickets, we ate dinner, Mom and I went to the movies, and hung out. She got her back scratched, the usual. And she took the next day off-we shopped-her least favorite activity...but she heard me say that I wanted to make sure to take a ride over to Kohl's since they have the chinos I like, half the ones in my closet are too big and there isn't really a store convenient to where I live. So she bought me clothes, which is always nice (a couple of pairs of chinos, a couple of shirts and a skirt.) And she bought herself clothes...which she almost never does unless I make her. And groceries...she picked up a few groceries for me, and in typical mom fashion, she sent me home with lots of food (leftovers from dinner, spaghetti and meatballs, kasha varniskes, corn, chicken.) All in all, she was surprised and happy.

And she decided to hand all her lottery winnings over to me (a nice chunk o cash) to buy myself a birthday gift with...I'm torn between a sewing machine, filing cabinet or PDA, though I'm leaning towards a PDA. The sewing machine I'll almost certainly buy soon either way, and the filing cabinet can wait a bit. So I'll probably buy a PDA soon-any suggestions/advice?

It was nice to see Mom. I also discussed whether or not she should or shouldn't come down for the surgery...and I didn't tell her not to, but I did make it abundantly clear that it was totally okay for her not to.

( this is the part where I whine about still being sick )