Seriously cold!!

Ok...it's about thirty five degrees outside and I still have no freaking heater!! It's supposed to get down into the low twenties the rest of the week. We called the AC guy when it broke after Thanksgiving, but he never came and fixed it...supposedly he is fixing it tomorrow. We have a fireplace, but my mother gets these hairbrained ideas sometimes and once she gets something in her head it's going to be that way.

So...she had the fireplace converted to gas from wood burning, but now she's afraid to use it because their is a faint odor when you turn it on and she's afraid we're all going to die from carbon monoxide poisioning! I keep pointing out to her that it isn't that much different from our gas stove, which also gives off a slight odor when you light the burners. Anyhow...she claims it ran out of gas. She's completely off her rocker...I'm actually more afraid she's going to blow us up!

Here's an amusing story that is both nasty and funny and I am sure she doesn't want shared yet again. But guess what...I'm going to tell it. It was about a year ago I think and she completely refuses to give up her cancer sticks despite her health problems. Let's just say that she now knows better than to burp while lighting a cigarette...she burnt the hair off her lip (yes, the fact that she has hair on her lip is gross too, but I don't think the woman has ever heard of wax and I think she's terrified that Nair will kill her or something like that). She didn't get hurt, but she had a lovely scab on her lip and it was pretty hilarious. My mother is the most naive person you could ever meet!

My brother takes her to the pool and spa store the other day to pick up some things for his hot tub. They have a porch/bar set that looks like a tiki hut. She tells the guy that she loves the stools, so he starts telling her how he could make her some too, but it took him a really long time to carve the set. She completely believes him. My brother just rolls his eyes...yep...that's mom. According to Grandma Majel (which is where I get my strange name from by the way...not the wife of the Star Trek lady who sadly just passed away...not because I like Star Trek because I hate it, but because she shares our super strange name) she has always been the most naive person alive! There are many more stories, but I hold off on more family embarrassment for the night. ;)

I'm going to go curl up under many blankets (I'm definitely getting my use out of my Uggs this winter!!) in front of my fake fireplace, which actually gives off a lot of heat...I had to kick the blankets and boots off last night!! Mom's boss bought us one of those Amish fireplaces. It's really pretty cool...and it looks super real...it's really pretty to look at. It's even funnier when Maddog catches his reflection in it and hisses at it, smacks the front (which isn't hot down there thankfully), and then goes around the back looking for the rest of the kitty in the fireplace! He's not always the brightest kitty-dog. :)

Sleep tight and try not to freeze to death...most of us are Floridians after all and aren't used to this frigid winter weather. I've never even seen the kind of snow that requires a shovel or allows for sleds and such, but you know...I think I quite prefer a nice sandy beach instead! :-P

TTFN.